New Releases by Mary Roach

Is the bionic human just around the corner? ''Addictively readable... Don''t miss it.'' Deborah Blum, author of The Poisoner’s Handbook Our bodies regenerate at a remarkable rate – our skin replaces itself every month, our blood every four. You can remove ninety per cent of a liver and it’ll still grow back to its original size (please do not try this at home). Others – the brain, the heart, the eyes – are more complicated. These stay with us for life. So what do we do when they break down? For centuries, medicine has searched for answers – sculpting noses from brass, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs and crafting eye parts from jet canopies. And as technology has grown ever more ingenious, so have our solutions. In Replaceable You, Mary Roach sets sail on the uncharted waters of regenerative medicine, exploring the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body’s failings: When and how does a person decide they’d be better off with a prosthetic than their existing limb? Is there a sensitive way to harvest tissue and bones from the deceased? Which animals might be the best organ donors? Through interviews with patients, physicians, pathologists, engineers and scientists, Roach immerses readers in the wondrous, improbable and surreal quest to build a new you.

Beloved, best-selling science writer Mary Roach''s "acutely entertaining, morbidly fascinating" (Susan Adams, Forbes) classic, now with a new epilogue. For 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 NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery, cadavers have helped make history in their quiet way. "Delightful—though never disrespectful" (Les Simpson, Time Out New York), Stiff investigates the strange lives of our bodies postmortem and answers the question: What should we do after we die? "This quirky, funny read offers perspective and insight about life, death and the medical profession. . . . You can close this book with an appreciation of the miracle that the human body really is." —Tara Parker-Pope, Wall Street Journal "Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting." — Entertainment Weekly

A New York Times Bestseller "Rich in dexterous innuendo, laugh-out-loud humor and illuminating fact. It''s compulsively readable." — Los Angeles Times Book Review 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 get an erection? Is vaginal orgasm a myth? Mary Roach shows us how and why sexual arousal and orgasm—two of the most complex, delightful, and amazing scientific phenomena on earth—can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place.

"America''s funniest science writer" ( Washington Post) explores the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times bestseller. 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 entertaining trip into the science of life in space and space on Earth.

A New York Times / National Bestseller "America''s funniest science writer" ( Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. 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. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you''ll never see our nation''s defenders in the same way again.

¿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 un abogado y se les juzgaba. Hoy en día, como descubre Mary Roach, las respuestas no se encuentran en la jurisprudencia, sino en la ciencia: la curiosa ciencia de los conflictos entre el hombre y la vida salvaje, una disciplina en la encrucijada del comportamiento humano y la biología de la vida salvaje

屍體才是推動醫學進展的最大功臣！ 「是的，他生前是好人，我當然不想挖出他的屍體……但只要想到如果有二十個人可以因此獲益，那就值得了。」by不具名的醫學院學生 死刑犯的屍體曾是古人練習開刀的對象？ 遺體防腐技術是來自於南北戰爭？ 為了製造更安全的汽車，屍體也充當防撞測試員？ 乘客的遺體如何解開飛機失事之謎？ 子彈的射擊效能提高，是因為科學家以屍體來做試驗改良？ 《紐約時報》暢銷書作者瑪莉．羅曲，冒著被質疑「腦袋壞了」的風險，帶領讀者展開一場死亡之旅。為了一探屍體在死前與死後的作用，羅曲前往南方大學醫學中心解剖室、田納西大學人類學研究中心、韋恩州立大學衝擊研究所等機構，看屍體的各部位如何被「有效應用」。這位喜愛四處獵奇的「古怪」記者，認為屍體不只是屍體，它能成就不朽的科學成就。 趁著心臟還在跳動，靈魂尚未離開軀竅，《不過是具屍體》告訴我們應該秉持開放的態度，自行決定死後的旅程：成為美妙浪漫的花園肥料、流進水裡被鄰居喝下肚、前進哈佛做個罐中腦，或是在教學陳列架赤身裸體搔首弄姿「永久保存」……在羅曲機智幽默的筆鋒下，死亡再也不只是場感傷的人生大事，而能替醫學與科學進展開啟新的章節。 本書特色 ※ 外科醫師暨金鼎獎得主蘇上豪 撰文推薦 ※《紐約時報》暢銷書 ※ 亞馬遜書店編輯選書 ※ 獲選「Barnes & Noble」連鎖書店「發現偉大新作家」 ※ 獲選博多書店「原創之聲」獎 ※《ELLE》讀者選書獎 ※《娛樂週刊》、《舊金山紀事報》、《西雅圖時報》、《聖荷西信使報》、《拉斯維加斯信使報》、美國國家公共廣播電台「科學的星期五」二○○三年最佳圖書

