Sociology: Death & Dying
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When Breath Becomes Air: The ultimate moving life-and-death story
Paul KalanithiCurrent price €12.99Original price €13.99**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful.' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living...
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Notes on Grief
Chimamanda Ngozi AdichieCurrent price €12.00Original price €15.99A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Y...
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Past Mortems: Life and death behind mortuary doors
Carla ValentineCurrent price €14.50Original price €15.99A day in the life of Carla Valentine - curator, pathology technician and 'death professional' - is not your average day. She spent ten years traini...
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Cured: The Power of Our Immune System and the Mind-Body Connection
Dr Jeff RedigerCurrent price €14.53Original price €17.50'Ground-breaking. Everyone should read this book' Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the ScoreWhen it comes to understanding the connect...
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Death Smiles at All of Us: Child Death in Victorian Scotland
Kayden AbleyCurrent price €15.91Original price €18.50Current price €15.91Original price €18.50Save 14% -
Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America
Dean G. LamprosCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99A spirited look at how funeral homes impacted American consumerism, the built environment, and national identities.Funeral homesthose grand, aging ...
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Forever Max: The lasting adventures of the world''s most loved dog
Kerry IrvingCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50The heartwarming, inspiring final chapter in the life of Max the Miracle dog A dog can be more than ...
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A Widow Rebirth from Her Ashes: A Spiritual Journey-A Memoir
Mridusmita DasCurrent price €18.59Original price €19.99Current price €18.59Original price €19.99Save 7% -
Sterben: Dimensionen Eines Anthropologischen Grundphänomens
De GruyterCurrent price €133.29Original price €154.99Current price €133.29Original price €154.99Save 14% -
The Art of Life and Death Radical Aesthetics and Ethnographic Practice
Andrew IrvingCurrent price €31.61Original price €33.99The Art of Life and Death explores how the world appears to people who have an acute perspective on it: those who are close to death. Based on exte...
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Suicide Research: Selected Readings Volume 12
Australian Academic PressCurrent price €35.48Original price €38.99Current price €35.48Original price €38.99Save 9% -
Suicide Research: Selected Readings Volume 7
Australian Academic PressCurrent price €40.03Original price €43.99Current price €40.03Original price €43.99Save 9% -
Suicide Research: Selected Readings November 2014 - April 2015
Australian Academic PressCurrent price €29.11Original price €31.99Current price €29.11Original price €31.99Save 9% -
The Loneliest Places: Loss, Grief, and the Long Journey Home
Rachel DickinsonCurrent price €20.01Original price €21.99A child's suicide pitches you into a hellish place of fragmentary images, the deepest depression imaginable, efforts to destroy yourself, and an al...
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It''s ok: To feel this way: Grief is not a problem to be solved, but a mystery to be honored.
Mary O ScoutCurrent price €14.87Original price €15.99Current price €14.87Original price €15.99Save 7% -
The Price of Life: In Search of What We''re Worth and Who Decides
Jenny KleemanCurrent price €21.59Original price €23.99A Radio 4 Book of the Week'Jon Ronson meets Louis Theroux in the style of Joan Didion' - Telegraph'Jaw-droppingly illuminating' - inewsWe say that ...
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Death and Salvation in Ancient Egypt
Jan AssmannCurrent price €43.19Original price €47.99Human beings, the acclaimed Egyptologist Jan Assmann writes, are the animals that have to live with the knowledge of their death, and culture is th...
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Turkey''S Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy, Violence and Resistance
Edinburgh University PressCurrent price €30.23Original price €32.50Current price €30.23Original price €32.50Save 7% -
Socio-Demographic Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Information Age PublishingCurrent price €48.15Original price €55.99Current price €48.15Original price €55.99Save 14% -
Socio-Demographic Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic
Information Age PublishingCurrent price €79.97Original price €92.99Current price €79.97Original price €92.99Save 14% -
The Price of Life: In Search of What We''re Worth and Who Decides
Anthony HamCurrent price €19.79Original price €21.99Lonely Planet's Madrid is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Mar...
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Necropolitics: Mass Graves and Exhumations in the Age of Human Rights
University of Pennsylvania PressCurrent price €34.31Original price €38.99The unmarked mass graves left by war and acts of terror are lasting traces of violence in communities traumatized by fear, conflict, and unfinished...
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The Undertaker at Work
Brian ParsonsCurrent price €23.85Original price €26.50A comprehensive historical survey of the work of undertakers in the first half of the twentieth century, essential reading for anyone interested in...
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To Serve the Living: Funeral Directors and the African American Way of Death
Suzanne E. SmithCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99From antebellum slavery to the twenty-first century, African American funeral directors have orchestrated funerals or homegoing ceremonies with dig...
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Judith Letting Go: Six Months in the World''s Smallest Death Cafe
Mark DowieCurrent price €17.19Original price €19.99An old man learns how to die from a poet facing death For the entire six months that Mark Dowie became friends with Judith Tannenbaum, they both kn...
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Where Did You Go To, My Lovely?: Dementia Days A Reflection
Keith BrocklehurstCurrent price €15.91Original price €18.50Dementia is a particularly cruel and teasing disease for which there is no known cure. No vaccine... and no escape, once it takes a hold. My book...
