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ETs and UFOs

Frazier, Kendrick. (ed.) The Ufo Invasion : The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Coverups (Prometheus, 1997). $18.17

Klass, Philip J. Bringing Ufos Down to Earth (Prometheus, 1997). $8.76

Klass, Philip J. The Real Roswell Crashed Saucer Coverup (Prometheus, 1997). $17.47

Klass, Philip J. UFO-Abductions : a Dangerous Game (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1988). $16.76

Klass, Philip J. UFOs: the Public Deceived (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1983).

Menzel, Donald and Lyle Boyd. The World of Flying Saucers: a Scientific Examination of a Major Myth of the Space Age (Doubleday, 1963).

Randi, James. Flim-Flam! (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books,1982), ch. 4. $15.16 (paper)

Randles, Jenny and Peter Hough. The Complete Book of Ufo's : An Investigation into Alien Contacts & Encounters (Sterling Pub, 1996). $11.96

Randles, Jenny and Paul Fuller. Crop Circles: a Mystery Solved (London: Robert Hale, 1990).

Randles, Jenny. Men in Black : Government Agents or Visitors from Beyond - Finally the Truth (St Martins Mass Market Paper, 1997). $4.79

Sagan, Carl. Broca's Brain (New York: Random House, 1979), $4.79

Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Random House, 1995, chapter 4). $11.20 (paper) Review.

Sheaffer, Robert. The UFO Verdict : Examining the Evidence (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1986). $15.96

Shermer, Michael. Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (W H Freeman & Co.: 1997) $16.07

Story, Ronald. The Space-gods Revealed: a Close Look at the Theories of Erich von Daniken, 2nd ed. (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1980).

Alternative Medicine

Baker, Robert A. They Call It Hypnosis (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). $27.95

Barrett, Stephen and William T. Jarvis. eds. The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America, (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1993). $18.87

Barrett, Stephen and Kurt Butler (eds.) A Consumers Guide to Alternative Medicine : A Close Look at Homeopathy, Acupuncture, Faith-Healing, and Other Unconventional Treatments; edited by (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1992). $15.96

Barrett, Stephen. "Homeopathy: Is It Medicine?," in The Hundredth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal - A Skeptical Inquirer Collection, ed. Kendrick Frazier (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991), pp. 271-277.

Brenneman, Richard J. Deadly Blessings : Faith Healing on Trial (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990).

Gardner, Martin. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957), ch. 16. $6.36

Huston, Peter. "China, Chi, and Chicanery - Examining Traditional Chinese Medicine and Chi Theory," Skeptical Inquirer, Sept/Oct 1995.

Magner, George. Chiropractic : the victim's perspective; edited by Stephen Barrett ; with a foreword by William T. Jarvis. (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995). $17.47

Randi, James. The Faith Healers (Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books). $15.96

Randi, James. Flim-Flam! (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books,1982), chapter 9. $15.16 (paper)

Raso, Jack. "Alternative" Healthcare: A Comprehensive Guide (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1994). $19.57

Raso, Jack. Mystical Diets : Paranormal, Spiritual, and Occult Nutrition Practices (Consumer Health Library) (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1993). $18.17

Rubin, Robert T. Extraordinary Disorders of Human Behavior, edited by Claude T. H. Friedmann and Robert A. Faguet (NY & London: Plenum Press, 1982).

Skrabanek, Petr and James McCormick. Follies and Fallacies in Medicine (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990).

Cryptozoology

Bauer, Henry H. The Enigma of Loch Ness : Making Sense of a Mystery (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1986). $11.95

Binns, Ronald. The Loch Ness Mystery Solved (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus, 1985). $26.95

Eberhart, George M. Monsters, a Guide to Information on Unaccounted for Creatures, Including Bigfoot, Many Water Monsters, and Other Irregular Animals (New York: Garland Pub., 1983).

Ellis, Richard. Monsters Of The Sea: The History, Natural History, and Mythology of the Oceans' Most Fantastic Creatures (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994). $24.50

Napier, John Russell. Bigfoot: the Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality (New York: Dutton, 1973).

Perez, Danny. Big Footnotes : a Comprehensive Bibliography Concerning Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowmen, and Related Beings (Norwalk, Calif.: D. Perez Pub. 1988).

Sharp, Henry S. The Transformation of Bigfoot : Maleness, Power, and Belief Among the Chipewyan (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1988). $32.00

Occult and Supernatural

------Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology : A Compendium of Information on the Occult Sciences, Magic, Demonology, Superstitions, Spiritism, Mysticism, Metaphysics, Psychical Science, and Parapsychology... (Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1982).

-----Guide to the American Occult: Directory and Bibliography(Kansas City, Mo.: Editorial Research Service, 1986).

