ESP, Superhuman Abilities, and Unexplained Powers

ESP, Superhuman Abilities, and Unexplained Powers
Author: Alicia Z. Klepeis
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 150262849X

For decades, many people have been enthralled with the abilities of superheroes: super strength, super speed, and mind control. But what if powers like these, and more, could be realized in real life? This book explores some of the most believable accounts of superhuman abilities and uses science to help prove or disprove certain powers. Full of photographs, eyewitness accounts, hoaxes, and scientific evidence, this book delves into the real world of superpowers.

The Hope Diamond, Cursed Objects, and Unexplained Artifacts

The Hope Diamond, Cursed Objects, and Unexplained Artifacts
Author: Joel Newsome
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1502628511

Anyone who has watched Indiana Jones knows that curses can have very real implications. However, is there such a thing today as cursed objects? This book explores some of the most well-known cursed objects, from the Hope Diamond to Tutankhamun's tomb, and looks to science, through the use of photographs, eyewitness accounts, elaborate hoaxes, and evidence, to answer whether curses are real.

The Bermuda Triangle, Stonehenge, and Unexplained Places

The Bermuda Triangle, Stonehenge, and Unexplained Places
Author: Dave Kelly
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1502628430

For centuries, there have been great questions surrounding some of the world's most well-known places. This book explores the history behind locations like the Bermuda Triangle and Stonehenge and examines how science has sought to explain some of the deepest-rooted mysteries of the world. Full of photographs, eyewitness accounts, hoaxes, and scientific approaches, this book allows readers to dive into these fascinating places like never before.

Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and Unexplained Creatures

Bigfoot, the Loch Ness Monster, and Unexplained Creatures
Author: Matt Bougie
Publisher: Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2017-07-15
Genre: Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN: 1502628481

For many centuries, unexplained creatures have caused people to go on epic searches around the world. Some enduring legends that have tested and tried many an adventurer are Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster. This book explores the best-known tales associated with these legends and presents scientific approaches that many have undertaken to prove these legends true. Full of photographs, eyewitness accounts, hoaxes, and scientific evidence, this book examines the status of these creatures, from the legendary to the real.

Hitler's Monsters

Hitler's Monsters
Author: Eric Kurlander
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2017-06-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300190379

“A dense and scholarly book about . . . the relationship between the Nazi party and the occult . . . reveals stranger-than-fiction truths on every page.”—Daily Telegraph The Nazi fascination with the occult is legendary, yet today it is often dismissed as Himmler’s personal obsession or wildly overstated for its novelty. Preposterous though it was, however, supernatural thinking was inextricable from the Nazi project. The regime enlisted astrology and the paranormal, paganism, Indo-Aryan mythology, witchcraft, miracle weapons, and the lost kingdom of Atlantis in reimagining German politics and society and recasting German science and religion. In this eye-opening history, Eric Kurlander reveals how the Third Reich’s relationship to the supernatural was far from straightforward. Even as popular occultism and superstition were intermittently rooted out, suppressed, and outlawed, the Nazis drew upon a wide variety of occult practices and esoteric sciences to gain power, shape propaganda and policy, and pursue their dreams of racial utopia and empire. “[Kurlander] shows how swiftly irrational ideas can take hold, even in an age before social media.”—The Washington Post “Deeply researched, convincingly authenticated, this extraordinary study of the magical and supernatural at the highest levels of Nazi Germany will astonish.”—The Spectator “A trustworthy [book] on an extraordinary subject.”—The Times “A fascinating look at a little-understood aspect of fascism.”—Kirkus Reviews “Kurlander provides a careful, clear-headed, and exhaustive examination of a subject so lurid that it has probably scared away some of the serious research it merits.”—National Review

The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger

The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger
Author: Jess Nevins
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2017-01-30
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN:

Using a broad array of historical and literary sources, this book presents an unprecedented detailed history of the superhero and its development across the course of human history. How has the concept of the superhero developed over time? How has humanity's idealization of heroes with superhuman powers changed across millennia—and what superhero themes remain constant? Why does the idea of a superhero remain so powerful and relevant in the modern context, when our real-life technological capabilities arguably surpass the imagined superpowers of superheroes of the past? The Evolution of the Costumed Avenger: The 4,000-Year History of the Superhero is the first complete history of superheroes that thoroughly traces the development of superheroes, from their beginning in 2100 B.C.E. with the Epic of Gilgamesh to their fully entrenched status in modern pop culture and the comic book and graphic novel worlds. The book documents how the two modern superhero archetypes—the Costumed Avengers and the superhuman Supermen—can be traced back more than two centuries; turns a critical, evaluative eye upon the post-Superman history of the superhero; and shows how modern superheroes were created and influenced by sources as various as Egyptian poems, biblical heroes, medieval epics, Elizabethan urban legends, Jacobean masques, Gothic novels, dime novels, the Molly Maguires, the Ku Klux Klan, and pulp magazines. This work serves undergraduate or graduate students writing papers, professors or independent scholars, and anyone interested in learning about superheroes.

