New Releases by Mary Roach

Mary Roach is the author of Entre Piernas (2012), Was macht der Astronaut, wenn er mal muss? (2012), 打包去火星 (2012), Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void (2011), Секс для науки, наука для секса (2011).

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Entre Piernas

release date: Apr 01, 2012
Entre Piernas
"Roach explica en este libro por qué la excitación sexual y el orgasmo (dos de los fenómenos naturales más complejos, curiosos y gratos) pueden ser tan difíciles de alcanzar y qué está haciendo la ciencia para lograr que la cama sea un mueble cada vez más ameno pars sus usuarios"--Page 4 of cover.

Was macht der Astronaut, wenn er mal muss?

release date: Jan 01, 2012
Was macht der Astronaut, wenn er mal muss?
Wenn es beim äMüssenä mal daneben geht, 14 Tage bei minimaler Hygiene im Raumanzug, seltsam anmutende Stresstests wie das Falten von Kranichen, Flüge im äKotzbomberä, Belastungstests an lebenden und toten Objekten u.a.: salopper und oft ironischer Blick hinter die Kulissen der Hochglanzraumfahrt.

打包去火星

release date: Jan 01, 2012

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

release date: Apr 04, 2011
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
“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.

Секс для науки, наука для секса

release date: Jan 01, 2011

Ik ga naar Mars en neem mee...

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Ik ga naar Mars en neem mee...
Beschrijving van ongewone aspecten van ruimtereizen zoals de psychologie van eenzame opsluiting en de gevolgen van gewichtsloosheid.

Ale kosmos!

release date: Jan 01, 2011
Ale kosmos!
Space is devoid of the stuff humans need to live: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh veg, privacy, beer. How much can a person give up? What happens when you can''t walk for a year? Is sex any fun in zero gravity? As Mary Roach discovers, it''s possible to explore space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a 17,000-mile-per-hour crash test of NASA''s space capsule, she takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of living in space.

Sztywniak

release date: Jan 01, 2010
Sztywniak
A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.

一起搞吧!

release date: Nov 01, 2009
一起搞吧!
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.

Crossed Genres Issue 11

release date: Sep 28, 2009
Crossed Genres Issue 11
- 5 disturbing tales of horror - "A Witch By Any Other Name" by Cynthia Jerkins - Interview with Mary Roach, author of "Stiff", "Spook" and "Bonk" - twisted artwork "Uranophobia" by Erika "Thrivis" Harm - Creepy cover art "Terrorific" by Jonatan Iversen-Ejve

Six Feet Over

release date: Aug 06, 2009
Six Feet Over
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 humour and curiosity on the human soul, seeking answers from a varied and fascinating crew of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. Along the way she encounters electromagnetic hauntings, out-of-body experiences, ghosts and lawsuits: Mary Roach sifts and weighs the evidence in her hilarious, inimitable style.

Bonk

release date: Jan 01, 2008
Bonk
The bestselling author of "Stiff" turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. In "Bonk," 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. 16 illustrations.

Godere. Orgasmo: il curioso accoppiamento tra scienza e sesso

release date: Jan 01, 2008

Fiambres

release date: Oct 01, 2007
Fiambres
Las macabras entidades que integran el dramatis personae de la última obra de Mary Roach figurarían, sin lugar a dudas, entre las más infelices que pueda concebir la fantasía si no fuera por la penosa circunstancia de que no son hijas de la imaginación. Pese al escalofrío o el desaliento que invade al delicado lector tras un primer acercamiento a tan lúgubre materia, la lectura de estas páginas acaba provocando involuntarias sonrisas y recias carcajadas. Porque Fiambres es una exploración contagiosamente alegre de las crueles diligencias practicadas con algunos de nuestros cuerpos cuando, una vez exhalado el último suspiro, los abandonamos a su suerte en los escatológicos umbrales de la tumba: cadáveres abiertos en canal y en el altar de la ciencia, difuntos que contribuyen al progreso de la medicina con los genitales perforados o los ojos extraídos, fiambres arrojados desde aviones o cosidos a balazos para verificar la eficiencia de nuevas armas, despojos crucificados como Nuestro Señor o devorados por gusanos, materia inerte que alcanza por fin la transubstanciación en forma de abono... Por muy gris que haya sido su existencia en este valle de lágrimas, cualquiera puede redimirse post mortem e incluso, con un poco de suerte, incorporarse a la grandiosa epopeya del conocimiento humano: “Un tipo de lo más normal que decide donar sus órganos puede convertirse, de repente, en un héroe”. La intrépida Mary Roach ha escrito con morbosa erudición e irreverente ingenio una obra que se adentra en el más allá para mostrarnos el lado más visible y deplorable de la otra vida. Mary Roach es periodista y licenciada en psicología. Sus artículos han sido publicados por Salon, Wired, Outside, GQ, Discover, Reader’s Digest, Vogue y New York Times Magazine. Vive y trabaja en San Francisco

魂灵

release date: Jan 01, 2007
魂灵
本书记述了历史上人们对灵魂的探索历程,并亲自进行了从印度农村开始到弗吉尼亚大学的一间手术室结束,长达一年的探索。

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

release date: Sep 26, 2006
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
The author looks to science to determine whether the human soul exists in death, and travels to various places around the world to discuss supernatural occurrences with spirit guides and mediums.

Macchabées

release date: Jan 01, 2005
Macchabées
Depuis deux mille ans, nous participons après notre mort, volontairement ou non, aux avancées les plus audacieuses et aux expériences les plus étranges de la science. Autrefois disséqués dans les amphithéâtres des écoles de médecine, les cadavres ont contribué aux progrès de la chirurgie. Plus récemment, ils ont notamment permis de démontrer l''utilité de la ceinture de sécurité, ont aidé un étudiant du Tennessee à discréditer la théorie de la combustion spontanée du corps humain et ont été analysés dans un laboratoire parisien pour évaluer l''authenticité du suaire de Turin. Cette enquête pimentée d''un humour noir jubilatoire s''attache à montrer à quel point l''univers du cadavre est immense et ses usages, infinis. Des laboratoires-ateliers de chirurgie esthétique aux centres de recherche sur le compost humain en passant par les écoles de thanatopraxie, c''est un voyage dans un au-delà très concret qui nous est proposé.

Stecchiti. Le vite curiose dei cadaveri

release date: Jan 01, 2005

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

release date: May 17, 2004
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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

不過是具屍體

release date: Jan 01, 2004

Rigor mortis

release date: Jan 01, 2003
Rigor mortis
Beschouwingen over medische en culturele aspecten van de dood, lijkverzorging, soms bizarre medische en technische experimenten met stoffelijke resten en het gebruik van organen van doden ten behoeve van levenden.

Z[Z Boson + Photon] Cross-section Measurement, [sigma] * BR(Z[Z Boson + Photon]) in the Electron Channel for Pp̄ Collisions at [sqrt.]s

release date: Jan 01, 1994

Sacraments

release date: Jan 01, 1988

The Incidence of Family Problems in Recommended Literature for Children in Grades Kindergarten Through Six Published 1953-1963

The Development of the Foul Metanephrose in Vivo and in Vitro

A Follow-up Study of the Graduates of Wink High School, Wink, Texas 1935-1939

The History of Mexican Land with Special Consideration of the Modern Agrarian Situation

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