Prairie Lights Books invites you to hear author Barry Markovsky read from his new book, Everyday Extraordinary. Publisher Simon & Schuster describes Everyday Extraordinary as a book that "provides an antidote for the conspiracy theories, medical quackery, and science denial prevailing in today’s pop culture." It concludes:
"The stories gently encourage readers to ask questions rather than jump to conclusions; to consider alternative explanations for what happened; to distinguish good evidence from bad; to suspend judgment when the evidence isn’t there; to have a mind both open and skeptical; to consider that what we wish to be true may not always be so. Without being preachy, the scientific explanations prove extraordinary in their own right. Along the way, readers accumulate tools for thinking critically about all sorts of claims, extraordinary and otherwise."
Barry Markovsky is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of South Carolina. He received his PhD from Stanford University, served on the faculty at the University of Iowa from 1988-1994, and later directed the Sociology Program at the National Science Foundation. His articles on ghosts, UFOs, and coincidences appear at TheConversation.com, which disseminates them to major news outlets worldwide. To date, more than a million readers have downloaded them. He has appeared on radio programs nationally and worldwide: “Morning Edition” on NPR, “Nightlife” on ABC Australia, and Public Radio International’s “The World,” to name a few. He has also made numerous TV, radio, and print appearances in local markets, from LA to New York, and in many other countries.