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What role do man-eating monsters - vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals - play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of whether recent representations of humans as food in ……続きを見る

In recent decades, the level of moral acceptability of choice at the end of life has reached record highs. Legislative responsiveness to public opinion, however, has resulted in far fewer and much s……続きを見る

Promoting Resilience offers a fresh perspective that views resilience through a sociological lens, emphasizing the significance of loss issues and highlighting a range of practice implications acros……続きを見る

Se qualcuno mi avesse predetto, 20 anni fa, che mi sarei occupata di morte e di morire, con gioia e curiosità, l’avrei semplicemente preso per pazzo. E invece è stato proprio così. Il mio viaggio in……続きを見る

A soldier gets through Life's greatest hell and one of life's most gruesome battles having God and Jesus on his side. 続きを見る

This core introductory text, with a focus on clinical application, combines the knowledge and skills of counseling psychology with current theory and research in grief and bereavement. The third edi……続きを見る

‘the Light’ explores a world where you wake up and know this is the day you die. How would such a world shape the way we think, our views on each other and society, how we conduct our personal and f……続きを見る

The ending of the series, Gary has gained his sanity back along with his soul. He continues to expose truths that he's experienced and dealt with. He begins to build back the relationships he has wi……続きを見る

IF YOU’VE REACHED A CERTAIN AGE, you may be wondering about the “golden years” and when they’ll start. But, as many Baby Boomers will tell you, sometimes it feels more like rusting, as chronic condi……続きを見る

Music is often our companion when dealing with the incomprehensibility of loss, and yet death and dying are topics that are rarely discussed or analysed in the academic space, especially in combinat……続きを見る

The series continues with Gary moving onto work a special case with the DEA. He becomes part of a major drug cartel case where he provides intel on some of the drug dealers he has surveilled. As he ……続きを見る

Journey Home is a set of essays about living and dying with an open heart. While many of us fear death and dying, these essays argue that embracing life and death can help us reclaim a richness we'r……続きを見る

This fully revised, new edition of Innovations in Hospice Architecture responds to the need for an up-to-date, theoretically based reference book summarizing key historical and recent developments w……続きを見る

This story deals with a police officer who has been on the police force for a few years. He feels he's doing a great job of serving and protecting his community. Soon he realizes that he's part of a……続きを見る

Matthew and Max walk into school armed with arsenal to take out whoever is in their path. Another mass shooting has occurred in America but this time around, you will hear detailed accounts from sur……続きを見る

With intense and violent portrayals of death becoming ever more common on television and in cinema and the growth of death-centric movies, series, texts, songs, and video clips attracting a wide and……続きを見る

Extrait : "Je voudrais connaître une langue à part, dans laquelle pourraient s'écrire les visions de mes sommeils. Quand j'essaie avec les mots ordinaires, je n'arrive qu'à construire une sorte de r……続きを見る

Et si la réincarnation était possible ? Au début, ce fut une succession de bonheurs, de découvertes toutes plus surprenantes les unes que les autres. Mon premier mot, mon premier vélo, Papa et Maman……続きを見る

In this "morbid and illuminating" (Entertainment Weekly) New York Times bestseller that launched the death positive movement, a young mortician goes behind the scenes of her curious profession. Arme……続きを見る

Usually conceived in opposition to each other – birth as a hopeful beginning, death as an ending – this book brings them into dialogue with each other to argue that both are central to our experienc……続きを見る

A superb distillation of the wisdom of one of Britain’s most admired writers on the human condition. Dorothy Rowe gives insights and comfort on some of the most difficult aspects of life-including: ……続きを見る

Otte børn forsvandt sporløst i København i årene 1916-1920. Det var et mysterium, men et, som ingen kendte til. Fælles for børnene var nemlig, at ingen savnede dem – de var alle bortadopteret, og al……続きを見る

A 2020 BookAuthority selection for best new American Civil War books Hundreds of thousands of individuals perished in the epic conflict of the American Civil War. As battles raged and the specter of……続きを見る

A deep dive into the science behind the creative ways Shakespeare killed off his characters. William Shakespeare found dozens of different ways to kill off his characters, and audiences today still ……続きを見る

While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been rela……続きを見る

Death, Gender and Ethnicity examines the ways in which gender and ethnicity shape the experiences of dying and bereavement, taking as its focus the diversity of ways through which the universal even……続きを見る

It is well known that the numbers of organs that become available each year for transplantation fall far short of the numbers that are actually required. In this boldly argued book James Stacey Tayl……続きを見る

The field of monster studies has grown significantly over the past few years and this companion provides a comprehensive guide to the study of monsters and the monstrous from historical, regional an……続きを見る

Entre el 26 y el 27 de septiembre de 2014 ocurrieron hechos de extrema violencia en la población de Iguala, en Guerrero. Ahí desaparecieron 43 estudiantes de la Escuela Normal Rural Raúl Isidro Burg……続きを見る

'I thought if I was going to die I should write some things down' Kirsty Everett was going to be an Olympic gymnast. But as she made plans to win gold, life, as it does, laughed at the goal she'd se……続きを見る