Format:
Book
Title:
Spook : science tackles the afterlife / by Mary Roach.
Author:
Roach, Mary.
Call Number:
129 Roach
Web Site:
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : W.W. Norton and Co., 2005.
Description:
311 p. ; 21 cm.
Subjects:
Future life.
Religion and science.
Contents:
You again : a visit to the reincarnation nation -- The little man inside the sperm, or possibly the big toe : hunting the soul with microscopes and scalpels -- How to weigh a soul : what happens when a man (or a mouse, or a leech) dies on a scale -- The Vienna sausage affair : and other dubious highlights of the ongoing effort to see the soul -- Hard to swallow : the giddy, revolting heyday of ectoplasm -- The large claims of the medium : reaching out to the dead in a University of Arizona lab -- Soul in a dunce cap : the author enrolls in medium school -- Can you hear me now? : telecommunicating with the dead -- Inside the haunt box : can electromagnetic fields make you hallucinate? -- Listening to Casper : a psychoacoustics expert sets up camp in England's haunted spots -- Chaffin v. the dead guy in the overcoat : in which the law finds for a ghost, and the author calls in an expert witness -- Six feet over : a computer stands by on an operating room ceiling, awaiting near-death experiencers.
ISBN:
9780393329124 (trade)
0393059626 (hardcover)