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The Katha Upanishad (Sacred Wisdom)
Anonymous
Studio, 2001
Beautifully translated
+ A dialogue with death
I was visiting a used bookstore with a friend when this book caught my attention. I immediately purchased it and read it. Its a small book - 61 pages total, interlaced with beautiful Indian miniature paintings. The author clarifies all uncertain/difficult translations in the introduction - for ...
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The Loneliness of the Dying
Norbert Elias
Blackwell Pub, 1985
care with love
As a caregiver I found this book to be a very worthwhile read. The necessity of the human touch to counter the cold, antiseptic clinical care that is given in our "modern" health care facilities is something that our health professionals should be taught.
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Civilization and Its Discontents
Sigmund Freud, Peter Gay
W. W. Norton & Company, 1989
Freud's Politics
+ thx
+ "No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such."
+ good stuff
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Life Against Death: The Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
Norman O. Brown
Wesleyan University Press, 1959
Inspiring Psychoanalytical Meaning of History
+ A Psychoanalytic Interpretation of Culture
+ Controversial, insightful, and a bit over the top
+ well done
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Death in Banaras (Lewis Henry Morgan Lectures)
Jonathan P. Parry
Cambridge University Press, 1995
As a place to die, to dispose of the physical remains of the deceased and to perform the rites that ensure that the departed attains a "good state" after death, the north Indian city of Banaras attracts pilgrims and mourners from all over the Hindu world. This book is primarily about the priests and other kinds of "sacred specialists" who serve them, about the way in which they organize their ...
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The Gift of Death (Religion and Postmodernism Series)
Jacques Derrida
University Of Chicago Press, 1996
Responsibility?
+ RESUMPTION
Deconstruction is a deceptively useful philosophical device. However, this usefulness is severely limited. Deconstruction can present no positive conclusions. All it can do is show the fallibility of any attempt at such certain knowledge, primarily by exposing the inadequacy of language, a ...
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On Death and Dying
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Scribner, 1997
I was Wrong!
+ On Death and Dying
+ An Important Book
+ An extremely valuable resource
+ The Queen of Death
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying: The Spiritual Classic & International Bestseller; Revised and Updated ...
Sogyal Rinpoche, Patrick D. Gaffney, ...
HarperOne, 1994
"In the ground of primordial perfection, attain nirvana"
+ Insightful, Inspiring, and Enlightening
+ Breaking down the barriers of mind
+ Fantastic
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead (The Great Book of Natural Liberation Through Understanding in the Between)
Bantam Books, Inc., 1993
Tibet's gift to the world, presented by Robert Thurman
+ Scholarship meets practice from a professor-adept
+ A thoughtful read
This book is an atlas. It is a valuable friend that will do more than save your life, it will alter your destiny beyond life as well. It is an essential guidebook for every voyager through life, death and rebirth. Inside are complete instructions to recognize every "in between state" and how to use ...
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Death in Venice
Thomas Mann, 2004
A New Translation: DEATH IN VENICE more radiant than ever!
+ A Plague on Both City and Artist
+ transcendant translation
+ A 21st Century Facelift For a Classic (Ink Fresh But Dried)
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The Hour of Our Death (Oxford Paperbacks)
Philippe Aries
Oxford University Press, USA, 1991
Truly an amazing work
+ Previewing Mortality
+ Death in Western History
I have been a nurse for over 20 years and coached a lot of dying patients and familys.
I also am a history buff and this work bring the two together.
Why are my modern christian patients so afraid of death? why am I,the semi pagen, so unafraid?
A most incredible book, overlooked....
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Life and Death in Psychoanalysis
Jean Laplanche
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985
Important Work on Freud
French Psychoanalyst and student of Lacan attempts to reconcile a number of crucial contradictions in Freud's oeuvre in this complex and important text. He deals primarily with temporal perspectives on issues such as masochism and sadomasochism, the ego and narcissism, seduction theory, and most ...
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The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
Free Press, 1997
Insightful, brilliant, clearly written, easy to digest, hard to stop thinking about
+ One of the Most Intriguing Books Ever
+ A Soul Centering Work
+ Short review
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Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson
Mitch Albom
Broadway, 2002
Life lessons to learn
+ well....
+ A Must Read!
+ Tuesdays with Morrie, Daily Life Lessons
+ Living in times of financial and political changes
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Plagues and Peoples
William H. McNeill
Anchor, 1998
Amazing How a Few Invisible Germs Changed the World
+ Foundational Study of Parasitism
+ Good book great price
+ Bio-Materialist History
+ Bugs, germs and parasites
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