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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, […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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, […]

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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, […]

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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 […]

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Explodes popular myths related to astronomy, and explains genuine science.

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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 […]

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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.

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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.”

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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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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; […]

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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.”

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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, […]

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Atheism is often considered to be a negative, dark, and pessimistic belief which is characterised by a rejection of values and purpose and a fierce opposition to religion. Atheism: A Very Short Introduction sets out to dispel the myths that surround atheism and show how a life without religious belief can be positive, meaningful, and […]

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Atheism: A Reader is a unique anthology that presents for the first time a comprehensive selection of writings on atheism, agnosticism, and skepticism by some of the world’s most celebrated thinkers, past and present. Arranged thematically, the essays in this valuable collection cover many of the significant areas in which atheists have questioned religious orthodoxy. […]

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A detailed and scholarly justification of atheism. Contains an outstanding appendix defining terminology and usage in this (necessarily) tendentious area. Argues both for “negative atheism” (i.e. the “non-belief in the existence of god(s)”) and also for “positive atheism” (“the belief in the non-existence of god(s)”). Includes great refutations of the most challenging arguments for god.

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At the Water’s Edge will change the way you think about your place in the world. The awesome journey of life’s transformation from the first microbes 4 billion years ago to Homo sapiens today is an epic that we are only now beginning to grasp. Magnificent and bizarre, it is the story of how we […]

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A complete short novel, At the Mountains of Madness is a tale of terror unlike any other. The barren, windswept interior of the Antarctic plateau was lifeless–or so the expedition from Miskatonic University thought. Then they found the strange fossils of unheard-of creatures…and the carved stones tens of millions of years old…and, finally, the mind-blasting […]