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BOOKS:
 

BELIEVING IN MAGIC:  THE PSYCHOLOGY OF SUPERSTITIONS
Stuart A. Vyse
Oxford University Press


THE BEST DEMOCRACY THAT MONEY CAN BUY
Greg Palast
Dutton/Plume


BOILING POINT:  DEMOCRATS, REPUBLICANS, AND THE DECLINE OF MIDDLE-CLASS PROSPERITY
Kevin Philips
1st HarperPerennial


THE COUNTER-CREATIONISM HANDBOOK
Mark Isaak
University of California Press


CREATIONISM'S TROJAN HOURSE: THE WEDGE OF INTELLIGENT DESIGN
Paul R. Gross and Barbara Forrest
Oxford University Press


A DEVIL'S CHAPLAIN:  REFLECTIONS ON HOPE, LIES, SCIENCE, AND LOVE
Richard Dawkins
Houghton Mifflin


ENCYCLOPEDIA OF CLAIMS, FRAUDS, AND HOAXES
OF THE OCCULT AND SUPERNATURAL:  JAMES RANDI'S
DECIDEDLY SKEPTICAL DEFINITIONS OF ALTERNATE REALITIES

James Randi
St. Martins Press


ENCYCLOPEDIA OF WHITE-COLLAR AND CORPORATE CRIME
Lawrence M. Salinger,  Editor
SAGE Publications


THE END OF EQUALITY
Micky Kaus
BasicBooks Press


THE GEOGRAPHY OF THOUGHT:  HOW ASIANS AND WESTERNERS THINK DIFFERENTLY....  AND WHY
Richard E. Nisbett
Free Press, New York


GLOBAL POLITICAL ECONOMY
Robert Gilpin
Princeton University Press


HOW TO LIE WITH STATISTICS
Darrell Huff
Illustrated by Irving Geis
W. W. Norton


HYSTORIES:  HYSTERICAL EPIDEMICS AND MODERN MEDIA
Elaine Showalter
Columbia University Press


INTO THE BUZZSAW:  LEADING JOURNALISTS EXPOSE
THE MYTH OF A FREE PRESS

Kristina Borjesson (Editor)
Prometheus Books


KILLED: GREAT JOURNALISM TOO HOT TO PRINT
David Wallis (Editor)
Avalon Publishing Group


THE SATURDAY SCIENCE SERIES:
Neil A. Downie


    VACUUM BAZOOKAS, ELECTRIC RAINBOW JELLY, AND 27
    OTHER SATURDAY SCIENCE PROJECTS

    Princeton University Press,  2001

    INK SANDWICHES, ELECTRIC WORMS, AND 37 OTHER
    EXPERIMENTS FOR SATURDAY SCIENCE

    John Hopkins University Press,  2003

    EXPLODING DISK CANNONS, SLIMEMOBILES, AND 32 OTHER
    PROJECTS FOR SATURDAY SCIENCE

    John Hopkins University Press,  2006



SCIENCE UNDER SIEGE
Michael Fumento
William Morrow and Company


TELLER'S WAR:  THE TOP-SECRET STORY BEHIND THE
STAR WARS DECEPTION

William Broad
Simon & Schuster


TRUST US - WE'RE THE EXPERTS!
John Stauber
Sheldon Rampton

Tarcher/Penquin


VOODOO SCIENCE:  THE ROAD FROM FOOLISHNESS
TO FRAUD

Robert L. Park, Ph.D.
Oxford University Press


WEALTH AND DEMOCRACY:  A POLITICAL HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN RICH
Kevin Philips
Broadway Books


WHAT ARE THE ODDS:  CHANCE IN EVERYDAY LIFE
Michael Orkin
Henry Holt and Company, Inc.


