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

玛丽·罗琦Mary Roach

1959年出生于美国新罕布什尔州汉诺威市，卫斯理大学心理学专业毕业，现为自由作家，《美国国家地理》、《新科学家》、《连线》的专栏撰稿人，《美国科学与自然写作年度选2011年卷》主编，2012年获得哈佛世俗协会颁发的拉什迪奖，同年还被MaximumFun.org授予科学调查特别奖。迄今已有五本科普畅销书问世，风格幽默搞怪，可称为当代最令人捧腹的科学作家。

已出版作品

《人类尸体的奇异生活》Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

《见鬼，科学推倒来世》Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

《科学碰撞“性”》Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

《打包去火星》Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in theVoid

《消化道历险记》Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

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王祖哲

山东大学文艺美学研究中心、文学与新闻传播学院副教授，从事艺术哲学、美学、文学理论方面的教学与研究工作，有《别逗了，费曼先生！》《居里一家》《地球简史》《神圣几何》《夏娃的种子》《另类美国史》《爱因斯坦的小提琴》等近二十余种译著出版。