Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy

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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

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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?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

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 […]
 
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