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Junior Skeptic Books
As the premier illustrated skeptical project for kids, Junior Skeptic is a rich source for full-color book material. We have several kids’ book projects in the pipeline, including:
Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be
“The best damn evolution book for kids, period.”
“A wonderfully clear, up-to-date, and well-illustrated account of how evolution works. The scientific content is first-rate.”
“A full-throated defense and explication of Darwin’s theory…kept light and accessible by Loxton’s sense of humour and breezy prose style.”
The Skeptics Society is proud to reveal the first full-color, hardcover, English-language book based upon Junior Skeptic.
Published by Kids Can Press (February, 2010), Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be is a straight-ahead introduction to the fact of evolution, to its mechanisms, and to the misunderstandings that surround it. The book aims to explain how evolution works — and how we know for a fact that it happens. It is suitable for readers aged 8–13.
Evolution is packed with large, full-color illustrations: cartoons; diagrams; photographs; and, complex scenes featuring photorealistic, computer generated renderings of creatures like ichthyosaurs and mammoths.
This book was produced by Pat Linse, edited by Valerie Wyatt, written by Junior Skeptic Editor Daniel Loxton, and illustrated by Daniel Loxton with Jim WW Smith.
Evolução
the first Junior Skeptic book
In commemoration of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday on February 12th, 2009, the Skeptics Society unveiled the first Junior Skeptic book, Evolução (“Evolution”).
Thousands of copies of this gorgeous, full-color, illustrated kids’ science book were distributed exclusively* to public school students in Portugal — completely free.
Reprising material originally published in Junior Skeptic #26 and #27, Evolução was produced by Pat Linse, written by Junior Skeptic Editor Daniel Loxton, and illustrated by Daniel Loxton and Jim WW Smith. The Portuguese-language translation was prepared by immunologist Vasco M. Barreto, and published by our colleagues at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (an international nonprofit organization headquartered in Lisbon) as part of an ambitious Darwin 2009 public education program with partners that included the American Museum of Natural History and the Portuguese Ministries of Science & Technology and Education.
* Please note that this book is not available outside of Portugal.
Other Book Projects
We also have other projects in various stages of production. Publishers interested in discussing these projects may contact us at juniorskeptic@skeptic.com
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The Believing Brain
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In this, his magnum opus, Dr. Michael Shermer presents his comprehensive theory on how beliefs are born, formed, nourished, reinforced, challenged, changed, and extinguished. Sam Harris calls The Believing Brain “a wonderfully lucid, accessible, and wide-ranging account of the boundary between justified and unjustified belief.” Leonard Mlodinow calls it “a tour de force integrating neuroscience and the social sciences.”
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Top 10 Myths About Evolution (and how we know it really happened)
This concise pamphlet provides answers to common objections to evolution, such as: If humans came from apes, why aren’t apes evolving into humans?; Only an intelligent designer could have made something as complex as an eye; The second law of thermo-dynamics proves that evolution is impossible; Evolution can’t account for morality; and more…
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Top 10 Things You Should Know About Alternative Medicine
Harriet Hall, MD (aka the SkepDoc), shares her wit and wisdom about alternative medicine including: chiropractic, the placebo effect, homeopathy, acupuncture, and the questionable benefits of organic food, detoxification, and ‘natural’ remedies.
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Learn to be a Psychic in 10
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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.