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A wealth of evidence for doubters and disbelievers
""Whether it's the latest shark cartilage scam, or some new
'repressed memory' idiocy that besets you, I suggest you carry a
copy of this dictionary at all times, or at least have it within
reach as first aid for psychic attacks. We need all the help we can
get.""
-James Randi, President, James Randi Educational Foundation,
randi.org
""From alternative medicine, aliens, and psychics to the farthest
shores of science and beyond, Robert Carroll presents a fascinating
look at some of humanity's most strange and wonderful ideas.
Refreshing and witty, both believers and unbelievers will find this
compendium complete and captivating. Buy this book and feed your
head ""
-Clifford Pickover, author of The Stars of Heaven and Dreaming the
Future
""A refreshing compendium of clear thinking, a welcome and potent
antidote to the reams of books on the supernatural and
pseudoscientific.""
-John Allen Paulos, author of Innumeracy and A Mathematician Reads
the Newspaper
""This book covers an amazing range of topics and can protect many
people from being scammed.""
-Stephen Barrett, M.D., quackwatch.org
Featuring close to 400 definitions, arguments, and essays on topics
ranging from acupuncture to zombies, The Skeptic's Dictionary is a
lively, commonsense trove of detailed information on all things
supernatural, occult, paranormal, and pseudoscientific. It covers
such categories as alternative medicine; cryptozoology;
extraterrestrials and UFOs; frauds and hoaxes; junk science; logic
and perception; New Age energy; and the psychic. For the
open-minded seeker, the soft or hardened skeptic, and the believing
doubter, this book offers a remarkable range of information that
puts to the test the best arguments of true believers.
The Bible is the most important book in the history of Western
civilization, and also the most difficult to interpret. It has been
the vehicle of continual conflict, with every interpretation
reflecting passionately-held views that have affected not merely
religion, but politics, art, and even science. This unique edition
offers an exciting new approach to the most influential of all
English biblical texts - the Authorized King James Version,
complete with the Apocrypha. Its wide-ranging Introduction and the
substantial notes to each book of the Bible guide the reader
through the labyrinth of literary, textual, and theological issues,
using the most up-to-date scholarship to demonstrate how and why
the Bible has affected the literature, art and general culture of
the English-speaking world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years
Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of
literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects
Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate
text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert
introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the
text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Unnatural Acts is for people who want to improve their thinking,
become more accurate in their beliefs and more reasonable in their
actions, and who are tired of being fooled by others. The book is
about natural and unnatural thinking, and how the way we think
affects everything we do. Natural thinking is instinctive,
intuitive, quick and dirty. It works pretty well most of the time,
but it can get us into trouble. We can deceive ourselves into
believing what's not true or even what goes against our own
self-interest, if we're not careful. And manipulators who
understand natural thinking can use that understanding to hoodwink
us into believing what isn't true or doing what they want us to do.
You can reduce the chances of being duped by learning how to think
in unnatural ways.
The Church Musicians Bookshelf Series 2, No. 2.
This book about wisdom brings to life a poetic voice. It springs
from the lived-experience of a healer who, like many healers in all
wisdom traditions, uses poetry as a vehicle to take us into a
sacred space, where we gain the power to remain cool in the eye of
a storm. Dr. Carroll puts in plain words how to take on the
thousand and one challenges of life and hands over a medicine for
life to heal us when we are confronted with illness, death, and
dying. (Kykosa Kajangu)
The main theme of the book is to relate ideas of quantum
fluctuations (expressed via Fisher information for example, or
diffusion processes, or fractal structures, or particle creation
and annihilation, or whatever) in terms of the so called quantum
potential (which arises most conspicuously in deBroglie-Bohm
theories).
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