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Calling Bernadette’s Bluff
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 […]
Citizen of the Galaxy
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 […]
Critiques of God: Making the Case Against God
Critiques of God is a hard-hitting, comprehensive anthology of essays by leading atheist philosophers. However, the book is somewhat dated: it does not address recent developments in the philosophy of religion (e.g., the kalam cosmological argument, the fine-tuning argument, and the evidential argument from evil).
Decoding the Language of God: Can a Scientist Really Be a Believer?
Description In his bestselling book, The Language of God, Francis Collin–the scientist who led the National Institutes of Health’s Human Genome Project–attempted to harmonize the findings of scientific research with Christian belief. In this response to Collins’s work, fellow geneticist George C. Cunningham presents a point-by-point rebuttal of The Language of God, arguing that there […]
D.M. Bennett, The Truth Seeker
Book Description DeRobigne Mortimer Bennett (1818-1882) was 19th-century America’s most controversial publisher and free-speech martyr. Bennett founded the “blasphemous” New York periodical The Truth Seeker in 1873, and his publications were censored and prohibited from newsstands long before the expression “banned in Boston” was heard. In less than a decade, the former Shaker and self-described […]
Essays and Aphorisms
This selection of thoughts on religion, ethics, politics, women, suicide, books, and many other themes is taken from Schopenhauer’s last work, Parerga and Paralimpomena, which he published in 1851. No German philosopher had written so well or so readably before him, and none had propounded the atheistic view that everything may not be all for […]
Eyewitness Testimony
As pertinent today as when it was first published more than a decade ago, this engaging and highly praised study makes the psychological case against the reliability of the eyewitness. By shedding light on the many factors that can intervene and create inaccurate testimony, Elizabeth Loftus illustrates how memory can be radically altered by the […]
Forged: Writing in the Name of God–Why the Bible’s Authors Are Not Who We Think They Are
Description It is often said, even by critical scholars who should know better, that “writing in the name of another” was widely accepted in antiquity. But New York Times bestselling author Bart D. Ehrman dares to call it what it was: literary forgery, a practice that was as scandalous then as it is today. In […]
Glory Road
Until he came to the part about “handsome of face and figure,” Scar Gordon thought the ad was aimed straight at him by someone who knew his habit of reading the personals. When on a whim he answered it, the gorgeous Amazon who examined him seemed to think his looks were fine. Now Scar Gordon, […]
Gold : The Final Science Fiction Collection
Gold is Asimov’s first original collection of SF since 1982, and contains all of his uncollected stories that have never before appeared in book form. It is also his final collection, following his death in 1992, after a 50 year career as a world famous writer who transcended any and every genre. Gold is the […]
Honoring the Self
“Tell me how a person judges his or her self-esteem,” says pioneering psychologist Nathaniel Branden, “and I will tell you how that person operates at work, in love, in sex, in parenting, in every important aspect of existence–and how high he or she is likely to rise. The reputation you have with yourself–your self-esteem–is the […]
Humanist Manifestos One and Two
Cites humanist recommendations for the future of humankind. Signed by Andrei Sakharov, B. F. Skinner, Betty Friedan, and many others.
Infidel
Book Description In this profoundly affecting memoir from the internationally renowned author of The Caged Virgin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali tells her astonishing life story, from her traditional Muslim childhood in Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Kenya, to her intellectual awakening and activism in the Netherlands, and her current life under armed guard in the West. One […]
James Madison on Religious Liberty
This compelling volume offers selections from Madison’s writings and captures the character of his deep convictions regarding religious liberty.
Language, Logic and Experience
Does the word exist independently of our knowledge of it? Is there a real world “out there”? This has been one of philosophy’s central debates. This book is a vigorous attack on “the myth of realism”, and a carefully argued defense of the new form of anti-realism pioneered in the work of Michael Dummett. Luntley […]
Losing Faith in Faith: From Preacher to Atheist
Looking for a good introduction to atheism without all the technical philosophical jargon? Barker’s book is for you! As a former minister turned atheist, Dan Barker documents the arguments that “deconverted” him from Christian fundamentalist to atheist. Losing Faith in Faith is an arsenal for skeptics and a challenge to believers.