Brenneman, Richard J. Deadly Blessings : Faith Healing on Trial (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). $19.57

Clements, Tad S. Science versus Religion (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). $31.95

Drury, Nevill. Dictionary of Mysticism and the Esoteric Traditions (Prism Press, 1992). $14.95

Gardner, Martin. Urantia : The Great Cult Mystery (Prometheus, 1995) $18.17

Grim, Patrick. ed., Philosophy of Science and the Occult, 2nd ed. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1990). $16.95

Hicks, Robert D. In Pursuit of Satan : the Police and the Occult (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991). $48.26

Houdini, Harry. A Magician Among the Spirits (New York: Harper, 1924).

Houdini, Harry. Miracle Mongers and Their Methods : a Complete Expose (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981). $14.36

Johnson, B. C. The Atheist Debater's Handbook(Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1983). $13.56

Johnson, Paul. In Search of the Masters : Behind the Occult Myth (South Boston, VA : Paul Johnson, 1991). $11.95

Kurtz, Paul. Eupraxophy : Living Without Religion(Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989). $22.95

Kurtz, Paul. The Transcendental Temptation : a Critique of Religion and the Paranormal (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986). $17.56

Larue, Gerald A. The Supernatural, the Occult, and the Bible (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). $18.87

Martin, Michael. Atheism : a Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990). $24.95

Nickell, Joe. Entities : angels, spirits, demons, and other alien beings (Amherst, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1995). $20.97

Nickell, Joe. Inquest On The Shroud Of Turin(Prometheus Books: Buffalo, N.Y.). $15.96

Nickell, Joe. Looking For A Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions and Healing Cures (Prometheus Books: Buffalo, N.Y., 1993). $21.67

Nickell, Joe. Secrets of the supernatural : investigating the world's occult mysteries with John F. Fischer (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1988). $14.36

Pellegrino, Charles. Unearthing Atlantis - An Archaelogical Odyssey, (New York: Random House, 1991). $10.40

Persinger, Michael. Neuropsychological Bases of God Beliefs (Praeger Pub Text., 1987) $55.00

Randi, James. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1995). $17.47

Randi, James. The Faith Healers (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1987). $15.96

Randi, James. Flim-Flam! (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1982), chapter 5, "The Giggling Guru: A Matter of Levity". $15.16 (paper)

Rawcliffe, Donovan Hilton. Occult and Supernatural Phenomena(New York: Dover Publications, 1988). $8.76

Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Random House, 1995). $11.20

Shermer, Michael. Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (W H Freeman & Co.: 1997) $16.07

Smith, George H. Atheism : the Case Against God(Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1980). $15.16

The Paranormal & the Psychic

------Encyclopedia of Occultism & Parapsychology : A Compendium of Information on the Occult Sciences, Magic, Demonology, Superstitions, Spiritism, Mysticism, Metaphysics, Psychical Science, and Parapsychology... (Detroit, Mich.: Gale Research Co., 1982).

-----The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal edited by Gordon Stein (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996). $104.95

-----The Hundreth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal, edited by Kendrick Frazier (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991). $18.36

-----Paranormal Phenomena (San Diego, CA: Greenhaven Press, Inc., 1991).

-----Science Confronts the Paranormal, edited by Kendrick Frazier. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986). $19.16

-----A Skeptic's Handbook of Parapsychology, edited by Paul Kurtz. (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1985). $19.96

-----The Wreck of the Titanic foretold? edited by Martin Gardner (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986).

Alcock, James E. Science and Supernature : a Critical Appraisal of Parapsychology (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). $30.95

Blackmore, Susan J., In Search of the Light: The Adventures of a Parapsychologist, (Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1986). $13.56

Blackmore, Susan J., Dying to Live : Near-death Experiences, (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1993). $18.17

Clarie, Thomas C. Occult/Paranormal Bibliography: An Annotated List of Books Published in English, 1976 through 1981 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1984).

Crichton, Michael. "Travels With My Karma: The Psychic Adventures of a Skeptic With An Open Mind", Esquire, v109, n5 (May, 1988).

Gardner, Martin. "Communicating with the dead: William James and Mrs. Piper," Free Inquiry (Spring, 1992), pp. 20-28.

Gardner, Martin. How Not To Test a Psychic : Ten Years of Remarkable Experiments With Renowned Clairvoyant Pavel Stepanek (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989). $22.37

Gardner, Martin. The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1988). $15.96

Gardner, Martin. Weird Water & Fuzzy Logic : More Notes of a Fringe Watcher (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1996). $18.17

Gordon, Henry. Extrasensory Deception: Esp, Psychics, Shirley MacLaine, Ghosts, Ufos (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1987). $19.57

Hansel, Charles Edward Mark. ESP; a Scientific Evaluation (New York: Scribner, 1966).

