Spook : science tackles the afterlife / Mary Roach
By: Roach, Mary.
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, ©2005Edition: 1st ed.Description: 311 pages ; ill. ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780393329124 (pbk.).Subject(s): Future life | Religion and scienceGenre/Form: Print books.Online resources: Connect to the Table of contents| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | BL535 .R63 2005 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000014296 |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [299]-311)
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