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Regrets of the Dying: Stories and Wisdom That Remind Us How to Live
Georgina ScullCurrent price €13.27Original price €15.99'A beautiful and moving reminder to appreciate life' Roxie Nafousi, author of Manifest'This book may on first glance appear to be about death and r...
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Sudden Deaths in Sports: 75 Athletes Lost Without Warning
Douglas PutnamCurrent price €42.49Original price €49.99This work recounts the lives and deaths of athletes who departed the world suddenly and without warning during their playing careers. From slugger ...
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Death And Anti-Death, Volume 21: One Year After James Lovelock (1919-2022)
Ria University PressCurrent price €66.42Original price €72.99Current price €66.42Original price €72.99Save 9% -
A Tomb With a View The Stories & Glories of Graveyards: Scottish Non-fiction Book of the Year 2021
Peter RossCurrent price €14.88Original price €17.50**WINNER OF THE SCOTTISH NON-FICTION BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2021****A FINANCIAL TIMES, I PAPER AND STYLIST BOOK OF THE YEAR**'In his absorbing book...
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The Death Penalty as State Crime: Who Can Kill?
Laura L. FinleyCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses...
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The Death Penalty as State Crime: Who Can Kill?
Laura L. FinleyCurrent price €129.59Original price €143.99This book offers a new perspective on the death penalty in the US, examining capital punishment as state crime or state-produced harm. It addresses...
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When Animals Die: Examining Justifications and Envisioning Justice
New York University PressCurrent price €92.69Original price €102.99A groundbreaking collection that explores humananimal relations and deaths with depth and hope When Animals Die is an innovative collection of essa...
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When Animals Die: Examining Justifications and Envisioning Justice
New York University PressCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99A groundbreaking collection that explores humananimal relations and deaths with depth and hope When Animals Die is an innovative collection of essa...
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The Stars Will Still Be There: What my daughter taught me about love, life and loss
Nicola NuttallCurrent price €22.00Original price €26.50The heartbreaking but life-affirming memoir from Nicola Nuttall about her inspirational daughter Laura When Nicola Nuttall was told that ...
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Aesthetics in Grief and Mourning: Philosophical Reflections on Coping with Loss
Kathleen Marie HigginsCurrent price €42.77Original price €45.99A philosophical exploration of aesthetic experience during bereavement. In Aesthetics of Grief and Mourning, philosopher Kathleen Marie Higgins ref...
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The Good Death Through Time
Caitlin MaharCurrent price €35.09Original price €38.99'I have quite a bit of understanding of white man's ways, but it is difficult for me to understand this one.' An Australian Senate committee inves...
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Mitigating Suicides on Railways: Countermeasures & Lessons
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €162.83Original price €176.99Trespassing is the leading cause of rail-related fatalities in the United States. A large proportion of these trespasser fatalities are from intent...
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Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality
Venki RamakrishnanCurrent price €29.58Original price €32.50*As heard on BBC Radio 4 Start the Week*'Spectacular. It changed my perspective on the whole living world but most of all myself.' - CHRIS VAN TULL...
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Coma and Near-Death Experience: The Beautiful, Disturbing, and Dangerous World of the Unconscious
Alan PearceCurrent price €20.00Original price €22.99Explores the extraordinary states of expanded consciousness that arise during comas, both positive and negative Every day around the world, thousan...
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Confronting Dying & Death
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €276.20Original price €296.99This book is exceptional in that it treats death as it has not yet been treated before. It presents a comprehensive updated overview of what happen...
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Maternal Mortality: Risk Factors, Anthropological Perspectives, Prevalence in Developing Countries & Preventive Strategies for Pregnancy-Related Deaths
Nova Science Publishers IncCurrent price €195.29Original price €216.99Pregnancy is a life-threatening event in many parts of the developing world. Globally, it is estimated that 289,000 women died from being pregnant ...
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Death and the Afterlife: Multidisciplinary Perspectives from a Global City
Taylor & Francis LtdCurrent price €40.49Original price €44.99What insights can we gain from the rituals, actions and interactions around death and the afterlife? This edited collection offers a multidisciplin...
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On Comics and Grief
Dale JacobsCurrent price €36.51Original price €43.99Fragmented and hybrid in style, On Comics and Grief examines a year in comic book publishing and the authors grief surrounding his mothers death. T...
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Why We Die: The New Science of Ageing and the Quest for Immortality
Venki RamakrishnanCurrent price €20.01Original price €21.99*As heard on BBC Radio 4 Start the Week*'Spectacular. It changed my perspective on the whole living world but most of all myself.' - CHRIS VAN TULL...
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Death & Dying, Life & Living
Charles CorrCurrent price €133.91Original price €143.99Practical and inspiring, Corr/Corr/Doka's DEATH & DYING, LIFE & LIVING, 9th EDITION, helps you learn how to navigate encounters with death,...
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From The Corners Of My Mind: Poetry & Allegories For Suicide & Mental Health Awareness
Chelsea Marie StflebenCurrent price €12.73Original price €13.99Current price €12.73Original price €13.99Save 9%