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Stephen A. Smith and Alan Knight (Eds.). The Religion of Fools? Superstition Past and Present. Past and Present, Vol. 199, Supplement 3. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford University Press, 2008. 350 pp. $23.00 (paper). ISBN-13: 9780199561377. Eric C. Schneider. Smack: Heroin and the American City. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2008. 259 pp. $39.95 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0-8122-4116-7. Mary Roach. Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex. New York: W. W. Norton, 2008. 288 pp. $24.95 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0393064643. Stephen Strack and Bill N. Kinder. Pioneers of Personality Science: Autobiographical Perspectives. New York: Springer, 2006. xvi + 431 pp. $62.00 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0826132055. Nancy D. Campbell, J. P. Olsen, and Luke Walden. The Narcotic Farm: The Rise and Fall of America's First Prison for Drug Addicts. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 2008. 208 pp. $29.95 (cloth). ISBN-13: 978-0810972865

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This special supplement to the journal Past and Present includes a thorough Introduction by editor S. A. Smith and three groups of essays, twelve in all, based on papers presented at a conference in 2005. Three essays in the first section, "Superstition in a Non-Christian Context," focus on supersti