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Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal / Mary Roach.
The bestselling author of Stiff takes on the curious, hilarious intersection of delight and disgust that is digestion.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781780742199
- ISBN: 1780742193
- ISBN: 9780393240306
- ISBN: 0393240304
- Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 340 pages) : illustrations
- Publisher: London : Oneworld, 2013.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 323-338). |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Contents; Introduction; 1 Nose Job: Tasting has little to do with taste; 2 I'll Have the Putrescine: Your pet is not like you; 3 Liver and Opinions: Why we eat what we eat and despise the rest; 4 The Longest Meal: Can thorough chewing lower the national debt?; 5 Hard to Stomach: The acid relationship of William Beaumont and Alexis St Martin; 6 Spit Gets a Polish: Someone ought to bottle the stuff; 7 A Bolus of Cherries: Life at the oral processing lab; 8 Big Gulp: How to survive being swallowed alive. 9 Dinner's Revenge: Can the eaten eat back?10 Stuffed: The science of eating yourself to death; 11 Up Theirs: The alimentary canal as criminal accomplice; 12 Inflammable You: Fun with hydrogen and methane; 13 Dead Man's Bloat: And other diverting tales from the history of flatulence research; 14 Smelling a Rat: Does noxious flatus do more than clear a room?; 15 Eating Backwards: Is the digestive tract a two-way street?; 16 I'm All Stopped Up: Elvis Presley's megacolon, and other ruminations on death by constipation. 17 The Ick Factor: We can cure you, but there's just one thingAcknowledgements; Bibliography; Illustration Credits; About the Author. |
| Source of Description Note: | Print version record. |
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