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Spook : Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach (2006, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393329127
ISBN-139780393329124
eBay Product ID (ePID)53730928
Product Key Features
Book TitleSpook : Science Tackles the Afterlife
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicReligious, Life Sciences / General, Journalism, Afterlife & Reincarnation, Religion & Science
Publication Year2006
IllustratorYes
GenreReligion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines, Science
AuthorMary Roach
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.8 in
Item Weight8.7 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition22
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., Funny and smart... since she's a scientist at heart, she also lasers through the smoke and mirrors.
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., "Equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining."--"Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News" 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 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. 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. 10 illustrations., "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., The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.
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- Sep 02, 2021
Disappointing Copy
This book was posted as being new, so I confidently ordered it, certain of a positive experience. While it is tight, clean and unmarked there is an unacceptable degree of yellowing. The inside covers have the most discoloring, but the rest of the pages are distinctly ivory. If this is really a new copy, it has been stored badly. I have other books in this format by the same author that I've had for some years, and they are all nicely white. Sadly I plan to return it and continue my search for a nicer copy.
Verified purchase: YesCondition: New
- Jul 03, 2022
wonderul and compelling
fascinatingVerified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
