Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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Author: Mary Roach
The best-selling author of Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers now 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 laptop?” In….Read More
13 Books Similar to Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife
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Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal
“America’s funniest science writer” (Washington Post) takes us down the hatch on an unforgettable tour. The alimentary canal is classic Mary Roach terrain: the questions explored in Gulp are as… Continue Reading![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/871955-117x180.jpg)
A Cook’s Tour
Anthony Bourdain is a life-long line cook and author of Kitchen Confidential. Here, he sets off to eat his way around the world. He heads out to Saigon where he… Continue Reading Posted in: Biographies & Memoirs of Chefs, Cookery, Cooking, Gastronomy Essays, Journeys![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/26530320-120x178.jpg)
Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War
Best-selling author 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… Continue Reading Posted in: Anatomy & Physiology, Military Sciences, Science & Math, Scientific Research, Social Sciences![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/22543-120x180.jpg)
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries
A vibrant collection of essays on the cosmos from the nation's best-known astrophysicist. "One of today's best popularizers of science." —Kirkus Reviews.Loyal readers of the monthly "Universe" essays in Natural… Continue Reading Posted in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, Bibliography, Cosmology, Religion And Science, Space Biology![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/1747895._SY475_-112x180.jpg)
The Suspicions of Mr. Whicher: Or the Murder at Road Hill House
It is a summer's night in 1860. In an elegant detached Georgian house in the village of Road, Wiltshire, all is quiet. Behind shuttered windows the Kent family lies sound… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Biography, Detectives In Literature![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/12545-114x180.jpg)
Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
What happens to your body after you have died? Fertilizer? Crash Test Dummy? Human Dumpling? Ballistics Practise? Life after death is not as simple as it looks. Mary Roach's Stiff… Continue Reading Posted in: Death, Human Experimentation In Medicine![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/34068481._SY475_-120x180.jpg)
From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it means to treat the dead with “dignity.”Fascinated by our pervasive terror of dead bodies, mortician… Continue Reading Posted in: Biographies & Memoirs, New, Social Sciences, Sociology of Death (Books), Traveler & Explorer Biographies, Used & Rental Textbooks![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/20663702-120x180.jpg)
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory
A young mortician goes behind the scenes, unafraid of the gruesome (and fascinating) details of her curious profession.Most people want to avoid thinking about death, but Caitlin Doughty—a twenty-something with… Continue Reading Posted in: Love & Loss, Parenting & Relationships, Sociology, Sociology of Death, United States![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/15254-114x180.jpg)
Death’s Acre
Nowhere is there another lab like Dr. Bill Bass's: On a hillside in Tennessee, human bodies decompose in the open air, aided by insects, bacteria, and birds, unhindered by coffins… Continue Reading Posted in: Biography, Human Body, Human Remains (Archaeology)![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/7237456-120x180.jpg)
Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void
The best-selling author of Stiff and Bonk explores the irresistibly strange universe of space travel and life without gravity. Space is a world devoid of the things we need to… Continue Reading Posted in: Bibliography, Popular Works, Space Biology![](https://booksalike.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/10029663-120x180.jpg)
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