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How to Make a Zombie: The Real Life (and Death) Science of Reanimation and Mind Control Paperback – June 1, 2013

by Frank Swain (Author)

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Join a notorious pop science punk as he investigates real zombie reports from around the world. It's terrifying!

The search for the means to control the bodies and minds of our fellow humans has been underway for millennia, from the sleep-inducing honeycombs that felled Pompey’s army to the Voodoo potions of Haiti. Now, Frank Swain, the force behind Science Punk, has joined the quest, digging up genuine zombie research:

• dog heads brought back to life without their bodies

• secret agents dosing targets with zombie drugs

• parasites that push their hosts to suicide or sex changes

• the elixir of life hidden in an eighteenth-century painting

This mind-bending and entertaining excavation of incredible science is unlike anything you’ve read before.

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272 pages
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English
Publisher

Oneworld Publications
Publication date

June 1, 2013
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5.1 x 0.9 x 7.8 inches
ISBN-10

9781851689446
ISBN-13

978-1851689446
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"Swain serves up a ghoulish treat - the real-life zombies of science and nature! Packed full of bizarre research and jaw-dropping tales, his book succeeds in being simultaneously entertaining, informative, and slightly unnerving, since it turns out that the zombies are, quite likely, you and I." Alex Boese, bestselling author of Elephants on Acid and Electric Sheep "Frank Swain's gripping book reads like a non-fiction version of a Stephen King novel - you'll stay up all night reading it with goose bumps and the lights on." Michael Shermer, New York Times bestselling author of The Believing Brain and columnist, Scientific American "From attempts to reanimate animals from death to mind control experiments and brain-hacking parasites, this delightfully macabre book explores the reality of zombie mythology. Science punk Frank Swain has pulled off a masterful feat in this broad-ranging and fascinating book. Braiiiins!" Lewis Dartnell, Research Fellow, University of Leicester, and author of Life in the Universe

"Frank Swain's gripping book reads like a non-fiction version of a Stephen King novel — you'll stay up all night reading it with goose bumps and the lights on." ― Michael Shermer - New York Times bestselling author of The Believing Brain and columnist, Scientific

"From attempts to reanimate animals from death to mind control experiments and brain-hacking parasites, this delightfully macabre book explores the reality of zombie mythology. Science punk Frank Swain has pulled off a masterful feat in this broad-ranging and fascinating book. Braiiiins!" ― Lewis Dartnell

"Swain serves up a ghoulish treat — the real-life zombies of science and nature! Packed full of bizarre research and jaw-dropping tales, his book succeeds in being simultaneously entertaining, informative, and slightly unnerving, since it turns out that the zombies are, quite likely, you and I." ― Alex Boese - bestselling author of Elephants on Acid and Electric Sheep

About the Author

Frank Swain is the founder of SciencePunk, the popular SEED ScienceBlogs site devoted to the weird and wonderful fringes of science. As a science writer, he is preoccupied with how our innovations shape our future and ourselves. His work has appeared in New Scientist, Arc, Slate, Stylist, Wired, the Guardian, Eureka and more, and on BBC Radio 4 and Bravo. He lives in London, and this is his first book.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 1851689443
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Oneworld Publications (June 1, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9781851689446
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1851689446
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 8.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.1 x 0.9 x 7.8 inches

Best Sellers Rank: #3,599,514 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #820 in Scientific Experiments & Projects
- #63,618 in Biological Sciences (Books)

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Todd J. Glosier

for science buffs and zombie lovers.

Reviewed in the United States on July 2, 2014

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This one is fun! Only the first chapteror so deals with the Hatian zombie legends, the rest covers the long hunt for immortality and how/if you can bring the recently dead back to life
Facinating stories of early efforts at reanimation, experiments in Victorian times with the bodies of executed felons and corpses recovered by grave robbers.
Stories of the early Soviet efforts to transplant dogs heads and keep them alive and how this lead directly to modern techniques for harvesting and maintaing organs for later transplantm, including heart lung machines.

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Russell

Layers of shocking history in bite sized chunks makes this a fast read

Reviewed in the United States on August 27, 2020

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There are so many fun facts and tales in here it makes me wish the author had many more books like this.

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Courtney

but this book is so excellent!

Reviewed in the United States on January 12, 2018

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I rarely read books twice, but this book is so excellent!

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Daniel J. Dilley

Interesting book, fast shipping

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2013

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I just started the book, but so far it is interesting, covering the Haitian zombies and beginning of the cinematic zombie and now experiments with resuscitation.

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Olosnah Crafts

Helping to connect the dots!

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2014

Ever wonder why Pregnant people should never change litter boxes?
Ever wonder how Zombiefication works?

This book has a lot of information on it that I have not read anywhere else. Most of what I connect from this books are so called myths or legends from my childhood. While reading this book I felt I was reading an in-depth Wikipedia article. There is too much information in this book for me to reiterate, but it even talks about how rabies works with a possible way to work through it. I am hoping that appropriate citizens will use this book to further there thinking,but I feel that all Veterinarians should read it.

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2013

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short read again she will send this to me when she is done reading I look forward to reading this.

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Silvia

Peccato che non sia stato ancora tradotto in italiano!

Reviewed in Italy on November 25, 2020

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Un libro fantastico, scoperto per caso nei suggerimenti letterari riportati su una rivista. Che siate appassionati di zombie o di scienza in generale è davvero un saggio imperdibile: Frank Swain parte dalle origini delle leggende sui non-morti, per riagganciarsi a letteratura, cinema e scienza passando in rassegna anche i tentativi concreti fatti dagli scienziati, nel corso della storia, di far "resuscitare i morti". Lettura divertente e affascinante per voi o da regalare agli amici che hanno dimistichezza con l'inglese!

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fun

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 9, 2013

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This was a present but the recipient has been absorbed in it since he got it and I've been promised a read when he's finished. Full of information and quite dark. A trail of zombie related facts.

Hoops13

Funny, creepy and utterly real

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 20, 2013

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Forget Hollwood zombies - Swain takes us on an entertaining romp through freaky historical science, where real life examples of 'zombieism' in humans and especially in nature are far more terrifying than the shambling walkers of The Walking Dead.

Written with pace and superbly well-researched, How to Make a Zombie... will make you think completely differently about the nebulous concept of 'death', and will leave you literally itching with the knowledge that micro-organisms could be slowly turning you into a zombie at this very moment.

I'd highly recommend this book for those with a curious mind, and a strong stomach.

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R. Suitters

A nicely detailed book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 31, 2014

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I wanted some light reading while in hospital; this is a very entertaining book: showing how Man would like to manipulate our brains; and how other species in nature take over other living things.
You will learn something from this book.

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