| 100 |
The 100: A Ranking of the Most Influential Persons in History |
Michael H. Hart |
| 2YD |
2000 Years of Disbelief: Famous People with the Courage to Doubt |
James A. Haught, Prometheus 1996 |
| AES |
Adam, Eve, and the Serpent |
Elaine Pagels, 1988 Vintage Books |
| AGB |
Asimov's Guide to the Bible: The New Testament |
Isaac Asimov, Avon Books 1971 |
| AJ |
American Jihad: Islam After Malcolm X |
Steven Barboza, Doubleday 1994 |
| AJD |
The Apocalyptic Jesus: A Debate |
Ed. Robert J. Miller; Allison, Borg, Crossan, Patterson; Polebridge Press 2001 |
| AOA |
The Age of Analysis |
Edited by Morton White, Penguin 1986 |
| AOH |
Augustine of Hippo |
Peter Brown, 1967, University of California Press |
| AOF |
Acts of Faith: Explaining the Human Side of Religion |
Rodney Stark, Roger Finke, 2000, University of California Press |
| AR |
The American Religion |
Harold Bloom, 1992, Touchstone |
| AS |
Amish Society |
John A. Hostetler, 4th Edition, Johns Hopkins University, 1993 |
| AOTS |
Authority of the Sacred: Aspects of Christianisation of
the Roman World |
Peter Brown, Cambridge University Press 1995 |
| ASJ |
The Apocalypse of St. John: A Commentary on the Greek Text
|
James J.L. Ratton, R&T Washbourne Ltd. 1915 |
| ASS |
American Saints and Seers |
Edward Rice, 1982 |
| ASM |
Aimee Semple McPherson: Everybody's Sister |
Edith L. Blumhofer, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1993 |
| ATC |
Augustus to Constantine |
Robert M. Grant, Barnes & Noble 1970 |
| ATB |
The Authority of the Bible |
Robert Gnuse, Paulist Press 1985 |
| B |
Bunts: Curt Flood, Camden Yards, Pete Rose and Other
Reflections on Baseball |
George Will, Scribner 1998 |
| BAEB |
A Book About the English Bible |
Josiah N. Penniman, Macmillan 1920 |
| BB |
Bully for Brontosaurus |
Steven Jay Gould |
| B |
Buddha |
Karen Armstrong, Viking Penguin, 2001 |
| BBS |
Blackball Stars: Negro League Pioneers |
John B. Holway, 1988 Meckler |
| BBTR |
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative, |
David Brock, Crown Publishers 2002 |
| BC98 |
Baseball Chronicles 1998 |
Don Zminda, Editor, STATS Publishing 1998 |
| BJBA |
The Bill James Baseball Abstract |
Bill James (annual, years noted) |
| BJH |
The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract |
Villard Books, 1986 |
| BM91 |
Bill Mazeroski's Baseball '91 |
|
| BOC |
The Birth of Christianity |
Joel Carmichael, Dorset Press 1992 |
| BOIB |
Boise Baseball: The First 125 Years |
Arthur A. Hart, Historic Idaho, Inc., 1994 |
| BOJ |
The Book of J |
Harold Bloom, David Rosenberg, 1990 Vintage Books |
| BOS |
The Boys of Summer |
Roger Kahn |
| BP |
The Book of Predictions |
David Wallechinsky, Amy Wallace & Irving Wallace,
Morrow 1981 & Co. |
| BR |
Baseball by the Rules |
Glen Waggoner, Kathleen Moloney, Hugh Howard |
| BSL |
Bizarrism: Strange Lives, Cults, Celebrated Lunacy |
Chris Mikul, Headpress, 1999 |
| BTHM |
By the Hand of Mormon: The American Scripture that Launched a New World Religion |
Terryl L. Givens, Oxford University Press, 2002 |
| C |
The Crusades |
Henry Treece, 1994 Barnes & Noble |
| CALB |
The Churches the Apostles Left Behind |
Raymond E. Brown, 1984 Paulist Press |
| CB |
Contested Boundaries: Itineracy and the Reshaping of the
Colonial American Religious World |
Timothy D. Hall, 1994 Duke University Press |
| CC |
The Catholic Church |
Barrie Ruth Straus, Hippocrene Books 1992 |
| CC2 |
The Christological Controversy |
