Mary Roach
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
$15.95 Add to cart“America’s funniest science writer” (“Washington Post”) returns to explore the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this “New York Times” bestseller.
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0393339912
- Language: English
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Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy
$28.99 Add to cartThe body is the most complex machine in the world, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries, medicine has reached for what’s available–sculpti
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1324050624
- Language: English
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Packing for Mars for Kids
$16.95 Read moreWhat 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1324019379
- Language: English
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My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
$14.99 Read moreFrom acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her “My Planet” articles published in Reader’s Digest. The quirky, brilliant author takes a magnifying gl… [more below]
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1621450716
- Language: English
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
$26.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0393245446
- Language: English
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
$28.00 Add to cartSpace is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space exploration is in some ways an exploration of what it means to be human… [more below]
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 02 2010
- ISBN10: 0393068471
- Language: English
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
$49.99 Add to cartWhat happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that’s thatthe 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? Is
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: September 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0393059626
- Language: English
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
$28.99 Add to cartStiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadavers–some willingly, some unwittingly–have been involved in scien… [more below]
- Author: Roach, Mary
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0393050939
- Language: English
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
$26.95 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 14 2021
- ISBN10: 1324001933
- Language: English
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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
