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Animal Vegetable Criminal

by Mary Roach Author

In this fresh, funny, and thoroughly-researched book, Mary Roach delves into the complex issues of human-wildlife…

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Packing for Mars for Kids

by Mary Roach Author

Kids love outers pace and they often have questions about it that you maybe can't answer. What is it like to float in…

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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans At War

by Mary Roach Author

In this fascinating book, bestselling author Mary Roach takes a long look at the strange science behind war and combat.…

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Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife

by Mary Roach Author

In this fascinating book, bestselling author Mary Roach travels the world and talks to dozens of people in order to…

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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

by Mary Roach Author

What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years…

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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

by Mary Roach Author

All your extremely scientific questions about sex (and some you definitely have never thought up) are answered by…

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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

by Mary Roach Author

The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. "What happens…

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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal

by Mary Roach Author

“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The…

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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

by Mary Roach Author

A gleefully ghastly accounting of the entire postmortem experience, in which you'll learn that the human head is the…

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Science Ink

by Carl Zimmer Author and Mary Roach Foreword

Full of full-color photographs of science-themed tattoos, accompanied by the tattooees' stories about their tattoos and…

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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void

by Mary Roach Author

Space is devoid of the things we need to thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh produce, privacy, beer. Space…

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