In a Dark Time : The Apocalyptic Temper in the American Novel of the Nuclear Age

Editor Dewey
Hardcover - $44.95

Dewey focuses on seven novels that touch the variety of generic experiments and postures of the post-World War 11 American novel. These novels by Vonnegut, Coover, Percy, Pynchon, Gaddis, and DeLillo represent a significant argument concerning the Am ...

Dying, Death, and Bereavement

George E. Dickinson
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This ninth edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: DYING, DEATH, AND BEREAVEMENT provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide ...

From the Start Consider the Finish : A Guide to Excellent End of Life Care

Susan Riker Dolan
Paperback - $29.95

How to Prepare for a Peaceful Death
From the Start Consider the Finish is for everyone who needs a simple handbook to guide them through the dying time. Using practical information, psychological insights, engaging stories, and unexpected humor, ...

Ritual Poetry and the Politics of Death in Early Japan

Gary L. Ebersole
Paperback - $86.95

This examination of death rituals in early Japan finds in the practice of double burial a key to understanding the Taika Era, or the "Era of Great Change" (645-710 C.H.). Drawing on narratives and poems from the earliest Japanese texts -- the Kojiki, ...

Caring for Body and Soul : Burial and the Afterlife in the Merovingian World

Bonnie Effros
Paperback - $54.95

Death : Philosophical Soundings

Herbert Fingarette
Paperback - $47.95

No one who reads this book will ever again think of their own death in the same way.

Fingarette faces up to the reality of death and demolishes some popular errors in our thinking about death. He examines the metaphors which mislead us: death as pa ...

History of Embalming and of Preparations in Anatomy, Pathology and Natural History

J. N. Gannal
Hardcover - $66.95

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional ...

History of Embalming and of Preparations in Anatomy, Pathology and Natural History

J. N. Gannal
Paperback - $44.95

This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional ...

If I Die : The Truth about Life After Death

Nancy Lou Garcia
Paperback - $22.95

All Your Questions Answered About Life After Death
This book will help you understand what happens the instant after we die. Inside you will learn about what Heaven is like, as well as Hell and the eternal state after death. This book explores th ...

Death's Door : Modern Dying and the Way We Grieve

Sandra M. Gilbert
Hardcover - $49.95

Does Death Change--and if it does, how has it changed in the last century? And how have our experiences and expressions of grief changed? Did the traumas of Hiroshima and the Holocaust transform our thinking about mortality? More recently, did the ca ...