Gulp. Adventures on the alimentary canal: Travels Around the Gut - Brossura

Roach, Mary

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1780749899 ISBN 13: 9781780749891

Casa editrice: One World, 2016

Riassunto

In her fantastically disgusting international bestseller, Mary Roach dives into the strange wet miracles of science that operate inside us after every meal

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY WINTON PRIZE 2014

‘Almost every page made me laugh out loud.’ The Sunday Times, Best Science Books of 2013

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.

‘A wonderful nonfiction read… The journalism is gripping and the writing is intensely funny. If biology had been like this at school, my life would have taken a different path.’ Observer, Hidden Gems of 2016

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: One World
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1780749899
• ISBN 13: 9781780749891
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile