Stiff

The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

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Beschreibung

<p><b>What happens to your body after you have died?</b><br><br><i>Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?</i><br><br> Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's <i>Stiff</i> 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 <i>Stiff</i> is a deliciously dark investigations for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre.<br><br><b>'Spry, common, sharp-witted survey brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Life after death"' <i>Sunday Times</i></b><br><b><br>'One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year' <i>Entertainment Weekly</i></b><br><b><br>'Every chapter packed with more arresting details elegantly humourously expressed than one can hope for' <i>Sunday Telegraph </i></b></p>

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780141007458

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

199 x 129 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Verlag / Hersteller

Penguin Books Ltd