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Gulp: Travels Around the Gut
Mary Roach
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Description for Gulp: Travels Around the Gut
Paperback. Shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2014 In her fantastically disgusting international bestseller, Mary Roach dives into the strange wet miracles of science that operate inside us after every meal Num Pages: 352 pages, 18 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: MFG; PDZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 27. Weight in Grams: 328.
For fans of Gut by Giulia Enders 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? ... Read more
For fans of Gut by Giulia Enders 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? ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oneworld Publications
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780749891
SKU
V9781780749891
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99-5
About Mary Roach
Mary Roach is the bestselling author of several popular science books. She has written for the Guardian, Wired, BBC Focus, GQ and Vogue and many other publications. She lives in California.
Reviews for Gulp: Travels Around the Gut
`A wonderful nonfiction read...The journalism is gripping and the writing is intensely funny. If biology had been like this at school, my life would have taken a different path'.
Viv Groskop
Observer, Hidden Gems of 2016
`The funniest book [of the year] by far... almost every page made me laugh out loud.'
Sunday Times, Best Science ... Read more
Viv Groskop
Observer, Hidden Gems of 2016
`The funniest book [of the year] by far... almost every page made me laugh out loud.'
Sunday Times, Best Science ... Read more