About this title: James Randi, the celebrated magician, has written a damning indictment of the faith-healing practices of the leading televangelists and others who claim divine healing powers. Randi and his team of researchers attended scores of 'miracle services' and often were pronounced 'healed' of the non-existent illnesses they claimed. They viewed first-hand the tragedies resulting from the wide-spread belief that faith healing can cure every conceivable disease. The ministries, they discovered, were rife with deception, chicanery, and often outright fraud. Self-annointed ministers of God convince the ...
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Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 1987-12
ISBN-13:9780879753696ISBN:0879753692
Description: Very Good. 1990 edition. Binding is tight and square. DJ is VG with minor wear and tear to edges. No names, no remainder marks, no stickers. Text is clean and bright. NICE! Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend EXPEDITED MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
Edition: Second Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Buffalo NY
Date Published: c. 1987
Description: Very Good in Very Good-dust jacket. Binding and contents are almost like new. Very minor wear on the clean, complete DJ.; Black boards, bright silver lettering. Bibliography. 16p b/w photos. RELIGION. This book "...lays bare the practices of leading televangelists-among them Peter Poposs, W. V. Grant, Pat Robertson, and Oral Roberts-and other so-called 'healers ' In this expose, Mr. Randi stands up for the millions of believers who continue to be victimized and makes a strong case for legal ... read more
Description: Photo Illustrated. Very Good+ in Very Good jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Unmarked copy in dustjacket with minor wear only (closed tear). Peter Popoff, W. V. Grant, Pat Robertson, and Oral Roberts. Price clipped dustjacket. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books,, Buffalo:
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780879753696ISBN:0879753692
Description: Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0879753692. Foreword by Carl Sagan. First printing. Very good in a very good (minor edge wear), price clipped dust jacket. read more
Edition: No Edition Stated
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780879753696ISBN:0879753692
Description: Fine in Vg+ jacket. 8vo. The book is clean, tight and square with inner text and photographs that are clean and unmarked. The unclipped dust jacket is still bright and unfaded but has a couple of chips to the bottom edge. A good reading or reference copy with a new mylar cover. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books 1987
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780879753696ISBN:0879753692
Description: ISBN 0879753692. Hardback. Later Printing. Very good condition book in a Very good condition dustjacket. Tight sound unmarked copy. $18.95 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket. We have placed dustjacket in a brodart protective cover and it looks much better than described. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 1987
Description: Good in Good jacket. Private Press. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Black cloth cover. DJ has some small tears along top, bottom of spine. contains photos, drawings, illustrations; notes; appendices. Debunks various so-called faith healers such as Pat Robertson and Oral Roberts, among others; read more
Description: Randi, James., w/foreword by Carl Sagan., Prometheus Books, nd (1987), c1987, 1st Edition, boards, vg w/dj, 314 pp w/appendices, B & W photographic illus., tall 8vo, 'In coliseums and auditoriums across the world, thousands of times each year, self-styled. read more
Edition: 2nd printing of 1st edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books, Buffalo, NY
Date Published: 1987
Description: Foreword by Carl Sagan. Large 8vo, cloth, 314p., photos. Fine, in mostly fine, price-clipped dust jacket--no chips, a tiny tear at base of spine. Riveting expose of W. V. Grant, Peter Popoff, Oral Roberts, et. al. read more
Description: Very Good+ 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall 0879755350 Signed by Author Trade Paperback New updated edition of 1989, 3rd printing, large trade paperback and signed by the author as follows [To Carl From/Randi] on the half-title page. Very slight reading crease to spine but othewise bright covers. read more
Description: Fine. Excellent condition. Appears unread. No writings/underlines/highlights. Pages are very nice and clean. Minor shelfwear. Free deliver confirmation! Satisfaction guaranteed! read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 1989-05-01
ISBN-13:9780879755355ISBN:0879755350
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780879755355. read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: PROMETHEUS BOOKS Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780879753696ISBN:0879753692
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 328 pages. Offers an indictment of the faith-healing practices of televangelists and others who claim divine healing powers. this book examines the reasons for belief in faith healing and the results for the victims of these hoaxes. it includes profiles of a 'psychic dentist', and a 'vatican-approved wizard'. (Hardback) read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780879753696ISBN:0879753692
Description: Near Fine Condition in Very Good jacket. Size: 8mo-over 7 3/4"-9 3/4" tall. Pages are tight and clean. Binding is tight, covers and spine fully intact. Dust Jacket is in very good condition, except for marks from adhesive tape on flaps front and rear. Small brown marks from adhesive tape on front and rear endpapers. Ex-library with usual markings. Corners are lightly bumped. DJ is now protected in mylar cover. Quantity Available: 1. ISBN: 0879753692 Inventory No: 502621. read more
"This could have been subtitled "...are liars, thieves, cheats and fakes and are out to scam you any way they can, without regret" and then the book could have been all blank pages. But James Randi wouldn't take the easy way. He has devoted his life to reality and skepticism, and to exposing these frauds and fakers and he makes sure, in this book, that we get ALL the details.
You're probably too smart to get sucked into a scam like this (even if you do forward the "Bill Gates is going to give me $100,000!!" e-mail), but you might know someone, someone old or someone sick, who feels hopeless and helpless and gets a "caring and concerned" letter at just the wrong time and is liable to start pouring money into this nonsense. You have to be able to tell them, "no.""
"James "the Amazing" Randi is at his angry best here. Randi rips apart the seedy world of the modern televangelist-style faith healer. He does a nice job exposing their nonsense. However, people deluded enough to believe in these hustlers in the first place will just dismiss Randi as the "Devil's tool." Those who are ignorant are destined to remain so..."
"The part that got me the most involved one of the gentleman Randi was working with in trying to expose a faith healer. After a particular show, the gentleman saw an older woman had her daughter (if I remember correctly). The older woman was struggling to get down a flight of stairs because she'd thrown away her cane at the show as the faith healer told her she'd been healed. The woman, despite the fact that she couldn't make it down the steps, was still praising the healer to that moment. The gentleman was so angry and so frustrated that this woman continued to delude herself, that he refused to help her."
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