Sociology: death & dying books

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Dead in Banaras: An Ethnography of Funeral Travelling

Dead in Banaras: An Ethnography of Funeral Travelling...

Author: Ravi Nandan Singh (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Hindu College, University of Delhi)
ISBN: 9780192864284
Format: Hardback
$264.00

The work is an anthropological analysis of death and the dead, which attempts a significant reworking of the idea...  Read More >>

Missing You: Working Your Way Through Loss

Missing You: Working Your Way Through Loss

Author: Fay Bloor ,  Ashley
ISBN: 9781399931106
Format: Paperback
$44.85

Missing You has been designed to help someone who has lost a loved one gently start processing their grief at their...  Read More >>

When Suicide Beckons: A Psychoanalyst's Memoir

When Suicide Beckons: A Psychoanalyst's Memoir

Author: Bhaskar Sripada
ISBN: 9798985577815
Format: Paperback
$71.25

Bhaskar Sripada explores the analytic challenges of treating grief and suicidal depression in his memoir When Suicide...  Read More >>

Death on the Small Screen: The Psychology of Viewing Violent Television

Death on the Small Screen: The Psychology of Viewing...

Author: Jonathan F. Bassett
ISBN: 9781476688015
Format: Paperback
$145.20

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The Loneliest Places: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home

The Loneliest Places: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey...

Author: Rachel Dickinson
ISBN: 9781501766091
Format: Paperback
$39.25

""The Loneliest Places is a memoir in essays of a mother's journey through grief after the suicide of her teenaged...  Read More >>

Erzählen(d) über den Tod hinaus: Eine ethnografische Studie über das Transformieren von generativen Erzählungen in der Würdezentrierten Therapie

Erzählen(d) über den Tod hinaus: Eine ethnografische...

Author: Dr. phil. Andrea Züger
ISBN: 9783847114888
Format: Hardback
$137.28

Eine Beschreibung und Analyse voller Achtsamkeit – auch für das Unscheinbare  Read More >>

Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More

Savor: A Chef's Hunger for More

Author: Fatima Ali ,  Tarajia Morrell
ISBN: 9780593355190
Format: Hardback
$65.00

A young chef whose dreams were cut short savors every last minute as she explores food and adventure, illness and...  Read More >>

When Suicide Beckons: A Psychoanalyst's Memoir

When Suicide Beckons: A Psychoanalyst's Memoir

Author: Bhaskar Sripada
ISBN: 9798985577808
Format: Hardback
$105.57

Bhaskar Sripada explores the analytic challenges of treating grief and suicidal depression in his memoir When Suicide...  Read More >>

Death Has as Past

Death Has as Past

Author: Mark Rober
ISBN: 9798362269050
Format: Paperback
$15.81

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The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide

The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide...

Author: Alexandra Marshall ,  Alexandra Marshall
ISBN: 9798212272612
Format: Audio
$84.35

The Silence Of Your Name tracks one woman's journey from her young husband's unexpected suicide during their trip...  Read More >>

The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide

The Silence of Your Name: The Afterlife of a Suicide...

Author: Alexandra Marshall ,  Alexandra Marshall
ISBN: 9798212272605
Format: Audio
$110.75

The Silence Of Your Name tracks one woman's journey from her young husband's unexpected suicide during their trip...  Read More >>

The University of Virginia: when are these campus shootings going to stop?

The University of Virginia: when are these campus shootings...

Author: Brian L Parker
ISBN: 9798363801419
Format: Paperback
$29.01

What do u need to know about this university?UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA The University of Virginia (U.Va., UVA, or...  Read More >>

A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry

A Gaping Wound: Mourning in Italian Poetry

Author: Adele Bardazzi ,  Francesco Giusti
ISBN: 9781839540493
Format: Hardback
$245.81

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Such A Little Time

Such A Little Time

Author: Volenté Lloyd
ISBN: 9781739216405
Format: Paperback
$41.79

This is a tale of childhood happiness, friendship and of losing a loved one. This story deals with the strength...  Read More >>

Maynooth College Reflects on Facing Life's End: Perspectives on Dying and Death

Maynooth College Reflects on Facing Life's End: Perspectives...

Author: Jeremy Corley ,  Aoife McGrath
ISBN: 9781788125826
Format: Paperback
$52.67

With questions for further discussion and reflection at the end of each chapter, all who wish to think more deeply...  Read More >>

New American Funerals: Creating and Delivering Nonreligious End-of-Life Ceremonies

New American Funerals: Creating and Delivering Nonreligious...

Author: Elizabeth Nordberg Stokes
ISBN: 9798986696102
Format: Paperback
$63.23

An up-to-date guide for professional celebrants who want to create beautiful, meaningful end-of-life ceremonies...  Read More >>

When an Angel Intervenes

When an Angel Intervenes

Author: Jim Atkisson ,  Christian Price
ISBN: 9798215258729
Format: Paperback
$42.21

Here in the United States, suicide claims the lives of more than ten thousand people every year, but behind this...  Read More >>

Scars to Stars

Scars to Stars

Author: Deana Brown Mitchell
ISBN: 9781646492749
Format: Paperback
$33.61

"""Sobbing so uncontrollably I could not take a breath, the pain was unbearable. I washed down the pills with an...  Read More >>

As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book

As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book

Author: Anne-Marie Oomen ,  Aimee Nezhukumatathil
ISBN: 9780820362540
Format: Paperback
$57.95

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Notes on Grief

Notes on Grief

Author: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
ISBN: 9780008470333
Format: Paperback
$9.99

**DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!** A...  Read More >>

Graves of the Great and Famous: From Jane Austen to Elvis Presley

Graves of the Great and Famous: From Jane Austen to...

Author: Alastair Horne
ISBN: 9781838862220
Format: Hardback
$51.72

Arranged thematically and illustrated with 150 photographs, Graves of the Great and Famous tours the world exploring...  Read More >>

Last Rites: The Evolution of the American Funeral

Last Rites: The Evolution of the American Funeral

Author: Todd Harra
ISBN: 9781683648055
Format: Hardback
$42.99

Author and undertaker Todd Harra shares a fascinating and oft-surprising exploration of the history and meaning...  Read More >>

The Loneliest Places: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home

The Loneliest Places: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey...

Author: Rachel Dickinson ,  Rachel Dickinson
ISBN: 9798212195973
Format: Audio
$84.35

""The Loneliest Places is a memoir in essays of a mother's journey through grief after the suicide of her teenaged...  Read More >>

The Loneliest Places: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home

The Loneliest Places: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey...

Author: Rachel Dickinson ,  Rachel Dickinson
ISBN: 9798212195966
Format: Audio
$110.75

""The Loneliest Places is a memoir in essays of a mother's journey through grief after the suicide of her teenaged...  Read More >>

Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Author: Mary Roach
ISBN: 9781324036043
Format: Paperback
$44.75

The best-selling author of Stiff  and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.  Read More >>

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