Michael Shermer (Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate School) is a teaching fellow at Chapman University, founder of Skeptic Magazine, and a monthly columnist for Scientific American.He is the author of Why People Believe Weird Things, How We Believe, and The Science of Good and Evil, published by Henry Holt/Times Books.
26 Ebooks by Michael Shermer
Daniel Loxton & Donald R. Prothero: Abominable Science!
Throughout our history, humans have been captivated by mythic beasts and legendary creatures. Tales of Bigfoot, the Yeti, and the Loch Ness monster are part of our collective experience. Now comes a …
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€26.99
Bryan Farha: Pseudoscience and Deception
Pseudoscience and Deception is a compilation of some of the most eye-opening skeptical articles pertaining to extraordinary claims and pseudoscience. The articles explore paranormal, extraordinary, …
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€37.41
M. D. Lewis: Finding Purpose in a Godless World
A psychiatrist presents a compelling argument for how human purpose and caring emerged in a spontaneous and unguided universe.Can there be purpose without God? This book is about how human purpose …
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€23.78
Rupert Sheldrake & Michael Shermer: Arguing Science
Two controversial authors debate the nature and methods of science, its dogmas, and its future. Rupert Sheldrake argues that science needs to free itself from materialist dogma while Michael Sherme …
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€13.99
Arthur Benjamin & Michael Shermer: Mathe-Magie
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Wer glaubt, Mathematik sei eine trockene Angelegenheit und Kopfrechnen eine unnötige Quälerei, der irrt sich gewalt …
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€8.99
Thea Bechshoft & Kimberley Brownlee: Cognition Switch #2
Cognition Switch: An Artefact for the Transmission of New Ideas
Issue #2: January 2019
Featuring Ideas by:
Michael Shermer, Peter Staudenmaier, Sabine Hossenfelder, Kate Raworth, Benjamin G …
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€0.99
Michael Shermer: Borderlands of Science
As 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 …
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€17.70
Michael Shermer: Borderlands of Science
As 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 …
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€20.82
Michael Shermer: In Darwin’s Shadow
Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the co-discoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable …
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€27.58
Michael Shermer: Heavens on Earth
A scientific exploration into humanity’s obsession with the afterlife and the quest for immortality from the bestselling author and sceptic Michael Shermer In his most ambitious work yet, Shermer …
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€3.99
Michael Shermer: Believing Brain
Synthesizing 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 …
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€3.99
Michael Shermer: Why People Believe Weird Things
A survey of a range of irrationalisms, with explanations of their empirical and logical flaws, this book describes the differences between science and pseudo-science, and goes on to describe and crit …
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€12.99
Donald R. Prothero: Reality Check
The battles over evolution, climate change, childhood vaccinations, and the causes of AIDS, alternative medicine, oil shortages, population growth, and the place of science in our country—all are rea …
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€9.49
Michael Shermer & Arthur Benjamin: Think Like A Maths Genius
Did you know that it’s easier to add and subtract from left to right, rather than the other way round? And that you can be taught to square a three-digit number in seconds? In Think Like A Maths Geni …
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€12.99
Michael Shermer: Giving the Devil his Due
Who is the ‘Devil’? And what is he due? The Devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety’s sake because his freedom …
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€16.24
Donald R. Prothero: Weird Earth
Aliens. Ley lines. Water dowsing. Conspiracies and myths captivate imaginations and promise mystery and magic. Whether it’s arguing about the moon landing hoax or a Frisbee-like Earth drifting …
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€18.74
Donald R. Prothero: Weird Earth
"A breath of intellectual fresh air . . . [an] amusing look at how to dispel endemic pseudoscience and conspiracy theories through rational thinking." -Publishers Weekly Aliens. Ley lines. …
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€18.61
Michael Shermer: Conspiracy
"A well-written and essential tool for those navigating today’s complicated geopolitical landscape."-Library Journal Best-selling author Michael Shermer presents an overarching theory of …
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€31.28
Alex Grobman & Michael Shermer: Denying History
Denying History takes a bold and in-depth look at those who say the Holocaust never happened and explores the motivations behind such claims. While most commentators have dismissed the Holocaust …
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€54.99
Henry Louis Mencken & Michael Shermer: H.L. Mencken
H.L. Mencken was America’s most prominent iconoclastic journalist of the first half of the 20th century, and he still has a considerable following. Mencken’s writings have been in print continuously …
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€12.52
Shermer Michael Shermer: Skeptic Encyclopedia of Pseudoscience
A thorough, objective, and balanced analysis of the most prominent controversies made in the name of science-from the effectiveness of proposed medical treatments to the reality of supernatural …
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€180.74
