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UNINA9910458773503321 |
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Autore |
Cowling Charles |
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The good funeral guide / / Charles Cowling |
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London ; ; New York : , : Continuum, , [2010] |
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1-282-87398-9 |
9786612873980 |
1-4411-3322-4 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (217 p.) |
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Funeral rites and ceremonies - Great Britain |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 What's in this guide?; 2 Take your time; 3 Take charge; 4 Take stock; 5 Why do we have funerals?; 6 What is a green funeral?; 7 Burial or cremation?; 8 Cremation; 9 Burial; 10 Decision time - burial or cremation?; 11 What happens when we die?; 12 Caring for the body - why would you want to?; 13 Caring for the body - what needs to be done?; 14 Caring for the body - doing it all yourself; 15 Embalming; 16 Going to see someone who has died; 17 Decision time - caring for the body; 18 Style your funeral; 19 The crematorium and other funeral venues |
20 Who will lead the funeral ceremony?21 A life-centred funeral; 22 Do it your way; 23 Can a funeral be fun?; 24 Set your goals; 25 Choose your ingredients; 26 Create a sense of occasion; 27 Who will be the host?; 28 Decision time - celebrant and ceremony; 29 Construct the ceremony; 30 Tribute-writing tips; 31 Funeral food; 32 Funeral directors - what are they like and what do they know?; 33 Should funeral directors be regulated?; 34 Funeral directors - what do they do?; 35 Funeral directors - what do they cost?; 36 Funeral directors - telling them apart |
37 Funeral directors - find out who's out there38 Decision time - buy only what you want; 39 101 coffins and a shroud; 40 Final rides - |
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hearses; 41 Marking the spot - memorials; 42 What to do with the ashes?; 43 What does dying feel like?; 44 Planning your own death and funeral |
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The Good Funeral Guide is the first ever independent consumer guide to the funeral industry. It is for anyone who: - needs to arrange a funeral for someone now - has sick or elderly relatives or friends and knows that a funeral is imminent - wants to find a good funeral director and have some say in the funeral itself - wants to make future arrangements for their own funeral - would like to learn about deaths and funerals Authoritative, impartial and empowering, it is indispensable for those who don't want a conventional religious ceremony and invaluable for those who do. This is a |
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UNISA996466246403316 |
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Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions [[electronic resource] ] : First International Conference, DAPI 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013. Proceedings / / edited by Norbert Streitz, Constantine Stephanidis |
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Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
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[1st ed. 2013.] |
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1 online resource (XXII, 519 p. 231 illus.) |
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Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI ; ; 8028 |
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User interfaces (Computer systems) |
Multimedia systems |
Application software |
Computers |
Education—Data processing |
Information storage and retrieval |
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction |
Media Design |
Computer Applications |
Models and Principles |
Computers and Education |
Information Storage and Retrieval |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Natural interaction -- Context-awareness in smart and intelligent environments -- Design and evaluation of smart and intelligent environments -- Smart cities -- Multi-user group.- Collaborative interaction -- Smart everyday living and working environments. |
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2013, held as part of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, USA in July 2013, jointly with 12 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address the latest research and development efforts and highlight the human aspects of design and use of computing systems. The papers accepted for presentation thoroughly cover the entire field of human-computer interaction, addressing major advances in knowledge and effective use of computers in a variety of application areas. The total of 54 contributions was carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the DAPI proceedings. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: natural interaction; context-awareness in smart and intelligent environments; design and evaluation of smart and intelligent environments; smart cities; multi-user, group and collaborative interaction; smart everyday living and working environments. |
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