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What is Death?
Tyler Volk / $19.57
What Is Death? examines the phenomenon of death from organic, personal, and social points of view. It sheds light upon the life spans of creatures and the role of cell death in bodily health; contemplates the links among the personal confrontation with death, our brain, and consciousness; and probes the customs and rituals that surround death in various cultures.
By illustrating how death is integral to life at every scale, What Is Death? will enable those who embrace its vision to live more vigorous, loving, and meaningful lives. This engrossing look into the mysteries of existence offers immensely rewarding reading to anyone who seeks a deeper understanding of the one universal fact of life: death.
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The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging
Olshansky & Carnes / $18.17
"The Quest for Immortality is one of the few books that will give you the facts about human longevity.
Jay Olshanksy and Bruce Carnes, two of our best informed biodemographers, reveal the fascinating true
story of human aging in plain English and with wit and clarity."
- Leonard Hayflick (UC San Francisco,
Author of How and Why We Age)
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The Happiness Project
Ron Leifer /
$10.47
Dr. Leifer, a psychiatrist and friend of Ernest Becker, borrows from his Buddhist practice and his
clinical experience to offer profound insights into the sources of
anxiety and depression in the West. He makes a compelling case that
the projects we develop to make us happy become the sources of our
unhappiness. Meditation can help reduce the three "poisons"
that make us miserable--desire, aversion, and ignorance.
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The Protean Self
Robert Jay Lifton / $12.00
In this powerful statement about human resilience, Robert Jay Lifton examines our current world, one marked
by breathtaking historical change and instantaneous global communication, and explains how individuals and
communities change in the face of crisis.
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A Grief Observed
C.S. Lewis / $9.00
C.S. Lewis joined the human race when his wife, Joy Gresham, died of cancer. Lewis, the Oxford don whose
Christian apologetics make it seem like he's got an answer for everything, experienced crushing doubt for
the first time after his wife's tragic death. This is the book that inspired the film Shadowlands, but it
is more wrenching, more revelatory, and more real than the movie. It is a beautiful and unflinchingly honest
record of how even a stalwart believer can lose all sense of meaning in the universe, and how he can
gradually regain his bearings.
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The Oxford Book of Death
Edited by D.J. Enright / $30.00
By turns poignant, tragic, comic, and inspiring, this anthology of thoughts about death ranges from ancient times to the present day--including almost 900 selections by poets, novelists, philosophers, scientists, and common people. Arranged under headings such as "Love," "War," "Last Words," and "Children," these selections show the varied, sometimes surprising, reactions of the dying and the bereaved to the final human act.
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