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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
: :The best-selling author of Stiff turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex.The study of sexual physiologywhat happens, and why, and how to make it happen betterhas been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists as far-ranging as Leonardo da Vinci and James Watson. The research has taken place behind the closed doors of laboratories, brothels, MRI centers, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs, and Alfred Kinsey's attic.Mary ...
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
:Book Description:'One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year....Gross, educational, and unexpectedly sidesplitting.'Entertainment Weekly Stiff is an oddly compelling, often hilarious exploration of the strange lives of our bodies postmortem. For two thousand years, cadaverssome willingly, some unwittinglyhave 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 ...
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
: :If author Mary Roach was a college professor, she'd have a zero drop-out rate. That's because when Roach tackles a subject--like the posthumous human body in her previous bestseller, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, or the soul in the winning Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife--she charges forth with such zeal, humor, and ingenuity that her students (er, readers) feel like they're witnessing the most interesting thing on Earth. Who the heck would skip that? As Roach ...
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
: :If author Mary Roach was a college professor, she'd have a zero drop-out rate. That's because when Roach tackles a subject--like the posthumous human body in her previous bestseller, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, or the soul in the winning Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife--she charges forth with such zeal, humor, and ingenuity that her students (er, readers) feel like they're witnessing the most interesting thing on Earth. Who the heck would skip that? As Roach ...
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Dress and Identity
: :If author Mary Roach was a college professor, she'd have a zero drop-out rate. That's because when Roach tackles a subject--like the posthumous human body in her previous bestseller, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, or the soul in the winning Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife--she charges forth with such zeal, humor, and ingenuity that her students (er, readers) feel like they're witnessing the most interesting thing on Earth. Who the heck would skip that? As Roach ...
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The Straight Story
: :If author Mary Roach was a college professor, she'd have a zero drop-out rate. That's because when Roach tackles a subject--like the posthumous human body in her previous bestseller, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, or the soul in the winning Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife--she charges forth with such zeal, humor, and ingenuity that her students (er, readers) feel like they're witnessing the most interesting thing on Earth. Who the heck would skip that? As Roach ...
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Stiff
: :Paperback, 2003 Copyright. Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach.
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DRESS, ADORNMENT, AND THE SOCIAL ORDER
: :Paperback, 2003 Copyright. Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach.
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Dress, Adornment and the Social Order
: :Paperback, 2003 Copyright. Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach.
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Mitchell family history related to Nathan Logan Rice and Nancy Jane Willis Mitchell
: :Paperback, 2003 Copyright. Stiff, The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach.
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