Martyrdom and Noble Death: Selected Texts from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity
ISBN: 9780415138901 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Today's society is uncomfortable with death and willingly submitting to a violent and ostentatious death in public is seen as particularly shocking and unusual. Yet classical sources give a different view, with public self-sacrifice often being applauded. The Romans admired a heroic end in the battlefield or the arena, suicide in the tradition of Socrates was something laudable, and Christians and Jews alike faithfully commemorated their heroes who died during religious persecutions.
Today's society is uncomfortable with death and willingly submitting to a violent and ostentatious death in public is seen as particularly shocking an...
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658,75 zł |
Martyrdom and Noble Death: Selected Texts from Graeco-Roman, Jewish and Christian Antiquity
ISBN: 9780415138918 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This volume explores the fascinating phenomenon of noble death through pagan, Jewish and Christian sources. Today's society is uncomfortable with death, and willingly submitting to a violent and ostentatious death in public is seen as particularly shocking and unusual. Yet classical sources give a different view, with public self-sacrifice often being applauded. The Romans admired a heroic end in the battlefield or the arena, suicide in the tradition of Socrates was something laudable, and Christians and Jews alike faithfully commemorated their heroes who died during religious persecutions....
This volume explores the fascinating phenomenon of noble death through pagan, Jewish and Christian sources. Today's society is uncomfortable with deat...
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182,37 zł |
Death Rites
ISBN: 9780415140263 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique collection focuses on the legal and ethical issues surrounding the medico-legal handling of death. It highlights the tension between personal autonomy and medical responsibility.
This unique collection focuses on the legal and ethical issues surrounding the medico-legal handling of death. It highlights the tension between perso...
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50,62 zł |
When a Baby Dies: The Experience of Late Miscarriage, Stillbirth and Neonatal Death
ISBN: 9780415252751 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Every year in the UK over 10,000 babies die before birth or shortly afterwards. For the parents, the grief is hard to bear. In this book, parents who have lost a baby tell their stories. They speak about what happened, how they felt, how they have been helped by others and how they helped themselves.
Using letters from and interviews with many bereaved parents, Nancy Kohner and Alix Henley have written a book which offers understanding of what it means to lose a baby and the grief that follows. When a Baby Dies also contains valuable information about why a baby dies, hospital... Every year in the UK over 10,000 babies die before birth or shortly afterwards. For the parents, the grief is hard to bear. In this book, parents who ...
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886,78 zł |
Embodied Lives:: Figuring Ancient Maya and Egyptian Experience
ISBN: 9780415253116 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. By applying contemporary theory from across the social sciences, the authors of this title shed light on Ancient Egyptian and Maya cultures, and draw attention to the fundamental differences that can underlie apparently similar practices.
By applying contemporary theory from across the social sciences, the authors of this title shed light on Ancient Egyptian and Maya cultures, and draw ...
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197,58 zł |
Handling Death and Bereavement at Work
ISBN: 9780415347242 / Angielski / Twarda / 22 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An estimated 3,500 people die every day in the UK. If someone at work or their partner or close family member dies, managers and colleagues need to respond appropriately. This book breaks new ground in placing bereavement on the management agenda. It addresses some challenging questions such as:
An estimated 3,500 people die every day in the UK. If someone at work or their partner or close family member dies, managers and colleagues need to... |
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861,44 zł |
Handling Death and Bereavement at Work
ISBN: 9780415347259 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. An estimated 3,500 people die every day in the UK. If someone at work or their partner or close family member dies, managers and colleagues need to respond appropriately. This book breaks new ground in placing bereavement on the management agenda. It addresses some challenging questions such as:
An estimated 3,500 people die every day in the UK. If someone at work or their partner or close family member dies, managers and colleagues need to... |
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202,64 zł |
The Near-Death Experience : A Reader
ISBN: 9780415914307 / Angielski / Twarda / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a mystifying and challenging state of consciousness. The incredible experiences reported by survivors of NDEs, such as out-of-body travel and soul-transforming peace and cosmic light, are stimulating interdisciplinary research in several fields, from the medical to the mystical. This work is a comprehensive collection of NDE cases and interpretations. Psychological researchers discuss cognitive models and Jungian theories of meaningful archetypal phenomena such as enlightenment and healing transformation. From a biological perspective, other contributors...
