Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife.SPOOK: SCIENCE TACKLES THE AFTERLIFE. Mary Roach roach: see cockroach. roach Common European sport fish (Rutilus rutilus) of the carp family (Cyprinidae), found in lakes and slow rivers. A high-backed, yellowish green fish with red eyes and reddish fins, the roach is 6–16 in. . 2005. Read by Bernadette Quigley. 6 tapes. 8 hrs. Brilliance Audio. 1-59737-880-1. $74.25. Vinyl; content, reader notes. SA Roach's previous book was Stiff: the Curious Lives of Human Cadavers. Her considerable curiosity and biting wit are evident in this latest examination of the existence of the human soul. Her research reaches back to centuries-old questionable treatises, religious beliefs, to modern-day fortunetellers and the pronouncements of mediums and charlatans, and even into honored halls of academia all over the world. Her work touches on such matters as death, near-death experiences near-death experience, phenomenon reported by some people who have been clinically dead, then returned to life. Descriptions of the experience differ slightly in detail from person to person, but usually share some basic elements: a feeling of being outside one's , and otherworldly apparitions. There are even some gross-out anecdotes regarding that mysterious matter known as ectoplasm ectoplasm an old-fashioned term which referred to a peripheral band of gel-like cytoplasm, free of organelles, found in free and motile cells. . Roach tells her story and as Roach, Quigley is clearly having way too much fun, with exaggerated accents, girlish girl·ish adj. Characteristic of or befitting a girl: girlish charm. girl  ish·ly adv. cuteness, and occasional scatological sca·tol·o·gy n. pl. sca·tol·o·gies 1. The study of fecal excrement, as in medicine, paleontology, or biology. 2. a. An obsession with excrement or excretory functions. b. naughtiness. For believers or scoffers, this is a fascinating topic presented in a delightful manner. Miles Klein, Frisco, TX |
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