Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief, and Bereavement: A Guide to Theory and Practice
ISBN: 9781138201071 / Angielski / Miękka / 384 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief, and Bereavement sets issues of death and dying in a broad and holistic social context. Its three parts explore classical sociology, developments in sociological thought, and the ways that sociological insights can be useful across a broad spectrum of grief-related topics and concerns. Guidance is given in each chapter to help spur readers to examine other topics in thanatology through a sociological lens. Scholars, students, and professionals will come away from the handbook with a nuanced understanding of the social context -cultural... The Handbook of the Sociology of Death, Grief, and Bereavement sets issues of death and dying in a broad and holistic social context. Its th... |
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526,83 zł |
A Life Remembered Funeral Guest Book, Memorial Guest Book, Condolence Book, Remembrance Book for Funerals or Wake, Memorial Service Guest Book: A Cele
ISBN: 9780995651678 / Angielski / Twarda / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych.
A remembrance book to celebrate the life of your loved one. This memorial service guest book has a beautiful spiritually themed cover image and an open layout for your guests to leave their name and share their thoughts & memories of your loved one. ...
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95,59 zł |
Out of This World: Suicide Examined
ISBN: 9781782204879 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is intended for anyone with either an interest in suicide or suicidal behavior. It is not aimed solely at the professional psychotherapist but at a broad range of professionals who encounter suicidal people in their work. It is also intended for those of us who have been touched by suicide personally.
The book approaches suicide from the point of view of the suicidal state of mind and is intended to help readers understand more about this condition. In its essence, suicide is examined as a largely unconscious, aggressive act having its roots in a perceived or real... This book is intended for anyone with either an interest in suicide or suicidal behavior. It is not aimed solely at the professional psychotherapist b...
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125,38 zł |
Courage Road: Your Guide From Grief to Hope
ISBN: 9780692827734 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When loss of a loved one forces you only the Road of grief, you don't have to travel alone. Let Courage Road be your guidebook through the difficult terrain ahead. Concise and packed with practical tips and travelers' tales from others who have walked this Road before. When the desert of loneliness beckons, or you get lost in the forest of despair, Courage Road will guide you through every phase of your journey and will help you find your way from grief to hope. When loss of a loved one forces you only the Road of grief, you don't have to travel alone. Let Courage Road be your guidebook through the difficul... |
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78,32 zł |
The Hurley Maker's Son
ISBN: 9781784161453 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurley-making workshop silenced. From this moment, Patrick unfolds his childhood as a series of evocative moments, from the intricate workings of the timber workshop run by his father to the slow taking apart of an old tractor and the physical burial of a steam engine; from his mother's steady work on an old Singer sewing machine to his father's vertiginous quickstep on the roof of their house. There are many wonderful descriptions of the natural... Patrick Deeley's train journey home to rural East Galway in autumn 1978 was a pilgrimage of grief: his giant of a father had been felled, the hurle... |
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47,48 zł |
Making sense of death : Ritual practices and situational beliefs of the recently bereaved in the Netherlands
ISBN: 9783643908674 / Angielski / Miękka / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book on death rites and situational beliefs in the Netherlands offers valuable insight in the ways in which the recently bereaved make sense of a death. It shows how people seek and create meaning by reinventing ritual repertoires and by re-imagining afterlife beliefs. Attention is given to the changing role of religion, the co-creation of personalised funerals, and to innovation in cremation and remembrance practices. By demonstrating how people transform their relationship with the deceased through material practices, this study emphasises the widely-overlooked dynamics of continuing...
This book on death rites and situational beliefs in the Netherlands offers valuable insight in the ways in which the recently bereaved make sense of a...
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171,65 zł |
Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other (Third Edition)
ISBN: 9780465093656 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Facebook friends, and confusing tweets and wall posts with authentic communication. But this relentless connection leads to a deep solitude. MIT professor Sherry Turkle argues that as technology ramps up, our emotional lives ramp down. Based on hundreds of interviews and with a new introduction taking us to the present day, Alone Together describes changing, unsettling relationships between friends, lovers, and families.
Technology has become the architect of our intimacies. Online, we fall prey to the illusion of companionship, gathering thousands of Twitter and Faceb...
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76,15 zł |
Widowed: Moving Through the Pain of Widowhood to Find Meaning and Purpose in Your Life Again
ISBN: 9781683503941 / Angielski / Miękka / 150 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a warm hug for every widow navigating her grief, pain, and loss, and thinking she will never love her life again.
Joann Filomena's Widowed is not only a shared journey through loss, but also a roadmap for rebuilding a future that makes room for hope and happiness alongside pure and beautiful grief. Widows will discover exactly what it is they need in order to move forward, and even how to dream again. Not since Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking has there been a book of such honesty and passion about the unique experience that is widowhood--a time... This book is a warm hug for every widow navigating her grief, pain, and loss, and thinking she will never love her life again.
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70,48 zł |
Memories of a Caregiver
ISBN: 9781614934912 / Angielski / Miękka / 28 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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69,86 zł |
Saying Those Final Goodbyes! Funeral Guest Register
ISBN: 9781541910041 / Angielski / Miękka / 220 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Saying your final goodbye to a person you hold dear is never easy but if you are in the company of your family and friends, the grief would be much more bearable. This Funeral Guest Register is designed so that those who pay their last respects can leave valuable messages that will make you feel better soon. Use this register today.
Saying your final goodbye to a person you hold dear is never easy but if you are in the company of your family and friends, the grief would be much mo...
