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Bonk

The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex

by Mary Roach

Bonk

Paperback, 319 pages, W W Norton & Co Inc, List Price: $15.95 | purchase

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The author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife illuminates the scientific principles of sex, in a whimsical primer that tackles subjects ranging from the embarrassing to the taboo in an accessible and informative style. Reprint. BOMC, QPB, History.

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  • Sex (Biology),
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