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Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America's Police Forces</em></a> by Radley Balko (2014)</p> <p><a href="stollznow.html"><em>God Bless America: Strange and Unusual Religious Beliefs and Practices in the United States</em></a> by Karen Stollznow (2013)</p> <p><a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/charlatan.html"><em>Charlatan: America's Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam</em></a> by Pope Brock (2013)</p> <p><a href="ashcroft.html"><em>The Spark of Life: Electricity in the Human Body </em> </a> by Frances Ashcroft (2012)</p> <p><a href="hallucinations.html"><em>Hallucinations</em></a> by Oliver Sacks (2012)</p> <p><a href="kahneman.html"><em>Thinking, Fast and Slow </em></a>by Daniel Kahneman (2011)</p> <p><a href="magicofreality.html"><em>The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True </em></a>(young adult) by Richard Dawkins (2011)</p> <p><a href="mukherjee.html"><em>The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer</em></a> by Siddhartha Mukherjee (2010)</p> <p><a href="grandin.html"><em>Thinking in Pictures: My Life with Autism</em></a> by Temple Grandin (Vintage 2010)</p> <p><a href="panicvirus.html"><em>The Panic Virus: A True Story of Medicine, Science, and Fear</em></a> by Seth Mnookin (Simon & Schuster 2011)</p> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3"><a href="brysonathome.html"><em>At Home: A Short History of Private Life</em></a> by Bill Bryson (Doubleday 2010)</font> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3"> <i><a href="hitchens.html">Hitch 22: A Memoir</a> </i>by Christopher Hitchens (Twelve 2010)</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3"><a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/supersense.html"><em>SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable</em></a> by Bruce Hood (HarperCollins 2010)</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3"> <i><a href="radford.html">Scientific Paranormal Investigation: How to Solve Unexplained Mysteries</a> </i>by<i> </i>Benjamin Radford (Rhombus 2010)</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><i> <font size="3" face="Arial"><a href="theinvisiblegorilla.html">The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us </a> </font></i> <font size="3" face="Arial">by Christopher Chabris and Daniel Simons (Crown 2010)</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><i> <a href="dawkins2009.html">The Greatest Show on Earth: The Evidence for Evolution</a></i><a href="http://tinyurl.com/ybzzbne"> </a>by Richard Dawkins (Free Press 2009)</font></p> <p> <font face="Arial"><i><font size="3" color="#006699"> <a href="outliers.html">Outliers: The Story of Success </a></font></i></font> <font size="3" face="Arial"> <br> by Malcolm Gladwell (Little Brown & Company 2008)</font></p> <p><i> <font size="3" face="Arial"> <a href="groopman.html">How Doctors Think</a></font></i><font size="3" face="Arial"><br> by Jerome Groopman, M.D. (Houghton Mifflin 2007)</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"> <font face="Arial"><i><font size="3"><a href="harrington.html">The Cure Within: A History of Mind-Body Medicine</a></font></i><font size="3"> <br> by Anne Harrington (W. W. Norton 2008).</font></font></p> <p align="left"> <font face="Arial" color="#00386B"> <i><font size="3"> <a href="bausell.html">Snake Oil Science: The Truth about Complementary and Alternative Medicine</a><br> </font></i><font size="3"> </font></font><font face="Arial" size="3">by R. Barker Bausell (Oxford 2007). </font><p style="text-align: left"> <font face="Arial"><a href="taverne.html"><i><font size="3">The March of Unreason: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism</font></i></a><font size="3"><br> by Dick Taverne (Oxford 2006).</font></font><font size="3" face="Arial"><br> <br> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/dawkins.html"><i>The God Delusion</i> </a> <br> by Richard Dawkins (Houghton Mifflin 2006).<br> <br> <i><a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/jacoby.html">Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism </a> <br> </i>by Susan Jacoby (Owl Books 2004).<br> <br> </font> <font face="Arial"> <a href="roach.html"> <i><font size="3">Spook: Science Tackles the Afterlife</font></i><font size="3"> </font></a> <font size="3"><br> by Mary Roach (W. W. Norton 2005).