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Facing Death: Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves

Facing Death: Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves

What do we learn about death from the Holocaust and how does it impact our responses to mortality today? Facing Death: C......more

The Lotos-Eaters: Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community

The Lotos-Eaters: Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community

As the baby boom generation ages, there are few ethnographies that capture the dynamics of aging. This new book is based......more

The Lotos-Eaters: Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community

The Lotos-Eaters: Aging and Identity in a Yacht Club Community

As the baby boom generation ages, there are few ethnographies that capture the dynamics of aging. This new book is based......more

Here We Go and Escaped Alone

Here We Go and Escaped Alone

"What Churchill has written is a striking memento mori for an age without faith; and although her play is brief, that in......more

Death, Materiality and Mediation: An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland

Death, Materiality and Mediation: An Ethnography of Remembrance in Ireland

In Death, Materiality and Mediation, Barbara Graham analyzes a diverse range of objects associated with remembrance in b......more

Dying, Death, and Bereavement

Dying, Death, and Bereavement

The Annual Editions series is designed to provide convenient inexpensive access to a wide range of current articles from......more

Mourning in America: Race and the Politics of Loss

Mourning in America: Race and the Politics of Loss

Recent years have brought public mourning to the heart of American politics, as exemplified by the spread and power of t......more

The New York Times Book of the Dead: 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People

The New York Times Book of the Dead: 320 Print and 10,000 Digital Obituaries of Extraordinary People

  • Ingram,出版日期:2016-10-18

The obituary page of The New York Times isa celebration of extraordinary lives. This groundbreaking package includes 300......more

Gardens of Stone: The Cemeteries of New York City from Colonial Times to the Present

Gardens of Stone: The Cemeteries of New York City from Colonial Times to the Present

They are found in tiny parcels of land squeezed among Manhattan buildings and in large rolling tracts of land in Brookly......more

The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-Of-Life Care

The Conversation: A Revolutionary Plan for End-Of-Life Care

There is an unspoken dark side of American medicine--keeping patients alive at any price. Two thirds of Americans die in......more

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death o......more

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death o......more

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives; Library Edition

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives; Library Edition

On an average day in America, seven young people aged nineteen or under will be shot dead. In Another Day in the Death o......more

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives

Winner of the 2017 J. Anthony Lukas PrizeShortlisted for the 2017 Hurston/Wright Foundation AwardFinalist for the 2017 H......more

A Traveler’s Guide to the Afterlife: Traditions and Beliefs on Death, Dying, and What Lies Beyond

A Traveler’s Guide to the Afterlife: Traditions and Beliefs on Death, Dying, and What Lies Beyond

A grand survey of the world s death and afterlife traditions throughout history - Examines beliefs from many different c......more

American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning

American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning

Someone dies. What happens next? One family inters their matriarch s ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a me......more

Elmwood Cemetery

Elmwood Cemetery

Elmwood Cemetery was founded in August 1852 by 50 prominent Memphians who resolved to create a new burial site just two ......more

Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons

Resting Places: The Burial Sites of More Than 14,000 Famous Persons

In its third edition, this massive reference work lists the final resting places of more than 14,000 people from a wide ......more

El buen doctor / When Breath Becomes Air

El buen doctor / When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi, a young and promising neurosurgeon, received a devastating diagnosis of stage IV lung cancer at the age ......more

Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us

Denying to the Grave: Why We Ignore the Facts That Will Save Us

In Denying to the Grave, authors Sara and Jack Gorman explore the psychology of health science denial. Using several exa......more

Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village

Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in a Chinese Village

Numerous reports of cancer villages have appeared in the past decade in both Chinese and Western media, highlighting t......more

The Consolations of Mortality: Making Sense of Death

The Consolations of Mortality: Making Sense of Death

A penetrating and provocative exploration of human mortality, from Epicurus to Joan Didion For those who don t believe i......more

How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment

How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment

Slavery, lynching and capital punishment were interwoven in the United States and by the mid-twentieth century these con......more

Internet Afterlife: Virtual Salvation in the 21st Century

Internet Afterlife: Virtual Salvation in the 21st Century

Can you imagine swapping your body for a virtual version? This technology-based look at the afterlife chronicles America......more

Early Gravestones in Southern Maine: The Genius of Bartlett Adams

Early Gravestones in Southern Maine: The Genius of Bartlett Adams

The slate gravestones of southern Maine bear evidence to the region s fascinating history, from shipwrecks and famous wa......more

Death: An Oral History

Death: An Oral History

In this illuminating collection of oral-history style interviews, Casey Jarman talks to a funeral industry watchdog abou......more

Death: A Survival Guide

Death: A Survival Guide

Death - A Survival Guide offers a unique insight into the biggest threats to life and limb in the industrialized world. ......more

Japanese Tree Burial: Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death

Japanese Tree Burial: Ecology, Kinship and the Culture of Death

Tree burial, a new form of disposal for the cremated remains of the dead, was created in 1999 by Chisaka Genpo, the head......more

Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality

As you read these words, planet Earth teems with trillions of life-forms, all going about their own business: eating, re......more

