**For fans of Caitlin Doughty, Mary Roach, and CSI shows, a renowned forensic scientist on death and mortality.** Dame Sue Black is an internationally renowned forensic anthropologist and human anatomist. She has lived her life eye to eye with the Grim Reaper, and she writes vividly about it in
All That Remains: A Life in Death
โ Scribed by Black, Sue
- Book ID
- 110306205
- Publisher
- Transworld
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9781473543430
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โฆ Synopsis
Featured on BBC RADIO 4's Start the Week
'One might expect [this book] to be a grim read but it absolutely isn't. I found it invigorating!' Andrew Marr
'A beautifully written memoir' Sunday Times.
'All That Remains provides a fascinating look at death - its causes, our attitudes toward it, the forensic scientist's way of analyzing it. A unique and thoroughly engaging book' Kathy Reichs
Sue Black confronts death every day. As Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, she focuses on mortal remains in her lab, at burial sites, at scenes of violence, murder and criminal dismemberment, and when investigating mass fatalities due to war, accident or natural disaster. In All that Remains she reveals the many faces of death she has come to know, using key cases to explore how forensic science has developed, and what her work has taught her.
Do we expect a book about death to be sad? Macabre? Sue's book is...
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