Phenomena : the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception...
Phenomena : the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception...
Phenomena : the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis / Annie Jacobsen.
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Publisher
New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2017]
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G 2017/5886
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Language
English
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Physical content
viii, 527 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
The supernatural -- The Puharich theory -- Skeptics, charlatans, and the U.S. Army -- Quasi science -- The Soviet threat -- The enigma of Uri Geller -- The man on the moon -- The physicist and the psychic -- Skeptics versus CIA -- Remote viewing -- The unconscious -- Submarines -- Paraphysics -- Psy...
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Publisher
New York : Little, Brown and Company, [2017]
Edition
First edition.
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2017]
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Summary
For more than forty years, the United States government has researched extrasensory perception, using it in attempts to locate hostages, fugitives, secret bases, and downed fighter jets; to divine other nations' secrets; and even to predict future threats to national security. The intelligence agencies and military services involved include the CIA...
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Phenomena : the secret history of the U.S. government's investigations into extrasensory perception and psychokinesis / Annie Jacobsen.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 493-507) and index.
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©2017
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G 2017/5886
Record Identifier
74VKVgyO0epb
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKVgyO0epb
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ISBN
0316349364 (hardcover)
9780316349369 (hardcover)
DDC
133.8
MMS ID
991024148682302626
