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About Mary Roach

Stiff

The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

» Mary Roach

Penguin
Paperback : 01 Jul 2004

£9.99

A delicously dark investigation into what happens to our bodies after we have died. A funny, unusual and decidedly macabre work of popular science.

Synopsis

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 delicously dark investigations for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre

Product details

Format : Paperback
ISBN: 9780141007458
Size : 129 x 198mm
Pages : 304
Published : 01 Jul 2004
Publisher : Penguin

Stiff

The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

» Mary Roach

£9.99


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