Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural ConsolationSpringer Science & Business Media, 1999 M06 4 - 244 pages "Elegant and literate" -THE TIMES OF LONDON "The kind of book that both skeptics and believers would do well to read"- SKEPTICAL INQUIRER "An urbane, original, convincing rebuttal of paranormal and supernatural notions" -NEW SCIENTIST "A lively, entertaining book... Humphrey has set himself a larger task than simply explaining why people believe in parapsychology: the task of explaining why it is irrational to believe in it."-NATURE |
Contents
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III | viii |
IV | 3 |
V | 9 |
VI | 15 |
VII | 25 |
VIII | 31 |
IX | 38 |
XX | 97 |
XXI | 108 |
XXII | 118 |
XXIV | 122 |
XXV | 129 |
XXVII | 129 |
XXVIII | 133 |
XXX | 141 |
X | 46 |
XII | 53 |
XIV | 58 |
XV | 68 |
XVII | 72 |
XVIII | 80 |
XIX | 94 |
XXXII | 154 |
XXXIV | 164 |
XXXV | 172 |
XXXVI | 184 |
XXXVIII | 191 |
XXXIX | 206 |
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