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• Title:[Mort. English]
  Death : the scientific facts to help us understand it better / Richard Béliveau, Denis Gingras.
  
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• Author/Creator:Béliveau, Richard, 1953-
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Gingras, Denis.
  
• Published/Created:Buffalo, N.Y. ; Richmond Hill, Ont. : Firefly Books, 2012.
  

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  • Location:WOODWARD LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QH530 .B4413 2012
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Death (Biology)
  Life (Biology)
  Death--Quotations, maxims, etc.
  Death--Pictorial works.
  
• Medical Subjects: Cause of Death
  
• Genre/Form:Illustrated works.
  
• Description:264 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:A comprehensive examination of that inevitable and universal human experience. To better our understanding of death--and so perhaps fear it less--the book explains the biological processes and the different causes of death, and examines the human perceptions of death throughout history and across cultures.
  
• Notes:Originally published in French under title: La mort.
  Includes bibliographical references (page 257) and index.
  
• ISBN:9781554079964 (pbk.)
  1554079969 (pbk.)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Material Soul
  ch. 2 Dying
  -That's Life!
  ch. 3 Living with the Awareness of Death: Between Hope and Fear
  ch. 4 Wear and Tear of Time
  ch. 5 Dying Little by Little
  ch. 6 Dying from Infections
  ch. 7 Poisons: Fascination and Danger
  ch. 8 Violent Deaths
  ch. 9 Unusual and Dramatic Deaths
  ch. 10 Postmortem Events
  ch. 11 Dying of Laughter.