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Stiff

Jul 6, 2024 9:55 AM

Author:Mary Roach

Stiff

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.

'Spry, common, sharp-witted survey brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Life after death"' Sunday Times

'One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year' Entertainment Weekly

'Every chapter packed with more arresting details elegantly humourously expressed than one can hope for' Sunday Telegraph

Reviews

His appeal lies in a winning way with historical anecdote and apt quotation and a forceful eloquence

—— Sunday Telegraph

A distinguished cosmologist

—— Sunday Times

Barrow is a fantastic storyteller. The book is full of wonderful moments, vignettes that you will want to remember

—— Guardian

'Brims with strange and amazing facts...destined to become a modern classic of science writing'

—— Ed Regis , New York Times Book Review

'It deserves to sell as many copies as there are protons in the full stop that ends this review (at least 500,000,000,000).'

—— Craig Brown , Mail on Sunday

'The very book I have been looking for most of my life...Trunkloads of information, amazing stories and extraordinary personalities'

—— Christopher Matthew , Daily Mail

'The amount of ground covered is truly impressive...it's hard to imagine a better rough guide to science'

—— John Waller , Guardian

Rose has a subtle mind, a prose style of great clarity and a civilised and compassionate approach to what neuroscience tells us about human nature

—— Sunday Times

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