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Description for Exposed!
Hardback. Holland, this persuasively argued and firmly scientific book exposes some of history's most persistent bamboozling. Be forewarned, you may never be taken in again! Translator(s): Holland, Bart K. Num Pages: 168 pages, 54, 19 black & white line drawings, 35 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: VXP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 17. Weight in Grams: 366.
From horoscopes to telekinesis to the Shroud of Turin, much of what is popularly accepted as a mystical or paranormal phenomenon is, in fact, bunk. Henri Broch's charged deconstruction of these and other acts reveals the hucksterism of pseudoscience. Broch provides a scientific explanation for what many accept as supernatural or psychic. He explains how some tricks, such as bending silverware with the mind, actually work. He details plausible, scientifically grounded alternative explanations for others, such as dowsing, which is the practice of finding by nonscientific means hidden veins of water, gems, metals, and other materials under the earth. ... Read more
From horoscopes to telekinesis to the Shroud of Turin, much of what is popularly accepted as a mystical or paranormal phenomenon is, in fact, bunk. Henri Broch's charged deconstruction of these and other acts reveals the hucksterism of pseudoscience. Broch provides a scientific explanation for what many accept as supernatural or psychic. He explains how some tricks, such as bending silverware with the mind, actually work. He details plausible, scientifically grounded alternative explanations for others, such as dowsing, which is the practice of finding by nonscientific means hidden veins of water, gems, metals, and other materials under the earth. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801892462
SKU
V9780801892462
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Ref
99-12
About Henri Broch
Henri Broch is a professor at the University of Nice. He is the coauthor of Debunked: ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Exposed!
What stands out in this book is that Broch allows the facts of his arguments to impress on their own, and they are impressive. Moreover, readers will be wowed by what he has dug up.
Norm Goldman BookPleasures.com 2009 Backed up by easily understood charts and diagrams, Exposed! is witty but substantial science for the layman.
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Norm Goldman BookPleasures.com 2009 Backed up by easily understood charts and diagrams, Exposed! is witty but substantial science for the layman.
Ken Lauderdale ... Read more