Motherless Daughters: The Legacy of Loss, 20th Anniversary Edition
ISBN: 9780738217734 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ask any woman whose mother has died, and she will tell you that she is irrevocably altered, as deeply changed by her mother's death as she was by her mother's life. Although a mother's mortality is inevitable, no book had discussed the profound, lasting, and far-reaching effects of this loss--until Motherless Daughters, which became an instant classic. Twenty years later, it is still the book that women of all ages look to for comfort and understanding when their mothers die, and the book that they continue to press into each other's hands. Building on interviews with hundreds of...
Ask any woman whose mother has died, and she will tell you that she is irrevocably altered, as deeply changed by her mother's death as she was by her ...
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He Blew Her a Kiss: Volume 2, True Stories of After-Death Communication, Affirming Love Shared is Eternal
ISBN: 9781432791063 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Have you ever experienced a sign from a deceased loved one that brought you comfort during your grief? Perhaps it was a familiar scent such as their cologne, a touch when you were clearly alone, or you heard their favorite song on the radio while thinking of them. Did they visit you in a dream with a distinct message, appearing vibrant and healthy again? These signs are referred to as After-Death Communications, or ADCs. Research shows millions of people from different races, cultures and religions have experienced them. ADCs bring hope in times of sorrow and show us our loved ones never...
Have you ever experienced a sign from a deceased loved one that brought you comfort during your grief? Perhaps it was a familiar scent such as their c...
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Harakiri
ISBN: 9788389332387 / Polski / Twarda z obwolutą / 104 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Dziesiąty tom serii „Kokoro”: Harakiri.
Po raz pierwszy w języku polskim: szczegóły i sposoby przeprowadzania słynnego ceremoniału oraz relacja naocznego świadka harakiri. Klasyczny tekst A.B. Mitforda opisuje ze szczegółami przygotowanie miejsca egzekucji, samą ceremonię, podaje zalecenia dla świadków oraz funkcje kaishaku. Polskie wydanie zostało opatrzone krytycznym wstępem poruszającym temat mitologii otaczającej seppuku. Dziesiąty tom serii „Kokoro”: Harakiri.
Po raz pierwszy w języku polskim: szczegóły i sposoby przeprowadzania słynnego ceremoniału oraz ... |
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Waiting with Gabriel: A Story of Cherishing a Baby's Brief Life
ISBN: 9780829428568 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this powerful memoir, Amy Kuebelbeck shares the heartbreaking story of the brief life of her son, Gabriel, born with a rare heart defect. Told in intimate, artful prose, this story is not simply of personal tragedyit is one of deep parental love and of cherishing life.
In this powerful memoir, Amy Kuebelbeck shares the heartbreaking story of the brief life of her son, Gabriel, born with a rare heart defect. Told in i...
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59,77 zł |
Splitting the Difference: A Heart-Shaped Memoir
ISBN: 9781938314209 / Angielski / Miękka / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "No other book entangles romance and grief in such an urgent and beautiful way. Tre Miller Rodriguez writes as she lives: with breathless poise, unmatched style, and fierce bravery." (Claire Bidwell Smith, author of The Rules of Inheritance) "Splitting the Difference is a story of love and loss told with flair, ballsy bravado and unflinching honesty." -- Susan Shapiro, author of "5 Men Who Broke My Heart" At 18, Tre gave her newborn daughter up for adoption. At 19, her only sibling was killed in a car crash. At 34, her husband died of a sudden heart attack. But at 36, her teenage daughter...
"No other book entangles romance and grief in such an urgent and beautiful way. Tre Miller Rodriguez writes as she lives: with breathless poise, unmat...
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85,47 zł |
Braving the Fire
ISBN: 9781250014634 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Braving the Fire is the first book to provide a road map for the journey of writing honestly about grief and loss. Created specifically by and for the writer who has experienced illness, loss, or the death of a loved one, Braving the Fire takes the writers' perspective in exploring the challenges and rewards for the writer who has chosen, with courage and candor, to be the memory keeper. It will be useful to the memoirist just starting out, as well as those already in the throes of coming to terms with complicated emotions and the challenges of shaping a compelling, coherent... Braving the Fire is the first book to provide a road map for the journey of writing honestly about grief and loss. Created specifically by a... |
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Blindsided: A Game Plan for Grief
ISBN: 9781926798295 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Blindsided: A Game Plan for Grief guides the reader through the emotional, physical, and spiritual complexities of the grieving process. Drawing from their personal experiences of loss and their practical and theoretical backgrounds, the authors discuss common misconceptions about grief and suggest helpful coping strategies. They adopt a creative and unique entry point into the conversation: sports. They transpose key concepts from the familiar world of sports to the unfamiliar world of grief, so that injury, loss, teamwork, communication, presence, legacy, celebration, and other...
