About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 53. Chapters: Greg Louganis, Mark J. Green, Donna Kossy, Stewart Brand, Arthur Kurzweil, Elonka Dunin, Grits Gresham, Margaret Truman, David Hendin, Richard Henry Dana, Jr., Randall Bell, Stephan Grundy, Grant Geissman, Matthew Lesko, William Fulton, Sara M. Harvey, Bob Shannon, Tom Miller, David Hall, Irving Wallace, Emily Post, William B. Brahms, Robert Darnton, Bryan Brandenburg, Bill Mazer, Jay Kennedy, Martin Greif, Henry Gannett, Fiona Ritchie, Richard Hack, Donald Davidson, James Monroe Ingalls, Ron Goulart, Bruce Kershner, Anu Garg, Thomas Knauff, William Missouri Downs, Syd Field, Oscar H. Dodson, Mark Leyner, B. H. Haggin, Derrick and Patrice Jelliffe, Joey Green, Jason Epstein, Michael J. Fitzgerald, Jim Cox, Carol Jarecki, Richard Ballantine, James L. Halperin, Chris Gethard, Tom Benford, Kevin C. Fitzpatrick, Billy Goldberg, Richard Weiner, William Barden, Jr., David Wallechinsky, David Miles Huber, William Poundstone, Cullen Chambers, George Dessart, Jim Graczyk, Joan Younger Dickinson, Marc Abrahams, Arthur Corbin Gould, Louis Dyer, Gil Fates, Edith Lank, John Gall. Excerpt: Donna J. Kossy (born 1957) is a U.S. writer, zine publisher, and online used book dealer based in Portland, Oregon. Specializing in the history of "forgotten, discredited and extreme ideas," which she calls "crackpotology and kookology," she is better known for her books Kooks: A Guide to the Outer Limits of Human Belief (1994, featuring the first biography of Francis E. Dec) and Strange Creations: Aberrant Ideas of Human Origins from Ancient Astronauts to Aquatic Apes (2001). Kossy was also the founder and curator of the Kooks Museum (1996-1999, online), and the editor-publisher of the magazine Book Happy (1997-2002, about "weird and obscure books"). Described by Wired as "an expert on kooks has a genuine, if sometimes uncomfortable, affection...