The New York Review of Books

The New New Math

December 3, 1998

Sandra’s Math Block

December 3, 1998

The New New Math

September 24, 1998

Multicultural and Gender Equity in the Mathematics Classroom: The Gift of Diversity (1997 Yearbook) edited by Janet Trentacosta, by Margaret J. Kenney

Focus on Algebra: An Integrated Approach by Randall I. Charles, by Alba González Thompson

Life by the Numbers: Math As You’ve Never Seen It Before narrated by Danny Glover. Seven boxed videotapes produced by WQED, Pittsburgh

A Friend in Prison

September 25, 1997

How He Lost It

May 29, 1997

I Was Wrong by Jim Bakker

Tammy: Telling It My Way by Tammy Faye Messner

A-Symmetry

December 3, 1992

Fearful Symmetry: Is God a Geometer? by Ian Stewart, by Martin Golubitsky

Symmetry in Chaos: A Search for Pattern in Mathematics, Art and Nature by Michael Field, by Martin Golubitsky

M.C. Escher: Visions of Symmetry by Doris Schattschneider

Wordplay:Ambigrams and Reflections on the Art of Ambigrams by John Langdon

Ghosts & Poltergeists

June 15, 1989

Beauty in Numbers

March 16, 1989

Mathematics: The New Golden Age by Keith Devlin

Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge by William Poundstone

Paranormal Companionship

February 16, 1989

Seeing Stars

June 30, 1988

Where’s the Rest of Me? by Ronald Reagan, by Richard G. Hubler

Astrology for Adults by Joan Quigley

Astrology for Teens by Angel Star (Joan Quigley)

Astrology for Parents of Children and Teenagers by Joan Quigley

The Ultimate Turtle

June 16, 1988

A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen W. Hawking, introduction by Carl Sagan

More Bumps on the Head

June 2, 1988

The Michelson-Morley Experiment

May 12, 1988

Bumps on the Head

March 17, 1988

Pseudo-Science and Society in Nineteenth-Century America edited by Arthur Wrobel

An Infinity of Points

March 3, 1988

Count Up

December 3, 1987

To Infinity and Beyond: A Cultural History of the Infinite by Eli Maor

Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality by Rudy Rucker

Giving God a Hand

August 13, 1987

Oral Roberts: An American Life by David Edwin Harrell Jr.

Miracles of Seed-Faith by Oral Roberts

The Holy Spirit in the Now by Oral Roberts

He’s the God of a Second Chance! by Richard Roberts

Ashes to Gold by Patti Roberts, by Sherry Andrews

I Gotta Be Me by Tammy Bakker, by Cliff Dudley

Run to the Roar by Tammy Bakker, by Cliff Dudley

To Cross a River by Jimmy Swaggart, with Robert Paul Lamb

The Pre-Adamic Creation and Evolution by Jimmy Swaggart

Catholicism and Christianity by Jimmy Swaggart

Shout it From the Housetops by Pat Robertson, with Jamie Buckingham

Beyond Reason: How Miracles Can Change Your Life by Pat Robertson, with William Proctor

Answers to 200 of Life’s Most Probing Questions by Pat Robertson

Salvation for Sale: An Insider’s View of Pat Robertson’s Ministry by Gerard Thomas Straub

Isness Is Her Business

April 9, 1987

Out on a Limb by Shirley MacLaine

‘Out on a Limb’ an ABC TV miniseries written by Colin Higgins, by Shirley MacLaine

Dancing in the Light by Shirley MacLaine

Ramtha edited by Steven Lee Weinberg

Secrets of the Old One

December 4, 1986

Was Einstein Right? Putting General Relativity to the Test by Clifford M. Will

The FAP Flop

December 4, 1986

WAP, SAP, PAP, & FAP

May 8, 1986

The Anthropic Cosmological Principle by John D. Barrow, by Frank J. Tipler, with a foreword by John A. Wheeler

Niebuhr & Supernaturalism

March 27, 1986

Physics: The End of the Road?

June 13, 1985

Superforce: The Search for a Grand Unified Theory of Nature by Paul Davies

Perfect Symmetry: The Search for the Beginning of Time by Heinz R. Pagels

Trade Secrets

November 8, 1984

Quiz Kids

March 15, 1984

The Great Mental Calculators: The Psychology, Methods, and Lives of Calculating Prodigies, Past and Present by Steven B. Smith

Facing Up to Realism

January 21, 1982

Is Mathematics for Real?

