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  • Becoming Nothing

    On Negative Freedom

    by Cynthia Cruz ...
    A striking cultural and philosophical study of working-class artists and the resilience of radical survival.Becoming Nothing is an exploration of the concept of negative freedom and the working class.Originating from German idealism, negative freedom the ability to say no to everything outside of one’s self. This can take the form of withdrawing from capitalist society, but can also include ... Read more

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  • Perdita

    On Loss

    by Dylan Riley ...
    An intense literary memoir of love and grief"Our marriage was, from any conventional point of view, wildly implausible; and you, my dear son, are the miraculous product of this beautiful, rather crazy, and all too brief love affair."When Dylan Riley received the devastating news that his wife, Emanuela, had cancer, he began writing blog posts describing the anguish and disarray brought by her ... Read more

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  • I'm Sorry for My Loss

    An Urgent Examination of Reproductive Care in America

    A must-read investigation of reproductive health under fire in Post-Roe America.More than a million people lose a pregnancy each year, whether through miscarriage, stillbirth, or termination for medical reasons. For most, the experience often casts a shadow of isolation, shame, and blame. In the aftermath of the 2022 decision to overturn Roe v Wade, 25 million people of childbearing age live in ... Read more

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  • Memento Mori

    The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life

    A transformative guide to embrace your own mortality and live a more fulfilling lifeWe’re all going to die. Talking about death has been deemed morbid, taboo, or even pathological. But in order to fully embrace life, scientists, psychologists, and spiritual leaders all agree—contemplating death is the key to living a life with meaning.This life-changing book will give you a 12 week program to ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Story of a Heart

    Two Families, One Heart, and a Medical Miracle

    by Rachel Clarke ...
    A riveting and inspiring true story of two families linked by one heart—written by a bestselling author and palliative care doctor.The first of our organs to form and the last to die, the heart is both a simple pump and the symbol of what makes us human; as long as it continues to beat, there is hope. In The Story of a Heart, Dr. Rachel Clarke interweaves the history of medical innovations behind ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Obitchuary

    The Big Hot Book of Death

    Based on the popular podcast, Obitchuary: The Big Hot Book of Death is a smart, funny look at the American culture of death and how we’re remembered.It’s safe to say everyone thinks about death—whether they want to or not. But have you ever wondered about what sort of keepsakes you can make with your remains, or given any thought to the most scandalous deathbed confessions throughout history? Well ... Read more

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  • From Elder to Ancestor

    Nature Kinship for All Seasons of Life

    • Explains the importance of creating a direct personal connection with Nature and how it is key to becoming an elder who will go on to become a wise Ancestor• Presents exercises and rituals to awaken and deepen your animistic connection to the world and help you intentionally craft yourself as a fit elder• Explores deep spiritual work with the Sacred Self, including shadow work and trauma ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • When Animals Die

    Examining Justifications and Envisioning Justice

    Series series Animals in Context
    A groundbreaking collection that explores human–animal relations and deaths with depth and hopeWhen Animals Die is an innovative collection of essays that delves into the intricate and uneasy dynamics between humans and other-than-human animals, particularly concerning animal deaths, which are predominantly caused by humans. This groundbreaking book brings together prominent scholars from various ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

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  • In My Time of Dying

    How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

    A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by the bestselling author of Tribe and The Perfect Storm.For years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home ... Read more

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  • Life Before Death

    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Aging
    Since death is an experience which will inevitably be common to us all, we are often surprisingly uninterested in what services are provided for those people, often the elderly and infirm, who are at risk or who are on the point of death. Originally published in 1973, this study describes the last twelve months in the lives of 785 adults. Based mainly on the reports of close relatives, it is ... Read more

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  • The Stars Will Still Be There: What my daughter taught me about love, life and loss

    The heartbreaking but life-affirming memoir from Nicola Nuttall about her inspirational daughter LauraWhen Nicola Nuttall was told that her 18-year-old daughter Laura had only 12 months to live, following a diagnosis of the most aggressive form of brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme, she couldn’t begin to process her emotions. It was her greatest fear come true.But while her mother struggled to ... Read more

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  • You Only Die Once

    How to Make It to the End with No Regrets

    by Jodi Wellman ...
    A kick-in-the-pants wake-up call to start living meaningfully in light of how many Mondays you have left from longtime coach, positive psychology expert, and Penn Resilience Program instructor Jodi WellmanHow many Mondays do you have left?Does that question send you into a panic spiral, or are you convinced that, unlike everyone in the history of life on earth, you will somehow avoid the tragic ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • Cemetery Citizens

    Reclaiming the Past and Working for Justice in American Burial Grounds

    Across the United States, groups of grassroots volunteers gather in overgrown, systemically neglected cemeteries. As they rake, clean headstones, and research silenced histories, they offer care to individuals who were denied basic rights and forms of belonging in life and in death. Cemetery Citizens is the first book-length study of this emerging form of social justice work. It focuses on how ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

