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    <subTitle>thirty years of investigation</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Holden, Janice Miner.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>James, Debbie.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Greyson, Bruce.</namePart>
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    <place>
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    <publisher>Praeger Publishers</publisher>
    <dateIssued>c2009</dateIssued>
    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2009</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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    <extent>xv, 316 p. 25 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>The field of near-death studies : past, present, and future / Janice Miner Holden, Bruce Greyson, and Debbie James -- Pleasurable Western adult near-death experiences : features, circumstances, and incidence / Nancy L. Zingrone and Carlos S. Alvarado -- Aftereffects of pleasurable Western adult near-death experiences / Russell Noyes, Jr. ... [et al.] -- Distressing Western near-death experiences : finding a way through the abyss / Nancy Evans Bush -- "Trailing clouds of glory" : the near-death experiences of Western children and teens / Cherie Sutherland -- Characteristics of Western near-death experiencers / Janice Miner Holden, Jeffrey Long, and B. Jason MacLurg -- Census of non-Western near-death experiences to 2005 : observations and critical reflections / Allan Kellehear -- World religions and near-death experiences / Farnaz Masumian -- Veridical perception in near-death experiences / Janice Miner Holden -- Explanatory models for near-death experiences / Bruce Greyson, Emily Williams Kelly, and Edward F. Kelly -- Practical applications of research on near-death experiences / Ryan D. Foster, Debbie James, and Janice Miner Holden.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by Janice Miner Holden, Bruce Greyson, and Debbie James ; foreword by Kenneth Ring.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-302) and indexes.</note>
  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Near-death experiences</topic>
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  <identifier type="isbn">9780313358647 (alk. paper)</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">0313358648 (alk. paper)</identifier>
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