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Forty Tales from the Afterlives
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2009
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Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-84767-427-2 (ISBN)
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-84767-427-2 (ISBN)
What happens to us when we die? And what does that tell us about being human?
In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages; in some you are recreated based on your credit-card records; and in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been.
In these wonderfully imagined tales - at once funny, wistful and unsettling - Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now. His stories are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of hope, love and death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles.
In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or you may find the afterlife contains only those people whom you remember. In some afterlives you are split into all your different ages; in some you are recreated based on your credit-card records; and in others you are forced to live with annoying versions of yourself that represent what you could have been.
In these wonderfully imagined tales - at once funny, wistful and unsettling - Eagleman kicks over the chessboard of traditional notions and offers us a dazzling lens through which to see ourselves here and now. His stories are rooted in science and romance and awe at our mysterious existence: a mixture of hope, love and death that cuts through human nature at innovative angles.
David Eagleman, PhD, is a neuroscientist and internationally bestselling author. He teaches at Stanford University, is the creator and host of the Emmy-nominated television series The Brain, and is the CEO of Neosensory, a company that builds the next generation of neuroscience hardware. The author of seven other books, he lives in Silicon Valley in California. @davideagleman | eagleman.com
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 24.4.2009 |
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| Verlagsort | Edinburgh |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 111 x 178 mm |
| Gewicht | 91 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-84767-427-5 / 1847674275 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-84767-427-2 / 9781847674272 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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