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The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by Mary Roach
Paperback
Publication Date: 04/11/2004
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For popular science readers who like Six Feet Under.

What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?

Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science.

Interweaving present-day explorations with a history of past attempts to study what it means to be human Stiff is a deliciously dark investigations for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre
ISBN:
9780141007458
9780141007458
Category:
Popular science
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
04-11-2004
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books Ltd
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
304
Dimensions (mm):
198x129x17mm
Weight:
0.22kg
Mary Roach

Mary Roach is the New York Times-bestselling author of several popular science books including Packing for Mars and Gulp. Her most recent book Grunt was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize. She has written for the Guardian, Wired, BBC Focus, GQ and Vogue. She lives in California.

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