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Beginner’s Guide to Reality

Beginner's Guide to Reality by Jim Baggott Penguin Books, £7.99, ISBN 0-141-01930-1 Although the author does not use the word, this is an introduction to epistemology, the...

Jesus Never Existed

Jesus Never Existed by Kenneth Humphreys Iconoclast Press 2005 £15 (pb), ISBN 0-906879-14-0 That the story of Jesus is almost entirely myth is no secret to readers...

Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos

Parallel Worlds: The Science of Alternative Universes and Our Future in the Cosmos by Michio Kaku Penguin Books, £8.99 (pb), ISBN 0141014636 It has become compulsory to...

The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science

The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science by Robert K Merton and Elinor Barber Princeton University Press,...

The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages

The Hanged Man: A Story of Miracle, Memory, and Colonialism in the Middle Ages by Robert Bartlett Princeton University Press, £9.95 (pb), ISBN 0 691 12604...

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive

Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive by Jared Diamond Penguin, £9.99, ISBN 0-140-27951-2 “The monumental ruins left behind by societies hold a romantic fascination...

Evil Incarnate Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History

Evil Incarnate Rumors of Demonic Conspiracy and Satanic Abuse in History by David Frankfurter Princeton University Press, $29.95, ISBN 0-691-11350-5 In the 1980s, American TV ‘revealed’ a...

The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland

The Penguin Guide to the Superstitions of Britain and Ireland by Steve Roud Penguin, £10.99, ISBN 0140515127 Why is it that, whenever I see a single magpie,...
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