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Author Gray, John, 1948-

Title The immortalization commission : science and the strange quest to cheat death / John Gray.

Publication Info. New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

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Location Call No. Status
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  133.901 GRAY    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  133.901 G79    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  133.9013 GRAY    Check Shelf
Edition First American edition.
Description 272 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-[273])..
Summary John Gray takes a brilliant and frightening look at humankind's dangerous striving toward a scientific version of immortality. Probing parallel faiths of Bolshevik "God-builders," who sought to reshape the planet, and psychical researchers, who believed they had evidence of a non religious form of life after death, Gray raises fascinating questions about how such beliefs threaten the very nature of what it means to be human.
Subject Immortality -- History -- 19th century.
Spiritualism -- History -- 19th century.
Materialism -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 0374175063 alkaline paper
9780374175061 alkaline paper $24.00
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