Shows how to get maximum effect out of four basic math skills by teaching tricks and techniques that make calculating in your head very easy.
Shows how to get maximum effect out of four basic math skills by teaching tricks and techniques that make calculating in your head very easy.
Synthesizing thirty years of research, the author upends the traditional thinking about how humans form beliefs about the world. According to him, beliefs come first and explanations for beliefs follow. The brain, he argues, is a belief engine.
Shermer demonstrates how our brains selectively assess data in an attempt to confirm the conclusions (beliefs) we've already reached. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, he considers not only supernatural beliefs but political and economic ones as well.
Shermer demonstrates how our brains selectively assess data in an attempt to confirm the conclusions (beliefs) we've already reached. Drawing on evolution, cognitive science, and neuroscience, he considers not only supernatural beliefs but political and economic ones as well.