God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
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
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
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
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
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
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 […]
Garden of Rama
The Ramans return in the third saga of extraterrestrial contact–a riveting odyssey of a future Eden. The phenomenon begun in Rendezvous with Rama and carried on in Rama II continues in a masterpiece of technological extrapolation–an exhilarating adventure into the heart of both the universe and humankind.
Future Shock
“This book provide the historical perspective on the Industrial Revolution that is lacking in Spengler’s book, above. Toffler correctly ascertains that the industrial Revolution is the first wave of a massive change in human society. The full effect of this change will be equivalent to the Agricultural Revolution of several thousand years ago. However, Toffler’s […]
From Genesis to Genetics: The Case of Evolution and Creationism
The clash between evolution and creationism is one of the most hotly contested topics in education today. This book, written by one of America’s most distinguished science educators, provides essential background information on this difficult and important controversy. Giving a sweeping and balanced historical look at both schools of thought, John A. Moore shows that […]
Friends, Robots, Countrymen (Abridged Audio Cassette)
Isaac Asimov, the modern master of science fiction and fact, and Martin H. Greenberg, a leading anthologist of our time, team together to produce an unprecedented collection of science fiction audio books. This landmark series presents their favorite robot stories from Asimov’s private library, with a personal introduction read by the master himself. This volume […]
Friday
Friday is a secret courier. She is employed by a man known to her only as “Boss.” Operating from and over a near-future Earth, where chaos is the happy norm, she finds herself on assignment at Boss’s seemingly whimsical behest. From New Zealand to Canada, from one to another of the new states of America’s […]
Freethought on the American Frontier
A collection of memoirs, essays, political cartoons, songs, and poetry of the freethought movement during the 19th century. Essays by such social critics as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Mark Twain, Carl Sandburg, and Langston Hughes are included. Populist, Socialist, and labor-related issues are also presented. The book has good illustrations and political cartoons.
Freethought Across the Centuries
The freethought movement has long needed a solid textbook for academic and personal reading lists. A work that could supplement classroom and independent studies on the nature of religion and its historical role in the cultures, societies, and governments of human history, ancient and modern. Dr. Gerald Laure’s Freethought Across The Centuries is a wonderful […]
Freethinkers : A History of American Secularism
At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan […]
Freedom Evolves
Daniel C. Dennett is a brilliant polemicist, famous for challenging unexamined orthodoxies. Over the last thirty years, he has played a major role in expanding our understanding of consciousness, developmental psychology, and evolutionary theory. And with such groundbreaking, critically acclaimed books as Consciousness Explained and Darwin’s Dangerous Idea (a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize […]
Foundation’s Edge
At last, the costly and bitter war between the two Foundations had come to an end. The scientists of the First Foundation had proved victorious; and now they retum to Hari Seldon’s long-established plan to build a new Empire that the Second Foundation is not destroyed after all — and that its still — defiant […]
Foundation and Empire
Foundation and Empire tells the incredible story of a new breed of man who creates a new force for galactic government. Thus the Foundation hurtles into conflict with the decadent, decrepit First Empire. In this struggle for power amid the chaos of the stars, man stands at the threshold of a new enlightened life which […]
Foundation
In Foundation, Isaac Asimov draws a compelling portrait of the Foundation’s embryonic development and rise to peripheral power – domination of kingdoms on the outskirts of the Galaxy. Foundation begins a new chapter in the story of man’s future life. The Old Empire was crumbling into ancient barbarism throughout the million worlds of the galaxy. […]
Forward the Foundation
A stunning testament to ISaac Asimov’s creative genius, Forward The Foundation is a the Foundation saga’s dramatic climax — the story Asimov fans have been waiting for. An exciting tale of danger, intrigue, and suspense, Forward The Foundation brings to vivid life Asimov’s best loved characters: hero Hari Seldon, who struggles to perfect his revolutionary […]
Forged: Writing in the Name of God–Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Description It is often said, even by critical scholars who should know better, that “writing in the name of another” was widely accepted in antiquity. But New York Times bestselling author Bart D. Ehrman dares to call it what it was: literary forgery, a practice that was as scandalous then as it is today. In […]
For the New Intellectual
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Flim-Flam!: Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
James Randi is internationally known as a magician and escape artist. But for the past thirty-five years of his professional life, he has also been active as an investigator of the paranormal, occult, and supernatural claims that have impressed the thinking of the public for a generation: ESP, psychokinesis, psychic detectives, levitation, psychic surgery, UFOs, […]
Finding Darwin’s God
Question: Who made us? Answer #1: God made us. Answer #2: Evolution made us. Which is it? What is the true answer to the age-old question of where we came from? Is it even possible to know for sure? In Finding Darwin’s God, Kenneth R. Miller offers a surprising resolution to the evolutionism vs. creationism […]
Fighting Words: The Origins of Religious Violence
Is religion inherently violent? If not, what provokes violence in the name of religion? Do we mischaracterize religion by focusing too much on its violent side? In this intriguing, original study of religious violence, Prof. Hector Avalos offers a new theory for the role of religion in violent conflicts. Starting with the premise that most […]
Feersum Endjinn
In a world where one can live multiple lives, Count Alandre Sessine VIII has survived seven times and is down to his last, leaving him one final shot at finding his killer. His only clues point to a conspiracy that reaches far beyond his own murder, and survival lies in discovering other fugitives who know […]
Farmer in the Sky
Bill knew his destiny lay in the stars, but how was he to get there? George Lerner was shipping out for Ganymede to join the fledgling colony, and Bill wanted to go along. But his father would not hear of it — far too dangerous a mission! Bill finally talked his way aboard the colony […]
Farewell to God: My Reasons For Rejecting the Christian Faith
For more than twenty years, Charles Templeton was a major figure in the church in Canada and the United States. During the 1950s, he and Billy Graham were the two most successful exponents of mass evangelism in North America. Templeton spoke nightly to stadium crowds of up to 30,000 people. However, increasing doubt about the […]
Fantastic Voyage
Four men and a woman are reduced to a microscopic fraction of their original size, sent in a miniaturized atomic sub through a dying man’s carotid artery. Passing through the heart, entering the inner ear where even the slightest sound would destroy them, battling relentlessly into the cranium. Their objective… to reach a blood clot […]
Faith and Freedom: Religious Liberty in America
Former U.S. District Judge Marvin E. Frankel examines the most dramatic of the Supreme Court cases of the last half century concerned with the Constitutional right to religious freedom. The author “argues that the ‘wall of separation’ between church and state must be kept almost unbreachable if religious liberty is to be preserved.”
