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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...
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Reality, Truth, and Evil: Facts, Questions, and Perspectives on September 11, 2001
by T H Meyer Synopsis Using the events of 9/11 and Pearl Harbor as his backdrop, Meyer studies the issues of reality, truth, and evil. Offering important new perspectives, he shows that U.S. political practice?under the influence of secret societies such as Skull and Bones?is...
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Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?: Debunking Pseudoscience
by Martin Gardner Synopsis This work provides a lively critique of New Age beliefs and scientific fraud. Topics debunked include paranormal events, Freud's theory of dreams, shamanism and UFOs....
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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, etc. Revised, expanded In the Name of Science. "A very able...
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The Truth Behind the Secret: A Reasoned Response to the Runaway Bestseller
by James K Walker Synopsis Out of seemingly nowhere the New York Times bestseller The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne, has become one of the nation's hottest books of all time and attracted unparalleled media attention. What is going on? At first glance, the message of The Secret is very...
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Pseudoscience & the Paranormal 2ND Edition
by Terence Hines Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-483) and index....
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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...
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Extraterrestrials Where Are They 2ND Edition
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...
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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...
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Parapolitics: Conspiracy in Contemporary America
by Kenn Thomas Synopsis From the Kennedy assassination to 9/11, Thomas examines the underlying parapolitics that animate the secret elites and the war-ravaged planet they manipulate. This volume is a compilation of his lecture remarks, interviews, correspondence and articles...
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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...
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Skeptic's Guide To the Paranormal (05 Edition)
by Kelly Publisher Comments Can a human being really spontaneously burst into flames? Just how deadly is the Bermuda Triangle? And what's the real story behind all those alien abductions? The answers to these and many other questions lie within the covers of The Skeptic's Guide to...
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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....
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Weird Science an Expert Explains Ghosts
by Michael White Publisher Comments In days of yore, humans believed that lightning bolts were evidence of the gods' wrath; today, of course, we know they are actually a discharge of atmospheric electricity.Might there also be reasonable, rational, scientifically based explanations for...
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Farewell to God: My Reasons for Rejecting the Christian Faith
by Charles Templeton Synopsis 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...
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Crazy Therapies
by Margaret Singer Publisher Comments A startling--and often downright amusing--expose of the alternative philosophies and practices that can be found in today's ever-growing psychotherapeutic marketplace. The book describes actual case histories of people who participated in a variety of...
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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,...
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The Secret Parts of Fortune: Three Decades of Intense Investigations and Edgy Enthusiasms
by Ron Rosenbaum 
Publisher Comments < p align=left> 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: < /p> < p align=left> < ul type=disc> <...
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Hoaxes, Myths, and Manias: Why We Need Critical Thinking
by Robert Bartholomew Book News Annotation The methods of critical thinking are described in the initial chapter, followed by a series of odd stories (here called case studies), that show what happens when people succumb to mob mentality and relinquish their ability to think critically...
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The Seven Sisters of the Pleiades: Stories from Around the World
by Munya Andrews Publisher Comments The legends of the Seven Sisters of the Pleiades that poets, priests, prophets, shamans, storytellers, artists, singers, and historians have told throughout time are retold in this compilation of the stories that have found their inspiration in nine...
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