Traditional Chinese edition of Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law

●把牠們全都殺了！ ●不准傷害任何一隻！ 某些野生動物族群恢復的程度，讓牠們開始出現在人類的生活裡，例如熊、狼、彌猴等等。與此同時，則有更多人類搬進動物們的地盤。過去野生生物學界探討的大多是如何「復育」和「計算族群數量」，現在的問題卻逐漸變成「人類與野生動物的互動」。 要怎麼處理闖進家門把廚房翻得亂七八糟、殺了幾隻雞或咬了鄰居一口的動物？我們顯然還沒有共識。 除了人類與野生動物之間的衝突，人與人之間的衝突也無法忽視。農牧業者、當地居民和動物愛好者在文化衝突中彼此厭惡，隔閡對立之深堪比政治。 作者跟著動物行為專家走進有熊出沒的餐館後巷、籠罩大象和花豹威脅陰影的印度村莊。她回顧了鳥類學家在驅鳥對策上的努力，拜訪毒藥測試員，也展望了遺傳學家未來可能的貢獻。以溫暖詼諧的文字，在人類活動範圍不斷擴張的今天，尋找「人獸共存」的希望。 推薦 「為什麼產生同樣衝突，有些動物『受保護』，有些物種卻『非死不可』？而最沒道理的是，經常被判死刑的物種造成人類的損害其實並不嚴重到足以『致命』……作者最讓我欣賞的地方，正是單純羅列出各種案例的看見與聽見，並不急著引導讀者回答YES或NO的呆板答案。」 —吳幸如，國立屏東科技大學森林系助理教授 「回到台灣的議題上，過去因為歷史糾結、族群關係而導致野生動物衝突議題出現裂隙。我常遇到部落族人打趣地說：『為什麼平地人這麼浪費資源，卻要求原住民都得要保育山林？』我身邊朋友更感慨的說：『多數都市人在生活中會面對多少野生動物？他們能理解一頭熊出現在家旁的恐懼？如果他們生活之中只有麻雀、白頭翁，那他們喊出台灣黑熊應該要保育，似乎邏輯上很簡單，卻從沒思考到整天跟熊相處然後提心吊膽的在地居民感受。』 這問題很直接挑戰現代人的保育觀。我想，問100個都市人大概會有101個人說黑熊絕對要保育。但是若你問100個生活在山區的居民？可能答案就不是如此。我指的不是如此，不是二元論的說不用保育，而是你會聽到不同族群、生活模式或土地上的不同聲音。」 —郭彥仁（郭熊），台灣黑熊生態研究者、作家 「瑪莉‧羅曲絕對不會讓場子冷掉。她的故事總是充滿幽默巧思和進取精神……不過本書最大的魅力，在於每一段精采經歷背後，都透露出她的溫和反思：關於我們要如何生活，才能為人類與萬物共享的這個地球善盡悉心管理的責任。」 —艾瑞克‧麥克丹尼爾（Eric McDaniel），美國公共廣播電台（NPR） 「本書充滿離奇的事實和超乎想像的第一手報導……羅曲記錄了人類對於各種動植物『罪行』的反應，從看似滑稽的對策，到令人不安的手段，讓讀者不忍釋卷。」 —喬‧史普林（Joe Spring），《史密森尼》雜誌（Smithsonian） 「羅曲闡述了詳盡的調查結果，並透過注釋補充了各種不合時宜的研究、離題的小資訊以及逗趣見解，為論述主題增添了深度和趣味……令人耳目一新的非小說類作品，讓以往的小眾主題得以觸及更廣大的讀者群。」 —凱瑟琳‧E‧海姆斯（Katherine E. Himes），《科學》雜誌（Science）

