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UFO

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Online Reference

Credo Reference

Online Databases

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

General OneFile

Website - Statistics
Try this link to the the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life for current statistics about beliefs in weird things:

Beliefs and Practices

Books at FLITE

Important: Many of the books from the Main Stacks (not Reference) were pulled from the shelves and have been placed on Reserve. They are available at the Checkout Desk to use in the FLITE Library for a 4-hour checkout.

Reserve Desk

General

The Paranormal (Highly Recommended)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF 1031 .P325 2009

Paranormal Phenomena : Opposing Viewpoints (Highly Recommended)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF1031 .P334 2002

The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal (Highly Recommended)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF1031 .K45 2005

Why People Believe in Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF 773 .S56 1997

Artificial Intelligence

Growing Up With Lucy: How to Build an Android in Twenty Easy Steps
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): TJ 211.5 .G73 2004

Robotics - Chapter 6: Thinking, Feeling Robots: The Dream (or Nightmare) of Artificial Intelligence
6 short essays
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): TJ 211 .R556 2010

Technology and Society 2007- Chapter 4: Will Future Technology Improve Humanity?
4 essays (Look at 3 & 4 especially)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): 303.483 T22o

Terminator and Philosophy: I'll Be Back, Therefore I am - Chapter 1: Life After Humanity and Artificial Intelligence
4 essays
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): PN 1995.9 P42 .T47 2009

Dreams

The Complete Book of Astrology, Horoscope, and Dreams
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF 1661 .C65

Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF 1078 .D72 1987

Dreams and Dreaming
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF 1078 .D73 1990

Ghosts

Adventures in Paranormal Investigation
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF 1001.N53 2007

Unbelievable : investigations into ghosts, poltergeists, telepathy, and other unseen phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF 1028.5.U6 H67 2009

Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF1301 .V36 2008

Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses
Location: Electronic Resource - ebook

Hauntings
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF1461 .H37 1989

Phantom Encounters
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF 1461.P45 1998

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): Q 172.5 .P77 W96 2001

Miracle Cures

Cheating Death: the Doctors and Medical Miracles That Are Saving Lives Against All Odds
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): RC 87.9.G87 2009/p>

Miracle Cures: Saints, Pilgrimage, and the Healing Powers of Belief
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BT 97.2 .N53 1993

God, Faith and Healing: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection - Chapter 7
Location: Reserve Desk: 291.78321 Levin (

Near-Death Experiences

Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon--Survival of Bodily Death
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BL 535 .M64 1975

On the Other Side of Life: Exploring the Phenomenon of the Near-Death Experience
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BF 1045 .N4 E57 1997

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction (Highly Recommended)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): Q 172.5 .P77 W96 2001

The Rise and Fall of the Afterlife - Chapter 7: Near-Death Experiences
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BL 535 .B75 2002

Reincarnation

Life Beyond Life: The Evidence of Reincarnation
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (Lower Level): BL 515 .H62 1985

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction (Highly Recommended)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): Q 172.5 .P77 W96 2001

Time Travel

How to Build a Time Machine
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): QC 173.59 .S65 D385 2002

The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): QC 173.59 .S65 T66 2007

Time Traveler: A Scientist's Personal Mission to Make Time Travel a Reality
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): QC 173.59 .T53 M35 2006

UFOs

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction (Highly Recommended)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): Q 172.5 .P77 W96 2001

The UFO Phenomenon
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): TL 789 .U195 1987

UFOs and Popular Culture: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Myth
Location: Reference (1st Floor): TL 789 .L485 2000

Reference - Find these on the 1st Floor

Encyclopedia of Afterlife Beliefs and Phenomena
Location: Reference (1st Floor): REF BF 1311 .F8 L48 1994

An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult
Location: Reference (1st Floor): REF BF 1407 .R36 1995

The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits
Location: Reference (1st Floor): BF 1461 .G85 2000

The Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy (Highly Recommended).
Location: Reference (1st Floor): REF Q 157.E57 1999

The Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained, 3 vols.
Location: Reference (1st Floor): REF BF 1025 .S79 2003

Man, Myth, and Magic: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion, and the Unknown, 21 vols.
Location: Reference (1st Floor): REF BF 1407 .M34 1995

The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience (Highly Recommended), 2 vols.
Location: Reference (1st Floor): REF Q 172.5 .P77 S54 2002

Ferris Writing Center and OWL - Purdue University Online Writing Lab

The Ferris Writing Center offers free assistance to all FSU students, faculty, and staff. Don't pass up this opportunity for help.

The Online Writing Lab at Purdue (http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/) is an invaluable reference for writing research papers. Covering everything from creating a thesis statement and coping with writer's block to formatting citations and the principles of academic writing, this is an online tool for every paper you'll ever need to write.

Citing Sources

Citation Style Guide: MLA (PDF)
An online version of FLITE's MLA Quick Reference handout which requires Adobe Acrobat Reader.

MLA Formatting and Style Guide - OWL Writing Center
Another good spot to look for MLA citation help and review how to make a Works Cited page.

Son of Citation Machine
Online tool for creating citations. Be sure to check the results for correctness.

MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
Copies of the full-length MLA Handbook (7th Edition) can be found in the Ready Reference section on Floor 1 of the library near the Oval Information Desk.

Citations - a FLITE guide
A guide to understanding citations, and a link to different online citation management tools that can help you input your sources and create your bibliographies.

Plagiarism
Plagiarism tutorials and self-help guides, plus a link to step-by-step citation assistance.

Internet Evaluation

Evaluating Web Sites

What's Wrong With This Site: Let's Go Whale Watching


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