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How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life
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The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
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Why People Believe Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions of Our Time
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The Mind's Past
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SuperSense: Why We Believe in the Unbelievable
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The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
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59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot
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Sleights of Mind: What the Neuroscience of Magic Reveals about Our Everyday Deceptions
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The Great Book of Optical Illusions
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The Fallibility of Memory in Eyewitness Testimony: The Effects of Misinformation on Memory
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Affect and Accuracy in Recall: Studies of 'Flashbulb' Memories (Emory Symposia in Cognition, Series Number 4)
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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Consciousness: An Introduction
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
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Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There
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Introduction to Logic: And to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences
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How to Think Straight
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Bias In Human Reasoning: Cause and Consequences: A Volume In The Essays In cognitive psychology series
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Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
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Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences
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The Mask of Nostradamus
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The Power of Logical Thinking: Easy Lessons in the Art of Reasoning...and Hard Facts About Its Absence in Our Lives
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200% of Nothing
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The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
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Little Green Men, Meowing Nuns and Head-Hunting Panics: A Study of Mass Psychogenic Illness and Social Delusion
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Panic Attacks
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Asimov's New Guide To Science
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Introductory Readings in the Philosophy of Science
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Pseudoscience and the Paranormal
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Born to Believe: God, Science, and the Origin of Ordinary and Extraordinary Beliefs
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How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God
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The Ghost Map: The Story of London's Most Terrifying Epidemic—and How It Changed Science, Cities, and the Modern World
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The Nature of Scientific Evidence: Statistical, Philosophical, and Empirical Considerations
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Lord Kelvin and the Age of the Earth
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Scientific Blunders: A Brief History of How Wrong Scientists Can Sometimes Be...
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Science: Good Bad, and Bogus
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Nonsense on Stilts: How to Tell Science from Bunk
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Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
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How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age
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The Borderlands of Science: Where Sense Meets Nonsense
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Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
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Secrets of the Psychics: Investigating Paranormal Claims
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Real Roswell Crashed-Saucer Coverup (Contemporary Issues
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Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
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Denying Science: Conspiracy Theories, Media Distortions, and the War Against Reality
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Denialism: How Irrational Thinking Hinders Scientific Progress, Harms the Planet, and Threatens Our Lives
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The Big Book of Urban Legends
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False Profits: Seeking Financial and Spiritual Deliverance in Multi-Level Marketing and Pyramid Schemes
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Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace
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Bad Science
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Science Matters: Achieving Scientific Literacy
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In Defense of Science: Why Scientific Literacy Matters (Science for Nonscientists)
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On Being Certain: Believing You Are Right Even When You're Not
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Wrong: Why Experts Keep Failing Us and How to Know When Not to Trust Them
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Future Babble: Why Expert Predictions Fail - and Why We Believe Them Anyway
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Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average
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Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
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Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
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The Invisible Gorilla: And Other Ways Our Intuitions Deceive Us
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You Are Not So Smart
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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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