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His Dark Materials (Boxed Set)

His Dark Materials (Boxed Set)
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Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy has been called the atheistic counterpart to The Chronicles of Narnia, and the successor to The Lord of the Rings. Pullman takes us to a world in which people’s souls walk along side them as shape-shifting animals, where witches and armored bears roam distant lands, and where the Church rules […]

Hereafter: Searching for Immortality

Hereafter: Searching for Immortality
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Book Description As long as people have been on earth, they have constructed various explanations of what happens after death. Hereafter combines an overview of the history of these theories and a survey of the current attitudes toward immortality. Other than physical form and genetic structure, we hold little in common with our earliest ancestors […]

Have Space Suit, Will Travel

Have Space Suit, Will Travel
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One minute Kip Russell was walking about in his backyard, testing out an old space suit and dreaming about going to the Moon — and the next he was out cold, the captive of an insidious space pirate. The whole thing seemed like a bad dream until Kip discovered there were other prisoners on board, […]

Harlan Ellison’s the City on the Edge of Forever

Harlan Ellison’s the City on the Edge of Forever
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The controversy has raged for almost 30 years–now readers can judge for themselves. Harlan Ellison wrote the original award-winning teleplay for “The City on the Edge of Forever,” which was rewritten and became the most-loved Star Trek episode of all time. Ellison sued Paramount in protest and won. This book contains the teleplay and afterwords […]

Harlan Ellison’s Dream Corridor

Harlan Ellison’s Dream Corridor
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The vicious dictator of a future world seeks refuge in the prehistoric past; a fast-gun sheriff refuses to lay up his weapon when his days of power are ended; sharp, small teeth horribly show what can happen to a stoolie; and in the year 2074, a consumer upgrades his mutant housebeast for this year’s model. […]

Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions

Handbook of Christian Apologetics: Hundreds of Answers to Crucial Questions
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This was the standard reference for Christian apologists and debaters before Geisler produced the Baker Encyclopedia. However, these authors approach their material from a more ecumenical attitude, and their treatment of several issues is notably different. Since many Christians still use this reference instead of Geisler’s, and its content is slightly different, it is still […]

Hal’s Legacy : 2001’s Computer As Dream and Reality

Hal’s Legacy : 2001’s Computer As Dream and Reality
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If you loved “2001: A Space Odyssey,” you’ll be delighted by this book that asks “How realistic was HAL?” Contributions by various scientists include essays on supercomputer design with regard to speech synthesis, common sense reasoning, emotions, lip reading and even playing chess. As the authors explore what is science fantasy and what is technological […]

H. L. Mencken on Religion

H. L. Mencken on Religion
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No one ever argued more forcefully or with such acerbic wit against the foolish aspects of religion as H. L. Mencken (1880-1956). As a journalist, he gained national prominence through his newspaper columns describing the now-famous 1925 Scopes trial, which pitted Fundamentalists against a public school teacher who dared to teach evolution. But both before […]

Gullible’s Travels

Gullible’s Travels
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Audio Cassette Betty Bias, Peter Prejudice, “Ad” Hominem and Teddy Tangletongue illustrate what happens when reasoning goes bad.

Gospel Time Bomb

Gospel Time Bomb
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Despite the fact that this book was written back in 1984, The Gospel Time Bomb retains its relevance to American Christianity today. Researcher and anti-cult activist Lowell Streiker examines manipulative sect leaders, faith healers, exorcists, deliverance ministers, doomsday prophets, and their potential threats to Christianity and to America as a whole. Christian-friendly, thoughtful, and politically […]

Gospel Fictions

Gospel Fictions
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In this slim and readable book, Helms analyzes the most familiar and powerful stories about Jesus, and suggests that the Gospels are works of narrative art, contrived and creative interpretations, the supreme fictions of our culture.

Gold : The Final Science Fiction Collection

Gold : The Final Science Fiction Collection
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Gold is Asimov’s first original collection of SF since 1982, and contains all of his uncollected stories that have never before appeared in book form. It is also his final collection, following his death in 1992, after a 50 year career as a world famous writer who transcended any and every genre. Gold is the […]

God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer

God’s Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question–Why We Suffer
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Book Description In times of questioning and despair, people often quote the Bible to provide answers. Surprisingly, though, the Bible does not have one answer but many “answers,” “answers” that often contradict each other. Consider these competing explanations for suffering put forth by various biblical writers: The prophets: suffering is a punishment for sin The […]

God’s Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong

God’s Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong
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“We non-believers have been taking it lying down, and what this country needs is a good hot religious war, with the pen, not the sword.” – Letter from George Sterling to H. L. Mencken (1926) Committed atheist S. T. Joshi takes up this long-dormant call to arms in this highly acerbic critique of the religious […]

Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists

Godless: How an Evangelical Preacher Became One of America’s Leading Atheists
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Book Description After 19 years as an evangelical preacher, missionary, and Christian songwriter, Dan Barker “threw out the bathwater and discovered there is no baby there.” Barker, who is now co-president of the Freedom From Religion Foundation (America’s largest organization of atheists and agnostics), describes the intellectual and psychological path he followed in moving from […]

God: The Failed Hypothesis–How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist

God: The Failed Hypothesis–How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
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Book Description Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology. In the meantime, science has sat on the sidelines and quietly watched this game of words march up and down the field. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect of human life and […]

God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory

God, the Devil, and Darwin: A Critique of Intelligent Design Theory
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In the last fifteen years a controversial new theory of the origins of biological complexity and the nature of the universe has been fomenting bitter debates in education and science policy across North America, Europe, and Australia. Backed by intellectuals at respectable universities, Intelligent Design theory (ID) proposes an alternative to accepted accounts of evolutionary […]

God Matters: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion

God Matters: Readings in the Philosophy of Religion
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God Matters is a state-of-the-art, accessible anthology of the major issues in philosophy of religion. Its accessibility is due to its mix of classic readings and brand new readings about contemporary issues, commissioned specifically with an undergraduate student in mind. These commissioned readings make the difficult concepts of contemporary philosophy of religion easy to understand, […]

God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World–and Why Their Differences Matter

God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World–and Why Their Differences Matter
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Description At the dawn of the twenty-first century, dizzying scientific and technological advancements, interconnected globalized economies, and even the so-called New Atheists have done nothing to change one thing: our world remains furiously religious. For good and for evil, religion is the single greatest influence in the world. We accept as self-evident that competing economic […]

god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything

god Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
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Book Description Christopher Hitchens, described in the London Observer as “one of the most prolific, as well as brilliant, journalists of our time” takes on his biggest subject yet–the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. In the tradition of Bertrand Russell’s Why I Am Not a Christian and Sam Harris’s recent bestseller, The […]

God is Dead: Secularization in the West


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Christianity in the democracies of the “first” world has been declining in power, popularity and prestige since 1900. However, many commentators, social scientists as well as church leaders, try and minimize the extent of this change. They maintain that religious sentiment remains strong despite declining levels of church involvement, and insist that secularization is an […]

God, Freedom, and Immortality

God, Freedom, and Immortality
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A collection of independent essays by the reknowned and well-respected philosopher Antony Flew on God, freedom, and immortality. The essays on “The Presumption of Atheism” and “The Principle of Agnosticism” are especially good.

God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion

God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
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Description It has become the prevalent view among sociologists, historians, and some theistic scientists that religion and science have never been in serious conflict. Some even claim that Christianity was responsible for the development of science. In God and the Folly of Faith, physicist Victor J. Stenger shows that this conclusion flies in the face […]

God and the Burden of Proof

God and the Burden of Proof
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In debating the existence of God, a fundamental question is who — if anyone — should bear the burden of proof. In God and the Burden of Proof, Keith Parsons explains why theists (but not nontheists) bear the burden of proof. Along the way, he manages to provide a nontechnical response to two of the […]

God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science

God and Design: The Teleological Argument and Modern Science
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This book is a collection of essays by nearly two-dozen different contributors on all sides of the debate about whether the designs of a theistic God are the best explanations for the observations of scientists. The contributors are of the highest quality, including: Michael Behe, William Lane Craig (Does God Exist: The Craig-Flew Debate, and […]

Glory Road

Glory Road
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Until he came to the part about “handsome of face and figure,” Scar Gordon thought the ad was aimed straight at him by someone who knew his habit of reading the personals. When on a whim he answered it, the gorgeous Amazon who examined him seemed to think his looks were fine. Now Scar Gordon, […]

Giovanni’s Room


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This somewhat autobiographical novel addresses issues of dealing with the “other” that were of equal concern to Sartre. Baldwin succeeds in telling a gripping tale while exploring the complex problems of interpersonal relationships and the desire to escape from one’s own freedom.

Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead and Cultural Transformation

Ghosts: Appearances of the Dead and Cultural Transformation
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Throughout history, people have reported seeing ghosts. But if we compare a Victorian apparition with a medieval European or Classical Greek ghost, we will find that they are a very different phenomena. In Ghosts: Appearances Of The Dead & Cultural Transformation, R. C. Finucane makes just such a comparison. Surveying reports of ghosts from ancient […]