Are all modern countries similar? How important are culture, the physical environment, national histories, national laws and institutions, and globalization? This is the first book to look at how all these different factors shape death and dying in the modern world. ...
Bringing together a wider range of resources and contexts, Tony Walter’s “Death in the Modern World” offers a refreshing account of the variable effects of modernity on death ways. Stepping the reader through social factors (like money, war and religion) that shape the organisation and experi...
powerful portrait of nineteenth-century transformations in responses to death and mourning, of the introduction of the government and the market into burial practices, and of the evolution of our current understanding of a "good death." ... AS Greenberg - 《Civil War History》 被引量: 23发表...
A language not on the Internet is a language that “no longer exists” in the modern world. It is out of the game. The serious effects of the death of languages are clear. First of all, it is possible that if we ended up speaking the same language, our brains would lose some of ...
"Death World" is a zombie anthology film of 3 stories. "The Fittest" is about college students surviving, "Lifeline" takes place in a zip-lane park, and "Reflex Action" is about a security guard driving a VIP to her concert. Director Curtis Everitt Writer Curtis Everitt Producer ...
The furthest distance in the world, not a life and death when But I stand in front of you but I was standing in front of you, I love you! 翻译结果5复制译文编辑译文朗读译文返回顶部 The furthest distance in the world, is not lives with dead But when I stand in front of you But is...
In modern history, there has perhaps never been a scientist as well-known as Stephen Hawking. Whether he was educating the world with his knowledge of the universe(宇宙), or making fun of himself in TV shows like The Simpsons, it’s hard to imagine what the world will be like but now...
Death is the protagonist of Darksiders II. Death is the leader and most powerful of the Four Horsemen. He is the eldest and currently the most powerful of the surviving Nephilim ever since he and the other Horsemen carried out the extermination of the re
Death Ship: Directed by Alvin Rakoff. With George Kennedy, Richard Crenna, Nick Mancuso, Sally Ann Howes. A mysterious ghostly freighter rams and sinks a modern day cruise ship whose survivors climb aboard the freighter and discover that it is a World Wa
While dramatic representations of death abound in the media (Mcllwain, 2005), more mundane, ‘natural’ deaths are not commonplace, reflecting the media’s preoccupation with events of which people have little to no experience (Chapman and Lupton,...