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  • Invisible Population

    The Place of the Dead in East-Asian Megacities

    by Katsumi Shimane, Fabienne Duteil-Ogata, Maylis Bellocq, Yukihiro Kawaguchi, Elise Prebin, Ryokei Takamura, Kim Shi Dug ...
    The issue of population ageing in East-Asia has been extensively studied but we remain in the dark as to the fate of the region’s growing dead population, particularly in the largest metropolitan areas where there is bitter competition for space among the various human activities. From private cemetery developers to undertakers, not to mention a vast array of sub-contractors, death is discreetly ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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  • The Honourable Company

    by John Keay ...
    A history of the English East India company.During 200 years the East India Company grew from a loose association of Elizabethan tradesmen into "the grandest society of merchants in the universe". As a commercial enterprise it came to control half the world's trade and as a political entity it administered an embryonic empire. Without it there would have been no British India and no British Empire ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Quicksand

    What It Means to Be a Human Being

    by Henning Mankell ...
    A stunning and poignant autobiographical look at the myriad experiences that shape a meaningful life, by the bestselling author of the Kurt Wallander mysteries.“Surely one of the most moving and intriguing farewell notes ever written.... Intensely beautiful in its spirit.” —Alexander McCall Smith, New StatesmanIn January 2014, Henning Mankell received a diagnosis of lung cancer. Quicksand is a ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • The Forgetting

    Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic

    by David Shenk ...
    **NATIONAL BESTSELLERA powerfully engaging, scrupulously researched, and deeply empathetic narrative of the history of Alzheimer’s disease, how it affects us, and the search for a cure.**Afflicting nearly half of all people over the age of 85, Alzheimer’s disease kills nearly 100,000 Americans a year as it insidiously robs them of their memory and wreaks havoc on the lives of their loved ones. It ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • A Concise History of Modern India

    by Barbara D. Metcalf, Thomas R. Metcalf ...
    Series series Cambridge Concise Histories
    A Concise History of Modern India by Barbara D. Metcalf and Thomas R. Metcalf, has become a classic in the field since it was first published in 2001. As a fresh interpretation of Indian history from the Mughals to the present, it has informed students across the world. In the third edition of the book, a final chapter charts the dramatic developments of the last twenty years, from 1990 through ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Long Road Home

    Testimony of a North Korean Camp Survivor

    by Yong Kim ...
    Kim Yong shares his harrowing account of life in a labor camp-a singularly despairing form of torture carried out by the secret state. Although it is known that gulags exist in North Korea, little information is available about their organization and conduct, for prisoners rarely escape both incarceration and the country alive. Long Road Home shares the remarkable story of one such survivor, a ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The History of Bhutan

    by Karma Phuntsho ...
    In 2008, Bhutan triumphantly took the stage as the world’s youngest democracy. But despite its growing prominence—and rising scholarly interest in the country—Bhutan remains one of the least studied, and least well-known places on the planet.Karma Phuntsho’s The History of Bhutan is the first book to offer a comprehensive history of Bhutan in English. Along with a detailed social and political ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • Widow to Widow

    How the Bereaved Help One Another

    by Phyllis R. Silverman ...
    Series series Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement
    Widow to Widow shares the experiences of widows who have found comfort and continuity in mutual-help and community support programs. In the second edition of her pioneering text, Phyllis Silverman brings the success of the original widow-to-widow program into the 21st century, preparing a new generation of community leaders, clergy, counselors, hospice staff, social workers, and the widowed ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • How Ethical Systems Change: Tolerable Suffering and Assisted Dying

    by Sheldon Ekland-Olson, Elyshia Aseltine ...
    Series series Framing 21st Century Social Issues
    Medical advances prolong life. They also sometimes prolong suffering. Should we protect life or alleviate suffering? This dilemma formed the foundation for a powerful right-to-die movement and a counterbalancing concern over an emerging culture of death. What are the qualities of a life worth living? Where are the boundaries of tolerable suffering? This book is based on a hugely popular ... Read more

    $76.94 CAD

  • Voices in the Band

    A Doctor, Her Patients, and How the Outlook on AIDS Care Changed from Doomed to Hopeful

    by Susan C. Ball ...
    Series series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
    "I am an AIDS doctor. When I began that work in 1992, we knew what caused AIDS, how it spread, and how to avoid getting it, but we didn't know how to treat it or how to prevent our patients' seemingly inevitable progression toward death. The stigma that surrounded AIDS patients from the very beginning of the epidemic in the early 1980s continued to be harsh and isolating. People looked askance at ... Read more

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  • Young People's Lives and Sexual Relationships in Rural Africa

    Findings from a Large Qualitative Study in Tanzania

    by Mary Louisa Plummer, Daniel Wight ...
    New infections with HIV remain an urgent problem among young people in Africa, but many young Africans pursue sexual relationships with little thought about the epidemic. This book examines young people's sexual relationships in a region typical of rural sub-Saharan Africa and investigates why the risk of HIV infection generally was not a salient concern for them. It is based on an extraordinarily ... Read more

    $78.99 CAD

  • Inner Sky

    Life Begins Where Resistance Ends

    by Steven Layer ...
    A conversation about resistance...to life's experiences.If I had one afternoon to spend with my friend Lily, just diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, what would I say?I had been where she is now, yet against all the odds found the way to experience a complete and spontaneous healing. The secrets I was shown are the opposite of what society teaches us. This was not a miracle (as it may seem) ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD