The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings
This new edition of Bart Ehrman’s highly successful introduction approaches the New Testament from a comparative historical perspective, emphasizing the rich diversity of the earliest Christian literature. Ehrman shows why scholars continue to argue over such significant issues as how the books of the New Testament came into being, who produced them, what they mean, […]
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution contains essays by Rand on politics, focussing on the New Left. The “New Left” is a rather vague term created by the media in the 1960’s to refer to a new liberal movement characterized by concern with the environment, racism and state oppression. The members of this movement often […]
The New Jackals: Ramzi Yousef, Osama bin Laden and the Future of Terrorism
Writen long before “Day 9-11,” this book explores in depth the new terrorist movement that the United States has now declared war against. In the shock and horror of the recent attack, the prior (and less successful) 1993 attack goes largely unmentioned. However, as the evidence mounts that the recent attack was sponsored by the […]
The New Atheism: Taking a Stand for Science and Reason
Description In recent years a number of bestselling books have forcefully argued that belief in God can no longer be defended on rational or empirical grounds, and that the scientific worldview has rendered obsolete the traditional beliefs held by Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. The authors of these books—Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens, […]
The Necessity of Atheism
The great Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), best known for such masterpieces as “Ode to the West Wind” and “Prometheus Unbound,” also expressed his ideas on religious oppression in works of impassioned prose. The Necessity of Atheism and Other Essays features five anti-religious tracts by Shelley: “On Christianity,” “The Necessity of Atheism” (which resulted […]
The Nature of Space and Time
Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein’s general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united in a single quantum theory of gravity? Can quantum and cosmos […]
The Nature of All Being
Book Description In this comprehensive study of Wittgenstein’s modal theorizing, Bradley offers a radical reinterpretation of Wittgenstein’s early thought and presents both an interpretive and a philosophical thesis. A unique feature of Bradley’s analysis is his reliance on Wittgenstein’s Notebooks, which he believes offer indispensable guidance to the interpretation of difficult passages in the Tractatus. […]
The Mythmaker’s Magic: Behind the Illusion of ‘Creation Science’
Philosopher Delos McKown ridicules the claim that creationism is as plausible as the theory of evolution. He points out the inconsistencies and fallacies of creationism, and exposes the danger creationism poses to science education.
The Myth of the Resurrection
Did Jesus ever live? Was he the Messiah as Christianity has claimed? And what are the true foundations of the Christian religion? These are the fundamental questions posed by ex-priest Joseph McCabe (1867 – 1955), a prodigious scholar, translator, and lecturer, who tirelessly promoted scientific inquiry, skepticism, and anticlericalism in works that were exhaustively researched […]
The Myth of the Lord Jesus Christ and How It Grew
Dr. Forbes argues that “The Lord Jesus Christ is a totally imaginary figure that evolved from a real man named Jesus. The myth evolved by steps, each step a logical attempt to cope with circumstances in its time.” This book is a great introductory text for those who are unaware of how the Bible evolved […]
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Myth of Sisyphus is a philosophical essay that explores the themes first expressed in Camus’s novel The Stranger. Camus begins with an exposition of suicide to see if Tolstoy’s argument, “if God does not exist then we must kill ourselves” is sound advice. He finds that it is not and that we have a […]
The Myth of Repressed Memory
The nation’s leading expert on memory exposes the recent wave of sex abuse charges based on “repressed memories” as akin to a 20th-century version of the Salem witch trials. Drawing on many famous cases in which Loftus has been directly involved, the authors attack the ideological agenda of recovered memory proponents.
The Myth of Free Will
Book Description (Revised and Expanded Edition) Illuminating, uplifting and lighthearted, the second edition of The Myth of Free Will expands on the powerful ideas in the first edition by offering fifty additional pages of quotes and short essays on free will. The book strives to answer the question: “Who is saying we don’t have free […]
The Mystical Mind: Probing the Biology of Religious Experience
How does the mind experience the sacred? What biological mechanisms are involved in mystical states and trances? Is there a neurological basis for patterns in comparative religions? Does religion have an evolutionary function? This pathbreaking work by two leading medical researchers explores the neurophysiology of religious experience. Building on an explanation of the basic structure […]
The Most Dangerous Man in America
One of the most powerful and potentially dangerous religious/political movements in American history has been built by right-wing televangelist Pat Robertson. The Christian Coalition (broadcasting fundamentalism and extreme politics to an audience of millions via the “700 Club”) wields a mighty sword within the Republican party in at least 25 states. And GOP national leaders […]
The Morman Hierarchy: Origins of Power
A Mormon historian traces the evolution of the Latter-day Saints’ organizational structure from the original, egalitarian “priesthood of believers” to an elaborately hierarchical institution. Quinn also documents the alterations in the historical record which obscured these developments and analyzes the five presiding quorums of the LDS hierarchy.
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are
Subtitled: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology An accessible introduction to the science of evolutionary psychology and how it explains many aspects of human nature. Unlike many books on the topic,which focus on abstractions like kin selection, this book focuses on Darwinian explanations of why we are the way we are–emotionally and morally. Wright deals […]
The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and in Practice
What’s next–The Girl Scouts: The Untold Story? How could anybody write a debunking book about Mother Teresa and her Missionaries of Charity order? Well, in this little cruise missile of a book, Hitchens quickly establishes that the idea is not without point. After all, what is Mother Teresa doing hanging out with a dictator’s wife […]
The Miracle of Theism
This (posthumous) volume contains a comprehensive review of the principal arguments for and against the existence of God. It ranges from the classical philosophical positions of Descartes, Anselm, Berkeley, Hume et al., through the moral arguments of Newman, Kant and Sidgwick, to the recent restatements of the classical theses by Plantinga and Swinburne. It also […]
The Mind of the Bible-Believer
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The Mind Made Flesh – Essays from the Frontiers of Psychology and Evolution
This book, by the author of Leaps of Faith: Science, Miracles, and the Search for Supernatural Consolation, collects together a series of controversial essays that probe what we think we know on a variety of topics. Dealing with the complex issues of evolutionary psychology in terms that most well-educated lay people can comprehend is no […]
The Millennial Project : Colonizing the Galaxy in Eight Easy Steps
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The Militant Agnostic
With sword and buckler, E. Haldeman-Julius, publisher of the famed Blue Books, declared war on the enemies of freethought. This wide-ranging, candid, and humorous collection of articles and essays attacking organized religion in its various forms, covers such topics as biblical errancy, the miraculous, the number of churches in America, the skepticism of Mark Twain, […]
The Mighty and the Almighty : Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs
Does America, as George W. Bush has proclaimed, have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over U.S. foreign policy? And how should America deal with violent Islamist extremists? In The Mighty and the Almighty, Madeleine Albright, the former Secretary […]
The Metaphysics of Death
The Metaphysics of Death is a collection of essays by contemporary philosophers which assumes that death is the permanent end of an individual’s conscious existence. Given that death is the end, what is it that makes death bad for the person who has died (since the deceased cannot experience death)? When does the harm of […]
The Memory Wars: Freud’s Legacy in Dispute
In November of 1993, the New York Review published the first of two tenaciously argued essays by Frederick Crews, author of Out of My System: Psychoanalysis, Ideology, and Critical Method. This is Crews’ resounding critique of Freudian theory and the recovered memory movement, with the spirited exchange of letters it provoked and a new introduction […]
The Meme Machine
What is a meme? First coined by Richard Dawkins in his 1976 study The Selfish Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from one person to another by imitation: stories, fashions, inventions, recipes, songs, and ways of plowing a field, throwing a baseball, or making a sculpture. It is […]
The Meaning of Life
“The Meaning of Life is a compilation of twenty-five essays by different authors on the meaning of life divided into three sections: “The Theistic Answer”, “The Non-Theistic Alternative”, and “Questioning the Question”. Particularly interesting selections are provided by William Lane Craig, Walter T. Stace, Kurt Baier, Paul Edwards, Kai Nielsen, Richard Taylor, Thomas Nagel, R. […]
The Martian Way and Other Stories
Still thinking like an Earthling? Get out of your rut,open your mind – there’s a whole universe waiting. It’s waiting for peoplewho aren’t afraid of thinking in new ways, of doing new things. Can you imagine… …mining the skies for water?…building a new world beneath the surface of a strangeplanet?…making pets out of alien explorers?…putting […]
