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Books by Mary Roach






My Planet(1st Edition)
Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
by Mary Roach
Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2013 by Reader's Digest
ISBN-13: 978-1-62145-071-9, ISBN: 1-62145-071-6

"From acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her "My Planet" articles published in Reader's Digest. The quirky, brilliant author takes a magnifying glass to everyday life, exposing moments of hilarity in the mundane. Best-selling author Mary Roach was a hit columnist in the Reader's Digest magazine, and this book features the articles she wrote in that time. Insightful and hilarious, Mar ..."






Packing for Mars
The Curious Science of Life in Space
by Mary Roach
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2011 by Oneworld Publications
ISBN-13: 978-1-85168-823-4, ISBN: 1-85168-823-4

"Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010: With her wry humor and inextinguishable curiosity, Mary Roach has crafted her own quirky niche in the somewhat staid world of science writing, showing no fear (or shame) in the face of cadavers, ectoplasm, or sex. In Packing for Mars, Roach tackles the strange science of space travel, and the psychology, technology, and politics that go into sending a crew into orbit. Roach is unfailingly inq ..."






Grunt(1st Edition)
The Curious Science of Humans at War
by Mary Roach
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-35437-9, ISBN: 0-393-35437-7

"A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges ho ..."






Grunt(1st Edition)
The Curious Science of Humans at War
by Mary Roach
Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24544-8, ISBN: 0-393-24544-6

"A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges ho ..."






Grunt
by Mary Roach
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2016 by Oneworld Publications
ISBN-13: 978-1-78074-977-8, ISBN: 1-78074-977-5

"A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries―panic, exhaustion, heat, noise―and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges ho ..."






Gulp(1st Edition)
Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
by Mary Roach
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2014 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-34874-3, ISBN: 0-393-34874-1

"The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. “America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity ..."






Packing for Mars
The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2011 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33991-8, ISBN: 0-393-33991-2

"Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010: With her wry humor and inextinguishable curiosity, Mary Roach has crafted her own quirky niche in the somewhat staid world of science writing, showing no fear (or shame) in the face of cadavers, ectoplasm, or sex. In Packing for Mars, Roach tackles the strange science of space travel, and the psychology, technology, and politics that go into sending a crew into orbit. Roach is unfailingly inq ..."






Bonk(Reprint)
The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach
Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2009 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-33479-1, ISBN: 0-393-33479-1

"Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as sex, and few writers are as entertaining about the subject as Mary Roach. Can a woman think herself to orgasm? Is your penis three inches longer than you think? Why doesn't Viagra help women - or, for that matter, pandas? Does orgasm boost fertility? Or cure hiccups? The study of sexual physiology - what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better - has been taking place behind ..."






Bonk(1st Edition)
The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
by Mary Roach
Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Co.
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06464-3, ISBN: 0-393-06464-6

"The best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex.The study of sexual physiology—what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better—has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken pla ..."






Spook(1st Edition)
Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach
Paperback, 311 Pages, Published 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company
Bargain Price
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32912-4, ISBN: 0-393-32912-7

"If author Mary Roach was a college professor, she'd have a zero drop-out rate. That's because when Roach tackles a subject--like the posthumous human body in her previous bestseller, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, or the soul in the winning Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife--she charges forth with such zeal, humour, and ingenuity that her students (er, readers) feel like they're witnessing the most interesting thing on E ..."






Stiff(1st Edition)
The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-32482-2, ISBN: 0-393-32482-6

""One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."—Entertainment WeeklyStiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Spa ..."






Stiff(1st Edition)
The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
by Mary Roach
Hardcover, 303 Pages, Published 2003 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05093-6, ISBN: 0-393-05093-9

""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, cadavers—some willingly, some unwittingly—have been involved in science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They've tested France's first guillotines, ridden the NASA Sp ..."






Stiff
The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (Paperback or Softback)
by Mary Roach
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2021 by W W Norton & Co Inc
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-88172-1, ISBN: 0-393-88172-5

"Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach's "acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating" (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue."






Packing for Mars(1st Edition)
The Curious Science of Life in the Void
by Mary Roach, Packing For Mars
Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2010 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06847-4, ISBN: 0-393-06847-1

"Amazon Best Books of the Month, August 2010: With her wry humor and inextinguishable curiosity, Mary Roach has crafted her own quirky niche in the somewhat staid world of science writing, showing no fear (or shame) in the face of cadavers, ectoplasm, or sex. In Packing for Mars, Roach tackles the strange science of space travel, and the psychology, technology, and politics that go into sending a crew into orbit. Roach is unfailingly inq ..."






Grunt
The Curious Science of Humans at War [UK Import]
by Mary Roach
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2017 by Oneworld Publications
ISBN-13: 978-1-78607-089-0, ISBN: 1-78607-089-8

"A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize`The most entertaining writer in science' - The Times, Books of the YearWar. Mention it and most of us think of history, of conflicts on foreign soil, of heroism and compromise, of strategy and weapons. But there's a whole other side to the gruesome business of the battlefield., In Grunt, the inimitable Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awa ..."






Gulp(1st Edition)
Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
by Mary Roach
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-08157-2, ISBN: 0-393-08157-5

"The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside. “America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity ..."






Gulp(2nd Edition)
Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
by Mary Roach
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2013 by Oneworld Publications
Kindle Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-85168-993-4, ISBN: 1-85168-993-1

"Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal - let alone have pondered the results (of the research). How have physicists made crisps crispier? What do laundry detergent and saliva have in common? Was self-styled 'nutritional economist' Horace Fletcher right to persuade millions of people t ..."






Spook(1st Edition)
Science Tackles the Afterlife
by Mary Roach
Hardcover, 311 Pages, Published 2005 by W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05962-5, ISBN: 0-393-05962-6

"If author Mary Roach was a college professor, she'd have a zero drop-out rate. That's because when Roach tackles a subject--like the posthumous human body in her previous bestseller, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, or the soul in the winning Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife--she charges forth with such zeal, humour, and ingenuity that her students (er, readers) feel like they're witnessing the most interesting thing on E ..."






The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011(1st Edition)
by Mary Roach, Tim Folger, Ian Frazier, Oliver Sacks, Amy Irvine, Malcolm Gladwell
Paperback, 384 Pages, Published 2011 by Mariner Books
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-547-35063-9, ISBN: 0-547-35063-5

" The Best American Series® First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the premier annual showcase for the country’s finest short fiction and nonfiction. Each volume’s series editor selects notable works from hundreds of magazines, journals, and websites. A special guest editor, a leading writer in the field, then chooses the best twenty or so pieces to publish. This unique system has made the Best American series ..."






Grunt(Unabridged)
The Curious Science of Humans at War
by Mary Roach, Abby Elvidge
Cd, Published 2017 by Brilliance Audio
Audiobook, Mp3 Audio, Unabridged
ISBN-13: 978-1-5113-6796-7, ISBN: 1-5113-6796-2

"Bestselling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war.Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on ..."



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