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| Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife | 
 enlarge | Author: Mary Roach
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Category: Book
List Price: $13.95 (32.84 RON)
Buy New: $10.88 (25.61 RON)
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Avg. Customer Rating:  113 reviews
Sales Rank: 20649
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.1 x 5.4 x 1
ISBN: 0393329127
Dewey Decimal Number: 129
EAN: 9780393329124
ASIN: 0393329127
Publication Date: October 2, 2006
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| Customer Reviews:
 Spook/Science tackles the Afterlife--all you want to know and more! January 13, 2007
0 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you are at all interested in the human body,it's functions and how wonderful a "machine" it really is.....this is a wonderful reading. What happens to the body when life stops and the blood is still? How can we learn more about how to protect it and prolong it's usefulness? All this and more in this book. I definitely recommend it to all people to read and learn.
 Prepared for Afterlife January 11, 2007
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
A terrifically entertaining book filled with human stories and events that should touch everyone. I'm now better prepared for the afterlife.
This was a particularly good book for me to read when I was recently mourning the death of a dear friend, so it may be for others too.
A healthy dose of history into the scientific investigation of an afterlife. January 6, 2007
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
There's something different apparent in SPOOK: SCIENCE TACKLES THE AFTERLIFE: it smacks of solid investigative research rather than sensationalism, and traces the author's journey to understand what happens upon death. Will personality remain? Is there another world beyond ours? Author Roach searched out scientists, engineers and mediums alike who are all trying to prove or disprove that life goes on after death. She journeyed from rural India to the US, enrolled in an English medium school, and interviewed university professors conducting research. SPOOK follows her journey, which includes a healthy dose of history into the scientific investigation of an afterlife.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
 VOMIT...Simply VOMIT December 30, 2006
4 out of 31 found this review helpful
What a waste of paper. I was in the airport and picked up this book. Shame on you Ms. Roach. This is a poorly written, unintelligent work. Please, next time use what is in between your ears to research and craft what you are trying to convey. What I got instead was a barfbag of poorly written ghost stories that went nowhere. No developed thesis to be found. Nothing I couldn't have gleaned from a chat with a half drunk barfly.
Recast this book Ms. Roach.
 Not What I Expected November 27, 2006
7 out of 12 found this review helpful
I expected a more serious look at this question, that would really make me think about my own assumptions about what happens after death. But, I felt the book was just a forum for the author to make fun of various beliefs. Mary Roach does have a great sense of humor, but if the intent was a light approach, then a more coherent set of explorations would have made a better read. I wasn't quite sure what the point of the book was, and even with re-set expectations, I don't think it was worth the time to read.
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