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  • Legal Executions in Georgia
    Daniel Allen Hearn
    In the state of Georgia, 1025 men and women are known to have been hanged or electrocuted for capital crimes in the century after the Civil War. Based on more than twenty years of investigative research, this chronological record of these legal executions was pieced together from diverse sources in and outside of the state, with many details never before made public. The author...
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    94,03 €

  • Media, Culture and Human Violence
    Jeff Lewis
    Humans of the advanced world are the most violent beings of all times. This violence is evident in the conditions of perpetual warfare and the accumulation of the most powerful and destructive arsenal ever known to humankind. It is also evident in the devastating impact of advanced world economy and cultural practices which have led to ecological devastation and the current era...
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    193,92 €

  • Death Rituals, Social Order and the Archaeology of Immortality in the Ancient World
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    174,01 €

  • Media, Culture and Human Violence
    Jeff Lewis
    Humans of the advanced world are the most violent beings of all times. This violence is evident in the conditions of perpetual warfare and the accumulation of the most powerful and destructive arsenal ever known to humankind. It is also evident in the devastating impact of advanced world economy and cultural practices which have led to ecological devastation and the current era...
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    63,86 €

  • THE WESTERN BOOK OF DEATH
    Adriana Balthazar MD / PhD
    Death is a process which is one with that of life. Death is the joyous activity of Spirit ever and ever entering into life. There is only continuity. There is no death. As a doctor and spiritual teacher, Adriana Balthazar MD; PhD has seen too many people afraid of death. Treating death and mourning as a taboo subjects hurts both the dying and their loved ones. In The Wester...
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    23,77 €

  • Ultimate Ambiguities
    Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities do not specifically address liminality. This book investigates these 'ultimate ambiguities,' assuming they can pose a threat to social relationships because of the disintegrating forces of death, but...
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    177,15 €

  • Death at the Ballpark
    David Weeks / Robert M. Gorman
    When we think of baseball, we think of sunny days and leisurely outings at the ballpark--rarely do thoughts of death come to mind. Yet during the game’s history, hundreds of players, coaches and spectators have died while playing or watching the National Pastime. In its second edition, this ground-breaking study provides the known details for 150 years of game-related deaths,...
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    58,95 €

  • How Far Is Heaven?
    Kathleen Gorman
    A touching story dealing with the loss of a grandparent and Mikey's question of why. Told in the simple terms of a conversation, his mother explains how to deal with one of the most difficult situations we will all have to encounter some day. Illustrated with wonderful water-color illustrations, 'How Far is Heaven' offers a starting point in a parent-child discussion. 3 ...
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    21,25 €

  • Frozen to Life
    D.J. MacLennan
    How far would you go to avoid death?Frozen to Life is the true account of the author’s extraordinary answer to this question: If he cannot escape the constraints of a 'natural' lifespan, he will, upon his death, have his severed head preserved in a vat of liquid nitrogen in the Arizona desert.This book illuminates the astonishing science behind his decision, and the tra...
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    18,11 €

  • North Carolina Civil War Obituaries, Regiments 1 through 46
    E.B. Munson
    North Carolina sent more than 125,000 men and boys to fight the Civil War. It is estimated that about 40,000 lost their lives on the battlefield or by disease. Most were sent home for burial in family plots or community churchyards but thousands could not be identified or could not be transported and were interred in unmarked graves across the country. Many never had an obituar...
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    58,64 €

  • Cemetery Stories
    Katherine Ramsland
    Never look at a grave the same way again Admit it: You’re fascinated by cemeteries. We all die, and for most of us, a cemetery is our final resting place. But how many people really know what goes on inside, around, and beyond them?Enter the world of the dead as Katherine Ramsland talks to mortuary assistants, gravediggers, funeral home owners, and more, and find out about: Sti...
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    16,52 €

  • The Funeral Celebrant’s Handbook
    Barry H Young
    Today more than ever, personal funeral services that capture the essence of the departed person - their character, spirit and legacy - are being planned and conducted by civil celebrants in collaboration with family and friends of the deceased. With this move away from traditional funeral services, comes an increased responsibility for the funeral celebrant, to honour the depar...
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    27,86 €

  • Removers
    Andrew Meredith
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    13,09 €

