Authors:Hannelore Wass, Robert A. Neimeyer,
Publisher: Taylor & Franci
Keywords: dying, bereavement, death, facts, facing, series
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 1995-04-01
List price: $59.95
ISBN-10: 1560322861
ISBN-13: 9781560322863
This work provides an up-to-date examination of the ways people face dying and bereavement. In this third edition previous chapters are throrughly revised, and new contributors expand areas that have changed significantly. Reflecting the field’s complex interdisciplinary character, the chapters cover such diverse areas as psychology, nursing, medicine, AIDS, family studies, sociology, education, philosophy, law, religion, the humanities and political science, whilst highlighting thanatology’s core psychological and therapeutic caregiving dimensions.; First, the text offers broad ex
Author: Ira Byock
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Keywords: dying
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 1998-03-01
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 1573226572
ISBN-13: 9781573226578
On his deathbed, faced with creditors and unpaid bills, Oscar Wilde said despairingly, "I am dying beyond my means!" If only the poor, beleaguered genius had read this book! None of us gets out of here alive, but reading this book will lessen your fear of the ultimate end and give you some guidance about enjoying your life to the fullest right up until your final moment. Do people really enjoy life in the face of death? People do. The stories of individuals in Dr. Byock’s book will move and inspire you to change your feelings about the end of your life, and also your feelings about your
Author: Christopher Shi
Publisher: Theatre Communications Grou
Keywords: city, dying
Number of Pages: 96
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1559363290
ISBN-13: 9781559363297
“The finest new American play I’ve seen in a long while . . . Dying City is a political play and also a psychodrama about what Arthur Miller called the politics of the soul. It’s about public conscience and private grief, and real and symbolic catastrophes.”The New York Observer“Anyone who doubts that Mr. Shinn is among the most provocative and probing of American playwrights today need only experience the . . . sophisticated welding of form and content that is Dying City.”The New York TimesIn Christopher Shinn’s new play Dying City, a young therapis
Author: Christopher Shi
Publisher: Dramatist’s Play Service
Keywords: city, dying
Number of Pages: 42
Published: 2007-12-31
List price: $7.50
ISBN-10: 0822222418
ISBN-13: 9780822222415
A dissection of the impact on society of the war in Iraq When one man goes to war he leaves the city, his wife and brother. A year later only the wife and brother remain. Christopher Shinn’s new play asks what happens when people and events apparently thousands of miles away affect the heart and soul of a city.’Christopher Shinn’s clever, intricately calculated and quietly moving new play" Daily Telegraph’Subtle, insinuating, beautifully written new play’ Whatsonstage’an impressive analysis of the collective American psyche rooted in details of real family l
Author: Linda Howard
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Keywords: dying
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-11-04
List price: $7.99
ISBN-10: 0345453409
ISBN-13: 9780345453402
Loyal. Beautiful. Professional. Impeccably organized. Potentially lethal. Sarah Stevens is a woman with many distinct qualities. First and foremost a butler par excellence, skilled at running large households smoothly and efficiently, she is also a trained bodyguard and expert marksmanindispensable to her elderly employer, a courtly gentleman whom Sarah has come to respect and love as a father.Then one night she thwarts a burglary in progress, a courageous act that rewards Sarah her requisite fifteen minutes of fame with the local press. But the exposure is enough to catch the attention of
Author: Elisabeth Kubler-Ro
Publisher: Scribner
Keywords: dying, death
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 1997-06-09
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0684839385
ISBN-13: 9780684839387
One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kbler-Ross’s famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kbler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sample interviews and conversations, she gives the reader a better understanding of how imminent death affects the patient, the professionals who serve that patient, and the patient’s family, bringing hope to all w
Author: Ram Da
Publisher: Riverhead Trade
Keywords: dying, changing, aging, embracing
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2001-06-01
List price: $14.14
ISBN-10: 1573228710
ISBN-13: 9781573228718
After being introduced for a lecture, Ram Dass eschewed the stairs and, from his front row seat, leapt up on to the stage--or tried to, anyway, but age and gravity brought him crashing back to earth. Like other baby boomers, Ram Dass has learned the hard way that aging is unkind to the body. But he has also learned that it can be an opportunity for growth. While others begin to devalue you, you can reconnect with the spiritual, grow into wisdom, and create value for yourself. In Still Here, Ram Dass offers a philosophy for aging that teaches us how to diminish our suffering despite the aches,