Mind Fields: The Art of Jacek Yerka, The Fiction of Harlan Ellison
A collection of fantastic short fiction by an award-winning author is complemented by richly detailed, surrealistic images from a renowned Polish painter. This unique volume is rich with the vivid imagery of one of our most inventive fantasy artists, published here for the first time, together with 30 original short stories from one of the […]
Nemesis
In the twenty-third century pioneers have escaped the crowded earth for life in self-sustaining orbital colonies. One of the colonies, Rotor, has broken away from the solar system to create its own renegade utopia around an unknown red star two light-years from Earth: a star named Nemesis. Now a fifteen-year-old Rotorian girl has learned of […]
On the Road
Kerouac’s novel On the Road ushered in the Beat Generation of 1950s America. Like Gide’s The Immoralist, Kerouac’s semi-autobiographical characters literally run from themselves in the doomed attempt to escape the realization of life’s absurdity. When the routinization of life is stripped away, revealing only the bare facticity of existence, different people react in many […]
Paul
Table of Contents Preface Chronological Table Introduction PART ONE: LIFE AND WORK Paul’s Descent and Environment before Conversion Paul’s Persecution of the Church and His Conversion and Call First Missionary Activity The Apostolic Assembly in Jerusalem The First Journey to Cyprus and Asia, and the Conflict at Antioch The World-wide Scope of the Pauline Mission […]
Psychology of Self Esteem (Abridged Audio Cassette)
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Religion and Morality
The authors explore different views on the relationship between religion and morality. They reject the claim that religion is incompatible with morality, but they also reject the claim that religion is necessary for morality. Highly recommended.
Roads to Dominion
A history of the American right wing since World War II. This book is a ‘must-have’ for anyone studying right wing group movements.
Science on Trial: The Case for Evolution
Concise yet powerful, Futuyma’s Science on Trial is yet another outstanding defense of biological evolution. It’s unlikely that creationists who want “both sides” taught in public schools want anyone reading this book, for it exposes creationism for the pseudoscientific nonsense it really is.
Society without God: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us About Contentment
Book Description Before he began his recent travels, it seemed to Phil Zuckerman as if humans all over the globe were getting religion–praising deities, performing holy rites, and soberly defending the world from sin. But most residents of Denmark and Sweden, he found, don’t worship any god at all, don’t pray, and don’t give much […]
Suffering Belief
One of the most intractable problems for the contemporary Anglo-American theist is reconciling the enormous amount of apparent gratuitous suffering in the world with the existence of an all-perfect deity. Suffering Belief reviews the leading attempts at justifying the existence of evil and salvaging a rational basis of belief in the traditional Western God. Through […]
The Accidental Mind: How Brain Evolution Has Given Us Love, Memory, Dreams, and God
Book Description (Finalist, 2008 Independent Publisher Book Awards, Science Category) You’ve probably seen it before: a human brain dramatically lit from the side, the camera circling it like a helicopter shot of Stonehenge, and a modulated baritone voice exalting the brain’s elegant design in reverent tones. To which this book says: Pure nonsense. In a […]
The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
Rosemary and Peter Grant and those assisting them have spend twenty years on Daphne Major, an island in the Galapagos studying natural selection. They recognize each individual bird on the island, when there are four hundred at the time of the author’s visit, or when there are over a thousand. They have observed about twenty […]
The Brothers Karamozov
While Nietzsche was enormously influenced by Dostoevsky’s Notes from the Underground, this nineteenth-century classic is widely regarded as the perennial work that marks the beginning of existential thought. This novel should be required reading for every serious thinker. Dostoevsky addresses themes such as self-loathing, rejection of freedom, rebellion against God, the problem of evil, the […]
The Columbia History of Western Philosophy
“The Columbia History of Western Philosophy is an excellent resource for surveying the history of philosophy. It is comprehensive not only in covering all the major thinkers from the Pre-Socratics to the present but also in surveying all of the main elements of the contributions of various thinkers. Its discussion of continental philosophy in the […]
