For many years, the issues raised in this book were taboo. The topic of digestion has always been beyond the bounds of decency. In this book, famous writer M...

We have before us a wonderful, sometimes even funny study of the unusual life of our bodies after death. For two thousand years, human corpses (sometimes con...

Best-selling author Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme cir...

From acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her “My Planet” articles published in Reader’s Digest. The ...

The study of sexual physiology - what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better - has been a paying career or a diverting sideline for scientists...

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 g...

Until the middle of the 20th century, sexual psychology and physiology were practically not studied, as if sex was a shameful secret and not a common biologi...

The usual heroes of space, whom we know from official portraits and reports, appear in this book in a completely different form. Why did the psychological se...

In her new book, Mary Roach tries to understand what happens to us after we die. Where and to whom do souls move after death? Is it true that the sounds that...

The irresistible, ever-curious, and always best-selling Mary Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm we carry around inside.“America’s f...

“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) returns to explore the irresistibly strange universe of life without gravity in this New York Times ...