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Author: Tony Walter
Publisher: SAGE
ISBN: 1526480085
Size: 44.77 MB
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Release Date: 2020-01-09
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Death In The Modern World eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Death comes to all humans, but how death is managed, symbolised and experienced varies widely, not only between individuals but also between groups. What then shapes how a society manages death, dying and bereavement today? Are all modern countries similar? How important are culture, the physical environment, national histories, national laws and institutions, and globalization? This is the first book to look at how all these different factors shape death and dying in the modern world. Written by an internationally renowned scholar in death studies, and drawing on examples from around the world, including the UK, USA, China and Japan, The Netherlands, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe. This book investigates how key factors such as money, communication technologies, the family, religion, and war, interact in complex ways to shape people’s experiences of dying and grief. Essential reading for students, researchers and professionals across sociology, anthropology, social work and healthcare, and for anyone who wants to understand how countries around the world manage death and dying.

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Author: Haider Warraich
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1250104580
Size: 25.16 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2017-02-07
Category: Medical
Language: en
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Download PDF Modern Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A contemporary exploration of death and dying by a young Duke Fellow who investigates the hows, whys, wheres, and whens of modern death and their cultural significance.

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Author: Stacey Abbott
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292784499
Size: 18.67 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2009-03-06
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF Celluloid Vampires eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Méliès brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people become acquainted with the vampire through film than through literature, such as Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. How has this long legacy of celluloid vampires affected our understanding of vampire mythology? And how has the vampire morphed from its folkloric and literary origins? In this entertaining and absorbing work, Stacey Abbott challenges the conventional interpretation of vampire mythology and argues that the medium of film has completely reinvented the vampire archetype. Rather than representing the primitive and folkloric, the vampire has come to embody the very experience of modernity. No longer in a cape and coffin, today's vampire resides in major cities, listens to punk music, embraces technology, and adapts to any situation. Sometimes she's even female. With case studies of vampire classics such as Nosferatu, Martin, Blade, and Habit, the author traces the evolution of the American vampire film, arguing that vampires are more than just blood-drinking monsters; they reflect the cultural and social climate of the societies that produce them, especially during times of intense change and modernization. Abbott also explores how independent filmmaking techniques, special effects makeup, and the stunning and ultramodern computer-generated effects of recent films have affected the representation of the vampire in film.

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Book Detail:
Author: Therese Schroeder-Sheker
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781882878147
Size: 60.21 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2001
Category: Death
Language: en
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Download PDF Transitus eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad.

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Author: Jane Jacobs
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 052543285X
Size: 61.91 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2016-07-20
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Death And Life Of Great American Cities eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Thirty years after its publication, The Death and Life of Great American Cities was described by The New York Times as "perhaps the most influential single work in the history of town planning....[It] can also be seen in a much larger context. It is first of all a work of literature; the descriptions of street life as a kind of ballet and the bitingly satiric account of traditional planning theory can still be read for pleasure even by those who long ago absorbed and appropriated the book's arguments." Jane Jacobs, an editor and writer on architecture in New York City in the early sixties, argued that urban diversity and vitality were being destroyed by powerful architects and city planners. Rigorous, sane, and delightfully epigrammatic, Jacobs's small masterpiece is a blueprint for the humanistic management of cities. It is sensible, knowledgeable, readable, indispensable. The author has written a new foreword for this Modern Library edition.

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Author: Isidor Wallimann
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 30.51 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2000-03
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Genocide And The Modern Age eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In the preface to this 2000 edition, the authors point out that with the advent of the millennium, it is important to take stock of the 20th century, which has been labelled as the Age of Genocide.

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Author: Ptolemy Tompkins
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1451616538
Size: 60.44 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2013-03-19
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF The Modern Book Of The Dead eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A modern, all-encompassing exploration of what happens after death combines spirituality with philosophy, history, and science, all of which guide readers toward the timeless truth that human consciousness lives on after death.

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Author: James W. Green
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812202074
Size: 37.33 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2012-03-15
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Beyond The Good Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In November 1998, millions of television viewers watched as Thomas Youk died. Suffering from the late stages of Lou Gehrig's disease, Youk had called upon infamous Michigan pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian to help end his life on his own terms. After delivering the videotape to 60 Minutes, Kevorkian was arrested and convicted of manslaughter, despite the fact that Youk's family firmly believed that the ending of his life qualified as a good death. Death is political, as the controversies surrounding Jack Kevorkian and, more recently, Terri Schiavo have shown. While death is a natural event, modern end-of-life experiences are shaped by new medical, demographic, and cultural trends. People who are dying are kept alive, sometimes against their will or the will of their family, with powerful medications, machines, and "heroic measures." Current research on end-of-life issues is substantial, involving many fields. Beyond the Good Death takes an anthropological approach, examining the changes in our concept of death over the last several decades. As author James W. Green determines, the attitudes of today's baby boomers differ greatly from those of their parents and grandparents, who spoke politely and in hushed voices of those who had "passed away." Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, in the 1960s, gave the public a new language for speaking openly about death with her "five steps of dying." If we talked more about death, she emphasized, it would become less fearful for everyone. The term "good death" reentered the public consciousness as narratives of AIDS, cancer, and other chronic diseases were featured on talk shows and in popular books such as the best-selling Tuesdays with Morrie. Green looks at a number of contemporary secular American death practices that are still informed by an ancient religious ethos. Most important, Beyond the Good Death provides an interpretation of the ways in which Americans react when death is at hand for themselves or for those they care about.

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Book Detail:
Author: Albrecht Classen
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN: 3110434873
Size: 54.77 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2016-04-11
Category: Social Science
Language: de
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Download PDF Death In The Middle Ages And Early Modern Times eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Death is not only the final moment of life, it also casts a huge shadow on human society at large. People throughout time have had to cope with death as an existential experience, and this also, of course, in the premodern world. The contributors to the present volume examine the material and spiritual conditions of the culture of death, studying specific buildings and spaces, literary works and art objects, theatrical performances, and medical tracts from the early Middle Ages to the late eighteenth century. Death has always evoked fear, terror, and awe, it has puzzled and troubled people, forcing theologians and philosophers to respond and provide answers for questions that seem to evade real explanations. The more we learn about the culture of death, the more we can comprehend the culture of life. As this volume demonstrates, the approaches to death varied widely, also in the Middle Ages and the early modern age. This volume hence adds a significant number of new facets to the critical examination of this ever-present phenomenon of death, exploring poetic responses to the Black Death, types of execution of a female murderess, death as the springboard for major political changes, and death reflected in morality plays and art.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mitchell L. Hammond
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487593732
Size: 60.79 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2020
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Epidemics And The Modern World eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Epidemics and the Modern World uses biographies of epidemics such as plague, tuberculosis, and HIV/AIDS to explore the impact of diseases on society from the fourteenth century to the twenty-first century.

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Book Detail:
Author: Stacey Abbott
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292716966
Size: 31.81 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2007-12-15
Category: Performing Arts
Language: en
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Download PDF Celluloid Vampires eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In 1896, French magician and filmmaker George Méliès brought forth the first celluloid vampire in his film Le manoir du diable. The vampire continues to be one of film's most popular gothic monsters and in fact, today more people become acquainted with the vampire through film than through literature, such as Bram Stoker's classic Dracula. How has this long legacy of celluloid vampires affected our understanding of vampire mythology? And how has the vampire morphed from its folkloric and literary origins? In this entertaining and absorbing work, Stacey Abbott challenges the conventional interpretation of vampire mythology and argues that the medium of film has completely reinvented the vampire archetype. Rather than representing the primitive and folkloric, the vampire has come to embody the very experience of modernity. No longer in a cape and coffin, today's vampire resides in major cities, listens to punk music, embraces technology, and adapts to any situation. Sometimes she's even female. With case studies of vampire classics such as Nosferatu, Martin, Blade, and Habit, the author traces the evolution of the American vampire film, arguing that vampires are more than just blood-drinking monsters; they reflect the cultural and social climate of the societies that produce them, especially during times of intense change and modernization. Abbott also explores how independent filmmaking techniques, special effects makeup, and the stunning and ultramodern computer-generated effects of recent films have affected the representation of the vampire in film.

