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READ 176 - Woodman (Weird Things)
UFO Landing

Markusram. UFO Landing. 2010. [Photograph]. Available under a Creative Commons License. Flickr.com. Web. <http://www.flickr.com/photos/9852146@N07/5250449673/>

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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 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: Reference (1st Floor): BF 1407 .M34 1995

The Paranormal (Highly Recommended)
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1031 .P325 2009

Paranormal America: Ghost Encounters, UFO Sightings, Bigfoot Hunts, and Other Curiosities in Religion and Culture (Recommended)
Location: Electronic Resource - ebook (2011)

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: Examining 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

Dreams as Problem Solving

Dreaming : an Opportunity for Change
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF175.5.D74 G58 2007

Dreams and Dreaming (explore lucid 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

Ghosts

Adventures in Paranormal Investigation
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1001.N53 2007

Ghosts Among Us: Uncovering the Truth About the Other Side
Location: Reserve Desk/Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF1301 .V36 2008

Haunted Halls: Ghostlore of American College Campuses
Location: Electronic Resource - ebook (2007)

Hauntings
Location: Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF1461 .H37 1989

Phantom Encounters
Location: Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1461.P45 1998

Rethinking Ghosts in World Religions
Location: Electronic Resource - ebook (2009)

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction (Recommended)
Location: Electronic Resource - ebook (2001)
Also available in print: Location: Main Stacks (3rd Floor): Q 172.5 .P77 W96 2001

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

Near-Death Experiences/Out of Body Experiences

Life After Death: the Evidence
Location: Electronic Resource - ebook (2009); 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: Main Stacks (1st Floor): BF 1045.N4 P78 1987

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction (Recommended)
Location: Electronic Resource - ebook (2001)
Also available in print: Location: 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 (Recommended)
Location: Electronic Resource - ebook (2001)
Also available in print: Location: Main Stacks (3rd Floor): Q 172.5 .P77 W96 2001

Reincarnation Beliefs of the North American Indians
Location: Main Stacks (1st Floor): E 98.R3 J44 2008

The Search for Yesterday: A Critical Examination of the Evidence for Reincarnation
Location: Main Stacks (1st Floor): BL 515 .R63 1985

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 (2001)

Quantum Leaps in the Wrong Direction (Recommended)
Location: Electronic Resource - ebook (2001)
Also available in print: Location: 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.

MLA Image Citation Guide

Sample Power Point with citations

Internet Evaluation

Evaluating Web Sites

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


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