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CORLISS, W., GRANEAU, P., GRAFF, D. E., PUHLE, A., GROSSO, M., SCHMICKER, M., … Haisch, B. (2010). Book Reviews. Journal of Scientific Exploration, 23(1). Retrieved from https://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/103

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13 Things that Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffl ing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks.  New York: Doubleday, 2008.  240 pp.  $23.95 (hardcover).  ISBN 978-0-385-52068-3. - CORLISS

Heretical Verities: Mathematical Themes in Physical Description by Thomas E. Phipps, Jr.  Classic Non-Fiction Library, Urbana, 1986.  637 pp.  (hard cover).  ISBN 0-9606540-0-7. - GRANEAU

The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural and the Healing Power of Hope by Allan J. Hamilton.  New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Putman, 2008.  Xi + 254 pp.  $23.95 (hardcover).  ISBN 8791-58542-615-7. - GRAFF

Spiritual Encounters with Unusual Light Phenomena: Lightforms by Mark Fox.  The University of Wales Press, 2008.  203 pp.  £75 (hardcover).  ISBN 978-0-7083-2157-7. - PUHLE

The Outline of Parapsychology by Jesse Hong Xiong.  University Press of New York, 2008.  368 pp.  $35.95 (paper).  ISBN 13-978-0-7618-4043-5. - GROSSO

Explorers of the Infi nite: The Secret Spiritual Lives of Extreme Athletes— and What They Reveal About Near-Death Experiences, Psychic Communication, and Touching the Beyond by Maria Coffey.  New York: Tarcher Penguin, 2008. 289 pp.  $26.95 (hardcover).  ISBN 978-1-58542-651-5. - SCHMICKER

Science and the Unseen World by Arthur Stanley Eddington.  London: George Allen & Unwin, 1929.  56 pp.  (Swarthmore Lecture) - BATTEN

Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are by Daniel Nettle.  Oxford University Press, 2007.  304 pp.  $21.95 (hardcover).  ISBN 0199211426. - DINEEN

Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee.  New York: Anomalist Books, 2008.  320 pp.  $15.95 (paper).  ISBN 1933665289. - RUTKOWSKI

Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee.  New York: Anomalist Books, 2008.  280 pp.  $15.95 (paper).  ISBN 1933665297. - RUTKOWSKI

Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception by Jacques Vallee.  New York: Anomalist Books, 2008.  288 pp.  $15.95 (paper).  ISBN 1933665300. - RUTKOWSKI

Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in WWII by Keith Chester.  Anomalist Books, 2007.  308 pp.  $17.95 (paper).  ISBN 1-933665-20-3. - RANDLE

Chapter 13 of: Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line1 by Avraham Ariel and Nora Ariel Berger.  Explorations in World Maritime History.  Praeger Publishers, 2005.  Xii + 235 pp.  $49.95 (hardcover).  ISBN 0-275-98895-3. - JETT

Shamanism in North America by Norman Bancroft Hunt.  Buffalo, NY: Firefl y Books, 2003.  232 pp.  $49.95 (hardcover).  ISBN 1-55297-678-5. - WILLIAMS

Parapsicologia [Parapsychology] by Massimo Biondi and Patrizio E. Tressoldi.  Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007.  190 pp.  11.50 Euros (paper).  ISBN 978-88-15- 12021-2. - ALVARADO

Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology edited by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich.  Yale University Press, 2008.  400 + viii pp.  $40.00 (hardcover).  ISBN 978-0300116397. - BAUER

Conversations on Consciousness by Susan Blackmore.  New York: Oxford Press, 2006. 288 pp.  $23.00. ISBN 0-19-517958-7. - WILSON

“Testing the Speed of ‘Spooky Action at a Distance,’ ” by Daniel Salart et al.  Nature, 454, 861–864, 2008; and “Quantum Mechanics: The Speed of Instantly,” by Terence G. Rudolph.  Nature, 454, 831–832, 2008. -CORLISS

“Nuclear Physics: A Neutrino’s Wobble?,” by Philip M. Walker.  Nature, 453, 864–865, 2008. -CORLISS

“Half-Life (More or Less),” by Davide Castelvecchi.  Science News, 174, 20, November 22, 2008. - CORLISS

“Sovereignty and the UFO,” by Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall.  Political Theory, 36(4), 607–633, August 2008. - Haisch

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