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

Kun puu tekee murhan! Vastustamattoman hauska ja humaani teos luonnon ja ihmisten maailman välisistä yhteentörmäyksistä. Miten on toimittava, kun hirvi kuljeskelee pihapiirissä kuin kotimetsässään? Tai kun karhu yllätetään murtautumasta asuntoon? Entäpä silloin, kun puu on tehnyt murhan? Lakia rikkoneet eläimet saattoivat 300 vuotta sitten saada syytteen ja avukseen puolustusasianajajan. Nykyisin vastauksia ei etsitä lakikirjoista, vaan ne pyritään löytämään tieteen avulla. Luomakunnan ”rikoksia” ratkomaan on syntynyt erityinen monitieteinen tutkimusala, jossa tarvitaan niin ihmisen käyttäytymisen kuin eläinten ja kasvien biologian tuntemusta. Amerikan hauskimmaksi tietokirjailijaksi sanottu Mary Roach kertoo rikospaikkatutkimuksen taidonnäytteistä ja eläinten genetiikan selvittelyn hienouksista ja yhdistelee tarinaan värikkäitä esimerkkejä käytännön kokemuksista. Ongelmat nousevat useammin ihmisten kuin eläinten toiminnasta – ja ihmisten on ne toiminnassaan ratkaistava. Kalifornian Oaklandissa asuva Mary Roach on kirjoittanut useita kansainvälisesti suuren lukijakunnan saavuttaneita tietokirjoja. Hänen kirjoituksiaan on julkaisu myös mm. National Geographicissa ja New York Times Magazinessa.

AN AMAZON BEST BOOK OF 2021 ''Delightful'' Ed Yong What''s to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel? Follow Mary Roach as she investigates laser scarecrows, robo-hawks, human-elephant conflict specialists and monkey impersonators. Travel to the bear-busy back alleys of Aspen, the gull-vandalized floral displays at the Vatican and leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Himalayas. In this fresh, funny and thoroughly researched book, dive into the weird and wonderful moments when humanity and wildlife bump up against one another.

One of Bookpage''s Most Anticipated Nonfiction Books of 2021 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.

Are you interested in learning how to make preserved food? Do you have any needs in preserving your food for a long time? If yes, then this book is write for you. This cookbook is a comprehensive canning guide created for today''s home cooks. The skills in this book covers water bath and pressure canning, pickling, fermenting, freezing, dehydrating, and smoking. Step-by-step instructions ensure success for beginners, so you can master the skills and preserve your food even if you have no experience in canning and preserving. So why not get a copy of this book if you need to preserve food?

"For the People" is less than 50 pages. It''s a contemporary devotional that will probably be about the same length as an "Our Daily Bread" book. The purpose of the book is to bring people to an awareness of how much better their life can be and the encourage them to improve the way they think about themselves.

Avec une curiosité et un humour inégalés, Mary Roach répond à toutes les questions que personne n''avait osé se poser sur la science des humains en guerre... Elle nous embarque ainsi dans une folle tournée de laboratoires pas comme les autres ! La voici esquivant les tirs hostiles avec une équipe de Paintball dans le cadre d''une étude sur la perte auditive, visitant le studio de mode de l''armée américaine pour révéler les dernières tendances, se rendant sur un tournage où des acteurs amputés aident à préparer les médecins au choc des blessures en combat réel ou s''inquiétant du manque de sommeil à bord d''un sous-marin nucléaire... La voici encore retraçant les efforts des chercheurs – pas toujours couronnées de succès – pour créer une bombe puante fatale ou un répulsif anti-requin, mener la guerre à la chaleur, aux mouches et même à la diarrhée !Une enquête décapante sur des chercheurs un peu particuliers, qui tentent de maintenir les êtres humains en un seul morceau, frais et dispos, sains, non infectés et non infestés... dans les circonstances bizarres et extrêmes qui sont celles de la guerre. Car la panique, l''épuisement, la chaleur, le bruit, la nourriture ou les insectes sont parfois encore plus à craindre que l''ennemi !

Spiriti e spiritelli, anime e fantasmi, ombre ed ectoplasmi, presenze, apparizioni, spettri e reincarnazioni. Sono da sempre la materia effimera di sacerdoti, sciamani e fattucchiere, l''ombra fugace di una domanda che contiene e genera tutte le altre, che ha dato vita alla religione e alla filosofia, alla magia e alla spiritualità: esiste una vita dopo la morte? Ma cosa succede quando sono gli scienziati a porsi questa domanda? Cosa succede quando il metodo scientifico prova a trascendere i propri limiti, cercando una verità sperimentale nell''occulto? Per raccontare questa unione improbabile ma essenziale tra razionalità e mistero, Mary Roach incontra uomini che affermano di essersi reincarnati in corpi di bambini, entra nel tribunale in cui la testimonianza di un fantasma è stata ammessa come prova, avanza tra il fumo e gli specchi della stanza di un medium e in laboratori in cui si tenta di catturare l''energia della coscienza; scopre volontari issati in punto di morte su una bilancia per misurare il peso dell''anima che li sta abbandonando e ci accompagna all''Università di Cambridge, dove è conservato l''unico esemplare al mondo di ectoplasma. Dalle sue esplorazioni nasce un resoconto rigoroso e dissacrante di come la ricerca affronti il paranormale, con esiti spesso sbalorditivi. Lugubri voci registrate di persone scomparse e sale operatorie in cui vengono analizzate le esperienze di pre-morte sono descritte con lo sguardo scettico della divulgatrice scientifica e il cuore aperto alla meraviglia di chi vorrebbe credere. Spettri è un viaggio della ragione nell''aldilà che con ironia e piglio gioiosamente macabro conquista anche il più arido fra i materialisti, declinando al presente le domande che accompagnano l''uomo fin dai tempi più remoti.

