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  • On Death and Dying

    by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross ...
    Fifty years after its original publication, a commemorative edition with a new introduction and updated resources section of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s beloved, groundbreaking classic on the five stages of grief.One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Kübler-Ross’s famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and ... Read more

    16,03 €

  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

    And Other Lessons from the Crematory

    by Caitlin Doughty ...
    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.Armed with a degree in medieval history and a flair for the macabre, Caitlin Doughty took a job at a crematory and turned morbid curiosity into her life’s work. She cared for bodies of every color, shape, ... Read more

    8,89 €

  • Op een andere planeet kunnen ze me redden

    by Lieke Marsman ...
    Samenleven met de dood veranderde Lieke Marsmans wereldbeeld: ze raakte geïnteresseerd in God en ufo's, in kwantummechanica en christelijke denkers. Dit boek is een filosofische trip tot in de diepten van de menselijke geest, afgewisseld met dagboekfragmenten die beschrijven hoe de dood haar op de hielen zit. Uiteindelijk staat het idee centraal dat doodgaan met hoop, hoe vergezocht en ... Read more

    14,99 €

  • Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

    And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

    by Caitlin Doughty ...
    Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?Why don't animals dig up all the graves?Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. Here she offers her factual, hilarious and candid answers to thirty-five of the most interesting, sharing the lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Veronika Decides to Die

    by Paulo Coelho ...
    Translated by Margaret Jull Costa ...
    A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho – a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying.Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has plenty of boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet she is not happy; something is lacking in her life, and one morning ... Read more

    6,56 €

  • Overcoming Grief 2nd Edition

    A Self-Help Guide Using Cognitive Behavioural Techniques

    by Sue Morris ...
    Reassuring and helpful strategies to guide you through your griefGrief is a natural reaction to loss, but in some cases it can be devastating, causing a loss of direction which can impact our relationships and work.This practical guide will help you to regain a sense of control and offers tried and tested strategies for adjusting to life without your spouse, friend or family member.Relentless ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • After

    A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal About Life and Beyond

    by Dr Bruce Greyson, MD ...
    After is a ground-breaking book for anyone curious about the scope of the human mind, the nature of consciousness, and the pursuit of a meaningful life.'Absorbing and convincing' Daily MailAn Independent book of the month___What happens when we die?Ten per cent of people whose hearts stop, and then restart, report near-death experiences. St... ... Read more

    9,49 €

  • On Suicide

    by Emile Durkheim ...
    Translated by Robin Buss ...
    Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. 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: Why does it happen? What goes wrong? Why do certain social, religious ... Read more

    10,99 €

  • Buried

    An alternative history of the first millennium in Britain

    by Alice Roberts ...
    **A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘Tender, fascinating … Lucid and illuminating’ Robert Macfarlane**Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried ... Read more

    5,97 €

  • Notes on Grief

    by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie ...
    **DREAM COUNT, the searing, exquisite new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is out now!**A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun.'Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn how much grief is about language, the failure ... Read more

    4,87 €

  • Mogen zijn wie je bent

    Troost vinden en geven als het levenseinde nadert

    by Annemaaike Serlier-van den Bergh, Stella Braam ...
    Hoe vind je troost als je weet dat je nog maar kort te leven hebt? Hoe verwerk je zoveel verdriet en pijn en hoe geef je nog betekenis aan je leven? Voor zulke vragen staat Annemaaike Serlier-van den Bergh, klinisch neuropsycholoog. Ze vindt inspiratie in het werk van Anna Terruwe, psychiater en grondlegger van de bevestigingstheorie: je wordt pas gelukkig als mensen onvoorwaardelijk van je houden ... Read more

    11,99 € or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Weekend

    An unforgettable story of female friendship by the bestselling author of the Booker Prize-shortlisted Stone Yard Devotional

    by Charlotte Wood ...
    'So great I am struggling to find the words to do it justice' Marian KeyesA Book of the Year for The Times, Observer, Independent and Good Housekeeping'A rare pleasure' Sunday Times'Riveting' Elizabeth Day'A perfect, funny, insightful, novel about women, friendship, and ageing' Nina Stibbe'A lovely, lively, intelligent, funny book' <st... ... Read more

    3,99 €

  • Scribbling On Foucault's Walls

    The Girl Who Wasn't There

    by Elly Tams/Quiet Riot Girl ...
    Imagine of Michel Foucault, the great homosexual French Philosopher, had, in fact, have had a daughter... This is the story of the girl who wasn't there.  Being born into not only the life of a homosexual man but also into the world of social theory and cultural critics makes this girl rather unusual. The text of the book mirrors the incongruity of the premise.   ... Read more

    Free

  • The Year of Magical Thinking

    by Joan Didion ...
    From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ... Read more

    9,21 €

  • The Consolations of Mortality

    Making Sense of Death

    by Andrew Stark ...
    For those who don’t believe in an afterlife, the wisdom of the ages offers four great consolations for mortality: that death is benign and good; that mortal life provides its own kind of immortality; that true immortality would be awful; and that we experience the kinds of losses in life that we will eventually face in death. Can any of these consolations honestly reconcile us to our inevitable ... Read more

