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Do moral questions have objective answers? This book explains and argues for relativism, emotivism and moral skepticism. In its view, moral disagreements are like disagreements about what to pay for a house: there are no correct answers ahead of time, except in relation to one or another moral framework.

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Brink defends a distinctive brand of moral realism that embraces objectivism, naturalism, externalism, and consequentialism. According to Michael Martin, this book is the best defense of moral realism available.

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The second edition of the 1990 book features 26 contributions discussing such issues as relativistic theories of the universe, the Big Bang, the problems of God and creation, cosmology and verifiability, coincidences, the origin and evolution of the universe, multiple universe theories, infinity, chaos, life forms, the end of time, and the limits of our […]

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When world-class biblical scholar Bart Ehrman first began to study the texts of the Bible in their original languages he was startled to discover the multitude of mistakes and intentional alterations that had been made by earlier translators. In Misquoting Jesus, Ehrman tells the story behind the mistakes and changes that ancient scribes made to […]

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A collection of fantastic short fiction by an award-winning author is complemented by richly detailed, surrealistic images from a renowned Polish painter. This unique volume is rich with the vivid imagery of one of our most inventive fantasy artists, published here for the first time, together with 30 original short stories from one of the […]

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Meyebela, or “girlhood,” is a term coined by Nasrin (“Shame”) because no term for a girl’s childhood exists in Bengali. Nasrin, a Bangladeshi doctor-turned-writer, has been living in exile since 1994–ever since Muslim clerics issued a fatwa against her for her criticism of Islam’s repression of women. In this powerful memoir of her Muslim childhood, […]

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When John Cave, a mortician by trade, appears on television to declare that death is infinitely preferable to life, he sparks a religious movement that quickly leaves Christianity and most of Islam in the dust. Aided by a relentless public-relations campaign and supported by a “theology” whipped into existence by a historian besotted with love […]

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“Whether we are to live in a future state . . . is the most important question which can possibly be asked. . . . Yet strange perplexities have been raised about the meaning of that identity or sameness of person, which is implied in the notion of our being now and hereafter. . . […]

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Magnanimity is in short supply, writes A. C. Grayling is this wonderfully incisive book, “but it is the main ingredient in everything that makes the world a better place” And indeed Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age is itself a generous, insightful, wide-ranging, magnanimous inquiry into the philosophical and ethical questions that […]

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As the religious right has increased in both power and visibility, there has been a commensurate growth in the prominence of Christian media. In this important and timely collection, the best minds in media studies, sociology, political science, religious studies, and gay and lesbian studies come together to paint a revealing portrait of conservative Christian […]

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In today’s media-flooded world, there is no way to control all of the information, claims, and enticements that reach young people. The best thing to do is arm them with the sword of critical thinking. Maybe Yes, Maybe No is a charming introduction to self-confidence and self-reliance. The book’s ten-year-old heroine, Andrea, is always asking […]

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A marvelous children’s book that discusses learning right from wrong, stressing such aspects as the difference between rules and principles and the importance of an individual’s rights.

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The history of Western philosophy has generated powerful and influential theories about the nature of the world and humankind’s place in it. Since the ancient Greeks, the compelling search for the fundamentals of all existence has led some to espouse philosophical idealism (a belief in unchanging conceptual universals), while others have held to an equally […]

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For nearly three centuries Malleus Maleficarum (The Witches’ Hammer) was the professional manual for witch hunters. This work by two of the most famous Inquisitors of the age is still a document of the force of that era’s beliefs. Under a Bull of Pope Innocent VIII, Kramer and Sprenger exposed the heresy of those who […]

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Levy’s book is filled with explorations of neat themes in Lovecraft such as attics (vs. cellars), dreamworlds, stairways dug from underground up… The book’s charm as well as weakness is that it points out Lovecraft’s relation to other thinkers (Poe, Hawthorne, Freud, Einstein, Le Fanu) but doesn’t get bogged down working those relations out.

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In this moving depiction of a pilgrimage to Lourdes, France, the master French realist Émile Zola (1840-1902) has created a novel of vivid characters and subtle commentary on suffering and the belief in miracles as the last desperate refuge from pain. Zola’s brilliant powers of observation are at their best as he moves from character […]

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Description William Lobdell’s journey of faith—and doubt—may be the most compelling spiritual memoir of our time. Lobdell became a born-again Christian in his late 20s when personal problems–including a failed marriage–drove him to his knees in prayer. As a newly minted evangelical, Lobdell–a veteran journalist–noticed that religion wasn’t covered well in the mainstream media, and […]

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Looking for a good introduction to atheism without all the technical philosophical jargon? Barker’s book is for you! As a former minister turned atheist, Dan Barker documents the arguments that “deconverted” him from Christian fundamentalist to atheist. Losing Faith in Faith is an arsenal for skeptics and a challenge to believers.

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Anything that teaches a valuable lesson about fallacious reasoning and at the same time pokes fun at a ridiculous man has to be great!

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Description Ronald Aronson has a mission: to demonstrate that a life without religion can be coherent, moral, and committed. In the last few years, the “New Atheists”—Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, Richard Dawkins, and Christopher Hitchens—have created a stir by criticizing religion and belief in God. Optimistic and stirring, Living Without God is less interested in […]

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This jarring first-person account of intimidation, terrorism, and murder–all in the name of God–exposes an underside to the Religious Right that is not part of the face these groups typically show to the public. What Reiter reveals about the antiabortion underground–where the willingness to take up arms is viewed as a sacred virtue and the […]

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The unhappy inhabitants of planet Krikkit are sick of looking at the night sky above their heads–so they plan to destroy it. The universe, that is. Now only five individuals stand between the white killer robots of Krikkit and their goal of total annihilation. They are Arthur Dent, a mild-mannered space and time traveler, who […]

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A distinctive voice somewhere between Mark Twain and Michel Montaigne is how Psychology Today described A.C. Grayling. In Life, Sex, and Ideas: The Good Life Without God, readers have the pleasure of hearing this distinctive voice address some of the most serious topics in philosophy–and in our daily lives–including reflections on guns, anger, conflict, war; […]

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A magisterial work of social history, Life After Death illuminates the many different ways ancient civilizations grappled with the question of what exactly happens to us after we die. In a masterful exploration of how Western civilizations have defined the afterlife, Alan F. Segal weaves together biblical and literary scholarship, sociology, history, and philosophy. A […]

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Ayn Rand’s letters were written to be read. This witty and penetrating collection of her correspondence with Hollywood luminaries, political writers, philosophers, family members, artists, businessmen, and fans offers an unparalleled look at the past 50 years of her life and career.

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Book Description In response to The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriating him for not believing in God. Letter to A Christian Nation is his reply. Using rational argument, Harris offers a measured refutation of the beliefs that form the core of fundamentalist Christianity. In the course of his […]

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Between an introduction and an appendix provided by Babinski, a former Christian fundamentalist turned agnostic, more than thirty others, including well-known cotemporary religious writers such as Harvey Cox and Sam Keen, explain how and why they first embraced, and later abandoned, their Christian fundamentalist belief. Beginning with an essay entitled “Fundamentalism’s Grotesque Past,” this fascinating […]