Author: Mary Roach

For two thousand years, cadavers some willingly, some unwittingly have been involved in sciences boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. Theyv...

Whats to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel? Mary Roach delves into the unpredictable wor...

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 per...

Americas funniest science writer (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach ter...

The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shutt...

Whats to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the l...

A finalist for the Los Angeles Times Science & Technology Book Prize The most entertaining writer in science The Times, Books of the Year Wa...

Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversariespanic, exhaustion, heat, noiseand introduces us to the scientists ...

Whats to be done about a drunken elephant? A monkey caught mugging passers-by? A trespassing squirrel? Mary Roach delves into the unpredictable wor...

For fans of Gut by Giulia Enders Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake. But very few of us...

What happens to you when you cant walk for a year? When you cant have sex? Or smell flowers? What happens if you vomit in your helmet during a spac...

The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. From the Space Shutt...

Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversariespanic, exhaustion, heat, noiseand introduces us to the scientists ...

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 ...