Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Hundreds of factual accounts of bizarre, amazing and sometimes downright dumb ways to meet your maker are amassed in this book.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Examines how state government policies and their historic beginnings have present-day effects on their residents' political lives and on population health, especially for marginalized groups.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
In this fascinating, full-length study surveying the diverse ways in which a living was made from death, Claire Wood examines Dickens's creative works, including The Old... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Drawing on scholarship in four languages and from three distinct currents of thought – phenomenology, existentialism and analytic philosophy – this volume... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Bemærk: Kan leveres før jul.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
An account of the traditional customs that are put into practice when a Jewish person dies. It provides both an informative anthropological perspective on Jewish rites of mourning and a chronicle of the loss of the author's father.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Robert Desjarlais's graceful ethnography explores the life histories of two Yolmo elders, focusing on how particular sensory orientations and modalities have contributed to the making and the telling of their lives.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
This work synthesizes various source materials including newspapers, mortician trade journals, and popular magazines, to offer a historical study of... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward the unknown country - and in our day we increasingly turn... Læs mere
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Explores the emergence of rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community at the deathbed.
Bemærk: Kan ikke leveres før jul.
Explores the emergence of fresh end-of-life rituals in America that celebrate the dying and reinvent the roles of family and community at the... Læs mere