This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it. Taking central themes like characterization, death, and the gods, the author argues that current ideas of the limitations of "oral poetry" are unreal, and that Homer embodies a view of the world both unique and profo...(展开全部)

This book demonstrates how Homeric poetry manages to confer significance on persons and actions, interpreting the world and the lives of the people who inhabit it. Taking central themes like characterization, death, and the gods, the author argues that current ideas of the limitations of "oral poetry" are unreal, and that Homer embodies a view of the world both unique and profo...(展开全部)

One of the most famous psychological studies of the late twentieth century, "On Death and Dying" grew out of an interdisciplinary seminar on death, originated and conducted by Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross. In "On Death and Dying, " Dr. Kubler-Ross first introduced and explored the now-famous idea of the five stages of dealing with death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, de...(展开全部)

Denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. The five stages of grief, first formulated in this hugely influential work forty years ago, are now part of our common understanding of bereavement. The five stages were first identified by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross in her work with dying patients at the University of Chicago and were considered phases that all or most people we...(展开全部)

One of the most important psychological studies of the late twentieth century, On Death and Dying grew out of Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's famous interdisciplinary seminar on death, life, and transition. In this remarkable book, Dr. Kübler-Ross first explored the now-famous five stages of death: denial and isolation, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance. Through sampl...(展开全部)

查尔斯·科尔（Charles A.Corr）博士自1975年开始便在南伊利诺伊大学教授死亡与临终、儿童与死亡等课程。1978年。他成为死亡教育与咨询协会成员，及美国国家临终关怀及姑息治疗组织成员。科尔博士还是死亡、临终和悲痛事务国际工作组前主席和常任理事。 目前，他还是佛罗里达阳光海岸安养协会的董事会成员。这个协会是美国国家安养与照护组织中儿童安养照护服务的首席咨询机构，同时还是国家捐献者家庭理事会执行委员会成员。他的著作包括36本书和手册，例如《帮助儿童应对死亡：指导和资料》、《儿童与死亡》、《青少年与死亡》、《青少年的死亡与悲痛手册》等。 科尔博士的工作得到了死亡教育与咨询协会的认可，并被授予杰出个人贡献奖（1988）；国际儿童安养组织授予他世界儿童安养工作杰出贡献奖（1989）；之后他还获得了创立查尔斯·科尔基金的终身成就奖（1995）等等。 ...(展开全部)

The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about leaving the bodies where they could not be recovered, rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate expedition far below. They stared at the frozen corpse, stunned. They said nothing...(展开全部)

The Sherpas were dead, two more victims of an attempt to scale Mt. Everest. Members of a French climbing expedition, sensitive perhaps about leaving the bodies where they could not be recovered, rolled them off a steep mountain face. One body, however, crashed to a stop near Sherpas on a separate expedition far below. They stared at the frozen corpse, stunned. They said nothing...(展开全部)

Brilliant brothers Langley and Homer Collyer are born into bourgeois New York comfort in settled times, their home a fin-de-siecle mansion on upper Fifth Avenue, their future rosy. But before he is out of his teens Homer begins to lose his sight, Langley returns from the War in Europe with his lungs seared by gas, and when the death of their parents in the influenza epidemic of...(展开全部)