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“michael decesare”

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  • Death on Demand

    Jack Kevorkian and the Right-to-Die Movement

    by Michael DeCesare ...
    Death on Demand explores the polarizing role of Jack Kevorkian—“Dr. Death”—as the most visible leader of the right-to-die movement. From a feature on the cover of Time magazine to interviews on shows like 60 Minutes, Kevorkian was a high-profile figure in the right-to-die movement, capturing constant media attention as he helped more than one hundred people kill themselves.The book opens with the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Handbook of Public Sociology

    by Barbara Adam, Wendell Bell, Michael Burawoy, Stephen Cornell, Michael DeCesare, Sean Elias, Frank Furedi, Norval D. Glenn, John Hagan, Lina Hu, Robert Kleidman, Elizabeth Dermody Leonard, Damon Mayrl, Bill McCarthy, Raymond A. Morrow, Jennifer Mueller, Samuel P. Oliner, Pamela E. Oliver, Caroline Hodges Persell, Laurel Westbrook, Lee McPhail, Herbert J. Gans, Ruth Horowitz, Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann, Lawrence T. Nichols, Saskia Sassen, Edward A. Tiryakian ...
    Public sociology—an approach to sociology that aims to communicate with and actively engage wider audiences—has been one of the most widely discussed topics in the discipline in recent years. The Handbook of Public Sociology presents a comprehensive look at every facet of public sociology in theory and practice. It pays particular attention to how public sociology can complement more traditional ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

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    A Guide to the Other Side

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    Does life go on beyond the grave? A growing body of evidence suggests that it does. Written through the hand of Elsa Barker, an established author in her own right, Letters from the Light presents a kind of "astral travelogue" that describes--often eloquently, sometimes humorously--life in the "invisible" world. ... Read more

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  • Sociology: The Key Concepts

    Edited by John Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An essential A-Z guide to the full range of sociological thought, Sociology: The Key Concepts is an important addition to the established and successful Key Concepts series.Fully cross-referenced with an extensive glossary, this accessible text also includes:alphabetical listings of key concepts for ease of usesuggestions for further reading to enhance understanding of areas coveredentries on ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • The Oxford Guide to Library Research

    by Thomas Mann ...
    The information world has undergone drastic changes since the publication of the 3rd edition of The Oxford Guide to Library Research in 2005, and Thomas Mann, a veteran reference librarian at the Library of Congress, has extensively revised his text to reflect those changes. This book will answer two basic questions: First, what is the extent of the significant research resources you will you miss ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Truth About Grief

    The Myth of Its Five Stages and the New Science of Loss

    by Ruth Davis Konigsberg ...
    The five stages of grief are so deeply imbedded in our culture that no American can escape them. Every time we experience loss—a personal or national one—we hear them recited: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. The stages are invoked to explain everything from how we will recover from the death of a loved one to a sudden environmental catastrophe or to the trading away of a ... Read more

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  • Good Grief

    Healing Through the Shadow of Loss

    by Deborah Morris Coryell ...
    A compassionate guide to the experience of loss as an essential growth process• Explores the nature of loss as a profound mystery shared by all human beings• Offers sensitive and practical advice for experiencing grief and preparing for the healing journey that followsWe grieve only for that which we have loved, and the transient nature of life makes love and loss intimate companions. In Good ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Hierarchical Linear Modeling

    Guide and Applications

    Edited by George David Garson ...
    Hierarchical Linear Modeling provides a brief, easy-to-read guide to implementing hierarchical linear modeling using three leading software platforms, followed by a set of original "how-to" application articles following a standardized instructional format. The Guide portion consists of five chapters that provide an overview of HLM, discussion of methodological assumptions, and parallel worked ... Read more

    $87.29 USD

  • The Removers

    A Memoir

    by Andrew Meredith ...
    “A darkly funny memoir about family reckonings” (O, The Oprah Magazine)—the story of a young man who, by handling the dead, makes peace with the living.Andrew Meredith’s father, a literature professor at La Salle University, was fired after unspecified allegations of sexual misconduct. It’s a transgression that resulted in such long-lasting familial despair that Andrew cannot forgive him. In the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists

    Edited by John Scott ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    Covering the life, work, ideas and impact of some of the most significant thinkers in sociology, Fifty Key Sociologists: The Formative Theorists concentrates on figures in the field writing principally in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.Including entries on Jane Addams, Theodor Adorno, George Lukács, Max Weber and Pitrim Sorokin, this practical text:is presented in an accessible A–Z ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • Where the Dead Pause, and the Japanese Say Goodbye

    A Journey

    by Marie Mutsuki Mockett ...
    “Read it. You will be uplifted.”—Ruth Ozeki, Zen priest, author of A Tale for the Time BeingMarie Mutsuki Mockett's family owns a Buddhist temple 25 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. In March 2011, after the earthquake and tsunami, radiation levels prohibited the burial of her Japanese grandfather's bones. As Japan mourned thousands of people lost in the disaster, Mockett also ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Unfinished Conversation

    Healing from Suicide and Loss

    by Robert Lesoine, Marilynne Chophel ...
    Unfinished Conversations is a story of profound grief and the journey to healing that followed. Based on a journal Robert Lesoine kept during the two years following the suicide of his best friend, Unfinished Conversations will help readers through the process of reflecting on and affirming the raw immediacy of survivors’ emotions. Each short chapter focuses on a different aspect of the author’s ... Read more

    $11.99 USD