(Paperback, ANZ Only)
By: Dr Matt Morgan
ISBN: 9781398544499
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2025
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
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(Paperback, 2)
By: Colin Tatz
ISBN: 9780855754983
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2005
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
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Aboriginal youth at risk are suffering more from social than from mental disorder. This title presents a study of youth who have, or feel they have, no purpose in life - or who may be seeking freedom in death. It title presents a portrait of life, and of self-destruction, by young Aboriginal men and women.
(Hardback)
By: Shannon Lee Dawdy
ISBN: 9780691210643
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2022
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback)
By: Nicole Piemonte
ISBN: 9780262542425
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2021
UK Publication Date: 26th August 2021
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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"A short, accessible book on issues of death and dying from the perspective of the medical professions"--
(Hardback)
By: Clifford A. Pickover
ISBN: 9781454914341
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2015
UK Publication Date: 5th November 2015
Publisher: Union Square & Co.
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(Paperback)
By: Ruth McManus
ISBN: 9780230224520
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Attitudes towards death are shaped by our social worlds. This book explores how beliefs, practices and representations of dying and death continue to evolve and adapt in response to changing global societies. Introducing students to debates around grief, religion and life expectancy, this is a clear guide to a complex field for all sociologists.
(Paperback)
By: Herbert Fingarette
ISBN: 9780812693300
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Feb 1999
Publisher: Open Court Publishing Co ,U.S.
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This work faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some populart errors in our thinking about death. It examines the metaphors which can mislead us: death as parting; death as sleep; immortality as the denial of death; and selflessness as a kind of consolation.
(Paperback)
By: Ken Worpole
ISBN: 9781861891617
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2003
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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This text explores the cult and celebration of memory and loss in the landscapes of the cemetery. It traces the history and design of cemeteries throughout Europe and the USA.
(Hardback)
By: Todd Harra
ISBN: 9781683648055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2022
UK Publication Date: 8th September 2022
Publisher: Sounds True Inc
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Author and undertaker Todd Harra shares a fascinating and oft-surprising exploration of the history and meaning of funeral rituals.
(Paperback)
By: Jennifer Ashton
ISBN: 9780062906045
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2021
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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(Hardback)
By: Dr Vibeke Maria Viestad
ISBN: 9781789147681
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Dec 2023
UK Publication Date: 1st August 2023
Publisher: Reaktion Books
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A clear-eyed survey of our how we deal with death around the world.
(Paperback)
By: Barbara Ehrenreich
ISBN: 9781783782420
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2019
UK Publication Date: 4th April 2019
Publisher: Granta Books
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The seminal thinker offers a new understanding of our bodies, our selves and our powerlessness in controlling either.
(Paperback)
By: Emile Durkheim
ISBN: 9780140449679
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2006
UK Publication Date: 28th September 2006
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
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Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair, but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate to society, then it is suicide. This work was the result of his research.
(Paperback)
By: Vinciane Despret
ISBN: 9781517911416
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2021
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
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"Originally published in French as Au bonheur des morts, Recits de ceux qui restent. Copyright Editions La Decouverte, Paris, 2015, 2017."
(Paperback)
By: Andrew Doig
ISBN: 9781526624390
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
UK Publication Date: 19th January 2023
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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(Paperback)
By: Erica Buist
ISBN: 9781800181397
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2023
UK Publication Date: 17th February 2022
Publisher: Boundless Publishing Group Ltd
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Journalist Erica Buist travels to seven death festivals around the world (Mexico, Nepal, Sicily, Thailand, Madagascar, Japan, Indonesia) in search of better attitudes towards mortality
(Paperback)
By: Venki Ramakrishnan
ISBN: 9781529369250
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
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A major exploration of the science of why and how we age and die - from a Nobel Prize-winning biologist and former president of the Royal Society.
(Paperback)
By: Adina Talve-Goodman
ISBN: 9781954276055
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2023
Publisher: Bellevue Literary Press
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(Hardback, Large Print Edition)
By: Sebastian Junger
ISBN: 9781420517453
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2024
Publisher: Thorndike Press
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(Paperback)
By: Rodney Syme
ISBN: 9780522855036
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2008
Publisher: Melbourne University Press
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Offers an account of the many terminally ill people whom the author has assisted to end their lives. This book is a moving journey with those who came to him for help and a meditation on what it means to confront death in our culture. It is also a doctor's personal story about the moral dilemmas and ethical choices.
(Hardback)
By: Kalman Kaplan
ISBN: 9780275943790
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1993
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book offers a new approach by combining the disciplines of history, psychology, and religion to explain the suicidal element in both Western culture and the individual, and how to treat it.
(Hardback)
By: Frank E. Eyetsemitan
ISBN: 9780897899253
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Feb 2003
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Most studies of human development in developing societies have focused on the childhood stage, and in a few cases exploration has extended up to adolescence, since this age group represents about half the population in developing societies.
(Paperback)
By: Shannon Lee Dawdy
ISBN: 9780691254708
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Hardback)
By: Jacqueline Elam
ISBN: 9781498543934
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 2018
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book takes a critical glance at the ritualized practices of deathcorpse preparation, disposal, and aesthetic representationand examines the workings of aesthetics that shape corpses, as well as the ways in which corpses spill over, resisting aestheticization.
