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Spook : Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach (2005, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393059626
ISBN-139780393059625
eBay Product ID (ePID)150571008
Product Key Features
Book TitleSpook : Science Tackles the Afterlife
Number of Pages312 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2005
TopicReligious, Journalism, Spiritualism, Afterlife & Reincarnation, Religion & Science
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines
AuthorMary Roach
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight18.8 Oz
Item Length8.6 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2005-014450
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"The general reader's ideal emissary to the arcana of serious science. . . . Roach's writing has what science has so far failed to find: a divine spark." -- Malcolm Jones (Newsweek) "Dependably witty, especially when it ventures far into the ether. . . . [Roach] makes a clever investigator and a thoroughly entertaining, if skeptical, tour guide." -- Janet Maslin (New York Times) "Investigative reporting has no lighter, more irreverent spirit than Mary Roach. . . . is enormous fun." -- David A Walton (Pittsburgh Union-Tribune) "Surreal, fascinating, at times absurd and always hilarious, Mary Roach may not reveal the street address of our final destination, but in she makes it sound less like a morgue and more like a comedy club." -- Vince Darcangelo (Boulder Weekly) "Funny and smart... since she's a scientist at heart, she also lasers through the smoke and mirrors." -- People "Reading is like attending a lecture by a professor who is equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining." -- Dorman T. Schindler (Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News)
Dewey Decimal129
SynopsisIn an attempt to find out what happens when people die, the author of "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers" brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that there is an afterlife., What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that--the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my laptop?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech. Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves' heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of "ectoplasm" in a Cambridge University archive., The best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul., What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's thatthe million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech. Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves' heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of "ectoplasm" in a Cambridge University archive.
LC Classification NumberBL535.R63 2005
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- 04 Jan, 2018
She has an interesting perspective!
Mary Roach obviously has a wicked sense of humor with a scientific approach in her study of the afterlife. Not a quick read as it has a ton research analysis. This will help believers and non believers to become a believer or a non believer.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
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