The best-selling author of ?Stiff ?and ?Bonk? trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that―the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness...
The study of sexual physiology - what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better - has 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...
Best-selling author 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...
From acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her “My Planet” articles published in Reader’s Digest. The quirky, brilliant author takes a magnifying glass to everyday life, exposing moments of...
Best-selling author 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...
The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.
“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an...
“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...