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78,96 zł |
Spoiler Alert: You're Gonna Die
ISBN: 9781945419201 / Angielski / Miękka / 194 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One thing you can count on in life is the fact that you are going to die. How's that for a buzzkill? Most people diligently ignore the reality of their future demise. Thinking about death somehow seems wrong. Luckily, a real life coroner challenged a few thousand internet strangers to do the thinking for you. The result is a collection of morbid and slightly embarrassing questions all about The End. Honest, and often hilarious, answers from a woman who has made a career out of death will leave you with a new perspective on life. One thing you can count on in life is the fact that you are going to die. How's that for a buzzkill? Most people diligently ignore the reality of t... |
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69,63 zł |
High Love - Still Connected
ISBN: 9781785354113 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. High Love - Still Connected is a true account of the enduring love taken to new levels between the author and his wife. It elevates spiritual health and offers hope and strength principally to people who have lost loved ones, but also to anyone curious enough to discover an unusual story of love, life and beyond.
High Love - Still Connected is a true account of the enduring love taken to new levels between the author and his wife. It elevates spiritual health a...
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42,20 zł |
How to Help a Grieving Friend: A Candid Guide to Those Who Care
ISBN: 9781540408990 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Half how-to guide, half personal memoir, this concise, easy-to-read book will equip you to offer meaningful, practical comfort to those who've just experienced profound loss. Know what to say and what to do during every phase of your friend's grieving process.
..". a long-overdue resource for those who are grieving, written by someone who truly lived it. The simple, practical suggestions for those who want to help are priceless." (Helen Martin, BSN, CHPN) "No longer will I avoid a bereaved friend out of the fear that I might say the wrong thing. No longer will I promise... Half how-to guide, half personal memoir, this concise, easy-to-read book will equip you to offer meaningful, practical comfort to those who've just ex...
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26,16 zł |
Grieving Forward: Embracing Life Beyond Loss
ISBN: 9781938577048 / Angielski / Miękka / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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65,15 zł |
Gone in the Morning: A Writer's Journey of Bereavement
ISBN: 9781785923555 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking at how Geoff Mead learned to cope with the grief of his wife's passing, this book shows the importance that 'artful practice', such as writing, can have in making sense of the experience. A moving first person account, it will be of interest to anyone wanting to learn about the different ways of mourning and commemorating a life.
Looking at how Geoff Mead learned to cope with the grief of his wife's passing, this book shows the importance that 'artful practice', such as writing...
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73,89 zł |
Go to the Living
ISBN: 9780997093261 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Go To The Living shines into the darkness of loss a father's unwavering lament and deep affections. In poem after poem, Micah Chatterton gives voice and figure to the memory of a son, Ezra, whose short life is made vivid in koans and laments, elegies, invocations, fragments, lists, anecdotes, and seemingly absurd yet heartbreakingly candid hypotheticals (Who would win in a cubicle fight unarmed, Micah asks in "July 27 3:41pm (d104)," a Klingon or a Wookie?). Even as the memory of one life finds its unlikely parallel, beyond time and even feeling, in the... "Go To The Living shines into the darkness of loss a father's unwavering lament and deep affections. In poem after poem, Micah Chatterton ... |
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69,86 zł |
Never Long Enough (paperback): Finding comfort and hope amidst grief and loss
ISBN: 9781942011781 / Angielski / Miękka / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In creating Never Long Enough - a unique book about the end of life, Rabbi Joseph H. Krakoff and artist Dr. Michelle Y. Sider brought together their many years of professional expertise with families. Krakoff drew on lessons learned in many years of counseling adults and children wrestling with death, grief and remembrance. Sider's years working as an artist, arts educator and psychologist influenced her approach in creating evocative images that demonstrate how art can help to unlock emotions and heal the heart. Together, they crafted an interactive keepsake book... In creating Never Long Enough - a unique book about the end of life, Rabbi Joseph H. Krakoff and artist Dr. Michelle Y. S... |
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107,07 zł |
Never Long Enough, Premium Hardcover Edition: Finding comfort and hope amidst grief and loss
ISBN: 9781942011804 / Angielski / Twarda / 78 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In creating Never Long Enough - a unique book about the end of life, Rabbi Joseph H. Krakoff and artist Dr. Michelle Y. Sider brought together their many years of professional expertise with families. Krakoff drew on lessons learned in many years of counseling adults and children wrestling with death, grief and remembrance. Sider's years working as an artist, arts educator and psychologist influenced her approach in creating evocative images that demonstrate how art can help to unlock emotions and heal the heart. Together, they crafted an interactive keepsake book... In creating Never Long Enough - a unique book about the end of life, Rabbi Joseph H. Krakoff and artist Dr. Michelle Y. S... |
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162,95 zł |
Facing Death: Worthwhile Reflection on a Necessary Subject
ISBN: 9780998060163 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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106,88 zł |
Dry Spell
ISBN: 9781618290908 / Angielski / Twarda / 92 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Feeling let down by God, the author takes us on a journey and how her faith was restored as it almost cost her, her life. In these short essays, Catherine shares the sorrow and loss she felt when her father died, when her best friend died, and when she herself faced death and had a near-death experience. These never before shared, short stories are like peeking into someone's diary of utmost internal thoughts, fears, exasperation, loss, and examination of whether prayers and belief in a higher being make a difference in our lives during dry spells of our lives when faith seems... Feeling let down by God, the author takes us on a journey and how her faith was restored as it almost cost her, her life. In these short essa... |
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83,16 zł |