Dying: A Transition
ISBN: 9780231170888 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book introduces a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates an indication-oriented treatment and radical reconsideration of our transition to death. Drawing on decades of work with terminally ill cancer patients and a trove of research on near-death experiences, Monika Renz encourages practitioners to not only safeguard patients' dignity as they die but also take stock of their verbal, nonverbal, and metaphorical cues as they progress, helping to personalize treatment and realize a more peaceful death. Renz divides dying into three parts:...
This book introduces a process-based, patient-centered approach to palliative care that substantiates an indication-oriented treatment and radical rec...
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189,63 zł |
Dying Is Weird - A Journey of Enlightenment
ISBN: 9781421887005 / Angielski / Twarda / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. We are all captive to death - to transitions in and out of this world, and we are forever trying to understand what mysteries lie beyond the veil. This is what makes Kathleen Westberg's Dying is Weird: A Journey of Enlightenment such a compelling, humble and beautifully authentic book. Kathleen's life story and her encounters with death take us to the edge of this veil where we can sense some of the truth and wonder and mystery of what connects us to the afterlife and the feeling that our loved ones are still with us, beyond the limits of physical perception. Kathleen's journey is a journey...
We are all captive to death - to transitions in and out of this world, and we are forever trying to understand what mysteries lie beyond the veil. Thi...
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106,87 zł |
Resilience: Stories of Courage and Survival in Aviation Disasters
ISBN: 9781619200364 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Although flying is one of the safest modes of transportation, accidents do happen, and when they do, the aftermath is devastating. With today's 24- hour media access, we are bombarded by images of twisted metal, debris and personal belongings, smoldering away in a seemingly endless nightmare. Aviation disasters are like no other. The sudden loss of life gives rise to emotions that are both powerful and unfamiliar. How do survivors and family members blend this horrific experience into their lives? Each person is different in how they handle their grief, but in the end, they all share one...
Although flying is one of the safest modes of transportation, accidents do happen, and when they do, the aftermath is devastating. With today's 24- ho...
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121,47 zł |
The Survivor
ISBN: 9781326176563 / Angielski / Miękka / 225 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ""The Survivor 2nd Edition"" is the sequel to Lynne Schulz's first book, ""The Diary 2nd Edition."" It examines in detail, the effects upon surviving twins and other higher order multiple birth loss children, and their families, as the survivors progress through childhood and adolescence. This book was promoted in Las Vegas, USA, in 2004 by representatives from Multiple Births Canada, at the 14th Annual Perinatal Bereavement Conference.
""The Survivor 2nd Edition"" is the sequel to Lynne Schulz's first book, ""The Diary 2nd Edition."" It examines in detail, the effects upon surviving ...
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100,15 zł |
Always Loved: Grieving the Loss of a Baby
ISBN: 9780984932245 / Angielski / Miękka / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Always Loved: Grieving the Loss of a Baby, you'll read intimate and heartfelt testimonies of real people as they express a profound, yet simple truth. Love is eternal. "We are a select group of people that have the unbearable task of saying we have lost a child. To many it is something they think can fade away over time, and we know that just isn't the case. We all mourn our loss in varied ways. To honor my son I tattooed his initials and footprints on my forearm; while you might have your child's footprint or picture on your mantle. Either way our loss is a unique circumstance that none...
In Always Loved: Grieving the Loss of a Baby, you'll read intimate and heartfelt testimonies of real people as they express a profound, yet simple tru...
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73,68 zł |
The Shape of Blue: Notes on Loss, Language, Motherhood & Fear
ISBN: 9781937662097 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "I've tried to etch together a blueprint, a map to navigate loss and motherhood, a pamphlet for survival, but the truth is: there's no such thing. That would be too predictable. When I was small, I used to spin the globe with my finger pressed into one spot with my eyes closed, and when it stopped I was supposed to read the place where my finger had pressed and that would be the place I lived as an adult. Most of the time I ended up in the middle of the ocean--vast blue space. There's so much that can't be explained. But the beauty is before the discovery, the moments spent wandering,...
"I've tried to etch together a blueprint, a map to navigate loss and motherhood, a pamphlet for survival, but the truth is: there's no such thing. Tha...
