Mary Roach

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND THE PERFECT READ FOR FANS OF UNNATURAL CAUSESWhat happens to your body after you have died?Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise?Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff lifts the lid off what happens to our bodies once we have died. Bold, original and with a delightful eye for detail, Roach tells us everything we wanted to know about this new frontier in medical science.Interweaving present-day explorations with a history of past attempts to study what it means to be human Stiff is a deliciously dark investigations for readers of popular science as well as fans of the macabre.'Spry, common, sharp-witted survey brings a whole new meaning to the phrase "Life after death"' Sunday Times'One of the funniest and most unusual books of the year' Entertainment Weekly'Every chapter packed with more arresting details elegantly humourously expressed than one can hope for' Sunday Telegraph

What happens when you vomit during a space walk? The bestselling author of Stiff explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravitySpace is devoid of the stuff humans need to live: air, gravity, hot showers, fresh veg, privacy, beer. How much can a person give up? What happens when you can't walk for a year? Is sex any fun in zero gravity? What's it like being cooped up in a metal box with a few people for months at a time? As Mary Roach discovers, it's possible to explore space without ever leaving Earth. From the space shuttle training toilet to a 17,000 mile-per-hour crash test of NASA's space capsule (cadaver stepping in), she takes us on a surreally entertaining trip into the science of living in space.

Kun puu tekee murhan!

Vastustamattoman hauska ja humaani teos luonnon ja ihmisten maailman välisistä yhteentörmäyksistä.

Miten on toimittava, kun hirvi kuljeskelee pihapiirissä kuin kotimetsässään? Tai kun karhu yllätetään murtautumasta asuntoon? Entäpä silloin, kun puu on tehnyt murhan? Lakia rikkoneet eläimet saattoivat 300 vuotta sitten saada syytteen ja avukseen puolustusasianajajan. Nykyisin vastauksia ei etsitä lakikirjoista, vaan ne pyritään löytämään tieteen avulla. Luomakunnan "rikoksia" ratkomaan on syntynyt erityinen monitieteinen tutkimusala, jossa tarvitaan niin ihmisen käyttäytymisen kuin eläinten ja kasvien biologian tuntemusta.

Amerikan hauskimmaksi tietokirjailijaksi sanottu Mary Roach kertoo rikospaikkatutkimuksen taidonnäytteistä ja eläinten genetiikan selvittelyn hienouksista ja yhdistelee tarinaan värikkäitä esimerkkejä käytännön kokemuksista. Ongelmat nousevat useammin ihmisten kuin eläinten toiminnasta - ja ihmisten on ne toiminnassaan ratkaistava.

Kalifornian Oaklandissa asuva Mary Roach on kirjoittanut useita kansainvälisesti suuren lukijakunnan saavuttaneita tietokirjoja. Hänen kirjoituksiaan on julkaisu myös mm. National Geographicissa ja New York Times Magazinessa.

Recent research, which Bone- Metabolic Function and Modulators expands on, has added new support to the idea that bone not only serves as a support system, but also functions as an integrating organ, with a significant regulatory role for lipid and energy metabolism. Links between physical activity and the skeleton are also becoming increasingly clear. This fully illustrated volume contains up-to-date information on the metabolic role of the skeleton and what this can mean for the treatment of metabolic as well as skeletal and auditory diseases. Bone- Metabolic Function and Modulators is of particular interest to clinician scientists, clinical and basic bone researchers, orthopedists, endocrinologists, internists, dentists, nurse practitioners, medical and dental residents and physiotherapists as well as students of the musculoskeletal system.Bone- Metabolic Function and Modulators is the seventh volume in the series Topics in Bone Biology, edited by Felix Bronner and Mary C. Farach-Carson.Other titles in this series:-Bone FormationBone Resorption Engineering of Functional Skeletal TissuesBone and OsteoarthritisBone and CancerBone and DevelopmentBone- Metabolic Function and Modulators is of particular interest to clinician scientists, clinical and basic bone researchers, orthopedists, endocrinologists, internists, dentists, nurse practitioners, medical and dental residents and physiotherapists as well as students of the musculoskeletal system.Bone- Metabolic Function and Modulators is the seventh volume in the series Topics in Bone Biology, edited by Felix Bronner and Mary C. Farach-Carson.Other titles in this series:-Bone FormationBone Resorption Engineering of Functional Skeletal TissuesBone and OsteoarthritisBone and CancerBone and DevelopmentBone- Metabolic Function andModulators is of particular interest to clinician scientists, clinical and basic bone researchers, orthopedists, endocrinologists, internists, dentists, nurse practitioners, medical and dental residents and physiotherapists as well as students of the musculoskeletal system.Bone- Metabolic Function and Modulators is the seventh volume in the series Topics in Bone Biology, edited by Felix Bronner and Mary C. Farach-Carson.Other titles in this series:-Bone FormationBone Resorption Engineering of Functional Skeletal TissuesBone and OsteoarthritisBone and CancerBone and Development

This, the sixth volume in a series of reviews centered on a single major topic in osteopathy, examines pediatric bone development. It covers problematic aspects from basic skeletal growth to tooth mineralization, and synthesizes theory and practice.

Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal – let alone have pondered the results (of the research). How have physicists made crisps crispier? What do laundry detergent and saliva have in common? Was self-styled ‘nutritional economist’ Horace Fletcher right to persuade millions of people that chewing a bite of shallot seven hundred times would yield double the vitamins?

In her trademark, laugh-out-loud style, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examining prison guards, competitive hot dog eaters, Elvis'' doctor, and many more as she investigates the beginning, and the end, of our food.