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Author |
: Mary Roach |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 320 |
Release |
: 2006-10-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393069204 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393069206 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by : Mary Roach
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.
Author |
: Mary Roach |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2006-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393329124 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393329127 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife by : Mary Roach
The author looks to science to determine whether the human soul exists in death, and travels to various places around the world to discuss supernatural occurrences with spirit guides and mediums.
Author |
: Mary Roach |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2004-04-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393324822 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393324826 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (22 Downloads) |
Synopsis Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by : Mary Roach
A look inside the world of forensics examines the use of human cadavers in a wide range of endeavors, including research into new surgical procedures, space exploration, and a Tennessee human decay research facility.
Author |
: Mary Roach |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 283 |
Release |
: 2016-06-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393245455 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393245454 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (55 Downloads) |
Synopsis Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by : Mary Roach
A New York Times / National Bestseller "America's funniest science writer" (Washington Post) Mary Roach explores the science of keeping human beings intact, awake, sane, uninfected, and uninfested in the bizarre and extreme circumstances of war. Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier's most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists who seek to conquer them. Mary Roach dodges hostile fire with the U.S. Marine Corps Paintball Team as part of a study on hearing loss and survivability in combat. She visits the fashion design studio of U.S. Army Natick Labs and learns why a zipper is a problem for a sniper. She visits a repurposed movie studio where amputee actors help prepare Marine Corps medics for the shock and gore of combat wounds. At Camp Lemmonier, Djibouti, in east Africa, we learn how diarrhea can be a threat to national security. Roach samples caffeinated meat, sniffs an archival sample of a World War II stink bomb, and stays up all night with the crew tending the missiles on the nuclear submarine USS Tennessee. She answers questions not found in any other book on the military: Why is DARPA interested in ducks? How is a wedding gown like a bomb suit? Why are shrimp more dangerous to sailors than sharks? Take a tour of duty with Roach, and you’ll never see our nation’s defenders in the same way again.
Author |
: Mary Roach |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 353 |
Release |
: 2014-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393348743 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393348741 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (43 Downloads) |
Synopsis Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal by : Mary Roach
The irresistible, ever-curious, and always bestselling Roach returns with a new adventure to the invisible realm that people carry around inside.
Author |
: Mary Roach |
Publisher |
: Penguin |
Total Pages |
: 139 |
Release |
: 2013-04-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781621450726 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1621450724 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (26 Downloads) |
Synopsis My Planet by : Mary Roach
From acclaimed, New York Times best-selling author Mary Roach comes the complete collection of her “My Planet” articles published in Reader’s Digest. She was a hit columnist in the magazine, and this book features the articles she wrote in that time. Insightful and hilarious, Mary explores the ins and outs of the modern world: marriage, friends, family, food, technology, customer service, dental floss, and ants—she leaves no element of the American experience unchecked for its inherent paradoxes, pleasures, and foibles. On Cleanliness: Ed has crud vision, and I don’t. I don’t notice filth. Ed sees it everywhere. I am reasonably convinced that Ed can actually see bacteria. . . . He confessed he didn’t like me using his bathrobe because I’d wear it while sitting on the toilet. “It’s not like it goes in the water,” I protested, though if you counted the sash as part of the robe, this wasn’t strictly true. On the Internet: The Internet is a boon for hypochondriacs like me. Right now, for instance, I’m feeling a shooting pain on the side of my neck. A Web search produces five matches, the first three for a condition called Arnold-Chiari Malformation. While my husband, Ed, reads over my shoulder, I recite symptoms from the list. “‘General clumsiness’ and ‘general imbalance,’” I say, as though announcing arrivals at the Marine Corps Ball. “‘Difficulty driving,’ ‘lack of taste,’ ‘difficulty feeling feet on ground.’” “Those aren’t symptoms,” says Ed. “Those are your character flaws.” On Fashion: My husband recently made me try on a bikini. A bikini is not so much a garment as a cloth-based reminder that your parts have been migrating all these years. My waist, I realized that day in the dressing room, has completely disappeared beneath my rib cage, which now rests directly on my hips. I’m exhibiting continental drift in reverse. On Eating Healthy: So Ed and I were eating a lot of vegetables. Vegetables on pasta, vegetables on rice. This was extremely healthy, until you got to the part where Ed and I are found in the kitchen at 10 p.m., feeding on Froot Loops and tubes of cookie dough.
