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  • How Ethical Systems Change: Lynching and Capital Punishment

    by Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Danielle Dirks ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Slavery, lynching and capital punishment were interwoven in the United States and by the mid-twentieth century these connections gave rise to a small but well-focused reform movement. Biased and perfunctory procedures were replaced by prolonged trials and appeals, which some found messy and meaningless; DNA profiling clearly established innocent persons had been sentenced to death. The debate over ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • The American Way of Death Revisited

    by Jessica Mitford ...
    Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

    Life Studies from the Dismal Trade

    by Thomas Lynch ...
    “[Lynch] brings the lessons of death to life, and turns life and death into art.” —Time Out New YorkHere is the voice of both witness and functionary. Lynch stands between “the living and the living who have died” with outrage and amazement, awe and calm, straining for the brief glimpse we all get of what mortality means to a vital species. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Final Exam

    by Pauline W. Chen ...
    **A brilliant transplant surgeon brings compassion and narrative drama to the fearful reality that every doctor must face: the inevitability of mortality.“Uncommonly moving ... A revealing and heartfelt book." —Atul Gawande, #1 New York bestselling author of Being Mortal**When Pauline Chen began medical school, she dreamed of saving lives. What she could not predict was how much death would be a ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Things I've Learned from Dying

    A Book About Life

    by David R. Dow ...
    National Book Critics Circle Award finalist David R. Dow confronts the reality of his work on death row when his father-in-law is diagnosed with lethal melanoma, his beloved Doberman becomes fatally ill, and his young son begins to comprehend the implications of mortality."Every life is different, but every death is the same. We live with others. We die alone."In his riveting, artfully written ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Better Place

    Death and Burial in Nineteenth-Century Ontario

    by Susan Smart ...
    Series Book 10 - Genealogist's Reference Shelf
    A Better Place describes the practices around death and burial in 19th-century Ontario. Funeral rituals, strong religious beliefs, and a firm conviction that death was a beginning not an end helped the bereaved through their times of loss in a century where death was always close at hand.The book describes the pioneer funeral in detail as well as the factors that changed this simple funeral into ... Read more

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  • The Best Care Possible

    A Physician's Quest to Transform Care Through the End of Life

    by Ira Byock ...
    A palliative care doctor on the front lines of hospital care illuminates one of the most important and controversial ethical issues of our time on his quest to transform care through the end of life.It is harder to die in this country than ever before. Statistics show that the vast majority of Americans would prefer to die at home, yet many of us spend our last days fearful and in pain in a ... Read more

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  • Life After Death

    A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion

    by Alan Segal ...
    A magisterial work of social history, Life After Death illuminates the many different ways ancient civilizations grappled with the question of what exactly happens to us after we die.In a masterful exploration of how Western civilizations have defined the afterlife, Alan F. Segal weaves together biblical and literary scholarship, sociology, history, and philosophy. A renowned scholar, Segal ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Corpse

    A History

    by Christine Quigley ...
    Throughout the centuries, different cultures have established a variety of procedures for handling and disposing of corpses. Often the methods are directly associated with the deceased's position in life, such as a pharaoh's mummification in Egypt or the cremation of a Buddhist.Treatment by the living of the dead over time and across cultures is the focus of this study. Burial arrangements and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Fear of Death: It's About Life, Actually. Let's Talk About It

    by Amy Wallace ...
    What do all human beings have in common? Despite all the self-help books about sex, money, power, happiness, weight, and relationships, there is one thing we all face that none of that guidance can prevent . . . death.What if we weren't so afraid of death, or of even talking about it?The fear of death – even when it's below our conscious awareness – underlies all fears. But, as Elisabeth Kübler ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Good Death

    An Exploration of Dying in America

    by Ann Neumann ...
    Following the death of her father, journalist and hospice volunteer Ann Neumann sets out to examine what it means to die well in the United States.When Ann Neumann’s father was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, she left her job and moved back to her hometown of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. She became his full-time caregiver—cooking, cleaning, and administering medications. When her father died, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Rough Likeness

    Essays

    by Lia Purpura ...
    “All about looking: at a landscape, at language, at a sign . . . Purpura goes beneath the surface, writing not just about what she sees but what it means.” —Los Angeles TimesLia Purpura’s essays are full of joy in the act of intense observation; they’re also deliciously subversive and alert to the ways language gets locked and loaded by culture. These elegant, conversational excursions refuse to ... Read more

    $12.99 USD