Drowning in Decisions: Do We Have Too Many Choices?
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You're listening to the Michael Shermer Show. Here's the new book just came out, The Age of Choice, a history of freedom in modern life. You can see that, right? Yep, there we go. All right.
Sophia, congratulations on the book. We're recording this two days after your pub date, I see. That's that's that's so cool. Thank you. It's a pleasure to be speaking with you.
And yes, it is indeed two days after pub date. You know, um, I have to say I've I've published with both trade houses and university presses. Yours is Princeton University Press. The latter do a, I, in my opinion, I hate to say this in case my regular trade publisher hears this, but the higher, the quality of the production and the, you know, four-color photos. And the typography, layout, the, the, you know, the quality of the paper is so good.
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