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Animal Vegetable Criminal by Mary Roach
Category: Philosophy and Religion
What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? We've never been good at sharing the planet... In the past, when wild animals 'broke the law', they might be given lawyers and put on trial. But what's the solution now, as we humans increasingly ...Show more
Animal Vegetable Criminal: When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
Category: Science
AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2021 'Delightful' Ed Yong What's to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel? Follow Mary Roach as she investigates laser scarecrows, robo-hawks, human-elephant conflict specialists and monkey impersonators. Travel to the bear ...Show more
Bonk by Mary Roach
Category: Science
In ?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 women-or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roac ...Show more
Bonk - The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Category: Health
In 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 women--or, for that matter, pandas? Can a dead man get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach ...Show more
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Sex and Science by Mary Roach
Category: General Health
If you can transplant a face, then why not a penis? Why doesn't Viagra help women or, for that matter, pandas? Does an orgasm boost fertility? Cure hiccups? Do the earlobes swell during sex? Can a person think herself to orgasm? Can a dead man get an erection? Can Kegeling cure erectile dysfunction? Can ...Show more
Fuzz - When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
Category: Science
What'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 trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best fou ...Show more
Grunt - The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
Category: Science
grunt n. informal a low-ranking soldier At a converted movie studio amputee actors help prepare army medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds, while at the base for anti-terror operations in East Africa diarrhoea threatens national security. Beyond weapons and strategy, this is about the other sid ...Show more
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
Category: Non-Fiction
A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize 'The most entertaining writer in science' - The Times, Books of the Year War. 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 s ...Show more
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Category: Science
Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examining prison guards, competitive hot dog eaters, Elvis's doctor, and other fellow travellers as she explores the beginnings and (almost) unspeakable ends of our food.
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Category: Languages and Reference
Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal. In her trademark style, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs and enema exorcists, stomach sl ...Show more
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Category: Languages and Reference
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe irresistible, ever-curious, and always bestselling Mary Roach 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 ever bit as s ...Show more
Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
Category: Health and Wellbeing
"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 explore ...Show more