August 13, 1981

The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Davis, by Reuben Hersh

More On Ape Talk

April 2, 1981

Claims for ESP

February 19, 1981

Parapsychology & Physics

December 18, 1980

Parapsychology & Physics

December 18, 1980

Parapsychology: An Exchange

June 26, 1980

An Expense of Spirit

May 15, 1980

Monkey Business

March 20, 1980

Nim: A Chimpanzee Who Learned Sign Language by Herbert S. Terrace

Speaking of Apes: A Critical Anthology of Two-Way Communication with Man edited by Thomas A. Sebeok, edited by Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok

Velikovsky’s Deluge

March 6, 1980

Not a Mountebank

October 25, 1979

Eternal Riddles

June 14, 1979

Broca’s Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science by Carl Sagan

Quantum Theory and Quack Theory

May 17, 1979

Hello and Goodbye

November 23, 1978

Murmurs of Earth: The Voyager Interstellar Record by Carl Sagan, by F.D. Drake, by Ann Druyan, by Timothy Ferris, by Jon Lomberg, by Linda Salzman Sagan

Spaceships of the Mind by Nigel Calder

In the Center of Immensities by Bernard Lovell, edited by Ruth Nanda Anshen

The Charms of Catastrophe

June 15, 1978

Structural Stability and Morphogenesis: An Outline of a General Theory of Models by René Thom, translated by D.H. Fowler, with a foreword by C.H. Waddington

Catastrophe Theory: Selected Papers 1972-1977 by E.C. Zeeman

Catastrophe Theory by Alexander Woodcock, by Monte Davis

Catastrophe Theory and Its Applications by Tim Poston, by Ian Stewart

Close Encounters

March 23, 1978

The Third Coming

January 26, 1978

Close Encounters of the Third Kind directed and written by Steven Spielberg, produced by Julia Phillips, by Michael Phillips. Released by Columbia Pictures

Close Encounters of the Third Kind by Steven Spielberg

The Hynek UFO Report by Dr. J. Allen Hynek

Only Joking

December 8, 1977

Psi and Science

October 13, 1977

The Holes in Black Holes

September 29, 1977

The Collapsing Universe: The Story of Black Holes by Isaac Asimov

Space, Time, and Gravity: The Theory of the Big Bang and Black Holes by Robert M. Wald

The Key to the Universe: A Report on the New Physics by Nigel Calder

Space and Time in the Modern Universe by P.C.W. Davies

Ten Faces of the Universe by Fred Hoyle

The Iron Sun: Crossing the Universe Through Black Holes by Adrian Berry

White Holes: Cosmic Gushers in the Universe by John Gribbin

ESP at Random

July 14, 1977

Bang!

May 12, 1977

The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe by Steven Weinberg

Supergull

March 17, 1977

Mind-Reach: Scientists Look at Psychic Ability by Russell Targ, by Harold Puthoff

The Search for Superman by John L. Wilhelm

Pioneer

January 22, 1976

Strawberry Shortcut

December 11, 1975

Powers of Mind by Adam Smith

Paranonsense

October 30, 1975

Superminds: A Scientist Looks at the Paranormal by John Taylor

The Magic of Uri Geller by the Amazing Randi

Not Freud’s Discovery

June 12, 1975

Trick or Treatment

July 18, 1974

What Hath Hoova Wrought?

May 16, 1974

Uri: A Journal of the Mystery of Uri Geller by Andrija Puharich

Arigo: Surgeon of the Rusty Knife by John G. Fuller

Turning the Other Check

February 21, 1974

The Preachers by James Morris

A Spirited Exchange

November 1, 1973

Greetings from Far Away

May 3, 1973

Arthur Ford: The Man Who Talked with the Dead by Allen Spraggett, by William V. Rauscher

ESP and Hypnosis by Susy Smith

Inventions

July 10, 1969

Was He Peeking? (cont’d)

September 22, 1966

Was He Peeking?

July 28, 1966

Funny Coincidence

May 26, 1966

ESP, A Scientific Evaluation by C.E.M. Hansel