Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Signed)

Mary Roach

ISBN 10: 0393059626 / ISBN 13: 9780393059625

Published by W. W. Norton & Company, United States, 2005

About this Item

Book and jacket are clean and tight with no marks or stamps. Jacket is in a Mylar cover for protection. First edition, first printing with full numberline. Signed in the title page in my presence by Roach.

Seller Inventory # 002448

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife (Signed)
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, United States
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0393059626
• ISBN 13: 9780393059625
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Non Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

The best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.

What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's thatthe 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. 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.

About the Author

Mary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction, including Grunt, Stiff, and, most recently, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine, among other publications. She lives in California.