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The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins  
Powells.com Staff Pick A typically bold and incisive book from one of our great science writers, The God Delusion pulls no punches. I gave a hardcover copy to my cousin last year, and he hasn't stopped citing passages since. "There are lots of people out there," Dawkins notes...
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The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
Powells.com 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...
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I Don't Believe in Atheists
by Chris Hedges Publisher Comments From the New York Times bestselling author of American Fascists and the NBCC finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning comes this timely and compelling work about new atheists: those who attack religion to advance the worst of global capitalism...
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
Powells.com 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...
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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...
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The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality
by Andre Comte-sponville Publisher Comments A brilliant, elegant argument for spirituality without God Can we do without religion? Can we have ethics without God? Is there such thing as atheist spirituality? In this powerful book, the internationally bestselling author Andr Comte-Sponville...
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
by Susan Jacoby Publisher Comments "Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion." -Los Angeles Times Book Review At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the...
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Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon
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 instinct or...
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Letter to a Christian Nation
by Sam Harris
Powells.com Staff Pick Sam Harris is a wonderful, courageous independent thinker. His Letter to a Christian Nation is a dynamic exposé of the hypocrisy inherent in organized religion. Recommended by Adrienne, Powells.com (See all of our Staff Top 5s of 2006)...
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The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
by Bobby Henderson
Powells.com Staff Pick Bobby Henderson's devotion to the Flying Spaghetti Monster should qualify him for sainthood. I became a Pastafarian after reading this glorious book, as will others who delight in all its starchy wonder. Hallelujah! Recommended by Gary, Powells.com...
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How to Be a Good Atheist
by Nick Harding Publisher Comments For millennia priests and holy men have told countless conflicting tales about humanity's genesis and fate, while also saying anyone devoid of faith is evil, immoral, and responsible for societal ills. For those tired of these contradictions, fed up with...
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
by Christophe Hitchens Publisher Comments From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages--with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali...
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Atheism: A Philosophical Justification
by Michael Martin Synopsis "Thousands of philosophers--from the ancient Greeks to modern thinkers--have defended atheism, but none more comprehensively than Martin. . . . Atheists should read it to bolster their creed, and theists should read it to test their faith against the...
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The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions
by David Berlinski Publisher Comments Militant atheism is on the rise. Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have dominated bestseller lists with books denigrating religious belief as dangerous foolishness. And these authors are merely the leading edge of a...
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Everything You Know about God Is Wrong: The Disinformation Guide to Religion
by Russ Kick Publisher Comments In the new mega-anthology from best-selling editor Russ Kick, more than fifty writers, reporters, and researchers invade the inner sanctum for an unrestrained look at the wild and wooly world of organized belief. Richard Dawkinsshows us the strange...
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Candide: Or Optimism (Penguin Classics)
by Voltaire
Synopsis Candide deals with the problems of suffering and evil. Voltaire attacks the hopelessness and callousness of the "all is for the best" philosophy, personified by tutor Pangloss. The resilience of human nature is emphasized in the amazing reversals of...
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The Secular Conscience: Why Belief Belongs in Public Life
by Austin Dacey Synopsis This work is needed at a time when both the religious right and the religious left claim that there can be no public or private morality without religion. With wit and a philosopher's insight, Dacey explains exactly why secular morality . . . is sorely...
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Meditations for the Humanist : Ethics for a Secular Age (02 Edition)
by A.c. Grayling Publisher Comments "Magnanimity is in short supply," writes A. C. Grayling is this wonderfully incisive book, "but it is the main ingredient in everything that makes the world a better place" And indeed Meditations for the Humanist: Ethics for a Secular Age is itself a...
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Sense and Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism
by Richard Carrier Synopsis If God does not exist, then what does? Is there good and evil, and should we care? How do we know what's true anyway? And can we make any sense of this universe, or our own lives? Sense and Goodness answers all these questions in lavish detail, without...
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Atheism Is False Richard Dawkins and the Improbability of God Delusion
by David Reuben Stone Publisher Comments David Reuben Stone presents a modern defense of the existence of God. Two new arguments are presented: The Argument From The Laws Of Physics, and the Fine-Tuning Argument. The atheism of Richard Dawkins is refuted in great detail, as well as writings of...
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