{ "item_title" : "Certainly Uncertain", "item_author" : [" Will Swain "], "item_description" : "A thought-provoking deep dive into how we understand the world and what we come to believe about it. Presented with both humor and intellectual rigor. Highly recommend.-Julianna K. Wilson, Ph.D. EntomologyWill Swain writes with the kind of curiosity that feels both down to earth and subtly radical. Drawing from decades as a science educator and a lifetime of lived inquiry, this book doesn't tell you what to think-it invites you into a richer, more compassionate understanding of how we come to know, believe, and make meaning.- Renee Zukin, Educator, Entrepreneur, & Author of Every Day, I'm BraveCertainly Uncertain is a book about how we attain knowledge and how we form our beliefs. These two topics are amazingly entangled and complicated. This book uses a variety of topics to untangle and illuminate knowledge and belief in fascinating detail without ever getting boring. Swain uses a conversational tone with humor, stories, and research to explore these ideas using a wide array of topics. From bigfoot to neurobiology, Galileo to epigenetics, the notion of free will to the Salem witch trials, this book entertains and offers a blueprint for evaluating our own thinking. The book also offers a path forward to a broader understanding of the beliefs of others.Will Swain writes with wit, in an easy-to-read voice. He makes complex ideas understandable and interesting.- Judd Lyons, Retired Major General and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of DefenseThe book was as thought-provoking and clever as it was charming. Swain's ideas and arguments are intellectual, inclusive, and refreshingly insightful . . . and I learned more about Bigfoot than I ever expected - Sean Strain, editor and former vice president of Entrepreneur PressMr. Swain's remarkable book encourages us to critically evaluate our thinking in a cultural environment where facts can be obscured by misinformation and political spin. In this massively entertaining and compelling book, he uses a variety of topics to explore the nature of our beliefs and their relationship to the nature of knowledge itself. I could not put it down.-Mark St. Andre, Ph.D. Educational Psychology", "item_img_path" : "https://covers2.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/899/546/9798995469605_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "26.99", "online_price" : "26.99", "our_price" : "26.99", "club_price" : "26.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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