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As the first comprehensive encyclopedia of the paranormal written from a scientific perspective, this valuable reference resource contains over 90 articles contributed by scientists, theologians, philosophers, magicians, historians, and other noted scholars. The topics covered include the strictly paranormal (channelling levitation, astrology, palmistry, phrenology, psychokinesis); the historical (mediums, psychic research, Houdini, alchemy); the philosophical (reincarnation, survival of death, miracles); and work on investigatory photography, the media, statistics, and the Bermuda Triangle.
Each article contains valuable citations of the relevant literature, plus suggestions for further reading. Authors present the major arguments, pro and con, with respect to each issue and a conclusion is reached on the merits of the evidence. When no clear conclusion is possible, the question remains open. Written in a non-technical manner, this definitive work offers the latest and most informed examination ever of the paranormal.
Contributors include James Alcock, Robert Baker, Stephen Barrett, Susan Blackmore, Gene Emery, Tom Flynn, Kendrick Frazier, Christopher French, Martin Gardner, Terence Hines, Joe Nickell, Robert Shaeffer, Russell Trimble, Joel Wallman, and others.
Gordon Stein, Ph.D. (Amherst, NY) is author of Sorcerer of Kings, and editor of The Encyclopedia of Unbelief, An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism, and A Second Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism.
859 pages (Index, cross references, illustrations. 6" x 9")
ISBN 1-57392-021-5