The Browser's Book of Endings: The End of Practically Everything and Everybody

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Charles Panati, America's favorite gatherer of origins, now offers the last word on how people, places, and things of all sorts have met their ends through the centuries. From famous presidents to frightening epidemics, from ancient extinctions to vanished vogues, from bizarre last wills to the death styles of the rich and renowned, The Browser's Book of Endings presents the amusing, the surprising, and the generally little-known stories behind the terminations of practically everything and everybody. Illustrated...

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ISBN-13: 9780140286908
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Publication date: 12/1/1999
Edition description: REISSUE
Pages: 496
Product dimensions: 6.06 (w) x 8.98 (h) x 1.08 (d)

Pt. I	Last Things First	1
Ch. 1	Death, the Ultimate Ending: Inhumation to Cremation	3
Ch. 2	Cemeteries, Our Last Address: Graveyard to Memorial Park	21
Ch. 3	Wills, Our Last Wishes: Plato to W. C. Fields	36
Ch. 4	Bequests & Behests of Dying Presidents: Washington to Hayes	70
Ch. 5	Bequests & Behests of Dying Presidents: Garfield to L.B.J.	101
Pt. II	Ways to Go	133
Ch. 6	Capital Endings: Crucifixion to Lethal Injection	135
Ch. 7	Engineered Endings: Life-Span to Obsolescence	162
Ch. 8	Ancient Extinctions: Trilobite to Mastodon	178
Ch. 9	Modern Extinctions: Dodo to Heath Hen	199
Ch. 10	Decimating Disease: Bubonic Plague to Spanish Flu	220
Pt. III	Vanished Vogues	257
Ch. 11	Bygone Beliefs: Bloodletting to Cannibalism	259
Ch. 12	Past Sex Practices - His: Castration to Circumcision	289
Ch. 13	Past Sex Practices - Hers: Sacred Prostitution to Chastity Belt	316
Pt. IV	Thanatographies	343
Ch. 14	Last Agonies of Historic Figures: Buddha to Casanova	345
Ch. 15	Final Farewells of Artists and Writers: Pepys to Poe	365
Ch. 16	Death Styles of the Rich and Renowned: Darwin to Duncan	395
Ch. 17	Last Stands of Wild West Legends: Calamity Jane to Buffalo Bill	419
	References	447
	Index	459

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