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While this is more like a dictionary than an encyclopedia, it's certainly not what I had expected from "The Amazing Randi," the man known for his zeal in debunking paranormal claims. This is an easily accessible and honest study of remarkable events which proved to be less than supernatural and makes a handy reference source or ground point to compare possible paranormalities with known tricks and hoaxes.
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- OK, could have been better. Hunts for rabbits but ignores the big game
- Fun read and the TRUTH IS OUT THERE! ( just ask June DiMaggio or that phony James van Praagh!)
- Okay, but there are better books out there
- Lots of Lame, Misleading Slanderous Cynicism
- why bother?
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James Randi, professional magician and skeptic, has put together an encyclopedia with something for everyone. Yes, no matter who you are, unless you're a thoroughgoing atheist, Randi is bound to offend your beliefs at one point or another. As Arthur C. Clarke says in his introduction, the book "should be issued with a mental health warning, as many readers--if they are brave enough to face unwelcome facts--will find some of their cherished beliefs totally demolished." Randi is dryly sarcastic about hundreds of topics, including Catholic relics, speaking in tongues, Jehovah's Witnesses, yoga, the origins of Mormonism, dowsing, magnetic hills, UFOs, and every spiritualist of the past several centuries. A typical entry defines a nymph as: "in the real world, the immature form of the dragonfly and certain other insects, or a young woman with robust sexual interests. Take your choice." Comprehensive, exasperating and exasperated, witty, and unsparing, Randi's encyclopedia provides more debunking per page than any other resource. --Mary Ellen Curtin
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OK, could have been better. Hunts for rabbits but ignores the big game.......2007-02-28
The book is interesting and surprisingly less caustic than Randi's others books. The book might better be described as a small dictionary rather than an "encyclopedia". The book was disappointing in some areas. For instance, Randi give Wicca a pass. When you have a hole fake religion with people claiming to have magic powers, you you think Randi would have had a field day. There is a whole industry devoted to selling voodoo oils with names like "Black Art Oil" which are really just colored mineral oil, which Randi also missed. True, Randi couldn't cover every subject...but if he's going to write an "encyclopedia", he should try to live up to the title. Some entries are simply definitions, such as the one for "athame". He doesn't mention Gardner got the idea from a science fiction story. There were plenty of things Randi could have written about, but didn't. He should have done more research.
There are some interesting tidbits in the book, like a "psychic girl" who was featured on "Unsolved Misteries" in the 80's is now in prison for killing her child.
Not a bad book, but certainly not an "encyclopedia".
Fun read and the TRUTH IS OUT THERE! ( just ask June DiMaggio or that phony James van Praagh!).......2006-02-06
Fun read and yeah - what do you expect from a world, who believes more in so called "Psychics" than facing reality and that we are really not that important as we think we are....look up into the sky people and try to imagine where all this ends! Please add this man "James van Praagh"( who also is the co-executive producer of CBS' "Ghostwhisperer" on your list of fakes and phonies! I have hard proof(in form of a box of Marilyn Monroe hair rollers) which he was holding up on national TV in a show of ET on December 2nd, 2005. He agreed on the hair being from Marilyn Monroe - acted as MM was talking to him and creating that whole stick...and talked about the rollers being on a train etc. He also "saw" this and that~ as former believer in the occult and the undescribeable; that apearance has cured me or better shook me wide awake! The hair rollers are from 1974! That is 12 YEARS after Monroe's tragic death! So either van Prague owns a time machine, or Robert w. Otto, the owner and collector of that junk he is trying to display all over the world, are BOTH in for the money!
That is criminal and not even funny, when they charge innocent people a stiff fee of $22,95,-!!!
So of course - whenever someone does not agree with this BS, which is discribed in this book - there are strong opposites! Until you have not seen a table move on it's own. Do not believe it! We are not as important as we think we are!
Okay, but there are better books out there.......2005-12-22
If you get this book, do so for one of two reasons:
1)You want entertaining tidbits about weird stuff
2)You already own everything else Randi's written
This book simply pales in comparison the the Skeptic's Dictionary (available free online) when it comes to debunking a wide range of paranormal claims. In fact, I'm not sure if there's any good debunking in there. If you want to read about the akashic memory and various forms of flat-earthism, this books if for you. I suppose its nice to have someone who can provide entertaining tidbits in a non-credulous manner, but I wonder it would be better just to buy a believer's encyclopedia and ignore the fact that the author believes the things he's talking about.
