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: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
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Citing Sources
Citation Style Guide: MLA (PDF)
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MLA Formatting and Style Guide - OWL Writing Center
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Son of Citation Machine
Online tool for creating citations. Be sure to check the results for correctness.
MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers
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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
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