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Death and Bereavement Around the World, Volume 2: Death and Bereavement in the Americas
Edited by John D. Morgan and Pittu Laungani
The contributors explore unique Canadian views about dying, bereavement, and euthanasia; the realities of dying and grieving in the United States, noting changes that have occurred since September 11, 2001; and black American attitudes and behaviors, and more.
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Letters From a Friend: A Sibling's Guide For Coping and Grief
Erika Barber
This unique workbook is a comprehensive compilation of therapeutic activities developed to address the needs and issues of children and adolescents following the death of a brother or sister. The workbook is organized into distinct topic-specific sections relating to sibling hospitalization, illness, injury, and death. Games, creative writing, and drawing exercises offer opportunities to share feelings and relay experiences in a non-threatening format. Pages are designed for easy removal to allow personalization of the text for a survivor’s own experiences and interests. Letters from a Friend may be used by children or teens independently to create a personal journal of their bereavement and coping processes as well as a chronicle of their lives as surviving siblings.
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The Need for Theory: Critical Approaches to Social Gerontology
Edited By Simon Biggs, Ariela Lowenstein and Jon Hendricks
The Need for Theory speaks to the burgeoning need for critical thinking in social gerontology. The editors have brought together some of the foremost contributors to theoretical advances in the field, incorporating state-of-the-art theorizing with a keen focus on selected topical areas facing gerontologists around the world.
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Power and Legitimacy in Technical Communication Volume I: The Historical and Contemporary Struggle for Professional Status
Edited by Teresa Kynell-Hunt and Gerald J. Savage
Evaluates the historical and contemporary factors that have shaped the professionalization of the discipline of technical communication in the United States. The book focuses on the development of social status for the field, development of a professional consciousness, and ways in which those in the evolving discipline have dealt and continue to deal with issues of legitimacy in both the workplace and academe.
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The ABC'S of Grief: A Handbook for Survivors
Christine A. Adams
The ABC'S of Grief: A Handbook for Survivors meets bereaved persons wherever they might be in the grieving process, providing snatches of meaning, hope, empathy, and understanding. The handbook is a product of the author's own passage and includes materials collected over a three-year period of the grieving process.
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Making Sense of Death: Spiritual, Pastoral, and Personal Aspects of Death, Dying, and Bereavement
Edited by Gerry R. Cox, Robert A. Bendiksen, and Robert G. Stevenson
The editors provide stimulating discussions as they ponder the meaning of life and death. This anthology explores the role of internal and external dimensions of religion and spirituality at times of loss.
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And the Passenger Was Death
Douglas Daher
As a memoir, Dr. Daher has written a book that can be of enormous importance to parents who have lost children, as well as any individual suffering the intensity of grief. As a therapist himself, Dr. Daher through his first hand account, offers reflections that are a resource for other helping professionals to frame the grief process and mark critical themes and paradoxical opportunities for healing.
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Prospects for Immortality: A Sensible Search for Life After Death
Robert J. Adams
This challenging work will tease the imagination of both the amateur and the professional. Apart from its focus on life after death,
Prospects for Immortality has something of interest for the cognitive psychologist, the neuroscientist, the philosopher, and the theologian. Futurists will feel quite at home among these unexplored ideas. Laymen will become better acquainted with cosmology, biology, and religion.
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Everyday Bioethics:
Reflections on Bioethical Choices in Daily Life
Giovanni Berlinguer
Everyday Bioethics suggests a new perspective on the relationships between science, ethics and society. It is based upon the distinction and integration of two fields: the frontier bioethics, which examines the new development of biomedicine; and the bioethics of everyday life, which concerns all people around the world.
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Reflections on Death, Dying and Bereavement: A Manual for Clergy, Counselors and Speakers
William A. Smith
". . .a treasure house of wisdom and information for
clergy, pastoral associates, lay ministers, counselors and
preachers at wakes and funerals. It is a precious source
book of materials drawn from the writings of insightful
philosophers and meditators on immortality and the meaning
of life and death.... Seminarians and collegians have much to
gain from this collection of philosophical insights to
supplement religious doctrine and scriptural revelation on
the subject of 'the last things.' The appendices in the book
are particularly helpful."
—Deacon Frank McQuade, PhD, JD, STMA, LLM
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Fixin To Die: A Compassionate Guide To Committing Suicide Or Staying Alive
David Lester
We all have to die. Most would prefer to die in their sleep. Many of us will not. The author contends that the choice of suicide can be both rational and morally sound. This book is a guide for those evaluating suicide as an option, for making the final decision and carrying it out, or resolving to continue living.
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Sexual and Reproductive Health Promotion in Latino Populations: Parteras, Promotoras y Poetas: Case Studies Across the Americas
Edited by: M. Idalí Torres and George P. Cernada
This book is a first in bringing together a rich, multidisciplinary, multicultural collection of case studies focusing on sexual and reproductive health education problems and programs from across the Americas. No other such collection links the experience of U.S. Latino populations with public health, culture and community in Latin American countries.
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Grieving Reproductive Loss: The Healing Process
Kathleen Gray and Anne Lassance
The grief associated with such reproductive losses is often minimized, denied, and considered to be outside the normal "grieving rules" of society. Yet individuals who have suffered these losses can experience profound grief and emotional pain. Their grief needs to be acknowledged by themselves and by others.
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Work Stress: Studies of the Context, Content and Outcomes of Stress
Chris L. Peterson
Stress at work has become an increasingly important phenomenon in most western countries. With longer working hours, organizational "downsizing," and associated "intensification" of work, stress is becoming a concern in a wide range of work organizations. There is growing recognition of its effects on families, on health and welfare services, and within the broader community, as well as its more immediate effects on employee health and well-being and on organizational functioning.
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Dependent Convergence: The Struggle to Control Petrochemical Hazards in Brazil and the United States
Carlos Eduardo Siqueira
Studying the the process of importation of petrochemical hazards and controls by Cetrel, the waste management company for the Camacari Petrochemical Complex, located in Bahia, Brazil.
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Visualizing Technical Information: A Cultural Critique
Lee E. Brasseur
Visualizing Technical Information: A Cultural Critique
demonstrates the ways in which the leading technical visuals of information design—graphs, charts, diagrams, tables, illustrations, and information visualization—are designed and read.
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