Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal
Record details
- ISBN: 9780393081572 (hc.) :
- ISBN: 0393081575 (hc.)
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Physical Description:
print
348 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, c2013.
Content descriptions
General Note: | New September 2014. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
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Subject: | Digestive organs -- Popular works Alimentary canal -- Popular works Gastrointestinal system -- Popular works |
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- 14 of 15 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Prince Rupert Library | 612.3 Roac (Text) | 33294001856194 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |