Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

By
Mary Roach
Mary Roach
2005 • 295 pages

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80 books

History

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Samuel Proulx
Moon Shot : The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
The Mindset list of the obscure
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
How Music Works

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49 books

Science

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Samuel Proulx
What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
Why Don't Spiders Stick to Their Webs?: And Other Everyday Mysteries of Science
Moon Shot : The Inside Story of America's Race to the Moon
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
Riding Rockets: The Outrageous Tales of a Space Shuttle Astronaut
Cat Sense: How the New Feline Science Can Make You a Better Friend to Your Pet
Destination Mars: New Explorations of the Red Planet

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74 books

Science

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Teasing Secrets from the Dead: My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
The Woman Who Swallowed Her Cat: And Other Gruesome Medical Tales
Dead Men Do Tell Tales: Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Blood and Guts: A History of Surgery

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90 books

Ghosts

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Katlyn
Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places
Suburban Legends: True Tales of Murder, Mayhem, and Minivans
Horrorstör
The Graveyard Book
Isis
A Certain Slant of Light
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife

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320 Pages Or Less

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The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar: Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems
American Wolf
H is for Hawk
Thirteen Days
The Hollywood Economist 2.0: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies
Treasure Island
A Cruising Voyage Around the World: First to the South-Seas, Thence to the East-Indies, and Homewards by the Cape of Good Hope. Begun in 1708 and Finish'd in 1711

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23 books

Sgu Skeptical Picks

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How We Know What Isn't So
Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things
Why Darwin Matters
Why People Believe Weird Things
A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism: Applying Laws of Physics to Faster-Than-Light Travel, Psychic Phenomena, Telepathy, Time Travel, UFOs, and Other Pseudoscientific Claims

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155 books

To Sort

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Westlake Soul
Mama Fish
Seeds
I Saw Water: An Occult Novel and Other Selected Writings
Goose of Hermogenes
Peace

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Books Written By Women

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Bohemian Manifesto
Fear of Fighting
Falling in Love with Natassia: A Novel
Russian Lover and Other Stories
College Girls
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Nonfiction

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500 Years of Chicana Women's History / 500 Años de la Mujer Chicana: Bilingual Edition
Virgin : The Untouched History
Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race Before Roe v. Wade
Pink Think
Flow
Scotch Verdict: Miss Pirie and Miss Woods V. Dame Cumming Gordon
Bachelor Girl

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Nonfiction

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Sarah
The Wave
Unfamiliar Fishes
Packing for Mars
Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks
The Man Who Loved Books Too Much: The True Story of a Thief, a Detective, and a World of Literary Obsession
Kabul Beauty School
The Male Brain

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74 books

Owned

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River
Dune
1984
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide: Five Complete Novels and One Story
Hell Followed with Us
Lavender House
The Battle of the Labyrinth
The Titan's Curse

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Nonfic

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Bad Feminist
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The complete idiot's guide to wicca and witchcraft
All the Words Are Yours
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
We Should All Be Feminists
Weird Things Customers Say in Bookstores

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True Crime

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The Icepick Surgeon
My Friend Dahmer
Don't Call It a Cult
Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
The Road to Jonestown: Jim Jones and Peoples Temple
Little Lost Angel
If You Tell

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Med History/Special Interest

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The American Plague
Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness
The Spiral Notebook
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, 20th-Anniversary Edition
The Violinist's Thumb: And Other Lost Tales of Love, War, and Genius, as Written by Our Genetic Code
Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History

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Science And Engineering

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Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight
Body Respect
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
Evolution Gone Wrong: The Curious Reasons Why Our Bodies Work
Robotics, AI, and Humanity: Science, Ethics, and Policy
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning

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Death

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Spiritomb
The Hour of Our Death
Western Attitudes toward Death: From the Middle Ages to the Present
Death's Acre
The Denial of Death
Medieval Death: Ritual and Representation
Everything Happens for a Reason: And Other Lies I've Loved

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205 books

Owned

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Kate
The Door to December
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
The Truth Teller
Scared Stiff

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156 books

Non Fiction

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Kate
Turing: Pioneer of the Information Age
The Professor & the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity & the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary
Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche
Maphead: Charting the Wide, Weird World of Geography Wonks
The numerati
Quiet, Please
The Psychopath Test

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Lady Writer

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Kate
Blood: A Scientific Romance
Monument 14
Stir-Fry
The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
The Virtual Self: How Our Digital Lives Are Altering the World Around Us
A Complicated Kindness
The Love Monster

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Library

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Saga, Vol. 2
Saga, Vol. 1
This Phenomenal Life
Runaways
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