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One Jesus, Many Christs: How Jesus Inspired Not One True Christianity, But Many
Book Description In One Jesus, Many Christs Gregory Riley reveals that–from the very beginning–there was not just one true Christianity, but many different Christianities. Riley shows that early Christianity harbored major doctrinal differences about all aspects of Jesus’ life, death, resurrection and divinity. United by passionate allegiance to Jesus as hero, these early, doctrinally diverse […]
Permutation City
In the not-too-distant future, technology has given birth to immortality. The human mind can be scanned and downloaded into a virtual reality program to become a perfect electronic “Copy,” aware of itself. The bad news is, someone has blocked the bail-out option that allows a Copy, by law, to return to flash-and-blood life. From the […]
Questioning the Millennium
“In the bestselling short-history format of Longitude and How the Irish Saved Civilization, this elegant volume by the author of such well-known works as The Panda’s Thumb and The Flamingo’s Smile explores the rational and religious roots of human fascination with the millennium. 16 illustrations.”
Religion and the Racist Right: The Origins of the Christian Identity Movement
According to Michael Barkun, many white supremacist groups of the radical right are deeply committed to the distinctive but little-recognized religious position known as Christian identity. In Religion and the Racist Right, Barkun provides the first sustained exploration of the ideological and organizational development of the Christian identity movement. In a new chapter written for […]
Robot Dreams
Robot Dreams spans the body of Asimov’s fiction from the 1940s to the mid-80s, and features classic Asimovian themes, from the scientific puzzle to the extraterrestrial thriller, all introduced in an exclusive essay written especially for this collection.’
Sci-Fi Private Eye
Including tales by Isaac Asimov, Larry Niven, Poul Anderson, and Robert Silverberg, an anthology of nine stories of interstellar crime fighting in the high-tech future pits galactic gumshoes against antagonistic aliens.
Solemn Covenant: The Mormon Polygamous Passage
A study of Mormonism’s changing doctrine on plural marriage.
Superstition in All Ages
From Reviewer Will Murphy: “First of all, this work was not written by Jean Meslier, and the real title is not ‘Superstition In All Ages.’ In reality, this work is Baron d’Holbach’s masterpiece, ‘Good’ or ‘Common Sense.’ Due to the severe restrictions on the press in the 18th century, d’Holbach published virtually all of his […]
The Age of Reason
Thomas Paine, defender of freedom, independence, and rational common sense during America’s turbulent revolutionary period, offers insights into religion which ring sharply true more than two centuries later. This unabrdiged edition of The Age of Reason sets forth Paine’s provocative observations of the place of religion in society.
The Best of Humanism
Questions about human nature, immortality, the unknown, faith, reason, free will, and more are addressed by a host of renowned humanists.
The Case Against Christianity
This book is the most systematic philosophical critique of Christianity ever written. Michael Martin discusses the historicity of Jesus, the resurrection, the virgin birth, the second coming, the incarnation, Christian ethics, salvation by faith, the divine command theory, and the atonement.
The Comprehensible Cosmos: Where Do the Laws of Physics Come From?
Book Description In a series of remarkable developments in the 20th century and continuing into the 21st, elementary particle physicists, astronomers, and cosmologists have removed much of the mystery that surrounds our understanding of the physical universe. We now have mathematical models that are consistent with all observational data, including measurements of incredible precision, and […]
The Emergence of Life on Earth: A Historical and Scientific Overview
How did life emerge on Earth? Is there life on other worlds? These questions, until recently confined to the pages of speculative essays and tabloid headlines, are now the subject of legitimate scientific research. This book presents a unique perspective-a combined historical, scientific, and philosophical analysis, which does justice to the complex nature of the […]
The Faith Healers
James Randi, the celebrated magician, has written a damning indictment of the faith-healing practices of the leading televangelists and others who claim divine healing powers. Randi and his team of researchers attended scores of “miracle services” and often were pronounced “healed” of the nonexistent illnesses they claimed. They viewed first-hand the tragedies resulting from the […]
The Ghost in the Universe: God in Light of Modern Science
Is there a God, or a spiritual reality beyond nature? Physicist Taner Edis takes a fresh look at this age-old question, focusing on what we have learned about our world rather than on traditional metaphysical disputes. Emphasizing a search for explanation rather than listing flaws in theistic metaphysics, Edis uses the results of natural science […]
The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
H.P. Lovecraft, the creator of Cthulhu Mythos, is the acknowledged modern master of the macabre, but he also worked with many younger pulp writers. Collected here are a dozen experiments in arcane terror, unearthly horror, and inhuman evil. Adding his inimitable touch, Lovecraft revised these tales of terror into frightful shadows of his own unique […]
The Jesus Puzzle
A new presentation of the argument that no historical Jesus existed. A full and comprehensive survey of the question through an examination of the early Christian record, canonical and non-canonical, from Q to the Gospels, from the earliest Pauline epistles to the second century apologists, along with Jewish, Gnostic, and Greco-Roman documents of the time. […]
The Loved Dead : And Other Revisions
H.P. Lovecraft, aside from devising his own works in his Cthulhu Mythos cycle, also collaborated in his day with many younger writers of the uncanny and eerie. Available for the first time in paperback, this collection features stories to which the master of horror added his own ingenious touch.
