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008 050518s2005 nyua b 000 0 eng
010 _a 2005014450
020 _a0393059626 (hardcover)
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_b.R63 2005
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100 1 _aRoach, Mary.
245 1 0 _aSpook :
_bscience tackles the afterlife /
_cMary Roach.
250 _a1st ed.
260 _aNew York :
_bW.W. Norton,
_c2005.
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.
650 0 _aFuture life.
650 0 _aReligion and science.
856 4 1 _zTable of contents
_uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0513/2005014450.html
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