Edited by Richard A. Norris, Jr., 1980 Fortress Press |
| CCC |
Catechism of the Catholic Church |
Paulist Press 1994 |
| CESC |
The Creationsists: The Evolution of Scientific Creationism |
Ronald L. Numbers, 1992 Knopf |
| CG |
The Complete Gospels |
Robert J. Miller, editor - 1994 Polebridge Press |
| COA |
The Churching of America 1776-1990:
Winners and Losers in our Religious Economy |
Roger Finke & Rodney Stark - Rutgers University Press 1997 |
| CPPP |
Cults: Prophecies, Practices & Personalities |
Michael Jordan, 1996 |
| CR |
Cane Ridge: America's Pentacost |
Paul K. Conklin, The University of Wisconsin Press |
| CUK |
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge |
Edward O. Wilson, 1998 Little Brown and Co. |
| CV |
Colour Vision: A Study in Cognitive Science and the Study of Perception |
Evan Thompson, 1995 Routledge |
| DA |
Diseasing of America |
Stanton Peele |
| DAR |
Diamonds are Forever |
|
| DC98 |
Diamond Chronicles 1998 |
Don Zminda, Editor, STATS Publishing, 1998
|
| DDI |
Darwin's Dangerous Idea |
Daniel C. Dennett, Touchstone, 1996
|
| DGCE |
Godwin's Cabalistic Encyclopedia: A Complete
Guide to Cabalistic Magick |
David Godwin, 1979 |
| DHS |
Dictionary of the History of Science |
Edited by W.F. Bynum, E.J. Browne, Roy Porter,
1981 Princeton University Press |
| DL |
A Darwinian Left: Politics, Evolution and Cooperation |
Peter Singer
1999, Yale University Press |
| DLB |
Don't Look Back: Satchel Paige in the Shadows of Baseball |
Mark Ribowsky, 1994 Simon & Schuster |
| DOTO |
Dictionary of the Occult |
Andre Nataf, Wordsworth 1994 |
| DSM |
The Dictionary of Scripture and Myth |
G.A. Gaskell, 1988 Dorsett Press |
| DSTD |
Dianetics and Scientology Technical Dictionary |
L. Ron Hubbard, 1975 New Era Publications |
| DWR |
The Perennial Dictionary of World Religions |
Keith Crim editor, 1981 |
| EAE |
Eurekas and Euphorias: The Oxford book of scientific anecdotes
|
Walter Gratzer, oxford University Press 2002
|
| EBA |
The Elias Baseball Analyst |
Seymour Siwoff, Steve Hirdt, Peter Hirdt |
| EC |
The Early Church: The story of emergent Christianity from
the apostolic age to the foundation of the Church of Rome |
Henry Chadwick, 1967 |
| ECFH |
An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the
Occult and Supernatural |
James Randi, St. Martin's Griffin 1997 |
| ED |
England's Dreaming: Anarchy, Punk Rock, Sex Pistols & Beyond |
Jon Savage |
| EKH |
Eunuchs for the Kingdome of Heaven |
Uta Ranke-Heinemann, 1990 |
| EG |
Extraordinary Groups |
William M. Kephart, 1987 |
| EM |
The Elusive Messiah |
Raymond Martin, Westview Press 1999 |
| ENAB |
Encyclopedia of New Age Beliefs |
John Ankerberg & John Weldon, Harvest House 1996 |
| EOG |
The Epic of Gilgamesh |
Penguin 1972, Introduction by N.K. Sandars |
| EOS |
Encyclopedia of Saints |
Clemens Jockle, 1995, Alpine Fine Arts |
| FAF |
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science |
Martin Gardner, New American Library: Masterpieces of Science |
| FBM |
Falwell Before the Millenium: A Critical Biography |
Dinesh D'Souza, 1984, Regnery Gateway Inc. |
| FBRG |
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation |
Joseph J. Ellis, Vintage Books, 2000 |
| FC |
The First Coming: How the Kingdom of God Became Christianity |
Thomas Sheehan, 1986 Random House |
| FCT |
Fair, Clear and Terrible: The Story of Shiloh, Maine |
Shirley Nelson |
| FF |
Flim-Flam! |
James Randi 1982 |
| FG |
The Five Gospels |
Robert Funk, editor |
| FH |
The Faith Healers |
James Randi, 1989, Prometheus |
| FSR |
The Flight from Science and Reason |
Edited by Paul R. Gross, Norman Levitt & Martin W. Lewis,
1996, Johns Hopkins Press |
| FOC |
Feet of Clay: A Study of Gurus |
Anthony Storr, Free Press Paperbacks 1997 |
| FOT |
Faith on Trial |
Pamela Binnings Ewen, 1999 Broadman & Holman |
| GC |
Gothic Chic: A Connoisseur's Guide to Dark Culture |
Gavin Baddeley, Plexus Publishing (England) 2002 |
| GCE |
God - A Critical Enquiry: |
Antony Flew |
| GFS |
Great Feuds of Science |
Hal Hellman |
| GLRS |
Goliath: The Life of Robert Schuller |
James Penner, 1992, New Hope Publishing |
| GNHG |
Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism |
Kurt Rudolph, 1977 |
| HBRL |
Holy Bible - Red Letter Edition (King James version) |
Regency |
| HG |
The History of God |
Karen Armstrong |
| HGB |
The Hidden Game of Baseball |
John Thorn, Pete Palmer, 1984 Doubleday |
| HH |
Heaven's Hustler: The Rise & Fall of Jimmy Swaggart |
Arthur Frederick Ide, Monument Press 1988 |
| HO |
The Heart of the Order |
Thomas Boswell |
| HOH |
A History of Heresy |
David Christie-Murray, 1976 Oxford University Press |
| HOH2 |
A History of Heaven: The Singing Silence |
Jeffrey Buron Russell, 1997 Princeton University Press |
| HRI |
A History of Religious Ideas (3 Vols.) |
Mircea Eliade, 1985 University of Chicago Press |
| HTJ |
Honest to Jesus: Jesus for a New Millenium |
Robert Funk, 1996, Harper Collins |
| HWAU |
He Walked Among Us: Evidence for the Historical Jesus |
Josh McDowell, Bill Wilson, 1993 Thomas Nelson |
| HW |
Holy War: The Crusades and Their Impact on Today's World |
Karen Armstrong, Anchor Books 2001 |
| HWST |
A History of the Warfare of Science with
Theology in Christendom |
Andrew Dickson White, 1910 D. Appleton & Co. |
| IMIR |
Indexing for Maximum Investment Results
Edited by Albert S. Neubout |
| IQ |
The Indestructible Question |
Jacob Needleman, Penguin Arkana 1994 |
| IPA |
The Information Please Almanac, 1990 |
| JAF |
Jesus and Faith |
Edited by Jeffrey Carlson & Robert Ludwig, 1994 Orbis Books |
| JAS |
Josh and Sash: The Life and Times of
Josh Gibson and Satchell Paige |
John B. Holway, 1991 Meckler Publishing |
| JAT |
Jim and Tammy: Charismatic Intrigue Inside PTL |
Joe E. Barnhart |
| JB |
The Jefferson Bible: The Life and Morals of Jesus of
Nazareth |
Thomas Jefferson, Beacon Press 1996 |
| JDHL |
Joe DiMaggio - The Hero's Life |
Richard Ben Cramer, Simon & Schuster 2000 |
| JDL |
Jesus Doesn't Live Here Anymore:
From Fundamentalist to Freedom Writer |
Skipp Porteus |
| JM |
Jesus Matters: 150 Years of Research |
C.J. den Heyer, 1996, Trinity Press |
| JRB |
Jesus: A Revolutionary Biography |
John Dominic Crossan, 1989 Harper |
| JS |
Joseph Smith |
Robert V. Remini, Viking Penguin, 2002 |
| JSIC |
The Jesus Seminar and its Critics |
Robert J. Miller, Polebridge Press, 1999 |
| LFM |
Looking for a Miracle: Weeping Icons, Relics,
Stigmata, Visions and Healing Cures |
Joe Nickell, Prometheus |
| LGBQ |
The Lost Gospel: The Book of Q & Christian Origins |
Burton L. Mack, HarperCollins 1993 |
| LNBC |
Larson's New Book of Cults |
Bob Larson, 1989 Tyndale House |
| LT |
Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the Twentieth Century |
Greil Marcus, 1990 Harvard University Press |
| MA |
Mormon America: The Power and the Promise |
Richard N. Ostling and Joan K. Ostling, HarperCollins, 1999 |
| MAW |
Men At Work |
George F. Will |
| MB |
Moe Berg: athlete, scholar, spy |
