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Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex Hardback - 2008
by Mary Roach
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The bestselling author of "Stiff" turns her outrageous curiosity and infectious wit on the most alluring scientific subject of all: sex. In "Bonk," Roach shows how and why sexual arousal and orgasm can be so hard to achieve and what science is doing to make the bedroom a more satisfying place. 16 illustrations.
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Few things are as fundamental to human happiness as sex, and few writers are as entertaining about the subject as Mary Roach. Can a woman think herself to orgasm? Is your penis three inches longer than you think? Why doesn't Viagra help women - or, for that matter, pandas? Does orgasm boost fertility? Or cure hiccups? The study of sexual physiology - what happens, and why, and how to make it happen better - has been taking place behind closed doors for hundreds of years. In this fascinating and funny book, Mary Roach steps inside laboratories, brothels, pig farms, sex-toy R&D labs - even Alfred Kinsey's attic - to tell us everything we wanted to know about sex, and a lot we'd never even thought to ask.
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- Title Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
- Author Mary Roach
- Binding Hardback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, New York
- Publication date 2008-04-01
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780393064643 / 0393064646
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.3 x 5.8 x 1.2 in (21.08 x 14.73 x 3.05 cm)
- Category Science
- Library of Congress subjects Sex (Biology)
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2007051990
- Dewey Decimal Code 612.6
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- Booklist, 03/15/2008, Page 13
- Booklist Editors Choice/Adult, 01/01/2009, Page 9
- Entertainment Weekly, 04/18/2008, Page 68
- Kirkus Best Books, 12/15/2008, Page 12
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/01/2008, Page 137
- Library Journal, 03/01/2008, Page 105
- Library Journal Prepub Alert, 12/01/2007, Page 89
- LJ Best Sci-Tech Books, 03/01/2009, Page 31
- New York Times Book Review, 03/30/2008, Page 7
- Publishers Weekly, 02/25/2008, Page 66
- Time, 07/14/2008, Page 67
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