Radical Perceptions

Bob Couttie. Forbidden Knowledge: The Paranormal Paradox. Lutterworth Press, 1988.

Strange Powers

Cassandra Eason. The Psychic Power of Children. Rider, l990.
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Wings of Illusion

John F. Schumaker. Wings of Illusion; The Origin, Nature and Future of Paranormal Belief. Polity Press, 1990.
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Still Searching

Ray Hyman. The Elusive Quarry; a Scientific Appraisal of Psychical Research. Prometheus, 1989.
Susan Blackmore. In Search of the Light, The Adventures of a Parapsychologist. Prometheus, 1986.
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A Sceptical Trio

Paul Kurtz (Editor), The Skeptic’s Handbook of Parapsychology, Prometheus, 1985.

Hyte L Edge, Robert Morris, John Palmer and Joseph Rush. Foundation of Parapsychology: Exploring the boundaries of Human Capability, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1986,

Kendrick Frazier ( Editor), Science Confronts the Paranormal. Prometheus,1986.

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Philosophy and Parapsychology

Lawrence LeShan. From Newton to ESP; Parapsychology and the Challenge of Modern Science. Turnstone Press, 1985.

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The Secular Soul

John J. Carullo. The Secularization of the Soul: Psychical Research In Modern Britain. Institute for the Study of Human Issues, Philadelphia, 1982.

All in the Mind

Berthold Eric Schwarz . Psychic Nexus; Psychic Phenomena in Psychiatry and Everyday Life. Van Nostrand, 1980.
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Parapsychology at its Best

Harvey J. Irwin. An Introduction to Parapsychology. 4th edition McFarland and Company, 2004.
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I Want to Believe

Remy Chauvin. Parapsychology, When the Irrational Rejoins Science. Translated by Katharine Banham), McFarland, 1985
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The Ghost in the Laboratory

Stacy Horn. Unbelievable: Investigations into Ghosts, Poltergeists, Telepathy and Other Unseen Phenomena, from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory. Ecco (An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), 2009. -- Reviewed by Peter Rogerson.
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Better Late Than Never

Brief notes of some books which slipped through the net and were not reviewed in Magonia Review when first published, but which are worthy of comment here.  Notes by Peter Rogerson.

Shelving Sheldrake

Anthony Freeman (editor). Sheldrake and His Critics: The Sense of Being Glared At. Imprint Academic, 2005. (Journal of Consciousness Studies Volume 12 number 6)

Science or Magic

James E. Alcock. Parapsychology, Science or Magic: A Psychological Perspective. Pergamon, 1981. [Foundations and Philosophy of Science and Technology series]

Mind Over Matter?

John L. Randall. Psychokinesis: A Study of Paranormal Forces Through the Ages. Souvenir Press, 1982.

The Elusive Science

Seymour H. Mauskopf and Michael McVaugh. The Elusive Science: Origins of Experimenta1 Psychical Research. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1980.
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Unseen and Not Heard

D. Scott Rogo. Beyond Reality: The Role Unseen Dimensions Play in Our Lives. Aquarian Press, 1990.

More Questions than Answers

John Beloff. The Relentless Question; Reflections on the Paranormal. MacFarland, 1990.

God and Physics

Paul Davies. God and the New Physics. Dent, 1983.

Social Work

Hilary Evans. Intrusions: Society and the Paranormal. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.