Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

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AAA1/2What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and thatAAA1/2s 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?AAA1/2
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 calvesAAA1/2 heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of AAA1/2ectoplasmAAA1/2 in a Cambridge University archive.

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Author:   Mary Roach
Publisher:   Text Publishing Co
Imprint:   The Text Publishing Company
ISBN:  

9781921145643

ISBN 10:   1921145641
Pages:   228
Publication Date:   05 February 2007
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Available  
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