Sociology: death & dying books

4934 books were found.

Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace

Dying to Work: Death and Injury in the American Workplace...

Author: Jonathan D. Karmel
ISBN: 9781501709982
Format: Hardback
$145.07

In Dying to Work, Jonathan Karmel raises our awareness of unsafe working conditions with accounts of workers who...  Read More >>

A Study of Death

A Study of Death

Author: Henry Mills Alden
ISBN: 9783337403119
Format: Paperback
$99.00

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Songs for Dead Parents: Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China

Songs for Dead Parents: Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest...

Author: Erik Mueggler
ISBN: 9780226481005
Format: Paperback
$47.95

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer...  Read More >>

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial

With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an...

Author: Kathryn Mannix ,  Kathryn Mannix
ISBN: 9781549140990
Format: Audio
$89.76

Once a familiar and gentle process, death has come to be something from which we shy away, preferring to fight it...  Read More >>

Songs for Dead Parents: Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest China

Songs for Dead Parents: Corpse, Text, and World in Southwest...

Author: Erik Mueggler
ISBN: 9780226483382
Format: Hardback
$163.95

In a society that has seen epochal change over a few generations, what remains to hold people together and offer...  Read More >>

Inglorious Passages: Noncombat Deaths in the American Civil War

Inglorious Passages: Noncombat Deaths in the American...

Author: Brian Steel Wills
ISBN: 9780700625086
Format: Hardback
$121.00

In letters, diaries, obituaries, and other accounts, eminent Civil War historian Brian Steel Wills finds the powerful...  Read More >>

Death and Digital Media

Death and Digital Media

Author: Michael Arnold ,  Martin Gibbs
ISBN: 9781138917965
Format: Paperback
$83.99

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Researching Death, Dying and Bereavement

Researching Death, Dying and Bereavement

Author: Erica Borgstrom ,  Julie Ellis
ISBN: 9781138103085
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book examines research on death, dying and bereavement, and how our perceptions shape what we can know about...  Read More >>

Death and Digital Media

Death and Digital Media

Author: Michael Arnold ,  Martin Gibbs
ISBN: 9781138917958
Format: Hardback
$305.00

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Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life

Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and...

Author: David Giffels ,  Eric Michael Summerer
ISBN: 9781665140973
Format: Audio
$65.97

A vibrant, heartfelt memoir about confronting mortality, surviving loss, finding resilience in one's Midwest roots...  Read More >>

Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life

Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and...

Author: David Giffels ,  Eric Michael Summerer
ISBN: 9781665140966
Format: Audio
$65.97

A vibrant, heartfelt memoir about confronting mortality, surviving loss, finding resilience in one's Midwest roots...  Read More >>

Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and a Measure of Life

Furnishing Eternity: A Father, a Son, a Coffin, and...

Author: David Giffels ,  Eric Michael Summerer
ISBN: 9781665140980
Format: Audio
$65.97

A vibrant, heartfelt memoir about confronting mortality, surviving loss, finding resilience in one's Midwest roots...  Read More >>

Clergy Retirement

Clergy Retirement

Author: Daniel A Roberts ,  Michael Freidman
ISBN: 9781532601194
Format: Paperback
$73.92

In Clergy Retirement: Every Ending a New Beginning for Clergy, Their Families, and Congregants, retirement is likened...  Read More >>

Grief Demystified: An Introduction

Grief Demystified: An Introduction

Author: Caroline Lloyd
ISBN: 9781785923135
Format: Paperback
$42.99

Telling you what you need to know about grief, this book is the perfect introduction for anyone who works with the...  Read More >>

Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go

Holding Space: On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go

Author: Amy Wright Glenn
ISBN: 9781941529782
Format: Paperback
$36.99

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Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead

Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display...

Author: Jessica M. Fishman
ISBN: 9780814760451
Format: Paperback
$64.99

Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of...  Read More >>

Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty: Funerary Practices in the Kamehameha and Kalakaua Dynasties, 1819-1953

Death Rites and Hawaiian Royalty: Funerary Practices...

Author: Ralph Thomas Kam
ISBN: 9781476668468
Format: Paperback
$105.47

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Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display the Dead

Death Makes the News: How the Media Censor and Display...

Author: Jessica M. Fishman
ISBN: 9780814770757
Format: Hardback
$193.00

Winner of the 2018 Media Ecology Association's Erving Goffman Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of...  Read More >>

Digital Death: Online Mourning Rituals and Practices

Digital Death: Online Mourning Rituals and Practices...

Author: Anna Haverinen
ISBN: 9781472483270
Format: Hardback
$290.27

What happens to your social media profiles when you die? And what are the implications of this online presence for...  Read More >>

Life from Death Until Resurrection: الحياة في برزاخ

Life from Death Until Resurrection: الحياة...

Author: Ibn Kathir
ISBN: 9781948117548
Format: Paperback
$41.37

This book deals with many important matters that have always perplexed the human minds, but that, as is shown in...  Read More >>

Circadian

Circadian

Author: Chelsey Clammer
ISBN: 9781597096034
Format: Paperback
$27.99

Winner of the 2015 Red Hen Press Nonfiction Award, Circadian is a collection of essays that weaves together personal...  Read More >>

Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life

Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business...

Author: Caleb Wilde
ISBN: 9780062465245
Format: Hardback
$49.99

"The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director—what Time magazine called a ""must read""—reflects on mortality...  Read More >>

Continuing Bonds in Bereavement: New Directions for Research and Practice

Continuing Bonds in Bereavement: New Directions for...

Author: Dennis Klass (Webster University, Missouri, USA) ,  Edith Maria Steffen (University of Roehampton, London, UK)
ISBN: 9780415356190
Format: Hardback
$284.00

Continuing Bonds in Bereavement is the most comprehensive, state-of-the-art collection of developments in the field...  Read More >>

A Little Ray of Sunshine

A Little Ray of Sunshine

Author: Helen Fletcher (Southern Health NHS Trust, UK)
ISBN: 9780648203117
Format: Paperback
$18.09

A journey through life from birth to death.  Read More >>

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