parapsychology

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parapsychology

ESP

1975
Briefly surveys the field of extrasensory perception with a description of experiments in the United States and other countries.

Safe house

2002
Sixteen-year-old psychic Jessica Mastriani, hoping for a good junior year in high school, learns that popularity, can be dangerous when she tries to locate a missing cheerleader without letting the authorities know that she still has her powers.

Psychic powers

1987
Examines paranormal phenomena including the existence of spirits, ESP, mystic powers, psychics, and Psi.

ESP: the search beyond the senses

1973
A history of psychic phenomena and research including many case studies.

The men who stare at goats

2009
A humorous and cautionary account of the U.S. military's use of psychic tactics in the War on Terror and other political agendas discusses the methods employed by the First Earth Battalion, questioning its soldiers' abilities to perform such feats as invisibility, walking through walls, and killing goats with their minds.

Unbelievable

investigations into ghosts, poltergeists, telepathy, and other unseen phenomena from the Duke Parapsychology Laboratory
2009
Discusses the paranormal phenomenon investigated by scientists at the Duke Parapsychology Lab between 1930 and 1980, revealing attempts to prove or disprove the claims while the scientific community, and believers in such occurences in general, attempted to examine the validity of the lab's findings.

Paranormal phenomena

2008
Contains twenty essays in which the authors debate issues related to paranormal phenomena, such as why people believe in them, if they exist, the connection between the mind and body, and government support of the paranormal.

ESP, psychokinesis, and psychics

2008
An exploration of extrasensory perception, psychokinesis, and psychics that discusses the job of a psychic, various psychic abilities, significant individuals who claimed to be psychic, organizations that investigate frauds, how psychics are portrayed in pop culture, and ways to test and develop abilities.

Something wicked's in those woods

2000
When their parents are killed in an accident, eleven-year-old Javier and his younger brother leave their home in Puerto Rico to go live with their aunt in Northern California, where a ghost from an unsolved crime and Javi's new-found psychokinetic powers make their adjustment all the harder.

In the land of the lawn weenies

and other misadventures
2003
A collection of short stories about creepy encounters between suburban kids and monsters, witchcraft, and other strange phenomena.

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