Citizen of the Galaxy

Citizen of the Galaxy
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SLAVE: Brought to Sargon in chains as a child — unwanted by all save a one-legged beggar — Thorby learned well the wiles of the street people and the mysterious ways of his crippled master . . . OUTLAW: Hunted by the police for some unknown treasonous acts committed by his beloved owner, Thorby risked […]

Churches Ad Hoc: A Divine Comedy

Churches Ad Hoc: A Divine Comedy
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Description With its eighty-six duotone illustrations and a foreword by Kern Trembath (Assistant Chairman, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame) this is a humorous look at churches in America by photographer Herman Krieger. Comment “Among the best examples of satire on the Internet.” — J. Michael Raymond, Editor, Contemporary Satire “This is a fun […]

Church and State in Canada

Church and State in Canada
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What makes Canada tick? How does its church-state situation compare with that of the United States? Do Canadians enjoy as much religious liberty as Americans? These questions and others are answered in this brief overview of how religion affects education, law, and politics in Canada.

Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry

Christianity and the Holocaust of Hungarian Jewry
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Hierczl, a Hungarian Jew who survived the holocaust, provides a well written and well documented account of Christian anti-Semitism in Hungary from 1880 to 1944. He shows how religious arguments were used to justify harsh anti-Semitic legislation in the years leading up to the war. Hierczl builds his case using extensive quotations of church members […]

Childhood’s End

Childhood’s End
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The Overlords appeared suddenly over every city–intellectually, technologically, and militarily superior to humankind. Benevolent, they made few demands–unify Earth, eliminate poverty and end war. With little rebellion, mankind agreed, and a golden age began. But at what cost? To those who resisted the benign new alien rule, it became evident that the Overlords had an […]

Challenges to the Enlightenment

Challenges to the Enlightenment
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A collection of essays on philosophical, scientific, and social issues posed by challenges toliberal social and political traditions inherited from the 18th-century Enlightenment.

Casting the First Stone

Casting the First Stone
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Christian lay reader, antiquarian bookseller and mystical philosopher Gilbert examines the battle lines that have been drawn between orthodoxy and non-orthodoxy, tradition and “alternative” innovation, religious fundamentalism and the “New Age” and looks at the activities of intolerant extremist pressure groups whose aim is to impose their own restrictive values and belief systems on all […]

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal

Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal
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Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal contains essays in politics and economics by Rand and other Objectivist authors. Of particular interest are “What is Capitalism?,” in which Rand argues that capitalism is the only moral social-political system; “The Roots of War”; “Gold and Economic Freedom,” a defense of the gold standard by Alan Greenspan; and “Conservatism: An […]

Can We Trust the New Testament?

Can We Trust the New Testament?
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Can We Trust the New Testament? questions the historical accuracy of widely held views of early Christianity. In this book radical Bible scholar G. A. Wells examines Biblical accounts of the lives of the apostles Peter and Paul and presents evidence that the events described in the New Testament were written over time to support […]

Can We Be Good Without God: Biology, Behavior, and the Need to Believe

Can We Be Good Without God: Biology, Behavior, and the Need to Believe
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Recent neurological studies have shown that there are regions of the brain that seem predisposed to create beliefs. Are we hardwired to believe? And if so, why do beliefs sometimes inspire major contributions to society, while on other occasions they precipitate horrendous acts of destruction? In this provocative and stimulating study of the connection between […]

Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy

Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
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Widely acclaimed as the most authoritative and accessible one-volume dictionary available in English (and now with translations into Chinese, Korean, Russian, Italian, and Spanish underway) this second edition offers an even richer, more comprehensive, and more up-to-date survey of ideas and thinkers written by an international team of 436 contributors. This second edition includes the […]

Calling Bernadette’s Bluff

Calling Bernadette’s Bluff
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There’s only one real taboo left in 21st Century America, and Jack Kassel’s got it bad. He doesn’t believe in God. And even that might be all right if he didn’t teach at the College of Saint Bernadette. Nothing is more important to Jack than reason, the triumph of truth over comforting fantasies, but Saint […]

But Is It Science?

But Is It Science?
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This book is a collection of essays on the history and development of Darwinian theory, demarcation criteria that separate scientific theories from pseudoscientific theories, and the 1982 trial on the Arkansas “equal time” law.

Bringing UFOs Down to Earth

Bringing UFOs Down to Earth
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Pioneer investigator of UFO claims urges young readers to think before believing that aliens have landed. Young people love the mystery that accompanies believing in Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs). To children, the world of the unknown is often much more exciting than the world they know. Yet in their early search for the truth, it’s […]

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon

Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
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Book Description For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask why–and how–it has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary instinct or rational choice? Is it truly the best way to live a […]

Breaking Faith: The Pope, the People, and the Fate of Catholicism

Breaking Faith: The Pope, the People, and the Fate of Catholicism
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As John Paul II’s papacy darws to a close, the Catholic Church, its policies, and its future are being scrutinized around the globe. The election of the next Pope will have a greater impact on world affairs than that of the next president of the United States – or the leader of any single nation. […]

Blues for Mister Charlie


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From the murder that marks its opening scene to the scathing dialogue that transforms racism in America from an abstraction to a palpable emotion that grips the heart, this award-winning play touches us all with its rare humanity and with its piercing vision of our nation, our times, and ourselves.

Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine

Blind Faith: The Unholy Alliance of Religion and Medicine
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Book Description Pharmacists who refuse to fill prescriptions for contraceptives. Surgeons who pray in the operating room. Pro-life clinics and end-of-life interventions, intelligent-design activists and stem-cell-research opponents–is this the state of modern medicine in America? In an America that increasingly turns its back on the teachings of science, the worlds of religion and medicine have […]

Blameless in Abaddon

Blameless in Abaddon
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This is the sequel to Towing Jehovah, a novel that garnered a World Fantasy Award and earned its author the moniker, “Christianity’s Salman Rushdie.” In this book, the two-mile long corpse of God (the corpus dei) has been towed to Florida, where the American Baptist Confederation has set it up as the Main Attraction at […]

Black Holes and Time Warps

Black Holes and Time Warps
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In this masterfully written and brilliantly informed work, Dr. Thorne, the Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics at Caltech, leads readers through an elegant, always human, tapestry of interlocking themes, answering the great question: what principles control our universe and why do physicists think they know what they know? Subtitled “Einstein’s Outrageous Legacy,” and featuring an […]

Black Holes and Baby Universes

Black Holes and Baby Universes
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Readers worldwide have come to know the work of Stephen Hawking through his phenomenal million-copy hardcover best-seller A Brief History of Time. Bantam is proud to present the paperback edition of Dr. Hawking’s first new book since that event, a collection of fascinating and illuminating essays, and a remarkable interview broadcast by the BBC on […]

Biology and the Foundation of Ethics

Biology and the Foundation of Ethics
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There has been much attention devoted in recent years to the question of whether our moral principles can be related to our biological nature. This collection of new essays focuses on the connection between biology and foundational questions in ethics. The book asks such questions as whether humans are innately selfish, and whether there are […]

Biogenesis: Theories of Life’s Origin

Biogenesis: Theories of Life’s Origin
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Biogenesis provides an up-to-date discussion of the origin of life, including experimental strategies, theories, models, and controversies. The book includes an historical overview, from the Greek philosophers to contemporary scientists.

Billions and Billions

Billions and Billions
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“The late author of Cosmos draws on the latest research into science, mathematics, and space in a study of the mysteries of life, addressing such topics as global warming, the abortion debate, life on Mars, and his own battle with myelodysplasia. 75,000 first printing.” “In this book, his last, Carl Sagan shows once again his […]