New Hardcover Evolution Book Based Upon Junior Skeptic

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Borrowed from Skeptic Forum:

The Skeptics Society is proud to reveal the first full-color, hardcover, illustrated English-language book based upon Junior Skeptic.

Published by Kids Can Press (February, 2010), Evolution: How We and All Living Things Came to Be is a straight-ahead introduction to the fact of evolution, to its mechanisms, and to the misunderstandings that surround it. The book aims to explain how evolution works — and how we know for a fact that it happens. It is suitable for readers aged 8–13.

Initial Reviews:

The best damn evolution book for kids, period.

— Michael Shermer
(Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design)

A wonderfully clear, up-to-date, and well-illustrated account of how evolution works. The scientific content is first-rate.

— Donald Prothero
(Evolution: What the Fossils Say and Why It Matters)

A full-throated defense and explication of Darwin’s theory…kept light and accessible by Loxton’s sense of humour and breezy prose style.

— Quill & Quire

[Tero]

Cool. Kids books are so much better illustrated than ours. I have a Gould edited paperback, The Book of Life, readable for a middle schooler.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

And even Gawd can buy this, it's printed in Canada.

[Animavore]

This book won a few awards and had to be published in Canada due to the fact that he couldn't get it published in America as American publishers thought it was too controversial.
http://news.discovery.com/human/evoluti ... 10916.html

[Gawdzilla Sama]

This book won a few awards and had to be published in Canada due to the fact that he couldn't get it published in America as American publishers thought it was too controversial.
http://news.discovery.com/human/evoluti ... 10916.html

I always read Junior Skeptic first when the mag comes in. They have the fun stuff there. I pdf'd the one on von Donutholes and posted it at abovetopsecret.com. :twisted:

[tattuchu]

This book won a few awards and had to be published in Canada due to the fact that he couldn't get it published in America as American publishers thought it was too controversial.
http://news.discovery.com/human/evoluti ... 10916.html

Unfuckingbelievable

[Gawdzilla Sama]

This book won a few awards and had to be published in Canada due to the fact that he couldn't get it published in America as American publishers thought it was too controversial.
http://news.discovery.com/human/evoluti ... 10916.html

Unfuckingbelievable

How so? Merka is filled with people who don't want other people to think thoughts they themselves are afraid to think.

[tattuchu]

This book won a few awards and had to be published in Canada due to the fact that he couldn't get it published in America as American publishers thought it was too controversial.
http://news.discovery.com/human/evoluti ... 10916.html

Unfuckingbelievable

How so? Merka is filled with people who don't want other people to think thoughts they themselves are afraid to think.

I like to imagine it's not quite as bad as all that here in this country. Perhaps I'm mistaken

Anyway, the book looks like an interesting read. And it has pictures, so that appeals to me. I mean, er...will surely appeal to kids

[Gawdzilla Sama]

It's going on my Mrs. Satan list.