Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief

Continuing Bonds: New Understandings of Grief
Author: Dennis Klass , Phyllis R. Silverman ISBN: 9781560323365 Format: Hardback	$231.00
Many modern theories hold that the function of grief and mourning is to cut bonds with the deceased, freeing the... Read More >>

Rational Suicide?: Implications for Mental Health Professionals

Rational Suicide?: Implications for Mental Health Professionals...
Author: James L. Werth Jr. ISBN: 9781560324249 Format: Hardback	$284.00
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Breaking the Thread of Life: On Rational Suicide

Breaking the Thread of Life: On Rational Suicide
Author: Robert Barry ISBN: 9781560009238 Format: Paperback	$96.99
Suicide, and how civilized people should respond to it, is an increasingly controversial topic in modern society... Read More >>

Confronting Death: Values, Institutions, and Human Mortality

Confronting Death: Values, Institutions, and Human Mortality...
Author: Moller ISBN: 9780195042962 Format: Paperback	$181.95
A masterfully written supplementary text for courses on death and dying. Moller powerfully critiques how modern... Read More >>

Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England

Mapping Mortality: The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy...
Author: William E. Engel ISBN: 9780870239984 Format: Hardback	$132.00
A study of the ways in which people in early modern England confronted, accommodated and paid tribute to mortal... Read More >>

The Eclipse of Eternity: A Sociology of the Afterlife

The Eclipse of Eternity: A Sociology of the Afterlife...
Author: T. Walter ISBN: 9780333616147 Format: Hardback	$232.85
Many people still believe in life after death, but modern institutions operate as though this were the only world... Read More >>

The Coffin of Heqata (Cairo JdE 36418): A Case Study of Egyptian Funerary Culture of the Early Middle Kingdom

The Coffin of Heqata (Cairo JdE 36418): A Case Study...
Author: H. Willems , Willems Ah ISBN: 9789068317695 Format: Hardback	$282.48
The coffin published in this book represents a type that had some popularity in southern Upper Egypt in the early... Read More >>

Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dying and Disposal

Contemporary Issues in the Sociology of Death, Dying...
Author: Glennys Howarth , Peter C. Jupp ISBN: 9780333638620 Format: Hardback	$232.85
This book utilises a dynamic analysis of mortality to acknowledge shifts of emphasis in cultural and religious traditions.... Read More >>

Preventive Strategies on Suicide

Preventive Strategies on Suicide
Author: Diekstra , Gulbinat ISBN: 9789004103399 Format: Paperback	$467.28
This work gathers information on epidemiological, clinical and preventive-intervention aspects of suicide with global... Read More >>

Step Back from the Exit: 45 Reasons to Say No to Suicide

Step Back from the Exit: 45 Reasons to Say No to Suicide...
Author: Jillayne Arena ISBN: 9780964734005 Format: Paperback	$26.40
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American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum

American Indian Life Skills Development Curriculum
Author: Teresa D. LaFromboise ISBN: 9780299149208 Format: Hardback	$91.30
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Ethics in the 90'S: Physician-Assisted Suicide

Ethics in the 90'S: Physician-Assisted Suicide
Author: Joram Graf Haber (Bergen Community College) ISBN: 9780763700058 Format: Video	$131.87
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Suicide - The Ultimate Rejection?

Suicide - The Ultimate Rejection?
Author: Colin Pritchard ISBN: 9780335190324 Format: Paperback	$142.51
Presents an analysis of research on suicide, exploring possible 'causes' and how best to intervene. Read More >>

The New England Book of the Dead

The New England Book of the Dead
Author: James Hill Parker ISBN: 9780819199034 Format: Paperback	$97.95
This unique book is a study of northern New England and its culture's views of death. The author, James Hill Parker,... Read More >>

Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional Ethics

Rethinking Life and Death: The Collapse of Our Traditional...
Author: Peter Singer ISBN: 9780192861849 Format: Paperback	$67.95
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The Topography of Remembrance: The Dead, Tradition and Collective Memory in Mesopotamia

The Topography of Remembrance: The Dead, Tradition and...
Author: Gerdien Jonker ISBN: 9789004101623 Format: Leather / fine binding	$509.52
This publication gives an analysis of Mesopotamian communal remembrance. It deals with public and private aspects... Read More >>

Give Sorrow Words: Working With a Dying Child, Second Edition

Give Sorrow Words: Working With a Dying Child, Second...
Author: Dorothy Judd ISBN: 9780789060204 Format: Paperback	$92.27
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Working with Bereaved People

Working with Bereaved People
Author: Ann Faulkner ISBN: 9780443051449 Format: Paperback	$126.59
This is a short, practical guide to working with individuals facing death or coping with bereavement. The book provides... Read More >>

Good Grief 1: Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with Under Elevens: 2nd Edition

Good Grief 1: Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with...
Author: Barbara Ward ISBN: 9781853023248 Format: Paperback	$120.00
Good Grief has been designed to explore and demystify the experience of loss - in different contexts - within the... Read More >>

Good Grief 2: Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with Over Elevens and Adults: 2nd Edition

Good Grief 2: Exploring Feelings, Loss and Death with...
Author: Barbara Ward ISBN: 9781853023408 Format: Paperback	$89.99
Good Grief has been designed to explore and demystify the experience of loss in different contexts within the framework... Read More >>

First Person Mortal: Personal Narratives of Illness, Dying and Grief

First Person Mortal: Personal Narratives of Illness,...
Author: Lucy Bregman , Sara Thiermann ISBN: 9781557787156 Format: Paperback	$39.47
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Differential Mortality: Methodological Issues and Biosocial Factors

Differential Mortality: Methodological Issues and Biosocial...
Author: Lado Ruzicka (Visiting Lecturer, Post-Graduate Programme in Demography, Visiting Lecturer, Post-Graduate Programme in Demography, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia) , Guillaume Wunsch (Professor of Demography, Professor of Demography, Catholic University of Louvain) ISBN: 9780198288824 Format: Paperback	$111.95
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Japanese Aesthetics and Culture: A Reader

Japanese Aesthetics and Culture: A Reader
Author: Nancy G. Hume ISBN: 9780791424001 Format: Paperback	$84.35
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Surviving the Death of a Child

Surviving the Death of a Child
Author: John Munday , Frances Wohlenhaus-Munday ISBN: 9780664255664 Format: Paperback	$44.88
This book is about enduring and surviving the most painful of all losses: the death of one's child. This is the... Read More >>

The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political Suicide

The Game of Death in Ancient Rome: Arena Sport and Political...
Author: Paul Plass ISBN: 9780299145705 Format: Hardback	$105.60
This is an examination of the central place of death in Roman sport and politics. The book shows how death served... Read More >>

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