Mary Roach
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Mary Roach was born and raised in Etna, New Hampshire. She has a BA degree in psychology from Wesleyan University. She spent a few years as a free-lance copy editor before she landed a job at the San Francisco Zoological Society turning out press releases. She then moved on to write humor pieces visa mer for such periodicals as The New York Times Magazine, The San Francisco Chronicle and Sports Illustrated. Her article "How to Win at Germ Warfare" was a National Magazine Award Finalist, in 1995. In 1996, her article on earthquake-proof bamboo houses took the Engineering Journalism Award. She published several books such as Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers (2003) and Packing for Mars (2010). Mary's title Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, made the New York Times Bestseller list in 2016. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre
Foto taget av: At TED conference 2009-02-06. Photo by Bill Holsinger-Robinson.
Verk av Mary Roach
Grunt and Gulp Mary Roach Collection 2 Books Bundle - The Curious Science of Humans at War, Travels Around the Gut (2016) 3 exemplar
The Prince and the Pauper 1 exemplar
New World Pompeii 1 exemplar
1996 Sex: No Shortage Yet 1 exemplar
1996 Sex: Don't Fertilize, Neutralize 1 exemplar
Bamboo Solution 1 exemplar
Secrets of the Shamans 1 exemplar
Science Books Mary Roach Collection 3 Books Bundle (Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, Stiff: The Curious… (2016) 1 exemplar
Two-Minute Revelation 1 exemplar
Hollywood Hills 1 exemplar
Cleaning Up Their Act 1 exemplar
Meteorite Hunters 1 exemplar
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There's No Toilet Paper on the Road Less Traveled: The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 210 exemplar
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- Vedertaget namn
- Roach, Mary
- Födelsedag
- 1959-03-20
- Kön
- female
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Födelseort
- Hanover, New Hampshire, USA
- Bostadsorter
- Etna, New Hampshire, USA
San Francisco, California, USA
Alameda, California, USA
Oakland, California, USA - Utbildning
- Wesleyan University (BA ∙ psychology ∙ 1981)
Hanover High School - Yrken
- columnist
copywriter
non-fiction writer - Relationer
- Rachles, Ed (husband)
- Organisationer
- Salon.com
Reader's Digest - Agent
- Erin Lovett (publicist)
Jay Mandel (agent) - Kort biografi
- Mary Roach grew up in a small house in Etna, New Hampshire. She graduated from Wesleyan in 1981, and then moved out to San Francisco s. She spent a few years working as a freelance copy editor before landing a half-time PR job at the SF Zoo. During that time she wrote freelance articles for the local newspaper's Sunday magazine.
Though she mostly focuses on writing books, she writes the occasional magazine piece. These have run in Outside, National Geographic, New Scientist, Wired, and The New York Times Magazine, as well as many others. A 1995 article of herse called "How to Win at Germ Warfare" was a National Magazine Award Finalist, and in 1996, her article on earthquake-proof bamboo houses took the Engineering Journalism Award in the general interest magazine category. Mary Roach also reviews books for The New York Times.
Her first book, Stiff, was an offshoot of a column she wrote for Salon.com. Her other books include Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, and Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void.
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- 23
- Även av
- 5
- Medlemmar
- 28,702
- Popularitet
- #700
- Betyg
- 3.9
- Recensioner
- 1,413
- ISBN
- 191
- Språk
- 14
- Favoritmärkt
- 114
In this book, Mary Roach takes a look at wild animals and their “relationships” with humans, primarily breaking human laws (like attacking them, breaking into houses, stealing, etc.). She talks to and follows along with fish and wildlife officers, and other scientists that study these animals (oh, and trees and plants, too!) and their interactions with humans (and how humans are trying to mitigate these interactions).
I liked this. Despite being about animals, I didn’t like it as much as I like some of her other books, but it was still interesting. I don’t think there was as much humour in this one as some of her others, either, but there were bits of it, too.… (mer)