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- 2022
- Book Title
- Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
- ISBN
- 9781324036067
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324036060
ISBN-13
9781324036067
eBay Product ID (ePID)
23058380268
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
96 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Gulp : Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
Subject
Diseases / Gastrointestinal, Life Sciences / Anatomy & Physiology (See Also Life Sciences / Human Anatomy & Physiology), Gastroenterology
Publication Year
2022
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Health & Fitness, Science, Medical
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
14.8 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in
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You'll come away from this well-researched book with enough weird digestive trivia to make you the most interesting guest at a certain kind of cocktail party...Go ahead and put this one in your carry-on. You won't regret it., As probing as an endoscopy, Gulp is quintessential Mary Roach: supremely wide-ranging, endlessly curious, always surprising, and, yes, gut-wrenchingly funny., With the same eager curiosity that she previously brought to the subjects of cadavers, space, and sex, the author explores the digestive system, from mouth to colon., Never before has the process of eating been so very interesting.... After digesting her book, you can't help but think about what that really means., "Far and away her funniest and most sparkling book, bringing Ms. Roach's love of weird science to material that could not have more everyday relevance. . . . Never has Ms. Roach's affinity for the comedic and bizarre been put to better use. . . . "Gulp" is structured as a vastly entertaining pilgrimage down the digestive tract, with Ms. Roach as the wittiest, most valuable tour guide imaginable.", Once again Roach boldly goes where no author has gone before, into the sciences of the taboo, the macabre, the icky, and the just plain weird. And she conveys it all with a perfect touch: warm, lucid, wry, sharing the unavoidable amusement without ever resorting to the cheap or the obvious. Yum!, A witty, woving romp of a book... Roach...is a thoroughly unflappable, utterly intrepid investigator of the icky., "One of my top criteria for pronouncing a book worthwhile is the number of times you snort helplessly with laughter and say, "Wow! Did you know that ... " before your long-suffering spouse throws a book at you from across the room. My personal spouse says that, in this department, "Gulp" takes the cake.", Letting this brilliantly mischievous writer, for whom no pun is ouch and no cow sacred, dip her pen into the font of all potty humor must have seemed even riskier than her previous excursions into corpses (Stiff), the afterlife (Spook), sex (Bonk) and outer space (Packing for Mars). But dip she did--at one point she put her whole arm into a cow's belly--and came up with another quirkily informative pop-science entertainment in Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal., [A] merry foray into the digestive sciences....Inexorably draws the reader along with peristaltic waves of history and vividly described science., There is much to enjoy about Mary Roach--her infectious aw for quirky science and its nerdy adherents, her one-liners... She is beloved, and justifiably so.
Synopsis
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 unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars . Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn't the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of--or has the courage to ask. We go on location to a pet-food taste-test lab, a fecal transplant, and into a live stomach to observe the fate of a meal. With Roach at our side, we travel the world, meeting murderers and mad scientists, Eskimos and exorcists (who have occasionally administered holy water rectally), rabbis and terrorists--who, it turns out, for practical reasons do not conceal bombs in their digestive tracts. Like all of Roach's books, Gulp is as much about human beings as it is about human bodies., The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.
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