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  • Skin, Meaning, and Symbolism in Pet Memorials
    Racheal Harris
    This book looks at changes to the ways Western culture memorialises the dead. Specifically, it considers the changing relationship between people and domestic animals. Rather than focusing on how these bonds have changed in day to day life, it examines these relationships by considering how, after death, these animals are remembered. ...
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    98,55 €

  • Sacred Groves
    Kathleen Davies
    In the not-so-sacred Groves of Academe, where female colleagues can be less than supportive and male colleagues downright intimidating and even devious, Kathleen Davies felt intense pressure to prove herself as an English professor. But in the beautiful local cemetery, she found a truly sacred landscape that offered not only relief but inspiration. Once she was denied the profe...
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    18,17 €

  • Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2018
    Harris M. Lentz
    The entertainment world lost many notable talents in 2018, including movie icon Burt Reynolds, ''Queen of Soul'' Aretha Franklin, celebrity chef and food critic Anthony Bourdain, bestselling novelist Anita Shreve and influential Chicago blues artist Otis Rush. Obituaries of actors, filmmakers, musicians, producers, dancers, composers, writers, animals and others associated wi...
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    73,87 €

  • Revisioning War Trauma in Cinema
    Jessica Datema / Manya Steinkoler
    Revisioning War Trauma in Cinema: Uncoming Communities uses philosophy and critical theory to examine films that participate in debates concerning trauma and representation. This book reflects upon films that invent-rather than represent-the moment history breaks down. Jessica Datema and Manya Steinkoler propose a twenty-first-century way forward across problems of trauma, inhe...
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    115,68 €

  • A Beacon of Light on Grief
    PhD Thelma Manning Hall
    This handbook will empower you and show you how to plan for the funeral process. Helpful templates and information provided by a funeral professional will provide insight and help you plan, in advance, for the unknown.  ...
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    24,00 €

  • Jewish Views of the Afterlife, Third Edition
    Simcha Paull Raphael / Simcha Raphael
    Originally published in 1994, Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a classic study of ideas of afterlife and postmortem survival in Jewish tradition and mysticism.As both a scholar and pastoral counselor, Raphael guides the reader through 4,000 years of Jewish thought on the afterlife by investigating pertinent sacred texts produced in each era. Through a compilation of ideas found...
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    141,78 €

  • Jewish Views of the Afterlife, Third Edition
    Simcha Paull Raphael / Simcha Raphael
    Originally published in 1994, Jewish Views of the Afterlife is a classic study of ideas of afterlife and postmortem survival in Jewish tradition and mysticism.As both a scholar and pastoral counselor, Raphael guides the reader through 4,000 years of Jewish thought on the afterlife by investigating pertinent sacred texts produced in each era. Through a compilation of ideas found...
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    60,14 €

  • Letters to Freedom
    Patti Ashley
    "Letters to Freedom" is a love letter to relationship, confusion and loss. It is about hope, surviving, and ultimately thriving. Dr. Patti Ashley shares her own love story about healing the grief that so often accompanies the risk inherent in loving someone.“The writing is beautiful, and the style is reminiscent of Jeanette Walls.” -- DR. MARCY COOPER, CHILD PSYCHIATRIST ...
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    20,06 €

  • Talking About Psychical Research
    Mary Rose Barrington
    The author, a retired lawyer and former president of the Oxford University Society for Psychical Research has spent many years researching psychic phenomena and observing how it interacts with our daily lives. In Talking about Psychical Research: Thoughts on Life, Death and the Nature of Reality, Mary Rose Barrington asks, "What is the point of psychical research?” She goes on ...
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    17,10 €

  • The Funny Thing about Death
    Donna Lynne Erickson
    Death is among the most natural, and most confusing, parts of being human. Its inevitability and universality do nothing to alleviate our messy feelings about the subject. It’s why you have no idea what to say when your friend loses a beloved family member. You are not alone. Somehow, our privileged North American ethos has taught us that we need not suffer, that a quick fix to...
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    22,43 €

  • The Funny Thing about Death
    Donna Lynne Erickson
    Death is among the most natural, and most confusing, parts of being human. Its inevitability and universality do nothing to alleviate our messy feelings about the subject. It’s why you have no idea what to say when your friend loses a beloved family member. You are not alone. Somehow, our privileged North American ethos has taught us that we need not suffer, that a quick fix to...
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    13,63 €

  • The Culture and Art of Death in 19th Century America
    D. Tulla Lightfoot
    Nineteenth-century Victorian-era mourning rituals--long and elaborate public funerals, the wearing of lavishly somber mourning clothes, and families posing for portraits with deceased loved ones--are often depicted as bizarre or scary. But behind many such customs were rational or spiritual meanings. This book offers an in-depth explanation at how death affected American soci...
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    80,67 €

  • Beautiful Grief
    Katherine Rose / Tony Rose
    There is no escaping death.The death of a loved one drops us to our knees. We feel as though the world has ended—and yet, death is a natural part of the human condition. All of us will suffer loss. In Beautiful Grief, Tony Rose and his daughter, Katie, extract the lessons they learned from the death of Jonny, Tony’s 28-year-old son and Katie’s brother. Grief stretches your em...
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    11,08 €

  • On the Way
    Pam Northrup
    Are you caring for a loved one who is dying? Are you wondering about the appropriateness of hospice care? Are you curious about how another family got through this unique time? Are you seeking spiritual comfort as you are “on the way” in the dying process with someone you love?If any of this sounds like you, then this book is for you. This inspiring and engaging collection of t...
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    9,16 €

