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  | | Grunt The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach 256 Pages, Published 2016 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24545-5, ISBN: 0-393-24545-4 "Hello, Mark Riddle, could I follow you to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, even though it means you'll have to escort me all day every day for an entire week? And then later will you spend your holidays ... presence in people's days. Certain individuals must be thanked for the hours spent explaining their work and, in some cases, the most basic elements of the science: Rob Dean, Christine DesLauriers, Molly Williams, Benjamin Potter, and ..." |
 | | My Planet Finding Humor in the Oddest Places by Mary Roach 160 Pages, Published 2013 by Penguin ISBN-13: 978-1-62145-072-6, ISBN: 1-62145-072-4 "Then there's the fact that Ed is one of those guys who likes to walk down all the aisles when they shop. At a place as vast as Costco, you don't enter into this lightly. You need good arch support and a map, possibly a donkey and canteen. To get out in under an hour, you'll need to break into a jog. Given you are about to buy snack foods totaling 350,000,000 calories, jogging's probably a good idea, but still and all . . . “Perfect ..." |
 | | Gulp (Library Edition): Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach Published 2013 by Tantor Media, Inc, United States ISBN-13: 978-1-4526-4342-7, ISBN: 1-4526-4342-3 |
 | | Six Feet Over Adventures in the Afterlife by Mary Roach 300 Pages, Published 2010 by Canongate Books ISBN-13: 978-1-84767-692-4, ISBN: 1-84767-692-8 "Along the way she encounters electromagnetic hauntings, out-of-body experiences, ghosts and lawsuits: Mary Roach sifts and weighs the evidence in her hilarious, inimitable style." |
 | | Spook Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach 320 Pages, Published 2006 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-06920-4, ISBN: 0-393-06920-6 "... with dysentery expert W. S. Dawson holding forth on fecal sampling—whether it is preferable to “introduce the swab” into the rectum or to take a specimen directly from “the motion.”* As for Dr. Russ's machine, I can't explain what was. *I' m trying to work out how this makes sense as a noun meaning “the product of a bowel movement.” This is not Dawson's personal euphemistic misstep; the usage persists in medical writing today. S ..." |
 | | 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 by Mary Roach 256 Pages, Published 2016 by Oneworld Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-78074-978-5, ISBN: 1-78074-978-3 "... a month before I arrived, Riddle was seeing two dozen food poisoning cases a week. During the past month, since everyone's been confined to base, only one person—the guy who found a restaurant that delivers—has stepped through the door. Riddle catches up on. *. How did Mexico become the poster child for travellers' diarrhoea? One hypothesis, mine, points a finger at the godfather of diarrhoea research, Herbert DuPont. For almos ..." |
 | | Grunt The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach Published 2016 ISBN-13: 978-1-5113-6795-0, ISBN: 1-5113-6795-4 |
 | | My Planet Finding Humor in the Oddest Places by Mary Roach Published 2014 by Brilliance Audio ISBN-13: 978-1-4805-3302-8, ISBN: 1-4805-3302-5 |
 | | Gulp by Mary Roach 348 Pages, Published 2014 by Perfection Learning ISBN-13: 978-1-62765-490-6, ISBN: 1-62765-490-9 "Like all of Roach s books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies....." |
 | | My Planet Finding Humor in the Oddest Places by Mary Roach, Angela Dawe Published 2013 by Brilliance Audio 2013-09-01 ISBN-13: 978-1-4805-3228-1, ISBN: 1-4805-3228-2 |
 | | My Planet Finding Humor in the Oddest Places, Library Edition by Mary Roach, Angela Dawe Published 2013 by Brilliance Audio Lib Edn ISBN-13: 978-1-4805-3229-8, ISBN: 1-4805-3229-0 |
 | | Gulp Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach Published 2013 by Tantor Audio Pa ISBN-13: 978-1-4676-5253-7, ISBN: 1-4676-5253-9 |
 | | My Planet Finding Humor in the Oddest Places by Mary Roach Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-4805-5940-0, ISBN: 1-4805-5940-7 |
 | | Gulp Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach 336 Pages, Published 2013 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-24030-6, ISBN: 0-393-24030-4 "“Greeks spit on pretty much anything they want to protect from the evil eye or bless for good luck,” says Evi Numen. Numen is the exhibitions manager at the Mütter Museum,* a collection of medical curiosities amassed by Thomas Mütter and ..." |
 | | Gulp Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach 336 Pages, Published 2013 by Oneworld Publications ISBN-13: 978-1-78074-219-9, ISBN: 1-78074-219-3 "Even the 'deathly drool' ofthe Komodo dragon, the world's largest lizard, has likely been overstated. Theory holds that Komodo dragon saliva contains lethal doses of infectious bacteria, enabling the reptiles to take on prey far larger than themselves – wild boar, deer, newspaper editors. (San Francisco Chronicle's Phil Bronstein spent several days on an antibiotic drip after a Komodo dragon attacked his foot during a behindthe-sce ..." |
 | | My Planet 6 Copy Counter Display by Mary Roach Published 2013 ISBN-13: 978-1-62145-081-8, ISBN: 1-62145-081-3 |
 | | Inside Animal Minds The New Science of Animal Intelligence by Mary Roach, Virgina Morell, Peter Miller, Virginia Morell 62 Pages, Published 2012 by National Geographic Books ISBN-13: 978-1-4262-1003-7, ISBN: 1-4262-1003-5 "The New Science of Animal Intelligence Virgina Morell, Mary Roach, Peter Miller. foraging for food. The number can change, depending on conditions. Have foragers recently discovered a bonanzaoftasty ... “But the forager needsseveral contactsno more than ten seconds apart before it will go out.” To see how this works, Gordon and her collaborator Michael Greeneofthe Universityof Colorado at Denver captured patroller ants asthey lefta ..." |
 | | Inside Animal Minds The New Science of Animal Intelligence by Mary Roach, Peter Miller, Virgina Morell Published 2012 ISBN-13: 978-1-299-56615-6, ISBN: 1-299-56615-4 |
 | | Stiff The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach 304 Pages, Published 2012 by Penguin Uk ISBN-13: 978-0-241-96501-6, ISBN: 0-241-96501-2 "Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science." |
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