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The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
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Nearly twenty-five years ago Nathaniel Branden’s book: The Psychology of Self-Esteem introduced a new and revolutionary concept of self-esteem. Since then he has done more than any other theorist to demonstrate the supreme importance of self-esteem to human well-being. Now he presents the culminating achievement of a lifetime of clinical practice and study. Immense in […]

The Seven Mighty Blows to Traditional Beliefs


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A.J. Mattill, Jr. (B.A., B.D. and Ph.D. in Bible and theology) has revised and greatly enlarged The Seven Mighty Blows to Traditional Beliefs in order to produce this second edition. The seven blows are: 1. The Astronomical Blow: Do “the heavans declare the glory of God?”2. The Biological Blow: “Is evolution atheism?”3. The Archeological Blow: […]

The Selfish Gene

The Selfish Gene
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Inheriting the mantle of revolutionary biologist from Darwin, Watson, and Crick, Richard Dawkins forced an enormous change in the way we see ourselves and the world with the publication of The Selfish Gene. Suppose, instead of thinking about organisms using genes to reproduce themselves, as we had since Mendel’s work was rediscovered, we turn it […]

The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life

The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life
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Book Description The open, secular society is in retreat. From Washington to Rome to Tehran, religion is a public matter as never before, and secular values–personal autonomy, toleration, separation of religion and state, and freedom of conscience–are attacked on all sides and defended by few. The godly claim a monopoly on the language of morality […]

The Secular Bible : Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously

The Secular Bible : Why Nonbelievers Must Take Religion Seriously
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Written by a professional biblical scholar, this is the first book that explores the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament through a specifically secular optic. Berlinerblau argues that secular intellectual culture is on the decline and that familiarity with religion is the only viable option for its survival. Today’s secularists too often have very little accurate knowledge about […]

The Second Sex


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In The Second Sex, Simone de Beauvoir posed questions many men, and women, had yet to ponder when the book was released in 1953. “One wonders if women still exist, if they will always exist, whether or not it is desirable that they should …,” she says in this comprehensive treatise on women. She weaves […]

The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology

The Science Wars: Debating Scientific Knowledge and Technology
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Does science provide objective, impartial knowledge about nature and reality, or do social and cultural influences determine its course? Are scientific claims, practices, and theories contrary to religion? From creationists on the right to postmodernists on the left, intellectuals are waging war over the role and future of science in our society. In SCIENCE WARS […]

The Satanic Verses

The Satanic Verses
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Just before dawn one winter morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through the falling debris, two men — Gibreel Farishta, the biggest movie star in India, and Saladin Chamcha, an expatriate returning from his first visit to Bombay in fifteen years — plummet from the sky. Washing up on the snow-covered sands […]

The Robots of Dawn

The Robots of Dawn
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A puzzling case of “roboticide” takes interplanetary detective Elijah Baley from Earth to the planet Aurora – the self-styled World of the Dawn, where humans and robots coexist in seemingly perfect harmony. There, the most advanced robot in the Universe – an awesomely human machine – has been murdered. Only one man on Aurora had […]

The Rise of Christianity

The Rise of Christianity
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If Christianity was not divinely founded by God, then how did it begin? Sociologist Rodney Stark digs deep into the historical evidence on many issues — such as the social background of converts, the mission to the Jews, the status of women in the church, the role of martyrdom — to provide a vivid and […]

The Resurrection of Christ: A Historical Inquiry

The Resurrection of Christ: A Historical Inquiry
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Although Christianity is anchored to the doctrine of the resurrection, historical research shows that from a historical standpoint Jesus was not raised from the dead. In the thorough explanation and discussion of the primary texts dealing with the claimed resurrection of Christ, New Testament expert Gerd Ludemann presents compelling evidence to show that the resurrection […]

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
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This sequel to The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy finds Arthur Dent, reluctant space adventurer, joining Zaphod Beeblebrox –two-headed former president of the galaxy –Zaphod’s dead great-grandfather, sexy cadet Trillian, and paranoid Marvin in the search for the ruler of the Universe

The Rebel


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This is the third in Camus’s “trilogy” dealing with the theme of absurdity in the face of human existence. Following on the themes outlined in The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, Camus now proceeds to engage in a literary exposition of metaphysical rebellion throughout history.