Hansel, C.E.M. ESP and Parapsychology: A Critical Re- Evaluation (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1980).

Hansel, C.E.M. The Search for Psychic Power : ESP and Parapsychology Revisited (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989). $18.36

Hines, Terence. Pseudoscience and the Paranormal(Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1990). $19.16

Hyman, Ray. The Elusive Quarry : a Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989). $23.07

Jerome, Lawrence E. Crystal Power - The Ultimate Placebo Effect (Amherst, NY: Prometheus, 1996). $15.96

Keene, M. Lamar. The Psychic Mafia (Prometheus, 1997). $13.56

Leikind, Bernard J. and William J. McCarthy. "An Investigation of Firewalking," in The Hundreth Monkey and Other Paradigms of the Paranormal, ed. Kendrick Frazier (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1991).

Lyons, Arthur and Marcello Truzzi, The Blue Sense: Psychic Detectives and Crime, New York: The Mysterious Press, 1991).

Nickell, Joe. Psychic Sleuths: ESP and Sensational Cases (Buffalo: Prometheus, 1994). $18.17

Randi, James. The Mask of Nostradamus (New York: Scribner, 1990). $15.16

Randi, James. The Truth about Uri Geller , (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1982). $16.76

Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Random House, 1995). $11.20

Shermer, Michael. Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (W H Freeman & Co.: 1997) $16.07

Schultz, Ted. ed. The Fringes of Reason, (New York: Harmony Books, 1989)

Schumaker, John. Wings of Illusion : the Origin, Nature, and Future of Paranormal Belief (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). $19.57

Stenger, Victor J. Physics and Psychics: the Search for a World Beyond the Senses (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). $20.27

Junk Science and Pseudoscience

-----Hypnosis: the Cognitive-behavioral Perspective, edited by Nicholas P. Spanos and John F. Chaves (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989).

-----Scientists Confront Creationism, edited by Laurie R. Godfrey. (New York: W.W. Norton, 1983). $10.36

Baker, Robert A. Hidden Memories : Voices and Visions from Within (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996). $14.36

Baker, Robert A. They Call It Hypnosis (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). $27.95

Dawes, Robyn M. House of Cards - Psychology and Psychotherapy Built on Myth, (New York: The Free Press, 1994). $16.07

Kushe, Larry. The Bermuda Triangle Mystery--Solved (New York:Warner Books, 1975).

Lefkowitz, Mary, Not Out of Africa - How Afrocentrism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History (New York: Basic Books, 1996). $16.80 Review.

Lykken, David. A Tremor in the Blood : Uses and Abuses of the Lie Detector (Mcgraw-Hill, 1980).

Pressman, Steven. Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard From est to Exile, (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993).

Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Random House, 1995). $11.20

Shermer, Michael. Why People Believe Weird Things : Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time (W H Freeman & Co.: 1997) $16.07

Singer, Margaret Thaler and Janja Lalich. Crazy Therapies (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Inc., 1996). $16.45 Review.

Spanos, Nicholas P. Multiple Identities and False Memories: A Sociocognitive Perspective (Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1996). $29.95

Storr, Anthony. Feet of Clay - saints, sinners, and madmen: a study of gurus (New York: The Free Press, 1996). $10.40

Vyse, Stuart A.Believing in Magic : The Psychology of Superstition (Oxford University Pess, 1997) $17.50

Frauds and Hoaxes

Asimov, Isaac. Martin H. Greenberg, and Charles G. Waugh, eds.Atlantis, (New York: New American Library, 1988).

Bulgatz, Joseph. Ponzi Schemes, Invaders From Mars, and More Extraordinary Popular Delusions (Harmony Books, 1992).

de Camp, L. Sprague, Lost Continents: the Atlantis Theme (New York: Ballantine, 1975). $6.36

Feder, Kenneth L. Frauds, Mysteries and Myths, ch. 8, (Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1990). $15.96

Gardner, Martin. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (New York: Dover Publications, Inc., 1957). $6.36

Gould, Stephen Jay. "Piltdown Revisited," in The Panda's Thumb, (New York: W.W Norton and Company, 1982). $10.36

MacKay, Charles. Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds (Crown Publishing, 1995). $11.20

Randi, James. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural , (N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, 1995). $17.47

Randi, James. Flim-Flam! (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books,1982). $15.16

Randi, James. The Truth about Uri Geller , (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1982).

Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark (New York: Random House, 1995). $11.20

Logic, Science and Philosophy

Beveridge, W.I.B. The Art of Scientific Investigation (New York: Vintage Books, 1957).

Churchland, Patricia Smith. Neurophilosophy - Toward a Unified Science of the Mind-Brain (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1986).

Dawkins, Richard.The Blind Watchmaker : Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design(W W Norton & Co., 1988). $8.76

Dawkins, Richard. Climbing Mount Improbable (W W Norton & Co., 1996). $17.50

De Camp, L. Sprague The Ancient Engineers (New York: Ballantine Books, 1977).

