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  | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 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." |
 | | Fuzz When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach 320 Pages, Published 2021 by W. W. Norton ISBN-13: 978-1-324-00193-5, ISBN: 1-324-00193-3 "Praise for Mary Roach There is much to enjoy about Mary Roach--her infectious awe for quirky science and its nerdy adherents, her one-liners...She is beloved, and justifiably so." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Gulp(2nd Edition) by Mary Roach Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2014 by Oneworld Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-78074-391-2, ISBN: 1-78074-391-2 "SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY PRIZE 2014 In this international bestseller, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examining prison guards, competitive hot dog eaters, Elvis' doctor, and many more as she investigates the beginning, and the end, of our food." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Packing For Mars by Mary Roach Hardcover, Published 2012 by Oneworld Classics Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-85168-902-6, ISBN: 1-85168-902-8 "Mary Roach, best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk, turns her attention to space travel with the thoroughly entertaining Packing For Mars: The Curious Science Of Life In The Void. Through a series of bizarre space simulations by space agencies, she looks at just how astronauts survive in space, a place that contains none of the things we need to live and thrive - air, gravity, showers and privacy. What is it like being with only a few pe ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | Packing for Mars The Curious Science of Life in Space [UK Edition] by Mary Roach Hardcover, 312 Pages, Published 2010 by Oneworld Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-85168-780-0, ISBN: 1-85168-780-7 "Space is devoid of the stuff humans need to live: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh veg, privacy, beer. How much can a person give up? What happens when you can't walk for a year? Is sex any fun in zero gravity? What's it like being cooped up in a metal box with a few people for months at a time? As Mary Roach discovers, it's possible to explore space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a 17,000 mile-per ..." |
 | | Bonk by Mary Roach Paperback, 319 Pages, Published 2008 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-1-60751-000-0, ISBN: 1-60751-000-6 "In this book she shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm, two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on Earth, can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to slowly make the bedroom a more ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
 | | 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 ..." |
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