</font></font><font size="3" face="Arial"><br> <br> <a href="persuaders.html"><i>The Power of Persuasion - How We're Bought and Sold</i> </a><br> by Robert Levine (John Wiley & Sons 2003)<i>,<br> <a href="persuaders.html">Don't Get Taken! - Bunco and Bunkum Exposed - How to Protect Yourself</a></i><a href="persuaders.html"> </a> <br> by Robert A. Steiner (Wide-Awake Books 1989), and<br> <a href="persuaders.html"> <i>The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading</i> (third edition) </a><br> by Ian Rowland (Ian Rowland Limited 2002).<br> <br> <i><a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/plait.html">Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax" </a></i><br> by Philip C. Plait (John Wiley & Sons 2002).<br> <br> <i><a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/buzzsaw.html">Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press </a></i> <br> edited by Kristina Borjesson  (Prometheus Books 2002).<br> <br> <a href="flannery.html"><i>The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples <br> </i> </a> by Tim Flannery (Atlantic Monthly Press 2001).<br> <br> <a href="dolnick.html"><em>Madness on the Couch - Blaming the Victim in the Heyday of Psychoanalysis</em></a><br> by Edward Dolnick (Simon & Schuster 1998).</font><p style="text-align: left"> <font face="Arial" size="3"><i><a HREF="weird.html">Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time</a> <br> </i>by Michael Shermer (W H Freeman & Co. 1997).<br> <br> </font><font face="Arial"><i><a HREF="encyclopedia.html"> <font size="3">The Encyclopedia of the Paranormal</font></a></i><font size="3"><br> edited by Gordon Stein, Ph.D. (Prometheus Books 1996).</font></font><font size="3" face="Arial"> <br> <br> <a HREF="spanos.html"><i>Multiple Identities & False Memories</i></a> <br> by Nicholas F. Spanos (American Psychological Association 1996).<br> <br> <i><a HREF="schacter.html">Searching for Memory - the brain, the mind, and the past</a> <br> </i>by Daniel L. Schacter (Basic Books 1996).<br> <br> <i><a HREF="lefko.html">Not Out of Africa - How Afrocentricism Became an Excuse to Teach Myth as History</a></i><br> by Mary Lefkowitz (Basic Books 1996).<br> <br> <i><a HREF="sagan.html">The Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark</a></i><br> by Carl Sagan (Random House 1995).<br> <br> <i><a HREF="crazy.html">"Crazy" Therapies: What are they? Do they work?</a></i><br> by Margaret Thaler Singer and Janja Lalich (Jossey-Bass Publishers 1996).<br> <br> <a HREF="jamison.html"><i>An Unquiet Mind - A Memoir of Moods and Madness</i></a><br> by Kay Redfield Jamison (Vintage Books 1997).</font> <h2>Rejections</h2> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3"><i> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/meller.html">Evolution Rx : A Physician's Guide to Harnessing Our Innate Capacity for Health and Healing</a></i> by William Meller, MD (Perigee 2009)</font></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><font size="3" face="Arial"><i> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/tart.html">The End of Materialism: How Evidence of the Paranormal is Bringing Science and Spirit Together</a> </i>by Charles T. Tart, Ph.D. (New Harbinger 2009)</font></p> <p style="text-align: left"><font size="3" face="Arial"><i> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/afterlife.html">The Afterlife Experiments: Breakthrough Scientific Evidence of Life After Death</a><br> </i>by Gary Schwartz (Atria 2003)</font><p style="text-align: left"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><i> <a href="http://skepdic.com/refuge/shermer.html">The Mind of the Market: Compassionate Apes, Competitive Humans, and Other Tales from Evolutionary Economics</a></i><br> by Michael Shermer (Times Books 2007)</font><p style="text-align: left"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><i> <a href="entangledreview.html">Entangled Minds: Extrasensory Experiences in a Quantum Reality</a></i><a href="entangledreview.html"> </a><br> by Dean Radin (Paraview Pocket Books 2006)</font><p style="text-align: left"> <font size="3" face="Arial"><i><a href="radin1.html">The Conscious Universe: The Scientific Truth of Psychic Phenomena</a></i><br> by Dean Radin (HarperOne 1997)</font><p style="text-align: left"><i><a href="blum.html"> <font size="3" face="Arial">Ghost Hunters - <span class="subtitle"> William James and the Hunt for Scientific Proof of Life After Death</span></font></a></i><font face="Arial" size="3"><br> by Deborah Blum (Penguin Press 2006).<i><br> </i><br> <i><a HREF="fitzpat.html">False Profits: Seeking Financial and Spiritual Deliverance in Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes</a></i><br> by Robert L. 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