{"product_id":"the-unknown-sea-navigating-death-dying-and-bereavement-paperback","title":"The Unknown Sea: Navigating Death, Dying, and Bereavement - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003ePatricia L. Antoine\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unknown Sea: Navigating Death, Dying, and Bereavement\u003c\/i\u003e provides a compact, comprehensive text for studying social attitudes, cultural perspectives, and social-institutional factors associated with death and dying. It explores aspects of end-of-life issues, bereavement, and the afterlife from a teaching perspective, engaging gerontology students at any level of study. This textbook dives deep into the global diversity of grief experiences, something most textbooks neglect. Instead of focusing primarily on the thanatology of a white, middle-class experience, \u003ci\u003eThe Unknown Sea\u003c\/i\u003e centers the many diverse cultural, ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic perspectives that shape the meaning of death across the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSocial Science and Sociology instructors teaching end-of-life and grief subjects often struggle to find a textbook that effectively fits their course due to most books being either too expensive, too large, written for upper-division courses, or poorly designed. \u003ci\u003eThe Unknown Sea\u003c\/i\u003e fills this gap in the published materials currently available, particularly for instructors of introductory or lower-division courses. Students in these courses deserve access to high-quality instructional materials that serve the needs of their instructors' course design and are affordable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Unknown Sea \u003c\/i\u003econtains the following features: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eEleven chapters on the major areas covered in death and dying courses\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExpansive real-world examples centering diverse experiences with death and dying\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMacro and micro analysis of topic and core concepts\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA variety of call-out boxes and sidebars to enhance understanding of difficult or specific topics\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFull-color images and original data visualizations\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter discussion questions, suggested activities, and further reading\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA glossary and index of key terms\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA comprehensive bibliography intended to support assertions in the text and provide an additional reading list\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePatricia Antoine has been teaching Sociology at a community college since 1990. She lives in rural Yamhill County, Oregon, where she tends her small farm and raises honey bees.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 316\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.66 x 9.25 x 7.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53246723981619,"sku":"9781955499316","price":61.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/tIR1e8BW_D9781955499316.webp?v=1776291884","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/the-unknown-sea-navigating-death-dying-and-bereavement-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}