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Animal Vegetable Criminal by Mary Roach
$40.00 AUD
Category: Contemporary Thought
What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? We've never been good at sharing the planet... In the past, when wild animals 'broke the law', they might be given lawyers and put on trial. But what's the solution now, as we humans increasingly ...Show more
Fuzz - When Nature Breaks the Law by Mary Roach
$50.00 AUD
Category: Science
What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? Three hundred years ago, animals that broke the law would be assigned legal representation and put on trial. These days, as New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best fou ...Show more
Grunt - The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach
$28.00 AUD
Category: Science
grunt n. informal a low-ranking soldier At a converted movie studio amputee actors help prepare army medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds, while at the base for anti-terror operations in East Africa diarrhoea threatens national security. Beyond weapons and strategy, this is about the other sid ...Show more
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
$24.95 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we humans undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal. In her trademark style, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs and enema exorcists, stomach sl ...Show more
Gulp - Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
$30.00 AUD
Category: Health
"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 explore ...Show more
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by Mary Roach
$19.00 AUD
Category: Words & Ideas
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorThe irresistible, ever-curious, and always bestselling Mary Roach 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 ever bit as s ...Show more
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void by Mary Roach
$25.00 AUD
Category: Science
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 some ways an exploration of what it means to be human. How much can a person give up? How much weirdness can they take? What happens to you when you can t wa ...Show more
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