Roach approaches the material as a skeptic who wants to believe but needs the proof. Language Arts & Disciplines / Journalism Spook : Science Tackles the Afterlife Author Mary Roach Format Trade Paperback Language English Topic Life Sciences / General, Afterlife & Reincarnation, Religion & Science Publication Year 2006 Genre Body, Mind & Spirit, Religion, Science Number of Pages 320 Pages Dimensions Item Length 8.2in. Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife looks beyond the physical for proof that a part of us survives death.Schindler - Sunday Denver Post & Rocky Mountain News Product Details Reading Spook is like attending a lecture by a professor who is equal parts Groucho Marx and Stephen Jay Gould, both enlightening and entertaining. Find your next book in our wide selection of secondhand books. Surreal, fascinating, at times absurd and always hilarious, Mary Roach may not reveal the street address of our final destination, but in Spook she makes it sound less like a morgue and more like a comedy club. Browse our extensive inventory of used books online for great deals on titles new and old. David A Walton - Pittsburgh Union-Tribune

26 2006 by Mary Roach (Author) 681 ratings Kindle Edition 13.17 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial Hardcover 27.95 10 Used from 17.25 11 New from 27.95 Paperback 21.95 37 Used from 5.12 15 New from 15. Investigative reporting has no lighter, more irreverent spirit than Mary Roach. Spook: Science Tackles The Afterlife Paperback Illustrated, Sept. makes a clever investigator and a thoroughly entertaining, if skeptical, tour guide. Roach’s writing has what science has so far failed to find: a divine spark.ĭependably witty, especially when it ventures far into the ether. The general reader’s ideal emissary to the arcana of serious science.

Spook science tackles the afterlife