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The Believing Brain
Constable & Robinson 2012; US$ 14.57Synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist and science historian, Michael Shermer upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. Simply put, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, Shermer argues, is a belief engine. Using sensory data that flow in through the senses, the brain naturally... more...
Think Like A Maths Genius
Souvenir Press 2011; US$ 18.94How to calculate almost anything in your head. Did you know that it's easier to add and subtract from left to right, rather than the other way round? You can be taught to square a three-digit number in seconds. Learn how to perform lightning calculations in your head, discover methods of incredible memorisation and other feats of mental agility.... more...
The Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 185.00Michael Shermer and his team of scientists and scholars have created an open-minded two-volume set that gives evidence both for and against extraordinary theories. Four A-Z sections examine these phenomena from different perspectives. more...
In Darwin's Shadow
Oxford University Press 2002; US$ 22.99Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his peers as a man of formidable mind and outsized personality. In this biography, Michael Shermer aims to rescue him from the history's sidelines. more...
The Borderlands of Science
Oxford University Press, USA 2001; US$ 18.99As author of the bestselling Why People Believe Weird Things and How We Believe, and Editor-in-Chief of Skeptic magazine, Michael Shermer has emerged as the nation's number one scourge of superstition and bad science. Now, in The Borderlands of Science, he takes us to the place where real science (such as the big bang theory), borderland science... more...
The Mind of the Market
Henry Holt and Co. 2007; US$ 15.99Bestselling author Michael Shermer explains how evolution shaped the modern economy--and why people are so irrational about money How did we make the leap from ancient hunter-gatherers to modern consumers and traders? Why do people get so emotional and irrational about bottom-line financial and business decisions? Is the capitalist marketplace... more...
Why Darwin Matters
Henry Holt and Co. 2007; US$ 15.99A creationist-turned-scientist demonstrates the facts of evolution and exposes Intelligent Design?s real agenda Science is on the defensive. Half of Americans reject the theory of evolution and ?Intelligent Design? campaigns are gaining ground. Classroom by classroom, creationism is overthrowing biology. In Why Darwin Matters , bestselling... more...
Science Friction
Henry Holt and Co. 2010; US$ 18.99Bestselling author Michael Shermer delves into the unknown, from heretical ideas about the boundaries of the universe to Star Trek's lessons about chance and time A scientist pretends to be a psychic for a day-and fools everyone. An athlete discovers that good-luck rituals and getting into "the zone" may, or may not, improve his performance. A... more...
The Believing Brain
Henry Holt and Co. 2011; US$ 16.99The Believing Brain is bestselling author Michael Shermer's comprehensive and provocative theory on how beliefs are born, formed, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. In this work synthesizing thirty years of research, psychologist, historian of science, and the world's best-known skeptic Michael Shermer upends the traditional... more...
The Science of Good and Evil
Henry Holt and Co. 2005; US$ 20.99From bestselling author Michael Shermer, an investigation of the evolution of morality that is "a paragon of popularized science and philosophy" The Sun (Baltimore) A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an "evolutionary ethics," science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry... more...









