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And a Time to Die : How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life
Sharon R. Kaufman
Paperback - $29.95
A penetrating examination of how most Americans die today--how the patients and their families' conflicting desires about a "good death" collide with the politics and routines of American hospitals.
A Social History of Dying
Allan Kellehear
Paperback - $45.95
Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to the contemporary Cosmopolitan Age of dying in nursing homes, Allan Kellehea ...
The Unknown Country : Death in Australia, Britain and the U.S.A.
Allan Kellehear
Hardcover - $264.95
This is a thorough analysis of the sociology of death and dying in Australia, Britain, and the U.S.A.
The Funeral Casino : Meditation, Massacre, and Exchange with the Dead in Thailand
Alan Klima
Paperback - $58.95
"In bringing together an ancient Buddhist practice of meditation of the corpse with globalised technologies of massacre in Thailand, Alan Klima has written an amazing book that makes you rethink your body and the body politic. There are few intervent ...
The Royal Mummies : Remains from Ancient Egypt
Eric Kudalis
Library Binding - $40.95
Mummies are a fascinating topic from a scientific and historical viewpoint, and readers of this new series will love to share what they learn with their friends. Graphic images and text explain how mummies have been preserved, found, and studied. Thi ...
Mourning in Late Imperial China : Filial Piety and the State
Norman Kutcher
Paperback - $86.95
Kutcher??'s study of mourning demonstrates how Qing China??'s Manchu leaders quietly but forcefully undermined, not reinvigorated, the Confucian mourning system.
Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome
Donald G. Kyle
Paperback - $86.95
The elaborate and inventive slaughter of humans and animals in the arena fed an insatiable desire for violent spectacle among the Roman people. Donald G. Kyle combines the words of ancient authors with current scholarly research and cross-cultural pe ...