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  • Why We Die

    The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality

    par Venki Ramakrishnan ...
    "Utterly fascinating." —Bill Bryson"An incredible journey." —Siddhartha Mukherjee*WINNER OF THE 2025 ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN PUBLISHERS PROSE AWARD FOR BEST BOOK ON BIOLOGY**2025 NAUTILUS BOOK AWARDS GOLD WINNER FOR SCIENCE AND COSMOLOGY*A groundbreaking exploration of the science of longevity and mortality—from Nobel Prize-winning molecular biologist Venki Ramakrishnan... ... En savoir plus

    7,38 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Year of Magical Thinking

    par Joan Didion ...
    From one of America's iconic writers, a portrait of a marriage and a life – in good times and bad – that will speak to anyone who has ever loved a husband or wife or child. A stunning book of electric honesty and passion.Joan Didion explores an intensely personal yet universal experience: several days before Christmas 2003, John Gregory Dunne and Joan Didion saw their only daughter, Quintana, fall ... En savoir plus

    6,39 €

  • The Girls in the Glen

    An unputdownable Scottish mystery

    par Lynne McEwan ...
    Collection Livre 3 - Detective Shona Oliver
    'A thrilling new voice in Scottish fiction' Marion ToddIf the dead could speak, what secrets would they tell?With her daughter on an archaeological dig, the only bodies DI Shona Oliver expects to find are long-dead. But when a corpse from the 1980s is unearthed, Shona quickly realises that it may be one of the missing "Girls in the Glen", victim of a notorious serial killer.Shona's superiors want ... En savoir plus

    5,99 €

  • Why We Die

    The groundbreaking must-read exploration of longevity from Nobel Prize-winning biologist and trusted expert

    par Venki Ramakrishnan ...
    The unmissable account of how science can help us live better and longer - loved by Bill Bryson, Stephen Fry, Siddhartha Mukherjee and more'Changed my perspective on the whole living world' - Chris Van TullekenWe are living through an exciting revolution in biology. Giant strides are being made in our understanding of why we age, and why some species live longer than others. Will we soon be able ... En savoir plus

    Avant 6,49 € Après 0,99 €

  • Veronika Decides to Die

    par Paulo Coelho ...
    Traduit par Margaret Jull Costa ...
    A novel from internationally acclaimed author Paulo Coelho – a dramatic story of love, life and death that shows us all why every second of our existence is a choice we all make between living and dying.Veronika has everything she could wish for. She is young and pretty, has plenty of boyfriends, a steady job, a loving family. Yet she is not happy; something is lacking in her life, and one morning ... En savoir plus

    6,69 €

  • Holding Space

    On Loving, Dying, and Letting Go

    par Amy Wright Glenn ...
    A hospital chaplain reflects on grief and loss, mindfulness and healing, in this “beautifully written” meditation on the spiritual, emotional, and philosophical implications of end-of-life care (Jan Chozen Bays, author of Mindfulness on the Go)As a hospital chaplain, Amy Wright Glenn has been present with those suffering from suicide, trauma, disease, and unforeseen accidents and has been witness ... En savoir plus

    10,70 €

  • Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs?

    And Other Questions About Dead Bodies

    par Caitlin Doughty ...
    Can we give Grandma a Viking funeral?Why don't animals dig up all the graves?Will my hair keep growing in my coffin after I'm buried?Every day, funeral director Caitlin Doughty receives dozens of questions about death. Here she offers her factual, hilarious and candid answers to thirty-five of the most interesting, sharing the lore and science of what happens to, and inside, our bodies after we ... En savoir plus

    3,99 €

  • Words for a Dying World

    Stories of Grief and Courage from the Global Church

    Modifié par Malcolm ...
    How do we talk about climate grief in the church? And when we have found the words, what do we do with that grief? There is a sudden and dramatic rise in people experiencing a profound sense of anxiety in the face of our dying planet, and a consequent need for churches to be better resourced pastorally and theologically to deal with this threat. Words for a Dying World brings together voices from ... En savoir plus

