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A subscription to Skeptic magazine, the definitive skeptical journal, makes a perfect gift that lasts all year. Promoting science and critical thinking, our articles explore and inform. Buy it. Share it. Help us make the world a more rational place by defending the role of science in society!
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Skeptic Magazine
Back Issues $6.00

Don’t miss this opportunity to complete your collection of Skeptic magazine by getting the back issues you’re missing in your library. Order a back issue for a friend and introduce them to skepticism! Bound with every issue of Skeptic magazine is Junior Skeptic: the skeptical movement’s most sustained and substantial educational outreach project for children.
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Reality Check
$35.00

Many people and institutions have exerted enormous efforts to misrepresent or flatly deny demonstrable scientific reality to protect their nonscientific ideology, their power, or their bottom line. To shed light on this darkness, Donald R. Prothero describes how major scientific ideas that are accepted by the entire scientific community (evolution, anthropogenic global warming, vaccination, the HIV cause of AIDS, and others) have been attacked with totally unscientific arguments and methods…
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Abominable Science!
$29.95

Nature magazine calls this book: “[A] gripping read…a sensitive but devastating takedown of an entire subculture.” This book has been named to the 2013 holiday gift lists for the Wall Street Journal and New Scientist. An entertaining, educational, and definitive text on cryptids (creatures whose existence is unsubstantiated or disputed), the authors of this book present the arguments both for and against the existence of these creatures and systematically challenge the pseudoscience that perpetuates their myths.
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God Bless America
$14.95

God Bless America lifts the veil on strange and unusual religious beliefs and practices in the United States. Offering a close look at snake handling, new age spirituality, Santeria spells, and satanic rituals, this book takes you to an exorcism, a Charismatic church and a Fundamentalist Mormon polygamist compound. You will sit among the beards and bonnets in a Mennonite church, hear the sounds of silence at a Quaker meeting, and listen to L. Ron Hubbard’s sci-fi stories told as sermons during a Scientology service…
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Skeptic Lapel Pin
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Every skeptic should have one of these lapel pins. Gold-colored SKEPTIC letters, with a contrasting black background. They are a great size for a lapel or tie-tack — about 25mm × 6mm (1″ × .25″). The pin comes in a classy little plastic box suitable for gift-giving. At this price, you could get one for every suit you own!
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A Skeptic’s Guide to
Global Climate Change $5.00

Distinguish climate change skepticism from climate change denialism; get 25 answers to classic climate denier arguments; examine a summary of the scientific evidence and climate data and discover what’s behind the debate on climate change; find out why scientists think climate is changing and how we know global warming is real and human caused. This booklet has 28 pages at 8.5 × 11 inches.
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The Baloney Detection Kit
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This 16-page booklet, designed to hone your critical thinking skills, includes suggestions on what questions to ask, what traps to avoid, specific examples of how the scientific method is used to test pseudoscience and paranormal claims, and a how-to guide for developing a class in critical thinking.
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How to Debate a Creationist $5.00

This 28-page booklet is perfect for anyone who wants to know how to converse with a creationist. It contains 25 creationist arguments and 25 evolutionist answers (some philosophical and some scientific); describes what the theory of evolution is and isn’t and explains why creationism is not science; provides an in-depth understanding of Intelligent Design, its pitfalls and logical fallacies, and much more.
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The Skeptic’s Dictionary $19.95

The definitive short-answer debunking of nearly everything skeptical with nearly 400 definitions, arguments, and essays on topics ranging from acupuncture to zombies. Detailed information on all things supernatural, occult, paranormal, and pseudoscientific, including: alternative medicine; cryptozoology; extraterrestrials and UFOs; frauds and hoaxes; junk science; logic and perception, and more. An invaluable reference.
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Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be
$18.95

Hailed as a “tour-de-force of science writing,” Evolution was crowned in 2010 with Canada’s largest literary prize for children’s science books: The Lane Anderson Award for Best Science Book for Young Readers. Combining lavish illustrations, breezy prose, and deep science, this primer for ages 8–13 has been applauded by expert reviewers including the National Science Teachers Association, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Center for Science Education.
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Evolution: What the Fossils Say & Why it Matters
$30.00

