Death & Dying
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Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality
$17.99 Add to cart“Utterly fascinating.” –Bill Bryson
“An incredible journey.” –Siddhartha Mukherjee
*WINNER OF THE 2025 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FOR BEST BOOK ON BIOLOGY*
A groundbreaking explorat
- Author: Ramakrishnan, Venki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063113287
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of a Cemetery: The Wild Nature and Enchanting Lore of P?re-Lachaise
$28.95 Add to cartFrom the head curator of the most famous cemetery in the world–a moving story about a place where joy, grief, and wild nature converge in unexpected and inspiring ways.
“P?re-Lachaise in Paris, whose- Author: Gallot, Beno?t
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1778401589
- Language: English
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Bye Bye I Love You: The Story of Our First and Last Words
$32.95 Add to cartA beautiful and intimate exploration of first and last words–and the many facets of how language begins and ends–from a pioneering language writer.
With our earliest utterances, we announce ourselve- Author: Erard, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0262049422
- Language: English
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Better: A Memoir about Wanting to Die
$30.00 Add to cartA gutsy, riveting memoir that intimately explores suicide, its legacy in families, and the cyclical, crooked path of recovery.
Why do so many people want to die–and how do we begin to understand what
- Author: Rebolini, Arianna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 0063295326
- Language: English
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Life Lessons: Two Experts on Death & Dying Teach Us about the Mysteries of Life & Living
$18.99 Add to cartTen years after Elisabeth K?ler-Ross’s death: “An inspiring…guide to life, distilled from the experiences of people who face death” (Kirkus Reviews)–the beloved classic now with a new introduction … [more below]
- Author: Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 12 2014
- ISBN10: 1476775532
- Language: English
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Memento Mori: The Dead Among Us
$40.00 Add to cartA macabre, spectacular, and thought-provoking survey of death in life, this book collects the many ways human remains are used in decorative, commemorative, and devotional contexts around the world to
- Author: Koudounaris, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0500252610
- Language: English
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From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
$25.95 Add to cartFascinated by our pervasive fear of dead bodies, mortician Caitlin Doughty set out to discover how other cultures care for the dead. From Here to Eternity is an immersive global journey that introduce
- Author: Doughty, Caitlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 03 2017
- ISBN10: 0393249891
- Language: English
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Death on Katahdin: And Other Misadventures in Maine’s Baxter State Park
$18.95 Add to cartThis fascinating addition to the North Woods canon looks at the variety of ways people have met their death on Maine’s highest and most remote mountain. It’s all here, from falls, exposure, and cardia… [more below]
- Author: Minetor, Randi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: September 14 2018
- ISBN10: 1608934179
- Language: English
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The American Way of Death Revisited
$19.00 Add to cartOnly the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an expos? of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When fi… [more below]
- Author: Mitford, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 04 2000
- ISBN10: 0679771867
- Language: English
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Severed: A History of Heads Lost and Heads Found
$15.95 Read moreThe human head is exceptional. It accommodates four of our five senses, encases the brain, and boasts the most expressive set of muscles in the body. It is our most distinctive attribute and connects … [more below]
- Author: Larson, Frances
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 02 2015
- ISBN10: 1631490990
- Language: English
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The Lost Art of Resurrection: Initiation, Secret Chambers, and the Quest for the Otherworld
$18.95 Read moreReveals the radical ancient practice of living resurrection, in which initiates ritually died and were reborn into a state of higher consciousness
– Explores living resurrection initiation practices f- Author: Silva, Freddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 27 2017
- ISBN10: 1620556367
- Language: English
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Here We Go / Escaped Alone: Two Plays
$14.95 Read more“What Churchill has written is a striking memento mori for an age without faith; and although her play is brief, that in itself evokes the idea that we are here for a short time and then are suddenly
- Author: Churchill, Caryl
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: November 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1559365404
- Language: English
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What Remains?: Life, Death, Ritual and the Human Art of Undertaking
$28.00 Read moreDeath is not my friend, neither is it my enemy; it is my destiny.
“Part memoir, part rant against the traditional funeral business, part manifesto, part just musing on death and facing it with compass
- Author: Callender, Rupert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1915294126
- Language: English
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Over Our Dead Bodies:: Undertakers Lift the Lid
$15.95 Read moreWith humor and heart, Over Our Dead Bodies does for the undertaking profession what Mary Roach’s Stiff did for cadavers, and, like Caitlin Doughty’s Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? gives us permission t… [more below]
- Author: McKenzie, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 27 2021
- ISBN10: 0806541415
- Language: English
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Morbid Magic: Death Spirituality and Culture from Around the World
$22.99 Add to cartThe Ultimate Book on Macabre Lore & Spiritual Traditions from Yesterday & Today
Written with a mix of reverence, approachability, and deadpan wit by a funeral industry insider, Morbid Magic is the fir
- Author: Prower, Tomás
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 08 2019
- ISBN10: 0738760617
- Language: English
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The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade
$15.95 Add to cart“Every year I bury a couple hundred of my townspeople.” So opens this singular and wise testimony. Like all poets, inspired by death, Thomas Lynch is, unlike others, also hired to bury the dead or to
- Author: Lynch, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0393334872
- Language: English
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American Afterlives: Reinventing Death in the Twenty-First Century
$46.58 Read moreA mesmerizing trip across America to investigate the changing face of death in contemporary life
Death in the United States is undergoing a quiet revolution. You can have your body frozen, dissected,- Author: Dawdy, Shannon Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0691210640
- Language: English
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Last Rites: The Evolution of the American Funeral
$26.99 Read moreThe Untold Story of American Funeral and Mourning Traditions
Why do we embalm the deceased? Why are funerals so expensive? Is there a reason coffins are shaped the way they are? When–and why–did we- Author: Harra, Todd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1683648056
- Language: English
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Grave
$14.95 Read moreObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things.
Grave takes a ground-level view of how burial sites have transformed over time and how they c- Series: Object Lessons
- Author: Meier, Allison C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: February 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1501383655
- Language: English
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Corpse Care: Ethics for Tending the Dead
$29.00 Read moreCorpse Care relates the history of death care in the U.S. to craft robust, constructive, practical ethics for tending the dead. It specifically relates corpse care to economic, environmental, and past
- Author: Sanders, Cody J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: January 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1506471315
- Language: English
