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Life, Illness, and Death in Contemporary South Asia
This book explores the experiential and affective dimensions of structural transformation in South Asia through contemporary and historical accounts of life, ageing, illness, and …
Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, and the Dance of Death
This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its appeal and its significance, …
African Ethics and Death
This book analyzes the concepts of moral status and human dignity in African philosophy and applies them to the moral problems associated with death.The book first challenges the …
Cultural studies on death and dying in Scandinavia
Death has been a major theme in the author's cultural science research during the first decade of this century. In this book he has assembled partial results, previously presented …
Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Damages Calculations
The volume focuses on litigation damages, economic and non-economic, including punitive damages; their definitions, calculations, and assignments in the US and EU. The objective is …
Island of Death: A New Key to Easter Island's Culture Through an Ethno-Psychological Study
Island of Death: A New Key to Easter Island's Culture Through an Ethno-Psychological Study by Werner Wolff is a comprehensive book that explores the culture and history of Easter …
Studies in Contemporary Jewry: Volume XIV: Coping with Life and Death: Jewish Families in the Twentieth Century
How has the Jewish family changed over the course of the twentieth century? How has it remained the same? How do Jewish families see themselves--historically, socially, …
Death or Deliverance
Soldiers found guilty of desertion or cowardice during the Great War faced death by firing squad. Novels, histories, movies, and television series often depict courts martial as …
Border Deaths at Sea under the Right to Life in the European Convention on Human Rights
This book focuses on border deaths at sea. It unravels how the interplay of the law of the sea and rules on jurisdiction widen the opportunity for states to make and enforce rules …
Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud
The cultural ideal of motherhood in Victorian Britain seems to be undermined by Victorian novels, which almost always represent mothers as incapacitated, abandoning, or dead. …
Life, Death and Representation
This volume presents a collection of essays on different aspects of Roman sarcophagi. These varied approaches will produce fresh insights into a subject which is receiving …
The Many Deaths of Tsar Nicholas II
How did Nicholas II, Russia’s last Tsar, meet his death? Shot point blank in a bungled execution by radical Bolsheviks in the Urals, Nicholas and his family disappeared from …