Sociology: death & dying books

The best-selling author ofSmoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with dignity....  Read More >>

Keren Rosa Hammerschlag's Frederic Leighton: Death, Mortality, Resurrection offers a timely reexamination of the...  Read More >>

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Nothing is more certain in life than death. Yet recent advances in medicine and technology have dramatically increased...  Read More >>

This volume visits death in children’s literature from around the world, making a substantial contribution to the...  Read More >>

Death has been pushed out of life and into a dark and lonely 'morgue'. North Americans generally approach the topic...  Read More >>

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

On the Way to Death completes Eckardt's astonishing trilogy on the interrelationship of comedy, death, and God  Read More >>

Corporate coach Allison Clarke was on a plane to Atlanta when she realized that in order to fully live, she had...  Read More >>

Joanne Limburg's intensely honest account of coming to terms with her brother's suicide; a powerful meditation on...  Read More >>

The Group is inspired by Single Fathers Due to Cancer Program, an innovative program at the University of North...  Read More >>

`Too frequently, we leave it too late to start to think — but a crisis is never the best time for careful thought.’...  Read More >>

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Depression and suicide aren't just a worldwide epidemic, they also hit home. With over 350 million people suffering...  Read More >>

Depression and suicide aren't just a worldwide epidemic, they also hit home. With over 350 million people suffering...  Read More >>

Depression and suicide aren't just a worldwide epidemic, they also hit home. With over 350 million people suffering...  Read More >>

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In the last 45 years suicide rates have increased by 60% worldwide. Suicide is now among the three leading causes...  Read More >>

""Mummies can't talk, but with modern scientific tools, we can still discover what a mummy has to tell us. Read...  Read More >>

""Mummies can't talk, but with modern scientific tools, we can still discover what a mummy has to tell us. Read...  Read More >>

What can you do when someone you love is dying? Do you have an elderly parent who is dying, or perhaps a partner...  Read More >>

Stylish Designer Notebook. Interior 150 lined pages. Size 6 x 9 . Glossy softcover. Perfect for everyday use. Perfectly...  Read More >>

while in China, Japan, and Korea, it is customary to offer food not only to the bereaved, but to the deceased, with...  Read More >>

Lavishly illustrated second volume of the Urban graveyard proceedings, on old and new archaeological research of...  Read More >>

An isolated northern farm provides the backdrop to a child's searching, empathetic view of his conflicted mother...  Read More >>