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How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen Publisher Comments In 1979 two events occurred that would shape the next twenty-five years. In America and Britain, an era of weary consensus was displaced by the arrival of a political marriage of fiery idealists: Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher transformed politics... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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Pseudoscience/Paranormal 2nd Edition by Terence Hines Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-483) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.98 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Discourses on Reflexology, Numerology, Urine Therapy, and Other Dubious Subjects by Martin Gardner Review "Former Scientific American columnist Gardner (The Annotated Alice, etc.) has also long been a columnist for another journal – Skeptical Inquirer – and some 28 of his far-ranging pieces are loosely tied together in this new collection... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Hardcover
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On the Wild Side: The Big Bang, ESP, the Beast 666, Levitation, Rainmaking, Trance-Channeling, Seances and Ghosts, and More... by Martin Gardner Synopsis Written in the same vein as the successful The New... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus by Martin Gardner Publisher Comments This classic collection examines the rich and hilarious variety of pseudoscientific conjecture that dominates the media. Witty pieces address the evidence for ESP, psychokinesis, faith healing, and a variety of pseudosciences. Included are readers... (read more) List Price $26.98 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer Publisher Comments Revised and Expanded Edition. In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices,... (read more) List Price $17.99 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms by Ron Rosenbaum Publisher Comments One part intellectual and one part private eye, Ron Rosenbaum takes readers into "the secret parts" of the great mysteries, controversies, and enigmas of our time, including:the occult rituals of Skull and Bones, the legendary Yale secret society that... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Mythbusters: the Explosive Truth Behind 30 of the Most Perplexing Urban Legends of All Time by Kent Zimmerman Publisher Comments Leave no urban myth untested. Could you kill someone by dropping a penny from a skyscraper? Can an unsuspecting scuba diver be sucked out of the water by a firefighting helicopter and get spit out in the middle of a forest fire? Can you save yourself in... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science by Robert L Park Publisher Comments From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Weird Science and Bizarre Beliefs: Mysterious Creatures, Lost Worlds and Amazing Inventions by Gregory L Reece Publisher Comments What really lies at the earth's core? Is there truly a beautiful princess in the fiery land of Pellucidar waiting to be rescued from evil winged creatures? Enchanted from his early boyhood by the gripping tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs, H G Wells and... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Supersition, and Other Confusions of Our Time by Michael Shermer Publisher Comments The Heaven's Gate Cult Suicide... Roswell UFOs... Bible Code Predictions... Princess Di Conspiracy Theories... With all the weird things that continue to happen, it's easy to see how Why People Believe Weird Things hit a big nerve with book buyers and... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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God's Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man's Eternal Search for the Divine by Michael Largo Publisher Comments An eyebrow-raising exposE of the strange and shocking side of history's religions, cults, and spiritual movements What is the meaning of life? Since the dawn of civilization, humankind has sought to answer the mysteries of existence. Unfortunately this... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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God's Lunatics: Lost Souls, False Prophets, Martyred Saints, Murderous Cults, Demonic Nuns, and Other Victims of Man's Eternal Search by Michael Largo Publisher Comments An eyebrow-raising exposÉ of the strange and shocking side of history's religions, cults, and spiritual movements What is the meaning of life? Since the dawn of civilization, humankind has sought to answer the mysteries of existence. Unfortunately... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Psychic Mafia by M Lamar Keene Publisher Comments He claimed to be clairvoyant! He astounded audiences by seeming to bend objects and make them defy gravity without touching them! He conducted seances at which participants were sure they had touched the dead! M. Lamar Keene enjoyed the riches and fame... (read more) Your price: $50.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions by Robert Todd Carroll Publisher Comments Presents definitions, debates, and essays on supernatural and pseudoscientific subjects, including extraterrestrials, psychics, hoaxes, and alternative medicine.... (read more) Your price: $12.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Extraterrestrials by Ben Zuckerman Publisher Comments Since the dawn of history, humans have pondered whether or not other beings exist in our universe. In this fascinating volume, leading experts provide a critical analysis of the plausibility that other intelligent life forms do exist. They debate many... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials: The Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Poetry by Wendy Kaminer Publisher Comments In Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, Wendy Kaminer argues that we are a society intoxicated by the irrational: religion, spirituality, and popular therapies threaten to replace rational thought with supernaturalism and impassioned but unexamined personal... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Apocalypse Not: Everything You Know about 2012, Nostradamus and the Rapture Is Wrong by John Michael Greer Publisher Comments Three Thousand Years of End of Times (That Never Happened) New Agers count off the days until the Mayan calendar ends in 2012. Evangelical Christians look for the Antichrist and long for the Rapture. Extropians dream of the Singularity, when super... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Eccentric Lives, Peculiar Notions by John Michell Publisher Comments The passionately misguided individuals profiled in this entertaining book form an unforgettable portrait of human imagination run wild. Never has so much energy been poured into such oddly misbegotten ideas, inventions, enterprises and movements. The 22... (read more) List Price $12.98 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Beyond Belief: Skepticism, Science and the Paranormal by Martin Bridgstock Publisher Comments Whether ghosts, astrology or ESP, up to 80 per cent of the population believes in one or more aspects of the paranormal. Such beliefs are entertaining, and it is tempting to think of them as harmless. However, there is mounting evidence that paranormal... (read more) List Price $34.99 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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