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Mary Roach
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Etna, New Hampshire, The United States
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Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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2003
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86 editions
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Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
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2010
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66 editions
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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
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2008
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77 editions
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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2013
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24 editions
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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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2005
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55 editions
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Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
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published
2021
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23 editions
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Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
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published
2016
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33 editions
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My Planet: Finding Humor in the Oddest Places
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2013
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12 editions
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011
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2010
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11 editions
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Packing for Mars for Kids
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“The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.”
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“Life contains these things: leakage and wickage and discharge, pus and snot and slime and gleet. We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
“We are biology. We are reminded of this at the beginning and the end, at birth and at death. In between we do what we can to forget.”
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
― Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
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