Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
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| Author | Mary Roach |
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| Audio read by | Emily Woo Zeller |
| Language | English |
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| Genre | Nonfiction |
| Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Publication date | April 2013 |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Hardback |
| Pages | 352 |
| ISBN | 0393081575 |
| OCLC | 811599508 |
Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal is a nonfiction work by science author Mary Roach, published in April 2013 by W.W. Norton & Company.
The book covers 17 topics:
- Nose Job: Tasting has little to do with taste
- I'll Have the Putrescine: Your pet is not like you.[1]
- 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.[2]
- 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.[3]
- 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.[4]
- The Ick Factor: We can cure you, but there's just one thing