Author: Edwin S. Shneidman
Publisher: Kodansha Globe
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 228
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Personal documents written and recorded by people undergoing the crisis of approaching death. Each document is accompanied by a commentary explaining the circumstances and biogrpahy of the correspondent involved
Author: James Deem
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
ISBN: 9780766033221
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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"Examines Auschwitz, a death camp during the Holocaust, including its construction and daily workings, true accounts from prisoners of the camp and Nazi perpetrators, and how more than 1 million people were murdered there"--Provided by publisher.
Author: Tessie Castillo
Publisher: Black Rose Writing
ISBN: 1684334446
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 245
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Through thirty compelling essays written in the prisoners’ own words, Crimson Letters: Voices from Death Row offers stories of brutal beatings inside juvenile hall, botched suicide attempts, the terror of the first night on Death Row, the pain of goodbye as a friend is led to execution, and the small acts of humanity that keep hope alive for men living in the shadow of death. Each carefully crafted personal essay illuminates the complex stew of choice and circumstance that brought four men to Death Row and the cycle of dehumanization and brutality that continues inside prison. At times the men write with humor, at times with despair, at times with deep sensitivity, but always with keen insight and understanding of the common human experience that binds us.
Author: Nick Tosches
Publisher: Back Bay Books
ISBN: 0316077143
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 243
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A forgotten singer from the early days of jazz is at the center of this riveting book -- a narrative that is part mystery, part biography, part meditation on the meaning and power of music.
Author: Peter Leonard
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571271588
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 331
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Detroit, 1971. Harry Levin, scrap metal dealer and holocaust survivor, learns that his daughter has been killed in a car accident. Travelling to Washington DC, he's told by Detective Taggart that the German diplomat, who was drunk, has been released and afforded immunity; he will never face charges. So Harry is left with only one option - to discover the identity of this man, follow him back to Munich and hunt him down. The first of a two-hander, Peter Leonard's new novel is a classic cat-and-mouse thriller. Told with swagger, brutal humour and not a little violence, it follows a good man who is forced to return to the horrors of his past.
Author: John Myers
Publisher: Whitaker House
ISBN: 1603745246
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 256
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Dramatic Testimonies of Near-death Experiences and VisionsVoices from the Edge of Eternity is a compilation of the words and experiences of people both famous and obscure just before their deaths. Young and old, great and small, saint and sinner—these testimonies confirm the biblical doctrines of life after death, judgment for the nonbeliever, and eternal life for those who have accepted Christ as Savior. Included are the experiences of a formidable array of witnesses, such as Martin Luther, Voltaire, John Wesley, Joan of Arc, Thomas Paine, Charles Darwin, Queen Elizabeth I, John Calvin, Napoleon Bonaparte, Peter the Great, and many more. The agreement among the accounts is remarkable in this fascinating collection of thoughts and experiences that shed light on the life that awaits us after death.
Author: Russell G. Murphy
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Capital punishment
Languages : en
Pages : 334
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"Through the statements of witnesses who testified at historic hearings in New York between December 2004 and February 2005, [the book] seeks to educate a national and international citizenry about capital punishment. ... present[ing] the essential facts relating to the death penalty and the major categories of debate over capital punishment worldwide"--Introd.
Author: Deborah Witt Sherman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1607142694
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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What was it like the first time a nurse witnessed death? How do nurses cope with death when it becomes almost routine? What lessons can we learn from their experiences? Twenty-five nurses—from hospitals, private practices, and in home health care—tell about their experiences with death. Hear from people new to the field as well as those who have been in nursing for decades about how they deal with grief, the controversies about end-of-life decisions, the challenges of caring for people as they die, and the harrowing experience of telling their family members. Edited and introduced by a registered nurse, the book is a resource for both nurses and anyone who wants to better understands death and dying.
Author: Patrick Williams
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226899282
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 152
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For many of us, one of the most important ways of coping with the death of a close relative is talking about them, telling all who will listen what they meant to us. Yet the Gypsies of central France, the Manuš, not only do not speak of their dead, they burn or discard the deceased's belongings, refrain from eating the dead person's favorite foods, and avoid camping in the place where they died. In Gypsy World, Patrick Williams argues that these customs are at the center of how Manuš see the world and their place in it. The Manuš inhabit a world created by the "Gadzos" (non-Gypsies), who frequently limit or even prohibit Manuš movements within it. To claim this world for themselves, the Manuš employ a principle of cosmological subtraction: just as the dead seem to be absent from Manuš society, argues Williams, so too do the Manuš absent themselves from Gadzo society—and in so doing they assert and preserve their own separate culture and identity. Anyone interested in Gypsies, death rituals, or the formation of culture will enjoy this fascinating and sensitive ethnography.
Author: Judy Zionts Fox
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780882823331
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 270
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Book Description
In this deeply moving but also practical book, authors Judy Zoints Fox and Mia Roldan share the results of their survey of children of a parental suicide as well as discussing what is helpful to suicide survivors and what is not.
