Spook: science tackles the afterlife
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New York : W.W. Norton, 2006.
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9780393329124, 0393329127
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311 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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SSCL Bud Adult Nonfiction
129 ROA
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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.
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Roach, M. (2006). Spook: science tackles the afterlife. New York, W.W. Norton.

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Roach, Mary. 2006. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. New York, W.W. Norton.

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Roach, Mary, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. New York, W.W. Norton, 2006.

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Roach, Mary. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife. New York, W.W. Norton, 2006.

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