The Most Dangerous Man in America

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The Most Dangerous Man in America
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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

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The Morman Hierarchy: Origins of Power
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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

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The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are
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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

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The Missionary Position: Mother Theresa in Theory and in Practice
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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

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The Miracle of Theism
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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 Militant Agnostic

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The Militant Agnostic
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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 Metaphysics of Death

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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

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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

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The Meme Machine
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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

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The Meaning of Life
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“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

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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 […]

The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment

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The Making of the Messiah: Christianity and Resentment
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“This book presents a picture of the origins of Christianity very different from anything that has been published before,” writes Robert Sheaffer in the Introduction to The Making of the Messiah. “Many Christians will find this book as offensive as Moslem fanatics did Salman Rushdie’s ‘blasphemous’ Satanic Verses.” Sheaffer has provided fascinating reading for all […]

The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True

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The Magic of Reality: How We Know What’s Really True
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Description Magic takes many forms. Supernatural magic is what our ancestors used in order to explain the world before they developed the scientific method. The ancient Egyptians explained the night by suggesting the goddess Nut swallowed the sun. The Vikings believed a rainbow was the gods’ bridge to earth. The Japanese used to explain earthquakes […]

The Lurker at the Threshold

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The Lurker at the Threshold
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Ambrose Dewart returns to his ancestral estate and sets about restoring the mansion to his own tastes. In the process he comes across a document signed by his great grandfather invoking a sinister injunction to future generations: “Do not invite he who lurks at the threshold!”

The Loved Dead : And Other Revisions

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The Loved Dead : And Other Revisions
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H.P. Lovecraft, aside from devising his own works in his Cthulhu Mythos cycle, also collaborated in his day with many younger writers of the uncanny and eerie. Available for the first time in paperback, this collection features stories to which the master of horror added his own ingenious touch.

The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
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Sequel to Holistic Detective Agency. After a Heathrow Airport ticket counter explodes, intergalactic sleuth Dirk Gently finds himself up against a heavenly host of foes–from the IRA to the Norse Gods. When a passenger check-in desk at London’s Heathrow Airport disappears in a ball of orange flame, the explosion is deemed an act of God. […]

The Light of Other Days (Unabridged Audio Cassette)

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The Light of Other Days (Unabridged Audio Cassette)
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The crowning achievement of any professional writer is to get paid twice for the same material: write a piece for one publisher and then tweak it just enough that you can turn around and sell it to someone else. While it’s specious to accuse Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke of this, fans of both […]

The Light of Other Days (Abridged Audio Cassette)

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The Light of Other Days (Abridged Audio Cassette)
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The crowning achievement of any professional writer is to get paid twice for the same material: write a piece for one publisher and then tweak it just enough that you can turn around and sell it to someone else. While it’s specious to accuse Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke of this, fans of both […]

The Light of Other Days

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The Light of Other Days
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The crowning achievement of any professional writer is to get paid twice for the same material: write a piece for one publisher and then tweak it just enough that you can turn around and sell it to someone else. While it’s specious to accuse Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke of this, fans of both […]

The Life of the Cosmos

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The Life of the Cosmos
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Lee Smolin is not afraid to think big–really, really big. His theory of cosmic evolution by the natural selection of black-hole universes makes what we can experience into an infinitesimal, yet crucial, part of an ever-larger whole. Smolin says, “the new view of the universe is light, in all its senses, because what Darwin has […]

The Life of David Hume

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The Life of David Hume
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Mossner’s Life of David Hume remains the standard biography of this great thinker and writer. First published in 1954, and updated in 1980, it is now reissued in paperback, in response to increased interest in Hume.

The Lessons of History

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The Lessons of History
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This historical essay updates, corrects and further explains the Durants’ previous Story of Civilization series, offering insights into some of its major themes, events and characters. Originally written in 1968, this book predicts that “a generation of peace” would lead to the collapse of the Soviet Union. In 1969, President Richard Nixon began a peace […]

The Legend of Saint Peter

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The Legend of Saint Peter
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THE LEGEND OF SAINT PETER contains a foreword by the translator, Frank R. Zindler; a foreword by the author, Arthur Drews; and 5 chapters: Peter in the New Testament, The mythical background of the Peter figure, Peter and Mithra, Peter in Rome, and Peter, Prince of Apostles. “The Peter of the Acts and of the […]

The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims

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The Legacy of Jihad: Islamic Holy War and the Fate of Non-Muslims
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Description This book reveals how, for well over a millennium, across three continents—Asia, Africa, and Europe—non-Muslims who were vanquished by jihad wars, became forced tributaries (called dhimmi in Arabic), in lieu of being slain. Under the dhimmi religious caste system, non-Muslims were subjected to legal and financial oppression, as well as social isolation. Extensive primary […]

The Last Word

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The Last Word
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If there is such a thing as reason, it has to be universal–it must work the same way for everyone. Reason must reflect objective principles whose validity is independent of our point of view. To reason is to think systematically in ways that anyone with enough intelligence ought to be able to recognize as correct. […]
 
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