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Studies in Contemporary Jewry : Volume XIV
Peter Y. Medding
Hardcover - $254.95
This book presents a variety perspectives on Jewish families coping with life and death in the twentieth century. The book is comprised of symposium papers, essays, and review articles of works published on such fundamental subjects as the Holocaust, ...
Cemeteries and Gravemarkers : Voices of American Culture
Richard E. Meyer
Paperback - $51.95
Meyer examines burial grounds through the centuries and across the land to give fresh insight into the history of America and the development of its cultural values.
The American Way of Death Revisited
Jessica Mitford
Paperback - $24.95
"Mitford's funny and unforgiving book is the best memento mori we are likely to get. It should be updated and reissued each decade for our spiritual health."--"The New York Review of Books
Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessi ...
Families Making Sense of Death
Janice Winchester Nadeau
Paperback - $111.95
Grief can be an isolating experience. When a family member dies the loss goes beyond individual grief. Its concentric circles encompass all the living members of a family, and even alter interactions within that family. In Families Making Sense of De ...
The Eternal Pity : Reflections on Dying
Richard John Neuhaus
Paperback - $41.95
Drawing upon a vast range of human experience and reflection, The Eternal Pity: Reflections on Dying demonstrates how people have tried to cope with the inevitability of death. Different cultures, informed by religious belief and sometimes desperate ...
The Culture of Death
Benjamin Noys
Paperback - $74.95
Western culture has always been obsessed with death, but now death has taken on a new, anonymous form. The twentieth century saw the mass production of corpses through war and the triumph of technology over the human body. The new millennium has open ...
The Ultimate Journey : Inspiring Stories of Living and Dying
James OReilly
Paperback - $30.95
Crossing all geographical and spiritual boundaries, writers such as Sogyal Rinpoche, Edward Abbey, Pico Iyer, Mary Morris, and Barbara Kingsolver tell touching, and often surprising, stories of their brushes with death.