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law

Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Artificial Intelligence and the Law
Author: Henrique Sousa Antunes
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2023-12-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 3031412648

This open access book presents an interdisciplinary, multi-authored, edited collection of chapters on Artificial Intelligence (‘AI’) and the Law. AI technology has come to play a central role in the modern data economy. Through a combination of increased computing power, the growing availability of data and the advancement of algorithms, AI has now become an umbrella term for some of the most transformational technological breakthroughs of this age. The importance of AI stems from both the opportunities that it offers and the challenges that it entails. While AI applications hold the promise of economic growth and efficiency gains, they also create significant risks and uncertainty. The potential and perils of AI have thus come to dominate modern discussions of technology and ethics – and although AI was initially allowed to largely develop without guidelines or rules, few would deny that the law is set to play a fundamental role in shaping the future of AI.As the debate over AI is far from over, the need for rigorous analysis has never been greater. This book thus brings together contributors from different fields and backgrounds to explore how the law might provide answers to some of the most pressing questions raised by AI. An outcome of the Católica Research Centre for the Future of Law and its interdisciplinary working group on Law and Artificial Intelligence, it includes contributions by leading scholars in the fields of technology, ethics and the law.

Extraordinary Powers in Humans

Extraordinary Powers in Humans
Author: Pane Andov
Publisher:
Total Pages: 342
Release: 2007-06-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781686427879

Extraordinary Powers in Humans is a powerful manual for development of psychic abilities.Basically, the book is not limited in time since it stretches from the ancient Yoga systems to the advanced and modern UFO phenomenon. Figuring out the purpose of existence, the human is somewhere in the middle. Thus, to achieve all that, the book is written in a form of a special manual that leads one from the basics of the spiritual science to the point of discovering the most hidden spiritual secrets, which at the end leads to self-realization. The book is divided in six major sections that contain a huge amount of theoretical and practical data concerning meditation, Kundalini energy, astral projection, remote viewing, telepathy, aura, clairvoyance and psychokinesis.Also, the book offers the reader 18 of the author's astral trips describing his contacts with alien species as dominant subject. He claims most of them have come from the Zeta Reticuli star system in the time when Atlantis and Lemuria were in full glory, and stayed ever since. The book clearly points that this bio-computer we call a physical body, is only a tiny part of realities we are connected to. A human being is thus an infinite consciousness connected to different layers of cosmic energy. Once read and fully understood, it can change one's perception of reality and offer direct path to human evolution. Anyway, the book is in elite of its kind and worthy to every human being in the process of awakening...

Pseudoscience and the Paranormal

Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
Author: Terence Hines
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Total Pages: 516
Release: 2010-09-30
Genre: Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN: 1615920854

Television, the movies, and computer games fill the minds of their viewers with a daily staple of fantasy, from tales of UFO landings, haunted houses, and communication with the dead to claims of miraculous cures by gifted healers or breakthrough treatments by means of fringe medicine. The paranormal is so ubiquitous in one form of entertainment or another that many people easily lose sight of the distinction between the real and the imaginary, or they never learn to make the distinction in the first place. In this thorough review of pseudoscience and the paranormal in contemporary life, psychologist Terence Hines teaches readers how to carefully evaluate all such claims in terms of scientific evidence.Hines devotes separate chapters to psychics; life after death; parapsychology; astrology; UFOs; ancient astronauts, cosmic collisions, and the Bermuda Triangle; faith healing; and more. New to this second edition are extended sections on psychoanalysis and pseudopsychologies, especially recovered memory therapy, satanic ritual abuse, facilitated communication, and other questionable psychotherapies. There are also new chapters on alternative medicine, which is now marketed in our drug stores, and on environmental pseudoscience, with special emphasis on the evidence that certain technologies like cell phones or environmental agents like asbestos cause cancer.Finally, Hines discusses the psychological causes for belief in the paranormal despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary. This valuable, highly interesting, and completely accessible analysis critiques the whole range of current paranormal claims.

Psychic

Psychic
Author: Hans Holzer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1999
Genre: Parapsychology
ISBN: 9780765109538

"Psychic: True Paranormal Experiences" goes beyond time and space to explore incredible stories of real experiences within the psychic dimension. Gathered by best-selling author and paranormal expert Hans Holzer over years of research and stuck this fascinating and comprehensive volume looks at phenomena such as ESP, ghosts, mediums, time travel, psychic dreams, prophesies, out-of-body experiences, famous haunted houses, and more. Each subject area includes true stories as well as background information and possible explanations for each tantalizing psychic topic. Includes a fun section that lets readers test their own psychic abilities and learn how to develop ESP.