The Vanquished Gods: Science, Religion, and the Nature of Belief
The twentieth century brought about a dramatic change in our conception of reality. Advances in the natural sciences radically altered our understanding of human existence and the universe; biblical scholarship demystified the Bible; and scientific inquiry has superseded biblical and church authority. Despite these dramatic developments, the public seems largely unaware of the radical conceptual […]
The Universe, the Eleventh Dimension, and Everything
Some books have a hard time living up to their titles, but The Universe, the Eleventh Dimension, and Everything does just fine. Physicist and writer Richard Morris seeks to explain the current state of knowledge in cosmology and subatomic physics; as if that weren’t enough, he goes on to give us his take on how […]
The Universe in a Nutshell
Lavishly illustrated and easy-to-understand sequel to A Brief History of Time.
The Unconscious Quantum : Metaphysics in Modern Physics and Cosmology
The term “quantum” taken out of its original scientific context has become the mantra of a new metaphysics which purports to find a convergence between the picture of reality presented by physics and the world view of traditional Eastern mysticism. The Unconscious Quantum: Metaphysics In Modern Physics And Cosmology is a fascinating and accessible book […]
The Ultimate Hitchhiker’s Guide
It’s safe to say that The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is one of the funniest science fiction novels ever written. Adams spoofs many core science fiction tropes: space travel, aliens, interstellar war–stripping away all sense of wonder and repainting them as commonplace, even silly. This omnibus edition begins with The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the […]
The Truth About Everything: An Irreverent History of Philosophy
While attempting to bring order and structure to the history of philosophy, professionals in modern universities have apparently lost sight of what philosophy really is. So says Matthew Stewart, who has discovered that in the professors’ well-intended pursuit of the truth and knowledge, this area of thought has been dissected, organized into a series of […]
The Trouble with Islam: A Muslim’s Call for Reform in Her Faith
“I have to be honest with you. Islam is on very thin ice with me….Through our screaming self-pity and our conspicuous silences, we Muslims are conspiring against ourselves. We’re in crisis and we’re dragging the rest of the world with us. If ever there was a moment for an Islamic reformation, it’s now. For the […]
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 […]
