Articles tagged with "chapter"

I would like to make some general observations, and then review a recently published book which synthesises most of what Ben Reid (MEMIA) called a “polycrisis” in his book I previously reviewed.

I recently read David McRaney's book (on Kindle, from Amazon) on the recommendation of Melanie Trecek-King - one of our international guests at last year's conference in Dunedin. I was interested to read the book to gain insights into how to change peoples' minds about things that they're wrong about - or perhaps change my own mind about things I'm wrong about!

The Orphan Conspiracies: 29 Conspiracy Theories from The Orphan Trilogy, by James & Lance Morcan. US$5.62 (Kindle Edition), Amazon. Reviewed by David Riddell.

The Psychology of the Psychic, 2nd edition, by David Marks. Prometheus Books.

Readers of NZ Skeptic will have seen R.E. Bartholomew's article "The Great Zeppelin Scare of 1909" in last autumn's issue, no 47. This covered the same event as one of the chapters in this book. Several other chapters describe similar episodes which occurred in other times and other places, and in a final section all these are woven into a coherent story. Each chapter is supported by a copious list of references, most of them newspaper reports pubished during the development and decay of the case concerned.

READERS of NZ Skeptic will have seen R.E. Bartholomew's article "The Great Zeppelin Scare of 1909" in last autumn's issue (No. 47). This covered the same event as one of the chapters in this book. Several other chapters describe similar episodes which occurred in other times and other places, and in a final section all these are woven into a coherent story.

RIVER OUT OF EDEN: A DARWINIAN VIEW OF LIFE by Richard Dawkins.

by D R Selkirk & F J Burrows; NSW University Press, 1987; 158 pp