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Author Roach, Mary.

Title Spook : science tackles the afterlife / Mary Roach.

Publication Info. New York : W.W. Norton and Co., [2005]
©2005

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  129 ROACH    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield at the Atrium  129 ROA    Check Shelf
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  129 R53    Check Shelf
 Cheshire Public Library - Adult Department Lower Level  129 ROACH    Check Shelf
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  129 ROA    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  129 ROA    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  129 ROACH    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  129 ROACH    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  129 ROACH    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  129 ROA    Check Shelf

Edition First edition.
Description 311 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [299]-311).
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.
Subject Future life.
Religion and science.
ISBN 0393059626 hardcover
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