They lost their heads! : what happened to Washington's teeth, Einstein's brain, and other famous body parts
Item details
- ISBN: 9780802737472
- ISBN: 0802737471
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Physical Description:
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182 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm - Edition: Paperback edition.
- Publisher: New York : Bloomsbury Children's Books, 2019.
- Copyright: © 2018
Contents / Notes
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 172-178) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | The beginning or the end? -- Dead bodies 101 -- Inês de Castro: till death do us part -- Loved to death -- Galileo Galilei: hanging by his fingernails -- Invasion of the body snatchers -- King Louis XIV: eat your heart out -- Bon appétit! Bites and bits -- George Washington: straight from the horse's mouth -- Buried ... but not quite dead -- Franz Joseph Haydn: a piece of his mind -- Phrenology -- a bumpy history -- Ludwig van Beethoven: splitting hairs -- Some hairy history -- Abraham Lincoln: from the cradle to the grave -- Pickling picks -- Chang and Eng Bunker: stuck on you -- It's fun to share -- Phineas Gage : a hole in one -- Bury the hatchet and then some -- John Wilkes Booth : saving his neck -- Another spiny tale -- Sarah Bernhardt : break a leg -- You're pulling my leg -- Vincent van Gogh : lend me your ear -- Artsy extras -- Mercy Brown : a heartless vampire -- The dead vs. the undead (a field guide) -- Mata Hari : I spy a head -- Lost and never found -- Albert Einstein : picking his brain -- Bits on brains -- Elvis Presley : warts and all -- Cloning body parts -- Recycling bits : first steps -- A happily ever afterlife -- The most wanted -- Corpse medicine -- Deathly decor -- Dead-end jobs -- Unloved bits -- Thomas Alva Edison : last gasps. |
Target Audience Note: | Age 10-14. |
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Genre: | Nonfiction. Anecdotes. Juvenile works. Anecdotes. Juvenile Literature. Anecdotes. |
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