Blindsided: A Game Plan for Grief guides the reader through the emotional, physical, and spiritual complexities of the grieving process. Draw...
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53,71 zł |
Theology and Issues of Life and Death
ISBN: 9781620322284 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Does theology have any relevance to the problem of life and death?" According to John Heywood Thomas the answer is an unequivocal yes. A largely personal expression of this conviction precedes the arguments exposition, which is then stated first of all quite generally--that nothing human is alien to theologys concern. Three main issues are considered: the unborn life, death as an event in life, and the possibility of global death. The issue of a life before birth is a complex problem, requiring an awareness of philosophical issues as of the empirical factors. The same kind of multifaceted...
"Does theology have any relevance to the problem of life and death?" According to John Heywood Thomas the answer is an unequivocal yes. A largely pers...
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94,25 zł |
The Darkest Journey: Finding God's Light During the First Year of Your Child's Death
ISBN: 9781478707882 / Angielski / Miękka / 100 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Finding the light of God as you struggle through the darkest journey of losing your child to Heaven...The Darkest Journey is my personal journey through the most painful event that can ever happen to a parent; the death of a child. This journey covers the first year of my loss in this world without my little Ryan, who went to Heaven when he had just turned 16.While it can be brutally honest in its painfulness, the main point of the journey is to glorify God and show His love and light can get us through even a life-defying event such as this. You will find God's light here on Earth until you...
Finding the light of God as you struggle through the darkest journey of losing your child to Heaven...The Darkest Journey is my personal journey throu...
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Chasing Daylight. How My Forthcoming Death Transformed My Life (UK Edition)
ISBN: 9780077118471 / Angielski / Miękka / 201 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelly, completed in the three and a half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in September 2005. It offers a glimpse of the strategies Gene embraced to accept and live the final stages of his life with vibrancy and calm - and what his preparations for death taught him about life.
A memoir of former KPMG CEO Eugene O'Kelly, completed in the three and a half months between his diagnosis with brain cancer and his death in Septembe...
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Bereavement (4th Edition): Studies of Grief in Adult Life
ISBN: 9780141049410 / Angielski / Miękka / 350 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there is no single solution to the problems of bereavement but that an understanding of grief can help the bereaved to realise that they are not alone in their experience. This new edition has been revised and extended to take into account recent research findings on both sides of the Atlantic. Parkes and Prigerson include additional information about the different circumstances of bereavement including traumatic loss, disasters, and complicated grief,...
The loss of a loved one is one of the most painful experiences that most of us will ever have to face in our lives. This book recognises that there is...
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Death in War and Peace: A History of Loss and Grief in England, 1914-1970
ISBN: 9780199265510 / Angielski / Twarda / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Death in War and Peace is the first detailed historical study of experience of death, grief, and mourning in England in the fifty years after 1914. In it Professor Jalland explores the complex shift from a culture where death was accepted and grief was openly expressed before 1914, to one of avoidance and silence by the 1940s and thereafter. The two world wars had a profound and cumulative impact on the prolonged process of change in attitudes to death in England. The inter-war generation grew up in a bleak atmosphere of mass mourning for the dead soldiers of the Great War, and the...
Death in War and Peace is the first detailed historical study of experience of death, grief, and mourning in England in the fifty years after...
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Death in War and Peace: Loss and Grief in England, 1914-1970
ISBN: 9780199651887 / Angielski / Miękka / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Death in War and Peace is the first detailed historical study of experience of death, grief, and mourning in England in the fifty years after 1914. In it Professor Jalland explores the complex shift from a culture where death was accepted and grief was openly expressed before 1914, to one of avoidance and silence by the 1940s and thereafter. The two world wars had a profound and cumulative impact on the prolonged process of change in attitudes to death in England. The inter-war generation grew up in a bleak atmosphere of mass mourning for the dead soldiers of the Great War, and the...
Death in War and Peace is the first detailed historical study of experience of death, grief, and mourning in England in the fifty years after...
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Birthday Letters
ISBN: 9780571194735 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. With just two exceptions, these 88 poems, in the form of a narrative, are addressed to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom Hughes was married. They were written over a period of more than 25 years, the first a few years after her suicide in 1963. Intimate and candid, they cover the whole period of their relationship, from the first meeting to the aftermath of Plath's death, but are largely concerned with the psychological drama that led to the writing of her finest poems and to her death.
