Superstition : : Belief in the Age of Science / / Robert L. Park.
From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convictions...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction: Lessons from a tree
- CHAPTER ONE. A Bigger Prize: In which we discover scientists of faith
- CHAPTER TWO. The Secret of Life: In which Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection survives
- CHAPTER THREE. Miracle at Columbia: In which both sides pray for victory
- CHAPTER FOUR. Giving Up the Ghost: In which we search for the soul
- CHAPTER FIVE. The Silent Army: In which we search for an afterlife
- CHAPTER SIX. The Tsunami God: In which the innocent suffer
- CHAPTER SEVEN. The New Age: In which anything goes
- CHAPTER EIGHT. Schrödinger's Grave: In which quantum mysticism is found to be superstition
- CHAPTER NINE. The Barbary Duck: In which the body heals itself
- CHAPTER TEN. The Deer. In which the placebo effect is explained
- CHAPTER ELEVEN. The Moral Law: In which we instinctively know right from wrong
- CHAPTER TWELVE. The Last Butterfly. In which there is no place else to go
- Bibliography
- Index