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• McGowan, Dale; Matsumura, Molleen; Metskas, Amanda; Devor, Jan (2009). Raising Freethinkers: A Practical Guide for Parenting Beyond Belief. New York: AMACOM. ISBN 978-0814410967.

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• Loxton, Daniel; Donald Prothero (2013). Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231153201.

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Scientific Skepticism

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• Posner, Gerald (1993). Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK (1st ed.). Random House.

Description: Drawing from official sources and dozens of interviews, and filled with powerful historical detail, Case Closed is a vivid and straightforward account that stands as one of the most authoritative books on the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

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• Ronson, Jon (2004). The Men Who Stare at Goats (1st ed.). Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0330375474.

Description: Ronson's Them: Adventures with Extremists, a highly acclaimed international bestseller, examined the paranoia at the fringes of hate-filled extremist movements around the globe. The Men Who Stare at Goats reveals extraordinary and very nutty military secrets at the core of George W. Bush's War on Terror.

• Baker, Robert; Nickell, Joe (1992). Missing Pieces: How to Investigate Ghosts, UFOs, Psychics, and Other Mysteries (1st ed.). Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-0879757298.

Description: This is a complete handbook, featuring tactics and techniques you can use immediately to get at the truth. Learn how to conduct investigations, interrogate witnesses, recognize deception, and use the mental and electronic tools of the trade for "ghostbusting." Uncover the tricks used by those who say they can heal or influence behavior using only the power of their minds. Expose those who allege that they were selected by gods or extraterrestials to bring messages to humankind. Baker and Nickell also address why otherwise intelligent people often accept paranormal claims without question and how the investigator can use the media to spread the truth.

• Hitchens, Christopher (2010). The Missionary Position: Mother Teresa in Theory and Practice. Twelve (publisher). ISBN 978-1455523009.

Description: With characteristic élan and rhetorical dexterity, Hitchens eviscerates the fawning cult of Teresa, recasting the Albanian missionary as a spurious, despotic, and megalomaniacal operative of the wealthy who long opposed measures to end poverty, and fraternized, for financial gain, with tyrants and white-collar criminals throughout the world.

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• Rothman, Milton (1988). A Physicist's Guide to Skepticism: Applying Laws of Physics to Faster-Than-Light Travel, Psychic Phenomena, Telepathy, Time Travel, UFOs, and Other Pseudoscientific Claims. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-0879754402.

Description: The laws of physics provide clear-cut principles defining what is possible - and not possible - in the physical world. This book examines and critiques many widely held pseudoscientific beliefs in light of these laws. Rather than treating supernatural claims on a case-by-case basis, Milton Rothman uses the general principles supplied by physics to show why they are, in fact, impossible.

• Keene, M. Lamar (1977). The Psychic Mafia (1st ed.). Dell Publishing. ISBN 978-0440168492. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)

Description: The writer William V. Rauscher, himself a believer in psychic powers,[2] contributed a foreword and a bibliography and claimed to have conducted 75 hours of interviews with Keene, during which Keene admitted that all of his psychic activities were done by fraudulent means. Keene revealed how he got rich by tricking thousands of people in séances (Randi 1995:135). James Randi interviewed Keene in 1977, and discovered that Keene was quite unsophisticated in fooling people with magic, but Keene explained that his spiritualist clients were easy to fool.(Randi 1982:246) Keene described how the victims fell for the most transparent ruses. Keene coined the term true-believer syndrome in the book (Keene 1997:151).

• Nickell, Joe (1994). Psychic Sleuths: ESP and Sensational Cases. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-0879758806.

Description: Famed paranormal investigator Joe Nickell assembled a psychic "task force" of experienced researchers - investigative writers, professional magicians, private detectives, and paranormal investigators - and challenged them to examine the claims of a famous paranormal crimebuster. Among the "psychic sleuths" examined are Greta Alexander, Dorothy Allison, Gerard Croiset, Peter Hurkos, Phil Jordan, Rosemarie Kerr, Noreen Reiner, and Bill Ward. Noted psychologist James E. Alcock offers an assessment of the psychics' claims in light of the investigative reports.

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• Wiseman, Richard (2007). Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things (1st ed.). Basic Books. ISBN 978-0465090792.

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• Gould, Stephen Jay; Rose, Steven (2007). The Richness of Life: The Essential Stephen Jay Gould (1st ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393064988.

Description: Upon his death in 2002, Stephen Jay Gould stood at the pinnacle among observers of the natural world, recognized by Congress as a "living legend." His prodigious legacy—sixteen best-selling and prize-winning books, dozens of scientific papers, an unbroken series of three hundred essays in Natural History—combined to make Gould the most widely read science writer of our time. This indispensable collection of forty-eight pieces from his brilliant oeuvre includes selections from classics such as Ever Since Darwin and The Mismeasure of Man, plus articles and speeches never before published in book form. This volume, the last that will bear his name, spotlights his elegance, depth, and sheer pleasure in our world—a true celebration of an extraordinary mind.

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• Nickell, Joe; Fischer, John F. (1991). Secrets of the Supernatural: Investigating the World's Occult Mysteries. Prometheus Books. ISBN 978-0879756857.

Description:Utilizing their experience as professional crime-solvers, authors Joe Nickell and John F. Fischer delve into the labyrinth of the unknown armed with open minds and the remarkable array of information sources and scientific methods available to the modern investigator.

• Salerno, Steve (2005). Sham: How the Self-Help Movement Made America Helpless (1st ed.). Crown Publishing Group. ISBN 978-1400054091.

Description: Based on the author’s extensive reporting SHAM shows how thinly credentialed “experts” now dispense advice on everything from mental health to relationships to diet to personal finance to business strategy.

• Kelly, Lynne (2004). The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal (1st Thunder's Mouth Press ed.). Basic Books.

Description: Can a human being really spontaneously burst 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 other questions lie within the covers of The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal. Guaranteed to liven up any dinner party, this delightful, highly readable book offers color photographs and scientific case-by-case explanations for twenty-seven phenomena that appear to defy known science, including ghosts and poltergeists, the predictions of Nostradamus, and yogic levitation, among many others. Speaking directly to the reader, and always with respect for those who believe, Kelly gives us a bite-size, nonacademic approach to debunking hugely popular superstitions and mysteries. Did you know that you, too, can bend spoons and read minds? This book will show you how.

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• Sagan, Carl; Page, Thornton (1996). UFO's: A Scientific Debate. Barnes & Noble Books. ISBN 978-0760701966.

Description: Fifteen scientists from different fields such as astronomy, physics, meteorolgy, sociology, etc. discuss aspects of UFO's. Here they present photographs, and descriptions of sightings.

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• Feynman, Richard; Leighton, Ralph (2010). Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) (1st ed.). W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 978-0393316049.

Description: The outrageous exploits of one of this century's greatest scientific minds and a legendary American original. In this phenomenal national bestseller, the Nobel Prize­-winning physicist Richard P. Feynman recounts in his inimitable voice his adventures trading ideas on atomic physics with Einstein and Bohr and ideas on gambling with Nick the Greek, painting a naked female toreador, accompanying a ballet on his bongo drums and much else of an eyebrow-raising and hilarious nature.

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• Einstein’s Relativity and the Quantum Revolution : Modern Physics for Non-Scientists (DVD). The Teaching Company. 2000. {{cite AV media notes}}: Unknown parameter |director= ignored (help)

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• Them : Adventures with Extremists by Jon Ronson
• Ronson, Jon (2002). Them : Adventures with Extremists. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-0743227070.