Gulp

MARY ROACH is the author of "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers," "Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife," "Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex," and "Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void." She lives in Oakland, California.

出版者:W. W. Norton & Company

作者:Roach, Mary

页数:352

出版时间:2013-4-1

价格:GBP 21.99

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780393081572

图书标签:科普幽默Mary_Roachscience英文原版美国Non-fiction语音书

"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.

用户评价

rocks, but not all subjects are as fun

lol I like this book! it talks about GI anatomy and sciences in such a funny way. Mary must be a genius and I am going to find her other works.

very interesting book,cat can not feel the sweetness of foods,rectum and sex,drug.saliva has anticeptic effects.

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