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Book Detail:
Author: Christopher Booker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408183455
Size: 42.18 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2013-01-17
Category: Political Science
Language: en
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Download PDF Scared To Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Modern society has regularly, in recent years, been gripped by a series of headline making "scares" - from mad cow disease to SARS -- which have become one of the most conspicuous and damaging features of our modern world. This book is the first to tell the inside story of each of the major scares of the past two decades, showing how they have followed a remarkably consistent pattern. It analyzes the crucial role played in each case by scientists how have misread or manipulated the evidence; by media and lobbyists who eagerly promote the scare without regard to the facts; and finally by the politicians and officials who come up with an absurdly disproportionate response, leaving us all to pay the price, which may run into billions of dollars. Scared to Death culminates in a chillingly detailed account of the story behind what the authors believe has become the greatest scare of them all: the belief that the world faces disaster through manmade global warming. In a final chapter, the authors take on its proponents such as Al Gore in a devastating critique of the consensus on global warming and its consequences.

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Book Detail:
Author: Neil Postman
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN:
Size: 33.99 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1986
Category: Mass media
Language: en
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Download PDF Amusing Ourselves To Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Examines the effects of television culture on how we conduct our public affairs and how "entertainment values" corrupt the way we think.

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Author: Raymond A. Moody
Publisher:
ISBN:
Size: 47.78 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 1976
Category: Death
Language: en
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Download PDF Life After Life eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In Life After Life Raymond Moody investigates more than one hundred case studies of people who experienced "clinical death" and were subsequently revived. First published in 1975, this classic exploration of life after death started a revolution in popular attitudes about the afterlife and established Dr. Moody as the world's leading authority in the field of near-death experiences. Life after Life forever changed the way we understand both death -- and life -- selling millions of copies to a world hungry for a greater understanding of this mysterious phenomenon. The extraordinary stories presented here provide evidence that there is life after physical death, as Moody recounts the testimonies of those who have been to the "other side" and back -- all bearing striking similarities of an overwelming positive nature. These moving and inspiring accounts give us a glimpse of the peace and unconditional love that await us all.

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Book Detail:
Author: Callum G. Brown
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135115532
Size: 49.97 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2013-04-15
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The Death Of Christian Britain eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The Death of Christian Britain uses the latest techniques to offer new formulations of religion and secularisation and explores what it has meant to be 'religious' and 'irreligious' during the last 200 years. By listening to people's voices rather than purely counting heads, it offers a fresh history of de-christianisation, and predicts that the British experience since the 1960s is emblematic of the destiny of the whole of western Christianity. Challenging the generally held view that secularization has been a long and gradual process beginning with the industrial revolution, it proposes that it has been a catastrophic short term phenomenon starting with the 1960's. Is Christianity in Britain nearing extinction? Is the decline in Britain emblematic of the fate of western Christianity? Topical and controversial, The Death of Christian Britain is a bold and original work that will bring some uncomfortable truths to light.