This book, which has received rave reviews, is one of the best books explaining evolution and new discoveries of the incredibly rich fossil record; plus a no holds barred critique of the claims of creationism and Intelligent Design. Over 200 illustrations. Michael Shermer says of the book: “Prothero’s visual presentation of the fossil and genetic evidence for evolution is so unmistakably powerful that I venture to say that no one could read this book and still deny the reality of evolution.”
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Ankylosaur Attack!
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Book one in the Kids Can Press series “Tales of Prehistoric Life” is a Silver Birch-nominated, mind-blowing feast for the eye that uses photorealistic, computer-generated images to illustrate what dinosaurs might have looked like in their natural environment. It is a natural history-inspired story, for kids ages 4 and up, about a young ankylosaur living along the lush banks of a lake. When he encounters an old ankylosaur, he gently endeavors to make contact, only to be rebuffed. Then a T. rex attacks! Will the T. rex triumph?
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Pterosaur Trouble
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Book two in the “Tales of Prehistoric Life” series, this is a science-informed, dramatic, paleofiction tale of perhaps the largest flying animal ever to exist—the mighty pterosaur Quetzalcoatlus. While stalking a riverside for breakfast, the giraffe-sized pterosaur finds himself on the menu for a pack of small but ravenous feathered Velociraptor-like dinosaurs called Saurornitholestes. Can the giant escape from his Lilliputian assailants? Inspired by real-world fossil discoveries, this photorealistic adventure will delight and astonish.
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A fitted, sporty unisex zip hoodie in luxurious Flex Fleece fabric: a unique 50/50 cotton/poly blend that offers warmth without being overly bulky. Pre-washed for minimal shrinkage. Contrasting white finished polyester drawcord, metal zipper. Kangaroo pocket. If you are not familiar with how American Apparel fits, refer to the sizing chart before placing your order. If you don’t like a snug fit, we suggest ordering a size larger than you would normally order from other manufacturers.
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Made of 100% fine jersey knit cotton, ring-spun and combed for superior softness and strength. Our unisex fine jersey short sleeve T-shirts, by American Apparel, are the softest, smoothest, best-looking T-shirts available anywhere. If you are not familiar with how American Apparel fits, refer to the sizing chart before placing your order. If you don’t like a snug fit, we suggest ordering a size larger than you would normally order from other manufacturers.
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Flim-Flam!
$22.00

Flim-Flam, a classic masterpiece—and the bible of the skeptical movement—is Randi’s account of dozens of his personal investigations into the paranormal that no skeptical bookshelf should be without. With an Introduction by Isaac Asimov, this book includes Randi’s investigations of the Bermuda Triangle, alternative medicine, Transcendental Meditation, ESP, PSI, and how Sir Arthur Conan Doyle got taken by fake fairy photographs (despite Houdini’s debunking of them).
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Demon-Haunted World
$15.95

The great astronomer and science writer challenges New Agers and explains social phenomena like UFOs, alien abductions, recovered memories, satanic cults, witch crazes, hallucinations, and how to detect baloney. This is Carl Sagan’s most popular book among skeptics, filled with quotable maxims, popular among college professors as a supplemental text for students, but a classic for everyone who cares about living in a sane and safe world without superstition.
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The New Age: Notes of a Fringe Watcher
$26.00

The New Yorker calls it, “Fair, witty appraisal of cranks, quacks, and quackeries of science and pseudoscience … A very able and even-tempered presentation.” This book is a classic of skeptical literature filled with thirty-three diverse chapters: a bountiful offering of the delightful drollery and horse sense that has made Martin Gardner the undisputed dean of the critics of pseudoscience. It is also a quick way to get up to speed on many topics. Gardner is not afraid to examine the process of critical examination itself.
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Secrets of Mental Math
$12.95

The Mathemagician’s Guide to Lightning Calculation and Amazing Math Tricks will have you thinking like a math genius in no time! Get ready to amaze your friends—and yourself—with incredible calculations you never thought you could master, as renowned “mathemagician” Arthur Benjamin shares his techniques for lightning-quick calculations and amazing number tricks. This book will teach you to do math in your head faster than you ever thought possible, dramatically improve your memory for numbers, and—dare we say, maybe for the first time—actually make mathematics fun!
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The Believing Brain
$15.99

Dr. Michael Shermer presents his comprehensive theory on how beliefs are born, formed, nourished, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. We form our beliefs for a variety of subjective, personal, emotional, and psychological reasons in the context of environments created by family, friends, colleagues, culture, and society at large; after forming our beliefs we then defend, justify, and rationalize them with a host of intellectual reasons, cogent arguments, and rational explanations. Beliefs come first, explanations follow.
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Why People Believe
Weird Things
$17.00

In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. This book is a no-holds-barred assault on popular superstitions and prejudices, debunking these nonsensical claims and exploring the very human reasons people find otherworldly phenomena, conspiracy theories, and cults so appealing. Why People Believe Weird Things is an eye-opening resource for the most gullible among us and those who want to protect them.
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The Bible Against Itself
$7.98

Before the Bible was the Bible it was a lot of little books written by many writers with many different viewpoints. With depth and clarity Dr. Helms shows that, throughout the history of their formation, the Jewish and Christian scriptures developed as the by-products of ongoing theological debates. Far from expressing the unity of thought and doctrinal accord that would reflect divine inspiration, the scriptures represent a series of furious and unrelenting disputes between authors supporting often bitterly divided dogmas.
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Secret Origins of the Bible
$19.95

How can such a widely studied book like the Bible still hold secrets? Many intelligent and otherwise well-informed readers will find much of the material in this book new and quite startling, although Bible scholars will be familiar with it. Callahan uses literary analysis, archeology, historyand comparative mythology to demonstrate how Bible stories can be understood when their mythic content is revealed. This book covers both familiar and obscure chapters of the Bible, and is a great reference source to discover what’s behind the many odd stories in the Bible.
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