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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. […]

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Direct rebuttal to John Cornwell’s Hitler’s Pope.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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In the past few years a number of scientists have claimed that there is credible scientific evidence for the existence of God. In 1998 Newsweek went so far as to proclaim on its cover, “Science Finds God.” Is this true? Are scientists close to solving the greatest of all mysteries? Physicist Victor J. Stenger delves […]

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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 […]

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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. […]