Author |
: Clément Chéroux |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 294 |
Release |
: 2005-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300111361 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300111363 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Perfect Medium by : Clément Chéroux
In the early days of photography, many believed and hoped that the camera would prove more efficient than the human eye in capturing the unseen. Spiritualists and animists of the nineteenth century seized on the new technology as a method of substantiating the existence of supernatural beings and happenings. This fascinating book assembles more than 250 photographic images from the Victorian era to the 1960s, each purporting to document an occult phenomenon: levitations, apparitions, transfigurations, ectoplasms, spectres, ghosts, and auras. Drawn from the archives of European and American occult societies and private and public collections, the photographs in many cases have never before been published. The Perfect Medium studies these rare and remarkable photographs through cultural, historical, and artistic lenses. More than mere curiosities, the images on film are important records of the cultural forces and technical methods that brought about their production. They document in unexpected ways a period when developing photographic technology merged with a popular obsession with the occult to create a new genre of haunting experimental photographs.
Author |
: Harold Schechter |
Publisher |
: Ballantine Books |
Total Pages |
: 321 |
Release |
: 2009-06-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780345499646 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0345499646 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Whole Death Catalog by : Harold Schechter
In the tradition of Mary Roach’s bestselling Stiff and Jessica Mitford’s classic exposé The American Way of Death comes this meticulously researched, refreshingly irreverent, and lavishly illustrated look at death from acclaimed author Harold Schechter. With his trademark fearlessness and bracing sense of humor, Schechter digs deep into a wealth of sources to unearth a treasure trove of surprising facts, amusing anecdotes, practical information, and timeless wisdom about that undiscovered country to which we will all one day travel. Topics include • Death anxiety–is your fear of death normal or off the scale? • You can’t take it with you . . . or can you? Wacky wills and bizarre bequests • The hospice experience–going out in comfort and style • Deathbed and funeral etiquette–how to help the dying and mourn the dead with dignity • Death on demand–why the right-to-die movement may be the next big thing • “Good-bye everybody”–famous last words • The embalmer’s art–all dressed up and nowhere to go • Behind the scenes at your local funeral home • Alternative burial choices–from coral reefs to outer space From the cold, hard facts of death to lessons in the art of dying well, from what happens in the body’s last living moments to what transpires in the ground or in the furnace, from near-death experiences to speculation on the afterlife, The Whole Death Catalog leaves no gravestone unturned.
Author |
: Day Schildkret |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 464 |
Release |
: 2022-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781982170950 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1982170956 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Hello, Goodbye by : Day Schildkret
Embrace the power of ritual with simple yet “powerful” (Kim Chestney, author of Radical Intuition and founder of IntuitionLab) practices that slow us down to honor and mark the real moments in our lives—from the loss of a parent to the birth of a child, from grieving a pet to celebrating coming out of the closet. Life has many transitions: A baby is born. A child leaves for college. A marriage. A divorce. A death. We all experience moments of profound change, but what do we do to mark those moments? How do we become mindful of these events and imbue them with purpose and meaning? Could our lives be better, richer, and more resilient if we had more practical resources and rituals to honor, sanctify, and make sense of these transitions? Day Schildkret, artist and author behind the international Morning Altars movement, believes that what we need is ritual. Rituals are the rhythms and traditions that give us a sense of stability in the face of uncertainty by reminding us that there’s always something we can do, say or make that conjures awe, contentment, and gratitude. They give us a way to acknowledge through our actions that, as life changes, we too must change. Offering ways to make these moments special and sacred, Hello, Goodbye teaches you to not fear uncertainty, but instead participate fully and creatively in life’s inevitable changes, including: -Birth of a child -Moving and new homes -Divorce -Empty nesting -Retirement -Death anniversary -Health crises Containing over 75 hands-on ritual instructions, informed by hundreds of interviews, and filled with beautiful illustrations, inspirational story-telling, potent questions, and experienced wisdom, Hello, Goodbye is “certain to become a forever reference and treasured, faithful companion” (Kimbery Ann Johnson, author of Call of the Wild and The Fourth Trimester) for life’s many milestones, perfect for those looking to find meaning in change and embrace the transformative thresholds of our lives. Hello, Goodbye is a “direct and moving” (Rabbi Jill Jammer, PhD, author of The Jewish Book of Days: A Companion for All Seasons) guide we all need to navigate life’s uncertainties with grace, meaning, and intention, perfect for fans of Krista Tippet, Priya Parker, and Elena Brower.
Author |
: Stuart Firestein |
Publisher |
: OUP USA |
Total Pages |
: 208 |
Release |
: 2012-04-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780199828074 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0199828075 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (74 Downloads) |
Synopsis Ignorance by : Stuart Firestein
Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to understand the process of scientific discovery.