num_pages: 311
description: The best-selling author of Stiff   and Bonk  trains her considerable wit and curiosity on the human soul. "What happens when we die? Does the light just go out and that's that―the million-year nap? Or will some part of my personality, my me-ness persist? What will that feel like? What will I do all day? Is there a place to plug in my lap-top?" In an attempt to find out, Mary Roach brings her tireless curiosity to bear on an array of contemporary and historical soul-searchers: scientists, schemers, engineers, mediums, all trying to prove (or disprove) that life goes on after we die.
language: English
title: Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
titlecomplete: Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
genres: Audiobook, Humor, Religion, Death, Science, Ghosts, Psychology, Nonfiction, History, Paranormal
ratings_count: 38434
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Macavity Award
category: Best Nonfiction
publisher: W.W. Norton & Company (NYC)