The Resource Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal, Mary Roach
Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal, Mary Roach
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Resource Information
The item Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal, Mary Roach represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Wilmington Memorial Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- Few of us realize what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal. In her trademark style, Mary Roach investigates the beginning, and end, of our food, addressing such questions as why crunchy food is so appealing, how much we can eat before our stomachs burst, and whether constipation killed Elvis
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 348 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780393081572
- Label
- Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal
- Title
- Gulp
- Title remainder
- adventures on the alimentary canal
- Statement of responsibility
- Mary Roach
- Title variation
- Adventures on the alimentary canal
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Few of us realize what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal. In her trademark style, Mary Roach investigates the beginning, and end, of our food, addressing such questions as why crunchy food is so appealing, how much we can eat before our stomachs burst, and whether constipation killed Elvis
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Roach, Mary
- Dewey number
- 612.3
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- QP145
- LC item number
- .R53 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Digestive organs
- Alimentary canal
- Gastrointestinal system
- Label
- Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal, Mary Roach
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 1389863
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 348 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393081572
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2012050391
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1389863
- (OCoLC)811599508
- Label
- Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal, Mary Roach
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 1389863
- Dimensions
- 22 cm.
- Edition
- First edition
- Extent
- 348 pages
- Isbn
- 9780393081572
- Isbn Type
- (hbk.)
- Lccn
- 2012050391
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1389863
- (OCoLC)811599508
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