Brandy Schillace: 2 books

Death's Summer Coat: What the History of Death and Dying Teaches Us About Life and Living

by Brandy Schillace
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016

In the tradition of Being Mortal, Brandy Schillace looks at what we can learn from the incredibly diverse ways in which humans have dealt with mortality in different times and places Death is something we all confront—it touches our families, our homes, our hearts. And yet we have grown used...

Clockwork Futures: The Science of Steampunk and the Reinvention of the Modern World

by Brandy Schillace
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017

Airships and electric submarines, automatons and mesmerists?welcome to the wild world of steampunk. It is all speculative?or is it? Meet the intrepid souls who pushed Victorian technology to its limits and paved the way for our present age. The gear turns, the whistle blows, and the billows...