This topical collection of eleven commissioned essays by well-established contributors from socio...

The taboo on death is at last breaking down. There is far greater receptivity to informed discuss...

Focusing on the institutions and players of central and local government during an era of great t...

The emergence of spirituality in contemporary culture in holistic forms suggests that organised r...

Death in England provides the first ever social history of death from the earliest times 500,000 ...

For the past twenty years, Scottish death culture has emerged as a focus of scholars drawn from a...

This collection of thirteen specially commissioned essays expands a new intellectual terrain for ...

Focusing on the institutions and players of central and local government during an era of great t...

This is the first full-length biography of the man who, through a combination of industry and int...

The emergence of spirituality in contemporary culture in holistic forms suggests that organised r...

The second edition of From Dust to Ashes brings up-to-date this classic text investigating the re...