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Mortuary Science Books
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Smoke Gets in Your Eyes & Other Lessons from the Crematory (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 107,445 ratings — published 2014
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.06 — 238,149 ratings — published 2003
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.30 — 46,183 ratings — published 2017
Embalming: History, Theory, and Practice (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.31 — 107 ratings — published 1982
Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab the Body Farm Where the Dead Do Tell Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,214 ratings — published 2003
Working Stiff: Two Years, 262 Bodies, and the Making of a Medical Examiner (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.27 — 27,402 ratings — published 2014
The American Way of Death Revisited (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,614 ratings — published 1963
Mortuary Confidential: Undertakers Spill the Dirt (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,402 ratings — published 2018
Grave Matters: A Journey Through the Modern Funeral Industry to a Natural Way of Burial (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.14 — 691 ratings — published 2007
History of Embalming, and of Preparations in Anatomy, Pathology, and Natural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.62 — 13 ratings — published 2007
Pathology and Microbiology for Mortuary Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.86 — 37 ratings — published 2005
Down Among the Dead Men: A Year in the Life of a Mortuary Technician (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,480 ratings — published 2010
Curtains: Adventures of an Undertaker-in-Training (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,068 ratings — published 2010
The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,176 ratings — published 1997
Thanatochemistry: A Survey Of General, Organic, And Biochemistry For Funeral Service Professionals (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.25 — 12 ratings — published 1997
Preserving the Dead: The Art and Science of Embalming (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.43 — 7 ratings — published
All the Living and the Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 12,258 ratings — published 2022
Past Mortems: Life and Death Behind Mortuary Doors (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,505 ratings — published 2017
Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? And Other Questions About Dead Bodies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 47,333 ratings — published 2019
Over Our Dead Bodies: Undertakers Lift the Lid (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.54 — 872 ratings — published 2014
Considering a Career in Mortuary Science (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.40 — 5 ratings — published 1995
The American Way of Death (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.98 — 580 ratings — published 1963
The Art and Science of Embalming: Descriptive and Operative (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.83 — 6 ratings — published 2010
Cemetery Stories: Haunted Graveyards, Embalming Secrets, and the Life of a Corpse After Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.79 — 627 ratings — published 2001
Choosing a Career in Mortuary Science and the Funeral Industry (World of Work)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.18 — 11 ratings — published 2001
Mortuary Science: A Sourcebook (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.86 — 7 ratings — published 1993
Morgue: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.85 — 2,994 ratings — published 2016
The Principles and Practice of Embalming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published 1967
Tales from the Morgue: Forensic Answers to Nine Famous Cases Including The Scott Peterson & Chandra Levy Cases (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.93 — 429 ratings — published 2005
Death and the Afterlife: A Chronological Journey, from Cremation to Quantum Resurrection (Union Square & Co. Chronologies)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.82 — 913 ratings — published 2015
After We Die: The Life and Times of the Human Cadaver (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.17 — 29 ratings — published 2010
All That Remains: A Life in Death (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,395 ratings — published 2018
You Died: An Anthology of the Afterlife (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.82 — 697 ratings — published 2020
Talking About Death Won't Kill You: The Essential Guide to End-of-Life Conversations (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.07 — 135 ratings — published 2018
Final Arrangements 101: How and Why to Plan A Meaningful Funeral or Memorial Service, Before It's Too Late (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.75 — 4 ratings — published
At Peace: Choosing a Good Death After a Long Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.25 — 208 ratings — published
Confessions of a Funeral Director: How the Business of Death Saved My Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.76 — 2,572 ratings — published 2017
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.41 — 792,702 ratings — published 2016
The Work of the Dead: A Cultural History of Mortal Remains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.95 — 172 ratings — published 2015
The Good Death: An Exploration of Dying in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.81 — 635 ratings — published 2016
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.15 — 78,672 ratings — published 2014
Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures & Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.54 — 839 ratings — published 2013
Final Rights: Reclaiming the American Way of Death (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.12 — 104 ratings — published 2011
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.13 — 798,220 ratings — published 2010
Dissection: Photographs of a Rite of Passage in American Medicine 1880-1930 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.41 — 123 ratings — published 2009
The Five People You Meet in Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.01 — 795,256 ratings — published 2003
Coffinman: The Journal of a Buddhist Mortician (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.77 — 151 ratings — published 1996
Driving with Dead People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 3.86 — 5,940 ratings — published 2007
Mütter Museum: Historic Medical Photographs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.32 — 691 ratings — published 2007
Sleeping Beauty II: Grief, Bereavement in Memorial Photography American and European Traditions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as mortuary-science)
avg rating 4.61 — 71 ratings — published 2002