The Reason Driven Life: What Am I Here on Earth For?

The Reason Driven Life: What Am I Here on Earth For?
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Book Description With more than 25,000,000 copies sold, Pastor Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life has been both a commercially successful best-seller and a widely influential book in the Christian community. In The Reason Driven Life Price offers the first parody and critique of Warren’s bestseller. Warren’s God, Price says, is a “Frankenstein Monster, a divine […]

The Question of Humanism

The Question of Humanism
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For centuries, humanists have celebrated and cherished the limitless potential of humankind and its irrepressible spirit. For its efforts to develop rational solutions to human problems rather than invoking supernatural intervention, humanism has been rewarded with a rich and distinguished heritage whose contributors include many of the brightest minds of intellectual history. Advocating reason, critical […]

The Quest for the Historical Muhammad

The Quest for the Historical Muhammad
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More than one hundred years ago Western scholars began to investigate the origins of Islam, using the highest standards of objective historical scholarship of the time. Their aim was to determine what could be known about Muhammad and the rise of early Islam quite apart from the pious and totally unobjective traditions preserved by the […]

The Quest For The Gold Plates

The Quest For The Gold Plates
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Anyone interested in Book of Mormon archaeology will be fascinated by the amazing story of Thomas Stuart Ferguson. The reader accompanies Ferguson on his exploratory journeys to Mexico and Guatemala in search of the remains of Book of Mormon peoples, assisted through generous funding by the LDS church. He became a closet doubter but made […]

The Psychology of Religion: Theoretical Approaches


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Theory in the psychology of religion is in a state of rapid development, and the present volume demonstrates how various positions in this field may be translated into original foundational work that will in turn encourage exploration in many directions. A number of new contributions are collected with previously published pieces to illustrate the diversity […]

The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach

The Psychology of Religion: An Empirical Approach
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Every academic, community, and freethought library needs one good text on the psychology of religion. The collaborative efforst of Hood, Spilka, Hunsberger, and Gorsuch have resulted in just such a comprehensive volume. The Psychology Of Religion covers the psychological nature and funcitions of religion, religion in childhood, religious socialization and thought in adolescence and young […]

The Psychological Roots of Religious Belief: Searching for Angels and the Parent-God

The Psychological Roots of Religious Belief: Searching for Angels and the Parent-God
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Book Description “Angels are indeed messengers, with extraordinary things to tell us, but they do not come from the supernatural realm, from God, from …” In this insightful new study, M.D. Faber, whose previous work on the psychology of religion has won widespread critical acclaim, offers a comprehensive, naturalistic explanation of religious experience from the […]

The Psychic Mafia

The Psychic Mafia
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The Psychic Mafia details the techniques used by mediums to convince their clients that they are in touch with the dead. This is a classic expose by a former medium who stopped performing seances when his conscience overcame him.

The Problem of God

The Problem of God
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The Problem of God explores God as Completely Perfect, the Unmoved Mover, the Uncaused Cause, the Creator Ex Nihilo, the Necessary Being, the Cosmic Mind, and as All-Good and Omnipotent.

The Power of Self-Esteem

The Power of Self-Esteem
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Emphasizing the importance of self-esteem, the author defines this vital aspect of our personality and traces its influence in our personal and professional lives.

The Power of Logical Thinking

The Power of Logical Thinking
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America has become a society devoid of any clear understanding of the power and logic of numbers. In this book, one of America’s most popular columnists offers a classic and enduring work intended to help readers restore the ability to reason, to use logic in everyday life, and to interpret what the numbers really mean.