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Fiambres

La Fascinante Vida de los Cadáveres

Fiambres( )
Author: Roach, Mary
Translator: Gibert, Álex
Series title:Maledicta Ser.
ISBN:978-84-96879-08-9
Publication Date:Oct 2007
Publisher:Global Rhythm Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $17.95
Book Description:

A contagiously cheerful exploration of the cruel diligences executed on some of our bodies when, after death, we abandon them on the threshold of their graves, this book shows us cadavers turned into carcasses and scientific experiments, the deceased who contribute to the progress of medicine with perforated genitals and extracted eyes, flesh flung from airplanes or shot with bullets to verify the efficiency of new weapons,...
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Book Details
Pages:344
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.5 x 7 Inches
Book Weight:0.95 Pounds
Author Biography
Roach, Mary (Author)
Mary Roach was born and raised in Etna, New Hampshire. She has a BA degree in psychology from Wesleyan University. She spent a few years as a free-lance copy editor before she landed a job at the San Francisco Zoological Society turning out press releases. She then moved on to write humor pieces for such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle and Sports Illustrated. Her article "How to Win at Germ Warfare" was a National Magazine Award Finalist, in 1995. In 1996, her article on earthquake-proof bamboo houses took the Engineering Journalism Award. She published several books such as Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003) and Packing for Mars (2010).

Mary's title Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016.

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