  • Death on Demand
    Michael DeCesare
    Death on Demand explores the polarizing role of Jack Kevorkian-'Dr. Death'-as the most visible leader of the right-to-die movement. From a feature on the cover of Time magazine to interviews on shows like 60 Minutes, Kevorkian was a high-profile figure in the right-to-die movement, capturing constant media attention as he helped more than one hundred people kill themselves. The...
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    53,02 €

  • Human remains and identification
    A pioneering investigation into the practices and methodologies used in the search for and exhumation of dead bodies resulting from mass violence. ...
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    169,60 €

  • Legal Executions in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia
    Daniel Allen Hearn
    In the century following the Civil War, Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia legally executed hundreds of men and women convicted of capital crimes. Based on exhaustive research of court records, newspapers death certificates and even gravestones, this book provides the essential details of each case. Arranged by state, entries for each execu...
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    94,01 €

  • Death Embraced
    Mary LaCoste
    Death Embraced is like no other book you have ever read. Fascinating and entertaining, it leads readers to ponder issues that should not be avoided. Some may want to use it as a guide to visiting New Orleans graveyards . . . or as a guide to life. 'An amazing book by an even more amazing writer, historian and educator with vast knowledge of the Crescent City’s history and an in...
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    21,92 €

  • Generation Rx
    Erin Marie Daly
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    16,48 €

  • Death and the Migrant
    Yasmin Gunaratnam
    Death and the Migrant is a sociological account of transnational dying and care in British cities. It chronicles two decades of the ageing and dying of the UK’s cohort of post-war migrants, as well as more recent arrivals. Chapters of oral history and close ethnographic observation, enriched by photographs, take the reader into the submerged worlds of end-of-life care in hos...
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    64,29 €

  • 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. For anyone facing terminal illness this book offers invaluable coping approaches, advice and insight - highly recommended. ...
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    59,33 €

  • Forget Me Knot
    Aviva Boxer
    Outlive your end. Leave something for your Family. Leave something they can't buy, rent, trade, or ignore in your Family. Join us for the secret to their knowing you're around them whether you are alive or dead. You are more than your achievements, resume, accomplishments, or triumphs over adversity. Surprisingly, who you are is buried in the choices you did NOT make over your ...
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    23,21 €

  • About Dying - How to live in the face of death
    Dr. Collin Dicks
    For most of us, dying is an unpleasant event that will happen in the distant future. For others, that future is now. Dealing with dying, either when facing one's own death or as a spectator, is an almost impossible task. Modern society has made death the ultimate failure. People are tormented by misinformation. Conversations about dying are avoided or brought swiftly to an end....
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    21,99 €

  • Churchyard and cemetery
    Julie Rugg
    Reviews the burial history of central North Yorkshire ...
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    47,08 €

  • Death as Archaeology of Transition
    Gertrudes Branco / Primitiva Bueno-Ramirez
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    167,94 €

  • Dying with Dignity
    Giza Lopes
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    82,34 €

  • Organ Donation in Japan
    Maria-Keiko Yasuoka
    Organ Donation in Japan: A Medical Anthropological Study by Maria-Keiko Yasuoka reveals insight into Japan as the country with the most severe organ shortages and the lowest numbers of organ donations among medically advanced countries. The history of organ transplantation in Japan is a unique and troubled one. Many academic hypotheses such as cultural barriers, the Japanese co...
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    133,43 €

  • Ryan House
    Mark Tabb
    Ryan House: In the Heart of Phoenix was written to share the possibility of your community being able to create a sustainable model of world-class caregiving that provides respite, palliative and hospice care for children and their families who are navigating life-limiting or end-of-life journeys. Award winning author, Mark Tabb, and the Cottor family, take you on a tour from ...
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    20,20 €

  • 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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    56,02 €

  • In the Light of Death
    Ineke Koedam
    Death appears to be a process rather than a single event in time and may be heralded by deathbed phenomena such as visions that comfort the dying and help to prepare them for death. On behalf of prominent neuropsychiatric Peter Fenwick, Ineke Koedam, an experienced hospice worker, researched these ’end-of-life- experiences’. She interviewed fellow hospice workers in various hos...
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    16,32 €

  • The French Revelation
    N. Riley Heagerty / NRiley Heagerty
    Emily S.French (1830-1912), was one of the greatest American independent voice mediums. She was investigated by the famous Buffalo attorney, Edward C.Randall (1860-1935), who intended to expose her as a fraud but was over time, and after completing many exacting experiments testing her powers, completely convinced that she was genuine. Mr.Randall became a champion for the cause...
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    17,72 €


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