Lots of Lame, Misleading Slanderous Cynicism .......2005-06-20
Skepticism can be healthy, but this book is an error-filled celebration of hollow, misleading cynicism delivered with a surprising level of shallowness and lack of detail.
Sure this book points out some "legitimate" frauds and hoaxes, but it does a lot of damage and leads people astray by suggesting that a lot of things are frauds and hoaxes that are not. It seems that Mr. Randi concludes that anything and everything he doesn't understand or have proof of is a fraud or hoax. One example: acupuncture. Never mind that thousands, if not millions of people have been helped and healed by acupuncture, but even the American Medical Association has concluded that it is a legitimate medical therapy. But Randi includes it in his list of frauds and hoaxes.
There are many other examples where Randi errs and misleads, or simply does not understand and chooses to cast aspersions (p on) what he is woefully ignorant about. In some cases he cites individuals who have supposedly exposed frauds or disproven claims and theories, but the reader is left with little or no details to assess the claims of the "fraud buster."
In other cases, a supernatural feat is presumed to have been disproven simply because someone else has managed to appear to replicate the supernatural feat by using sleight-of-hand or other trickery.
Not everything that is real and true can or needs to be proven by science or proven to Mr. Randi. (A large portion of the history of science, in fact, is a history of proving that what science once concluded was unreal or unprovable is in fact real.) If you accept on face value everything that Mr. Randi wants you to accept, your life will be much poorer for it.
This book will provide great reassurance for people who don't want to believe in anything other than their egos. As stated above, this book is a great example of where skepticism has fallen victim to cynicism and that makes this book more harmful than helpful. To a great extent, I am very surprised and sorry to conclude, this book itself is a fraud.
why bother?.......2005-04-27
The only people who like this book are the people (1) who agree with everything the author tells them (2) James Randi himself.
Personally I find this book to be useless. There isn't enough information about any one topic to be any use to me. It's more like a dictionary than encyclopedia.
Atlantis: a continent that doesn't exist.
Abominable snowman: a creature that doesn't exist.
Okay, so Randi gives a few more details than that, but neither are even half a page. Like my title says, why bother?
Okay, maybe you must really have to know about every obscure cult mystic from 1653, but hey, whatever you like. Just don't bore me telling me why I should know this stuff. Because I dont.
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Best reference book for hoaxes.......2000-03-05
Lots of hoaxes, and all referenced too. The best book out there if you're doing research on hoaxes.
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An Encyclopedia of Lies, Frauds and Hoaxes of the Occult
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The “Gale Encyclopedia of Science†is written at a level somewhere between the introductory sources and the highly technical texts currently available. This six-volume set covers all major areas of science and engineering, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Alphabetically arranged entries provide a user-friendly format that makes the broad scope of information easy to access and decipher. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.
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As a global text, Upshur's WORLD HISTORY examines world civilizations in a comparative context. Students learn to recognize and analyze trends and interconnections across history and civilizations.
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The first in a two-volume anthology of primary, secondary and visual sources, this reader provides a broad introduction to the evolution of World Civilizations from ancient history to 1700, and gives students insight into how historians use and interpret evidence in an effort to broaden their understanding of civilizations around the world. A wide selection of documents, images, maps and charts is presented along with chapter-opening timelines, source introductions, points for consideration, and questions designed to clarify the material and stimulate discussion. The reader is organized chronologically, but also provides an alternate topical Table of Contents, which allows instructors and students to compare sources across cultures and time periods. A new feature to this edition, "Using This Book," assists students in fully analyzing sources and context.
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As a text: less pages to read, yet a good combo of primary and secondary readings.......2007-03-04
At only 226 pages for volume 1, this is a short collection of readings, which allows the teacher to assign interesting monographs or classics. What the text does it does well, such as to provide handy introductions to the readings, a few questions to consider for each source, provide maps and some pictures, end each chapter with provocative questions, and covers most regions of the world.
Each reading is two pages or less, and that allows students to get their feet wet in a nice variety of historical events, ideas, and personalities. While I wish some of the secondary sources would present a more complete history of their topics, they have been chosen well and many are selections from top scholars such as A.H.M. Jones on Rome and Euan Cameron on the Protestant Reformation.
Is it Eurocentric? Sadly, three of the fifteen chapters concern Europe from the middle ages onward, but Asia is also well represented, and one finds a chapter on the Mongols and nomads of central Asia. Central and South America is slighted, and Islam's chapter is too brief.
