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We the Living

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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 […]

Walden

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An American classic that hails from the nineteenth-century Transcendentalism movement rather than existentialism. However, Thoreau addresses several themes that are of interest to existentialists as well. How does one avoid too much compromise in conforming to others’ expectations while still retaining personal identity and freedom? Thoreau outlines his carpe deim prescription for an authentic life: […]

Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century

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Visions: How Science Will Revolutionize the 21st Century
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In a spellbinding narrative that brings together the cutting-edge research of today’s foremost scientists, Michio Kaku examines the three scientific revolutions that have reshaped the twentieth century–quantum mechanics, bio-genetics, and artificial intelligence–and tells how they will dramatically alter science and the way in which people will live in the 21st century.

Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women’s Resistance

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Veiled Courage: Inside the Afghan Women’s Resistance
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In Afghanistan under Taliban rule, women were forbidden to work or go to school, they could not leave their homes without a male chaperone, and they could not be seen without a head-to-toe covering called the burqua. A woman’s slightest infractions were met with brutal public beatings. That is why it is both appropriate and […]

Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet

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Various Thoughts on the Occasion of a Comet
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The famous author of the Historical and Critical Dictionary gives a reasoned response to superstitious hysteria accompanying the appearance of a comet in 1680. In the process, he also becomes the first recorded person to suggest that a society of atheists would not necessarily be any less moral than a society of theists.

Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe

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Value and Virtue in a Godless Universe
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Suppose there is no God. This supposition implies that human life is meaningless, that there are no moral obligations and hence people can do whatever they want, and that the notions of virtue and vice, right and wrong, and good and evil have no place in the universe. Erik J. Wielenberg believes this view to […]

Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder

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Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion, and the Appetite for Wonder
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Did Newton “unweave the rainbow” by reducing it to its prismatic colors, as Keats contended? Did he, in other words, diminish beauty? Far from it, says Dawkins–Newton’s unweaving is the key too much of modern astronomy and to the breathtaking poetry of modern cosmology. Mysteries don’t lose their poetry because they are solved: the solution […]

Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior

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Unto Others: The Evolution and Psychology of Unselfish Behavior
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No matter what we do, however kind or generous our deeds may seem, a hidden motive of selfishness lurks — or so science has claimed for years. This book, a detailed case study of scientific change, tells us differently. In Unto Others philosopher Elliott Sober and biologist David Sloan Wilson demonstrate once and for all […]

Universes

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Universes asks ‘Why does our universe exist?’ In order to answer that most fundamental of question, this author examines the philosophical as well as the scientific arguments for ‘fine tuning’; that is, the theory that the cosmos is specifically suited to produce life. The result is one of the most powerful versions of the ‘argument […]

Unintelligent Design

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Unintelligent Design
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Spurred on not only by the quasi-scientific agenda of the so-called intelligent design theorists, who seek to prove the existence of God mathematically, but also by his personal contact with otherwise rational scientists, physicist Mark Perakh sets out to reveal the falsity of the claims of neocreationism with a thorough, carefully-detailed series of arguments aimed […]

Understanding the Hadith: The Sacred Traditions of Islam

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Understanding the Hadith: The Sacred Traditions of Islam
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Noted Indian writer and polymath Ram Swarup explores the meaning of Islam through the words of the Sahih Muslim, considered by Muslims to be one of the most authoritative of the collections of “traditions” (Arabic Hadith) about the life of the Prophet Muhammad. Like the Koran, these traditions are believed to be divinely revealed by […]

Under the Net

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Murdoch’s existential burlesque novel centers on Jake, a hack writer and popular-novel translator, as he attempts to find himself and his own authentic existence. This novel explores the theme of how we see ourselves as projected through the eyes of others.

Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy

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Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy
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Under His Very Windows: The Vatican and the Holocaust in Italy describes what the Vatican did–or did not do–to help Jews in Italy in World War II. Author Susan Zuccotti, who has written two other books about the Holocaust, demonstrates that little help of any kind came from Popes Pius XI and XII or their […]

Trilobite!

