Death Dying category: 510 books
Durkheim's Suicide
A Century of Research and Debate
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
Durkeim's book on suicide, first published in 1897, is widely regarded as a classic text, and is essential reading for any student of Durkheim's thought and sociological method. This book examines the continuing importance of Durkheim's methodology. The wide-ranging chapters cover such issues as the...
More Moments in Time: Images of Exemplary Nursing
Images of Exemplary Nursing
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2009
Within most disciplines, there are those who are recognized by their colleagues as being exceptionally competent practitioners. These individuals do their work in such a remarkable way as to become a model for others. This book is based on a study of the beliefs, actions, and interactions of a group...
Le cimetière du Père-Lachaise
édition intégrale
Language: French
Release Date: October 8, 2013
« Vers la fin de l’été, je me trouvais en proie à un accès de cette mélancolie profonde, qui est comme l’instinct d’un ressentiment secret contre les hommes, le souvenir amer d’un passé vague, et une lassitude des choses du moment. Livré à cette disposition, l’on aime à sortir...
War, Peace and Hegemony in a Globalized World
The Changing Balance of Power in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2007
This book focuses on how the US could adapt its foreign policy initiatives to fit in with the growing aspirations of a multipolar world for a more balanced international order.
Written by leading scholars, such as Joseph Nye, Eric Hobsbawm and Akira Iriye, the volume examines if the absence...
Megaproject: Case Study of China's Three Gorges Project
Case Study of China's Three Gorges Project
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This volume translates crucial Chinese documents on a debate currently raging in China on a proposed project that has enormous implications for its environmental, economic, and social impact - the Three Gorges (Sanxia) Project on the Yangtze River. The most massive water resource project ever planned...
Embracing Our Mortality
Hard Choices in an Age of Medical Miracles
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2008
While surveys show that most of us would prefer to die at home, 80% of us will die in a health care facility, many hooked up to machines and faced with tough decisions. When you, a family member, or a friend are in this situation, what should you do next? In Embracing Our Mortality, Dr. Lawrence J....
Military Pilgrimage and Battlefield Tourism
Commemorating the Dead
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Military Pilgrimage and Battlefield Tourism is the first volume to bring together a detailed analysis of professional military pilgrimage with other forms of commemorating military conflict. The volume looks beyond the discussion of battlefield tourism undertaken primarily by civilians which has dominated...
Issues of the Ends of Life
The Segelberg Series
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2009
The Segelberg Lecture Series explores the intersection of religious faith and public policy. This book contains the lectures of the Trusts fi rst series, which were focused on The Ends of Life. Dalhousie Universitys School of Public Administration managed the series through a lecture committee under...
Media, Culture and Human Violence
From Savage Lovers to Violent Complexity
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015
Humans of the advanced world are the most violent beings of all times. This violence is evident in the conditions of perpetual warfare and the accumulation of the most powerful and destructive arsenal ever known to humankind. It is also evident in the devastating impact of advanced world economy and...
Les Morts mystérieuses de l'Histoire
Tome I - Rois, reines et princes français de Charlemagne à Louis XIII
Language: French
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Extrait : "L'histoire des rois de la première race n'est qu'incertitude et chaos. Les vacillations du pouvoir, l'existence éphémère des princes, la variation des récits sur les événements principaux, les changements de limites, la mobilité des principes, donnent à la narration des historiens...
La trahison des morts : les concessions à perpétuité discrètement récupérées
Cahors, à l'ombre des remparts médiévaux, les vieux morts doivent laisser la place aux jeunes...
Language: French
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Une société se juge également à sa manière de traiter les morts.
Qui parmi vous souhaite prendre la place des vieux morts ?
Mais sachez que vous n'y resterez pas !
N'attendez pas des futurs maires plus de mansuétude que de nos élus qui votent et appliquent les lois.
Les places sont chères...
by Luis Montes, Oriol Güell
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 22, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 22, 2012
El verdadero retrato de un hombre acorralado por intereses ajenos que, a pesar de todas las dificultades, sigue siendo fiel a sí mismo.
El doctor Luis Montes llega como cada mañana desde hace varios años a su despacho a las siete y media. El coordinador de Urgencias en el Severo Ochoa todavía...
La muerte
Siete visiones, una realidad
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 22, 2011
Los seres humanos sabemos que vamos a morir. ¿Fortunio o desgracia? Sin duda, algunas personas quisieran vivir sin pensar en esta condición. Más aún, la sociedad actual expele la muerte y, en consecuencia, ha cifrado una conspiración para silenciarla. Por tal razón, el libro que tiene en sus...
Visions of the Hereafter
...that comes after lyfe ends
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2018
Images of skeletons and human skulls in paradisiacal landscapes photographed in Brazil.