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On Grief and Grieving
Scribner 2005; US$ 15.00Shortly before her death in 2004, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross and David Kessler, her collaborator, completed the manuscript for this, her final book. On Grief and Grieving is a fitting completion to her work. Thirty-six years and sixteen books ago, Kübler-Ross's groundbreaking On Death and Dying changed the way we talk about the end of life. Now On... more...
Out of the Darkness
Arsenal Pulp Press 2003; US$ 16.95Based on interviews with teen suicide survivors, parents, and professionals, a sensitive exploration of teen suicide. more...
Informe mundial sobre la violencia y la salud
Pan American Health Organization 2003; US$ 25.00En el informe se describen la magnitud y el impacto de la violencia en el mundo entero, se examinan los principales factores de riesgo que la causan, se describen las diferentes modalidades de intervención y las respuestas de política que se han puesto en práctica, con un resumen de lo que se sabe acerca de su eficacia, y se formulan algunas recomendaciones... more...
Night Falls Fast
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2011; US$ 15.95From the author of the best-selling memoir An Unquiet Mind , comes the first major book in a quarter century on suicide, and its terrible pull on the young in particular. Night Falls Fast is tragically timely: suicide has become one of the most common killers of Americans between the ages of fifteen and forty-five. An internationally acknowledged... more...
The Mourner's Dance
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2004; US$ 25.99When her daughter's fiancé died suddenly, Katherine Ashenburg was surprised to see how her daughter intuitively re-created the traditional rituals of mourning, even those of which she was ignorant. Intrigued, Ashenburg began to explore the rich and endlessly inventive choreographies different cultures and times have devised to mark a universal and... more...
Why Suicide?
HarperCollins 2013; US$ 11.99According to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, in our lifetimes 80 percent of us will have some up-close experience with the suicide of someone we know. And more than 20 percent of us will have a family member die by suicide. Journalist Eric Marcus knows this better than most people. In 1970, his father took his life at the age of 44.... more...
Why Suicide?
HarperCollins 2013; Not AvailableAccording to the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, in our lifetimes 80 percent of us will have some up-close experience with the suicide of someone we know. And more than 20 percent of us will have a family member die by suicide. Journalist Eric Marcus knows this better than most people. In 1970, his father took his life at the age of 44.... more...
Cognitive Behavioural Prevention of Suicide in Psychosis
Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 50.95This practical and informative text lays out the product of a number of years of clinical research into suicide behaviour and its prevention. While the focus is on non-affective psychosis and the schizophrenia-spectrum disorders, the mechanisms underlying suicide behaviour in this group may well underlie or at least influence suicide behaviour in... more...
Taming Time, Timing Death
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 124.95Presenting rich, interdisciplinary empirical studies of death rituals and practices across the globe, from the US and Europe, Asia, The Middle East, Australasia and Africa, Taming Time, Timing Death explores the manner in which social technologies and rituals have been and are implemented to avoid, delay or embrace death, or communicate with the dead,... more...
The End
Random House Australia 2013; US$ 31.67A fascinating exploration of the universal human experience of death. We sat around and on the bed, laughing and joking as if this was a typical family gathering. The shrunken form of our dying grandmother lay on the bed, breathing fast and shallow, her once-bright eyes half closed and sunken in their sockets. To some it might have seemed disrespectful... more...









