How To Make A Zombie : the Real Life (And Death{Rpara} Science Of Reanimation And Mind Control

Could zombies actually walk the earth? Join science punk Frank Swain as he digs into the science of body and mind control, from Haitian Vodou potions to military interrogation techniques. He recounts true zombie tales from the archives, including resurrected dog heads, secret agent drugs, and remote-controlled bulls and rats. He even investigates how psychologists are shaping our thoughts in the design of city streets. Entertaining and mind-bending, this is incredible science at its best.;Recipe for a zombie -- Dead men working the fields. Pursuit of the flesh ; Nail in the coffin ; The professor and the bogeyman ; The big sleep ; A deathly state of mind -- Time for a revival. Reprieve from death ; The spark of life ; The dead Russians are coming ; The second coming of Lazarus ; Dr Ivie's healing fists ; Adventures in necronautics ; Emtombed in blue -- Mickey Finn and other thugs. Rotting brains ; Acid spies and secret highs ; Recruited, body and soul ; Pusher ; Mind over matter -- Remote/control. All in the brains ; Cut to the asylum ; Excising the soul ; The joy machine ; Constructing a psycho-civilized society -- The ghoulish nanny. Living larder ; Parasite puppeteers ; Thinking caps ; The knot of the problem ; Your body is a battleground -- Army of bloodsuckers. Sealed with a kiss ; Bad air in the doldrums ; Infected with rage ; A fatal game of cat and mouse ; Programmed to kill -- The human harvest. That good-for-something zombie ; In cold blood ; Butcher, faker, breast implant maker ; Lettuce heads and artichoke hearts ; Happy endings ; Dining with the dead -- Here and now.

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 famous voodoo potions of Haiti. But recently, science has taken up the quest. Science punk Frank Swain digs into the reality of zombies: 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; bulls and rats commanded by remote control; city streets designed to quell violent thoughts; interrogation techniques used by the military; and viruses that take over the body and won't let go. Packed with untold stories moldering in the corners of archives and labs, How to Make a Zombie is a mind-bending, entertaining excavation of incredible science.

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.