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What 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 dont shower? Can farts really be deadly in space? Best-selling Mary Roach has the ans
"What 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 there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In
For two thousand years, cadavers some willingly, some unwittingly have been involved in sciences boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. Theyve tested Frances first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory t
What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise? Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, o
The body is the most complex machine in the world, but what happens when the parts start to fail? Meet the scientists facing the challenge AN AMAZON AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR Our bodies regenerate at a remarkable rate our skin replaces itself every month
Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as sex, and few writers are as entertaining about the subject as Mary Roach. Can a woman think herself to orgasm? Is your penis three inches longer than you think? Why doesn't Viagra help women - or, fo
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 strate
Mary Roach, bestselling author of Stiff , explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity 'When Mary Roach is seized by a subject, there is no stopping her: she is full-on, hands-on, and her lab coat is unbuttoned.&
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 g
The 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 space capsule, Mary Roach takes us on the surreally ent
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
The body is the most complex machine in the world, but what happens when the parts start to fail? Meet the scientists facing the challenge AN AMAZON AND TIME BOOK OF THE YEAR Our bodies regenerate at a remarkable rate our skin replaces itself every month
Instant New York Times Bestseller One of Literary Hub 's Most Anticipated Books of 2025 A Goodreads Readers' Most Anticipated Fall Book From the New York Times best-selling author of Stiff and Fuzz , a rollicking exploration of the quest to re-cre
An Instant New York Times Bestseller • #1 Los Angeles Times Bestseller • #1 Indie Hardcover Nonfiction Bestseller • Longlisted for the 2022 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • A New York Times Editors' Choice &bull