Mary Roach: 12 books

**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...

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...

The Animal Intelligence Bundle:   “Minds of Their Own” by Virginia Morell (March 2008) “Almost Human” by Mary Roach (April 2008) “The Genius of Swarms” by Peter Miller (July 2007)   In “Minds of Their Own,” Virginia Morell provides an overview of the science of animal intelligence....

"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,...

“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) returns to explore the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times bestseller. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer....

From acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her “My Planet” articles published in Reader’s Digest. She was a hit columnist in the magazine, and this book features the articles she wrote in that time. Insightful and hilarious, Mary explores the...

"Equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining."—Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News The best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. What happens...

La nostra prossima casa la affitteremo in un altro pianeta del sistema solare. Trascorreremo le vacanze estive sulla Luna e nelle sere d’agosto ci ritroveremo a brindare a un cocktail party in qualche catena alberghiera su Marte. Tutto intorno a noi vedremo l’infinito, il firmamento, ascolteremo...

Spiriti e spiritelli, anime e fantasmi, ombre ed ectoplasmi, presenze, apparizioni, spettri e reincarnazioni. Sono da sempre la materia effimera di sacerdoti, sciamani e fattucchiere, l’ombra fugace di una domanda che contiene e genera tutte le altre, che ha dato vita alla religione e alla filosofia,...

“Rich in dexterous innuendo, laugh-out-loud humor and illuminating fact. It’s compulsively readable.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review The best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and insight on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex.

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