Inside the mind of a conspiracy theorist

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A book that argues that there almost certainly is no God, and that we do not need religion to be moral.

The Origin of the Universe (US version)

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A history of cosmology, culminating with the story of how the Big Bang model became the most widely accepted cosmological theory today.

How Religion Infects our Lives and Culture

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In The God Virus, the author uses the metaphor of religion as a virus to explain how religious ideas pass from individual to individual and infiltrate society.

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"Cold reading" taken apart, inspected in detail, and reassembled so you can see exactly how it works.

How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

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A useful, well-argued discussion of how science disproves the existence of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic God.

Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts

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A very readable overview of self-justification and dissonance theory. Reviews the scientific research on the topic and includes many real-world examples of how cognitive dissonance works. Includes pointers on how to combat our built-in tendency towards self-justification.

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How to Sort through the Noise around Global Warming, the Latest Health Claims, and Other Scientific Controversies (subtitle)

An excellent read

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The struggle to perform well is universal: each of us faces fatigue, limited resources, and imperfect abilities in whatever we do. But nowhere is this drive to do better more important than in medicine, where lives may be on the line with any decision.

A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science

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Forget "A Candle in the Dark", THIS is the book for your woo friends! With barely a sniff of that word "skeptic" Natalie Angier has written a book that expresses almost everything we repeat over and over again on the forum. She does it in an entertaining way, while quoting...

The Undeniable Facts about Alternative Medicine

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(from Amazon.com): Noted science writer Singh and British professor of complementary medicine Ernst offer a reasoned examination of the research on acupuncture, homeopathy, chiropractic, herbal medicine and other alternative treatments. Singh (Fermat's Last Theorem) and Ernst work hard to be...

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The author lived in, and laid bare the status-driven world. Each of the seven chapters is a keenly observed profile of the art world's highest echelons: a Christie's auction, a crit session at the California Institute of the Arts, Art Basel art fair, the Turner Prize jurying, ArtForum magazine,...

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First Spirit Photographer is tried in Boston 1869 for the crime of obtaining money for "spirit photographs". He is found not guilty because no one ever caught the method he was using, but the judge says, "I am morally convinced that there may be fraud and deception." Portraits...

The Men and Women Whose Cases and Decisions have Shaped our Constitution

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From the beginnings of the U.S. Constitution, Iron takes readers behind the scenes to the people who are the names of our Supreme Court cases.

The “answer” to the recent spate of popular books by atheists, particularly Dawkins, Dennett, Harris and Hitchens?

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Intended as an answer to the likes of Dawkins, Dennett, Hitchens and Harris, this book is a meandering, misrepresenting and poorly argued failure.