Six Feet Over : Science Tackles the Afterlife by Mary Roach (2022, TPB)

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A book that has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to the cover, with the dust jacket included for hard covers. No missing or damaged pages, no creases or tears, and no underlining/highlighting of text or writing in the margins. May be very minimal identifying marks on the inside cover. Very minimal wear and tear. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
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“Book is in Very Good condition. Cover has some light wear along edges, and a few small indentation ...
Edition
Special Edition
ISBN
9781324036043
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Publisher
Norton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-10
1324036044
ISBN-13
9781324036043
eBay Product ID (ePID)
22058369743

Product Key Features

Book Title
Six Feet over : Science Tackles the Afterlife
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2022
Topic
Life Sciences / General, Religious, Supernatural
Genre
Body, Mind & Spirit, Philosophy, Science
Author
Mary Roach
Format
Trade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
12.6 Oz
Item Length
8.2 in
Item Width
5.5 in

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Reviews
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., 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., Reading Spook is like attending a lecture by a professor who is equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining., Investigative reporting has no lighter, more irreverent spirit than Mary Roach. . . . Spook is enormous fun., Dependably witty, especially when it ventures far into the ether. . . . [Roach] makes a clever investigator and a thoroughly entertaining, if skeptical, tour guide.
Synopsis
"What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that--the 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., What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that-the million-year nap? Or will some part of you persist? What will it feel like? In search of answers, Mary Roach consults scientists, schemers, engineers, and mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die. She meets researchers studying reincarnation and out-of-body, near-death, experiences, examines the last surviving sample of "ectoplasm" in a Cambridge University archive, and unearths the history of soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves' heads. "Science writing doesn't get funnier or more human" (Marta Salij, Detroit Free Press) than Roach's engaging exploration of the final journey we'll all one day take. Book jacket., 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., The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul.

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