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“michael schleifer”

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  • Children's Understanding of Death

    From Biological to Religious Conceptions

    Edited by Victoria Talwar, Paul L. Harris, Michael Schleifer ...
    In order to understand how adults deal with children's questions about death, we must examine how children understand death, as well as the broader society's conceptions of death, the tensions between biological and supernatural views of death and theories on how children should be taught about death. This collection of essays comprehensively examines children's ideas about death, both biological ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    The Adventures of Six Friends Remaking Their Lives

    by Becky Aikman ...
    Six marriages, six heartbreaks, one shared beginning.In her forties – a widow, too young, too modern to accept the role – Becky Aikman struggled to make sense of her place in an altered world. In this transcendent and infectiously wise memoir, she explores surprising new discoveries about how people experience grief and transcend loss and, following her own remarriage, forms a group with five ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Nothing Was the Same

    by Kay Redfield Jamison ...
    A penetrating psychological study of grief viewed from deep inside the experience itself—from the national bestselling author of Unquiet Mind.Kay Redfield Jamison, award-winning professor and writer, changed the way we think about moods and madness. Now Jamison uses her characteristic honesty, wit and eloquence to look back at her relationship with her husband, Richard Wyatt, a renowned scientist ... Read more

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  • On Suicide

    by Emile Durkheim ...
    Translated by Robin Buss ...
    Emile Durkheim's On Suicide (1897) was a groundbreaking book in the field of sociology. Traditionally, suicide was thought to be a matter of purely individual despair but Durkheim recognized that the phenomenon had a social dimension. He believed that if anything can explain how individuals relate to society, then it is suicide: Why does it happen? What goes wrong? Why do certain social, religious ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Scienceblind

    Why Our Intuitive Theories About the World Are So Often Wrong

    by Andrew Shtulman ...
    **"A fascinating, empathetic book" -- Wall Street JournalHumans are born to create theories about the world -- unfortunately, we're usually wrong and bad theories keep us from understanding science as it really is**Why do we catch colds? What causes seasons to change? And if you fire a bullet from a gun and drop one from your hand, which bullet hits the ground first? In a pinch we almost always ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

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  • The Philosophy of Death

    by Steven Luper ...
    The Philosophy of Death is a discussion of the basic philosophical issues concerning death, and a critical introduction to the relevant contemporary philosophical literature. Luper begins by addressing questions about those who die: What is it to be alive? What does it mean for you and me to exist? Under what conditions do we persist over time, and when do we perish? Next, he considers several ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • An Introduction to Gerontology

    Edited by Ian Stuart-Hamilton ...
    With the world's population getting increasingly older, there has never been a more pressing need for the study of old age and ageing. An Introduction to Gerontology provides a wide-ranging introduction to this important topic. By assuming no prior expert knowledge and avoiding jargon, this book will guide students through all the main subjects in gerontology, covering both traditional areas, such ... Read more

    $52.49 USD

  • We'll Be the Last Ones to Let You Down

    Memoir of a Gravedigger’s Daughter

    by Rachael Hanel ...
    Rachael Hanel’s name was inscribed on a gravestone when she was eleven years old. Yet this wasn’t at all unusual in her world: her father was a gravedigger in the small Minnesota town of Waseca, and death was her family’s business. Her parents were forty-two years old and in good health when they erected their gravestone—Rachael’s name was simply a branch on the sprawling family tree etched on the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Evolution's Eye

    A Systems View of the Biology-Culture Divide

    by Susan Oyama, Barbara Herrnstein Smith, E. Roy Weintraub ...
    Series series Science and Cultural Theory
    In recent decades, Susan Oyama and her colleagues in the burgeoning field of developmental systems theory have rejected the determinism inherent in the nature/nurture debate, arguing that behavior cannot be reduced to distinct biological or environmental causes. In Evolution’s Eye Oyama elaborates on her pioneering work on developmental systems by spelling out that work’s implications for the ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • How to Live in the "I" of the Storm

    by Wee Dilts ...
    How to Live in the "I" of the StormGuaranteed, remarkably easy steps on how to stay calm, no matter what goes on in your world. This E book gives you outstanding tips on how to remain centered in any situation.Ever felt dazed and confused by the day’s events. Never again do you need to allow life to toss you around. The bottom line - this E book will show you how to remain calm and serene, even ... Read more

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  • Spiritual Dimensions of Ageing

    Edited by Malcolm Johnson, Joanna Walker ...
    Our understandings of both ageing and spirituality are changing rapidly in the twenty-first century, and grasping the significance of later life spirituality is now crucial in the context of extended longevity. Spiritual Dimensions of Ageing will inform and engage those who study or practise in all fields that relate to the lives of older people, especially in social, psychological and health ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Tombs of Pompeii

    Organization, Space, and Society

    by Virginia Campbell ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Ancient History
    This book offers a comprehensive overview of the tombs of Pompeii and its immediate environs, examining the funerary culture of the population, delving into the importance of social class and self-representation, and developing a broad understanding of Pompeii’s funerary epigraphy and business. The Pompeian corpus of evidence has heretofore been studied in a piecemeal fashion, not conducive to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD