Death: A Graveside Companion [Hardcover]

The ultimate death compendium, featuring the worlds most extraordinary artistic objects concerned with mortality, together with text by expert contributors. An unusual coffee-table book&You may be surprised by how much fun it is to pore through the book's lavish artwork of skulls, cadavers and fanciful imaginings of the afterlife. The writings cover spiritual and symbolic aspects of death [and] some essays delve into scientific history, such as miniature crime scenes used in forensic sci?ence and the history of cadavers in the study of anatomy.