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Are we there yet?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eReplaceable You\u003c\/em\u003e, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body's failings. When and how does a person decide they'd be better off with a prosthetic than their existing limb? Can a donated heart be made to beat forever? Can an intestine provide a workable substitute for a vagina?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoach dives in with her characteristic verve and infectious wit. Her travels take her to the OR at a legendary burn unit in Boston, a \"superclean\" xeno-pigsty in China, and a stem cell \"hair nursery\" in the San Diego tech hub. She talks with researchers and surgeons, amputees and ostomates, printers of kidneys and designers of wearable organs. 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They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have helped make history in their quiet way. \"Delightful--though never disrespectful\" (Les Simpson, \u003cem\u003eTime Out New York\u003c\/em\u003e), \u003cem\u003eStiff\u003c\/em\u003e investigates the strange lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the question: What should we do after we die?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This quirky, funny read offers perspective and insight about life, death and the medical profession. . . . 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A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRoach tags along with animal-attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and \"danger tree\" faller blasters. Intrepid as ever, she travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter's Square in the early hours before the pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. 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