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The American Way of Death
Author | : JESSICA MITFORD |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2024 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9182736450XXX |
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The American Way of Death Revisited
Author | : Jessica Mitford |
Publsiher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2011-11-23 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780307809391 |
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Only the scathing wit and searching intelligence of Jessica Mitford could turn an exposé of the American funeral industry into a book that is at once deadly serious and side-splittingly funny. When first published in 1963, this landmark of investigative journalism became a runaway bestseller and resulted in legislation to protect grieving families from the unscrupulous sales practices of those in "the dismal trade." Just before her death in 1996, Mitford thoroughly revised and updated her classic study. The American Way of Death Revisited confronts new trends, including the success of the profession's lobbyists in Washington, inflated cremation costs, the telemarketing of pay-in-advance graves, and the effects of monopolies in a death-care industry now dominated by multinational corporations. With its hard-nosed consumer activism and a satiric vision out of Evelyn Waugh's novel The Loved One, The American Way of Death Revisited will not fail to inform, delight, and disturb. "Brilliant--hilarious. . . . A must-read for anyone planning to throw a funeral in their lifetime."--New York Post "Witty and penetrating--it speaks the truth."--The Washington Post
Lifetimes
Author | : Bryan Mellonie |
Publsiher | : Bantam |
Total Pages | : 42 |
Release | : 2009-09-16 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 9780307569684 |
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When the death of a relative, a friend, or a pet happens or is about to happen . . . how can we help a child to understand? Lifetimes is a moving book for children of all ages, even parents too. It lets us explain life and death in a sensitive, caring, beautiful way. Lifetimes tells us about beginnings. And about endings. And about living in between. With large, wonderful illustrations, it tells about plants. About animals. About people. It tells that dying is as much a part of living as being born. It helps us to remember. It helps us to understand. Lifetimes . . . a very special, very important book for you and your child. The book that explains—beautifully—that all living things have their own special Lifetimes.
The Right Way of Death Restoring the American Funeral Business to Its True Calling
Author | : Eric Layer |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2020-09-21 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1735610925 |
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Funeral service is dying. Cremation rates are sky-high, new competitors pop up every day, and an entire generation of funeral home owners are considering closing shop. But a thriving future is still possible. Eric Layer paints a vivid picture of what's threatening death care and everything mortuary owners need to know about how to save it.
Life Everlasting
Author | : Bernd Heinrich |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Nature |
ISBN | : 9780544002265 |
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From beetles to bald eagles, ravens to wolves, Heinrich reveals the fascinating and mostly hidden post-death world that occurs around us constantly, while examining the ancient and important role we humans, too, play as scavengers, connecting death to life. --
On Our Way
Author | : Robert Kastenbaum |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 461 |
Release | : 2004-05-20 |
Genre | : FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS |
ISBN | : 9780520218802 |
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A profound look at how death and dying is understood, negotiated, and experienced by different cultures.
13 Ways of Looking at the Death Penalty
Author | : Mario Marazziti |
Publsiher | : Seven Stories Press |
Total Pages | : 167 |
Release | : 2015-03-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781609805685 |
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Nation states and communities throughout the world have reached certain decisions about capital punishment: It is the destruction of human life. It is ineffective as a deterrent for crime. It is an instrument the state uses to contain or eliminate its political adversaries. It is a tool of “justice” that disproportionality affects religious, social, and racial minorities. It is a sanction that cannot be fixed if unjustly applied. Yet the United States—along with countries notorious for human rights abuse—remains an advocate for the death penalty. In these thirteen pieces, Mario Marazziti exposes the profound inhumanity and irrationality of the death penalty in this country, and urges us to join virtually every other industrialized democracy in rendering capital punishment an abandoned practice belonging to a crueler time in human history. A polemical book, yes, yet one that brings together a wide range of stories to compel the heart as well the mind.