Spook : [science tackles the afterlife]
(Audiobook CD)
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Published
Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, [2005].
Physical Desc
7 audio discs (approximately 8 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Published
Grand Haven, MI : Brilliance Audio, [2005].
Format
Audiobook CD
Language
English
Notes
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Subtitle from container.
General Note
Unabridged.
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Compact discs.
Participants/Performers
Read by Bernadette Quigley.
Description
"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 laptop?" 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" -- publisher's web site.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Roach, M., & Quigley, B. (2005). Spook: [science tackles the afterlife] . Brilliance Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Roach, Mary and Bernadette. Quigley. 2005. Spook: [science Tackles the Afterlife]. Brilliance Audio.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Roach, Mary and Bernadette. Quigley. Spook: [science Tackles the Afterlife] Brilliance Audio, 2005.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Roach, Mary, and Bernadette Quigley. Spook: [science Tackles the Afterlife] Brilliance Audio, 2005.
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