Author: Paul Fussell
Publisher: Back Bay Book
Keywords: skeptic, making, battle, doing
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1998-01-07
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0316290610
ISBN-13: 9780316290616
For most, World War II is nothing but a chapter in history--for most Americans, a rosy and happy one. But Paul Fussell, a novelist and WWII veteran, reminds us that only those who’ve experienced it can truly understand that war is hell. He writes with bite and humor of the horrors and inequalities of the so-called "Good War," which he says "for the United States, [was] an unintended form of eugenics, clearing the population of the dumbest, the least skilled, the least promising of all Americans." Not exactly the thoughts of a sentimentalist, but the notion that war is horrible should be
Author: Phillip Z.
Publisher: Hazelden Publishing
Keywords: steps, guide, skeptic
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1990-06
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0894867229
ISBN-13: 9780894867224
What do people do if they want to recover but are not certain about the existence or role of a higher power? Phillip Z. has created an excellent resource that encourages readers to trust the twelve steps and to follow the spiritual journey of recovery despite such skepticism.
Author: Terry Teachout
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: mencken, life, skeptic
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2003-11-01
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 006050529X
ISBN-13: 9780060505295
When H. L. Mencken talked, everyone listened -- like it or not. In the Roaring Twenties, he was the one critic who mattered, the champion of a generation of plain-speaking writers who redefined the American novel, and the ax-swinging scourge of the know-nothing, go-getting middle-class philistines whom he dubbed the "booboisie." Some loved him, others loathed him, but everybody read him. Now Terry Teachout takes on the man Edmund Wilson called "our greatest practicing literary journalist," brilliantly capturing all of Mencken’s energy and erudition, passion and paradoxes, in a masterful
Author: Michael Shermer
Publisher: ABC-CLIO
Keywords: volume, pseudoscience, encyclopedia, skeptic
Number of Pages: 903
Published: 2002-11-14
List price: $185.00
ISBN-10: 1576076539
ISBN-13: 9781576076538
Author: Michael Bodine
Publisher: Llewellyn Publications
Keywords: believer, skeptic, psychic, growing
Number of Pages: 312
Published: 2010-02-08
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0738719617
ISBN-13: 9780738719610
This gripping memoir chronicles the hair-raising and hilarious moments in Michael Bodine’s haunted life. It includes amazing true stories—a dangerous ghost friend with a hidden agenda, the hodgepodge of psychics who gathered in his mother’s kitchen, ghost hunting misadventures, spirit messages, possession—along with an inspiring account of his successful battle against chemical dependency as he learned to accept his unusual gift. Praise:“Fans of based-in-reality psychic family TV drama Medium, or anyone who wished Running With Scissors had more ghosts, will be gratified with
Author: Lynne Kelly
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Keywords: paranormal, guide, skeptic
Number of Pages: 250
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 1741140595
ISBN-13: 9781741140590
This work contains a rational explanation of 27 paranormal phenomena - from walking over hot coals to spontaneous combustion - that appear to defy the laws of science. Can a human being really burst spontaneously into flames? Just how deadly is the Bermuda Triangle? And what’s the real story behind all those alien abductions? The answers to these and many more questions are within these covers. Guaranteed to liven up any dinner party, "The Skeptic’s Guide to the Paranormal" offers explanations for many phenomena which appear to defy known science. Speaking directly to the reader, a
Author: Lisa McIntyre
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Keywords: sociology, readings, skeptic, practical
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2007-09-26
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0073380032
ISBN-13: 9780073380032
The Practical Skeptic: Readings in Sociology includes classic sociological research writings as well as recent pieces on fascinating topics of interest to students. It is the ideal companion to McIntyre’s text, The Practical Skeptic: Core Concepts in Sociology or other sociology texts. Readings in this edition challenge students to re-evaluate familiar social arenas: the college classroom, televised sports shows, restaurants, doctors’ offices and even public restrooms. The readings focus around the essential message that there is much that goes on in the social world that escapes the socio
