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Center for Inquiry Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Cosmos, Carl Sagan

Cosmos

Carl Sagan
Center for InquiryCenter for Inquiry

Jack Cheng, author of a new middle-grade novel called See You in the Cosmos, says he was inspired by Carl Sagan’s Pale Blue Dot. The story involves a boy and his dog (named Carl Sagan) trying to launch an iPod into space. https://t.co/AATJWv21c5

Paperback, 2013

$21.00Member price:$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power, Jeff Sharlet

The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power

Jeff Sharlet
Center for InquiryCenter for Inquiry

Jeff Sharlet (author of The Family and C Street) wrote an interesting Twitter thread last week. https://t.co/jdJYDm7PKn

Paperback, 2009

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism, Taner Edis

Why Intelligent Design Fails: A Scientific Critique of the New Creationism

Taner Edis
Center for InquiryCenter for Inquiry

…several books including #Islam Evolving, An Illusion of Harmony, Science and Nonbelief, Why Intelligent Design Fails (coedited with Matt Young), The #Ghost in the Universe, and most recently Weirdness! What Fake Science and the Paranormal Tell Us about the Nature of Science…

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Book Cover for: The Storm Is Upon Us: How Qanon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything, Mike Rothschild

The Storm Is Upon Us: How Qanon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything

Mike Rothschild
Center for InquiryCenter for Inquiry

The complete video from last week’s Skeptical Inquirer Presents with Mike Rothschild, “The Storm Is Upon Us: How QAnon Became a Movement, Cult, and Conspiracy Theory of Everything,” is now available to watch online any time. https://t.co/5BF1flIBkj

Paperback, 2022

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference, Chelsea Clinton

She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference

Chelsea Clinton
Center for InquiryCenter for Inquiry

Oh, you know, no big deal, just @rdfrsTIES director Bertha Vazquez hanging out for a little chat with @ChelseaClinton! March 7, Bertha talks to Chelsea Clinton about her new children's book, She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference https://t.co/7fwAYXmdcI https://t.co/JnFCUp2WkS

Hardcover, 2022

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Progress, Robert G. Ingersoll

Progress

Robert G. Ingersoll
Center for InquiryCenter for Inquiry

ROBERT G. INGERSOLL: "Superstition is, always has been, and forever will be, the foe of progress, the enemy of education, and the assassin of freedom." Consider celebrating the 189th birthday of the #GreatAgnostic by making a gift to science and reason: https://t.co/3jgORh0hnq https://t.co/MwtjmhROQ1

Paperback, 2005

$19.95Member price:$17.96 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: After Diagnosis: Life: Conquer Your Fear, Develop Your Life Plan, Impact Generations To Come, Jim Henry

After Diagnosis: Life: Conquer Your Fear, Develop Your Life Plan, Impact Generations To Come

Jim Henry
Center for InquiryCenter for Inquiry

Jim: "There is no life after death. I hate to be the bringer of bad news." Psychics who claim to talk to the dead are tapping into our innate desire to believe in life after death, but so-called psychics like Tyler Henry are "full of crap."

Paperback, 2020

$12.95Member price:$6.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story, John A. Keel

The Mothman Prophecies: A True Story

John A. Keel
Center for InquiryCenter for Inquiry

.@pesco at Boing Boing delights in a tribute website for “Fortean” author John Keel, who wrote The Mothman Prophecies. The site includes entries from Keel’s unpublished UFO dictionary... And yeah, “detrimental robot” is pretty much how I think of myself. https://t.co/h1EsR2VuNp

Paperback, 2013

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: She Persisted: Ruby Bridges, Kekla Magoon

She Persisted: Ruby Bridges

Kekla Magoon
Center for InquiryCenter for Inquiry

Oh, you know, no big deal, just @rdfrsTIES director Bertha Vazquez hanging out for a little chat with @ChelseaClinton! March 7, Bertha talks to Chelsea Clinton about her new children's book, She Persisted in Science: Brilliant Women Who Made a Difference https://t.co/7fwAYXmdcI https://t.co/JnFCUp2WkS

Paperback, 2021

$6.99Member price:$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Real Women Do It Standing Up: Stories From the Career of a Very Funny Lady, Leighann Lord

Real Women Do It Standing Up: Stories From the Career of a Very Funny Lady

Leighann Lord
Center for InquiryCenter for Inquiry

*ARCH-ENEMIES: Anti–humanism, People who hate laughing *DID YOU KNOW: Leighann is the author of Real Women Do It Standing Up: Stories from the Career of a Very Funny Lady, and recipient of the 2019 #Humanist Arts Award. 14 fellows, six countries, and the most outstanding...

Paperback, 2016

$15.00Member price:$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book