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Trilobite!
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Subtitled: Eyewitness to Evolution With his new book Trilobite! Eyewitness to Evolution, Richard Fortey confirms his status as one of the best communicators of science around today. His hugely enjoyable previous book, Life: A Natural History of the First Four Billion Years of Life on Earth, was shortlisted for the 1998 Rhone-Poulenc science book prize, […]

Treatise on the Gods

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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 […]

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus first appeared in 1921 and was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his lifetime. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme compression and brilliance, it immediately convinced many of its readers and captivated the imagination of […]

Towing Jehovah

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Towing Jehovah
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God is dead. “Died and fell into the sea. ” That’s what Raphael, a despondent angel with luminous white wings and a blinking halo, tells Anthony Van Horne on his fiftieth birthday. Soon Van Horne is chared with captaining the supertanker Carpco Valparaiso (flying the colors of the Vatican) as it tows the two-mile-long corpse […]

Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism

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Tower of Babel: The Evidence Against the New Creationism
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The face of creationism has been through some major plastic surgery in the past decade or so. The leading proponents of “intelligent design theory” have left the ranting flat-earth types behind and found respected positions in the academic world from which to launch attacks on mainstream science. Philosopher of science Robert T. Pennock has explored […]

Toward a Genuine Spirituality: A Human Strategy

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Toward a Genuine Spirituality: A Human Strategy
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This book attempts to guide people of all religious and nonreligious persuasions toward a genuine humanistic spirituality. The author writes, “Perhaps this is the soft underbelly of a book exposed to the modern world: to say that one can be happier and more valuable without a ‘beyond’ … that one can not only learn to […]

Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society

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Thought Contagion: How Belief Spreads Through Society
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For those who have felt that other memetics sources were just teasers, your 20 year wait is over! Written by a scientist who independently discovered memetics when the field was less than 10% its present age, Thought Contagion explains movements ranging from Amish to Nazi, sexually transmitted beliefs to apocalyptic religion. The book earns advance […]

Thomas Jefferson’s Freethought Legacy

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Thomas Jefferson’s Freethought Legacy
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This delightful collection of quotes from Jefferson establishes beyond dispute his enormous contributions to rationalism, freethought, and science. Often, what historians (and especially politicians) have done is to select those quotes that reflect conventional religiosity and beliefs. Here great care has been taken to exclude those quotes and to present, instead, Jefferson’s freethought legacy.

Think : A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy

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Think : A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy
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Here at last is a coherent, unintimidating introduction to the challenging and fascinating landscape of Western philosophy. Written expressly for “anyone who believes there are big questions out there, but does not know how to approach them,” Think provides a sound framework for exploring the most basic themes of philosophy, and for understanding how major […]

There’s Something About Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument

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There’s Something About Mary: Essays on Phenomenal Consciousness and Frank Jackson’s Knowledge Argument
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Book Description In Frank Jackson’s famous thought experiment, Mary is confined to a black-and-white room and educated through black-and-white books and lectures on a black-and-white television. In this way, she learns everything there is to know about the physical world. If physicalism–the doctrine that everything is physical–is true, then Mary seems to know all there […]

The Woman’s Bible

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The Woman’s Bible
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American suffragist and feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was also and outspoken critic of the Bible because of the many injustices against women in the scriptures. The 1870 revision of the Authorized English Version of the Bible by an all-male committee of the Church of England prompted Stanton to compile the works of many prominent […]

The Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus

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The Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus
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Book Description From the Preface: Meanwhile we may reflect with comfort on the words of Dupuis: “There are large numbers of men so perversely minded that they will believe everything except what is recommended by sound intelligence and reason, and shrink from philosophy as the hydrophobic shrinks from water. These people will not read us, […]
 
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