Hoagland's history of the exploration of Mars, and his case that beings were on Mars millions of years ago assembling behemoth structures whose ruins are still seen today, is updated with a new preface covering the Mars Global Surveyor photos and reactions of NASA. Includes maps, charts, and tables. Photos & illustrations.

First book in the Don Juan series. The author meets Don Juan and is introduced to his magical world and philosophy by means of hallucinogenic plants and special exercises.

The rise and fall of the greatest medical con man of all time

Ideas That Seemed Good At The Time. A trawl through the history of those scientific ideas which seemed plausible, at least to some, but turned out to be wrong. Includes flat earth, hollow earth, lost worlds and bizarre ideas about evolution: Piltdown man and other scams, plus alchemy and aliens.

This revised and expanded edition has more material, including photographs of Area 51, Nevada, the government's secret testing facility. This classic on weird science is back in a new edition! Includes: How to build a flying saucer; Arthur C.

A scathing indictment of the growing role of junk science in our courtrooms. Peter W. Huber shows how time and again lawyers have usedand the courts have acceptedspurious claims by so-called expert witnesses to win astronomical judgments that have bankrupted companies, driven doctors out of practice, and deprived us all of superior technologies and effective, life-saving therapies.

A story of delusion and excess; of scientific and political abuse on a global scale, and has the energy of an adventure, but also the truth of a terrifying episode in twentieth-century history. This book is an expose of the German scientists and scholars who allowed their research to be used to justify extermination.

In light of the embattled status of evolutionary theory, this book traces the shift among Christian fundamentalists from the acceptance of the earth's antiquity to the scientific creationists' insistence that the fossils date back to Noah's flood. It also covers the origins of the creation science think tanks and the people behind them.

The deceptively simple task of making a mechanism which would turn forever has fascinated many famous men and physicists throughout the centuries. In fact, the basic tenets of engineering grew from the failures of these perpetual motion machine designers. This work offers an illustrated overview of perpetual motion machines and their inventors.

Presents Mark Twain's extended attack on Christian Science and its founder, Mary Baker Eddy, who he once described as the queen of frauds and hypocrites . This offensive against Mrs Eddy analyses her greed, her lust for power, her self-dedication, and her incoherent writing. It also examines the rules and by-laws of the church.

Features experts in the fields of physical/biological science, psychology, philosophy, social science, and forensic science bringing their perspectives to controversies that affect the way we think and how we perceive reality and the natural world. This book spans the gamut of pseudoscience.

The average person only uses ten percent of his or her brain. Poor light ruins your eyesight. All natural medicines are safe. This book clarifies common medical misconceptions.

When can we trust what we believe, and when are such beliefs suspect? Here, Gilovich offers a guide to the fallacy of the obvious in everyday life, documenting the cognitive, social and motivational processes that distort our thoughts, beliefs, judgements and decisions.

Written in the 1950s at the height of popular fascination with UFOs, this is the great psychologist's brilliantly prescient meditation on the phenomenon that gripped the world.

This is an account of characters such as Lady Blount, who was sure that the earth is flat; Cyrus Teed, who believed that the earth is a hollow shell with us in the inside; and Edward Hine, who believed that the British are the Lost Tribes of Israel.

In this fascinating and engaging book, Michael Friedlander offers the first careful look at the shadowlands of science, examining the hard cases and explaining how one may differentiate science from pseudo-science.

A bestselling selection of essays from Britain's leading science writer.

Robyn Dawes reveals how numerous everyday judgments are based on what the author calls everyday irrationality - misjudgments characterized by story-based thinking, rather than comparative thinking. She demonstrates how even social policy is based on the same kind of everyday irrationality.