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Title: GULP
ADVENTURES ON THE ALIMENTARY CANAL
By: Mary Roach
Format: Electronic book text

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ISBN 10: 1780742193
ISBN 13: 9781780742199
Publisher: ONEWORLD PUBLICATIONS
Pub. date: 4 January, 2013
Pages: 336
Description: Shortlisted for the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2014In her fantastically disgusting international bestseller, Mary Roach dives into the strange wet miracles of science that operate inside us after every meal
Synopsis: Eating is the most pleasurable, gross, necessary, unspeakable biological process we undertake. But very few of us realise what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal - let alone have pondered the results (of the research). How have physicists made crisps crispier? What do laundry detergent and saliva have in common? Was self-styled `nutritional economist' Horace Fletcher right to persuade millions of people that chewing a bite of shallot seven hundred times would yield double the vitamins? In her trademark, laugh-out-loud style, Mary Roach breaks bread with spit connoisseurs, beer and pet-food tasters, stomach slugs, potato crisp engineers, enema exorcists, rectum-examining prison guards, competitive hot dog eaters, Elvis' doctor, and many more as she investigates the beginning, and the end, of our food.
Illustrations: 18 Illustrations, black and white
Publication: UK
Imprint: Oneworld Publications
Returns: Non-returnable
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