Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers - Couverture rigide

Roach, Mary

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0670912174 ISBN 13 : 9780670912179

Editeur : Viking, 2003

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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

Biographie de l'auteur :

Mary Roach is a journalist. She has written for Salon, Wired, GQ, Discover, Vogue and the New York Times Magazine. This is her first book.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Viking
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0670912174
• ISBN 13: 9780670912179
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 304