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  • A preeminent scientist -- and the world's most prominent atheist -- asserts the irrationality of belief in God and the grievous harm religion has inflicted on society, from the Crusades to 9/11.With…

    The God Delusion

    By Richard Dawkins rating of short cover   ( 72098 customer ratings) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, January 2008 ISBN: 9780547348667 Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • A BELIEF IN FREE WILL touches nearly everything that human beings value. It is difficult to think about law, politics, religion, public policy, intimate relationships, morality—as well as feelings of…

    Free Will

    By Sam Harris rating of short cover   ( 5551 customer ratings) Free Press, March 2012 ISBN: 9781451683479 Sociology, Marriage & Family Language:  English
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  • A provocative history of violence—from the New York Times bestselling author of The Stuff of Thought and The Blank SlateBelieve it or not, today we may be living in the most peaceful moment in our…

    The Better Angels of Our Nature - Why Violence Has Declined

    By Steven Pinker rating of short cover   ( 3081 customer ratings) Penguin Group US, October 2011 ISBN: 9781101544648 Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • Revised and Expanded Edition.In this age of supposed scientific enlightenment, many people still believe in mind reading, past-life regression theory, New Age hokum, and alien abduction. A…

    Why People Believe Weird Things - Pseudoscience, Superstition, and Other Confusions…

    By Michael Shermer rating of short cover   ( 3798 customer ratings) Henry Holt and Co., September 2002 ISBN: 9781429996761 Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • “WHERE DID THE UNIVERSE COME FROM? WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE IT? WHAT WILL THE FUTURE BRING? AND FINALLY, WHY IS THERE SOMETHING RATHER THAN NOTHING?” Now with color illustrations throughout. Lawrence…

    A Universe from Nothing - Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

    By Lawrence M. Krauss, Richard Dawkins rating of short cover   ( 4292 customer ratings) Atria Books, January 2012 ISBN: 9781451624472 Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • This is a university text book offered to support a history of modern science course.

    History of Science 3153: Since Newton

    By Richard Jones, Ken Kirby, Charles Kelly et al Hillcrest Media Group, Inc., August 2012 ISBN: 9781938296277 Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • "A glorious book . . . A spirited defense of science . . . From the first page to the last, this book is a manifesto for clear thought." *Los Angeles Times"POWERFUL . . . A stirring defense of…

    Demon-Haunted World - Science as a Candle in the Dark

    By Carl Sagan rating of short cover   ( 18334 customer ratings) Random House Publishing Group, July 2011 ISBN: 9780307801043 Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • Finalist for the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction: “Nicholas Carr has written a Silent Spring for the literary mind.”—Michael Agger, Slate“Is Google making us stupid?” When Nicholas Carr…

    The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains

    By Nicholas Carr rating of short cover   ( 4798 customer ratings) W. W. Norton & Company, June 2011 ISBN: 9780393079364 Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • A good book may have the power to change the way we see the world, but a great book actually becomes part of our daily consciousness, pervading our thinking to the point that we take it for granted…

    The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - 50th Anniversary Edition

    By Thomas S. Kuhn rating of short cover   ( 2 customer ratings) University of Chicago Press, April 2012 ISBN: 9780226458144 Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects Language:  English
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  • IN THIS TIME OF TURBULENCE, scientists, economists, social innovators, corporate and civic leaders, and citizens alike are asking the same basic questions: What causes one system to break down and…

    Resilience - Why Things Bounce Back

    By Andrew Zolli, Ann Marie Healy rating of short cover   ( 137 customer ratings) Free Press, July 2012 ISBN: 9781451683844 Other Sciences, Philosophy & Social Aspects Language:  English
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