Dennett, Daniel Clement. Brainstorms: Philosophical Essays on Mind and Psychology (Montgomery, Vt.: Bradford Books, 1978).

Dennett, Daniel Clement. Consciousness explained illustrated by Paul Weiner (Boston : Little, Brown and Co., 1991).

Dennett, Daniel Clement. Darwin's dangerous idea : evolution and the meanings of life (New York : Simon & Schuster, 1995).

Dennett, Daniel Clement. Elbow room : the varieties of free will worth wanting (Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, 1984).

Dennett, Daniel Clement. Kinds of minds : toward an understanding of consciousness (New York, N.Y. : Basic Books, 1996).

Dickson, D.H., & Kelly, I.W. "The 'Barnum effect' in personality assessment: A review of the literature," Psychological Reports, 57, 367-382, (1985).

Evans, Bergen. The Natural History of Nonsense (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1957).

Friedlander, Michael W. At the Fringes of Science, (Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1995).

Friedlander, Michael. The Conduct of Science (New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1972).

$28.00

Gardner, Martin. Gardner's Whys & Wherefores (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989). $16.77

Gardner, Martin. Science: Good, Bad and Bogus (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981). $15.16

Gardner, Martin. The WHYS of a Philosophical Scrivener (New York: Quill, 1983). $15.16

Gould, Stephen Jay. "Evolution as Fact and Theory," in Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1983). $10.36

Gould, Stephen Jay. "Piltdown Revisited," in The Panda's Thumb, (New York: W.W Norton and Company). $10.36

Gould, Stephen Jay, Eight Little Piggies : Reflections in Natural History, (New York : Norton, 1993). $11.16

Gould, Stephen Jay. Ever Since Darwin (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 1979). $9.56

Gould, Stephen J. The Mismeasure of Man (New York, Norton: 1981). $7.96

Hofstadter, Douglas. Metamagical Themas: Questing for the Essence of Mind and Pattern (New York: Basic Books, 1985). See especially chapter 5, "World Views in Collision: The Skeptical Inquirer versus the National Enquirer". $18.40

Huber, Peter W. Galileo's Revenge : Junk Science in the Courtroom (New York: Basic Books, 1991). $12.00

Hyman, Ray. "`Cold Reading': How to Convince Strangers that You Know All About Them", The Skeptical Inquirer, Spring/Sumer 1977.

Jamison, Kay Redfield. An Unquiet Mind - A Memoir of Moods and Madness (New York: Vintage Books, 1997). $9.60 Review.

Kurtz, Paul. Philosophical Essays in Pragmatic Naturalism (Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990). $18.17

Loftus, Elizabeth F. Memory, Surprising New Insights Into How We Remember and Why We Forget (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1980).

Loftus, Elizabeth F. Eyewitness Testimony (Harvard University Press, 1996). $16.95

Loftus, Elizabeth and Katherine Ketcham. Witness for the Defense : The Accused, the Eyewitness, and the Expert Who Puts Memory on Trial (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991).

Loftus, Elizabeth. The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994). $16.07

Montagu, Ashley, The Concept of Race (New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1964).

Montagu, Ashley, Man's Most Dangerous Myth : Fallacy of Race (Altamira Press, 1997). $19.95

Montagu, Ashley, and Edward Darling.The Ignorance of Certainty (New York: Harper & Row, 1970).

Paine, Thomas. The Age of Reason (1794)

Popper, Karl R. The Logic of Scientific Discovery (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1959). $24.95

Radner, Daisie and Michael. Science and Unreason (Belmont, California: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1982), especially chapter 3, "Marks of Pseudoscience." $18.95

Ruchlis, Hy. How Do You Know It's True? Discovering the Difference Between Science and Superstition (Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1991). $11.16

Sacks, Oliver W. An anthropologist on Mars : seven paradoxical tales (New York : Knopf, 1995). $10.40

Sacks, Oliver W. The man who mistook his wife for a hat and other clinical tales (New York : Summit Books, 1985). $10.40

Sacks, Oliver W. A leg to stand on (New York : Summit Books, 1984). $10.00

Sacks, Oliver W. Seeing voices : a journey into the world of the deaf (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989). $8.80

Sagan, Carl. Broca's Brain (New York: Random House, 1979). $4.79

Schacter, Daniel L. Searching for Memory - the brain, the mind, and the past (New York: Basic Books, 1996). $11.20 Review.

Schick, Jr.,Theodore and Lewis Vaughn. How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age, (Mountain View, California: Mayfield Publishing Company, 1995). $15.96

Schultz, Ted. ed. The Fringes of Reason, (New York: Harmony Books, 1989)


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