Libros de Mary Roach

Crímenes Animales

• 280 páginas
• ¿Qué hay que hacer con un alce que cruza la calle imprudentemente? ¿Un oso sorprendido allanando una morada? ¿Un árbol asesino? Hace trescientos años, a los animales que infringían la ley se les asignaba...

En Busca Del Alma Perdida

Entre Piernas: La Extraordinaria Copula Entre Cien

• Some of the most complex and bizarre aspects of human sexuality are explored in this humorous look..

Animal Vegetable Criminal

• 308 páginas
• What's to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel? Mary Roach delves into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet.

Packing For Mars For Kids

• 144 páginas
• "America's funniest science writer" ( Washington Post ) asks the questions children ask in this young readers adaptation of her best-selling Packing for Mars .

Six Feet Over: Science Tackles The Afterlife

• 320 páginas
• 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 an...

Fuzz: When Nature Breaks The Law

• 336 páginas
• 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...

Science Ink: Tattoos Of The Science Obsessed

• 288 páginas
• Body art meets popular science in this elegant, mind-blowing collection, written by renowned science writer Carl Zimmer. Showcasing hundreds of eye-catching tattoos that pay tribute to various scientific disciplines, from evolutionary biology and neurosci...

Packing For Mars: The Curious Science Of Life In Space

Packing For Mars

• 334 páginas
• 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...

Packing For Mars

• 334 páginas
• Space is a world devoid of the things we need to live and thrive: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh..

The Best American Science And Nature Writing

• The Best American Series(R). First, Best, and Best-Selling The Best American series is the..

Bonk

• 320 páginas
• A fascinating and funny book, taking the reader inside the laboratories, brothels, pig farms and sex toy R&D labs that are all dedicated to the study of sexual physiology. Received blanket review coverage upon HB publication, and the same is expected...

Six Feet Over

• 300 páginas
• 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? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?"Mary Roach trains her considerable...

Bonk: The Curious Coupling Of Science And Sex

• 319 páginas
• The best-selling author ofStiffturns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. The study of sexual physiology-what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better-has been a paying career or a dive...

Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife

• 311 páginas
• 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 an...

Stiff

• 304 páginas
• 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, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier...

Stiff: The Curious Lives Of Human Cadavers

• 303 páginas
• "One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year..Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting."— Entertainment Weekly