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Self proclaimed "psychic" Uri Geller had to dismiss a multi-million dollar libel suit and has to pay over $ 20,000 in sanctions in an action he brought against skeptical book publisher Prometheus Books of Amherst, New
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The publisher has roughly 1,700 books currently in print, and publishes approximately 95–100 books per year. Since its founding, Prometheus Books has published more than 2,500 books.
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and gave it to man. This act is often used as a metaphor for bringing knowledge or enlightenment.
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In March 2005, Prometheus Books launched the science fiction and fantasy imprint
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Prometheus Books publishes a range of books, focusing on topics such as
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
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Physics and psychics : the search for a world beyond the senses
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Prometheus has been involved in two "major libel lawsuits." In 1992
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Prometheus Books obtained the bulk of the books and manuscripts of
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in 1998. It has been building and expanding this into a scholarly
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is a publishing company founded in August 1969 by the philosopher
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Book publishing companies based in New York (state)
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Rowman & Littlefield
Paul Kurtz
Amherst, New York
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Paul Kurtz
Council for Secular Humanism
Center for Inquiry
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Prometheus
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Greek mythology
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The Truth About Uri Geller
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