{"product_id":"2940172261503","title":"Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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 laptop?\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. She begins the journey in rural India with a reincarnation researcher and ends up in a University of Virginia operating room where cardiologists have installed equipment near the ceiling to study out-of-body near-death experiences. Along the way, she enrolls in an English medium school, gets electromagnetically haunted at a university in Ontario, and visits a Duke University professor with a plan to weigh the consciousness of a leech. Her historical wanderings unearth soul-seeking philosophers who rummaged through cadavers and calves' heads, a North Carolina lawsuit that established legal precedence for ghosts, and the last surviving sample of \"ectoplasm\" in a Cambridge University archive.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Brilliance Audio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47123609911536,"sku":"2940172261503","price":35.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940172261503_p0.jpg?v=1763757093","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940172261503","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}