Christmas Reading

pH

While not entirely Skeptical Opening Skinner's Box: Great Pyschological experiments of the 20th century is well written and enagaging.

From a skeptical point of view 2 chapters stand out dealing with the myth of repressed memories and RatPark the myth of drug addiction, both of which if you haven't come across before will make you at least reconsider what you believe to be true.

Highly recommended!

Any other good stocking fillers?

davros

How about an artistic, yet skeptical, calendar?

"Twelve months. Twelve beautiful photographs celebrating skeptical women."

An idea for the ISS, perhaps?

robindch

There's no shortage of good stuff out there:

Susan Blackmore, The Meme Machine
Robert Sapolsky, A Primate's Memoir
Robert Sapolsky, The Trouble With Testosterone
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
John Brockman (Ed), What We Believe But Cannot Prove: Science in the Age of Certainty

...and plundering my Amazon wishlist:

From the folks at Butterflies and Wheels, Dictionary of Fashionable Nonsense
Julian Baggini, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten: And Ninety Nine Other Thought Experiments
Chris Hedges, War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
Orvin Larson, American Infidel: Robert G. Ingersoll
William Hamilton, Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 1: Evolution of Social Behaviour
William Hamilton, Narrow Roads of Gene Land, Volume 2: Evolution of Sex
Peter Pesic, Abel's Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability
Simon Hoggart, Bizarre Beliefs
Esther Kaplan, With God on Their Side: How Christian Fundamentalists Trampled Science
Karen Ocker, George W. Bush Coloring Book

And of course, there's:

http://nomoresocks.newscientist.com

Happy buying!