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Six Feet Over : Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Six Feet Over : Science Tackles the Afterlife, Paperback by Roach, Mary, ISBN 1324036044, ISBN-13 9781324036043, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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 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.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-101324036044
ISBN-139781324036043
eBay Product ID (ePID)22058369743
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Book TitleSix Feet over : Science Tackles the Afterlife
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLife Sciences / General, Religious, Supernatural
Publication Year2022
GenreBody, Mind & Spirit, Philosophy, Science
AuthorMary Roach
FormatTrade Paperback
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Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.6 Oz
Item Length8.2 in
Item Width5.5 in
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ReviewsSurreal, fascinating, at times absurd and always hilarious, Mary Roach may not reveal the street address of our final destination, but in Spook she makes it sound less like a morgue and more like a comedy club., 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., Reading Spook is like attending a lecture by a professor who is equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining., Investigative reporting has no lighter, more irreverent spirit than Mary Roach. . . . Spook is enormous fun., Dependably witty, especially when it ventures far into the ether. . . . [Roach] makes a clever investigator and a thoroughly entertaining, if skeptical, tour guide.
Synopsis"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 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., What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of you persist? What will it feel like? In search of answers, Mary Roach consults scientists, schemers, engineers, and mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. She meets researchers studying reincarnation and out-of-body, near-death, experiences, examines the last surviving sample of "ectoplasm" in a Cambridge University archive, and unearths the history of soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves' heads. "Science writing doesn't get funnier or more human" (Marta Salij, Detroit Free Press) than Roach's engaging exploration of the final journey we'll all one day take. Book jacket., 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., The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
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