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Reluctant Skeptic

Author: Harry T. Craver

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2017-02-01

Total Pages: 294

ISBN-13: 178533459X

The journalist and critic Siegfried Kracauer is best remembered today for his investigations of film and other popular media, and for his seminal influence on Frankfurt School thinkers like Theodor Adorno. Less well known is his earlier work, which offered a seismographic reading of cultural fault lines in Weimar-era Germany, with an eye to the confrontation between religious revival and secular modernity. In this discerning study, historian Harry T. Craver reconstructs and richly contextualizes Kracauer’s early output, showing how he embodied the contradictions of modernity and identified the quasi-theological impulses underlying the cultural ferment of the 1920s.

A Reluctant Spirit

Author: Kathleen Berry

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Published: 2013-09

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9780989872201

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When Kathy Berry joins a TV news crew and paranormal investigators as the team's impartial observer an overnight stay in the Goldfield Hotel shatters her beliefs that the paranormal is evil or figments of the weak-minded. In the Goldfield, eerie activity confronts her on every floor, and as she hears, feels and sees spirits, she must face her years-long denial that she possesses a sensitive's gifts.

Radical

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Published: 1868

Total Pages: 530

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The Radical

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Published: 1868

Total Pages: 500

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The Radical

Author: Sidney H. Morse

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Published: 1868

Total Pages: 500

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The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience [2 volumes]

Author: Michael Shermer

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-11-14

Total Pages: 920

ISBN-13: 1576076547

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A thorough, objective, and balanced analysis of the most prominent controversies made in the name of science—from the effectiveness of proposed medical treatments to the reality of supernatural claims. Edited by Michael Shermer, editor and publisher of The Skeptic magazine, this truly unique work provides a comprehensive introduction to the most prominent pseudoscientific claims made in the name of "science." Covering the popular, the academic, and the bizarre, the encyclopedia includes everything from alien abductions to the Bermuda Triangle, crop circles, Feng Shui, and near-death experiences. Fifty-nine brief descriptive summaries and 23 investigations from The Skeptic magazine give skeptical analyses of subjects as far-ranging as acupuncture, chiropractic, and Atlantis. The encyclopedia also gives for-and-against debates on topics such as evolutionary psychology and case studies on topics like police psychics and the medical intuitive Carolyn Myss. Finally, the volumes include five classic works in the history of science and pseudoscience, including the speech William Jennings Bryan never delivered in the Scopes trial, and the first scientific and skeptical investigation of a paranormal/spiritual phenomenon by Benjamin Franklin and Antoine Lavoisier.