    22,31 €

  • Last Rights

    The Case for Assisted Dying

    by Sarah Wootton, Lloyd Riley ...
    Series Book 22 - Provocations
    Why does the UK abandon dying people and outsource this problem to facilities in Switzerland while legislators across the USA, Canada and Australia have drafted laws to give dying people choice over how and when they die? Sarah Wootton, CEO of the campaign group Dignity in Dying, explains why assisted dying’s time has come. Drawing parallels with issues such as women’s suffrage, reproductive ... Read more

    8,58 €

  • 人生意義指南學：生命教育的二十堂課

    by 潘樹仁 ...
    本書以基於中華傳統文化的生命教育為主旨，在對傳統儒釋道三家的哲學範疇、經典與人物進行創意解讀的同時，結合個人體證與社會實踐，旁征博引，貫穿古今，構建了一個相對完整自洽的思想體系，具有一定的學術價值和借鑒意義，對弘揚中華傳統文化，重建社會道德基礎，啟發民眾生命自覺有一定的積極作用。共分三章：一、中華文化的應用與開展；二、中華文化在生命教育的運用；三、人生意義指南學內容涉及《孝經》、《說文解字》、《易經》、《孔子家語》、《黃帝內經》、《孫子兵法》及《史記》等典籍。對孝道、文字、易道、倫理、養生文化、軍事、詩辭、謀略、天人及歷史均有所闡揚。旁及天德道學之系統、炁學、易學、醫學氣功、創意培訓、生命教育、宗教哲學、水文化之圓融、傳統文化之諸子學等。 ... Read more

    7,38 €

  • Du fehlst

    Selbstgespräche einer Trauernden

    by Lotte Anders ...
    "Trauer ist der Prozess des Sterbens in einem lebendigen Körper." Mit solchen Worten beschreibt Lotte Anders ihren sehr persönlichen Trauerprozess. Nach dem Tod ihres Mannes versucht sie in der Tiefe zu ergründen, was trauern bedeutet und wie Alleinsein gelingt nach fast vierzig Jahren Partnerschaft. Sie nimmt dabei den Leser mit auf eine nicht immer angenehme Spurensuche in ihre eigene ... Read more

    7,99 €

  • The Last Day of Captain Lincoln

    by EXO Books ...
    Captain Lincoln's last day is the hardest day of his life.An old, onetime Captain of the interstellar spaceship USNAS Hope Eternal, Lincoln always knew that this day would come. For just as birthdays are carefully planned, so are deaths. And although he must reckon with his fate, this is not a somber story. It is a tale of love and sacrifice, told in the context of the most advanced civilization ... Read more

    1,05 €

  • Necropolitics

    Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights

    by Richard Ashby Wilson ...
    Series series Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
    The unmarked mass graves left by war and acts of terror are lasting traces of violence in communities traumatized by fear, conflict, and unfinished mourning. Like silent testimonies to the wounds of history, these graves continue to inflict harm on communities and families that wish to bury or memorialize their lost kin. Changing political circumstances can reveal the location of mass graves or ... Read more

    32,43 €

  • Le coût de la mort

    La Sécurité sociale jusqu'au bout

    by Alban Beaudouin, Jean-Loup de Saint-Phalle, Bernard Friot ...
    Dans le débat autour de la mort digne, les funérailles et leur prise charge notamment financière semblent une question tabou. Les auteurs proposent de s’en emparer, tous ensemble. Mourir coûte cher en France, et ce sont le plus souvent les plus meurtris, les proches, qui doivent en endosser la responsabilité, au pire moment. Alors que la pyramide des âges est en plein renversement, nos funérailles ... Read more

    9,99 €

  • Near-Death Experiences

    Afterlife Journeys and Revelations

    by Jim Willis ...
    Thousands, perhaps millions, of people have had near-death experiences (NDEs). Why do so many report uncannily similar experiences? What are they—a simple trick of the mind and body or something more? What are we to make of them, and do they tell us anything about the possibility of an afterlife?An illuminating and thought-provoking journey into the enigmatic territory where science, spirituality, ... Read more

    14,83 €

  • Facing Up to Mortality

    Interfaith/Interreligious Explorations

    by Daniel Liechty, Paul Cantz, Jonathan Cohen, Spee Kosloff, David R. Loy, Anas Malik, Merlyn E. Mowrey, Anantanand Rambachan, Sheldon Solomon0 ...
    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 Ernest Becker's theory on the relationship between religion, culture, and the human awareness of death and mortality. While much interfaith/interreligious dialogue focuses on beliefs and practices, thus ... Read more

    85,74 €

  • The Inevitable

    Dispatches on the Right to Die

    by Katie Engelhart ...
    BOOK OF THE YEAR IN SPECTATOR AND TIMES'Fascinating.... Deeply disturbing... Brilliant' Sunday Times'Powerful and moving.' Louis TherouxMeet Adam. He's twenty-seven years old, articulate and attractive. He also wants to die. Should he be helped? And by whom?In The Inevitable, award-winning journalist Katie Engelhart explores one of our most abiding taboos: assisted dying. From Avril, the 80-... ... Read more

    11,12 €