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The Mummy Congress
Hyperion 2001; US$ 9.95When acclaimed science journalist Heather Pringle was dispatched to a remote part of northern Chile to cover a little-known scientific conference, she found herself in the midst of the most passionate gathering of her working life -- dozens of mummy experts lodged in a rambling seaside hotel, battling over the implications of their latest discoveries.... more...
Dying and Death
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 64.40Death is a topic people are reluctant to ponder. Neither is dying a process that is usually being openly discussed. However, on a variety of occasions, dying and death are on a persons minds, under some sensitive circumstances, he or she are eager to discuss with a close person, a friend, a professional.The present volume, the second in the Series... more...
No Time to Say Goodbye
Crown Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.95Suicide would appear to be the last taboo. Even incest is now discussed freely in popular media, but the suicide of a loved one is still an act most people are unable to talk about--or even admit to their closest family or friends. This is just one of the many painful and paralyzing truths author Carla Fine discovered when her husband, a successful... more...
Suicide, Self-Injury, and Violence in the Schools
Wiley 2010; US$ 44.00The first book of its kind to address suicide, self-injury, and violence in school settings The frequency of suicide, students' self-injury, and violence in school settings requires preventative and response policies and procedures for the safety and protection of faculty and students. Suicide, Self-Injury, and Violence in the Schools: Assessment,... more...
Constructing Death
Cambridge University Press 1998; US$ 32.00An introduction to the sociological study of death, dying and bereavement. more...
Remember Me
HarperCollins 2011; US$ 12.99In Remember Me , Time writer Lisa Takeuchi Cullen has created a humorous and poignant chronicle of her travels around the country to discover how Americans are reinventing the rites of dying. What she learned is that people no longer want to take death lying down; instead, they're taking their demise into their own hands and planning the afterparty.... more...
Mirrors of Mortality (Routledge Revivals)
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 42.95First published in 1981, this reissue examines mankind?s preoccupation with death and mortality by isolating various societies in different periods of time. The authors examine not only the formal rituals associated with the last rite of passage, but also the social attitudes to death and dying which these rituals evidence. The essays establish that... more...
For the Living and the Dead
I.B.Tauris 2010; US$ 85.00The funeral laments of Upper Egypt have an elaborate and ancient history stretching back more than 5,000 years. Even the chants of modern-day lamenters, echo the words of their ancestors. Yet this ancient tradition is now under threat from social and political change. The laments - known as idid in Arabic - are composed orally in performance. Elizabeth... more...
In the Land of Long Fingernails
Greystone Books 2011; US$ 14.00Charles Wilkins , then a university student, took a job as a gravedigger in a vast corporate cemetery in the east end of Toronto during the hazy summer of 1969. The bizarre-but-true events of that time-a midsummer gravediggers' strike, the unearthing of a victim of an unsolved murder, and a little illegal bone-shifting-play out among a Barnum-esque... more...
Children's Understanding of Death
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 75.00This book comprehensively examines children's ideas about death, both biological and religious. more...









