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Illustrations that make you want to read the book
Posted by PZ Myers on July 5, 2011 OK, this is no fair. This is an illustration for an alternative history novel, a book about World War I as fought between biotechnology (Darwinists) vs. industrialists (Clankers). Now I really want to read Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld. I’m unfamiliar with the author, I have only the vaguest notions about the content of the book,…
I think we’ve been insulted by American book publishers
Posted by PZ Myers on July 4, 2011 Richard Wiseman, the fabulously funny and enlightening skeptical psychologist, has written a book called Paranormality which is a fabulously funny and enlightening dissection of paranormal claims; I got an advance copy because I’m special and I recommend it highly, and so do Skepchicks. However, something strange happened. Wiseman is British, and he published in the…
I was lost, and then I was found
Posted by PZ Myers on June 19, 2011 I received two packages the other day. The first was a substantial box, and when I opened it, I discovered a Bible, something called the Amplified Bible, a CD called “He is exalted” with recorded sermons just in case I was illiterate, a bookmark with a quote from Proverbs, a thank you note for allowing…
My secret addiction, revealed!
Posted by PZ Myers on June 15, 2011 Back in the day, when I was a teenager, I used to hop on the bus to Seattle and spend a day wandering the seedier parts of town. I’d get off around Pike Street, near the Farmers’ Market, and wander around 1st and 2nd Avenues, which were not nice places for a quiet young man.…
Reading for non-psychopaths
Posted by PZ Myers on June 12, 2011 I’ve met Jon Ronson a few times, including this past weekend, but I can’t say I really know him — we’ve exchanged a few words, I’ve heard him give a talk, I now him as the short intense guy with the very bad hair, slightly neurotic, expressive, and funny. But I read his book, The…
Next on the reading list…
Posted by PZ Myers on April 23, 2011 I am looking forward to reading Anthony Grayling’s new book, The Good Book, with considerable anticipation — I’ve ordered a copy (it’s not as if it would be easily available in Morris!) which hasn’t arrived yet, but what has arrived are teasers from Grayling himself. Here’s a Q&A about the book that might have you…
See Sikivu Hutchinson in LA!
Posted by PZ Myers on March 30, 2011 Sikivu Hutchinson has a new book out, Moral Combat: Black Atheists, Gender Politics, and the Values Wars, which I have just ordered for myself. You fortunate people in LA, though, could also go hear the words straight from her mouth: she’ll be be speaking at Revolution Books on 3 April. Apparently they’ve moved since the…
I get strange books in my mailbox
Posted by PZ Myers on January 31, 2011 I must be a magnet for madness. The latest treasure to manifest itself in my mail is a book by Stefano Polidori called The Chaos Riders. It may be a rare artifact; it’s not listed on Amazon, but it’s expensively bound with an inset photograph of Da Vinci’s The Last Supper on the cover, with…
Evolution: The Story of Life on Earth
Posted by PZ Myers on January 10, 2011 Have you got kids? Are you tangentially related to any young people? Are you young yourself? Do you know anyone who just likes a good story and interesting science? Well, then, I’m sorry, but reading this article will cost you $12.89. Jay Hosler has a new book out (illustrated by Kevin Cannon and Zander Cannon),…
Bang! Another shot fired in the War on Christmas
Posted by PZ Myers on November 14, 2010 How nice: the Atheists Guide to Christmas is available as an e-book for only $1.01. Somebody buy a copy for Bill O’Reilly and any of the other lunatic Christmas warriors.