READ 176 - Woodman (Weird Things)
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Online Reference
Online Databases
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
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 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
Man, Myth, and Magic: The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Mythology, Religion, and the Unknown (Highly Recommended), 21 vols.
Location: With Librarians at Oval Information Desk (1st Floor): BF 1407 .M34 1995
The Paranormal (Highly Recommended)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1031 .P325 2009
Paranormal Phenomena : Opposing Viewpoints (Highly Recommended)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF1031 .P334 2002
The Skeptic's Guide to the Paranormal (Highly Recommended)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF1031 .K45 2005
Varieties of Anomalous Experience: Examing the Scientific Evidence (Highly Recommended)
Location: Reserves/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1031. V37 2000
Why People Believe in Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): 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
Quest for Artificial Intelligence: A History of Ideas and Achievements
Location: Main Stacks (3rd Floor): Q335 .N55 2010
Technology and Society 2007- Chapter 4: Will Future Technology Improve Humanity?
4 essays (Look at 3 & 4 especially)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): 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 as Problem Solving
The Complete Book of Astrology, Horoscope, and Dreams
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1661 .C65
Dreaming: Anthropological and Psychological Interpretations
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1078 .D72 1987
Dreams and Dreaming
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1078 .D73 1990
The New Science of Dreaming - Volume 3
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1078 .N454 2007 v. 3
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
Miracle Cures: Saints, Pilgrimage, and the Healing Powers of Belief
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BT 97.2 .N53 1993
God, Faith and Healing: Exploring the Spirituality-Healing Connection - Chapter 7
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BL65.M4 L48 2001
Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics, Stigmata, Visions, & Healing Cures
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BT 97.2 .N53 1993
The Medical Messiahs: A Social History of Health Quackery in Twentieth-Century America
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor) R 730 .Y68
Near-Death Experiences/Out of Body Experiences
Life After Death: the Evidence
Location: Electronic Resource - ebook; See Chapter 4: View From the Edge
Life After Life: The Investigation of a Phenomenon--Survival of Bodily Death
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BL 535 .M64 1975
Handbook of Near-Death Experiences
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1045 .N4 H36 2009
Psychic Voyages
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1045.N4 P78 1987
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 (1st Floor): BL 535 .B75 2002
Reincarnation
Life Beyond Life: The Evidence of Reincarnation
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): 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
The Search for Yesterday: A Critical Examination of the Evidence for Reincarnation
Location: Main Stacks (1st Floor): BL 515 .R63 1985
Telepathy
Beyond space and time; an ESP casebook
"True Experiences in Telepathy" starts on page 145.
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): BF1791 .E19 1967
Dream telepathy (currently checked out)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF1091 .U43 1973
Psychic powers
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1031.P7923 1987
The psychics
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF1040.P76
Unbelievable : investigations into ghosts, poltergeists, telepathy, and other unseen phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1028.5.U6 H67 2009
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
The Lure of the Edge: Scientific Passions, Religious Beliefs, and the Pursuit of UFOs
Location: Electronic Resource - ebook
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: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (3rd Floor): TL 789 .L485 2000
General
Alternative Realities
Location: Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1031 .G36 1995
Encyclopedia of Afterlife Beliefs and Phenomena
Location: Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1311 .F8 L48 1994
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult
Location: Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1407 .R36 1995
The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits
Location: Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1461 .G85 2000
The Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience: From Alien Abductions to Zone Therapy (Highly Recommended).
Location: Main Stacks (3rd Floor): Q 157.E57 1999
The Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained, 3 vols.
Location: Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1025 .S79 2003
The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience (Recommended), 2 vols.
Location: Main Stacks (3rd Floor): 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
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Last update: October 17, 2011