Sociology: death and dying

'Utterly gripping' - The Guardian'Fascinating' - The Sunday Times'Moving' - Scotsman'Engrossing' - Financial TimesSue Black confronts death every day.

'I have yet to come away from reading [Bering's] work and not feel considerably better informed than I was minutes before' (Forbes)__________________This penetrating analysis aims to demystify a subject that knows no cultural or demographic boundaries.

Raymond Moody is the 'grandfather' of contemporary investigation into the Near Death Experience and the After Death Experience.

This early work by Sigmund Freud was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography.

'Wonderful, thoughtful, practical' - Cariad Lloyd, Griefcast'Encouraging and inspiring' - Dr Kathryn Mannix, author of Amazon bestseller With the End in MindWe all know how this ends is a new approach to death and dying, showing how exploring our mortality really can change our lives.

'Wonderful, thoughtful, practical' - Cariad Lloyd, Griefcast'Encouraging and inspiring' - Dr Kathryn Mannix, author of Amazon bestseller With the End in MindWe all know how this ends is a new approach to death and dying, showing how exploring our mortality really can change our lives.

A deep dive into the science behind the creative ways Shakespeare killed off his characters.

A life-enhancing exploration of how to live well in the face of mortality.

A life-enhancing exploration of how to live well in the face of mortality.

From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design.

From insidious murder weapons to blaze-igniting crinolines, clothing has been the cause of death, disease and madness throughout history, by accident and design.

There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear.

There are no atheists in foxholes; or so we hear.

What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common?

The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners.

The evidence of death and dying has been removed from the everyday lives of most Westerners.

What do Socrates, Hypatia, Giordano Bruno, Thomas More, and Jan Patocka have in common?

In this witty and uplifting book Myl ne Desclaux speaks tenderly and honestly about turning 50 and what it means for herself and for the other women in her entourage.

A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR'In his absorbing book about the lost and the gone, Peter Ross takes us from Flanders Fields to Milltown to Kensal Green, to melancholy islands and surprisingly lively ossuaries .

After a long, frightening journey, a Seeker of Truth reaches the top of a mountain and finds the cave of the Wise One.

Loss, Grief and Existential Awareness introduces the Integrated Process Model (IPM), a new interdisciplinary and interprofessional model for grief research, education, and accompaniment that distinguishes and integrates five dimensions of grief: physical, emotional, cognitive, social, and spiritual.

Embracing the Teardrops: A Simple, Step-by-Step Guide to Planninga Funeral That Is Dignified, Memorable, and Affordable guides thereader through one of lifes most difficult experiences: handling the death,final arrangements, and funeral of a loved one.

"e;The word death is not pronounced in New York, in Paris, in London, because it burns the lips.

Silence and Society addresses the reality that social sciences have ignored the importance of silence in human communication.

The terminal diagnosis is given, the knock on the door comes, and someone you love is dying or has just died.

"e;I thought you are stuck at the Railway Station.

'A refreshingly original meditation.

How many minutes can you survive after cardiac arrest?

This is a wonderful book: curious and insightful Ian Mortimer, author of The Time Traveller s Guide to Medieval EnglandWe know what happens to the body when we die, but what happens to the soul?

From Dylan Thomas s eighteen straight whiskies to Sylvia Plath s desperate suicide in the gas oven of her Primrose Hill kitchen; from Chatterton s Pre-Raphaelite demise to Keats death warrant in a smudge of arterial blood, the deaths of poets have often cast a backward shadow on their work.

Many books have been written on the subject of death and dying over the last twenty-five years, yet none provides a comprehensive spiritual paradigm combined with practical guidance for resounding effectively and compassionately to be most common difficulties and challenges of the dying.

Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live.

Though death is universal, how we respond to it depends on when and where we live.

Shortlisted for the Folio Prize'Unforgettable' - Anne Tyler'Stunningly original' - GuardianOne long last summer for Dad Lewis in his beloved town, Holt, Colorado.

Like all poets, inspired by death, Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or cremate them and to tend to their families in a small Michigan town where he serves as the funeral director.

The facts of life and death remain the same.

Having a good death is our final human right, argues Sandra Martin in this updated and expanded version of her bestselling and award-winning social history of the right to die movement in Canada and around the world.

Moira Farr discovered Daniel Jones' body on Valentine's Day, 1994.

At the end of the First World War, countries across Europe participated in an unprecedented ritual in which a single, anonymous body was buried to symbolize the overwhelming trauma of the battlefields.

Death has popularly had the reputation of being the last of life's great mysteries, a subject of speculation, and as a foreboding event both inevitable, and feared.

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year.

Suicide is one of the leading causes of death worldwide, with more than one million fatalities each year.

Cemetery and landscape studies have been hallmarks of North African archaeology for more than one hundred years.

No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story.

No matter where in Canada they occur, inquiries and inquests into untimely Indigenous deaths in state custody often tell the same story.

The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable structures to define a modern city.

The notion of one day disappearing from the earth forever is contrary to many of America's defining cultural values, with death and dying viewed as "e;un-American"e; experiences.

Describing a variety of funeral ritual, from major world religions and from local traditions, this book shows how cultures cope not only with corpses but also create an added value for living through the growth of afterlife beliefs.