Explain poltergeist von owen (2 Ergebnisse)

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Includes dust jacket. The pages are lightly tanned. The copy shows minor external wear, but is in otherwise clean condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. No Dust Jacket. First Edition. Hardcover book with no dust jacket. Covers are worn and soiled, the page edges are also soiled, with water stains on the bottom page edges. There is a bit of foxing and staining to the end pages and the half-title and title pages are dog-eared. The previous owner's name is written in ink on the front end paper. The contents are otherwise clean and the binding is tight. ; The book is divided into four parts, "Spurious Poltergeists and Perhaps Some Others", "Some Genuine Poltergeists", : "Powers and Limitations of the Poltergeist", and "Interpretation." ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 436 pages; Owen, most known for his "Philip" experiment in which he and his wife Iris, in 1972 invented a fictitious character named Owen, gave him an elaborate history as a seventeenth century aristocrat and tried to communicate with him through psychokinesis. "Poltegeists" was a result of his interest in psychic research while he was a research fellow at Trinity College at Cambridge. His research included interviews of witnesses of a poltergeist case in Sauchie. In 1964, the book received the Parapsychology Foundation's Best Book Of The Year award.…