Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

The Future of the Corpse: Changing Ecologies of Death and Disposition

The Future of the Corpse: Changing Ecologies of Death...
Author: Karla Rothstein , Christina Staudt, Ph.D. ISBN: 9781440869051 Format: Hardback	$103.00
This book reviews the spectrum of death, from when the living person turns to corpse until the person lives in the... Read More >>

Facing Up to Mortality: Interfaith/Interreligious Explorations

Facing Up to Mortality: Interfaith/Interreligious Explorations...
Author: Daniel Liechty , J. Dana Trent ISBN: 9781793655424 Format: Hardback	$180.00
Late anthropologist Ernest Becker outlined a theory that a major function of culture is to provide answers to the... Read More >>

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the Science and History of Books Bound in Human Skin

Dark Archives: A Librarian's Investigation into the...
Author: Megan Rosenbloom ISBN: 9781250800169 Format: Paperback	$37.99
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Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: The Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living

Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: The Realm of the...
Author: Julia Hsieh ISBN: 9789004472310 Format: Hardback	$491.04
In Ancient Egyptian Letters to the Dead: The Realm of the Dead through the Voice of the Living Julia Hsieh investigates... Read More >>

American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century

American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First...
Author: Shannon Lee Dawdy , Kelly Burke ISBN: 9780691210643 Format: Hardback	$49.99
A mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary life Death in the United... Read More >>

Rite, Flesh, and Stone: The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture, 1959-2020

Rite, Flesh, and Stone: The Matter of Death in Contemporary...
Author: Daniel Garc?¡a-Donoso , Antonio C??rdoba ISBN: 9780826502186 Format: Paperback	$92.27
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Suicide in Intersex, Trans and Other Sex and/or Gender Diverse Groups: A Health Professional's Guide

Suicide in Intersex, Trans and Other Sex and/or Gender...
Author: Tracie O'Keefe ISBN: 9780987510952 Format: Paperback	$79.07
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Rite, Flesh, and Stone: The Matter of Death in Contemporary Spanish Culture, 1959-2020

Rite, Flesh, and Stone: The Matter of Death in Contemporary...
Author: Daniel Garc?¡a-Donoso , Antonio C??rdoba ISBN: 9780826502193 Format: Hardback	$263.87
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Living in My Afterlife: An invisible disability and health odyssey affecting millions

Living in My Afterlife: An invisible disability and...
Author: Robert Feuerstein ISBN: 9781737884705 Format: Paperback	$44.85
The odyssey of a 69-year-old experiencing a late-in-life, acute, debilitating, and incurable illness. His painful... Read More >>

Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid

Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid
Author: Kenneth McKenzie , Todd Harra ISBN: 9798212095563 Format: Audio	$52.77
Presents a new collection of accounts from actual undertakers--including tales of slapstick humor, wild coincidences,... Read More >>

Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt

Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt
Author: Kenneth McKenzie , Todd Harra ISBN: 9798212095594 Format: Audio	$52.77
A behind-the-scenes look at morticians and funeral directors' most embarrassing, jaw-dropping, irreverent, and deeply... Read More >>

Not Crazy, Just Human: Moving Through Trauma To Healing

Not Crazy, Just Human: Moving Through Trauma To Healing...
Author: Deri Latimer , Ali Howorth ISBN: 9781989078754 Format: Paperback	$36.20
If the pandemic of 2020 taught us anything, it is that we need to wake up to our lives. To be more present, more... Read More >>

Not Crazy, Just Human: Moving Through Trauma To Healing

Not Crazy, Just Human: Moving Through Trauma To Healing...
Author: Deri Latimer , Ali Howorth ISBN: 9781989078761 Format: Hardback	$49.14
If the pandemic of 2020 taught us anything, it is that we need to wake up to our lives. To be more present, more... Read More >>

Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife

Heaven and Hell: A History of the Afterlife
Author: Bart D. Ehrman ISBN: 9780861541201 Format: Paperback	$31.02
The bestselling historian of early Christianity takes on two of the most gripping questions of human existence –... Read More >>

Tamám Shud: How the Somerton Man's Last Dance for a Lasting Life Was Decoded -- Omar Khayyam Center Research Report

Tamám Shud: How the Somerton Man's Last Dance for a...
Author: Mohammad H Tamdgidi ISBN: 9781640980235 Format: Paperback	$76.56
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Awareness of Mortality

Awareness of Mortality
Author: Jeffrey Kauffman ISBN: 9780415772327 Format: Paperback	$79.99
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Tamám Shud: How the Somerton Man's Last Dance for a Lasting Life Was Decoded -- Omar Khayyam Center Research Report

Tamám Shud: How the Somerton Man's Last Dance for a...
Author: Mohammad H Tamdgidi ISBN: 9781640980228 Format: Hardback	$129.36
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Political Theory on Death and Dying

Political Theory on Death and Dying
Author: Erin A. Dolgoy (Rhodes College, USA) , Kimberly Hurd Hale (Coastal Carolina University, USA) ISBN: 9780367437411 Format: Hardback	$305.00
This comprehensive, encyclopedic review compiles and curates the latest scholarship, research, and debates on the... Read More >>

In My Own Last Words: Insights Shared by the Dying

In My Own Last Words: Insights Shared by the Dying
Author: Christiane Zu Salm , Zu Salm ISBN: 9781737723561 Format: Paperback	$28.70
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Our Grateful Dead: Stories of Those Left Behind

Our Grateful Dead: Stories of Those Left Behind
Author: Vinciane Despret , Stephen Muecke ISBN: 9781517911416 Format: Paperback	$39.99
""Vinciane Despret's unique storytelling, woven with ethnography and family history, assembles accounts of those... Read More >>

So Much to Live For

So Much to Live For
Author: Gregory L Jantz , Keith Wall ISBN: 9780800741310 Format: Hardback	$79.17
""This practical guide for parents, family members, friends, or anyone concerned about a loved one who may be considering... Read More >>

Our Grateful Dead: Stories of Those Left Behind

Our Grateful Dead: Stories of Those Left Behind
Author: Vinciane Despret , Stephen Muecke ISBN: 9781517911409 Format: Hardback	$165.00
""Vinciane Despret's unique storytelling, woven with ethnography and family history, assembles accounts of those... Read More >>

Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One's Search for Comfort, Answers, and Hope

Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One's Search for Comfort,...
Author: Albert Y Hsu , David Shih ISBN: 9798200910205 Format: Audio	$97.65
Albert, the neighbor said, your mom needs you to come home. That's how it began for Albert Hsu when his father died.... Read More >>

Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One's Search for Comfort, Answers, and Hope

Grieving a Suicide: A Loved One's Search for Comfort,...
Author: Albert Y Hsu , David Shih ISBN: 9798200910199 Format: Audio	$52.77
Albert, the neighbor said, your mom needs you to come home. That's how it began for Albert Hsu when his father died.... Read More >>

Do Funerals Matter?: The Purposes and Practices of Death Rituals in Global Perspective

Do Funerals Matter?: The Purposes and Practices of Death...
Author: William G. Hoy (Baylor University, Texas, USA) , J. William Worden ISBN: 9781032018980 Format: Paperback	$62.99
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