It is overpriced at around $53. For a few dollars less one could assign Worlds of History, ed. by Kevin Reilly, and get more sources, a longer text, better introductions, global coverage, and Reilly's expertise. But the Reilly text is the typical B/W, plain, and dense small paperback of 500 pages, whereas this text by Sherman is large size, full of colorful illustrations and maps, and easier for students to look at. Both books are viable options for world history courses.
Prof. Christensen, Biola University
World Civilizations Great Supplementary Text.......2000-11-09
This book is an excellent companion to conventional textbooks in a Global History course. The Introduction and "Consider" feature before each source helps the reader to pinpoint key ideas and important themes in the document as well as provide important background information which aides in the understanding of the source. The wide variety of sources focusing on various aspects of each topic help to provide a well-rounded view of the subject.
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`Suicide' and `the Middle Ages' sounds like a contradiction. Was life not too short anyway, and the Church too disapproving, to admit suicide? And how is the historian supposed to find out? Alexander Murray takes the last question first, as a key to the testing of all other assumptions. Examining a wide range of documents he shows that there were indeed suicides, of types and configurations astonishingly modern, if not in numbers per capita. As for reactions, they were of two kinds. One was to heap suicide with every imaginable curse, natural and supernatural, and the author's search for their religious, anthropological, and legal background leads far outside medieval christendom. However, he also uncovers a less negative reaction as, from the eleventh century onwards, medicine, psychology, poetry, and the pastoral priesthood charted ever more assiduously the terra incognita of suicidal emotion.
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This THOMSON ADVANTAGE BOOKS low-cost COMPACT EDITION of WORLD HISTORY: BEFORE 1600: THE DEVELOPMENT OF EARLY CIVILIZATIONS, VOLUME I examines world civilizations in a comparative context and helps you recognize and analyze trends and interconnections across history and civilizations. Five four-page full-color map inserts bring regional events to life. You have free access to the activity- and information-packed Book Companion Web Site that features quizzing, interactive maps and timelines, simulations, and links to readings and primary source materials.
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Moderately disappointed........2007-05-21
While this text is designed to be an overview of world civilizations, there are several key pieces missing. The author takes not a Eurocentric perspective on history, but rather with an Asian bias. More is devoted to Asia and the Middle East than anywhere else. Events as well as important historical figures are mentioned in passing, but never discussed in great detail. Causation of events is left vague and leaves much to be desired. The essays throughout this volume, as well as the second volume, do not have authors, making it difficult to use them as references with proper citations. However, the primary complaint I had with this as a college level text is the lack of criteria. Not once do the authors that put the work together state what makes a civilization differ from a society or culture, what makes a historical figure worthy of mention, or why the events mentioned were selected.
Overall, I'd use this as a very rough and incomplete outline when studying world civilizations. Definitely use other more complete sources for the more specific understanding.
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This thorough introduction to world history presents material in manageable bites using a narrative format. This full-color, pedagogically rich, map- intensive text balances discussion of all major civilizations. The extensive ancillary package provides ample support of the first-time instructor of the World History course.
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This is Volume I (chapters 1-27) of WORLD CIVILIZATIONS, a text that offers students a comprehensive and balanced overview of the world's major civilizations, spanning from the ancient world to modern times. With more than half of the text devoted to non-Western civilizations, this Third Edition provides increased attention to modern-day Islam, pre-colonial Africa, the role of women throughout history, and the global effects of World War II on the various civilizations. Throughout, Philip Adler describes history as the story of how individuals have tried (with varying degrees of success) to meet their physical, emotional, and intellectual needs and desires. Coverage of wars and military affairs is secondary to coverage of the social and economic topics that form the basis of this text. Individual chapters average between 10-15 pages each, making the information manageable for students and making the text well-suited to the lecture format. WORLD CIVILIZATIONS contains many pedagogical features--including hundreds of maps and documents, overviews, self-tests, a comprehensive glossary, and an updated bibliography of materials commonly available in most university libraries--that make it easy for students to understand and remember key concepts. Available in the following split options: WORLD CIVILIZATIONS, Complete, Third Edition, ISBN: 0534599222; WORLD CIVILIZATIONS, Volume I, To 1600 (Chapters 1-27), ISBN: 0534601472; WORLD CIVILIZATIONS, Volume II, Since 1500 (Chapters 26-58), ISBN: 0534599230.
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