Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science

5 best books like Superstition: Belief in the Age of Science (Robert L. Park): Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, A Girl in Winter, Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown, The Festival of Insignificance

Your Inner Fish: A Journey Into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body

Author	Neil Shubin
ISBN	0375424474

Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are breasts, sweat glands, and scales connected in some way? To better understand the inner workings of our bodies and to trace the origins of many of today's most common diseases, we have to turn to unexpected sources:...

The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

Author	Carl Sagan
ISBN	0345409469

How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths of pseudoscience and the testable hypotheses of science? Pulitzer Prize-winning author and distinguished astronomer Carl Sagan argues that scientific...

A Girl in Winter

Author	Philip Larkin
ISBN	0571106927

Philip Larkin in Oxford, 1943

Philip Larkin opens A Girl in Winter with a chapter, three paragraphs long, in which he describes England during World War II, suffering through a stormy winter, its people trying to carry on daily life through numbness and deprivation:

[The snow]...

Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown

Author

Michael Shermer

"Michael Shermer has given a lot of things a lot of thought. If your perceptions have ever rubbed you the wrong way, you'll find Science Friction fascinating." —Bill Nye, The Science Guy

A scientist pretends to be a psychic for a day—and fools everyone. An athlete discovers that good-luck...

The Festival of Insignificance

Author	Milan Kundera
ISBN	0062356895

From the internationally acclaimed, bestselling author of The Unbearable Lightness of Being, an unexpected and enchanting novel—the culmination of his life's work.

Casting light on the most serious of problems, and at the same time saying not one serious sentence; being fascinated...