    17,09 €

  • Life After Death

    A History of the Afterlife in Western Religion

    par Alan Segal ...
    A magisterial work of social history, Life After Death illuminates the many different ways ancient civilizations grappled with the question of what exactly happens to us after we die.In a masterful exploration of how Western civilizations have defined the afterlife, Alan F. Segal weaves together biblical and literary scholarship, sociology, history, and philosophy. A renowned scholar, Segal ... En savoir plus

    9,98 €

  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes

    And Other Lessons from the Crematorium

    par Caitlin Doughty ...
    THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'Unforgettable . . . a hilarious, poignant and impassioned plea to revolutionise our attitudes to death' Gavin Francis, GuardianFrom her first day at Westwind Cremation & Burial, twenty-three-year-old Caitlin Doughty threw herself into her curious new profession. Coming face-to-face with the very thing we go to great lengths to avoid thinking about she started to ... En savoir plus

    8,74 €

  • Blink of an Eye

    A gripping crime thriller with an unforgettable detective duo

    par Louisa Scarr ...
    Collection Livre 3 - Butler & West
    Five friends meet. Only four come home.On Christmas morning, DS Robin Butler has no plans to celebrate. He'll be glad to get back to work a wish that comes true sooner than he anticipates. A dog walker at a local beach has discovered five unresponsive people strewn across the shingle. By the time Robin arrives, one is pronounced dead, and the other four are being treated in hospital.DC Freya West ... En savoir plus

    Avant 4,49 € Après 3,49 €

  • The Worm at the Core

    On the Role of Death in Life

    par Sheldon Solomon, Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski ...
    Proof of a ground-breaking psychological theory: that the fear of death is the hidden motive behind almost everything we do.'A joy ... The Worm at the Core asks how humans can learn to live happily while being intelligently aware of our impending doom, how knowledge of death affects the decisions we make every day, and how we can stop fear and anxiety overwhelming us' Charlotte Runcie, Daily ... En savoir plus

    9,49 €

  • Being Mortal

    Medicine and What Matters in the End

    par Atul Gawande ...
    **#1 New York Times BestsellerIn Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul Gawande tackles the hardest challenge of his profession: how medicine can not only improve life but also the process of its ending**Medicine has triumphed in modern times, transforming birth, injury, and infectious disease from harrowing to manageable. But in the inevitable condition of aging and death, the goals of medicine ... En savoir plus

    8,95 €

  • Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave

    My Cemetery Journeys

    par Mariana Enriquez ...
    Traduit par Megan McDowell ...
    An enchanting, highly personal tour of some of the most iconic cemeteries of the world—part travelogue, part memoir, part “excursions through death,” by the author of Our Share of Night and “queen of horror” (Los Angeles Times)**“Not a travelogue so much as a grave-a-logue, Somebody is Walking on Your Grave is an exuberant, witty wander among the dead. You could not have a better friend to take ... En savoir plus

    9,98 €

  • Early Cremation Ceremonies of the Luiseño and Diegueño Indians of Southern California

    par Edward H. Davis ...
    Edward Davis takes you on a journey to explore some of the most interesting traditions of the Native American people.In an attempt from the author to preserve the culture, he details the ancient practice of cremation held by two tribes. In this very short read, you'll discover the unusual intricacies of burying the dead among Native Americans, and how some men seemingly came back to life!Davis ... En savoir plus

    8,85 €

  • Time and Death

    Heidegger's Analysis of Finitude

    par Carol J. White, edited by Mark Ralkowski ...
    Collection series Intersections: Continental and Analytic Philosophy
    In Time and Death Carol White articulates a vision of Martin Heidegger's work which grows out of a new understanding of what he was trying to address in his discussion of death. Acknowledging that the discussion of this issue in Heidegger's major work Being and Time is often far from clear, White presents a new interpretation of Heidegger which short-circuits many of the traditional criticisms. ... En savoir plus