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86,44 zł |
Between Riverside and Crazy (Tcg Edition)
ISBN: 9781559365154 / Angielski / Miękka / 108 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Guirgis, like other storytellers who explore the sacred and profane, is most interested in how grace transforms us."--The New Yorker Written with humor, tenderness, grit, and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, Between Riverside and Crazy is an extraordinary new play: a dark comedy about a man trying to maintain control as the world unravels around him. City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the Landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed, and the Church won't leave him alone. As ex-cop and recent widower Walter "Pops"... "Guirgis, like other storytellers who explore the sacred and profane, is most interested in how grace transforms us."--The New Yorker ... |
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No Tengas Miedo: Como Superar El Temor a la Muerte
ISBN: 9780874866872 / Hiszpański / Miękka / 270 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. El temor a los accidentes o a las acciones terroristas, a la enfermedad o la muerte, a la soledad o el dolor por la muerte de un ser querido . . . Si es usted como la mayoria de la gente, quiza esas ansiedades le esten privando de una paz que deberia ser suya. En No tengas miedo, Arnold, un curtido asesor pastoral, que ha acompanado a muchas personas hasta el umbral de la muerte, narra como hombres, mujeres y ninos corrientes encuentran la fortaleza para superar sus mas grandes temores. Salpicado de anecdotas de maestros tan sabios como Tolstoi, Dickens y Dorothy Day, las...
El temor a los accidentes o a las acciones terroristas, a la enfermedad o la muerte, a la soledad o el dolor por la muerte de un ser querido . ...
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Without a Manual: The reflections of a woman in her forties determined to live her fullest life, while facing terminal illness
ISBN: 9781460239469 / Angielski / Twarda / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2009, after being diagnosed with Erdheim-Chester Disease, a rare, life-ending illness, author Sandy Trunzer began a blog, with the simple intention of keeping friends updated on her health. Over time, and with feedback from an ever-increasing number of readers, Without a Manual evolved into a wry and unflinching account of what it's like to see your death looming just ahead...and keep on living anyway. Through battles with insurers who refused to finance medications for an illness so rare there was no real medical protocol, and while suffering ever-diminishing health, increasing pain, and...
In 2009, after being diagnosed with Erdheim-Chester Disease, a rare, life-ending illness, author Sandy Trunzer began a blog, with the simple intention...
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160,62 zł |
Without a Manual: The reflections of a woman in her forties determined to live her fullest life, while facing terminal illness
ISBN: 9781460239476 / Angielski / Miękka / 344 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 2009, after being diagnosed with Erdheim-Chester Disease, a rare, life-ending illness, author Sandy Trunzer began a blog, with the simple intention of keeping friends updated on her health. Over time, and with feedback from an ever-increasing number of readers, Without a Manual evolved into a wry and unflinching account of what it's like to see your death looming just ahead...and keep on living anyway. Through battles with insurers who refused to finance medications for an illness so rare there was no real medical protocol, and while suffering ever-diminishing health, increasing pain, and...
In 2009, after being diagnosed with Erdheim-Chester Disease, a rare, life-ending illness, author Sandy Trunzer began a blog, with the simple intention...
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124,10 zł |
Vessels: A Love Story
ISBN: 9780393285383 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. When Dan, a writer with a passion for underground comics, and his wife Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, met through a mutual friend, they swiftly fell in love. "Of all the women I've ever met," Dan told a friend, "she's the first one who felt like family." But at Christmas, as they prepared for the birth of their first child, tragedy struck. Based on Daniel Raeburn's acclaimed New Yorker essay, Vessels: A Love Story is the story of how he and Bekah clashed and clung to each other through a series of unsuccessful pregnancies before finally,... When Dan, a writer with a passion for underground comics, and his wife Bekah, a potter dedicated to traditional Japanese ceramics, met through a mu... |
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102,89 zł |
Life After Loss: The Lessons of Grief
ISBN: 9781782203926 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is a comprehensive guide to the mourning process by a world-recognized authority on grief. How we cope with grief and come to terms with the death of a loved one shapes our world. Dr Volkan shows how each mourning is as individualized as our fingerprints, encoded with our past history of losses. Anecdotal and compassionate, this is a profoundly moving and informative study of how grief and loss shape all our lives.
This book is a comprehensive guide to the mourning process by a world-recognized authority on grief. How we cope with grief and come to terms with the...
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164,65 zł |
A History of Mourning
ISBN: 9781516987603 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of titles available, and we invite you to search for us by name, contact us via our website, or download our most recent catalogues. ALTHOUGH tradition has not informed us whether our first parents made any marked change in their scanty garments on the death of their near relatives, it is certain that the fashion of wearing mourning and the institution of funereal ceremonies and rites are of the most remote antiquity. Herodotus tells us that the...
