The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time
ISBN: 9780822350811 / Angielski / Miękka / 182 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Considers not only the abstract theoretical death of the author but also the writer's literal death, as well as other authorial "deaths," such as obsolescence
Considers not only the abstract theoretical death of the author but also the writer's literal death, as well as other authorial "deaths," such as obso...
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The Deaths of the Author: Reading and Writing in Time
ISBN: 9780822350637 / Angielski / Twarda / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a dismissal of the author, a declaration of the writer's irrelevance to the readers experience. In this concise book, Jane Gallop revitalizes this hackneyed concept by considering not only the abstract theoretical death of the author but also the writer's literal death, as well as other authorial "deaths," such as obsolescence. Through bravura close readings of the influential literary theorists Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Eve Kosofsky...
For thirty years the "death of the author" has been a familiar poststructuralist slogan in literary theory, widely understood and much debated as a di...
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481,95 zł |
Fade to Black: Graveside Memories of Hollywood Greats 1927 - 1950
ISBN: 9780764337093 / Angielski / Miękka / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Graveside Memories of Hollywood Greats 1927 1950. Visit burial locations and read shocking life stories and extraordinary film career biographies of award-winning actors, actresses, and directors from 1927-1950. Trivia, quotes, and facts for 446 stars.
Graveside Memories of Hollywood Greats 1927 1950. Visit burial locations and read shocking life stories and extraordinary film career biographies of a...
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Death with Dignity: The Case for Legalizing Physician-Assisted Dying and Euthanasia
ISBN: 9781936780181 / Angielski / Miękka / 254 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Death with Dignity, Robert Orfali makes a compelling case for legalized physician-assisted dying. Using the latest data from Oregon and the Netherlands, he puts a fresh new slant on perennial debate topics such as "slippery slopes," "the integrity of medicine," and "sanctity of life." His engaging writing style brings clarity to these issues. The content is thought-provoking; the arguments are well-researched, air-tight, and original.
This extraordinary book provides an in-depth look at how we die in America today. It examines the shortcomings of our end-of-life system. You'll... In Death with Dignity, Robert Orfali makes a compelling case for legalized physician-assisted dying. Using the latest data from Oregon and the ...
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The Divine Life of Animals: One Man's Quest to Discover Whether the Souls of Animals Live on
ISBN: 9780307451330 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A journey through 20,000 years of history and myth in search of the answer to a single question: Do animals have souls?
Anyone who has ever mourned the loss of a cherished pet has wondered about the animal soul. Do animals survive the death of the body, or are they doomed to disappear completely when they leave this world behind? Both scientists and religious authorities have long scoffed at the idea of animals in heaven. Yet the question endures. In this wise, immensely readable book, Ptolemy Tompkins embarks on a quest for the answer--taking us on a top-speed tour of the history of the... A journey through 20,000 years of history and myth in search of the answer to a single question: Do animals have souls?
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The End of Heaven: Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age
ISBN: 9780415789875 / Angielski / Miękka / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually makes it harder to explain why we suffer. Accidents and disasters have become technical problems without inherent purpose. When told of a disaster, we easily feel lost in the steely emptiness of technical languages of engineering or medicine. Or, in our drive to pinpoint the source of suffering, we succumb to the hunt for a scapegoat, possibly inflicting even greater suffering on others around us.... In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wr... |
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188,18 zł |
The End of Heaven: Disaster and Suffering in a Scientific Age
ISBN: 9780415789899 / Angielski / Twarda / 106 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wrong. But this increasing sophistication actually makes it harder to explain why we suffer. Accidents and disasters have become technical problems without inherent purpose. When told of a disaster, we easily feel lost in the steely emptiness of technical languages of engineering or medicine. Or, in our drive to pinpoint the source of suffering, we succumb to the hunt for a scapegoat, possibly inflicting even greater suffering on others around us.... In this unique book, Sidney Dekker tackles a largely unexplored dilemma. Our scientific age has equipped us ever better to explain why things go wr... |
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Cure Disease, Old Age & Death: The Immortalist Manifesto
ISBN: 9780978602109 / Angielski / Twarda / 394 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This text reveals the roadmap, game plan, and paradigm shift to guarantee the cures for killer diseases and old age. 394 pp.
