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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers Physical Anthropology Find out the answers to"One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year. Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."Entertainment Weekly Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadaverssome willingly, some unwittinglyhave been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been