Mary Roach


Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2011: The Most Respected Annual Nonfiction Collection
Gory Details: Adventures from the Dark Side of Science
Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul
Ingredients: The Strange Chemistry of What We Put in Us and on Us
Ninety Percent of Everything: Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
Mary Roach
US government button specifications run to twenty-two pages. This fact on its own yields a sense of what it is like to design garments for the Army.
Mary Roach, Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War

Mary Roach
Weightlessness is like heroin, or how I imagine heroin must be. You try it once, and when it's over, all you can think about is how much you want to do it again. But apparently the thrill wears off. ...more
Mary Roach, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

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