
How to Mellify a Corpse
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A feast for the curious mind, How to Mellify a Corpse is not only for those with an interest in the experimental: it's for anyone who's inspired by the imagination and ingenuity humanity uses to understand our world.
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- Cover
- Title Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Confidential to Readers
- Introduction
- Section I Athens & Attica
- Make mine hemlock
- Calendar wars
- The science of seeing
- The whole nine cubits
- Far-from-cynical soul mates
- The lost art of enthusiasm
- Meteorology-mad botanist
- He gave physics weight
- Why ancient forests fell
- River of heaven
- Star struck
- Another kind of lunacy
- How to birth a bouncing boy
- Section II Greece & the Greek Islands
- Hellas, land of the undead
- The first surround sound
- Wired for heavenly tunes
- Philosophical fava phobia
- Inventing the atom, splitting the credit
- Necromancing the stone
- Rail service, minus the trains
- Daring drillers
- Recycling colossal war toys
- Airborne hits and misses
- User-friendly, way back when
- Which way to the pearly gates?
- Dueling domains of Hades
- No matter how weird, just do it
- Section III Asia Minor & the Middle East
- The dark heart of change
- Torch song for marble mansions
- Levitation can be electrifying
- An up-and-down proposition
- Not easily eclipsed
- Girly men and contact highs
- Gold-guarding griffins to dinosaurs
- Stealth bombs, stench warfare
- The citizen who barked at the world
- Rogue reincarnator
- Set free by Stoicism
- Incense OPEC
- Hard-to-handle hydrocarbons
- Horoscopes and other disasters
- The astrologer-emperor connection
- Section IV Rome & its Provinces
- Secrets of Rome's heavenly mud
- Thirst for the Good Life
- The Big Chill B.C.
- Architectural triumphs. And turn-ons
- All's unfair in love and war
- The wasteland
- Fatal spectacles on fake lakes
- Monument to the unknown architect
- Franchising blood and sand
- Sealskin-don't leave home without it
- Channeling Epicurus and company
- Do as I write, not as I do
- Very hairy portents
- Sweetly damning evidence
- Lips to die for
- Wide-open to interpretation
- Section V Italy & Sicily
- Eelmania and other fishy frenzies
- It was fascination, I know . . .
- Seeing their way clear
- Earthquake storms, giant bones
- My birthday's VI-XIV
- what's yours?
- Scapegoating the polluters
- From bloom to blade
- An all-around, also-ran architect
- Under the volcanoes
- Passionate polymath
- Early googling
- Anchors aweigh. Or maybe not.
- Leveraged out
- End game for the geekiest Greek
- The grinch who stole Saturnalia
- Section VI North Africa & Mesopotamia
- If these four walls could talk
- Hot rocks, pearls of wisdom
- The science of nano-artistry
- Shedding light on nautical travel
- Romancing the Philosopher's Stone
- Living large, living unobtrusively
- Naturals at philosophy
- Few takers for green goods
- Mad for more than gadgets
- Greek fire
- It heals, it maddens, it mellifies corpses
- Final launches to remember
- Inventing geography
- Forget the gardens, build me a labyrinth
- Acknowledgments & Special Thanks
- Bibliography
- A Note on the Author
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