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Description Opponents attack the president of the United States for not being a real Christian. Bitter arguments erupt over whether the United States is or should be a Christian nation. Sound familiar? These contentious issues are not just recent developments but were also the topics of fierce debate in the late eighteenth century. President Thomas […]

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Explores one of the most colorful but least understood phenomena in American religion: controversies over Bible translation. Modern Bible translation controversies arose during the late nineteenth century, when rapid advances in textual criticism and translation seemed to threaten the inherited historical picture of Jesus. Unable to separate the quest for accurate translation from the quest […]

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A spirited and closely reasoned defense of one of the most venerable ethical, scientific and philosophical traditions of Western civilization.

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Virtually unknown today, Alfred Russel Wallace was the codiscoverer of natural selection with Charles Darwin and an eminent scientist who stood out among his Victorian peers as a man of formidable mind and equally outsized personality. Now Michael Shermer rescues Wallace from the shadow of Darwin in this landmark biography. Here we see Wallace as […]

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Book Description Is there life after death or do we simply cease to exist? Few questions wreak havoc with our deepest held beliefs and strongest emotions more than this one. The answers given over the centuries reach to the very core of who we are and what it means to be human. Cutting through the […]

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Presents a number of thought-provoking scenarios involving ethical dilemmas and asks the reader to decide what to do. The scenarios are fun to read and are followed by questions to facilitate discussion. Helps you talk to your child about social and moral issues in a natural and nonthreatening way.

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“To you, a robot is a robot. Gears and Metal; Electricity and positrons. – Mind and iron! Human-made! If necessary, human-destroyed. But you haven’t worked with them, so you don’t know them. They’re a cleaner, better breed than we are.” — Dr. Susan Calvin, 2057 A.D. In a brilliant, chilling series of nine related short […]

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Here is bestselling scientist Stephen Jay Gould’s tenth and final collection based on his remarkable series for Natural History magazine—exactly 300 consecutive essays, with never a month missed, published from 1974 to 2001. Both an intellectually thrilling journey into the nature of scientific discovery and the most personal book he has ever published, I Have […]

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Arguably the greatest science fiction writer who ever lived, Isaac Asimov also possessed one of the most brilliant and original minds of our time. His accessible style and far-reaching interests in subjects ranging from science to humor to history earned him the nickname “the Great Explainer.” I.Asimov is his personal story–vivid, open, and honest–as only […]

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Description “I’m a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say ‘yes’ to everything. Today I have decided to say ‘no.'”   Forced by her father to marry a man three times her age, young Nujood Ali was sent away from her […]

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Cites humanist recommendations for the future of humankind. Signed by Andrei Sakharov, B. F. Skinner, Betty Friedan, and many others.

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This remarkable anthology brings together a wide range of humanist thought from classical China, Greece, and Rome; the Renaissance and Enlightenment; and the nineteenth- and twentieth-century rationalist tradition. This book provides ample ammunition for those engaged in arguments with religionists as well as a sustenance for those wishing to reconsider their own attitudes toward life.

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Book Description Mrs. Green is teaching her daily science class one day when suddenly she receives terrible news: A popular student named Amanda has been struck by a car on her way to class and is now hospitalized with serious injuries. “Let’s all pray for Amanda,” says one earnest classmate. “Surely God will make her […]

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It’s common to blame “human nature” for some of the unpleasant facts of life–road rage, say, or murder, or war. The problem with this convenient out, argues the distinguished scientist Paul Ehrlich, is that there really is no single human nature. Humans, it’s true, share a common genetic code with remarkably few large-scale differences (if […]

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The first new translation of this work to appear since the beginning of the 20th century. Subtitled “A Book for Free Spirits”, it marked a new positivism and skepticism for Nietzsche with which he challenged his previous metaphysical and psychological assumptions.

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Although the objective evidence of evolution has received considerable attention in many books over the years, very little has been written about the subjective experienced (mental) side of the lives of the creatures involved. This book is about how we evolved from four-legged mammals with simple minds, through semi-upright apes who are occasionally thoughtful, to […]

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One hundred years ago social scientists predicted that belief in God would decrease by the year 2000. “In fact … the opposite is has occurred,” Shermer writes in his introduction. “Never in history have so many, and such a high percentage of the population, believed in God. Not only is God not dead as Nietzche […]

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Practical reasoning and clear thinking are essential for everyone if we are to make sense of the information we receive each day. Being able to quickly know the difference between valid and invalid arguments, the contradictory versus the contrary, vagueness and ambiguity, contradiction and self-contradiction, the truthful and fallacious separates clear thinkers from the crowd. […]

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How to Think Straight About Psychology is a concise and easy-to-read “handbook” that evaluates the most important concepts and issues in psychology. Written in an engaging and nontechnical style, this acclaimed book, now in its fifth edition, highlights the essential concepts of falsifiability, operationism, experimental control, converging evidence, and correlational versus experimental studies, as well […]

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Can critical thinking be taught? Certainly, and this is the book that does so. The authors have done an excellent job of compiling many techniques for critical thinking and put them into a form that is both understandable and fun to read.

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Comforting and optimistic, this important self-help book is filled with step-by-step techniques for developing and strengthening feelings of self-worth. Shows readers how they can raise self-confidence, self-esteem, and commit themselves to happier, healthier lives.

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Superstition still requires that many buildings have no floor numbered thirteen. More than 25% of Americans say they believe in astrology. Knocking on wood is an almost universal habit. Are these harmless notions – or dangerous delusions? Unfortunately, “fairy-tale thinking” is still the greatest enemy of progress, and education often bypasses the teaching of cognitive […]

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“Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem,” says pioneering psychologist Nathaniel Branden, “and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence–and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself–your self-esteem–is the […]

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On September 11, 2001, the world in which we live was changed forever. The twin towers of the World Trade Center came crashing down, one side of the Pentagon burst into flames, and more than six thousand men, women, and children lost their lives in the most deadly attack on American soil. As shocking as […]

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This devastating account of the ecclesiastical career of Eugenio Pacelli (1876-1958), who became Pope Pius XII in 1939, is all the more powerful because British historian John Cornwell maintains throughout a measured though strongly critical tone. After World War II, murmurs of Pacelli’s callous indifference to the plight of Europe’s Jews began to be heard. […]