Spook – Science Tackles the Afterlife - Hardcover

Roach, Mary

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393059626 ISBN 13: 9780393059625

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 2005

Synopsis

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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Review:

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

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

Funny and smart... since she's a scientist at heart, she also lasers through the smoke and mirrors.

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

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"

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"

Investigative reporting has no lighter, more irreverent spirit than Mary Roach. . . . Spook is enormous fun. --David A Walton"

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"

Funny and smart... since she's a scientist at heart, she also lasers through the smoke and mirrors. "

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"

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0393059626
• ISBN 13: 9780393059625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312