MB - Death & Dying 1

Un regreso a la Nothomb más osada, íntima y autobiográfica. Los psicopompos son figuras mitológicas encargadas de guiar a las almas en su tránsito al más allá. Aunque Orfeo no lo sea en sentido estr……続きを見る

Un retorn a la Nothomb més agosarada, íntima i autobiogràfica. Els psicopomps són figures mitològiques encarregades de guiar les ànimes en el trànsit cap a l’altre món. Tot i que Orfeu no ho sigui e……続きを見る

Popular media are powerful mirrors and makers of meaning around suicide. This book brings together scholars from across disciplines to examine how suicide is mythologized, politicized and challenged……続きを見る

In DEATH: LIGHT OF LIFE AND SHADOW OF DEATH, internationally acclaimed author, spiritual thinker, and humanitarian Shree Shambav takes readers on an extraordinary inward journey into the heart of li……続きを見る

Beyond the Veil is a visual tour through the curious history of how we deal with deathーthe grief and mourning, the funerals, symbols, and ceremonies. From Victorian England across to the US, learn ……続きを見る

La mort est inévitable ! Alors pourquoi en avoir peur ? Elle est une question fondamentale de la vie humaine qui engendre de nombreuses questions. Pourquoi nous naissons et mourons ? Pourquoi vivre ……続きを見る

La mort constitue l’un des moteurs fondamentaux de production d’images, et ce, dès l’aube de l’histoire humaine (Debray, 1992; Belting, 2004; Pigeaud, 2017). Les images mortuaires ont souvent été ap……続きを見る

Perspectives on the Afterlife: Exploring Different Beliefs and Philosophies by Luna Ember delves into the myriad ways humanity has sought to understand what lies beyond death. From ancient Egyptian ……続きを見る

First place winner, 2024 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in Palliative Care and Hospice Hospice and palliative care professionals are experts at caring for individuals and familie……続きを見る

Una conmovedora historia sobre morir dignamente Carlos Framb nunca pensó que podría publicar este libro, porque la idea era morir. Han pasadomenos de diez años desde que él y su madre decidieron pon……続きを見る

We all know the importance of life insurance to make certain our loved ones are financially secure after we pass on, but what can we do to ensure they are emotionally secure without us? Are You Read……続きを見る

First place winner, 2024 American Journal of Nursing Book of the Year Award in Palliative Care and Hospice Hospice and palliative care professionals are experts at caring for individuals and familie……続きを見る

Published by: PREMIUM BOOK PUBLISHER What happens to your consciousness at death? This book explores several scientific ideas about consciousness. Not just neural correlations, but ideas about the r……続きを見る

This book examines necropolitics and performance art, with a particular focus on the black body and the African diaspora. In this book, Myron M. Beasley situates artists as cultural workers and theo……続きを見る

A fascinating insight into the strange world of collectors of the macabre, Morbid Curiosities features 18 unique collections and an extensive interview with each collector, explaining how and why th……続きを見る

This book looks to existential thinkers for reasons to hope immortal life could be worth living. It injects new arguments and insights into the debate about the desirability of immortality, and tack……続きを見る

Praise for the First Edition: "[This book] represents a significant advance because it looks at the issues from a bio-psychosocial perspective. To a social worker who has worked mainly in a medical ……続きを見る

This study explores the female experience of death in early modern England. By tracing attitudes towards gender through the occasion of death, it advances our understanding of the construction of fe……続きを見る

This book provides practical evidence-based strategies that will help clinicians across a broad range of disciplines to address and discuss the main issues an aging person is likely to face and over……続きを見る

Although there is extensive research on the loss of a spouse, predominantly focusing on the experiences of widows, much less attention is paid to bereaved partners not married to their significant o……続きを見る

The first book to unpack American cinema's long history of representing death, this work considers movie sequences in which the process of dying becomes an exercise in legibility and exploration for……続きを見る

Becoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-thr……続きを見る

Choosing How We Die compels the reader to see his or her own journey through the dying process as something we can only consider when we are healthy and as a gift to those we leave behind after we a……続きを見る

Exploring a new approach to interfaith/interreligious communication, the contributors to this collection seek to interact from the perspective of their own tradition or academic discipline with Erne……続きを見る

Through an ethnohistorical chronicling of the emotionally-laden treatment of selected suicide media-events, this book offers a neo-Durkheimean account of suicide, addressing its social-moral threat ……続きを見る

«Via di qua; ecco la mia meta». Nell'annuncio del protagonista del racconto di Kafka La partenza risuona l'universale della condizione umana, quell'andar via a cui non occorre una destinazione, poic……続きを見る

Nel 1921 gli ultracentenari in Italia erano 49, nel 2004 erano 7700. Non c'è dubbio che la vita si è allungata molto nell'ultimo secolo, ed è un bene. Paradossalmente non abbiamo un'idea chiara del ……続きを見る

"[Grief and Loss Across the Lifespan] represents a significant advance because it looks at the issues from a bio-psychosocial perspective. To a social worker who has worked mainly in a medical and n……続きを見る