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A striking cultural and philosophical study of working-class artists and the resilience of radical survival. Becoming No......more
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This book combines Western history of death with sociology and philosophy to explore our approach to death. It examines ......more
Billionaires and tech moguls are promising us a high-tech, accelerated future of space exploration, transhumanism and im......more
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A gutsy, riveting memoir that intimately explores suicide, its legacy in families, and the often cyclical, crooked path ......more
For those who care for chronically ill children, a new understanding of hope that equips adults to better nurture pediat......more
A beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last words--and the many facets of how language begins and ends--from ......more
How do you want to live your life? How do you want to end it? We can’t know the hour of our death, but we can plan for i......more
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Going beyond the frameworks of the anthropology of death, Articulate Necrographies offers a dramatic new way of studying......more
Can a state make its people forget the dead? Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-st......more
Can a state make its people forget the dead? Cemeteries have become sites of acute political contestation in the city-st......more
Cremation in the Early Middle Ages draws together the latest research and thinking on early medieval cremation practices......more
Cremation in the Early Middle Ages draws together the latest research and thinking on early medieval cremation practices......more
Through examination of the death penalty in literature, Aaron Aquilina contests Heidegger’s concept of ’being-towards-de......more
"Peake’s explanation of your immortality is the most innovative and provocative argument I have seen" - Bruce Greyson, C......more
"Memoir of the author’s marriage to an Italian woman and of bereavement after losing her to cancer"--...more
Offering an intimate account of intergenerational grief, Miller Oberman’s new collection of poetry, Impossible Things, e......more
Offering an intimate account of intergenerational grief, Miller Oberman’s new collection of poetry, Impossible Things, e......more
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Critical Approaches to Death Dying and Bereavement is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying and be......more
Critical Approaches to Death Dying and Bereavement is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying and be......more
The Routledge Handbook of Law and Death provides a comprehensive survey of contemporary scholarship on the intersections......more
Centering Black grief in the aftermath of Lincoln’s assassination On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth carried out the f......more
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This book draws on recent research and cutting-edge ideas about bereavement and carers’ experiences across the life cour......more
A must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America. More than a million people lose a pregn......more
"Rebecca Little and Colleen Long are journalists and childhood friends who both experienced pregnancy losses past 20 wee......more
Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin Americ......more
Offering a political epistemology of collective mourning Focusing on forms of improper burial in Turkey and Latin Americ......more
This book explores multiple burials, the presence of more than one individual within a grave, within the Viking Age mort......more
This book offers critical scenarios of dark tourism futures and examines how our significant dead will be remembered in ......more
This book offers critical scenarios of dark tourism futures and examines how our significant dead will be remembered in ......more
A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart--written by a bestselling author and palliative ......more
A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart--written by a bestselling author and palliative ......more
A transformative guide to embrace your own mortality and live a more fulfilling life Talking about death has been deemed......more
This book focuses on understanding and researching suicide and suicide prevention from historical, political, cultural, ......more
States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the......more
States are thought only to exercise power over the land of the living. Benjamin Ginsberg argues otherwise, exploring the......more
Images that embody the point of view of the perpetrators of violent crimes, or their accomplices, force us to look at th......more
Keramat, holy graves and shrines, represent physical markers of Singapore’s history as a multi-ethnic maritime trading c......more
Academic studies on death and cemeteries are relatively recent in Portugal; those that do exist tend to adopt an essenti......more
A Christian case for natural burial The promises of the Christian gospel are never more precious or more beautiful than ......more
Based on the popular podcast, Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American culture of de......more
"What might it mean to take the dead seriously as political actors?" asks Lia Kent in this exciting new contribution to ......more
If death is the cessation of life, then, as a concept, it draws its meaning from the preceding life. While death and dyi......more
During funerals of nobles in the Kuba kingdom (Democratic Republic of Congo), visitors used to theatrically offer so-cal......more
During funerals of nobles in the Kuba kingdom (Democratic Republic of Congo), visitors used to theatrically offer so-cal......more
Rural cemeteries--named for their expansive, picturesque landscape design rather than location--were established during ......more
Rural cemeteries--named for their expansive, picturesque landscape design rather than location--were established during ......more
Explore the mysteries of mortality in D is for Death as Sophie Duffy takes you on an unforgettable alphabetical journey ......more
This book provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to the past, present, and future direction of death rituals an......more
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The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional ways of mourning. P......more
The COVID-19 pandemic left millions grieving their loved ones without the consolation of traditional ways of mourning. P......more
This book offers a new critical framework for understanding the processes of politicising and gendering care for older p......more
In this book Dr. Goldenthal presents the oldest years as a stage of life with special challenges and opportunities. This......more
Medical science now allows us to live longer than ever before. So living with pain and dying well have become major conc......more
This work recounts the lives and deaths of athletes who departed the world suddenly and without warning during their pla......more
A practical guide to becoming a good Ancestor - Explains the importance of creating a direct personal connection with Na......more
In Peki, an Ewe town in the Ghanaian Volta Region, death is a matter of public concern. By means of funeral banners prin......more
New technologies and scientific imagination rearrange the boundary that we identify as the beginning and end of life. Ne......more
This book addresses the nature, social function, ethics and politics of the right to bequeath....more
A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die. These days, so much of our liv......more
"Incorporating insights from leading experts across a range of disciplines, including the social sciences, the humanitie......more
"Incorporating insights from leading experts across a range of disciplines, including the social sciences, the humanitie......more
A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death--and what might follow--by the bestselling auth......more
"For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life a......more
In November 2020, B.J. Hollars answered a call from his father-in-law while teaching. "When will you be home?" Steve ask......more
Since death is an experience which will inevitably be common to us all, we are often surprisingly uninterested in what s......more
This book is about the therapeutic environment of the Maggie’s centre and explores the many ways this is achieved. With ......more
A kick-in-the-pants wake-up call to start living meaningfully in light of how many Mondays you have left from longtime c......more
This book is about the therapeutic environment of the Maggie’s centre and explores the many ways this is achieved. With ......more
Looking at the cultural responses to death and dying, this collection explores the emotional aspects that death provokes......more
A sassy, heart-breaking and jaw-dropping memoir of life behind the scenes in a funeral home and strip club, written with......more
End-of-life documentaries have proliferated in the 21st century as various organisations, institutions, journalists, ind......more
Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As the......more
Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As the......more
Our love of life is designed into us. We naturally understand death as the opposite of life, but we are taught to accept......more
An entertaining and accessible romp through Victorian culture that reveals the fascinating and gruesome ways the Victori......more
"Camille Sapara Barton is a gift to all of us. ... This is what emergent strategy looks like at the precipice." --adrien......more
"Our unconscious therefore does not believe in its own death; it acts as though it were immortal." In this penetrating e......more
A social history of death investigations in the urban Midwest The scene of myriad grisly deaths, late nineteenth-century......more
Addressing a gap in social science research to explore the meanings, understandings, and experiences of time at life’s m......more
Thousands, perhaps millions, of people have had near-death experiences (NDEs). Why do so many report uncannily similar e......more
"Near Death Experiences explores historical and present-day stories of NDEs. In addition to personal stories, the book r......more
A rare study that transforms our understanding of why youth die by suicide, why youth suicide clusters happen, and how t......more
An irreverent book of morbid curiosities that leaves no headstone unturned This isn’t your average walk through the grav......more
Grief Hack, A Creative Process for Transforming Loss, written by award-winning author Madonna Treadway, is a short, insp......more
The thirteenth edition of Death, Society, and Human Experience provides a panoramic overview of the ways that we are tou......more