This text reveals the roadmap, game plan, and paradigm shift to guarantee the cures for killer diseases and old age. 394 pp.
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186,36 zł |
Final Thoughts: Eternal Beauty in Stone
ISBN: 9780764339103 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The story of life and death in America as told through beautiful cemetery art photography accompanied by meaningful epitaphs from cemeteries up to 300 years old. View 68 cemeteries in 170 beautiful photographs that breathe life into existence of those who have passed before us, and who are now enshrined for eternity in landscaped paradises. Within each placid scene and through heartfelt words displayed upon markers, join photographer John Thomas Grant in his one-of-a-kind study of an American tradition.
The story of life and death in America as told through beautiful cemetery art photography accompanied by meaningful epitaphs from cemeteries up to 300...
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162,74 zł |
Of Relations and the Dead: Four Societies Viewed from the Angle of Their Exchanges
ISBN: 9781859730461 / Angielski / Miękka / 132 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societies as totalities but also helps to frame a comparative mode of analysis expressed in terms of a hierarchy of values. Starting with a comparative analysis of the different vocabularies used when dealing with exchange, the authors go on to provide a detailed account of how each society's exchanges form a genuine value-oriented system. Their conclusions shed light on important issues in anthropology such as the difference between subject and...
Exchanges are fundamental to human societies. The authors show that the study of exchanges not only serves as a key to understanding particular societ...
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162,74 zł |
Murder Stories: Ideological Narratives in Capital Punishment
ISBN: 9780739171707 / Angielski / Twarda / 218 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural commitments to 'American' ideologies in the retention of capital punishment. The central aim of the study is to illuminate the elusive yet powerful role of ideology in legal discourses. Through analyzing the content and processes of death penalty narratives, this research illuminates the covert life of 'the American Creed, ' (a nexus of ideologies--liberty, egalitarianism, individualism, populism, and laissez faire--said to be unique to the United States) in the law. Murder Stories...
Murder Stories engages with the current theoretical debate in death penalty research on the role of cultural commitments to 'American' ideologies in t...
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471,24 zł |
My Mother Is Now Earth
ISBN: 9780873518536 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. ." . . the memory of my mother came to me like a drifting scent in the breeze, swirling through the branches of a nearby cedar tree. I was drawn back 35 years] to the day I learned she had passed on. But that autumn day of 1973 did not grip me with deep sadness, the burden of never seeing her again. I was looking at that day from a new angle, a distant view that seemed to suggest a new, untold story. I was suddenly more than curious about who my mother truly was in this life and beyond."
Uprooted from family and community in Milwaukee by her husband, a French and Irish... ." . . the memory of my mother came to me like a drifting scent in the breeze, swirling through the branches of a nearby cedar tree. I was drawn back ...
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Death Row: Interviews with Inmates, Their Families and Opponents of Capital Punishment
ISBN: 9780786469437 / Angielski / Miękka / 158 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. I don't know when we will stop murdering people whether randomly on the streets or systematically in our death chambers. The only way to prevent continuation of the suffering and grief murder occasions in to prevent murder. I have worked with eighteen people who have been executed and five of those I'm convinced were innocent--the words of Joe Ingle, said to be a 1988 Nobel Peace Prize nominee, from Part I (which looks at those who are involved with the fight against the death sentence).
I don't know when we will stop murdering people whether randomly on the streets or systematically in our death chambers. The only way to prevent conti...
