A group of animals' love of fairy tales, legends, and fantasy disappears when a hedgehog sees a unicorn but, under the influence of his friends, doubts it was real.
Shane, suspicious of record executive Rex Riley's motives, tries to keep Mitchie from getting caught up in the hype when it is learned that Riley is going to pay a visit to Camp Rock.
pseudoscience, superstition, and other confusions of our time
Shermer, Michael
1997
The co-founder of "Skeptic" magazine explains why people are so willing to believe in mind reading, alien abductions, ghosts, and other manifestations of pseudoscience, and discusses how such wrong thinking can lead to very real danger.
A young girl has lost all the enchantment in the world, and goes on a journey to reclaim the fairies, mermaids, giants, and other mythical creatures she used to believe in.
from ghosts and gods to politics and conspiracies--how we construct beliefs and reinforce them as truths
Shermer, Michael
2011
Presents the author's theory on the way humans form beliefs, arguing that the brain looks for patterns in sensory data, attaches meaning to these patterns, and then searches for confirmatory evidence in support of these beliefs.
After eighteen-year-old Monroe Anderson's little sister, Annika, nearly drowns in the family pool, Monroe struggles with who he is and what is worth believing in while his parents cope with the accident in other ways.
Etienne, acting on a vision of St. Nicholas, joins with two other young people, Abel and Blanche, to lead a crusade of children of different faiths to Jerusalem in 1212, at the height of the religious wars.
