Six feet over : science tackles the afterlife
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Format
Book
ISBN
1324036044, 9781324036043
Physical Desc
309 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Marathon City - MCPL - Adult Nonfiction | 129 ROACH | Available | |
Stratford - MCPL - Adult NonFiction | 129 ROACH | Checked Out | June 18, 2024 |
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Published
New York : W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
Language
English
ISBN
1324036044, 9781324036043
Notes
General Note
Previously published as "Spook"--Cover.
General Note
Formerly published as "Spook".
General Note
Includes reading group guide.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-309).
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 lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, the author brings her 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Roach, M. (2022). Six feet over: science tackles the afterlife . W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Roach, Mary. 2022. Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife. W.W. Norton & Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Roach, Mary. Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Roach, Mary. Six Feet Over: Science Tackles the Afterlife W.W. Norton & Company, 2022.
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