Overview :Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work, The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned ... Read More
Overview :In this "enlightening" (Jane Brody, New York Times) book, Harvard Medical School physician Angelo E. Volandes offers a solution to traumatic... Read More
Overview :Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pu... Read More
Overview :Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. What would happen to an astronaut's body if it were pu... Read More
Overview :"I tremble to say there's good in death, because I've looked in the eyes of the grieving mother and I've seen the heartbreak of the stricken... Read More
Overview :No matter what your station in society, everybody has to go sometime. Even the wealthy, powerful, and world-renowned must ultimately meet th... Read More
Overview :In the tradition of Mary Roach's bestselling Stiff and Jessica Mitford's classic expos The American Way of Death comes this meticulously re... Read More
Overview :The New York Times bestseller, now in paperback From the celebrated author of Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich explores how we are kill... Read More
Overview :Marilyn Johnson was enthralled by the remarkable lives that were marching out of this world--so she sought out the best obits in the English... Read More
Overview :What should medicine do when it can't save your life? The modern healthcare system has become proficient at staving off death with aggressiv... Read More
Overview :The Last Dance: Encountering Death and Dying provides a comprehensive, up to date, and readable introduction to the study of death and dyin... Read More
Overview :A "marvelously macabre" (Kirkus Reviews) history of the bizarre afterlives of corpses of the celebrated and notorious dead. For some of the ... Read More
Overview :A TURNING POINT IN PSYCHOLOGY AND HUMAN HISTORYStanislav Grof, M.D., formerly a professor at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and... Read More
Overview :The blogger behind Confessions of a Funeral Director--what Time magazine called a "must read"--reflects on mortality and the powerful lesson... Read More
Overview :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 ... Read More
Overview :Joy is a word rarely associated with death. Yet joy is ultimately the effect in this collection of stories about Janet Wehr's experiences in... Read More
Overview :"A panopticon of life in this decade, sure to be valuable to future social historians She touches on life, love, home, family, work, men, wo... Read More
Overview :A deeply compelling exploration of the death industry and the people--morticians, detectives, crime scene cleaners, embalmers, executioners-... Read More