Modern Death: How Medicine Changed the End of Life [1 ed.] 1250104580, 9781250104588

Death Interrupted: How Modern Medicine Is Complicating the Way We Die 9781487008543

NATIONAL BESTSELLER In Death Interrupted, ICU doctor Blair Bigham shares his first-hand experiences of how medicine ha

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The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad's Life and the Beginnings of Islam 9780812205138

Stephen J. Shoemaker investigates contradictory traditions about the end of Muhammad's life in the Islamic and non-

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Women in White Coats: How the First Women Doctors Changed the World of Medicine 9781488073922

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Death of the Moguls: The End of Classical Hollywood 9780813553788

Death of the Moguls is a detailed assessment of the last days of the “rulers of film.” Wheeler Winston Dixon examines th

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How the Mind Changed 9780316424974

  The extraordinary story of how the human brain evolved… and is still evolving. We’ve come a long way. The earliest hum

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End of Its Rope: How Killing the Death Penalty Can Revive Criminal Justice 9780674981959

Today, death sentences in the U.S. are as rare as lethal lightning strikes. Brandon Garrett shows us the reasons why, an

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Visitors at the End of Life: Finding Meaning and Purpose in Near-Death Phenomena 0231182147, 9780231182140

About 30 percent of hospice patients report a "visitation" by someone who is not there, a phenomenon known in

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Regulating the End of Life: Death Rights [1 ed.] 9780367333539, 9781032073293, 9780429329739

Death Rights is a collection of cutting-edge chapters on assisted dying and euthanasia, written by leading authors in th

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Smuggler's End: The Life and Death of Barry Seal 9781455621019, 9781455621002

Adler Berriman "Barry” Seal had a brief, but spectacular, career as a cocaine smuggler-turned DEA informant. At the

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How Ronald Reagan Changed My Life 0060524006, 9780060524005, 9780061581489

As a young speechwriter in the Reagan White House, Peter Robinson was responsible for the celebrated ''Mr. Gor

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