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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 […]

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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

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Satirist, novelist, poet, dramatist, historian, moralist, critic, courtier, and correspondent, champion of reason and fanatical adversary of fanaticism, a darling of kings with the unfortunate habit of turning them into enemies, François Arouet de Voltaire is one of the few writers to have imposed his name on an entire epoch. It is entirely appropriate that […]

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Book Description From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages–with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Christopher Hitchens continues to make the case for a splendidly godless universe in this first-ever […]

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Subtitled: The Vatican’s Role in the Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism The Vatican’s 1998 report “We Remember: A Reflection on the Shoah” purportedly exonerated the Church of complicity in the Holocaust. In The Popes Against the Jews, David I. Kertzer argues that the report is “not the product of a Church that wants to confront its […]

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Released by Humanist Press in its degenerized eighth edition, this powerful book is the definitive study of the history and growth of the humanist movement in North America. Renowned philosopher and activist Corliss Lamont offers a vigorous argument for humanism and provides an affirmative, intelligent guidebook for shaping a better life in today’s complex world.

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Contains chapters on (among other things) the nature and objectivity of morality, morality without religion, and morality with religion. The book is written at an intermediate level, so that it is accessible to laymen but there is plenty of meat for the scholar as well. Anyone interested in the relationship between religion and morality will […]

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The Perfect Heresy chronicles the life and death of the Cathar movement, one of western civilization’s most mind-boggling tales. At the beginning of the thirteenth century, the Cathars, a group of heretical Christians, thrived across what is now southern France. Supported by the leading nobility of the region, the Cathars held revolutionary beliefs that threatened […]

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All the terms one would expect to find in a comprehensive dictionary of philosophy can be found in this expertly researched reference, plus many terms and concepts not ususally found in such reference works. Capsule biographies of nearly 500 individuals, from the pre-Socratics through such major figures as Aquinas, Lady Anne Finch, Nietzsche, and Einstein, […]

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The Gambler’s Fallacy, the Dirty Hands Argument, Wittgenstein’s Beetle in the Box–philosophical terms can be both intriguing and baffling. Now, eminent philosopher Simon Blackburn offers the most authoritative and up-to-date dictionary of philosophy available in a single volume. Nearly 3,000 entries cover everything from Aristotle to Zen. Line drawings.

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“This is a comprehensive enyclopedia of philosophy covering all the main issues and terminology used in historical and contemporary philosophy. It is a good starting point for getting a feel for what issues are involved in a topic such as epistemology or the philosophy of mind. It also includes charts illustrating how various branches of […]

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Description The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a rich and vibrant anthology that captures the poetry and excitement of scientific thought and discovery. Boasting almost one hundred articles and book excerpts, The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing is a breathtaking celebration of the finest writing by scientists—the best such collection in print—packed […]

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The victors not only write the history, they also reproduce the texts. In a study that explores the close relationship between the social history of early Christianity and the textual tradition of the emerging New Testament, Ehrman examines how early struggles between Christian “heresy” and “orthodoxy” affected the transmission of the documents over which, in […]

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For more than a century linguists and historians have been examining the ancient scriptures of the world’s major religions. Although a great deal is now known about the historical and cultural development of such well-known sacred texts as the Hebrew Torah, the Christian New Testament, the Hindu Bhagavad Gita, and the Chinese I Ching, relatively […]