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Abell, George O. and Barry Singer, Editors. Science and the Paranormal: Probing the Existence of the Supernatural. New York: Charles Scribner’s Son, 1981.
Alper, Gerald. The Puppeteers: Studies of Obsessive Control. New York: Fromm International Publishing Co., 1994.
Appel, Willa. Cults in America: Programmed for Paradise. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1983.
Armstrong, Karen. A History of God: The 4000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
Arnheim, Michael. Is Christianity True: A Critical Re-examination of the Evidence. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1984.
Bailey, Ronald. Eco-Scam: The False Prophets of Ecological Apocalypse. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993.
Barrett, David V. Sects, "Cults" and Alternative Religions. London: Blandford, 1996.
Barrett, Stephen and Jarvis, William T., Editors The Health Robbers: A Close Look at Quackery in America. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1993.
Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem Possessed: The Social Origins of Witchcraft. New York: MJF Books, 1974.
Boyer, Paul and Stephen Nissenbaum. Salem-Village Witchcraft: A Documentary Record of Local Conflict in Colonial New England. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1972.
Brandon, Ruth. The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini. New York: Random House, 1993
Brenneman, Richard J. Deadly Blessings: Faith Healing on Trial. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990.
Brookesmith, Peter. UFO: The Government Files. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1996.
Brunvand, Jan Harold. Curses Broiled Again: The Hottest Urban Legends Going. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1989.
Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Choking Doberman: and Other New Urban Legend. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1984.
Brunvand, Jan Harold. The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends and Their Meanings. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1981.
Capaldi, Nicholas. The Art of Deception. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1979.
Cederblom, Jerry and David W. Paulsen. Critical Reasoning. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Books, 1982.
Cohen, Daniel. Waiting for the Apocalypse. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1973.
Cohen, Daniel. Myths of the Space Age. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1967.
Cohen, Daniel. Monsters, Giants and Little Men from Mars: An Unnatural History of the Americas. New York: Doubleday and Company, 1975.
Conway, Flo, and Jim Siegelman. Holy Terror: The Fundamentalist War on America’s Freedoms in Religion, Politics and Our Private Lives. New York: Doubleday, 1982.
Corydon, Bent and L. Ron Hubbard, Jr. L. Ron Hubbard: Messiah or Madman. Secaucus, New Jersey: Lyle Stuart, Inc., 1987.
Cox, Harvey. Fire From Heaven: The Rise of Pentecostal Spirituality and the Reshaping of Religion in the Twenty-First Century. Menlo Park, Calif.: Addison-Wesley, 1995.
Cromer, Alan. Connected Knowledge: Science, Philosophy and Education. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
D’Antonio, Michael. Fall from Grace: The Failed Crusade of the Christian Right. New York: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1989.
Dauer, Francis Wantanabe. Critical Thinking: An Introduction to Reasoning. (Reprint) New York: Barnes and Noble, 1996.
Dawkins, Richard. Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
De Camp, L. Sprague. The Fringe of the Unknown. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1983.
DelGado, Pat. Crop Circles–Conclusive Evidence? London: Bloomsbury, Inc., 1992.
Devlin, Judith. The Superstitious Mind: French Peasants and the Supernatural in the Nineteenth Century. New York: Yale University Press, 1987.
Doyno, Victor, Editor. Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1983.
Eldredge, Niles. The Monkey Business: A Scientist Looks at Creationism. New York: Washington Square Press, 1982.
Estruch, Joan. Saints and Schemers: Opus Dei and Its Paradoxes. New York and London: Oxford University Press, 1995.
Feder, Kenneth L. Frauds, Myths, and Mysteries: Science and Pseudoscience in Archaeology. Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1990.
Forbush, W.B., Editor. Fox’s Book of Martyrs. Philadelphia: Universal Book and Bible House, 1926
Frazier, Kendrick, Editor. Paranormal Borderlands of Science. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981.
Frazier, Kendrick, Editor. Science Confronts the Paranormal. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986.
Frazier, Kendrick, with Barry Karr and Joe Nickell. The UFO Invasion: The Roswell Incident, Alien Abductions, and Government Coverups. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1997.
Feynman, Richard. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1998.
Gardner, Martin. Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science. New York: New American Library, 1957.
Gardner, Martin. On the Wild Side. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1992.
Gardner, Martin. Science, Good, Bad and Bogus. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981.
Gardner, Martin. Urantia: The Great Cult Mystery. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995.
Gardner, Martin. Weird Water and Fuzzy Logic: More Notes of a Fringe Watcher. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996.
George, John and Laird Wilcox. American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists, and Others. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996.
Gordon, Stuart. The Book of Hoaxes: An A-Z of Famous Fakes, Frauds and Cons. London: Headline Books, 1995.
Gordon, Stuart. The Encyclopedia of Myths and Legends. London: Headline Book Publishing, 1993.
