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THE RED QUEEN
‘Why have animals been put to the trouble of creating separate males and females to reproduce sexually, when asexual reproduction requires much less time and effort? … T ...
THE
RATIONAL
OPTIMIST
HOW PROSPERITY EVOLVES
MATT RIDLEY
For Matthew and Iris
This division of labour, from which so many advantages are derived, is not originally the effect of an ...
DEVIL’S
PLAYTHING
MATT
RICHTEL
Dedication
For My Grandparents
Pillars
Epigraph
The number of people suffering acute memory loss is doubling every twenty years.
Shipme ...
Also by Michael Shermer
Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown
The Science of Good and Evil
In Darwin’s Shadow: The Life and Science of Alfred Russel Wallace
The Skeptic Enc ...
To Devin Ziel Shermer
For our small contribution—6,895 days or 18.9 years from birth to independence—to the metaphorically miraculous 3.5-billion-year continuity of life on Earth from one generation ...
Praise for Science Friction
“You may disagree with Michael Shermer, but you’d better have a good reason—and you’ll have your work cut out finding it. He describes skepticism as a virtue, but I thin ...
“This is an important book, which is at the same time a great read. Michael Shermer digs into the American religious psyche with devastating logic and intensity … . Too often politeness (or cowardice) ...
Contents
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COPYRIGHT
ABOUT THE AUTHORS
INTRODUCTION
EVOLVE
LOVE YOUR MONSTERS
CONSERVATION IN THE ANTHROPOCENE
THE PLANET OF NO RETURN
THE RISE AND FALL OF ECOLOGIC ...
Without Remorse
by
Tom Clancy
PROLOGUE
Meeting Places
November
Camille had either been the world's most powerful hurricane or the largest tornado in history. Certainly it had done ...
Praise for
The Killer Angels
“The best Civil War novel ever written … The descriptions of combat are incomparable; they convey not just the sights but the noise and smell of battle. And the charac ...