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An edition of Spook (2005)

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science tackles the afterlife

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W.W. Norton and Co., W.W. Norton
Pages
311

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Subjects

Religion and science, Consciousness, Near-death experiences, Soul, Future life, New York Times reviewed

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Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
October 2, 2006, W. W. Norton
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Spook: science tackles the afterlife
2005, W.W. Norton and Co., W.W. Norton
- 1st ed.
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Table of Contents

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.

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Dewey Decimal Class
129
Library of Congress
BL535 .R63 2005, BL535.R63 2005

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311 p. :
Number of pages
311

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OL24237786M
ISBN 10
0393059626
LCCN
2005014450
OCLC/WorldCat
60500113

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