Louis Kaufman, Barbara Fitzgerald, Tom Sewell, 1974 |
| MBP |
Muhammad: A Biography of the Prophet |
Karen Armstrong, 1992 Harper-Collins |
| MI |
Myth-Informed |
Paul Dickson, Joseph C. Goulden |
| MJ |
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus |
John P. Meier, Doubleday 1991 |
| MLIB |
My Life in Baseball: A True Record |
Ty Cobb, Al Stump, 1961 |
| MM |
The Myth Maker |
Hyram Maccoby |
| MMG |
Mariners Media Guide(s) |
| MMW |
Mad Man in Waco |
Brad Bailey, Bob Darden, 1993, WRS Publishing |
| MRM |
The Myth of Repressed Memory |
Elizabeth Loftus, Katherine Ketcham, St. Martin's Press 1994 |
| MS |
Making Saints |
Kenneth L. Woodward |
| MW |
Making of the Whiteman: History, Tradition, and the Teachings
of Elijah Muhammad |
Paul Lawrence Guthrie, 1992 Beacon Communications |
| NA |
The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher |
Martin Gardner, 1991 Prometheus |
| NWO |
The New World Order |
Pat Robertson, Word Publishing 1991 |
| OALC |
The Oxford Book of American Literary Anecdotes |
ed. Donald Hall |
| OC |
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of
the Bicameral Mind |
Julian Jaynes, Houghton Mifflin, 1990 |
| OHC |
The Oxford History of Christianity |
ed. John McManners, 1993 |
| OM |
Omens of the Millenium:
The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection |
Harold Bloom, Riverhead Books, 1996 |
| ONUG |
One Nation Under God: Religion in Contemporary America |
Barry A. Kosmin, Seymour P. Lachman, Harmony Books, 1993 |
| OOS |
The Origin of Satan |
Elaine Pagels, 1995 Random House |
| OOV |
The Origins of Virtue: Human Instincts and the Evolution of Cooperation |
Matt Ridley, 1996 Viking |
| ORAL |
Oral Roberts: An American Life |
David Edwin Harrell, Jr., Indiana University Press, 1985 |
| OWS |
On the Wild Side |
Martin Gardner |
| PA |
Prophets of the Apocalypse: David Koresh
& Other American Messiahs |
Kenneth Samples, Erwin de Castro, Richard Abanes, & Robert Lyle -
Baker Books 1994 |
| PB |
Philosophy of Biology |
Edited by Michael Ruse, 1998 Prometheus Books |
| PC |
Pagans and Christians |
Robin Lane Fox |
| PDR |
The Penguin Dictionary of Religions |
edited John R. Hinnells |
| PJ |
A Pilgrim's Journey: The Autobiography of Ignatius of Loyola |
Translated by Joseph N. Tylenda, S.J.; Michael Glazier 1989 |
| POMG |
The Philosophy & Opinions of Marcus Garvey |
Compiled by Amy Jacques Garvey, 1987 The Majority Press
|
| PR |
Pat Robertson: The Authorized Biography |
John B. Donavan, 1988 Macmillan |
| QM |
The Quimby Manuscripts |
Edited by Horatio W. Dresser, Julian Press 1961 |
| RM |
The Relgions of Man |
Huston Smith |
| RHAP |
A Religious History of the American People |
Sydney E. Ahlstrom, Yale University Press, 1972 |
| RNI |
Rotten: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs |
John Lydon, Keith & Kent Zimmerman 1994 St. Martin's Press |
| ROA |
Religions of America |
Leo Rosten, 1952 - 1975 Simon & Schuster |
| ROC |
The Rise of Christianity |
Rodney Stark, HarperCollins, 1997 |
| RWC |
The Rise of Western Christendom |
Peter Brown, 1996 Blackwell |
| SAS |
Saints and Sinners |
Lawrence Wright, Vintage Books 1993/1995 |
| SAG |
The Shroud and the Grail |
Noel Currer-Briggs, 1987, Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| SBA |
Speaking of Baseball |
Edited by David Plautr |
| SC |
The Secular City |
Harvey Cox, 1965 |
| SCMW |
Secret Ceremonies: A Mormon Woman's Intimate Diary of Marriage and Beyond |
