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MPN
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Does not apply
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ISBN
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9780393329124
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Book Title
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Spook : Science Tackles the Afterlife
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Publisher
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Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
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Item Length
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8.3 in
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Publication Year
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2006
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Trade Paperback
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Language
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English
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Illustrator
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Yes
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0.8 in
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Genre
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Religion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines, Science
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Topic
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Religious, Life Sciences / General, Journalism, Afterlife & Reincarnation, Religion & Science
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Item Weight
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8.7 Oz
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5.5 in
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Number of Pages
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320 Pages
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife – Paperback By Roach, Mary – GOOD
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
0393329127
ISBN-13
9780393329124
eBay Product ID (ePID)
53730928
Product Key Features
Book Title
Spook : Science Tackles the Afterlife
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Religious, Life Sciences / General, Journalism, Afterlife & Reincarnation, Religion & Science
Publication Year
2006
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Religion, Body, Mind & Spirit, Philosophy, Language Arts & Disciplines, Science
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.8 in
Item Weight
8.7 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
Surreal, 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 Decimal
129
Synopsis
In 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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