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Spook – Science Tackles the Afterlife

Spook – Science Tackles the Afterlife

by Mary Roach (Author), Mary Roach (Author)

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    Illustrated 2006

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Synopsis

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.

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Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 320
 Edition: Illustrated
 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 03 Oct 2006
ISBN 10: 0393329127
ISBN 13: 9780393329124

Media Reviews
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. -- Malcolm Jones - Newsweek
Dependably witty, especially when it ventures far into the ether. . . . [Roach] makes a clever investigator and a thoroughly entertaining, if skeptical, tour guide. -- Janet Maslin - New York Times
Investigative reporting has no lighter, more irreverent spirit than Mary Roach. . . . Spook is enormous fun. -- David A Walton - Pittsburgh Union-Tribune
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. -- Vince Darcangelo - Boulder Weekly
Reading Spook is like attending a lecture by a professor who is equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining. -- Dorman T. Schindler - Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News
Author Bio
Mary Roach is the author of Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War, Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void, Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex, Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife, and Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. Her writing has appeared in Outside, Wired, National Geographic, and the New York Times Magazine, among others. She lives in Oakland, California.