Textbook, hardcover, 300 pages.

This is much more than a picture book, though that is the first impression. Understanding of the brain is growing, and this very readable book collects much knowledge into one place. 250 pages, large format hardcover.

This is a compilation of articles by Carl Sagan, Martin Gardner, and other leading thinkers, about the importance of debunking pseudoscience and discussion of the paranormal.

1. Science and Skeptical Inquiry
2. Critical Inquiry and Public Controversies
3. Understanding Pseudoscience, Investigating Claims: University Prayer Study, Anomalous Cognition, PEAR , Energy Healing , “Dr.” Bearden’s Vacuum Energy, the “Fake Moon Flight”, Magnet Therapy, Oxygen Is Good, Camp Chesterfield, How to “Haunt” a House

Here is a tour of the gaming subculture. 300 pages, hardcover.

This book will interest university staff who teach social sciences, and policy makers concerned with information literacy.

The field of ecology is advancing rapidly. This book attempts to make research understandable to the layman. It is more about evolution than ecology. Of local interest: the author is a Carleton professor. 300 pages.

This little compilation of essays is interesting and readable. Almost half of it is about how our minds work. 200 pages.

A book about social networking.  250 pages, hardcover.

Here is a very readable book on how the brain works, and how it improves or degrades based on your mental activities and diet. There is no ‘junk science’ here. Medical science is advancing fast with the use of fMRI (functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging). 275 pages, hardcover.

Much can be learned from how wikis, prediction markets and open source can generate correct information based on input from many people.  “This extraordinary work synthesizes the latest in how we know, with the latest in what the web has become, to map more compellingly than any other book the promise and risk of the information society.”
–Lawrence Lessig