Gulp: adventures on the alimentary canal
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New York : W.W. Norton & Company, [2022].
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Book
Physical Desc:
348 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Longmont Adult Nonfiction
612.3 ROA
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Apr 6, 2024
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"The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of—or has the courage to ask." --Publisher.
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APA Citation (style guide)
Roach, M. (2022). Gulp: adventures on the alimentary canal. New York, W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Roach, Mary. 2022. Gulp: Adventures On the Alimentary Canal. New York, W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Roach, Mary, Gulp: Adventures On the Alimentary Canal. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
MLA Citation (style guide)Roach, Mary. Gulp: Adventures On the Alimentary Canal. New York, W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Note! Citation formats are based on standards as of July 2022. Citations contain only title, author, edition, publisher, and year published. Citations should be used as a guideline and should be double checked for accuracy.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Nose job: tasting has little to do with taste -- I'll have the putrescine: your pet is not like you -- Liver and opinions: why we eat what we eat and despise the rest -- The longest meal: can thorough chewing lower the national debt? -- Hard to stomach: the acid relationship of William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin -- Spit gets a polish: someone ought to bottle the stuff -- A bolus of cherries: life at the oral processing lab -- Big gulp: how to survive being swallowed alive -- Dinner's revenge: can the eaten eat back? -- Stuffed: the science of eating yourself to death -- Up theirs: the alimentary canal as criminal accomplice -- Inflammable you: fun with hydrogen and methane -- Dead man's bloat: and other diverting tales from the history of flatulence research -- Smelling a rat: does noxious flatus do more than clear a room? -- Eating backward: is the digestive tract a two-way street? -- I'm all stopped up: Elvis Presley's megacolon, and other ruminations on death by constipation -- The ick factor: we can cure you, but there's just one thing. | |
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Language:
English
ISBN:
9781324036067, 1324036060
Lexile measure:
1100
Notes
General Note
Includes reading group guide.
General Note
"First published as a Norton paperback 2014" --Copyright page.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [333]-348)
Description
"The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as taboo, in their way, as the cadavers in Stiff and every bit as surreal as the universe of zero gravity explored in Packing for Mars. Why is crunchy food so appealing? Why is it so hard to find words for flavors and smells? Why doesn’t the stomach digest itself? How much can you eat before your stomach bursts? Can constipation kill you? Did it kill Elvis? In Gulp we meet scientists who tackle the questions no one else thinks of—or has the courage to ask." --Publisher.
