{"product_id":"heavens-on-earth-9781472140616","title":"Heavens on Earth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA scientific exploration into humanity''s obsession with the afterlife and the quest for immortality from the bestselling author and sceptic Michael Shermer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn his most ambitious work yet, Shermer sets out to discover what drives humans'' belief in life after death. For millennia, the awareness of our own mortality and failings has led to religions concocting comforting notions of an afterlife, of heaven and hell, utopias and dystopias, and of the perfectibility of human nature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHeavens on Earth \u003c\/i\u003eexplores the numerous manifestations of the afterlife - a place where souls might go after the death of the physical body. Religious leaders have toiled to make sense of this place that a surprisingly high percentage of people believe exists, but from which no one has ever returned to report what it is really like.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is one of the most profound questions of the human condition and has long driven philosophers and theologians to try to understand the meaning \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNot only a bizarrely uplifting look at death and the great beyond, but a witty and insightful examination of morality as dictated by science * Independent *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Little, Brown Book Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48739390521687,"sku":"9781472140616","price":13.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781472140616.jpg?v=1720052104","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/heavens-on-earth-9781472140616","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}