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Ken's Guide to the Bible by Ken Smith Publisher Comments The Bible is a thick, imposing, often unreadable, damnedly religious book. Most people don't have the time or the patience even to attempt reading it. But everyone knows they're supposed to know what's in the world's most widely quoted book. To whom can... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper 
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Popular Science) by Martin Gardner Publisher Comments Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience: hollow earth, Velikovsky, orgone energy, Dianetics, flying saucers, Bridey Murphy, food and medical fads, more. "A very able and even-tempered presentation." ... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.50 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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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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: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Exposed!: Ouija, Firewalking, and Other Gibberish by Henri. Trans. By Bart K. Holland Broch Publisher Comments From horoscopes to telekinesis to the Shroud of Turin, much of what is popularly accepted as a mystical or paranormal phenomenon is, in fact, bunk. Henri Broch's charged deconstruction of these and other acts reveals the hucksterism of pseudoscience... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $16.72 New - Hardcover
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Pseudoscience and the Paranormal : a Critical Examination of the Evidence (2ND 03 Edition) by Terence Hines Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-483) and index.... (read more) List Price $22.98 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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New Age: Notes of a Fringe-Watcher by Martin Gardner Book News Annotation Paperback reprint of science writer Gardner's welcome and witty debunking of fakery, foolishness, and pseudoscience--in articles originally published in the Skeptical inquirer and elsewhere, with added forewords and/or afterwords to most of the... (read more) List Price $26.98 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Unbelievable: Investigations Into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy, and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory by Stacy Horn Publisher Comments Rain barrels that refill themselves. Psychic horses. Mind-reading Cold War spies. For many, these phenomena are evidence of an unseen world just beyond the grasp of our five senses. For a group of scientists at Duke University, such mysteries demanded... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $17.50 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: $16.50 Used - Hardcover
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Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery by Martin Gardner Synopsis Published in 1955 under the direction of psychiatrist William Sadler, The Urantia Book is the largest and most sophisticated work of New Age literature ever produced. Well-known skeptic and acclaimed popular science writer Martin Gardner presents a... (read more) List Price $18.98 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation by Nicholas Humphrey Publisher Comments Leaps of Faith is a compelling and highly praised critique of beliefs in paranormal phenomena, miracles, and the like, written by the noted British psychologist Nicholas Humphrey. The author argues that our beliefs in the supernatural typically originate... (read more) List Price $27.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend by Jeffrey S. Victor Publisher Comments "Sociologist Victor began his involvement with satanic-cult phenomena by investigating a local panic centered in southwestern New York state. After an introductory section, his book begins with a description of this research, then proceeds with an... (read more) List Price $51.25 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal by Lynne Kelly Publisher Comments Guaranteed to liven up any dinner party, this delightful, highly readable book offers color photos and scientific case-by-case explanations for 27 phenomena that appear to defy known science, including ghosts and poltergeists, the predictions of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.25 Used - Trade Paper
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Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience by Martin Gardner Publisher Comments Martin Gardner is perhaps the wittiest, most devastating unmasker of scientific fraud and intellectual chicanery of our time. Here he muses on topics as diverse as numerology, New Age anthropology, and the late Senator Claiborne Pell's obsession with... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $5.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Debunked!: Conspiracy Theories, Urban Legends, and Evil Plots of the 21st Century by Richard Roeper Publisher Comments As he did in Urban Legends and Hollywood Urban Legends, and as he has done in dozens of columns for the Chicago Sun-Times over the last decade and a half, Richard Roeper lays out the basics of the conspiracy theory, quotes some of the true believers... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Happy Heretic by Judith Hayes Publisher Comments Judith Hayes, the Erma Bombeck of the secular humanist community, has the unique ability to raise serious points while making us laugh as she throws buckets of cold water on the irrational beliefs and maddening inconsistencies that often characterize... (read more) List Price $26.98 Your price: $3.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Skeptic's Dictionary: A Collection of Strange Beliefs, Amusing Deceptions, and Dangerous Delusions by Robert Todd Carroll Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-434) and indexes.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith by Charles Templeton Publisher Comments For more than 20 years, Charles Templeton was a major figure in the church in Canada and the United States. However, increasing doubt about the validity of the Old Testament and the teachings of the Christian church finally brought about a crisis in his... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $9.71 Used - Trade Paper
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Affirmations: Joyful and Creative Exuberance by Paul Kurtz Publisher Comments Kurtz outlines the main characteristics of happiness and uses critical thinking to demonstrate how wisdom can be applied to a life of commitment and passion.... (read more) List Price $16.98 Your price: $8.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Strange Creations: Aberrant Ideas of Human Origin from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes by Donna Kossy Publisher Comments Aberrant ideas of human origins from astronauts to aquatic apes.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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