Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About...

Author: Caitlin Doughty ,  Dianné Ruz
ISBN: 9780393358490
Format: Paperback
$30.35

New York Times bestseller Winner of a Goodreads Choice Award ""Funny, dark, and at times stunningly existential.""...  Read More >>

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?: And Other Questions About...

Author: Caitlin Doughty
ISBN: 9781474613415
Format: Paperback
$22.99

Everyone's favourite mortician offers seriously fascinating answers to the questions you have about death but were...  Read More >>

Dying in Old Age: U.S. Practice and Policy

Dying in Old Age: U.S. Practice and Policy

Author: Sara Moorman
ISBN: 9781138496934
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Dying in Old Age: U.S. Practice and Policy

Dying in Old Age: U.S. Practice and Policy

Author: Sara Moorman
ISBN: 9781138496897
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Dying in Old Age: US Practice and Policy examines how 'predictable death’ in the U.S has important consequences...  Read More >>

Death in Custody: Inquests, Family Participation and State Accountability

Death in Custody: Inquests, Family Participation and...

Author: Dr Jo Easton
ISBN: 9781839090264
Format: Hardback
$203.95

Death in Custody shows that procedural justice theory is relevant for participation in processes investigating human...  Read More >>

Down Side Up: Healing Grief Through Poetry

Down Side Up: Healing Grief Through Poetry

Author: Trudy A Brosh
ISBN: 9780578755014
Format: Paperback
$39.47

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How Do I Survive?: 7 Steps to Living After Child Loss

How Do I Survive?: 7 Steps to Living After Child Loss...

Author: Patricia Sheveland
ISBN: 9781683092681
Format: Paperback
$36.83

You are riding an emotional rollercoaster that literally takes your breath away. One minute you are feeling ""okay""...  Read More >>

Assisted Death in the Age of Biopolitics and Bioeconomy

Assisted Death in the Age of Biopolitics and Bioeconomy...

Author: Anna E. Kubiak
ISBN: 9781527554436
Format: Hardback
$263.87

This book analyses assisted death in the philosophical context of biopolitics, searching for the form of resistance...  Read More >>

The Right Way of Death: Restoring the American Funeral Business to Its True Calling

The Right Way of Death: Restoring the American Funeral...

Author: Eric Layer
ISBN: 9781735610924
Format: Hardback
$79.07

Funeral service is dying. But a thriving future is still possible. Eric Layer paints a vivid picture of what's threatening...  Read More >>

The Age of Spectacular Death

The Age of Spectacular Death

Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9780367368272
Format: Paperback
$81.99

This book explores death in contemporary society, unfolding the notion of ‘spectacular death’ through studies that...  Read More >>

The Age of Spectacular Death

The Age of Spectacular Death

Author: Michael Hviid Jacobsen (Aalborg University, Denmark)
ISBN: 9780367368265
Format: Hardback
$305.00

This book explores death in contemporary society, unfolding the notion of ‘spectacular death’ through studies that...  Read More >>

Masters of Resilience: "Real stories of inspiration for ""purposeful living"""

Masters of Resilience: "Real stories of inspiration...

Author: Katrina Montez (Taylor) Felton
ISBN: 9781631298967
Format: Paperback
$24.58

"Are you battling feelings of hurt, depression, grief, disappoint, stress or even suicidal ideation? Are you unable...  Read More >>

The Yellow Cap: A Journey fromTragedy to Hope

The Yellow Cap: A Journey fromTragedy to Hope

Author: Greg A Stone
ISBN: 9781951960087
Format: Paperback
$38.81

This story is based on Greg's witness of Jason's life, an innocent young man of sixteen as it was tragically interrupted....  Read More >>

Arena

Arena

Author: Lauren Shapiro
ISBN: 9781880834725
Format: Paperback
$47.52

2019 CSU Poetry Center Open Book Competition, Editor's Choice. Finalist for Poetry Society of Virginia 2020 Poetry...  Read More >>

Online Afterlives

Online Afterlives

Author: Davide Sisto ,  Bonnie McClellan-Broussard
ISBN: 9780262539395
Format: Paperback
$49.99

""Original Italian edition: Ã2018 Bollati Boringhiere editore, Torino""--Title page verso.  Read More >>

On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience

On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience...

Author: Neil Shah ,  Abou Farman
ISBN: 9798200234387
Format: Audio
$65.97

An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality On Not Dying is an anthropological, historical, and...  Read More >>

On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience

On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience...

Author: Neil Shah ,  Abou Farman
ISBN: 9798200234394
Format: Audio
$65.97

An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality On Not Dying is an anthropological, historical, and...  Read More >>

On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience

On Not Dying: Secular Immortality in the Age of Technoscience...

Author: Neil Shah ,  Abou Farman
ISBN: 9798200234400
Format: Audio
$65.97

An ethnographic exploration of technoscientific immortality On Not Dying is an anthropological, historical, and...  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 ,  Justis Bolding
ISBN: 9781705012833
Format: Audio
$105.47

There are books out there, some shelved unwittingly next to ordinary texts, that are bound in human skin. Would...  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 ,  Justis Bolding
ISBN: 9781664794504
Format: Audio
$113.49

There are books out there, some shelved unwittingly next to ordinary texts, that are bound in human skin. Would...  Read More >>

Death & Dying in Hispanic Worlds: The Nexus of Religions, Cultural Traditions, and the Arts

Death & Dying in Hispanic Worlds: The Nexus of Religions,...

Author: Debra D. Andrist
ISBN: 9781789760637
Format: Hardback
$422.40

The dispassionate intellectual examination of the concepts of death & dying contrasts dramatically with the emotive...  Read More >>

Living a Purposeful Life: Searching for Meaning in All the Wrong Places

Living a Purposeful Life: Searching for Meaning in All...

Author: Kalman J Kaplan ,  Michael Shapiro
ISBN: 9781725268821
Format: Paperback
$66.00

While meaning and purpose are often seen as synonymous, this book argues that they sometimes are in opposition,...  Read More >>

Don't Think About Death: A Memoir on Mortality

Don't Think About Death: A Memoir on Mortality

Author: Gary Laderman
ISBN: 9781950794126
Format: Paperback
$44.75

Don't Think About Death: A Memoir on Mortality presents an unconventional take on how we live with death-or try...  Read More >>

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