Böcker av Paul C. Rosenblatt

It is often convenient to assume that grief is a basic human process, akin to breathing, sleeping, or walking.

Engaging with novels written by African American authors, this volume explores their rich depictions of African American family life, showing how these can contribute to our sociological knowledge and making the case for the novel as an object and source of social research. As such.

Based on intensive interviews of 29 couples who experienced the death of a child, this book offers perspectives and advice on common marital problems experienced by bereaved parents. Although the book deals with pain and marital distress, it offers a message of hope.

Explores what couple and individual stories say and do not say about the child's dying and death and about parent grief. The author uses narratives as his tool for the introduction and exploration of the many facets of parental grief.

Offering guidance on how to recommence a stalled project across a broad group of disciplines, this informative text addresses common reasons why projects become stalled and what researchers and students of all levels can do to resume a research project.