Gould, Stephen. Questioning the Millennium. New York: Harmony Books, 1997.
Greenfield, Robert. The Spiritual Supermarket: An Account of Gurus Gone Public in America. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1975.
Gross, Paul R. and Norman Levitt. Higher Superstition: The Academic Left and Its Quarrels with Science. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.
Gross, Paul R., Norman Levitt, and Martin W. Lewis. The Flight From Science and Reason. New York: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Hanchett, William. The Lincoln Murder Conspiracies. Urbana, Ill., University of Illinois Press, 1986.
Hansel, C.E.M. ESP and Parapsychology: A Critical Re-Evaluation. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1980.
Harris, Melvin. Investigating the Unexplained. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1986.
Hay, Henry. The Amateur Magician’s Handbook, Fourth Edition. New York: Castle Books, 1982.
Henry, William A. In Defense of Elitism. New York: Anchor Books Doubleday, 1994.
Hoffmann, R. Joseph. Jesus Outside the Gospels. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1984.
Hoggart, Simon and Mike Hutchinson. Bizarre Beliefs. London: Richard Cohen Books, 1995.
Holbrook, Stewart H. The Golden Age of Quackery. New York: Macmillan and Company, 1959.
Holton, Gerald. Science and Anti-Science. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993.
Houdini and Dunninger. Magic and Mystery: The Incredible Psychic Investigations of Houdini and Dunninger. New York: Weathervane Books, 1952.
Houdini, Harry. Miracle Mongers and Their Methods. (reprint) Buffalo, N.Y., Prometheus Books, 1993.
Humphrey, Nicholas. Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation. Basic Books, 1996.
Kaplin, David and Andrew Marshall. The Cult at the End of the World. New York: Crown Publishers, 1996.
Kerston, H. and Gruber, E.R. The Jesus Conspiracy: Turin Shroud and the Truth about the Resurrection. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1995.
Keene, Lamar M., with Alan Spraggett. The Psychic Mafia. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1997.
Klass, Philip J. UFOs: The Public Deceived. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1983.
Klass, Philip. UFOs Explained. New York: Vintage Books, 1974.
Kohn, Alexander. False Prophets--Fraud and Error in Science and Medicine. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1986.
Kramer, Joel and Diana Alstad. The Guru Papers: Masks of Authoritarian Power. Berkeley, Calif.: Frog Ltd., 1993.
Krauss, Lawrence M. Beyond Star Trek: Physics from Alien Invasions to the End of Time. N.Y: Basic Books, 1997.
Kurtz, Paul, Editor. Skeptics Handbook of Parapsychology. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1985.
Loftus, Elizabeth, and Katherine Ketcham. The Myth of Repressed Memory: False Memories and Allegations of Sexual Abuse. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 1994.
Ludwig, Jan, Editor. Philosophy and Parapsychology. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1978.
MacDougall, Curtis D. Superstition and the Press. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1983.
Mackay, Charles. Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds. (Reprint) New York: Barnes and Noble, 1993.
Marks, David and Richard Kammann. The Psychology of the Psychic. Buffalo, New York: Prometheus Books, 1980.
Meaden, G.T., The Circles Effect and Its Mysteries. Bradford On Avon: Artetech Publishers, 1990.
Meyer, Donald. The Positive Thinkers: Religion as Pop Psychology from Mary Baker Eddy to Oral Roberts. New York: Pantheon Books, 1980.
Miles, Austin. Don’t Call Me Brother: A Ringmaster’s Escape from the Pentecostal Church. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1989.
Napier, John. Bigfoot: The Yeti and Sasquatch in Myth and Reality. N.Y.: E. P. Dutton and Co Inc., 1972
Nathan, Debbie and Michael Snedeker. Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt. New York: Basic Books, 1995.
Nickell, Joe. Entities: Angels, Spirits, Demons and Other Alien Beings. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995.
Nickell, Joe. Inquest on the Shroud of Turin. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books: 1983.
Noll, Richard. The Aryan Christ: The Secret Life of Carl Jung. New York: Random House, 1997.
Ofshe, Richard and Ethan Watters. Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1994.
Packard, William. Evangelism in America from Tents to TV. New York: Paragon House, 1988.
Partner, Peter. The Murdered Magicians: The Templars and Their Myth. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1987.
Pellegrino, Charles. Return To Sodom and Gomorrah. New York: Avon Books, 1994.
Pellegrino, Charles. Unearthing Atlantis: An Archaeological Odyssey. New York, Random House, 1991.
Pellegrino, C. and Stoff, J.: Darwin’s Universe: Origins and Crises in the History of Life (Reprint). New York: Tab Books, 1986.
Picknett, L. and Prince, C.: The Turin Shroud---In Whose Image? New York: Harper Collins, 1994.
Radner, Daisie, and Michael Radner. Science and Unreason. Belmont, Calif.: Wadsworth Publishing Co., 1982.
