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Product Description: Since 2008, the Morbid Anatomy Library of Brooklyn, New York, has hosted some of the best scholars, artists and writers working along the intersections of the history of anatomy and medicine, death and the macabre, religion and spectacle...read more
By Colin Dickey (editor)

Hardcover:

9780989394307 | 1 edition (Distributed Art Pub Inc, April 30, 2014), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Since 2008, the Morbid Anatomy Library of Brooklyn, New York, has hosted some of the best scholars, artists and writers working along the intersections of the history of anatomy and medicine, death and the macabre, religion and spectacle.

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Product Description: Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges’ "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, “and so forth” — each essay focusing on the story of a particular (and particularly strange) saint...read more

Hardcover:

9781609530723 | Unbridled Books, June 12, 2012, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Afterlives of the Saints is a woven gathering of groundbreaking essays that move through Renaissance anatomy and the Sistine Chapel, Borges’ "Library of Babel," the history of spontaneous human combustion, the dangers of masturbation, the pleasures of castration, “and so forth” — each essay focusing on the story of a particular (and particularly strange) saint.

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Product Description: The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness.Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on the guilty pleasures of an anthology of real-after-life gothic tales...read more

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9781609530105, titled "Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius" | Reprint edition (Unbridled Books, October 5, 2010), cover price $15.95 | also contains Cranioklepty: Grave Robbing and the Search for Genius | About this edition: The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness.

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Product Description: The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness.Fully illustrated with some surprising images, this is a fascinating and authoritative history of ideas carried along on the guilty pleasures of an anthology of real-after-life gothic tales...read more

Hardcover:

9781932961867 | Unbridled Books, September 28, 2009, cover price $25.95 | About this edition: The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness.

Paperback:

9781609530105 | Reprint edition (Unbridled Books, October 5, 2010), cover price $15.95 | also contains Cranioklepty: Brave Robbing and the Search for Genius | About this edition: The after-death stories of Franz Joseph Haydn, Ludwig Beethoven, Swedenborg, Sir Thomas Browne and many others have never before been told in such detail and vividness.

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Product Description: With a design that's half pocket book, half zine, this provocative volume offers an array of essays, interviews and artworks that describe a minor history of failure. Tracing the idea of failure through contemporary art, activism, literature and philosophy, the work cuts against notions of forward-moving progress, instead exploring various dead ends on the timeline of history...read more
By Nicole Antebi (editor), Colin Dickey (editor) and Robby Herbst (editor)

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9780979137709 | Journal of Aesthetics & Protest Pr, March 1, 2008, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: With a design that's half pocket book, half zine, this provocative volume offers an array of essays, interviews and artworks that describe a minor history of failure.

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