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Book Detail:
Author: Christopher Ryan
Publisher: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
ISBN: 1451659113
Size: 75.64 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2020-08-11
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF Civilized To Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. The New York Times bestselling coauthor of Sex at Dawn explores the ways in which “progress” has perverted the way we live—how we eat, learn, feel, mate, parent, communicate, work, and die—in this “engaging, extensively documented, well-organized, and thought-provoking” (Booklist) book. Most of us have instinctive evidence the world is ending—balmy December days, face-to-face conversation replaced with heads-to-screens zomboidism, a world at constant war, a political system in disarray. We hear some myths and lies so frequently that they feel like truths: Civilization is humankind’s greatest accomplishment. Progress is undeniable. Count your blessings. You’re lucky to be alive here and now. Well, maybe we are and maybe we aren’t. Civilized to Death counters the idea that progress is inherently good, arguing that the “progress” defining our age is analogous to an advancing disease. Prehistoric life, of course, was not without serious dangers and disadvantages. Many babies died in infancy. A broken bone, infected wound, snakebite, or difficult pregnancy could be life-threatening. But ultimately, Christopher Ryan questions, were these pre-civilized dangers more murderous than modern scourges, such as car accidents, cancers, cardiovascular disease, and a technologically prolonged dying process? Civilized to Death “will make you see our so-called progress in a whole new light” (Book Riot) and adds to the timely conversation that “the way we have been living is no longer sustainable, at least as long as we want to the earth to outlive us” (Psychology Today). Ryan makes the claim that we should start looking backwards to find our way into a better future.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Belich
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691215669
Size: 36.23 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2022-07-19
Category: History
Language: en
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Download PDF The World The Plague Made eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A groundbreaking history of how the Black Death unleashed revolutionary change across the medieval world and ushered in the modern age In 1346, a catastrophic plague beset Europe and its neighbours. The Black Death was a human tragedy that abruptly halved entire populations and caused untold suffering, but it also brought about a cultural and economic renewal on a scale never before witnessed. The World the Plague Made is a panoramic history of how the bubonic plague revolutionized labour, trade, and technology and set the stage for Europe’s global expansion. James Belich takes readers across centuries and continents to shed new light on one of history’s greatest paradoxes. Why did Europe’s dramatic rise begin in the wake of the Black Death? Belich shows how plague doubled the per capita endowment of everything even as it decimated the population. Many more people had disposable incomes. Demand grew for silks, sugar, spices, furs, gold, and slaves. Europe expanded to satisfy that demand—and plague provided the means. Labour scarcity drove more use of waterpower, wind power, and gunpowder. Technologies like water-powered blast furnaces, heavily gunned galleons, and musketry were fast-tracked by plague. A new “crew culture” of “disposable males” emerged to man the guns and galleons. Setting the rise of Western Europe in global context, Belich demonstrates how the mighty empires of the Middle East and Russia also flourished after the plague, and how European expansion was deeply entangled with the Chinese and other peoples throughout the world.

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Book Detail:
Author: Lori Jones
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1914049098
Size: 42.58 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2022-11-22
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Language: en
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Download PDF Death And Disease In The Medieval And Early Modern World eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Juxtaposing and interlacing similarities and differences across and beyond the pre-modern Mediterranean world, Christian, Islamic and Jewish healing traditions, the collection highlights and nuances some of the recent critical advances in scholarship on death and disease.

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Book Detail:
Author: Anne Geraghty
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
ISBN: 1782797084
Size: 70.74 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2014-11-28
Category: Body, Mind & Spirit
Language: en
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Download PDF Death The Last God eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Anne Geraghty was a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist when her son, Tim Guest, author of My Life in Orange died suddenly. Her old life ended. She went on a search for her lost son. Where was he? What was he? Did he live on in some other realm? Or had he fallen into the darkness of oblivion? Her search for Tim became an exploration into the nature of death itself. We die as we have lived. Our lives are not like those of a C12th Tibetan, a C15th Cardinal or a Zen monk; we cannot, therefore, simply turn to old maps and myths of what happens when we die. We need a new narrative of death that embraces our modern understandings of our humanity and the workings of the universe. This book is the story of a grieving mother looking for her dead son, an investigation into death in our modern world, and an exploration of our struggles to live well in the ever-present shadow of death. It is not a book with answers; it is an invitation to look at death differently. This book offers fresh and original ideas about death and dying. And it will radically change your understanding of what death is.

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Book Detail:
Author: Anne Case
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217068
Size: 30.34 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2021-03-02
Category: Business & Economics
Language: en
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Download PDF Deaths Of Despair And The Future Of Capitalism eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A New York Times Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Bestseller A New York Times Notable Book of 2020 A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Shortlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year A New Statesman Book to Read From economist Anne Case and Nobel Prize winner Angus Deaton, a groundbreaking account of how the flaws in capitalism are fatal for America's working class Deaths of despair from suicide, drug overdose, and alcoholism are rising dramatically in the United States, claiming hundreds of thousands of American lives. Anne Case and Angus Deaton explain the overwhelming surge in these deaths and shed light on the social and economic forces that are making life harder for the working class. As the college educated become healthier and wealthier, adults without a degree are literally dying from pain and despair. Case and Deaton tie the crisis to the weakening position of labor, the growing power of corporations, and a rapacious health-care sector that redistributes working-class wages into the pockets of the wealthy. This critically important book paints a troubling portrait of the American dream in decline, and provides solutions that can rein in capitalism's excesses and make it work for everyone.

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