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Suspicious Minds: Why We Believe Conspiracy Theories by Rob Brotherton
Call Number: 2nd floor: BF323.E7 B76 2015
ISBN: 9781472915610
Publication Date: 2015-11-17
"Ddecodes the psychology, history, and consequences of conspiracism, and delves into the research that offers insights into why so many of us are drawn to implausible, unproven and un-provable conspiracy theories." - Publisher's description
UFOs, Chemtrails, and Aliens: What Science Says by Donald R. Prothero; Timothy D. Callahan; Michael Shermer (Foreword by)
Call Number: 2nd floor: BF2050 .P76 2017
ISBN: 9780253026927
Publication Date: 2017-08-10
Indiana University Press, 2017: "Employing the ground rules of science and the standards of scientific evidence, Prothero and Callahan discuss a wide range of topics including the reliability of eyewitness testimony, psychological research into why people want to believe in aliens and UFOs, and the role conspiratorial thinking plays in UFO culture." - Publisher's description
Aliens: The World's Leading Scientists on the Search for Extraterrestrial Life by Jim Al-Khalili (Editor, Introduction by)
Call Number: 2nd floor: QB54 .A395 2017
ISBN: 9781250109637
Publication Date: 2017-05-09
"Included here are essays from a broad spectrum of the scientific community: cosmologists, astrophysicists, NASA planetary scientists, and geneticists, to name just a few, discussing the latest research and theories relating to alien life." - Publisher's description
The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths by Michael Shermer
Call Number: 2nd Floor: BF773 .S54 2011
ISBN: 0805091254
Addresses the following: "Our brains connect the dots of our world into meaningful patterns that explain why things happen, and these patterns become beliefs." - Publisher's description
Surveillance and Spies in the Civil War: Exposing Confederate Conspiracies in America's Heartland by Stephen E. Towne
Call Number: 2nd floor: E608 .T69 2015
ISBN: 9780821421314
"Pathbreaking research on the rise of U.S. Army intelligence operations in the Midwest during the American Civil War and counters long-standing assumptions about Northern politics and society." - Publisher's description
Conspiracy Theories by Paul McCaffrey; H. W. Wilson (Editor)
Call Number: HV6275 .C663 2012
ISBN: 9780824211158
Considers a number of conspiracy theories, e.g.: Shots in Dallas : the JFK assassination
American enigma : Lee Harvey Oswald and the JFK assassination; Were the levees bombed in New Orleans? : Ninth Ward residents give voice to a conspiracy theory; Is baked Alaska half-baked? : Alaska's High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is a magnet for conspiracy theorists
Paranormal America (second Edition) by Christopher D. Bader; F. Carson Carson Mencken; Joseph O. Baker
Call Number: 2nd Fl: BF1028.5.U6 B34 2017
ISBN: 9781479815289
Publication Date: 2017-04-18
"Based on extensive research and their own unique personal experiences, the authors reveal that a significant number of Americans hold these beliefs, and that for better or worse, we undoubtedly live in a paranormal America. Readers will join the authors as they participate in psychic and palm readings, and have their auras photographed, join a Bigfoot hunt, follow a group of celebrity ghost hunters as they investigate claims of a haunted classroom, and visit a support group for alien abductees."--From the publisher's description.

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