Superstition : belief in the age of science /
"From uttering a prayer before boarding a plane, to exploring past lives through hypnosis, has superstition become pervasive in contemporary culture? Robert Park, the best-selling author of Voodoo Science, argues that it has. In Superstition, Park asks why people persist in superstitious convic...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Lessons from a tree
- A bigger prize : in which we discover scientists of faith
- The secret of life : in which Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection survives
- Miracle at Columbia : in which both sides pray for victory
- Giving up the ghost : in which we search for the soul
- The silent army : in which we search for an afterlife
- The tsunami God : in which the innocent suffer
- The new age : in which anything goes
- Schrödinger's grave : in which quantum mysticism is found to be superstition
- The barbary duck : in which the body heals itself
- The deer : in which the placebo effect is explained
- The moral law : in which we instinctively know right from wrong
- The last butterfly : in which there is no place else to go.