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by Mary Roach (Author) "I DON'T RECALL my mood the morning I was born, but I imagine I felt a bit out of sorts..." (more)
Key Phrases: previous personality, Duncan Macdougall, James Pinkney Chaffin, New York (more...)
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If author Mary Roach was a college professor, she'd have a zero drop-out rate. That's because when Roach tackles a subject--like the posthumous human body in her previous bestseller, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers, or the soul in the winning Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife--she charges forth with such zeal, humor, and ingenuity that her students (er, readers) feel like they're witnessing the most interesting thing on Earth. Who the heck would skip that? As Roach informs us in her introduction, "This is a book for people who would like very much to believe in a soul and in an afterlife fo