Product Description: The Quicksands of Belief: The Need for Skepticism draws on history, anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and the cognitive sciences in an accessible, non-academic style in order to argue that humans don’t question enough. Instead, uncritically accepting the often absurd beliefs swirling around them, too many lack the skepticism needed to avoid global disaster...read more

Product Description: What does a middle-aged daughter, Adele, do when her aging, ill mother asks for help in dying, especially when daughter and mother have been edgy antagonists for years? Confronting a frightening death as her lungs fill, the mother, Elizabeth, insists on her right to choose when to die...read more