Beyond the Fall of Night

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Beyond the Fall of Night
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Premier science fiction writers Arthur C. Clarke and Gregory Benford team up to tell a riveting and moving story – continuing a journey begun by Clarke with his classic novella Against the Fall of Night. Diaspar is the last living city on Earth. Timid and untried, the only humans in existence have stagnated there for […]

Beyond the Body

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Susan Blackmore’s Beyond the Body provides a comprehensive historical overview of out-of-body experience (OBE) research. She surveys anecdotal case studies, including cross-cultural comparisons of OBEs, and concludes that there are no essential experiential differences between spontaneous OBEs and voluntarily-induced OBEs. Blackmore considers how common OBEs are in the population at large, reviews proposed techniques for […]

Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Furture

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Beyond Good and Evil: Prelude to a Philosophy of the Furture
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Beyond Good and Evil is one of the most remarkable and influential books of the nineteenth century. Like Thus Spoke Zarathustra, which had immediately preceded it, Beyond Good and Evil represents Nietzsche’s attempt to sum up his philosophy–but in less flamboyant and more systematic form. The nine parts of the book are designed to give […]

Beyond Contact

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Beyond Contact
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Subtitled: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations In Beyond Contact: A Guide to SETI and Communicating with Alien Civilizations, author Brian McConnell examines what goes into the search for intelligent life in space. The book explains the science and technology behind the search, from the physics of inter-stellar laser and radio communication, […]

Between Planets (US 1988 Paperback)

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Between Planets (US 1988 Paperback)
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Don Harvey, Come Home! The message had seemed simple, yet it was more complex than Don Harvey could have imagined. He was being called from Earth to an alien world for reasons unknown — save only that his life depended on it. But setting out for Mars and getting there in good shape turned out […]

Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church

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Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church
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They were the men most trusted: Father Geoghan, Father Birmingham, Father Shanley, Father Trupia, and hundreds of others. They were the rulers of the Catholic Church: Cardinal Law, Cardinal Egan, Cardinal Mahony, and others. They had all taken vows to live by the gospel and to care for their parishioners. And they were believed. Now, […]

Betrayal of Science and Reason

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Betrayal of Science and Reason
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Subtitled: How Anti-Environment Rhetoric Threatens Our Future The authors are angered by what they perceive as deliberate efforts to subvert media interest in pressing environmental issues. They suggest that the planet is in real peril from overpopulation, depletion of the ozone layer, global warming, and loss of biodiversity, and that each of these threats is […]

Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and Macabre

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Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and Macabre
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This is the collection that true fans of horror fiction have been waiting for: sixteen of H.P. Lovecraft’s most horrifying visions, including Lovecraft’s masterpiece, The Shadow Out of Time — the shocking revelation of the mysterious forces that hold all mankind in their fearsome grip. “I think it is beyond doubt that H.P. Lovecraft has […]

Bertrand Russell on God and Religion

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Bertrand Russell on God and Religion
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Among the many thinkers and writers of contemporary Western culture, Bertrand Russell stands out as one of the most brilliant and prolific. The range of his inquiring mind is virtually without parallel, and never more sharp than when it seeks to critically analyze cherished popular beliefs respecting God and religion. Al Seckel has rescued many […]

Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition

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Believing in Magic: The Psychology of Superstition
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Lucky numbers. Chain letters. Psychic predictions. Wade Boggs’s obsessive eccentricities before each game. The lure of The X-Files and Stephen King. Although we live in a technologically advanced society, superstition is as widespread as it has ever been. Here, Stuart Vyse examines current behavioral research to demonstrate how complex and paradoxical human behavior can be […]

Belief’s Own Ethics

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Belief’s Own Ethics
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The fundamental question of the ethics of belief is “What ought one to believe?” According to the traditional view of evidentialism, the strength of one’s beliefs should be proportionate to the evidence. Conventional ways of defending and challenging evidentialism rely on the idea that what one ought to believe is a matter of what it […]

Belief or Non-Belief? A Confrontation

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Belief or Non-Belief? A Confrontation
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“‘Belief or Nonbelief’ is a short but challengingbook, an exchange of letters between Umberto Eco, the Italian novelist and scholar, and Carlo Maria Martini, the Roman Catholic cardinal of Milan. A newspaper in Milan asked the two men to write to each other (and published the results) because they represent the believer and the nonbeliever, […]

Being and Time

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Heidegger has been criticized for his participation in the Nazi party and one could draw a direct connection from his politics to his idea of the herd-instinct philosophy of “falling into the they.” We fall into the “they” to avoid the anxiety of separation. “There is no I, only the one.” Human interaction usually lacks […]

