Spook : science tackles the afterlife
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2005].
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Status
South Valleys Library - Adult Nonfiction
129 ROACH 2005
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129 ROACH 2005
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Sparks Library - Adult Nonfiction
129 ROACH 2005
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129 ROACH 2005
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton and Company, [2005].
Format
Book
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Subsequently published in 2022 as: Six feet over.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-311).
Description
Draws on the achievements of scientists, engineers, and mediums to consider the feasibility of life after death, from a reincarnation researcher's experimentation with out-of-body experiences to laboratory investigations into ghosts.
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"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, the author brings her 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."--,Provided by Publisher.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Roach, M., & Roach, M. (2005). Spook: science tackles the afterlife . W.W. Norton and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Roach, Mary and Mary. Roach. 2005. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. W.W. Norton and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Roach, Mary and Mary. Roach. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife W.W. Norton and Company, 2005.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Roach, Mary, and Mary Roach. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife W.W. Norton and Company, 2005.
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