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  • Tending Grief

    Embodied Rituals for Holding Our Sorrow and Growing Cultures of Care in Community

    **“Camille Sapara Barton is a gift to all of us. ... This is what emergent strategy looks like at the precipice.”—adrienne maree brown, author of Pleasure ActivismAn embodied guide to being with grief individually and in community—practical exercises, decolonized rituals, and Earth-based medicines for healing and processing loss**We live in a culture that suppresses our ability to truly feel our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Art Historical Perspectives on the Portrayal of Animal Death

    1550–1950

    by Roni Grén ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
    This study concentrates on the discourses around animal death in arts and the ways they changed over time.Chapter topics span from religious symbolism to natural history cabinets, from hunting laws to animal rights, from economic history to formalist views on art. In other words, the book asks why artists have represented animal death in visual culture, maintaining that the practice has, through ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

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  • Briefly Perfectly Human

    Making an Authentic Life by Getting Real About the End

    by Alua Arthur ...
    A deeply transformative memoir that reframes how we think about death and how it can help us lead better, more fulfilling and authentic lives, from America’s most visible death doula."A truly unique, inspiring perspective on the time we have, what we do with it, and how we let go of this world.... There is no one I'd trust more to guide me through an understanding of death, and how it informs life ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Afterlife of Data

    What Happens to Your Information When You Die and Why You Should Care

    by Carl Öhman ...
    A short, thought-provoking book about what happens to our online identities after we die.These days, so much of our lives takes place online—but what about our afterlives? Thanks to the digital trails that we leave behind, our identities can now be reconstructed after our death. In fact, AI technology is already enabling us to “interact” with the departed. Sooner than we think, the dead will ... Read more

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  • Mourning Companion Animals

    Guiding Clients from Loss to Legacy

    Mourning Companion Animals is a guidebook for mental health clinicians searching for effective, compassionate resources to guide their clients through the often-devastating experience of animal companion loss.Chapters offer powerful and comprehensive strategies to heal animal companion loss based in sound, evidenced based, theoretical perspectives. The included author-generated inventory, the ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

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  • Forever Max: The lasting adventures of the world's most loved dog

    by Kerry Irving ...
    The heartwarming, inspiring final chapter in the life of Max the Miracle dogA dog can be more than just a best friend.Sometimes they can be our hero.Shortly after a traumatic car accident, Kerry Irving met Max, a Springer Spaniel who completely changed his life. But Max didn’t stop there. For over ten years, he was a source of inspiration to countless others around the world, with hundreds of ... Read more

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  • Near-Death Experiences

    Afterlife Journeys and Revelations

    by Jim Willis ...
    Thousands, perhaps millions, of people have had near-death experiences (NDEs). Why do so many report uncannily similar experiences? What are they—a simple trick of the mind and body or something more? What are we to make of them, and do they tell us anything about the possibility of an afterlife?An illuminating and thought-provoking journey into the enigmatic territory where science, spirituality, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • You'll Leave This World With Your Butt Sewn Shut

    And Other Little-Known Secrets, Shocking Facts, and Amusing Trivia about Death and Dying

    by Robyn Grimm ...
    An irreverent book of morbid curiosities that leaves no headstone unturnedThis isn’t your average walk through the graveyard. Filled with facts that will tickle your gray matter, You’ll Leave This World with Your Butt Sewn Shut provides answers to all the questions about death that you’ve ever wanted to ask (and more than a few you never thought to). You’ll learn how to avoid incendiary pacemakers ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

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  • Caring in Context

    An Ethnography of Cancer Nursing in India

    Series series Routledge Research in Nursing and Midwifery
    Drawing on ethnographic research conducted by an American nurse, Caring in Context is an exploration of how most of the world experiences cancer, and how nurses bear witness and respond to the suffering of others when they have little means to help—or for complex reasons, choose not to.This compelling book centers on nurses in a government cancer hospital in South India and examines key contexts ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Death, Society, and Human Experience

    The 13th edition of Death, Society, and Human Experience provides a panoramic overview of the ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as individuals and as members of society. A landmark text in the field, the authors draw on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, including perspectives offered through history, philosophy, religion, literature, ... Read more

    $160.99 USD

  • Luces de Bohemia

    Una de las obras cumbre de Valle-Inclán es, sin duda alguna, "Luces de Bohemia", una obra con la que se inauguró el esperpento, un subgénero literario que ofrecía una imagen deformada de la realidad y que, según su autor, era la única manera posible de acercarse a la realidad española."Luces de Bohemia" es un esperpento publicado en 1924. La obra tiene por tema la crítica que hace Valle-Inclán de ... Read more

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