With just two exceptions, these 88 poems, in the form of a narrative, are addressed to Sylvia Plath, the American poet to whom Hughes was married. The...
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Supporting the Child and the Family in Paediatric Palliative Care
ISBN: 9781843101819 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Supporting the Child and the Family in Paediatric Palliative Care provides a comprehensive overview of good practice in caring for terminally-ill children, young people and their families. Drawing from extensive personal experiences of working in paediatric palliative care, the author provides guidance on issues including symptom management and pain relief; cultural, religious and spiritual aspects of care; and the role of education for life-limited children. Addressing the importance of individual needs, the book looks at emotional, social and cognitive support at different stages of the...
Supporting the Child and the Family in Paediatric Palliative Care provides a comprehensive overview of good practice in caring for terminally-ill chil...
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177,01 zł |
Grief in Young Children: A Handbook for Adults
ISBN: 9781843106500 / Angielski / Miękka / 96 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Praise for the author: 'Dyregrov's writing is clear in its description, and explicit in its advice, and demonstrates that the daunting task of helping a child through grief is both manageable and rewarding' - Bereavement Care 'This insightful text will be of great help to all who care for pre-school children - parents, kindergarten teachers, ministers of religion, police, welfare workers - the list is endless. If they learn the values reflected in this small book, then bereaved children everywhere will grow up with far fewer hang-ups about the only certainty in life.' - from the foreword by...
Praise for the author: 'Dyregrov's writing is clear in its description, and explicit in its advice, and demonstrates that the daunting task of helping...
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69,70 zł |
Midwives Coping with Loss and Grief: Stillbirth, Professional and Personal Losses
ISBN: 9781846193880 / Angielski / Miękka / 186 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The experience of stillbirth and other losses in pregnancy at what is usually a time of great joy is tragic for everyone involved, including midwifery professionals. Although research increasingly shows how profound the effects of loss can be, few studies have explored the effects of pregnancy loss - which often leads to other personal and professional traumas such as loss of autonomy or a workplace - on midwives. This in-depth investigation uses a phenomenological approach to capture midwives' experiences of loss and grief in their own words, and encompasses both pregnancy loss and wider...
The experience of stillbirth and other losses in pregnancy at what is usually a time of great joy is tragic for everyone involved, including midwifery...
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188,55 zł |
Protecting Children from Violence: Evidence-Based Interventions
ISBN: 9781848728417 / Angielski / Miękka / 392 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing an evidence-based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, experts in the field examine the best practices used to help protect children from violence. Various types of violence are reviewed including physical and sexual abuse, (cyber-)bullying, human trafficking, online predators, abductions, and war. In addition, it reviews the various perpetrators of such violence including parents and relatives, strangers, other children, and societal institutions. The possible outcomes of such violence including physical injuries, death, depression, anxiety,... Providing an evidence-based understanding of the causes and consequences of violence against children, experts in the field examine the best practi... |
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229,32 zł |
Interventions With Bereaved Children
ISBN: 9781853022852 / Angielski / Miękka / 300 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The scope of this book covers the many possible approaches to working with bereaved children. The contributors draw on their wide-ranging experience of working with bereaved children in a many different contexts to examine: methods, such as dramatherapy and play therapy various settings, such as working in schools, hospitals and residential environments group and individual work working with adolescents. The breadth of the contributors' backgrounds- among them are psychologists, social workers, teachers, play therapists and an actress -brings to light the benefits of their differing...
The scope of this book covers the many possible approaches to working with bereaved children. The contributors draw on their wide-ranging experience o...
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144,82 zł |
Grief Beyond Measure But Not Beyond Grace
ISBN: 9781878127211 / Angielski / Miękka / 142 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Funeral Home Edition of Grief Beyond Measure, But Not Beyond Grace. Death of a loved one produces grief beyond measure - a hurt so deep that it appears incurable and inescapable. Within you, me and every man lies no capability to manage the painful process of grief thus making any such attempt foolish. Wherein then does man's hope in such despair lay? In Grief Beyond Measure, But Not Beyond Grace Frank Shivers gives answer. Grief indeed is beyond measure to heal yourself but not beyond God's grace to relieve granting peace and hope. There is no hell on earth so deep but that God's grace...
The Funeral Home Edition of Grief Beyond Measure, But Not Beyond Grace. Death of a loved one produces grief beyond measure - a hurt so deep that it ap...
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76,53 zł |