Book Reviews

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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