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Hardback. Series: New Directions in Critical Theory. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: HPCF; JHBA; JMAF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 162 x 236 x 22. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231176682
- ISBN
- 9780231176682
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.40€ 51.34
€ 65.40
€ 51.34
Hardback. A comparative study of memorialisation and reconstruction in post-terrorist bomb sites, which argues that security practices are fundamentally connected to death anxiety. Series Editor(s): Lawler, Peter; Guittet, Emmanuel-Pierre. Series: New Approaches to Conflict Analysis. Num Pages: 208 pages, 19 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFC; JHB; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 241 x 21. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Manchester University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784993139
- ISBN
- 9781784993139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 156.68
€ 156.68
Hardcover. As death rates continue to rise, this collection brings together scholars engaged in policy associated with death to analyse the challenges these trends present. Examining a range of issues including inheritance, palliative care, euthanasia, funeral costs and marginalised deaths, this unique volumes portrays how death factors in social policy. Editor(s): Foster, Liam; Woodthorpe, Kate. Num Pages: 216 pages, 2 figures, 4 black & white tables. BIC Classification: JFFH; JFME; JHBZ; JKSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 141. Weight in Grams: 454.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137484895
- ISBN
- 9781137484895
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.61
€ 66.61
Paperback. We normally take it for granted that other people will live on after we ourselves have died. Even if we do not believe in a personal afterlife in which we survive our own deaths, we assume that there will be a "collective afterlife" in which humanity survives long after we are gone. Editor(s): Kolodny, Niko. Series: The Berkeley Tanner Lectures. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HP; HPQ; JHBZ; VXPR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 137 x 14. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780190469177
- ISBN
- 9780190469177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.03
€ 40.03
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 180 x 229 x 26. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Publisher
- Sterling Publishing Co Inc
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781454914341
- ISBN
- 9781454914341
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.80
€ 24.99
€ 18.80
Paperback. Presents studies of Roman imperial cult, political propaganda, and topography. Num Pages: 281 pages, 117 b&w photos and line drawings. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 253 x 177 x 16. Weight in Grams: 524.
- Publisher
- University of Texas Press
- Number of pages
- 281
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780292702752
- ISBN
- 9780292702752
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 36.50
€ 40.99
€ 36.50
Paperback. The history of Mexico's fearless intimacy with death--the elevation of death to the center of national identity. Num Pages: 584 pages, 52 black & white illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; JHBZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 38. Weight in Grams: 794.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Zone Books
- Number of pages
- 581
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781890951542
- ISBN
- 9781890951542
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.06
€ 33.99
€ 25.06
Paperback. A collection of cautionary tales about the undignified ways you can kick the bucket - and they're all true. It includes stories of: the vegetarian who was killed with a frozen leg of lamb, the cyclist who swallowed his own dentures and the burglar who fell head-first into a toilet and drowned. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: JHBZ; WHX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 209 x 28. Weight in Grams: 266.
