Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal

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  • Author: Roach, Mary
    Contributor:

    Zeller, Emily Woo

    Summary:

    The irresistible, ever-curious, and bestselling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.

    Contents:
    • Nose job: tasting has little to do with taste
    • I'll have the putrescine: your pet is not like you
    • Liver and opinions: why we eat what we eat and despise the rest
    • The longest meal: can thorough chewing lower the national debt?
    • Hard to stomach: the acid relationship of William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin
    • Spit gets a polish: someone ought to bottle the stuff
    • A bolus of cherries: life at the oral processing lab
    • Big gulp: how to survive being swallowed alive
    • Dinner's revenge: can the eaten eat back?
    • Stuffed: the science of eating yourself to death
    • Up theirs: the alimentary canal as criminal accomplice
    • Inflammable you: fun with hydrogen and methane
    • Dead man's bloat: and other diverting tales from the history of flatulence research
    • Smelling a rat: does noxious flatus do more than clear a room?
    • Eating backward: is the digestive tract a two-way street?
    • I'm all stopped up: Elvis Presley's megacolon, and other ruminations on death by constipation
    • The ick factor: we can cure you, but there's just one thing.
    Genre: Science
    Original Publisher: Old Saybrook , Tantor Audio
    Language(s): English
    ISBN:

    9781452683423

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    1452683425

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    9781452693422

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    1452693420

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DC Contributor

Zeller, Emily Woo

Abstract

The irresistible, ever-curious, and bestselling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.

Genre
Science
Publisher (Source)

Old Saybrook

Tantor Audio

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