La nostra prossima casa la affitteremo in un altro pianeta del sistema solare. Trascorreremo le vacanze estive sulla Luna e nelle sere d''agosto ci ritroveremo a brindare a un cocktail party in qualche catena alberghiera su Marte. Tutto intorno a noi vedremo l''infinito, il firmamento, ascolteremo la musica abissale dei buchi neri, contempleremo quella sfera sublime e ridicola che è la Terra. Dopo millenni passati ad alloggiare sulla superficie terrestre – a camminarci, a inalarne gli odori e a solcarne il cielo e i mari – l''uomo sta per cambiare dimora. Probabilmente non avverrà domani, ma è certo che in un futuro non troppo remoto questo sogno sarà alla nostra portata. Eppure, nello spazio sembra mancare tutto ciò di cui abbiamo bisogno per sopravvivere: l''acqua, la gravità, l''aria. Mancano tutte le nostre irrinunciabili comodità, come profumate toilette, cibi esotici, la possibilità di fare romantiche camminate o di contemplare la variopinta bellezza dei fiori. Come reagirebbero il nostro corpo e la nostra psiche a tutte queste privazioni? Cosa succederebbe se durante il viaggio ci trovassimo a vomitare nel nostro casco da astronauti? Se fossimo costretti per settimane a non curare la nostra igiene? Se nei lunghi viaggi a bordo delle navicelle ci fosse precluso di fare l''amore? Per dare una risposta a tutti questi quesiti le agenzie spaziali hanno allestito sulla Terra innovativi e bizzarri ambienti per simulare le situazioni più estreme: prove dure e allo stesso tempo stravaganti alle quali deve sottoporsi chiunque desideri avventurarsi nell''universo. Con il suo avvincente stile narrativo Mary Roach descrive in modo arguto, divertente e irriverente tutti i compromessi che dovremmo accettare per lasciare il nostro pianeta e andare a vivere su Marte, raccontando aneddoti e incidenti – spesso tragicomici – capitati agli astronauti mentre si trovavano a fluttuare nel cosmo. Come vivremo su Marte non è solo una sorprendente guida per la sopravvivenza nello spazio, ma un''esplorazione di ciò che significa essere umani, con i nostri limiti, le nostre fragilità biologiche e culturali. A quanta normalità sapremo rinunciare? Per quanto tempo? E come ci trasformerà questa nuova vita?

