{"title":"Junger, Sebastian","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"in-my-time-of-dying-how-i-came-face-to-face-with-the-idea-of-an-afterlife-sebastian-junger-hardcover","title":"In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife -- Sebastian Junger, Hardcover","description":"\u003cb\u003eA near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death--and what might follow--by the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eTribe\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Perfect Storm.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFor years as an award-winning war reporter, Sebastian Junger traveled to many front lines and frequently put his life at risk. And yet the closest he ever came to death was the summer of 2020 while spending a quiet afternoon at the New England home he shared with his wife and two young children. Crippled by abdominal pain, Junger was rushed to the hospital by ambulance. Once there, he began slipping away. As blackness encroached, he was visited by his dead father, inviting Junger to join him. \"It's okay,\" his father said. \"There's nothing to be scared of. I'll take care of you.\" That was the last thing Junger remembered until he came to the next day when he was told he had suffered a ruptured aneurysm that he should not have survived. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis experience spurred Junger--a confirmed atheist raised by his physicist father to respect the empirical--to undertake a scientific, philosophical, and deeply personal examination of mortality and what happens after we die. How do we begin to process the brutal fact that any of us might perish unexpectedly on what begins as an ordinary day? How do we grapple with phenomena that science may be unable to explain? And what happens to a person, emotionally and spiritually, when forced to reckon with such existential questions? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eIn My Time of Dying\u003c\/i\u003e is part medical drama, part searing autobiography, and part rational inquiry into the ultimate unknowable mystery.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sebastian Junger\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/21\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.70lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.95h x 5.35w x 0.63d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781668050835\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/11\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2024 pg. 12","brand":"Junger, Sebastian","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45547752423652,"sku":"9781668050835","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/71VF0qRSCuL.jpg?v=1724169000"},{"product_id":"tribe-on-homecoming-and-belonging-sebastian-junger-hardcover","title":"Tribe: On Homecoming and Belonging -- Sebastian Junger, Hardcover","description":"We have a strong instinct to belong to small groups defined by clear purpose and understanding--tribes. This tribal connection has been largely lost in modern society, but regaining it may be the key to our psychological survival. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Decades before the American Revolution, Benjamin Franklin lamented that English settlers were constantly fleeing over to the Indians-but Indians almost never did the same. Tribal society has been exerting an almost gravitational pull on Westerners for hundreds of years, and the reason lies deep in our evolutionary past as a communal species. The most recent example of that attraction is combat veterans who come home to find themselves missing the incredibly intimate bonds of platoon life. 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