WHY PEOPLE BELIEVE WEIRD THINGS:  PSEUDOSCIENCE,
SUPERSTITION, AND OTHER CONFUSIONS OF OUR TIME

Michael Shermer
W.H. Freeman and Company


ZERO: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DANGEROUS IDEA
Charles Seife
Illustrated by Matt Zimet
Penguin USA

 
PERIODICALS AND MAGAZINES:
 

AMERICAN HERITAGE
Articles about American history and culture.


AMERICAN SCIENTIST
The magazine of Sigma Xi, published since 1913 by the Scientific Research Society.


ATLANTIC MONTHLY
In-depth articles about new developments in current events.


CHAMPION MAGAZINE
The official publication of the National Association Of Criminal Defense Lawyers.


COLUMBIA JOURNALISM REVIEW
"CJR examines not only day-to-day press performance but also the many forces — political, economic, technological, social, legal, and more — that affect that performance for better or worse."


CONSUMER REPORTS
"Our mission since 1936:  Test, Inform, Protect."


CSICOP ONLINE
The Publication of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation
of Claims of the Paranormal.


DISCOVER
Current science news


HIGHWIRE PRESS (STANFORD UNIVERSITY)
Contains 451,300 free full-text articles from 340 HighWire journals


INVENTION AND TECHNOLOGY
History of American inventions and technologies.


ISSUES IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
A forum for discussions of public policy related to science, engineering, and medicine.  Published by the National Academy of Sciences, The National Academy of Engineering, and the University of Texas at Dallas.


NATURE
Original papers in a wide range of subject areas, and an authoritative daily roundup of news in science research.


NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL OF MEDICINE
The NEJM publishes articles reporting the results of original clinical research; it also publishes special articles that focus on economics, ethics, law, or health care delivery.


NEW SCIENTIST
Weekly science and technology newsmagazine.


POPULAR SCIENCE
Popular magazine of science and technology.


PUBLIC LIBRARY OF SCIENCE
A non-profit organization of scientists committed to making the world's scientific and medical literature freely accessible to scientists and the general public.


SCIENCE MAGAZINE
The official magazine of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).


SCIENCE NEWS
Science News covers the most important developments in all fields
of science.  Published since 1922, it remains the only weekly news-magazine of science publihed in the United States.


SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
One of the oldest and most respected American science magazines.


SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN ON THE WEB
A free web-version of Scientific American magazine.


THE SCIENTIST
The News Journal for the Life Scientist.


TECHNOLOGY REVIEW
MIT's magazine of emerging technologies and their impact.


WIRED MAGAZINE
Covers the technology of the future and the way it is transforming the way we live.


WORLD POLICY JOURNAL
The publication of the World Policy Institute (WPI) at the New School University, New York, NY.  It is renowned for its cutting-edge analysis on managing the global market economy, constructing a workable system for collective security, and fostering civil society.

 
ONLINE REFERENCES:
 

BERKELEY ELECTRONIC PRESS
The Berkeley Electronic Press promotes the following goals: scholar-led innovations in publishing; alternative production and dissemination of scholarship; reduction in costs of, and barriers to, access; new electronic journals in underserved and emerging disciplines.


MADSCI NETWORK - THE LABORATORY THAT NEVER SLEEPS!
MadSci Network represents a collective cranium of scientists providing answers to your questions.


MATHWORLD - THE WORLD OF MATHEMATICS
The web's most complete mathematical resource, assembled over more than a decade by Internet encyclopedist Eric W. Weisstein.


THE WORLD OF SCIENCE
World of Science is written and maintained by award-winning author and scientist Eric W. Weisstein as a public service to support scientific knowledge and education.


PUBMED
PubMed is a service of NLM, the National Library of Medicine, and provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals.


NATIONAL CENTER FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY INFORMATION
NCBI eas established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology information.  NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome data, and disseminates biomedical information.


NATIONAL LIBRARY OF MEDICINE
The world's largest medical library; creator of MEDLINE / PubMed.


SCIENCE DIRECT
The world's largest electronic collection of science, technology, and medical full-text and bibliographic information.



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