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Learn stiff chapter 2 with free interactive flashcards. The curious lives of human cadavers by mary roach online at alibris. The curious coupling of science and sex, and packing for mars. With stiff, american author mary roach explores this question at length and in depth by investigating the many ways in which cadavers are useful to those of us who are still living. She describes not only their human characteristics but their. The curious science of humans at war,packing for mars. Adventures on the alimentary canal by mary roach ap following the general pathway of the alimentary canal, roach progresses through tasting and chewing to swallowing, digesting, and. The curious lives of human cadavers by mary roach is. Stiff 2003 looked at the many uses to which human cadavers have been put, while spook 2005 told of sciences attempts to understand the afterlife. Mary roach, who saw her share of corpses by the time she was done researching stiff, has learned how to cut the tension with a good joke. The author of stiff, spook, bonk, gulp and, most recently, grunt says the last book to make her laugh was norwood, by charles portis. For 2,000 years, cadaverssome willingly, some unwittinglyhave been involved in sciences boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. It is a very entertaining book, if you happen to find this sort of thing interesting.
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