Thank you for checking out this book by Theophania Publishing. We appreciate your business and look forward to serving you soon. We have thousands of ...
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78,69 zł |
Empty Cradle, Broken Heart: Surviving the Death of Your Baby
ISBN: 9781936218240 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death affects thousands of U.S. families every year. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Third Edition offers reassurance to parents who struggle with anger, guilt, and despair during and after such a tragedy. In this new and updated edition, Deborah Davis encourages grieving and strives to cover many different kinds of loss, including information on issues such as the death of one or more babies from a multiple birth, pregnancy interruption, and the questioning of aggressive medical intervention. There is also a special chapter for fathers...
The heartache of miscarriage, stillbirth, or infant death affects thousands of U.S. families every year. Empty Cradle, Broken Heart, Third Edit...
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121,50 zł |
Inside the Shadow: A Grief Journey
ISBN: 9781632960504 / Angielski / Miękka / 134 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Can a mother continue to live when her child dies? I thought not. I believed this sorrow would bring my death. The years of cancer treatment had been filled with a mixture of uncertainty and hope, an unshakable hope in God's healing. Yet now, the heart beat that had been formed within me had stopped and the gaping wound it had left would surely cause my own heartbeat to cease. Somehow, my lungs continued to take in air and my heart continued to beat. When a child dies, a parent undergoes a rapid free fall into the valley of the shadow of death. Whether through tragic accident, suicide, or...
Can a mother continue to live when her child dies? I thought not. I believed this sorrow would bring my death. The years of cancer treatment had been ...
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77,85 zł |
When Mommy Went to Heaven: Talking to kids about death
ISBN: 9781519159984 / Angielski / Miękka / 26 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is about a little girl losing her mom to death after her mom gives birth to her baby sister. She thought death was for the old and grey like her grandpa who had passed, but soon learns death can happen at any age.
This book is about a little girl losing her mom to death after her mom gives birth to her baby sister. She thought death was for the old and grey like...
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Saying Goodbye: My Spiritual Journey through Death and Dying
ISBN: 9781491780435 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Saying Goodbye: My Spiritual Journey through Death and Dying dares to face the basic reality that so much of modern culture strains itself to deny: everyone who lives will die. The hope and the encouragement come, not in pretending that death will not happen, but in shaping the way in which one says "goodbye" to friends and family. Jean C. West, who sat with her husband and her siblings as they died, draws upon both her experiences and her research to present a guide to assist all who find themselves in the position making or witnessing end-of-life goodbyes. Her advice covers the... Saying Goodbye: My Spiritual Journey through Death and Dying dares to face the basic reality that so much of modern culture strains itself to deny:... |
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Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America
ISBN: 9781629583921 / Angielski / Twarda / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick in hospitals and the elderly in nursing homes. His answer is a reasoned no. In his view, Americans are merely struggling to find cultural scripts for the exceptional conditions of dying that our social world and medical technologies have thrust upon us. The book
-is written in the first-person for a broad audience by a senior anthropologist, making it an authoritative yet accessible textbook for courses on death and dying and American... Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick in...
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669,12 zł |
Mortal Dilemmas: The Troubled Landscape of Death in America
ISBN: 9781629583938 / Angielski / Miękka / 156 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick in hospitals and the elderly in nursing homes. His answer is a reasoned no. In his view, Americans are merely struggling to find cultural scripts for the exceptional conditions of dying that our social world and medical technologies have thrust upon us. The book:
Anthropologist Donald Joralemon asks whether America is really, as many scholars claim, a death-denying culture that prefers to quarantine the sick... |
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185,24 zł |
Aliceheimers: Alzheimers Through the Looking Glass
ISBN: 9780271074689 / Angielski / Miękka / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Alice was always beautiful--Armenian immigrant beautiful, with thick, curly black hair, olive skin, and big dark eyes," writes Dana Walrath. Alice also has Alzheimer's, and while she can remember all the songs from The Music Man, she can no longer attend to the basics of caring for herself. Alice moves to live with her daughter, Dana, in Vermont, and the story begins. Aliceheimer's is a series of illustrated vignettes, daily glimpses into their world with Alzheimer's. Walrath's time with her mother was marked by humor and clarity: "With a community of help that... "Alice was always beautiful--Armenian immigrant beautiful, with thick, curly black hair, olive skin, and big dark eyes," writes Dana Walrath. Alice... |
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91,83 zł |