Can Science Solve the Mystery of ESP?

Can Science Solve the Mystery of ESP?
Author: Chris Oxlade
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2003-04-30
Genre: Extrasensory perception
ISBN: 9780431020419

In each of the books in this series, a mystery is described, and the case for and against a rational scientific explanation is put forward. Evidence is provided in the form of eyewitness accounts and written and pictorial reports. Whilst there may not be a scientific explanation for each phenomenon, the books do not attempt to reduce the mystique of each one, but instead offer a variety of possibilities to allow readers to come to their own conclusions.

The Mystery of ESP

The Mystery of ESP
Author: Chris Oxlade
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
Total Pages: 40
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781432910211

What is extra-sensory perception? Can people move objects with their minds? How is ESP tested? Some things are so strange that they cannot be explained. This series explains the connection between science and natural phenomena and how science can be used to try to explain mysteries.

ESP

ESP
Author: Michael Martin
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780736854511

Describes the history, studies, and search for the causes of ESP.

Gotcha Again for Guys!

Gotcha Again for Guys!
Author: Kathleen A. Baxter
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2010-10-19
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 159884377X

Here's help in selecting current, nonfiction books that will get boys excited about reading. Enticing boys to read is still a hot topic. With chapters like "Disasters and Mysteries," "Gross and Disgusting," "Machines and the Military," and "Prehistoric Creatures," Gotcha Again for Guys!: More Nonfiction Books to Get Boys Excited about Reading is a treasure trove of recent nonfiction books that will interest boys in grades 3-8. This sixth entry in Baxter and Kochel's Gotcha series covers books published between 2007 and 2009, with a few oldies-but-goodies also included. The book is organized into 12 thematic chapters, each of which offers booktalks for a select number of titles, followed by a list of other high-interest, well-reviewed titles that correspond with the chapter's topic. Features new to this volume include numerous booklists to be copied and saved, as well as profiles of new and innovative nonfiction authors writing for this age group. In addition, the book features interviews with seven male authors of nonfiction books for boys.

Can Science Solve: Esp / Vampires and Werewolves / Life on Other Planets / Stone Circles / Death of Dinosaurs

Can Science Solve: Esp / Vampires and Werewolves / Life on Other Planets / Stone Circles / Death of Dinosaurs
Author: Chris Oxlade
Publisher:
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2003-04-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9780431016511

In each of the books in this series, a mystery is described, and the case for and against a rational scientific explanation is put forward. Evidence is provided in the form of eyewitness accounts and written and pictorial reports. Whilst there may not be a scientific explanation for each phenomenon, the books do not attempt to reduce the mystique of each one, but instead offer a variety of possibilities to allow readers to come to their own conclusions.

Psychic Powers

Psychic Powers
Author: Lisa Wade McCormick
Publisher: Capstone
Total Pages: 33
Release: 2009-07
Genre: Parapsychology
ISBN: 1429633964

"Presents the mystery of psychic powers, including current theories and different kinds of experiences"--Provided by publisher.

Scientific Paranormal Investigation

Scientific Paranormal Investigation
Author: Benjamin Radford
Publisher:
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Occultism
ISBN: 9780936455112

Scientific Paranormal Investigation describes how logic, critical thinking, and scientific methodologies can be applied to mysterious or "unexplained" phenomena including ghosts, crop circles, miracles, Bigfoot, etc. The author includes a half-dozen in-depth investigation case studies describing how he solved the mysteries.

The ESP Enigma

The ESP Enigma
Author: Diane Hennacy Powell
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2009
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0802716067

Integrating concepts from physics, neuroscience, and other disciplines, Dr. Powell offers an insightful and intriguing explanation of ESP, provocatively claiming that the existence of psychic abilities expands the understanding and appreciation of consciousness.

The Reality of ESP

The Reality of ESP
Author: Russell Targ
Publisher: Quest Books
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 0835630404

On February 4, 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army kidnapped nineteen-year-old newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley, California apartment. Desperate to find her, the police called physicist Russell Targ and Pat Price, a psychic retired police commissioner. As Price turned the pages of the police mug book filled with hundreds of photos, suddenly he pointed to one of them and announced, “That’s the ringleader.” The man was Donald DeFreeze, who was indeed subsequently so identified. Price also described the type and location of the kidnap car, enabling the police to find it within minutes. That remarkable event is one reason Targ believes in ESP. Another occurred when his group made $120,000 by forecasting for nine weeks in a row the changes in the silver-commodity futures market As a scientist, Targ demands proof. His experience is based on two decades of investigations at the Stanford Research Institute (SRI), which he cofounded with physicist Harold Puthoff in 1972. This twenty-million dollar program launched during the Cold War was supported by the CIA, NASA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, and Army and Air Force Intelligence. The experiments they conducted routinely presented results could have happened by chance less than once in a million. Targ describes four types of experiments: Remote Viewing, in which a person describes places and events independent of space and time. For example, while in California Price drew to scale a Soviet weapons factory at Semipalitinsk with great accuracy later confirmed by Satellite photography. In another remote viewing, Targ accurately sketched an airport in San Andreas, Columbia himself. Distant Mental Influence, where the thoughts of the experimenter can positively or negatively affect the physiology (heart rate, skin resistance, etc.) of a distant person. Whole field isolation, where someone in a state of sensory isolation accurately describes the visual experiences of someone else in another place Precognition and retrocausality, showing that the future can affect the past. That is, the elephant you see on television in the morning can be the cause of your having dreamed about elephants the previous night. Final chapters present evidence for survival after death; explain how ESP works based on the Buddhist/Hindu view of our selves as nonlocal, eternal awareness; discuss the ethics of exercising psychic abilities,and show us how to explore ESP ourselves. “I am convinced,” Targ says, “that most people can learn to move from their ordinary mind to one not obstructed by conventional barriers of space and time. Who would not want to try that?”

The Mystery of Vampires and Werewolves

The Mystery of Vampires and Werewolves
Author: Chris Oxlade
Publisher: Capstone Classroom
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2008
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 9781432910280

Looks at legends about vampires and werewolves in different cultures, their reputed appearance and behavior, similarities between the two creatures, and possible scientific explanations of the old stories.