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  • Other Realities?
    Zofia Weaver
    Franek Kluski produced what might justifiably be described as the widest and most striking range of phenomena in the history of physical mediumship. A Pole whose professions included banking and journalism, his involvement with psychical research lasted for a brief period between 1918 and 1925. During that time he took part in meticulously documented séances devised and attende...
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    16,31 €

  • Now Is Your Time
    D'vora Power
    Death has a way of bringing into sharp focus the more important things in life. This is the lesson that D'vora Power learned in December 2013 after a near-death experience from a lingering pneumonia. D'vora had the world by the tail. She was strong and working hard to make her dreams come true. One of those dreams was an all-expense paid cruise to Belize, Honduras, and Cozum...
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    14,62 €

  • The Death View Revolution
    Madelaine Lawrence
    Reports and studies of near-death experiences, death-bed communications, after-death communications and a host of other transpersonal experiences occurring near death are creating a new paradigm challenging our exclusive biological and psychological understanding of death and near-death. Care provided to those near death or dying is an evolving process. Before Dr. Elisabeth Kub...
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    15,97 €

  • Mummies around the World
    Matt Cardin
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    142,79 €

  • Carolyn & Cancer
    Carolyn Schreuer
    The late Carolyn Schreuer, devoted wife, mother, and teacher, was in her mid-40s when diagnosed with breast cancer. Before succumbing, she’d spend several years putting her valuable advice into Carolyn & Cancer: Some Days I Don’t Feel Like Slaying Dragons, an insightful must-read for anyone facing serious, even terminal, illness.'When I started this journey I had no idea what I...
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    21,12 €

  • Death, Dying, and Bereavement
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    125,06 €

  • Realistic Joneses, The
    Will Eno
    In The Realistic Joneses, we meet Bob and Jennifer and their new neighbors, John and Pony, two suburban couples who have even more in common than their identical homes and their shared last names. As their relationships begin to irrevocably intertwine, the Joneses must decide between their idyllic fantasies and their imperfect realities. ...
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    15,23 €

  • Digital Death
    Christopher Moreman / Dave Lewis
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    95,40 €

  • Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death
    In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr. Norman Straker proposes that 'death anxiety' is responsible for the American society’s failure to address costly futile care at the end of life; more specifically, doctors default on the appropriate prescription of palliative care because of this anxiety. This leads to unnecessary suffering f...
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    60,10 €

  • The Power of Death
    'The extraordinary impact of loss is discussed in a number of contexts including war and the complexities of dealing with that experience in a socially and culturally dynamic contemporary society. Contributors are drawn from a range of disciplines and international academic contexts, which makes for rich empirical fare...as well as covering socially important topics.' · Avril...
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    184,16 €

  • Dealing with Death and the Eternal Life - Radical Approaches to the Afterlife
    Mary Martinez
    While death is the ultimate outcome for any living being, the afterlife is a much more ephemeral situation. While every culture and religion has its own personal comprehension of an afterlife, the multitude of answers to this question means that the curious individual should do some research on those different states, such as Heaven, Purgatory, Hell, Nirvana, Valhalla, the Elys...
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    9,90 €

  • Subconscious Journeys
    Jack Mitchell
    In Subconscious Journeys, Jack Mitchell explores the human mind and its connection to life, death, disease, and the probability of extended life. Most diseases, if not all, are formed and intensified through repressed fears that form emotional barriers within the subconscious mind. Lifestyles are then conscientiously directed and enforced within the conscious mind through the g...
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    43,67 €

  • Reflections on War and Death
    Sigmund Freud
    This early work by Sigmund Freud was originally published in 1918 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. ’Reflections on War and Death’ is a work on the psychology and social attitudes toward war and death. Sigismund Schlomo Freud was born on 6th May 1856, in the Moravian town of Príbor, now part of the Czech Republic. He studied a variety of su...
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    10,21 €

  • The Living Planner
    Lynn Lambrecht
    Preparing for the future doesn’t have to be overwhelming. Infact, it can be quite empowering.With Lynn’s expertise, you can enjoy the confidence and satisfactionthat comes with controlling your future.Lynn’s concierge approach to simplifying your life helps you to• identify the pieces you already have in place• determine what more you need to complete your plans• make the appro...
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    35,48 €

  • Lychgate
    Lord Dowding
    By 1940 World War II was raging and one of the most prominent men in the UK was Air Chief Marshal Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding - more widely known as Lord Dowding. Dowding was the commander of RAF Fighter Command during the Battle of Britain and is generally credited with playing a crucial role in Britain’s air defence, which contributed to the defeat of Hitler’s plan to in...
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    16,28 €

  • Heaven and Hell Unveiled
    Stafford Betty
    Heaven and hell-are they real places, or are they fantasies invented to inspire good behavior and overcome our fear of dying? In this book Stafford Betty, a university professor and international expert on afterlife research, answers these questions. He allows deceased human beings speaking through authentic mediums to describe their actual worlds. And what they tell us would r...
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    15,34 €

