Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking

top navigation:

eSkeptic: the email newsletter of the Skeptics Society

Bookmark and Share
Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 | ISSN 1556-5696

Why Darwin Matters, cover

Michael Shermer’s
West Coast book tour

Over the next two weeks, Dr. Michael Shermer will be speaking at the following venues and signing copies of his latest book Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design. Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, the Director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, and the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series at Caltech. He is the author of Science Friction, The Science of Good and Evil, How We Believe, Why People Believe Weird Things, In Darwin’s Shadow, Denying History, and The Borderlands of Science.

MENLO PARK
Saturday, September 9th, 7:30–9 pm
Kepler’s Books, 1010 El Camino Real, Menlo Park, CA 94025
Contact Pam Grange   |   650-856-0978   |   pam@keplers.com
SAN FRANCISCO
Sunday, September 10th, 4–6 pm
Cody’s Books, 2 Stockton Street, San Francisco, CA 94108
Contact Melissa Mytinger   |   415-773-0444   |   melissa@codysbooks.com
PORTLAND
Monday, September 11th, 7:30–9 pm
Powell’s Burnside, 1005 West Burnside, Portland, OR 97209
Contact Michal Drannen   |   503-228-4651 x5889   |   michal.drannen@powells.com
SEATTLE
Tuesday, September 12th, 7:30–9 pm
presented by Elliott Bay Book Co. at
Town Hall Seattle, 1119 8th Avenue, Seattle 98101, phone 206-652-4255
Contact Karen Maeda Allman   |   206-624-6600   |   kmallman@elliottbaybook.com
There will be a $5 charge at the door for this event, to pay for the Town Hall venue.
DENVER
Thursday, September 14th, 7:30–9 pm
Tattered Cover Bookstore, 1628 16th Street, Denver, CO 80202
Contact Margaret Maupin   |   303-322-1965 x1269   |   mmaupin@tatteredcover.com

ORDER the book >

READ an excerpt from the book >


The Environmental Wars:
a five part set of lecture recordings!

Our 2006 conference, the Environmental Wars, is now available in DVD, VHS, CD and audio cassette formats. The lectures (which took place at Caltech on Saturday, June 3rd) are sold individually, or as a five part set at incredible discounts!

Bookmark and Share
Share this eSkeptic with your friends online.
Comments (0)
Leave a Reply

search

Facebook logo (copyright Facebook Inc.)
Myspace logo (copyright Myspace Inc.)

Donate to Skeptic
at no cost to you!

Planning on shopping at Amazon.com? Start your shopping by clicking the button below, and the Skeptics Society will receive a commission. Your prices for all Amazon products will remain exactly the same, yet you’ll provide essential financial support for the work of the nonprofit Skeptics Society.

amazon.com

See our affiliate links page for Amazon.ca, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, and iTunes links.

FREE PDF Download

Learn to be a Psychic in 10 Easy Lessons

Learn to be a Psychic in 10 Easy Lessons

Psychic readings and fortunetelling are an ancient art — a combination of acting and psychological manipulation. While some psychics are known to cheat and acquire information ahead of time, these ten tips focus on what is known as “cold reading” — reading someone “cold” without any prior knowledge about them.

Super Deal!

cover image

$8.95 autographed!

The Mind of the Market
by Michael Shermer

In this eye-opening exploration, Shermer uncovers the evolutionary roots of our economic behavior and explains how evolution shaped the modern economy.
ORDER the hardcover

Super Deal!

cover image

50% off the cover price!
now only $7.98 paperback
now only $10.98 hardback

The Bible
Against Itself

by Randel Helms

The Bible frequently seems to contradict itself. Randel Helms discusses these contradictions by looking at the cultural and historical factors that produced them.
ORDER the paperback
ORDER the hardcover

$5 VHS clearance

$5 SALE on VHS

All Caltech lectures on VHS are now reduced to $5 each (no minimum purchase) while supplies last!

Browse PDF offline

Pseudoscience, psychics and magic; environment and global warming, religion, the cosmos, space exploration, extremism, cults, math, stats, satire, songs and more…