- Publisher
- Prion Books Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KEX0295752
- ISBN
- 9781853759710
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Hardback. Life and death are never far apart in Egyptian culture and society. This book looks beyond funerary rites and mummification to explore the beliefs and customs of ordinary people. It also looks at how death occurred - through illness, accidents and violent death, as well as in the natural course. Num Pages: 160 pages, 70 black and white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 182 x 20. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750939324
- ISBN
- 9780750939324
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 23.81
€ 26.99
€ 23.81
Paperback. Presenting a range of translated texts on death, burial and commemoration in the Roman world, this book is organized thematically and supported by discussion of scholarship. It sheds light on the way death was thought about and dealt with in Roman society. Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World. Num Pages: 288 pages, 20 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; HBTB; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 434.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415331586
- ISBN
- 9780415331586
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 51.57
€ 51.57
Paperback. Mortality is a recurrent theme in films across genres, periods, nations, and directors. This book brings together an accomplished set of authors with backgrounds in film analysis, psychology, and philosophy to examine how the knowledge of death, the fear of our mortality, and the ways people cope with mortality are represented in cinema. Editor(s): Sullivan, D.; Greenberg, Judith. Num Pages: 272 pages, 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: AB; APF; JHBK; JMH; JMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 15. Weight in Grams: 353.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781349446865
- ISBN
- 9781349446865
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.06
€ 66.06
Hardcover. As the first historical study of East Germany's sepulchral culture, this book explores the complex cultural responses to death since the Second World War. Topics include the interrelated areas of the organization and municipalization of the undertaking industry; the steps taken towards a socialist cemetery culture such as issues of design.. Series: Monographs in German History. Num Pages: 288 pages, 33 tables & figs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DFGE; HBJD; HBLW3; HBTB; JHBZ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 17. Weight in Grams: 458.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782380139
- ISBN
- 9781782380139
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.64
€ 162.64
Paperback. How does a state redefine its national identity after catastrophic trauma? And what is the role of this kind of tourism in defining their new identity? This title exposes the intersection of leisure with the inhumane, giving insight into how people respectfully share a public space that is both free and sacred, compelling and tragic. Editor(s): Sion, Brigitte. Series: SB - Enactments. Num Pages: 356 pages, 35 halftones. BIC Classification: JHBS; KNSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 233 x 23. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857421074
- ISBN
- 9780857421074
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 28.42
€ 35.99
€ 28.42
Paperback. When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Num Pages: 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight in Grams: 1002. The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. 632 pages, 65 b&w photographs. Bringing her readers to the slopes above a modern plantation town, the author follows three generations of shanty-town women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and trial. It is a story of class relations told at the basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFC; JFFE; JFSJ1; JHBZ; JHM. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 40. Weight: 1006.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 632
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1993
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520075375
- ISBN
- 9780520075375
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 44.99€ 32.16
€ 44.99
€ 32.16
Hardback. Series: International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine. Num Pages: 326 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; HPS; JHBZ; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 19. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Number of pages
- 326
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789401772631
- ISBN
- 9789401772631
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.17
€ 68.17
Hardback. How the Israelites and their neighbors treated the dead, and why their practices challenged the young religion. "A sparkling synthesis of the behaviors, attitudes, and theologies relating to death from the earliest settlement of the land of Israel to this day..A wonderful read."-Baruch Halpern. Num Pages: 256 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 219 x 160 x 24. Weight in Grams: 431.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Ivan R Dee, Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781566634014
- ISBN
- 9781566634014
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 36.71
€ 36.71
Hardback. Editor(s): Barclay, Katie; Reynolds, Kimberley; Rawnsley, Ciara. Series: Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood. Num Pages: 257 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, 9 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1D; JFSP; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 159 x 219 x 20. Weight in Grams: 490.
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 1st ed. 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137571984
- ISBN
- 9781137571984
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.64
€ 116.64
Hardback. Barbara Graham analyzes a diverse range of objects associated with death and remembrance in Ireland. In doing so, she explores the materially mediated interactions between the living and the dead, revealing the physical, cognitive, emotional, and spiritual roles of the dead in contemporary Irish communities. Series: Material Mediations: People and Things in a World of Movement. Num Pages: 180 pages, 18 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; JHBZ; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781785332821
- ISBN
- 9781785332821
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.72
€ 161.72
Paperback. Num Pages: 368 pages. BIC Classification: JHBK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Weight in Grams: 666.
- Publisher
- John Wiley & Sons Inc
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2017
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781119151746
- ISBN
- 9781119151746
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 66.86
€ 66.86
Hardback. Mario Erasmo creatively explores the nexus between classical and contemporary approaches to dying, death and interment. From theme funerals in St Louis to Etruscan sarcophagi, he offers a rich and insightful discussion of finitude across the ages. Series: Ancients and Moderns. Num Pages: 192 pages, 20 bw integrated illustrations. BIC Classification: JHBT; JHBZ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 224 x 143 x 22. Weight in Grams: 382.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Number of pages
- 192
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781848855564
- ISBN
- 9781848855564
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 112.96€ 101.25
€ 112.96
€ 101.25