Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers

• Date de parution : 27/07/2006
• Editeur : Adult Pbs
• EAN : 9780141007458
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• Support : Papier

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What happens to your body after you have died?br>br>Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?br>br> 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... Voir plus

What happens to your body after you have died?br>br>Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?br>br> 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.br>br> 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.br>br>''Spry, common, sharp-witted survey brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Life after death"'' Sunday Timesbr>br>''One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year'' Entertainment Weeklybr>br>''Every chapter packed with more arresting details elegantly humourously expressed than one can hope for'' Sunday Telegraph>