Deborah Laake, 1993, William Morrow and Company, Inc. |
| SECT |
Satan: The Early Christian Tradition |
Jeffrey Burton Russell, 1981 Cornell University Press |
| SG |
Strange Gods: The Great American Cult Scare |
David G Bromley, Anson D. Shupe, Jr. |
| SGB |
Scams from the Great Beyond |
Peter Huston, Paladin 1997 |
| SGBB |
Science: Good, Bad, and Bogus |
Martin Gardner |
| SHP |
A Skeptics Handbook of Parapsychology |
ed. Paul Kurtz, Prometheus |
| SO |
Sadaharu Oh: A Zen Way of Baseball |
Sadaharu Oh, David Falkner, 1984 Random House |
| SOPT |
Sacred Origins of Profound Things |
Charles Panati, Penguin Arkana, 1996 |
| SORA |
The State of Religion Atlas |
Joanne O'Brien, Martin Palmer, 1993 Touchstone |
| SPAB |
Saint Peter: A Biography |
Michael Grant, 1995, Scribner |
| SR90 |
T1990 SABR Review of Books |
|
| SRA |
The State of Religion Atlas |
Joanne O'Brien & Martin Palmer, Touchstone 1993 |
| SS |
Saints and Sinners |
Lawrence Wright - 1993 Vintage Books |
| SSCC |
Strange Sects and Curious Cults |
Marcus Bach, Dorsett Press, 1961 |
| STJ |
The Secret Sayings of Jesus [Gospel of Thomas] |
Robert M. Grant, David Noel Freedman & William R. Schoedel,
1993, Barnes & Noble |
| STJ |
The Secret Teachings of Jesus: Four Gnostic Gospels |
Translated by Marvin W. Meyer, 1984 Random House |
| SUB |
Swaggart: The Unauthorized Biography of an American Evangelist |
Ann Rowe Seaman, 1999, Continuum Publishing |
| T |
Truman |
David McCullough |
| TE |
Trouble Enough: Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon |
Ernest H. Taves, Prometheus 1984 |
| TFH |
The Faith Healers |
James Randi, Prometheus |
| TLE |
The Lie: Evolution |
Ken Ham, 1987 Master Books |
| TM |
The Thirsty Muse |
Thomas A. Dardis |
| TNSI |
They Never Said It |
Paul F. Boller Jr., John George |
| TR |
The Rastafarians |
Leonard E. Barrett, Sr., Beacon Press, 1977, 1988 |
| TUB |
The Unholy Bible: Hebrew Literature of the Kingdom Period |
Jacob Rabinowitz, Autonomedia, 1995 |
| UCO |
The Unriddling of Christian Origins |
Joel Carmichael, 1995 Prometheus Books |
| UG |
Under God: Religion and American Politics |
Garry Wills, Simon & Schuster, 1990 |
| UGS |
Under God's Spell: Frontier Evangelists 1772-1915 |
Cathy Luchetti, 1989, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |
| UV |
The Unauthorized Version: Truth & Fiction in the Bible |
Robin Lane Fox |
| WA |
World Almanac |
| WAPC |
The World Almanac of Presidential Campaigns |
Eileen Shields-West |
| WBRS |
What the Bible Really Says |
Edited by Morton Smith & R. Joseph Hoffman,
Harper Collins 1997 |
| WCE |
World Christian Encyclopedia -
A Comparative study of churches and religions
in the modern world, AD 1900-2000 |
Edited by David Barrett, 1992 Oxford University Press |
| WDJS |
What Does Joan Say?: My Seven Years as White House Astrologer
to Nancy and Ronald Reagan |
Joan Quigley, 1990 Birch Lane Press |
| WEL |
Writings on an Ethical Life |
Peter Singer, HarperCollins, 2000 |
| WJ |
What is a Jew? |
Morris N. Kertzer, revised 1978 |
| WS |
The Wrong Stuff |
Bill Lee & Dick Lally |
| WTRT |
The World Treasury of Modern Religious Thought |
Edited by Jaroslav Pelikan, 1990, Little, Brown & Co. |
| WTS |
Watch the Skies! A Chronicle of the Flying Saucer Myth |
Curtis Peebles, 1995 Berkley Books |
| WWTB |
Who Wrote the Bible? |
Richard Elliott Friedman, Summit Books 1987 |
| WR |
World Religions: From Ancient History to the Present |
Edited by Geoffrey Parrinder, 1971 Hamlyn Publishing Group |