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Good Condition

Customers are pleased and have received the book in excellent and good condition, some even mentioning it looks new.

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Customers are generally positive about their used copies of "The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark" by Carl Sagan. Many appreciate its excellent writing, important messages, and timelessness. Some mention the book's value for high school students and its impact on their perspective. A few customers have encountered issues with damaged copies.

Academic Content

Customers highly praise the academic content of the book for its comprehensive treatment of various topics, clear and engaging writing style, and relevance to critical thinking and survival as a species. Some readers note that while the author lays out scientific rules and methods, he occasionally disregards them in certain chapters.

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Quality


Great insights that are especially applicablen today with all our science deniers


Filtering the information overload is like finding the straw of truth in a great ocean of confusion and conundrum.


Advanced technology and low educated populace are a dangerous and explosivemixture that is blowing up in our faces as we are he...  Read More


The bulk of it fleshed out the concepts with examples of how to apply the scientific method to all sorts of postulates argued b...  Read More

Price


The balance of the work points out the price paid for the lack of critical and independent thought and how such a lack came abo...  Read More

Shipping


It took a month after the estimated arrival date to actually arrive.


The book was received in a timely manner.


Getting books shipped is always a gamble that they won't get banged up a little bit in transit.

Packaging/appearance


It arrived in excellent condition and with a personalized note of thanks from the owner that i greatly appreciated.

Competitiveness


While other countries have made science a priority for their children, our children are distracted by social media and the like.

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  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    many, scientific, written and critical.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has determined that the review content quality is high and informative.
  • Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
  • This product had a total of 6,822 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 25 2024.

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    Dont order multiple items with your book


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    They just throw everything in the same box with nothing to protect it


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence


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    If only humanity could finally learn it then a book like the demonhaunted world would be mostly unnecessary


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    The problem as sagan notes—then as now—is that we go about teaching science all wrong


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    This is a big mistake principally because pseudoscience is presented in the same way


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    No wonder most people can’t tell the difference they were never given the tools to make the distinction


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Bullard wrote“science may have evicted ghosts and witches from our beliefs but it just as quickly filled the vacancy with aliens having the same functions

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