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126,48 zł |
Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery: An Illustrated History and Guide
ISBN: 9780820343136 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Atlanta and Environs, historian Franklin M. Garrett wrote that Oakland Cemetery is "Atlanta's most tangible link between the past and the present." Within its forty-eight acres are more than seventy thousand personal stories--of settlers and immigrants who forged a city from a rowdy railroad camp, former slaves who carved out lives in a segregated world, soldiers in blue and gray who were cut down in a brutal civil war, and civic and business visionaries who rebuilt the Phoenix City from the ashes of war and carried it to prominence on the international stage. Today,... In Atlanta and Environs, historian Franklin M. Garrett wrote that Oakland Cemetery is "Atlanta's most tangible link between the past and the... |
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Dying, Death, and Grief in an Online Universe: For Counselors and Educators
ISBN: 9780826107329 / Angielski / Miękka / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book] is an excellent resource for the diverse practitioners and educators who are involved in this nascent area."--Cruse Bereavement Care This] book is innovative and timely, challenging the reader to think 'out of the box.' Sofka, Cupit, and Gilbert provide a framework to explore thanatology in an online universe while encouraging continuous research to adapt to this ever-changing digital world."--Death Studies Historically we have always employed our foremost technology in the service of the dead. We have used whatever we had at our disposal to mourn,... This book] is an excellent resource for the diverse practitioners and educators who are involved in this nascent area."--Cruse Bereavement Care... |
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251,63 zł |
A Good Goodbye: Funeral Planning for Those Who Don't Plan to Die
ISBN: 9780984596201 / Angielski / Miękka / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Rubin provides the information, inspiration, and tools to plan and implement creative, meaningful, and memorable end-of-life rituals for people and pets.
Rubin provides the information, inspiration, and tools to plan and implement creative, meaningful, and memorable end-of-life rituals for people and pe...
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94,27 zł |
No One Has to Die Alone: Preparing for a Meaningful Death
ISBN: 9781582703527 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No One Has to Die Alone offers meaningful insights and practical tools to rise above fear and make a difference in how we face the transition of death, dying, and bereavement. Caring for a terminally ill loved one can be the single biggest challenge of your life. Drawing from her experience sitting with over 500 people as they died and caring for her own terminally ill father, Dr. Lani Leary gently guides caregivers, family, and friends through the difficult transitions of illness, death, and bereavement. No One Has to Die Alone offers the practical skills,...
No One Has to Die Alone offers meaningful insights and practical tools to rise above fear and make a difference in how we face the transitio...
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64,42 zł |
Sacred Grief: Exploring a New Dimension to Grief, Second Edition
ISBN: 9781615990863 / Angielski / Miękka / 174 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Are you ready to discover what lies beyond the ordinary experience of grief?
Sacred Grief offers an intriguing exploration of the far-reaching ripple effect of our present-day opinions about surviving grief's emotional roller-coaster and the unnecessary suffering our judgments unconsciously promote. You'll find comfort in discovering that there's another dimension to this universal experience--a dimension that fosters trust, kindness and compassion, peacefully heals, and steadfastly moves you towards your soul's deepest desires and dreams. Are you ready to discover what lies beyond the ordinary experience of grief?
Sacred Grief offers an intriguing exploration of the far-reaching ... |
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The New Book of the Dead: The Initiate's Path into the Light
ISBN: 9781896238111 / Angielski / Miękka / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The New Book of the Dead is written specifically for Westerners. It is a detailed guide for dealing with death and bereavement in all its forms: natural and violent, children and old people. It describes rites of preparation - such as the ritual cutting of the silver cord, and the blessing and license to depart, saying goodbye and letting go of the physical realm. This is not a book of sorrow and foreboding, but teaches us how to accept and even welcome death, as a great teacher, the last great mystery and culminating experience of life.
The New Book of the Dead is written specifically for Westerners. It is a detailed guide for dealing with death and bereavement in all its forms: natur...
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72,10 zł |
Sterben: Dimensionen Eines Anthropologischen Grundphänomens
ISBN: 9783110257335 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 687 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Die medizinethische Diskussion steht in der Gefahr unter einem fortschreitenden Rechtsdruck das anthropologische Grundphanomen des Sterbens immer mehr aus dem Blick zu verlieren. Sollen Sterben und Tod nicht zur Projektionsflache diffuser Angste und Befurchtungen werden, dann ist es dringend erforderlich, die verschiedenen Dimensionen der Begegnung des Menschen mit seiner eigenen Sterblichkeit moglichst vorurteilsfrei auszuleuchten. Der interdisziplinare Aufbau des vorliegenden Bandes ermoglicht nicht nur einen Einblick in die Komplexitat der weithin verdrangten Thematik des Sterbens,... Die medizinethische Diskussion steht in der Gefahr unter einem fortschreitenden Rechtsdruck das anthropologische Grundphanomen des Sterbens immer m... |
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697,23 zł |