The Triumph of Evolution: And the Failure of Creationism
Niles Eldredge, a leading expert on evolution and the diversity of life, has studied creationism and debated creationists for over two decades. In The Triumph of Evolution, he presents the most up-to-date examination of the creation-evolution confrontation available. In this incisive narrative, he reveals the creationists’ basic argument and their strategies for advancing it — […]
The Trigger
From Arthur C. Clarke, bestselling author of 2001: A Space Odyssey and Creator Of The Rama Series, and Michael Kube-Mcdowell comes a breathtaking new novel of bold scientific speculation and edge-of-your-seat suspense: a riveting thriller in which the fate of humanity depends on whose finger is on…The Trigger. It is the ultimate antiweapon. A device […]
The Trial of God : A Play
Set in a medieval European village where three itinerant Jewish actors put God on trial to answer for His silence during a pogrom, a powerful drama considers historical and especially post-Holocaust issues surrounding faith. While interred in Auschwitz, Elie Wiesel witnessed a trial. While such things are not unusual, this trial was. It was unusual […]
The Top 10 Myths about Evolution
Book Description Though the United States is the world leader in science and technology, many of its citizens display a shocking ignorance regarding basic scientific facts. Recent surveys have revealed that only about half of Americans realize that humans have never lived side by side with dinosaurs, and about the same number reject the idea […]
The Symbolic Species (1998 Paperback)
Subtitled “The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain,” Deacon’s book traces the origin of language back to the developmentof the human pair bond and shows how langugage propelled human brain evolution. Highly recommended!
The Symbolic Species (1997 Hardcover)
Subtitled “The Co-Evolution of Language and the Brain,” Deacon’s book traces the origin of language back to the developmentof the human pair bond and shows how langugage propelled human brain evolution. Highly recommended!
The Supreme Court on Church and State
This collection of major Supreme Court decisions offers a non-partisan guide to the Court’s opinions on the meanings and implications of the First Amendment.
The Structure of Evolutionary Theory
The world’s most revered and eloquent interpreter of evolutionary ideas offers here a work of explanatory force unprecedented in our time–a landmark publication, both for its historical sweep and for its scientific vision. With characteristic attention to detail, Stephen Jay Gould first describes the content and discusses the history and origins of the three core […]
The Stranger
The Stranger was Camus’ first novel and thrust him onto the scene as one of France’s leading men of letters. Camus was influenced by Hemingway’s abrupt literary style to present a protagonist who acts purely in the present tense without concern for societal pressures of what one ought to do. In The Stranger, Camus explores […]
The Stork and the Plow : The Equity Answer to the Human Dilemma
In this provocative book, the authors look at the interaction between population and food supply and offer a powerful and radical strategy for balancing human numbers with nutritional needs. Their proposals include improving the status of women, reducing racism and religious prejudice, reforming the agricultural system, and shrinking the growing gap between rich and poor.
The Square
Duras’ The Square is a short novella (published with three other stories in this edition) that explores the existentialist theme of what project one should choose for one’s life; ultimately, what do we do with ourselves?
The Spark of Life: Darwin and the Primeval Soup
Can you create life with just a taser and a bowl of soup? Most likely not, unless you give yourself a few hundred million years to experiment. Biologist Christopher Wills and marine chemist Jeffrey Bada show off the fruits of research looking for signs of life elsewhere and clues to the origin of terrestrial organisms […]
The Snark Puzzle Book
While walking on a hillside, an unusual line occurred to Lewis Carroll: “For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.” Carroll later incorporated the phrase into a complete work that became the best-known nonsense poem of all time: “The Hunting of the Snark.” What could be more of a delight to young readers? Here in […]
The Small Book
When the author and his wife started Rational Recovery in 1986, their program met the huge demand for an alternative to 12-step recovery programs. The Small Book — as opposed to AA’s The Big Book — is the secular guide for people who want to recover through self-reliance, not through dependence on religion, sponsors, or […]
The Skeptic: A Life of H. L. Mencken
When H. L. Mencken talked, everyone listened — like it or not. In the Roaring Twenties, he was the one critic who mattered, the champion of a generation of plain-speaking writers who redefined the American novel, and the ax-swinging scourge of the know-nothing, go-getting middle-class philistines whom he dubbed the “booboisie.” Some loved him, others […]
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 Science of Morality: The Individual, Community, and Future Generations
This is an excellent example of proving with facts and argument that ethics can be a branch of science, and that the nature of man and the universe does entail certain universal moral truths without any reference to God or the supernatural. Some really excellent work in this arena has been done the past few […]
The Science of Good and Evil : Why People Cheat, Share, Gossip, and Follow the Golden Rule
In his third and final investigation into the science of belief, bestselling author Michael Shermer tackles the evolution of morality and ethics. A century and a half after Darwin first proposed an ‘evolutionary ethics,’ science has begun to tackle the roots of morality. Just as evolutionary biologists study why we are hungry (to motivate us […]
The Satanic Verses
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 Salem Witch Trials: A Day-By-Day Chronicle of a Community Under Siege
Based on over twenty years of original archival research, this history unfolds a nearly day-by-day narrative of the Salem Witch Trials as the citizens of Salem experienced the outbreak of hysteria.
The Robots of Dawn
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
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 Jesus: History, Experience, Theology
How was Jesus seen? Was the tomb really empty and if so, what happened to the body? Gerd L’demann demonstrates that tradition as well as the evangelists themselves contributed substantially to the enlargement of the Easter story.
