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After Death:
How People Around the World
Map the Journey after We Die
Mixing contemporary case studies with cultural data is the recipe for an inspirational discussion of what happens after we die. After Death isn't a comprehensive tour book to the other side, but it is the beginning of an important conversation that most people avoid, as well as a handle for grasping this final mystery we all have to face at some point in our lives.
Brian Patterson
After Death Assassination
Does the violent elimination of one man necessarily change the course of history? For example, did the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand cause World War I or did it merely speed up an inevitable explosion? Hudson, former political secretary of the British foreign service office, uses a survey of political assassinations over two millennia to examine this question. He is concerned here only with those assassinations in which the motives were strictly political.
Assassination Embalming:
History, Theory, & Practice
This is the leading book on embalming with contributors from across the country. It incorporates theory and new procedures throughout, all accompanied by updated illustrations and additional photographs. Endorsed by the American Board of Funeral Service Education.
Embalming The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries
Dead rock stars, and the way they checked out.
The Encyclopedia of Rock Obituaries Grave Matters:
A Lively History of
Death Around the World
An intriguing investigation into cultural differences illustrates human inventiveness in terms of the way people react to death, from Madagascar, where the bereaved sometimes engage in drunken incest; to America, where we watch postmortem videos; to Africa, where many laugh and dance. 16-page photo insert.
Grave Matters Medieval Death:
Ritual and Representation
Medieval Death is an absorbing study of the social, theological, and cultural issues involved in death and dying in Europe from the end of the Roman Empire to the early sixteenth century. Drawing on both archaeological and art historical sources, Paul Binski examines pagan and Christian attitudes towards the dead, the aesthetics of death and the body, burial ritual and mortuary practice.
Medieval Death The Big Book of Death
Death remains one of society's last taboos, a subject few are willing to acknowledge, let alone discuss. THE BIG BOOK OF DEATH looks the Grim Reaper in the fact and laughs, with tales of outmoded methods of execution, capital punishment, visits to famous cemeteries, body disposal, weird deaths and stupid murders and more.
The Big Book of Death The Browser's Book of Endings:
The End of Practically Everything and Everybody
The last word on how people, places, and things of all sorts have met their ends through the centuries. From famous presidents to frightening epidemics, from ancient extinctions to vanished vogues, from bizarre last wills to the death styles of the rich and renowned. Presents the amusing, the surprising, and the generally little-known stories behind the terminations of practically everything and everybody.
Illustrated with more than 100 drawings, diagrams, and archival photographs, with an extensive reference list and index, this is the most readable and complete compendium of deliciously trivial and profound facts about history's endings.
The Browser's Book of Endings We Interrupt This Broadcast:
Relive the Events That Stopped Our Lives
from the Hindenburg to the Death of Princess Diana
Beginning with the explosion of the dirigible Hindenburg in 1937, this book and double-CD collection of audio broadcasts recalls a series of dramatic events so urgent that they interrupted regularly scheduled broadcasting in America.
The recordings of the news broadcasts revive the panic and thrill of some of the defining moments of the 20th century.
We Interrupt This Broadcast Western Attitudes Toward Death:
From the Middle Ages to the Present
Customer Comment
Western Attitudes Towards Death has been one of the most insightful books I've ever read. You can see how people lived during a specific time period by studying how they viewed death. The parallels between life and death in EVERY society has become astonishingly clear to me. It's short reading, definitely in a day, and well worth the time.
Western Attitudes Toward Death