Helping Children and Adolescents Think about Death, Dying and Bereavement

Helping Children and Adolescents Think about Death, Dying and Bereavement

How can children begin to understand death and cope with bereavement? And how can we, as adults, support and engage with......more

Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World

Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World

If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death s enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With......more

Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World

Subject to Death: Life and Loss in a Buddhist World

If any anthropologist living today can illuminate our dim understanding of death s enigma, it is Robert Desjarlais. With......more

Bobby Wonderful: An Imperfect Son Says Good-bye

Bobby Wonderful: An Imperfect Son Says Good-bye

His mother’s last word was his name. His father’s was "Wonderful." Together they inspired the title for this true story ......more

Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It

Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing stati......more

Governing the Dead: Sovereignty and the Politics of Dead Bodies

Governing the Dead: Sovereignty and the Politics of Dead Bodies

In most of the world, the transition from life to death is a time of intense presence of states and other forms of autho......more

Five Meditations on Death: In Other Words...On Life

Five Meditations on Death: In Other Words...On Life

Philosophical discussions on the ways that death makes life meaningful and sacred - Reveals how being conscious of death......more

Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

Mortuary Dialogues: Death Ritual and the Reproduction of Moral Community in Pacific Modernities

Mortuary Dialogues presents fresh perspectives on death and mourning across the Pacific Islands. Through a set of rich e......more

Serial Killers True Crime: Chilling True Crime Cases of the Worlds Most Twisted Serial Killers and Criminals

Serial Killers True Crime: Chilling True Crime Cases of the Worlds Most Twisted Serial Killers and Criminals

Chilling True Crime Cases Of The Worlds Most Twisted Serial Killers And Criminals A lot of people have hobbies - most of......more

Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai

Scythe and the City: A Social History of Death in Shanghai

The issue of death has loomed large in Chinese cities in the modern era. Throughout the Republican period, Shanghai swal......more

The Norm Chronicles

The Norm Chronicles

Is it safer to fly or take the train? How dangerous is skydiving? And is eating that extra sausage going to kill you? We......more

After One-hundred-and-twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition

After One-hundred-and-twenty: Reflecting on Death, Mourning, and the Afterlife in the Jewish Tradition

A deeply personal look at death, mourning, and the afterlife in Jewish tradition After One-Hundred-and-Twenty provides a......more

Love in the Afterlife: Underground Religion at the Movies

Love in the Afterlife: Underground Religion at the Movies

This book is a definitive study of love-death-afterlife movies from the 1920s to the present. Scholars of film will appr......more

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2015

Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2015

The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2015, among them actors Christopher Lee, Leonard Nimoy and Maureen ......more

Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages

Afterlives: The Return of the Dead in the Middle Ages

Simultaneously real and unreal, the dead are people, yet they are not. The society of medieval Europe developed a rich s......more

Hope and Grace: Spiritual Experiences in Severe Distress, Illness and Dying

Hope and Grace: Spiritual Experiences in Severe Distress, Illness and Dying

Conventional coping strategies can be pushed to their limits when people find themselves in situations of suffering, ill......more

Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia

Hidden History: African American Cemeteries in Central Virginia

In Hidden History, Lynn Rainville travels through the forgotten African American cemeteries of central Virginia to recov......more

The Big Move: Life Between the Turning Points

The Big Move: Life Between the Turning Points

When her husband’s ill health forces them to move into an assisted living facility, Anne M. Wyatt-Brown suddenly finds h......more

Living with a Dead Man: A Story of Love

Living with a Dead Man: A Story of Love

Sitting in an oncologist s waiting room is one of life s more sobering experiences. The first thing that hit her was tha......more

Decision Making Near the End of Life: Issues, Developments, and Future Directions

Decision Making Near the End of Life: Issues, Developments, and Future Directions

Decision Making near the End of Life provides a comprehensive overview of the recent developments that have impacted dec......more

Egyptian Mummies

Egyptian Mummies

First published in 2002. Egyptian Mummies is regarded by Egyptologists as the classic account of mummification in ancien......more

Rue Rilke

Rue Rilke

Travelogue, literary autobiography, and journalistic exposé of the mores of capital punishment, Rue Rilke chronicles its......more

The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America

The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America

Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die......more

Legal Executions in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri: A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1965

Legal Executions in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri: A Comprehensive Registry, 1866-1965

In the five state region of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky and Missouri, 1027 men and women are known to have been le......more

Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan

Suicide in Twentieth-Century Japan

Japan’s suicide phenomenon has fascinated both the media and academics, although many questions and paradoxes embedded i......more

Butterfly Mandalas: A Coloring Book for All

Butterfly Mandalas: A Coloring Book for All

Gift Ideas for All Ages Relax and bring a smile to your face with this hand drawn mandala style coloring book from bests......more

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ - A landmark in......more

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye: A Journey

Marie Mutsuki Mockett’s family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March ......more

The Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravemarkers

The Archaeology of American Cemeteries and Gravemarkers

Gravestones, cemeteries, and memorial markers offer fixed points in time to examine Americans’ changing attitudes toward......more

When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST - This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beau......more

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