Book Reviews

• Main Authors: WILLIAM CORLISS, PETER GRANEAU, DALE E. GRAFF, ANNEKATRIN PUHLE, MICHAEL GROSSO, MICHAEL SCHMICKER, ALAN H. BATTEN, TANA DINEEN, CHRIS RUTKOWSKI, KEVIN D. RANDLE, STEPHEN C. JETT, BRYAN WILLIAMS, CARLOS S. ALVARADO, HENRY BAUER, MIKE WILSON, Bernard Haisch
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: SSE 2010-05-01
• Series: Journal of Scientific Exploration
• Online Access: http://journalofscientificexploration.org/index.php/jse/article/view/103

13 Things that Don’t Make Sense: The Most Baffl ing Scientific Mysteries of Our Time by Michael Brooks.  New York: Doubleday, 2008.  240 pp.  $23.95 (hardcover).  ISBN 978-0-385-52068-3. - CORLISS Heretical Verities: Mathematical Themes in Physical Description by Thomas E. Phipps, Jr.  Classic Non-Fiction Library, Urbana, 1986.  637 pp.  (hard cover).  ISBN 0-9606540-0-7. - GRANEAU The Scalpel and the Soul: Encounters with Surgery, the Supernatural and the Healing Power of Hope by Allan J. Hamilton.  New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher/ Putman, 2008.  Xi + 254 pp.  $23.95 (hardcover).  ISBN 8791-58542-615-7. - GRAFF Spiritual Encounters with Unusual Light Phenomena: Lightforms by Mark Fox.  The University of Wales Press, 2008.  203 pp.  £75 (hardcover).  ISBN 978-0-7083-2157-7. - PUHLE The Outline of Parapsychology by Jesse Hong Xiong.  University Press of New York, 2008.  368 pp.  $35.95 (paper).  ISBN 13-978-0-7618-4043-5. - GROSSO Explorers of the Infi nite: The Secret Spiritual Lives of Extreme Athletes— and What They Reveal About Near-Death Experiences, Psychic Communication, and Touching the Beyond by Maria Coffey.  New York: Tarcher Penguin, 2008. 289 pp.  $26.95 (hardcover).  ISBN 978-1-58542-651-5. - SCHMICKER Science and the Unseen World by Arthur Stanley Eddington.  London: George Allen & Unwin, 1929.  56 pp.  (Swarthmore Lecture) - BATTEN Personality: What Makes You the Way You Are by Daniel Nettle.  Oxford University Press, 2007.  304 pp.  $21.95 (hardcover).  ISBN 0199211426. - DINEEN Dimensions: A Casebook of Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee.  New York: Anomalist Books, 2008.  320 pp.  $15.95 (paper).  ISBN 1933665289. - RUTKOWSKI Confrontations: A Scientist’s Search for Alien Contact by Jacques Vallee.  New York: Anomalist Books, 2008.  280 pp.  $15.95 (paper).  ISBN 1933665297. - RUTKOWSKI Revelations: Alien Contact and Human Deception by Jacques Vallee.  New York: Anomalist Books, 2008.  288 pp.  $15.95 (paper).  ISBN 1933665300. - RUTKOWSKI Strange Company: Military Encounters with UFOs in WWII by Keith Chester.  Anomalist Books, 2007.  308 pp.  $17.95 (paper).  ISBN 1-933665-20-3. - RANDLE Chapter 13 of: Plotting the Globe: Stories of Meridians, Parallels, and the International Date Line1 by Avraham Ariel and Nora Ariel Berger.  Explorations in World Maritime History.  Praeger Publishers, 2005.  Xii + 235 pp.  $49.95 (hardcover).  ISBN 0-275-98895-3. - JETT Shamanism in North America by Norman Bancroft Hunt.  Buffalo, NY: Firefl y Books, 2003.  232 pp.  $49.95 (hardcover).  ISBN 1-55297-678-5. - WILLIAMS Parapsicologia [Parapsychology] by Massimo Biondi and Patrizio E. Tressoldi.  Bologna: Il Mulino, 2007.  190 pp.  11.50 Euros (paper).  ISBN 978-88-15- 12021-2. - ALVARADO Rebels, Mavericks, and Heretics in Biology edited by Oren Harman and Michael R. Dietrich.  Yale University Press, 2008.  400 + viii pp.  $40.00 (hardcover).  ISBN 978-0300116397. - BAUER Conversations on Consciousness by Susan Blackmore.  New York: Oxford Press, 2006. 288 pp.  $23.00. ISBN 0-19-517958-7. - WILSON “Testing the Speed of ‘Spooky Action at a Distance,’ ” by Daniel Salart et al.  Nature, 454, 861–864, 2008; and “Quantum Mechanics: The Speed of Instantly,” by Terence G. Rudolph.  Nature, 454, 831–832, 2008. -CORLISS “Nuclear Physics: A Neutrino’s Wobble?,” by Philip M. Walker.  Nature, 453, 864–865, 2008. -CORLISS “Half-Life (More or Less),” by Davide Castelvecchi.  Science News, 174, 20, November 22, 2008. - CORLISS “Sovereignty and the UFO,” by Alexander Wendt and Raymond Duvall.  Political Theory, 36(4), 607–633, August 2008. - Haisch