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2024., Adolescent, Hyperion Call No: MYSTERY F ROA Edition: First edition. Availability:0 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Told in alternating voices, teenagers Lucy and Audrey investigate a town full of secrets, a family full of mystery, and an abandoned amusement park where people keep turning up dead.
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By Roach, Mary2022., W W NORTON Call No: ANIMALS NF ROA Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Join "America's funniest science writer" (Peter Carlson, Washington Post) Mary Roach on an irresistible investigation into the unpredictable world where wildlife and humans meet. What's to be done about a jaywalking moose? A grizzly bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? As New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach discovers, the answers are best found not in jurisprudence but in science: the curious science of human-wildlife conflict, a discipline at the crossroads of human behavior and wildlife biology. Roach tags along with animal attack forensics investigators, human-elephant conflict specialists, bear managers, and "danger tree" faller-blasters. She travels from leopard-terrorized hamlets in the Indian Himalaya to St. Peter's Square in the early hours before the Pope arrives for Easter Mass, when vandal gulls swoop in to destroy the elaborate floral display. Along the way, Roach reveals as much about humanity as about nature's lawbreakers. Combining little-known forensic science and conservation genetics with a motley cast of laser scarecrows, langur impersonators, and mugging macaques, Fuzz offers hope for compassionate coexistence in our ever-expanding human habitat" --
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By Roach, Mary[2016], W.W. Norton & Company Call No: HIGH INTEREST NF 355 .07 0973 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Examines the scientific aspects of keeping soldiers healthy, awake, uninfected, and sane in the often bizarre and extreme conditions of war, following the author on her explorations of different military circumstances--from taking part in a US Marine Corps Paintball Team drill to study the effects of hearing loss on the battlefield, to staying up all night with a crew tending missiles on the nuclear submarine USS "Tennessee."
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By Roach, Mary[2016], W. W. Norton & Company Call No: 355 ROA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)
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By Roach, Mary2017., W.W. Norton & Company Call No: Historical 355.07 Roa Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: Examines the scientific aspects of keeping soldiers healthy, awake, uninfected, and sane in the often bizarre and extreme conditions of war, following the author on her explorations of different military circumstances--from taking part in a US Marine Corps Paintball Team drill to study the effects of hearing loss on the battlefield, to staying up all night with a crew tending missiles on the nuclear submarine USS "Tennessee."
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By Roach, Mary[2013], W.W. Norton & Co. Call No: LIfe Science Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines the alimentary canal and the digestive system, answering such questions as, can constipation kill a person, why the stomach doesn't digest itself, how much can be eaten before the stomach bursts, and more.
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By Roach, Mary[2013], W.W. Norton & Company Call No: HI-INT 612.3 ROA Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Provides an in-depth examination of the human digestive process beginning with the nose and ending with excreted waste. Discusses smells and flavors, the inside of the human stomach, constipation, and other related topics.
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By Roach, Mary[2013], The Reader's Digest Association, Inc. Call No: HI-INT 818 .602 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Presents a collection of humorous essays in which the author discusses a range of everyday topics, from automated customer service to the pros and cons of bedroom nightlights. Offers witty observations on these topics and others while seeking to point out the things that make each day amusing and special.
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By Roach, Mary2006., W.W. Norton Call No: LIfe Science Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Draws on the achievements of scientists, engineers, and mediums to consider the feasibility of life after death, from a reincarnation researcher's experimentation with out-of-body experiences to laboratory investigations into ghosts.
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By Roach, Mary2006, c2005., W.W. Norton and Co. Call No: 129 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores scientific and religious explanations of life after death in various cultures around the world. Includes information on reincarnation, ghosts, and out-of-body experiences.
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By Roach, Maryc2003., W.W. Norton & Co. Call No: LIfe Science Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Table of contents
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By Roach, Maryc2003., W.W. Norton & Co. Call No: 611 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Examines what is done with dead bodies and for what purposes and includes discussions on the army testing the effects of new rifles on cadavers, experiments with guillotines, and how dead people were the first to ride NASA space shuttles.
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By Roach, Maryc2003., W. W. Norton Call No: 611 Edition: 1st ed. Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores how human cadavers have been used throughout history, discussing how the use of dead bodies has benefited every aspect of human existence.
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By Roach, Maryc2003., W. W. Norton Call No: 611 Roa Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Explores how human cadavers have been used throughout history, discussing how the use of dead bodies has benefited every aspect of human existence.
