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Treatise on the Gods

Treatise on the Gods
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In Treatise On The Gods, Mencken takes on the history of religion from pre-history to the practice of Christianity in his own day. First published in 1930 (and revised in 1946), this book generated more controversy than any of his other books, but surprised some of Mencken’s most bitter critics with its genuine scholarship, sober […]

We the Living

We the Living
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First published in 1936, this inspiring and defiant novel by the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged has sold nearly two million copies. Portraying the impact of the Russian Revolution on three human beings who demand the right to live their own lives, the novel is Ayn Rand’s challenge to the modern conscience. We […]

50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists

50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists
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Description 50 Voices of Disbelief: Why We Are Atheists presents a collection of original essays drawn from an international group of prominent voices in the fields of academia, science, literature, media and politics who offer carefully considered statements of why they are atheists. • Features a truly international cast of contributors, ranging from public intellectuals […]

A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed

A Piece of Blue Sky: Scientology, Dianetics and L. Ron Hubbard Exposed
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Atack exposes Hubbard’s bizarre imagination and behavior, tracing the creation of Scientology in the years following World War II to perhaps its final schism following Hubbard’s death in 1986. A shocking book that reveals all: the abuses, falsehoods, paranoia, and greed of Hubbard and his pseudo-military Scientologist henchmen.

American Theocracy : The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury

American Theocracy : The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury
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In his two most recent New York Times bestselling books, American Dynasty and Wealth and Democracy, Kevin Phillips established himself as a powerful critic of the political and economic forces that are ruling–and imperiling–the United States. Now, Phillips takes an uncompromising view of the political coalition, led by radical religion, that is driving America to […]

At the Water’s Edge

At the Water’s Edge
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At the Water’s Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life’s transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we […]

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Furture

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Furture
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Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century. Like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which had immediately preceded it, Beyond Good and Evil represents Nietzsche’s attempt to sum up his philosophy–but in less flamboyant and more systematic form. The nine parts of the book are designed to give […]

Calling Bernadette’s Bluff

Calling Bernadette’s Bluff
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There’s only one real taboo left in 21st Century America, and Jack Kassel’s got it bad. He doesn’t believe in God. And even that might be all right if he didn’t teach at the College of Saint Bernadette. Nothing is more important to Jack than reason, the triumph of truth over comforting fantasies, but Saint […]

Citizen of the Galaxy

Citizen of the Galaxy
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SLAVE: Brought to Sargon in chains as a child — unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar — Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippled master . . . OUTLAW: Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous acts committed by his beloved owner, Thorby risked […]

Critiques of God: Making the Case Against God

Critiques of God: Making the Case Against God
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Critiques of God is a hard-hitting, comprehensive anthology of essays by leading atheist philosophers. However, the book is somewhat dated: it does not address recent developments in the philosophy of religion (e.g., the kalam cosmological argument, the fine-tuning argument, and the evidential argument from evil).

Decoding the Language of God: Can a Scientist Really Be a Believer?

Decoding the Language of God: Can a Scientist Really Be a Believer?
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Description In his bestselling book, The Language of God, Francis Collin–the scientist who led the National Institutes of Health’s Human Genome Project–attempted to harmonize the findings of scientific research with Christian belief. In this response to Collins’s work, fellow geneticist George C. Cunningham presents a point-by-point rebuttal of The Language of God, arguing that there […]

D.M. Bennett, The Truth Seeker

D.M. Bennett, The Truth Seeker
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Book Description DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (1818-1882) was 19th-century America’s most controversial publisher and free-speech martyr. Bennett founded the “blasphemous” New York periodical The Truth Seeker in 1873, and his publications were censored and prohibited from newsstands long before the expression “banned in Boston” was heard. In less than a decade, the former Shaker and self-described […]

Essays and Aphorisms

Essays and Aphorisms
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This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer’s last work, Parerga and Paralimpomena, which he published in 1851. No German philosopher had written so well or so readably before him, and none had propounded the atheistic view that everything may not be all for […]

Eyewitness Testimony

Eyewitness Testimony
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As pertinent today as when it was first published more than a decade ago, this engaging and highly praised study makes the psychological case against the reliability of the eyewitness. By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, Elizabeth Loftus illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the […]

Glory Road

Glory Road
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Until he came to the part about “handsome of face and figure,” Scar Gordon thought the ad was aimed straight at him by someone who knew his habit of reading the personals. When on a whim he answered it, the gorgeous Amazon who examined him seemed to think his looks were fine. Now Scar Gordon, […]

Gold : The Final Science Fiction Collection

Gold : The Final Science Fiction Collection
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Gold is Asimov’s first original collection of SF since 1982, and contains all of his uncollected stories that have never before appeared in book form. It is also his final collection, following his death in 1992, after a 50 year career as a world famous writer who transcended any and every genre. Gold is the […]

Honoring the Self

Honoring the Self
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“Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem,” says pioneering psychologist Nathaniel Branden, “and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence–and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself–your self-esteem–is the […]

Infidel

Infidel
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Book Description In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West. One […]

Language, Logic and Experience


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Does the word exist independently of our knowledge of it? Is there a real world “out there”? This has been one of philosophy’s central debates. This book is a vigorous attack on “the myth of realism”, and a carefully argued defense of the new form of anti-realism pioneered in the work of Michael Dummett. Luntley […]

Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist

Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
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Looking for a good introduction to atheism without all the technical philosophical jargon? Barker’s book is for you! As a former minister turned atheist, Dan Barker documents the arguments that “deconverted” him from Christian fundamentalist to atheist. Losing Faith in Faith is an arsenal for skeptics and a challenge to believers.

Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka, The Fiction of Harlan Ellison

Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka, The Fiction of Harlan Ellison
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A collection of fantastic short fiction by an award-winning author is complemented by richly detailed, surrealistic images from a renowned Polish painter. This unique volume is rich with the vivid imagery of one of our most inventive fantasy artists, published here for the first time, together with 30 original short stories from one of the […]

Nemesis

Nemesis
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In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of […]

On the Road


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Kerouac’s novel On the Road ushered in the Beat Generation of 1950s America. Like Gide’s The Immoralist, Kerouac’s semi-autobiographical characters literally run from themselves in the doomed attempt to escape the realization of life’s absurdity. When the routinization of life is stripped away, revealing only the bare facticity of existence, different people react in many […]

Paul

Paul
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Table of Contents Preface Chronological Table Introduction PART ONE: LIFE AND WORK Paul’s Descent and Environment before Conversion Paul’s Persecution of the Church and His Conversion and Call First Missionary Activity The Apostolic Assembly in Jerusalem The First Journey to Cyprus and Asia, and the Conflict at Antioch The World-wide Scope of the Pauline Mission […]