  • Here All Is Poland
    Petro Andreas Nungovitch
    On 10 April 2010, Polish President Lech Kaczyński and First Lady Maria Kaczyńska were killed in an airplane crash outside the city of Smolensk in western Russia, where they were flying to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the Soviet massacre of over twenty-one thousand Polish prisoners during the Second World War. Eight days later, the president and his wife were laid to rest...
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    156,36 €

  • Remember, Every Breath is Precious
    Lesley Joan Lupo
    "I don’t remember hearing any snorts or whinnies. I don’t remember smelling the sweat streaming off the newly unsaddled backs or seeing the dust kicked up by the drumming hooves. The only thing I remember was me, my essence, my soul, popping out of my body several seconds before it was caught up in a stampede. I didn’t feel my arm caught in the stirrup or sense the impact of th...
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    15,16 €

  • In These Five Breaths
    Paul R. Lipton
    A terrible car accident has occurred and now a good man, a devoted husband and father, lies dying in a hospital bed with his wife at his side. In the last moments of his life, time seems suspended. As his pulse slows, so does the clock. Every breath takes on a life of its own. Trying to make sense of what has brought him here, his mind casts itself over his memories of choices ...
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    12,03 €

  • Funerary Practices in England and Wales
    Brian Parsons / Julie Rugg
    This book is an essential reference resource for policy-makers, practitioners and academics with an interest in any aspect of funerary practice in England and Wales. ...
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    104,12 €

  • EUTHANASIA
    Peter Kurti
    Mounting pressure to legalise assisted suicide and euthanasia is a one-way ratchet asserting the primacy of individual choice. Euthanasia advocates insist nothing can ever outweigh that choice.But in this book, Peter Kurti argues these demands need to be resisted because of the impact individual choice about assisted suicide will have on wider society — on the family, on friend...
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    16,20 €

  • A LITTLE BRIDGE TO HEAVEN
    Tracey Heath
    “Her book about dying, I feel sure will be helpful, comforting, & useful for all Health Care Professionals. Its very title, ‘A Little Bridge to Heaven’, is all the recommendation needed.”—Dr. Catherine Hamlin AC, Fistula Hospital, Ethiopia “‘A Little Bridge to Heaven’ is a deeply moving collection of individual true stories about one of life’s most sacred moments—returning home...
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    34,47 €

  • Cultivating the Doula Heart
    Francesca Lynn Arnoldy
    Part how-to guide, part hopeful manifesto, Cultivating the Doula Heart provides a clear framework for supporting those facing hardship, grief, and loss. Readers will feel empowered to move from sympathy to empathy to compassion. The doula heart can be readily infused into all work and into any relationship.Succinct and straightforward, this "work of heart" covers: Components of...
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    8,68 €

  • That's Just the Way Life Is...
    Leslie Compton
    That's Just the Way Life Is... details the  journey my father and I traveled as he battled prostate cancer while weaving through memories of happier times. The physical, emotional and medical situations we encountered are explored in detail.This memoir was written for those who have lost a loved one, those who are caregivers and those who are training to be caregivers.At th...
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    14,73 €

  • Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces
    Jack Denham / Matthew Spokes
    How can we understand the relationship between death and heritage? Using three case studies, Death, Memorialization and Deviant Spaces adapts contemporary spatial theory to develop a new conceptual toolbox, complementing existing work on dark tourism and difficult heritage, to explore the multifarious ways that memorialization functions. ...
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    104,37 €

  • Birth of a Cemetery
    John F. Llewellyn
    Forest Lawn Memorial-Park is probably the most famous cemetery in California and also one of the most famous in the country. Known for the beauty of its grounds, art, and service to the community, it has also been parodied in print, film, and television. Forest Lawn Cemetery was founded in 1906 in Tropico, California, now part of the city of Glendale. Previous publications have...
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    24,08 €

  • Spirit Teachings
    M. A. Oxon / MAOxon / William Stainton Moses
    William Stainton Moses, an Anglican priest, authoredSpirit Teachingsin 1883, nine years before his passing. It is now considered a classic in the Spiritualist genre. Initially, Moses was antagonistic toward spirit communication, calling the mediumship of D. D. Home “the dreariest twaddle”. However, in 1872 he attended a séance for the first time and five months later became awa...
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    14,76 €

  • Mirrors of Passing
    Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. Mirrors of Passing offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships of death, materiality, and temporality across far-flung times and pla...
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    73,14 €

  • Mirrors of Passing
    Without exception, all people are faced with the inevitability of death, a stark fact that has immeasurably shaped societies and individual consciousness for the whole of human history. Mirrors of Passing offers a powerful window into this oldest of human preoccupations by investigating the interrelationships of death, materiality, and temporality across far-flung times and pla...
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    53,12 €

  • Living Before Dying
    Janette Davies
    This in-depth description of life in a nursing/care home for 70 residents and 40 staff highlights the daily care of frail or ill residents between 80 and 100 years of age, including people suffering with dementia. How residents interact with care assistants is emphasised, as are the different behaviours of men and women observed during a year of daily conversations between the ...
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    38,38 €

  • Hero and the Grave
    Alireza Vahdani
    The theme of death is an essential component of film narrative, particularly in how it affects the hero. Filmmakers from different cultures and backgrounds have developed distinct yet archetypal perspectives on death and the protagonist’s response. Focusing on Western and Japanese period genre films, the author examines the work of John Ford (1894-1973), Akira Kurosawa (1910-19...
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    57,67 €

  • Corpse Encounters
    Chase Pielak / Jacqueline Elam
    This book takes a critical glance at the ways in which we attend to the corpse, tracing a trajectory from encounter toward considering options for disposal: veneered mortuary internment, green burial and its attendant rot, cremation and alkaline hydrolysis, donation and display, and ecological burial. Through tracing the possible futures of the dead that haunt the living, throu...
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    129,27 €


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