Life After Death: What Happens to Your Body After You Die?
Death is not an end - it's a new beginning. After death, all of the molecules that came together to form the living you become nutrients for millions of creatures, large and small. Your body becomes the hub of a complex ecosystem of microbes, insects, worms, plants and more. Cheer up! This book shows how you are going to live forever - as components of so many other wonderful creatures. It describes the science behind the remarkable recycling of your body. We begin with lessons about how your body functions, is a collection of valuable nutrients and is a home to millions of microbes. The book goes on to describe the various stages the body pa…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-030-83035-9
- EAN: 9783030830359
- Produktnummer: 38607602
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
- Seitenangabe: 284 S.
- Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.5 cm 435 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2022
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 435
Über den Autor
Michael Wilson is Emeritus Professor of Microbiology at University College London where he was based for more than 30 years. He has published 337 scientific papers, holds 13 patents and in 1991 was awarded the Inventor of the Year prize by Toshiba for inventing a device that produces pure drinking water from contaminated water sources. In 2011 he was appointed Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Académiques by the President of France for his services to French culture. He has produced a number of exhibitions for the general public about his research and was Senior Scientific Advisor to the Eden Project for their Invisible you; the human microbiome exhibition which opened in 2015. He has published 14 books, mainly in the fields of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. His most recent books are: Into the labyrinth; in search of Daidalos (2020) and Close encounters of the microbial kind; everything you need to know about common infections (2021).
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