Authors:Hannelore Wass, Robert A. Neimeyer,
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Keywords: dying, bereavement, death, facts, facing, series
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 1995-04-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1560322861
ISBN-13: 9781560322863
This work provides an up-to-date examination of the ways people face dying and bereavement. In this third edition previous chapters are throrughly revised, and new contributors expand areas that have changed significantly. Reflecting the field’s complex interdisciplinary character, the chapters cover such diverse areas as psychology, nursing, medicine, AIDS, family studies, sociology, education, philosophy, law, religion, the humanities and political science, whilst highlighting thanatology’s core psychological and therapeutic caregiving dimensions.; First, the text offers broad ex
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Publisher: Dewi Lewis Publishing
Keywords: dying
Number of Pages: 140
Published: 2008-02-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 1904587550
ISBN-13: 9781904587552
Images of human suffering within areas of conflict, war and disaster. Leica European Publishers Award Winner.
Author: Ira Byock
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Keywords: dying
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-03-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1573226572
ISBN-13: 9781573226578
Nobody should have to die in pain. Nobody should have to die alone. This is Ira Byock’s dream, and he is dedicating his life to making it come true. "Dying Well" brings readers to the homes and bedsides of families with whom Dr. Byock has worked, telling stories of love and reconciliation in the face of tragedy, pain, and conflict National media publicity. Author lecture tour. Online promo .
Author: Zakes Mda
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, dying, ways
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 2002-08-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312420919
ISBN-13: 9780312420918
Winner of the M-Net Book PrizeShortlisted for the CNA and Noma Awards In Ways of Dying, Zakes Mda’s acclaimed first novel, Toloki is a "professional mourner" in a vast and violent city of the new South Africa. Day after day he attends funerals in the townships, dressed with dignity in a threadbare suit, cape, and battered top hat, to comfort the grieving families of the victims of the city’s crime, racial hatred, and crippling poverty. At a Christmas day funeral for a young boy Toloki is reunited with Noria, a woman from his village. Together they help each other to heal the past,
Author: Beverly Barton
Publisher: HQN Books
Keywords: dying
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $6.99
ISBN-10: 037377317X
ISBN-13: 9780373773176
It was the job of her dreams…but it became her worst nightmare….All private security agent Lucie Evans wanted was a fresh start—and the chance to show Sawyer McNamara, her ex-boss, that she no longer craved his absolution for a crime she didn’t commit. So when the offer of a trip to South America as the personal bodyguard to a billionaire heiress came up, Lucie jumped at the prospect of leaving the Dundee Agency behind. Then the nightmare began. Kidnapped in a case of mistaken identity, suddenly Lucie’s only hope of survival rested with the one man she never wanted to see aga
Author: Charles E. Little
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: trees, dying
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0140158723
ISBN-13: 9780140158724
All over America, a range of human-caused maladiesfatal ozone depletion, ultraviolet rays, acid rain, and the disastrous aftermath of clear-cuttinghas brought tree death and forest decline in its wake. Veteran environmentalist Charles Little explores the phenomenon and concerned response (or lack thereof) . What emerges is a sobering account of the implications for the future of ourplanet.
Author: Ira Levin
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Keywords: dying, kiss
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2003-04
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0786711647
ISBN-13: 9780786711642
A Kiss Before Dying not only debuted the talent of best-selling novelist Ira Levin to rave reviews, it also set a new standard in the art of mystery and suspense. Now a modern classic, as gripping in its tautly plotted action as it is penetrating in its exploration of a criminal mind, it tells the shocking tale of a young man who will stop at nothing-not even murder-to get where he wants to go. For he has dreams; plans. He also has charm, good looks, sex appeal, intelligence. And he has a problem. Her name is Dorothy; she loves him, and she’s pregnant. The solution may demand desperate m
