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Wednesday, September 6th, 2006 | ISSN 1556-5696

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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

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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!

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