Death & Dying

The Irish do death differently. Funeral attendance is a solemn duty - but it can also be a big day out, requiring sophisticated crowd control, creative parking solutions and a high-end sound system. Despite having the same basic end-of-life...

The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on extensive ethnographic research, Andrew Irving brings to life the lived experiences, imaginative lifeworlds,...

This book provides a comprehensive examination of death, dying, and human remains in museums and heritage sites around the world.Presenting a diverse range of contributions from scholars, practitioners, and artists, the book reminds us that death and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143118251Author Thomas CathcartFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 239g

Cheese puffs. Coffee. Sunscreen. Vapes. Hand sanitiser. George Zaidan reveals the weird science behind everyday items that may or may not kill you, depending on whom you ask. If you want easy answers, this book is not for you. But if you're curious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593713440Author Joanna EbensteinFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint TarcherPerigeePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 1g

The Irish do death differently.Funeral attendance is a solemn duty - but it can also be a big day out, requiring sophisticated crowd control, creative parking solutions and a high-end sound system. Despite having the same basic end-of-life infrastructure...

'Dr Moore's 1000-day-plus journey evocatively and beautifully describes the mental devastation that personal loss can leave in its wake and offers us the remarkable combination of expert commentary and an intensely personal captivating narrative.'- Peter...

'Poignant and often hilarious' Publishers WeeklyWhat if we responded to death... by throwing a party?By the time Erica Buist's father-in-law Chris was discovered, upstairs in his bed, his book resting on his chest, he had been dead for over a week. She...

An accessible yet erudite deep dive into how platforms are remaking experiences of death "A compelling collection of case studies about how technology breaks down when faced with the messiness of mortality."-Gabriel Nicholas, Washington Post Since...

Suicide haunts our literature and our culture, claiming the lives of ordinary people and celebrities alike. It is now the third leading cause of death for fifteen- to twenty-four-year-olds in the United States, raising alarms across the nation about the...

A leading public critic reminds us of the compelling reasons people throughout time have found to stay alive Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide...

'A sensitive expose that illustrates the complexities of modern homelessness. Moving, poetic and as rousing as Orwell' - Cash Carraway, author of Skint Estate'Urgent, gripping and devastating' - The Secret BarristerThis book will finally give a face...

This book explores the turbulent social history of churchyards and cemeteries over the last 150 years. Using sites from across rural North Yorkshire, the text examines the workings of the Burial Acts and discloses the ways in which religious politics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590302705Author Sushila BlackmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Shambhala Publications IncPublisher Shambhala Publications IncWeight(grams)...

How do we talk about climate grief in the church? And when we have found the words, what do we do with that grief? There is a sudden and dramatic rise in people experiencing a profound sense of anxiety in the face of our dying planet, and a consequent...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781612199528Author Peter WardFormat HardbackPage Count 288Imprint Melville House PublishingPublisher Melville House Publishing

Since the rise in deaths through Covid-19, there has been an increase in the need for personal, heartfelt ceremonies to celebrate the end of life. More and more people are questioning traditional ideas and realising that there are choices out there. ...

The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Death and Burial reviews the current state of mortuary archaeology and its practice, highlighting its often contentious place in the modern socio-politics of archaeology. It contains forty-four chapters which...

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most beautiful and most photographed structures in the world. It's also the most deadly. Since it opened in 1937, more than 1,500 people have died jumping off the bridge, making it the top suicide site on earth. It's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684846316Author Elisabeth Keubler-RossFormat PaperbackPage Count 286Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 408g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683730842Author Meagan N HoustonFormat PaperbackPage Count 234Imprint Pesi, IncPublisher Pesi, IncWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 277mm * 213mm * 13mm

Death studies typically focus on the death of humans, overlooking the wider factors involved in social and natural processes around death. This edited volume provides an alternative focus for death studies by looking beyond human death, to reveal the...

The New Death brings together scholars who are intrigued by today's rapidly changing death practices and attitudes. New and different ways of treating the body and memorializing the dead are proliferating across global cities. Using ethnographic,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781736734261Author David SuichFormat PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint MindStir MediaPublisher MindStir MediaWeight(grams) 240gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

The Silly Thing is an account of a woman's acceptance of and struggle with living and dying with a grade 4 glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer of the brain. It is told from the perspective of her daughter, Esther Ramsay-Jones, a psychotherapist and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385483322Author Christine LongakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing GroupPublisher Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing...

Techniques of Grief Therapy: Assessment and Intervention continues where the acclaimed Techniques of Grief Therapy: Creative Practices for Counseling the Bereaved left off, offering a whole new set of innovative approaches to grief therapy to address the...

Radical Mindfulness examines the root causes of injustice, asking why inequalities along the lines of race, class, gender, and species continue to exist. Specifically, James K. Rowe examines fear of death as a root cause of systemic inequalities and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780394751566Author Philippe AriesFormat PaperbackPage Count 704Imprint Random House USA IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 828gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627311267Author Timothy WyllieFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.

This ground-breaking book is a guide to non-religious pastoral care practice in healthcare, prisons, education, and the armed forces in the UK. It brings a new perspective to our understanding of care services traditionally offered by chaplaincy...

Providing a thorough, well-researched investigation of the socio-legal issues surrounding medically assisted death for the past century, this book traces the origins of the controversy and discusses the future of policymaking in this arena domestically...

In 1917 a remarkable organisation came into being. Its brief was vastly ambitious: to commemorate the 1,100,00 men of the British Empire who lost their lives in the First World War. The Imperial War Graves Commission was the creation of one man, Sir...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307277893Author Kay Redfield JamisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm)...

This book is about the therapeutic environment of the Maggie's centre and explores the many ways this is achieved. With an unconventional architecture as required by the design brief, combined with Maggie's psychological support programme, this special...

The Evolution of the British Funeral Industry in the 20th Century examines the shifts that have taken place in the funeral industry since 1900, focusing on the figure of the undertaker and exploring how organisational change and attempts to gain...

We live in a society where people struggle to look death in the eye. Death has become the territory of professionals and we rarely see a dead body, unless it is someone very close to us. Death has become hidden, and so more traumatic. This book shows...

Communication is at the heart of any complete understanding of the end of life. While it is true that individuals physically die as a single entity, the process of ending an individual life is located within a complex system of relationships and roles...

In this book, Victor Turner is concerned with various kinds of social actions and how they relate to, and come to acquire meaning through, metaphors and paradigms in their actors' minds; how in certain circumstances new forms, new metaphors, new...