Death & Dying

Death on Demand explores the polarizing role of Jack Kevorkian-"Dr. Death"-as the most visible leader of the right-to-die movement. From a feature on the cover of Time magazine to interviews on shows like 60 Minutes, Kevorkian was a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467142076Author Ana PachecoFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Arcadia PublishingPublisher Arcadia Publishing

For many, a mummy is an Egyptian pharaoh, wrapped in cloth, found thousands of years later in a pyramid by archaeologists. But mummies need not be ancient. Modern-day mummies can be found under glass in special tombs built in their honor, in private...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419651182Author Rida ElawaFormat PaperbackPage Count 316Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 331g

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Medical science now allows us to live longer than ever before. So living with pain and dying well have become major concerns for the general community, health practitioners, church groups and politicians. Should these issues be decided in private by...

The Vaqueiros de Alzada, a cattle-herding people in the Asturian mountains of Spain, have one of the highest suicide rates in Europe--and an attitude toward death that gives this statistic unusual meaning. This World, Other Worlds considers death among...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312540623Author Rich MaloofFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Publisher Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S.Weight(grams) 279g

From death defying stunts to the volcano's edge, Extreme Science will excite and inspire 8-11 year olds. High-interest topics grab the reader and introduce some key science concepts in an accessible and innovative way. The action-packed pages are...

Every heart-pounding moment of Dr Rosier's legal ordeal is vividly captured by famed trial attorney Stanley M Rosenblatt, who, together with his wife and law partner Susan, represented the accused. Describing an intriguing array of legal twists and...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985034405Author Dan Newman PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 236Imprint Holistic Health ConsultantPublisher Holistic Health ConsultantWeight(grams) 349g

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This award-winning social history of death and funeral rites during the early decades of Brazil's independence from Portugal focuses on the Cemiterada movement in Salvador, capital of the province of Bahia. The book opens with a lively account of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998060163Author Nelson P MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Crown Management, LLCPublisher Crown Management, LLCWeight(grams) 272g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780986393068Author Judy Stevens-Long PhdFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Fielding University PressPublisher Fielding University PressWeight(grams)...

Someone dies. What happens next? One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a greenburial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, "You can make mummies with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615981253Author Ann S OliverioFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint E on the I BooksPublisher E on the I BooksWeight(grams) 132g

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Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean headstones, and research silenced histories, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of...

Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean headstones, and research silenced histories, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of...

Addressing a gap in social science research to explore the meanings, understandings, and experiences of time at life’s most critical point, Time of Death takes a thoughtful sociological approach to questions about how humans use and experience time in...

Lukang is a sleepy provincial town on the east coast of Taiwan. The Lukang "rebellion" was a series of well-organised mass demonstrations in 1986 and 1987 to block construction by the DuPont Corporation of a titanium dioxide plant nearby. If...

Rapid advances in modern medicine and diagnostic techniques have revolutionized the way we think about death and the processes of dying. Where once death was defined as the absence of respiration or heartbeat, today patients can be kept alive for months...

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Honoring relatives by tending graves, building altars, and cooking festive meals has been a major tradition among Latin Americans for centuries. The tribute, "El Dia de los Muertos," has enjoyed renewed popularity since the 1970s when Latinx activists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843317807Author Professor Bryan S. TurnerFormat HardbackPage Count 174Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781843317944Author Professor Bryan S. TurnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint Anthem PressPublisher Anthem PressWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451655001Author Bess LovejoyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 295g

From death defying stunts to the volcano's edge, Extreme Science will excite and inspire 8-11 year olds. High-interest topics grab the reader and introduce some key science concepts in an accessible and innovative way. The action-packed pages are...

When Evelyn Waugh wrote The Loved One (1948) as a satire of the elaborate preparations and memorialization of the dead taking place in his time, he had no way of knowing how technical and extraordinarily creative human funerary practices would become in...