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Defending Science – Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism

Defending Science, Within Reason: Between Scientism and Cynicism by Susan Haack Prometheus Books, $28.00, ISBN 1-59102-117-0 Susan Haack, professor of philosophy and of law at the University...

Why Smart People Can Be So Stupid

Why Smart People Can be So Stupid by Robert J Sternberg (Editor) Yale University Press, £12.50, ISBN 0300101708 The title alone triggers a cascade of questions. Is...

Has Science Found God?

Has Science Found God?: The Latest Results in the Search for Purpose in the Universe by Victor J Stenger Prometheus Books, £16.30, ISBN 1591020182 In recent decades...

How Mumbo Jumbo Took Over the World

How Mumbo-jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions by Francis Wheen Fourth Estate, £16.99, ISBN 0007140967 This is a book full of tales of...

The Scientific Study of Society

The Scientific Study of Society by Max Steuer Kluwer, ISBN 1402073216 There has been much noise from postmodernist quarters and other niches claiming that social science is...

Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology

Fifty Key Thinkers in Psychology (Routledge Key Guides) by Noel Sheehy Routledge, ISBN 0 415 16774 4 (hbk), 0 415 16775 2 Psychologists will recognize the usual...

Pseudoscience and the Paranormal

Pseudoscience and the Paranormal: Science and the Paranormal by Terence Hines Prometheus Books, $21.00, ISBN 1573929794 Is there no limit to the number of strange things people...

Inamorata

Inamorata by Joseph Gangemi Viking, $24.95 ISBN 0-67-03279-4 I suspect that many of us who are intrigued by paranormal phenomena also enjoy a good mystery. Inamorata satisfies both appetites. In...
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