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Reading list from TAM

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I wasn't 100% sure where to put this, so if someone can think of a better place, just let me know.

I kept track of the books, web sites, podcasts mentioned, and thought I'd post them for anyone curious.

Here are the books:

The art of cold reading
by Robert A Nelson
Publisher: Calgary : M. Hades Enterprises, ©1971.

Death from the skies! : these are the ways the world will end--
by Philip C Plait
Publisher: New York : Viking Penguin, 2008.

Doubt : a history. The great doubters and their legacy of innovation from Socrates and Jesus to Thomas Jefferson and Amily Dickinson
by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2004.

The end of the soul : scientific modernity, atheism, and anthropology in France
by Jennifer Michael Hecht;
Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003.

The essential child : origins of essentialism in everyday thought
by Susan A Gelman
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.

Extraordinary popular delusions and the madness of crowds
by Charles Mackay
Publisher: Petersfield : Harriman House, 2007.

The happiness myth : why what we think is right is wrong : a history of what really makes us happy
by Jennifer Michael Hecht
Publisher: [San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, ©2007.

Inquest on the Shroud of Turin
by Joe Nickell
Publisher: Buffalo, N.Y. : Prometheus Books, 1983.

Letting go of God
by Julia Sweeney
Publisher: [U.S.] : Julia Sweeney, ©2006.

The longest war : the Iran-Iraq military conflict
by Dilip Hiro
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 1991.

Mistakes were made (but not by me) : why we justify foolish beliefs, bad decisions, and hurtful acts
by Carol Tavris; Elliot Aronson
Publisher: Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, ©2007.

Nonsense on stilts : how to tell science from bunk
by Massimo Pigliucci
Publisher: Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2010.

The psychic Mafia
by M Lamar Keene; Allen Spraggett
Publisher: Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books, 1997, ©1976.

The science of superstition : how the developing brain creates supernatural beliefs
by Bruce M Hood
Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, 2010.

The third man factor : surviving the impossible
by John Geiger
Publisher: Edinburgh : Canongate, 2009.

Trick or treatment : the undeniable facts about alternative medicine
by Simon Singh; E Ernst
Publisher: New York : W.W. Norton, 2008.

Truth heals : what you hide can hurt you*
by Deborah King
Publisher: Carlsbad, Cailf. : Hay House, 2010.

The weather makers : how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on earth
by Tim F Flannery
Publisher: New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, ©2006.


*Not a skeptical book.


Shoot. I thought the link formatting would be transferred, but I guess not. These are all in Worldcat.
 
Thanks for the list.

I had made a mental note to remember the Weather Makers, and then promptly forgot so I appreciated seeing it here!

Nonsense on Stilts sounds like it might be a good one, too, as does the Art of Cold Reading.

I've read Singh's book, Carol Tarvis' book, and The Psychic Mafia, all very good and I would recommend them all. The one on the Madness of Crowds is a classic. I have it but haven't finished it.

Have you read Julia Sweeney's book?
 
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