「休士頓，我們發霉了！」 《紐約時報》暢銷書榜第六名暢銷書 AMAZON最佳當月好書，4.5顆星幾近完美讀者好評 第七屆全美「一城市一好書」舊金山最佳選書 電影〈絕地救援〉（書名：《火星任務》） 《不過是具屍體》、《大口一吞，然後呢？》之後，最搞怪的暢銷科普作家瑪莉．羅曲 帶你一窺所有為宇宙科學獻身的神奇事蹟！ 歡迎來到太空！你的身體飄了起來，進入無重力的奇異空間。踏出太空艙，緩緩漫步，感受無垠的宇宙，探索前所未有的世界…… 太空如此令人著迷，但想要來趟太空旅行，你得先做好心理準備。太空缺乏我們賴以生存的一切，沒有空氣、重力、水，沒有新鮮的食物，當然更沒有啤酒！除此之外，還有許多難題：坐太空船會不會暈機？在太空中怎麼洗澡跟上廁所？想打手槍時怎麼辦？如果一整年都無法落地走路，或是吃不到新鮮蔬果，會怎麼樣呢？ 為了回答這些問題，各國航太總署絞盡腦汁設計了各式各樣的太空模擬實驗，古怪的程度令人張目結舌： ．變身人體烤肉串，瘋狂旋轉逼吐的暈眩大挑戰「動暈症研究」。 ．連續一個月不換衣服不洗澡，挑戰人類忍受骯髒極限的「最低個人衛生實驗」。 ．NASA付錢讓你連續賴床三個月的超幸福「臥床飛行模擬」實驗。 ．測試食物脹氣係數與造成人體甲烷產生量的「豆類餐點實驗」。 ．從最高時速兩萬八千公里的座艙中逃脫的「太空跳傘任務」。 別小看這些搞笑實驗喔，這可是和太空人的性命息息相關呢。 本書作者瑪莉．羅曲是美國最幽默的科普作家，繼暢銷書《不過是具屍體》、《一起搞吧！科學與性的奇異交配》之後，這次她要帶你探索令人難以抗拒的太空旅行。從太空梭的馬桶使用訓練，到三萬六千公尺高的跳傘逃生測試，這是一趟絕無冷場的超現實科學之旅！ 【各界好評】 「在太空裡，沒人會聽見你發瘋似的咯咯笑聲，就像我閱讀本書的反應一樣。」——賈各布斯，《我的聖經狂想曲》作者 「全美最幽默的科普作家。」——比爾傑，《紐約客》撰稿人 「瑪莉．羅曲不僅值得信賴，有無窮的好奇心，而且還古怪得讓人樂不可支。她的研究一絲不苟，卻引人入勝。」——《西雅圖時報》 「瑪莉．羅曲妙筆生花……呈現出人類廣大、時而瘋狂的追尋中的眾多面向。」——《紐約時報》 「風趣、好奇，而且面對專家毫不膽怯的瑪莉．羅曲，是帶領讀者探索科學奧秘的完美人選。」——《新聞周刊》 出版社 貓頭鷹出版 (城邦)

Populair-wetenschappelijke beschrijving van verschillende wetenschappelijke onderzoeken naar de menselijke seksualiteit.

Dit keer neemt Roach de lezer mee op een spannende, ranzige en leerzame tocht langs het maag-darmkanaal. Hoe nemen we voedingsstoffen in ons op? Kun je zoveel eten dat je maag uit elkaar barst? Hoe werken je smaakpapillen? Kun je het overleven als je levend opgegeten wordt? Hap Slik Weg is verplichte kost voor wie houdt van ingenieuze woordspelingen, nieuwe inzichten en humor om van te schaterlachen.

Neues von der Meisterin der komischen Naturwissenschaften Wir riechen und schlürfen, schmecken, kauen, schlucken. Und dann? Was passiert mit Müsli, Steak, Salat und Cola, wenn sie im Schlund verschwunden sind? Mary Roach, die Spezialistin für das ungewöhnliche in den Naturwissenschaften, nimmt uns mit auf eine höchst unterhaltsame Reise durch den Verdauungsapparat – vom Mund bis zum After –, die keine Frage auslässt: Warum mögen wir so gern Knuspriges? Warum verdaut der Magen sich nicht selbst? Wie viel kann man essen, bevor der Magen platzt? Kann uns eine Verstopfung umbringen? (Und ist Elvis Presley vielleicht daran gestorben?) Mary Roach trifft Wissenschaftler, die sich furchtlos mit eher anrüchigen Themen befassen, besucht ein Tierfuttertestlabor, schaut dem Magen bei der Arbeit zu und untersucht den Darm als potentielles Versteck. Urkomisch und informativ.

The irresistible, ever-curious, and always bestselling Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm that people carry around inside.

"MARY ROACH powraca z nową, fascynującą książką! Uwielbiana przez czytelników autorka „BZYKA i SZTYWNIAKA” tym razem RUSZA W SZALONĄ PODRÓŻ PO PRZEWODZIE POKARMOWYM. Bez względu na to jak smaczną potrawą się delektujecie, jedzenie zawsze rozpoczyna swoją wędrówkę od jednego końca przewodu pokarmowego, by po jakimś czasie zakończyć ją w drugim. Co się dzieje w trakcie? Chcielibyście wiedzieć, ale wstydzicie się zapytać? Mary Roach postanowiła to sprawdzić. Przepytała naukowców i lekarzy, za pomocą maleńkiego cyfrowego aparatu podejrzała życie stu trylionów lokatorów naszych wnętrzności i dokładnie przestudiowała bristolską skalę uformowania stolca. Nawet przeszczep bakterii kałowych nie zdołał jej obrzydzić! Dzięki temu i my możemy poznać odpowiedź na dręczące nas pytania: • Dlaczego tak lubimy chrupiące potrawy? • Jak to się dzieje, że żołądki nie trawią same siebie? • Czy zaparcie może doprowadzić do zgonu? I czy właśnie z tego powodu umarł Elvis?"