Mary Roach - Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife [epub]

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
Author: Mary Roach

The best-selling author of ?Stiff ?and ?Bonk? trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.

"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that—the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.

English | 2013 | EPUB | 509 pages | 278 KB

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Mary Roach - Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex [epub]

Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
Author: Mary Roach

Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as sex, and few writers are as entertaining about the subject as Mary Roach.Can a woman think herself to orgasm?Is your penis three inches longer than you think?Why doesn't Viagra help women - or, for that matter, pandas?Does orgasm boost fertility? Or cure hiccups?The study of sexual physiology - what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better - has been taking place behind closed doors for hundreds of years. In this fascinating and funny book, Mary Roach steps inside laboratories, brothels, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs - even Alfred Kinsey's attic - to tell us everything we wanted to know about sex, and a lot we'd never even thought to ask.

English | 2009 | EPUB | 555 pages | 322 KB

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Mary Roach - Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers [mobi]

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Author: Mary Roach

What 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.

English | 2013 | MOBI | 502 pages | 662 KB

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