    66,25 €

  • How Non-being Haunts Being

    On Possibilities, Morality, and Death Acceptance

    par Corey Anton ...
    Collection series The Fairleigh Dickinson University Press Series in Communication Studies
    How Non-being Haunts Being reveals how the human world is not reducible to “what is.” Human life is an open expanse of “what was” and “what will be,” “what might be” and “what should be.” It is a world of desires, dreams, fictions, historical figures, planned events, spatial and temporal distances, in a word, absent presences and present absences.Corey Anton draws upon and integrates thinkers such ... En savoir plus

    30,58 €

  • Facing Death

    Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves

    Modifié par Sarah K. Pinnock ...
    Collection series Stephen S. Weinstein Series in Post-Holocaust Studies
    What do we learn about death from the Holocaust and how does it impact our responses to mortality today?Facing Death: Confronting Mortality in the Holocaust and Ourselves brings together the work of eleven Holocaust and genocide scholars who address these difficult questions, convinced of the urgency of further reflection on the Holocaust as the last survivors pass away. The volume is distinctive ... En savoir plus

    27,39 €

  • Deathscapes

    Spaces for Death, Dying, Mourning and Remembrance

    par James D. Sidaway ...
    Death is at once a universal and everyday, but also an extraordinary experience in the lives of those affected. Death and bereavement are thereby intensified at (and frequently contained within) certain sites and regulated spaces, such as the hospital, the cemetery and the mortuary. However, death also affects and unfolds in many other spaces: the home, public spaces and places of worship, sites ... En savoir plus

    65,07 €

  • Morir en Buenos Aires

    Sensibilidades y actitudes ante la muerte en el Río de la Plata (1770-1822)

    par Facundo Roca ...
    Collection series Paradigma indicial
    Este libro analiza las formas de sentir y experimentar la muerte en el contexto de la sociedad rioplatense tardo-colonial y post-revolucionaria, así como las transformaciones en las actitudes y sensibilidades religiosas a lo largo de ese período transicional.¿Qué representaba la muerte para un porteño de fines del siglo XVIII? ¿De qué forma se la percibía y se la experimentaba? ¿Cómo se preparaba ... En savoir plus

    7,49 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Exceso de muerte

    De la peste de Atenas a la covid-19

    par Armando Bartra ...
    Collection Livre 614 - Breviarios
    Armando Bartra realiza un recorrido por la historia de las epidemias, sus contextos socioculturales y la forma de afrontarlas, que culmina en la actual pandemia de Covid-19. La obra recopila testimonios históricos y literarios mediante los cuales hace una reflexión profunda sobre la crisis de la modernidad en la que nos encontramos, caracterizada por, además de la pandemia, el cambio climático, la ... En savoir plus

    2,49 € ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Adventures of the Terminally Ill

    par Rebecca Burg ...
    Written by a hospice patient, this book's intention is to illuminate death; a touchy subject usually avoided in our society. Confronted with the advanced stages of an aggressive form of breast cancer, Rebecca was no longer able to continue the productive path she'd enjoyed while healthy. Death's proximity demanded a new approach to life. Disappointed but determined, the author engaged in ... En savoir plus

    Gratuit

  • Traveling Together to a New America

    par James Hilgendorf ...
    In December, 2020, Elizabeth, my wife of 50 years, passed away after struggling for two years with pancreatic cancer and stroke. During this time, the pandemic was raging, and America was struggling to salvage its very identity and survival.A time of deep transformation. What's the way forward?In response to all this, I wrote a book - "Capricorn & Cancer" - to confront the heart of death itself - ... En savoir plus

    8,49 €

  • Nostalgia, Religion and Popular Culture

    Rethinking the Sacred and the Secular through the Death of Queen Elizabeth II

    par Chris Deacy ...
    Drawing on the event of Queen Elizabeth II's death in 2022 as a central case study, this book explores the way we navigate the relationship between nostalgia and religion.Focusing on the lived experiences of 'ordinary people' and in tandem with the 'turn to the self' discourse, Deacy suggests that our relationship with nostalgia illustrates the shift from objective and transcendent value-systems ... En savoir plus

    80,54 €