Near-death experiences (NDEs) are a mystifying and challenging state of consciousness. The incredible experiences reported by survivors of NDEs, such ...
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760,10 zł |
The Near-Death Experience: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415914314 / Angielski / Miękka / 420 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Near Death Experience: A Reader is the most comprehensive collection of NDE cases and interpretations ever assembled. This book encompasses a broad range of disciplines: psychological researchers discuss cognitive models and Jungian theories of meaningful archetypal phenomena; the biological perspectivedescribes how brains near death may produce soothing endorphins, optical illusions, and convincing hallucinations. Philosophers present empirical analyses and images in archetypal theories, and the symbolic language of comparative phenomenological...
The Near Death Experience: A Reader is the most comprehensive collection of NDE cases and interpretations e...
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243,18 zł |
Working with the Dying and Bereaved: Systemic Approaches to Therapeutic Work
ISBN: 9780415919944 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Working with the Dying and Bereaved illustrates how therapists can use a systemic approach to help families facing death and bereavement. This approach considers the individual in a broader, more holistic concept than traditional theories. This book provides a broad theoretical framework and practical strategies for systemic therapeutic work. Each chapter demonstrates how each approach has been applied by the therapist to work within a particular model, carefully outlining the particular technique used.
Working with the Dying and Bereaved illustrates how therapists can use a systemic approach to help families facing death and bereavement. This approac...
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136,76 zł |
On Our Way: The Final Passage Through Life and Death
ISBN: 9780520218802 / Angielski / Twarda / 460 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? 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 to myth and magic, ritual and virtual reality, cloning and cryostasis in the hope of eluding the reality of the inevitable end. In this book a preeminent and eminently wise writer on death and dying proposes a new way of understanding our last transition. A fresh exploration of the final passage through life and perhaps through death, his work deftly interweaves historical and contemporary...
How do our ideas about dying influence the way we live? Life has often been envisioned as a journey, the river of time carrying us inexorably toward t...
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165,35 zł |
Death of a Parent: Transition to a New Adult Identity
ISBN: 9780521813389 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the midst of the busiest years of our lives and careers, just as many of us are beginning to confront our own aging, we are likely to lose a parent--and as commonplace, even expected, as any such event may be, the reperscussions can be dramatic. This book sets out in clear and comprehensive terms what the death of a parent means to most adults--how it in fact functions as a turning point in our emotional, social, and personal lives. Drawing on her own groundbreaking research, in-depth interviews, and data collected nationwide, Debra Umberson explores the social and psychological factors...
In the midst of the busiest years of our lives and careers, just as many of us are beginning to confront our own aging, we are likely to lose a parent...
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248,29 zł |
Why My Lynn Upstairs?
ISBN: 9780595001286 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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47,03 zł |
Sunshower
ISBN: 9780595002344 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,50 zł |
Waiting and Loving: Thoughts Occasioned by the Illness and Death of a Parent
ISBN: 9780595004492 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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47,03 zł |
My Parting Gift
ISBN: 9780595006885 / Angielski / Miękka / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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51,32 zł |
Beyond Heartache: Comfort & Hope for Hurting People
ISBN: 9780595010769 / Angielski / Miękka / 204 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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55,62 zł |
You Can Help Someone Who's Grieving: A How-To Healing Handbook
ISBN: 9780595124022 / Angielski / Miękka / 128 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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42,74 zł |
Black Coach Waiting
ISBN: 9780595148103 / Angielski / Miękka / 520 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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115,74 zł |
I Have No Intention of Saying Good-Bye: Parents Share Their Stories of Hope and Healing After a Child's Death
ISBN: 9780595161188 / Angielski / Miękka / 276 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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68,50 zł |