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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 171.7 SHEShermer, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of California Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 SHEShermer, Michael.
Summary: "From Galileo and Newton to Thomas Hobbes and Martin Luther King, Jr., thinkers throughout history have consciously employed scientific techniques to better understand the non-physical world. The Age of Reason and the Enlightenment led theorists to applyscientific reasoning to the non-scientific disciplines of politics, economics, and moral philosophy. Instead of relying on the woodcuts of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 170 SHEShermer, Michael.
Summary: Shermer demonstrates how our brains selectively assess data in an attempt to confirm the conclusions (beliefs) we've already reached. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, he considers not only supernatural beliefs but political and economic ones as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Times Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 153.4 SHEShermer, Michael.
Summary: Publisher description: In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, with more than 80,000 copies in print, Why People Believe Weird Things debunks these nonsensical claims and explores the very human reasons people...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.W.H. Freeman/Owl Book 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133 SHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 133 SHEShermer, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.H. Freeman 2000