154918
Spook : science tackles the afterlife 1st ed.
Year/Format:
2005,
Book,
311 p. :
3 holds /
21 copies
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| Publication information: | New York : W.W. Norton and Co., c2005. |
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| ISBN: | 0393059626 (hardcover) |
| Physical description: | 311 p. : ill. |
| Language: | English |
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| Record ID: | 154918 |
| Full edition title: | 1st ed. |
| Local Format: | Book |
| More creator details: | by Mary Roach. |
| Contents note: | 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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Danforth/Coxwell |
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Dawes Road |
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Deer Park |
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Don Mills |
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Downsview |
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Holdable Storage |
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Lillian H. Smith |
Book | Due: 5/6/2013 | On loan | 129 ROA |
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Locke |
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Maria A. Shchuka |
Book | Nonfiction | In Library | 129 ROA |
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Mount Dennis |
Book | Nonfiction | In Library | 129 ROA |
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North York Central Library |
Book | Soc & Rec 3rd Fl Nonfiction | In Library | 129 ROA |
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Parkdale |
Book | Due: 30/5/2013 | On loan | 129 ROA |
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Rexdale |
Book | In Transit | In Transit | 129 ROA |
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S. Walter Stewart |
Book | Due: 6/6/2013 | On loan | 129 ROA |
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Taylor Memorial |
Book | Nonfiction | In Library | 129 ROA |
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Toronto Reference Library |
Reference | Hum & Soc Sci 2nd Fl Reference Open Shelf | In Library | 129 R57 |