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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Controversial knowledge
This is a Master collection of the Award Winning Autobiographical
Mental Health Series "The Life and Times of Texas Guitar Legend
Nathon Dees" Volume 1 thru 4. This Book is a Must Have for all
seekers of Higher Truth.
UFOs. Aliens. Strange crop circles. Giant figures scratched in the
desert surface along the coast of Peru. The amazing alignment of
the pyramids. Strange lines of clouds in the sky. The paranormal is
alive and well in the American cultural landscape. In UFOs,
Chemtrails, and Aliens, Donald R. Prothero and Tim Callahan explore
why such demonstrably false beliefs thrive despite decades of
education and scientific debunking. Employing the ground rules of
science and the standards of scientific evidence, Prothero and
Callahan discuss a wide range of topics including the reliability
of eyewitness testimony, psychological research into why people
want to believe in aliens and UFOs, and the role conspiratorial
thinking plays in UFO culture. They examine a variety of UFO
sightings and describe the standards of evidence used to determine
whether UFOs are actual alien spacecraft. Finally, they consider
our views of aliens and the strong cultural signals that provide
the shapes and behaviors of these beings. While their approach is
firmly based in science, Prothero and Callahan also share their
personal experiences of Area 51, Roswell, and other legendary
sites, creating a narrative that is sure to engross both skeptics
and believers.
We are said to be living in the age of entitlement, and
millennials-those in their late teens to early thirties-are
declared by scholars and pundits to expect special treatment more
than any prior generation. The Myth of the Age of Entitlement peels
back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its
anti-democratic faults and offering a more nuanced understanding of
the millennial generation. Cairns argues that the majority of
millennials in fact face bleak economic prospects and mounting
ecological disaster. In lively prose, and punctuated with insights
from millennials rarely profiled in mainstream media-including
indebted university students, young retail workers, Indigenous
youth, and supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement-he offers
a passionate defense of how this generation is bravely addressing a
legacy of inequality and social and ecological injustice. It is
this kind of action that can precisely reinvigorate democracy and
bring about a new era of universal entitlement.
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