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005			20250807130743.0
007			ta
008			090722s2005 nyua b 000 0 eng
010			_a2005014450
020			_a0393059626 (hardcover) _c12.95
020			_a0739467298 (pbk)
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049			_aCTMA
050	0	0	_aBL535 _b.R63 2005
082	0	0	_a129 _222
100	1		_aRoach, Mary. _922119
245	1	0	_aSpook : _bscience tackles the afterlife / _cMary Roach.
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bW.W. Norton & Co., _cc2005.
300			_a311 p. : _bill. ; _c22 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [299]-311).
505	0		_aYou 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.
520			_aThe author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers explores how science has attempted to study our post- mortem fate. Roach traces early psychical research to current US investigations of near-death experiences and case studies by the International Centre for Survival and Reincarnation Researches. The title belies her desire to get scientific validation for free-floating consciousness.
650		0	_aFuture life. _920319
650		0	_aReligion and science. _922120
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
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