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Good Book by A C C Grayling Publisher Comments Few, if any, thinkers and writers today would have the imagination, the breadth of knowledge, the literary skill, and-yes-the audacity to conceive of a powerful, secular alternative to the Bible. But that is exactly what A.C. Grayling has done by... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $12.98 Sale - Hardcover
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens Synopsis Hitchens takes on his biggest subject yet--the increasingly dangerous role of religion in the world. With insight and wit, he describes the ways in which religion is man-made, immoral, and repressive and argues for a new enlightenment through science and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $10.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave it to my cousin in hardcover last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion by Alain De Botton Publisher Comments What if religions are neither all true nor all nonsense? The long-running and often boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved forward by Alain de Botton’s inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror & the Future of Reason by Sam Harris Publisher Comments This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Free Will by Sam Harris Publisher Comments 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 remorse or personal achievement—... (read more) Your price: $9.99 New - Trade Paper
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The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave it to my cousin in hardcover last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris Publisher Comments "Thousands of people have written to tell me that I am wrong not to believe in God. The most hostile of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally imagine that no faith imparts the virtues of love and... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens Staff Pick One of the most informed journalists in the country (he seems to have been everywhere, met everyone, and read everything), he is also one of the most entertaining. His command of the language is legendary; his wit ferocious. His skill in marshalling... (read more) List Price $24.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God by Greg Graffin Publisher Comments In this passionate polemic, Greg Graffin argues that art and science have a deep connection. He describes his own coming-of-age as an artist and the formation of his naturalist worldview over the past three decades. Anarchy Evolution sheds new light on... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Trade Paper
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The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster by Bobby Henderson Publisher Comments Building on the unimaginable success of the Web site which propels the debate on evolution versus intelligent design with a new theory--that the universe was created by the Flying Spaghetti Monster (FSM)--this book explains the world's newest "religion."... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Good Without God: What a Billion Nonreligious People Do Believe by Greg Epstein Publisher Comments An inspiring and provocative exploration of an alternative to traditional religion Questions about the role of God and religion in today's world have never been more relevant or felt more powerfully. Many of us are searching for a place where we can... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Age of Reason: Being an Investigation of True and Fabulous Theology by Thomas Paine Publisher Comments Paine's years of study and reflection on the role of religion in society culminated with this, his final work. An attack on revealed religion from the deist point of view — embodied by Paine's credo, "I believe in one God, and no more" &... (read more) Your price: $6.95 New - Trade Paper
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Breaking the Spell by Daniel Clement Dennett Publisher Comments An innovative thinker tackles the controversial question of why we believe in God and how religion shapes our lives and our future. For a growing number of people, there is nothing more important than religion. It is an integral part of their... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Breaking the Spell : Religion As a Natural Phenomenon (06 Edition) by Daniel C. Dennett Publisher Comments For all the thousands of books that have been written about religion, few until this one have attempted to examine it scientifically: to ask whyand howit has shaped so many lives so strongly. Is religion a product of blind evolutionary... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects by Bertrand Russell Publisher Comments Dedicated as few men have been to the life of reason, Bertrand Russell has always been concerned with the basic questions to which religion also addresses itself -- questions about man's place in the universe and the nature of the good life, questions... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris Publisher Comments Sam Harriss first book, The End of Faith, ignited a worldwide debate about the validity of religion. In the aftermath, Harris discovered that most people—from religious fundamentalists to nonbelieving scientists—agree on one point... (read more) List Price $26.99 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values by Sam Harris Publisher Comments Now in paperback, the bestselling The Moral Landscape is a “thrilling, audacious book, you feel the ground shifting beneath your feet. Reason has never had a more passionate advocate” (Ian McEwan). In his explosive new book, Sam Harris, the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Candide #1: Candide by Voltaire Publisher Comments Candide is the story of a gentle man who, though pummeled and slapped in every direction by fate, clings desperately to the belief that he lives in "the best of all possible worlds." On the surface a witty, bantering tale, this eighteenth... (read more) List Price $4.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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What Is Secular Humanism? by Paul Kurtz Publisher Comments Philosopher Paul Kurtz describes the many ways in which secular humanism's scientific, philosophical, and ethical outlook has exerted a profound influence on civilization from the ancient world to the present.... (read more) List Price $9.98 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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