The Believing Brain: From Ghosts and Gods to Politics and Conspiracies---How We Construct Beliefs and Reinforce Them as Truths
β Scribed by Michael Shermer
- Publisher
- Times Books
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Category
- Library
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