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How To Mellify A Corpse is a field trip to a long-ago world filled with superstition, science, and the folks who believed in both. Its 88 lively chapters explore offbeat topics, from high-tech superships to honey embalming, from stench wars to early werewolves.
Booklist calls it “an endlessly fascinating book, full of things that are shocking, unsettling, and just plain weird.”
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This brand-new compendium bursts with the true tales of 200-plus women with attitude to spare. Women who gambled on themselves as pirates, philosophers, pharoahs, ferryboat operators, and more. Chosen from the best and boldest female achievers in her four-book Uppity Women series, time-traveling author Vicki León takes you from ancient Egypt, Asia, and Europe through medieval and
Renaissance times, then surveys the Old and New Worlds from colonial times through the 1800s. Newly updated and illustrated, 4000 Years of Uppity Women is a budget hardcover—as well as a witty and well-researched history.
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