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Alimentary canal Popular works Animal behavior Animals and civilization Digestive organs Popular works Gastrointestinal system Popular works Human-animal relationships Military art and science Technological innovations United States Military art and science Technological innovations United States History 21st century Military research United States Wildlife managementRoach, Mary
Summary: Roach takes a magnifying glass to everyday life, exposing moments of hilarity in the mundane and revealing amusing musings about marriage, automated customer service, and mazelike bargain stories
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 ROARoach, Mary
Summary: "Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 591.5 ROACopies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 591.5 ROARoach, Mary
Summary: Explores the science of keeping humans healthy and focused in the extreme environments of war, drawing on interviews with doctors, trainers, and weapons testers to illuminate how soldiers are conditioned to survive traumas.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 355 ROARoach, Mary
Summary: "'Grunt' 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"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. 2016
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 355 ROARoach, Mary.
Summary: Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton 2008
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 612.6 RoaRoach, Mary.
Summary: Few of us realize what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal. In her trademark style, Mary Roach investigates the beginning, and end, of our food.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2013
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 612.3 ROACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 612.3 ROARoach, Mary
Summary: "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 ... Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Summary: Draws on the achievements of scientists, engineers, and mediums to consider the feasibility of life after death, from a reincarnation researcher's experimentation with out-of-body experiences to laboratory investigations into ghosts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton and Co. 2005
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Belief Spirit RoachRoach, Mary
Summary: "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 don't shower? Can farts really be deadly in space? Best-selling Mary Roach has the answers. In this whip-smart, funny, and informative young readers adaptation of her best-selling Packing for Mars, Roach guides us through the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Norton Young Readers 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 571.0919 ROARoach, Mary.
Summary: "The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn't the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2013
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Summary: The author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space 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. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Sci Space RoachRoach, Mary.
Summary: Stiff 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 science's boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. In this fascinating account, Mary Roach visits the good deeds of cadavers over the centuries and tells the engrossing story of our bodies when we are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this fact-based story, a convict is confined to the dungeons of Alcatraz for three years in isolation after a failed escape. When he at last emerges from the total darkness, he's confused, savage, barely human, and he immediately kills the stoolie who ratted on his escape. It's an open-and-shut case of Murder One. But his resolute attorney puts Alcatraz and its sadistic associate warden on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999