Randi, James. An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 1995.
Randi, James. Conjuring. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1992.
Randi, James. Flim-Flam: the Truth about Unicorns, Parapsychology and Other Delusions. New York: Lippencott and Crowell, 1980.
Randi, James. The Mask of Nostradamus. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1993.
Randi, James. The Truth About Uri Geller. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1975.
Raymo, Chet. Skeptics and True Believers: The Exhilarating Connection Between Science and Religion.
Reiterman, Jim, with John Jacobs. Raven: The Untold Story of Jim Jones and His People. New York: E.P. Dutton, Inc., 1982.
Rosen, R.D. Psychobabble: Fast Talk and Quick Cure in the Era of Feeling. New York: Atheneum, 1977.
Ruchlis, Hy, with Sandra Oddo. Clear Thinking: A Practical Introduction. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1990.
Sagan, Carl and Thornton Page. UFO’s: A Scientific Debate. New York: W.W. Norton, 1972.
Sagan, Carl. The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark. New York: Ballantine Books, 1996.
Saler, Benson, et al. UFO Crash at Roswell: The Genesis of a Modern Myth. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1997.
Schick, Theodore, Jr. and Vaughn, Lewis, How to Think about Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age. Mountain View, Calif.: Mayfield Publishing Co., 1995,
Schiffman, Nathaniel. Abracadabra! Secret Methods Magicians and Others Use to Deceive Their Audience. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1997.
Schnabel, Jim. Round in Circles: Poltergeists, Pranksters, and the Secret History of Cropwatchers. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1994.
Sheaffer, Robert. Resentment Against Achievement: Understanding the Assault upon Ability.Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1988.
Sheaffer, Robert. UFO Sightings: The Evidence. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1998.
Sheaffer, Robert. The UFO Verdict: Examining the Evidence. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1981.
Shermer, Michael. Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time. New York: W.W. Freeman and Co., 1997.
Silverman, Kenneth. Houdini: The Career of Ehrich Weiss. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 1996.
Sklar, D. The Nazis and the Occult. New York: Dorset Press, 1977.
Smith, Adam. Powers of Mind. New York: Random House, 1975.
Smith, Homer W. Man and His Gods. Forward by Albert Einstein .New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1952.
Smith, Morton. Jesus the Magician. New York: Harper & Row, 1978.
Smith, George H. Atheism: The Case Against God. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus, 1979.
Smith, George. Religion, Feminism and Freedom of Conscience. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1994.
Sokal, Alan, and Jean Bricmont. Fashionable Nonsense: Postmodern Intellectuals' Abuse of Science. New York: Picador USA, 1998.
Stenger, Victor J. The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995.
Steiner, Robert A. Don’t Get Taken!: Bunco and Bunkum Exposed. El Cerrito, Calif.: Wide-Awake Books, 1989.
Steiner, Robert A. The Truth Shall Make You Free: An Inquiry into the Legend of God. El Cerrito, Calif.: Penseur Press, 1980.
Stern, Kenneth S. A Force Upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996.
Stiebing, William H., Jr. Ancient Astronauts, Cosmic Collisions, and Other Popular Theories about Man’s Past. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1984.
Storr, Anthony. Feet of Clay: Saints, Sinners, and Madmen: A Study of Gurus. New York: The Free Press, 1996.
Strahler, Arthur N. Understanding Science. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1992.
Streiker, Lowell D. The Gospel Time Bomb: Ultrafundamentalism and the Future of America. Buffalo, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1984.
Tabori, Paul. The Natural History of Stupidity. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1993.
Underwood, Barbara and Betty. Hostage to Heaven. N.Y.: Clarkson N. Potter Inc. 1979
Victor, Jeffrey S. Satanic Panic: The Creation of a Contemporary Legend. Chicago: Open Court, 1993.
Vyse, Stuart A. Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Washburn, Katharine, and John Thornton, Editors. Dumbing Down: The Strip Mining of American Culture. New York: W.W. Norton and Company, 1996.
Washington, Peter. Madame Blavatsky’s Baboon. New York: Schocken Books, 1995.
Watters, Ethan, and Richard Ofshe. Therapy's Delusions: The Myth of the Unconscious and the Exploitation of Today's Walking Worried. New York: Scribner, 1999.
White, Peter. The Past Is Human: Ancient Mysteries Examined. New York: Taplinger Publishing Co., 1974.
Williams, Stephen. Fantastic Archaeology. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 1991.
Windschuttle, Keith. The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past. New York: The Free Press, 1996.
Wiseman, Richard. Deception and Self-Deception. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1997.
Wojcik, Daniel, The End of the World As We Know It: Faith, Fatalism, and Apocalypse in America. New York and London: New York University Press, 1997.
Young, Perry Deane. God’s Bullies: Power Politics and Religious Tyranny. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982.