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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...
Silence Of The Heart
Mainstream Publishing 2011; US$ 21.33Cricket has an alarming suicide rate. Among Test-match players for England and several other countries it is far above the national average for all sports and there have been numerous instances at other levels of the game. For thirty years cricket author David Frith has collected data on this sad subject. SILENCE OF THE HEART: Cricket Suicides is his... more...
The Spirit of Mourning
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 24.00Discusses how the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, is inscribed within human bodies. more...
Where Are They Buried (Revised and Updated)
Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers 2009; US$ 14.95Updated with dozens of entries of the newly dead and now in paperback, an irresistible and browsable guide to the lives, deaths, and final resting places of the world's most influential figures. This unparalleled compilation of profiles of the deceased?from Abbott and Costello to Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, from Arthur Ashe to Paul Newman, offers... more...
Can We Live Forever?
Anthem Press 2009; US$ 99.00An enlightening look into the medical, cultural, religious and philosophical implications of life extension. more...
Seize the Day
Scribe Publications 2012; US$ 18.99Marie de Hennezel is a gifted psychologist who works as part of a remarkable team of doctors and nurses in a hospital for the terminally ill. In this eloquent book, she shares her unique perspective on what life and death really mean — and explores how talking about death, and facing up to it, can actually help us to lead more abundant lives.... more...
Mortality
McClelland & Stewart 2012; US$ 22.99Based on his columns in Vanity Fair that chronicled his year-and-a-half battle with esophageal cancer, Mortality is Christopher Hitchens at his most honest and reflective . Thoughtfully meditating on the harrowing effects of illness and treatment on the body, and on the impermanence and acceptance of a life ending, Mortality is Hitchens' magnum... more...
When I Die
Little, Brown Book Group 2012; Not AvailableWritten during the last few months of Philip Gould's life, this is a hugely inspiring and ultimately uplifting look at his 'lessons from the death zone' more...
Time And Myth
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012; US$ 28.00What is man, apart from the things of his life, apart from loving and fighting and dying? In his exploration of that fundamental question, John S. Dunne considers the different ways in which man strives throughout his life for immortality. Growing out of the 1971 Yale University Thomas More lectures which Father Dunne delivered in that year,... more...
Blood Beneath My Feet
Feral House 2012; US$ 18.95A hard dose of Southern reality about life with the dead as told by real death investigator. more...