  • Organ Transplants from Executed Prisoners
    Louis J. Palmer
    In a revised and updated edition, this book continues the debate on whether transplantable organs of executed capital felons should be used to save lives. It provides the reader with relevant data and information necessary for making an informed and intelligent judgment of the matter. Every conceivable constitutional argument on behalf of capital felons and their families is d...
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    42,98 €

  • Killing Us Softly
    Kevin Mugur Galalae
    Our progressive philosophy calls for more freedom and more prosperity for more people. Yet author Kevin Galalae says you can’t always have more. Overpopulation is making us victims of our own triumphs over nature. Lacking a popular consensus to control population, the ruling elite have resorted to covert means. Their depopulation project has had considerable success, but at a t...
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    24,00 €

  • Four Funerals and a Wedding
    Jill Smolowe
    PRINTPEOPLE Magazine Boxed mention 4/4FORBES.com April 11MORE Magazine March Issue/essay by JillRED Magazine (UK) March Issue/essay by JillThe BARK Magazine Summer Issue /On Stands May/essay by JillChicago Tribune Q&A April 16. Released to Tribune-owned papers April 10MONTCLAIR Magazine May featureNew Jersey Monthly June Issue/Book Review RADIOThe Pulse/WHYY Philadelphia...
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    13,33 €

  • Order of Mourning in Cochin Jewish Tradition
    Shlomo Mordechai
    In small and isolated Jewish diaspora societies like the Jews of Cochin, a death in any family was a massive loss to the entire community. The emotional response to the bereavement had deep implications on the physical and spiritual well-being of the family and the behavioural, social and hierarchical aspects of the relatives of the deceased and the community at large. Mourning...
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    12,95 €

  • Shot in the Head a Sister's Memoir, a Brother's Struggle
    Katherine Flannery Dering
    This true story brings to life the experiences of one large family before and after the onset of mental illness. Using a mix of narrative, photographs, emails and pictures of various cherished objects, the book takes the reader into the author's world of caring for her younger brother Paul, who suffered from schizophrenia and then lung cancer. 'powerful and emotional' - Ann Clo...
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    14,65 €

  • Culture, Suicide, and the Human Condition
    Suicide is a puzzling phenomenon. Not only is its demarcation problematic but it also eludes simple explanation. The cultures in which suicide mortality is high do not necessarily have much else in common, and neither is a single mental illness such as depression sufficient to lead a person to suicide. In a word, despite its statistical regularity, suicide is unpredictable on t...
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    184,36 €

  • American Afterlife
    Kate Sweeney
    Someone dies. What happens next?One family inters their matriarch's ashes on the floor of the ocean. Another holds a memorial weenie roast each year at a green-burial cemetery. An 1898 ad for embalming fluid promises, 'You can make mummies with it!' while a leading contemporary burial vault is touted as impervious to the elements. A grieving mother, 150 years ago, might spe...
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    22,61 €

  • Invisible Population
    The issue of population ageing in East-Asia has been extensively studied but we remain in the dark as to the fate of the region’s growing dead population, particularly in the largest metropolitan areas where there is bitter competition for space among the various human activities. From private cemetery developers to undertakers, not to mention a vast array of sub-contractors, d...
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    64,01 €

  • Early Burial Customs in Northern Egypt
    Joanna Dębowska-Ludwin
    The book presents issues relating to the oldest known examples of human mortuary practices from the area of Northern Egypt and dating to the end of the Early Dynastic period. The research surveys changes in sepulchral architecture, offerings, body positioning and other elements of generally understood burial customs. Space is also found for discussions on social stratification,...
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    60,54 €

  • Death, Belief and Politics in Central African History
    Megan Vaughan / Walima T. Kalusa / Walima TKalusa
    In this set of essays Walima T. Kalusa and Megan Vaughan explore themes in the history of death in Zambia and Malawi from the late nineteenth century to the present day. Drawing on extensive archival and oral historical research they examine the impact of Christianity on spiritual beliefs, the racialised politics of death on the colonial Copperbelt, the transformation of burial...
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    78,25 €

  • Ritual, Belief and the Dead in Early Modern Britain and Ireland
    Sarah Tarlow
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    61,61 €

  • Mortality’s Muse
    D. T. Siebert / DTSiebert
    The inevitability of death-that of others and our own-is surely among our greatest anxieties. Mortality’s Muse: The Fine Art of Dying explores how art, mainly literary art, addresses that troubling reality. While religion and philosophy offer important consolations for life’s end, art responds in ways that are perhaps more complete and certainly more deeply human. Among subject...
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    103,21 €

  • Murder Stories
    Paul Kaplan
    Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural commitments to ’American’ ideologies in the retention of capital punishment. The central aim of the study is to illuminate the elusive yet powerful role of ideology in legal discourses. Through analyzing the content and processes of death penalty narratives, this resea...
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    64,02 €

  • Churchyard and cemetery
    Julie Rugg
    Reviews the burial history of central North Yorkshire ...
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    156,44 €


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