The Moral Animal: Why We Are the Way We Are
Subtitled: The New Science of Evolutionary Psychology An accessible introduction to the science of evolutionary psychology and how it explains many aspects of human nature. Unlike many books on the topic,which focus on abstractions like kin selection, this book focuses on Darwinian explanations of why we are the way we are–emotionally and morally. Wright deals […]
The New Testament: A Historical Introduction to the Early Christian Writings
This new edition of Bart Ehrman’s highly successful introduction approaches the New Testament from a comparative historical perspective, emphasizing the rich diversity of the earliest Christian literature. Ehrman shows why scholars continue to argue over such significant issues as how the books of the New Testament came into being, who produced them, what they mean, […]
The Plague
The Plague is a riveting story of an Algerian town forced to quarantine itself from the outside world after an outbreak of bubonic plague. The actions and behavior of the characters in the novel follow patterns of authentic and inauthentic behavior in the face of certain death. In this sense, the town is a metaphor […]
The Reason Driven Life: What Am I Here on Earth For?
Book Description With more than 25,000,000 copies sold, Pastor Rick Warren’s The Purpose-Driven Life has been both a commercially successful best-seller and a widely influential book in the Christian community. In The Reason Driven Life Price offers the first parody and critique of Warren’s bestseller. Warren’s God, Price says, is a “Frankenstein Monster, a divine […]
The Seven Mighty Blows to Traditional Beliefs
A.J. Mattill, Jr. (B.A., B.D. and Ph.D. in Bible and theology) has revised and greatly enlarged The Seven Mighty Blows to Traditional Beliefs in order to produce this second edition. The seven blows are: 1. The Astronomical Blow: Do “the heavans declare the glory of God?”2. The Biological Blow: “Is evolution atheism?”3. The Archeological Blow: […]
The Triumph of Evolution: And the Failure of Creationism
Niles Eldredge, a leading expert on evolution and the diversity of life, has studied creationism and debated creationists for over two decades. In The Triumph of Evolution, he presents the most up-to-date examination of the creation-evolution confrontation available. In this incisive narrative, he reveals the creationists’ basic argument and their strategies for advancing it — […]
The Witnesses to the Historicity of Jesus
Book Description From the Preface: Meanwhile we may reflect with comfort on the words of Dupuis: “There are large numbers of men so perversely minded that they will believe everything except what is recommended by sound intelligence and reason, and shrink from philosophy as the hydrophobic shrinks from water. These people will not read us, […]
Under the Net
Murdoch’s existential burlesque novel centers on Jake, a hack writer and popular-novel translator, as he attempts to find himself and his own authentic existence. This novel explores the theme of how we see ourselves as projected through the eyes of others.
What About Gods?
A skeptical treatment of religion in a book designed to be read by, or to, children.
Who Wrote the New Testament? : The Making of the Christian Myth
Description Burton Mack proposes that the Gospels are fictional mythologies created by different communities for various purposes and are only distantly related to the actual historical Jesus. Comment “Certainly Mack’s book should take a place in the front ranks of the many fine introductions available to students of the New Testament in both academic and […]
Why the Holocaust Happened: Its Religious Cause & Scholarly Cover-Up
This is the first work ever to examine the thousands of pages of Adolf Hitler’s personal notes, letters, and statements to intimates and supporters, in order to answer the question: Did Hitler himself explain, to himself and to those in whom he confided, why he was so obsessed to exterminate “the Jews”? It turns out […]
A Brief History of Western Philosophy
“Anthony Kenny surveys the history of Western philosophy from the Pre-Socratics to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. This is a well-written survey of the most important contributions of some of the major philosophers, but it is far from comprehensive. Particularly disappointing was the absence of any commentary on the half-century of philosophy since Wittgenstein, the […]
