Columbia University Press’s highly anticipated paperback edition of Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids by Daniel Loxton and Donald Prothero (foreword by Michael Shermer) is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com!

Get your hands on the book hailed as “a loving tribute to monsters” (Brian Switek, National Geographic Phenomena blogs), “one of the most important books ever written on cryptozoology” (Darren Naish, Scientific American blogs) and a “sensitive but devastating takedown of an entire subculture” (Daniel Cressey, Nature).

Fresh off the press! Look for it in the coming days (starting April 7, 2015) at your local booksellers and online retailers—including Shop Skeptic at the nonprofit Skeptics Society (home of Daniel Loxton’s work on Junior Skeptic).