Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

Death and the Textile Industry in Nigeria

Death and the Textile Industry in Nigeria

Author: Elisha P Renne (University of Michigan, USA)
ISBN: 9780367465520
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book draws upon thinking about the work of the dead in the context of deindustrialization—specifically, the...  Read More >>

Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Kinship, Community and Identity

Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Kinship, Community and...

Author: Duncan Sayer
ISBN: 9781526135568
Format: Hardback
$80.00

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Dying Well: A Holistic Guide for the Dying and Their Carers

Dying Well: A Holistic Guide for the Dying and Their...

Author: Richard Reoch
ISBN: 9781725268159
Format: Hardback
$129.36

This guide shows how openness, advance planning and the use of complementary therapies can benefit dying people....  Read More >>

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2019

Author: Harris M. Lentz, III
ISBN: 9781476679785
Format: Paperback
$250.80

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The Depth Psychology of Death: Approaching the Grief and Understanding the Role of Death Through the depth Psychology

The Depth Psychology of Death: Approaching the Grief...

Author: Mike Parson
ISBN: 9781801322331
Format: Hardback
$59.49

Grief is a natural response to loss. It's the emotional suffering you feel when something or someone you love is...  Read More >>

Stopping Military Suicides: Veteran Voices to Help Prevent Deaths

Stopping Military Suicides: Veteran Voices to Help Prevent...

Author: Kate Hendricks Thomas ,  Patrick McGuigan
ISBN: 9781440875076
Format: Hardback
$62.00

Blending illustrative narratives from veterans with cutting-edge research, this book provides a model for a needed...  Read More >>

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its Timings: When is Death?

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and its...

Author: Shane McCorristine
ISBN: 9781349844739
Format: Paperback
$51.72

This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This volume provides a series of illuminating perspectives...  Read More >>

The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death on Pendle Hill

The Lancashire Witches: A Chronicle of Sorcery and Death...

Author: Philip C. Almond
ISBN: 9781350239913
Format: Paperback
$32.99

The women who lived in the vicinity of Pendle, who were accused, convicted and hanged alongside the so-called Salmesbury...  Read More >>

Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die: Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to...

Author: Amy Gutmann (University of Pennsylvania) ,  Jonathan D. Moreno (University of Pennsylvania)
ISBN: 9781631498008
Format: Paperback
$29.95

An incisive examination of bioethics and American healthcare, and their profound affects on American culture over...  Read More >>

Evolutionary Perspectives on Death

Evolutionary Perspectives on Death

Author: Todd K. Shackelford ,  Virgil Zeigler-Hill
ISBN: 9783030254681
Format: Paperback
$258.72

The latest volume in this multidisciplinary series on key topics in evolutionary studies, Evolutionary Perspectives...  Read More >>

Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics of Care in Tanzania

Documenting Death: Maternal Mortality and the Ethics...

Author: Adrienne E. Strong
ISBN: 9780520310704
Format: Paperback
$57.95

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. Documenting Death is a...  Read More >>

Warrior: How to Support Those Who Protect Us

Warrior: How to Support Those Who Protect Us

Author: Shauna Springer ,  Shauna Springer
ISBN: 9798200198801
Format: Audio
$52.77

Warrior brings the worlds of the warrior and those they protect together to shine light on things that many of us...  Read More >>

Warrior: How to Support Those Who Protect Us

Warrior: How to Support Those Who Protect Us

Author: Shauna Springer ,  Shauna Springer
ISBN: 9798200198795
Format: Audio
$52.77

Warrior brings the worlds of the warrior and those they protect together to shine light on things that many of us...  Read More >>

Last Week ... I Wanted to Die

Last Week ... I Wanted to Die

Author: Angie Bee
ISBN: 9781946981295
Format: Paperback
$26.37

All I wanted to do was to make things easier for everyone else in my life by removing my problems from their lives....  Read More >>

How Non-being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance

How Non-being Haunts Being: On Possibilities, Morality,...

Author: Corey Anton
ISBN: 9781683932840
Format: Hardback
$203.28

How Non-being Haunts Being explores the many different modes of absence and non-being that pervade life, language,...  Read More >>

We Are Life

We Are Life

Author: Peter Griffiths ,  Juliette Lachemeier
ISBN: 9780648943600
Format: Paperback
$34.19

With uncanny insight and refreshing candor, the author takes readers on a unique journey into the interconnection...  Read More >>

Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature of Combat

Fighting Means Killing: Civil War Soldiers and the Nature...

Author: Jonathan M. Steplyk
ISBN: 9780700631865
Format: Paperback
$77.00

The Civil War was fundamentally a matter of Americans killing Americans. This undeniable reality is what Jonathan...  Read More >>

Outside the Box: Everyday stories of death, bereavement and life

Outside the Box: Everyday stories of death, bereavement...

Author: Liz Rothschild
ISBN: 9781910919637
Format: Paperback
$56.90

We live in a society where people struggle to look death in the eye. This book shows that, if we start talking openly...  Read More >>

Caring for the Dead in Ancient Israel

Caring for the Dead in Ancient Israel

Author: Kerry M Sonia
ISBN: 9781628372854
Format: Paperback
$100.32

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Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves

Suicidal: Why We Kill Ourselves

Author: Jesse Bering
ISBN: 9780226755557
Format: Paperback
$34.25

Authoritative, accessible, personal, profound-there's never been a book on suicide like this. It will help you understand...  Read More >>

Caring for the Dead in Ancient Israel

Caring for the Dead in Ancient Israel

Author: Kerry M Sonia
ISBN: 9780884144618
Format: Hardback
$153.12

In Caring for the Dead in Ancient Israel, Kerry M. Sonia examines the commemoration and care for the dead in ancient...  Read More >>

Autumn of Life: A Guide to Aging and Dying

Autumn of Life: A Guide to Aging and Dying

Author: Bsn Joseph Marino, RN
ISBN: 9781682352700
Format: Paperback
$20.80

"Most people are afraid of death. But if you understand the process of dying, you will be more comfortable at life's...  Read More >>

Le Suicide: Etude de Sociologie

Le Suicide: Etude de Sociologie

Author: Emile Durkheim
ISBN: 9798558594980
Format: Paperback
$108.21

Comme le mot de suicide revient sans cesse dans le cours de la conversation, on pourrait croire que le sens en est...  Read More >>

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