How UFOs Conquered the World: The History of a Modern Myth - Softcover

Clarke, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1781313040 ISBN 13: 9781781313046

Verlag: Aurum Press, 2017

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Críticas:

'A journey from childish faith to adult disbelief, from a yearning for the fantastic to a regular invocation of Occam's Razor. The stripping away of a desire to believe, although clear-eyed and sensible, seems in the long term rather a chilly process, unsparing and ruthless. This is not to say that Clarke does not make for excellent company. He is often droll and always insightful.'

'True believers in the ETH will undoubtedly dismiss this fascinating book as a whitewash, even as part of a government cover-up. One would expect nothing less.'

'UFO believers will not like this book. It is not a classic debunking; David Clarke is too subtle and warm for that. But it is written by a turncoat, a former believer turned journalist who, in 2007 curated the release of all 52,000 pages of the Ministry of Defence's UFO-related documents to the National Archives...

This is a good book...sceptical, respectful and dry.'

 

Reseña del editor:

A history of the various manifestations and shifting meaning of the Twentieth Century's single great contribution to mythology: the UFO.

Neither a credulous work of conspiracy theory nor a sceptical debunking of belief in 'flying saucers',  How  UFOs Conquered the World  explores the origins of UFOs in the build-up to the First World War and how reports of them have changed in tandem with world events, science and culture. The book will also explore the overlaps between UFO belief and religion and superstition.

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• Verlag: Aurum Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1781313040
• ISBN 13: 9781781313046
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320