Mary Roach
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
$16.95 Add to cartGrunt 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 host
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036087
- Language: English
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Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife
$16.95 Add to cart“What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s that–the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? … [more below]
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036044
- Language: English
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
$16.95 Add to cart“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,… [more below]
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036060
- Language: English
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
$16.95 Add to cartIn Bonk, the best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. Can a person think herself to orgasm? Why doesn’t Viagra help
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036036
- Language: English
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Packing for Mars for Kids
$9.95 Add to cartWhat is it like to float weightlessly in the air? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a spacewalk? How do astronauts go to the bathroom? Is it true that they don’t shower? Can farts really… [more below]
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1324052554
- Language: English
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
$16.95 Add to cartWhat’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036125
- Language: English
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
$16.95 Add to cartThe best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shuttle training toilet to a crash test of NASA’s new spac
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1324036052
- Language: English
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
$17.99 Add to cartFor 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 N
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0393881725
- Language: English