Being and Nothingness

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The often criticized philosophy of Jean-Paul Sartre encompasses the dilemmas and aspirations of the individual in contemporary society. This work of power and epic scope provides a vivid analysis for all who would understand one of the most influential philosophic movements of this or any age. Sarte’s Being is also an excellent introduction to Heidegger’s […]

Before the Beginning

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Before the Beginning
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“Although we cannot observe them (and they may be forever inaccessible), other universes are a natural expectation from current cosmology. Moreover, many features of our universe that otherwise seem baffling fall into place once we recognize this.” Sir Martin Rees, the British Astronomer Royal, gives a vivid, occasionally acid tour of current astrophysics and cosmology, […]

Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics

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Baker Encyclopedia of Christian Apologetics
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This is the most recent and most extensive apologetics reference work ever written. Geisler is a prominent apologist who writes from an Evangelical perspective on virtually every subject conceivable: persons, issues, movements, concepts, arguments of all kinds are all addressed. For secularists who want to know what tunes the Devil is playing, this is the […]

Axiomatic

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Axiomatic
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Australian writer Greg Egan presents 18 of his short stories from the early 1990s in this collection. The blurb on the cover says “Science fiction for people who like science fiction,” and experienced and new sci-fi fans alike will agree. The ideas and world-building are light years ahead of the pack. Highlights include: “The Hundred […]

Atlas Shrugged

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Atlas Shrugged
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The book that moved the world–and about the man who almost stopped it. Setting forth the fundamentals of Ayn Rand’s unique philosophy of Objectivism, Atlas Shrugged is an acclaimed work about the murder–and rebirth–of a man’s spirit.

Atheistic Humanism

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Atheistic Humanism
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This collection of essays by one of the world’s best-known philosophers directly addresses the many and diverse aspects of this branch of humanist philosophy. Included in the author’s theses are “Fundamentals of Unbelief, ” “Defending Knowledge and Responsibility,” “Scientific Socialism, ” and “Freedom and Human Nature.”

Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam

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Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
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Book Description This hugely controversial work demonstrates convincingly how the world’s three major monotheistic religions–Christianity, Judaism, and Islam–have attempted to suppress knowledge, science, pleasure, and desire, condemning nonbelievers often to death. Not since Nietzsche has a work so groundbreaking and explosive appeared, to question the role of the world’s three major monotheistic religions. If Nietzsche […]

Atheism: The Case Against God

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Atheism: The Case Against God
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George Smith’s book, Atheism: The Case Against God, is one of the most popular books on atheism ever written. Although Smith is a philosopher, you don’t need to be a philosopher to read this book. If you’ve ever wanted to know more about theism but were afraid to ask, this book is for you.

Atheism, Morality, and Meaning

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Atheism, Morality, and Meaning
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Despite the pluralism of contemporary American culture, the Judeo-Christian legacy still has a great deal of influence on the popular imagination. Thus it is not surprising that in this context atheism has a slightly scandalous ring, and unbelief is often associated with lack of morality and a meaningless existence. Distinguished philosopher and committed atheist Michael […]

Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy

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Atheism Explained: From Folly to Philosophy
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Book Description Atheism Explained explores the claims made both for and against the existence of God. On the pro side: that the wonders of the world can only be explained by an intelligent creator; that the universe had to start somewhere; telepathy, out-of-body experiences, and other paranormal phenomena demonstrate the existence of a spirit world; […]

Atheism, Ayn Rand & Other Heresies

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Atheism, Ayn Rand & Other Heresies
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An interesting collection of essays on atheism, Ayn Rand, and other issues including “My Path to Atheism,” “Philosophies of Toleration,” “The Righteous Persecution of Drug Consumers,” “Children’s Rights in Political Philosophy.”

Atheism and Theism

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Atheism and Theism
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The issue of whether or not there is a God is one of the oldest and most widely disputed philosophical questions. It is a debate that spreads far across the range of philosophical questions about the status of science, the nature of mind, the character of good and evil, the epistemology of experience and testimony, […]

Atheism and the Case Against Christ

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Atheism and the Case Against Christ
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Description A novel critique that undermines Christianity and theism at their foundations. Hundreds of millions of people believe that Jesus came back from the dead. Philosopher Matthew S. McCormick presents a decidedly unpopular view in this cogent, forcefully argued book—namely, that the central tenet of Christianity, the resurrection of Jesus, is false. McCormick asks a […]
 
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