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The God Delusion
by Richard Dawkins
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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... ( read more)
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This I Believe II: More Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women
by Jay Allison
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A new collection of inspiring personal philosophies from another noteworthy group of people This second collection of This I Believe essays gathers seventyfive essayists—ranging from famous to previously unknown—completing the thought that... ( read more)
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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... ( read more)
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The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
by Christophe Hitchens
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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... ( read more)
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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror & the Future of Reason
by Sam Harris
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Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes heinous crimes.... ( read more)
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God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
by Christopher Hitchens
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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)
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Why I Am Not a Christian: And Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects
by Bertrand Russell
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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)
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Evil: An Investigation
by Lance Morrow
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At the beginning of the twenty-first century, evil remains as potent and radical a force in the world as it has ever been. We all know evil when we encounter it-in the villains of history like Hitler and Stalin, in the routine brutality that makes the... ( read more)
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On Bullshit
by Harry G. Frankfurt
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Lying is a craft, but bullshitting is an art. "Hence the familiar notion of the 'bullshit artist,'" moral philosopher Harry Frankfurt reminds us in this fun, erudite treatise. On Bullshit surely ranks as one of the best gift books to come along in quite... ( read more)
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Living Without God: New Directions for Atheists, Agnostics, Secularists, and the Undecided
by Ronald Aronson
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Ronald Aronson has a mission: to demonstrate that a life without religion can be coherent, moral, and committed. Optimistic and stirring, Living Without God is less interested in attacking religion than in developing a positive philosophy for atheists... ( read more)
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Discipline & Punish and The Birth of the Prison
by Michel Foucault
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In this brilliant work, the most influential philosopher since Sartre suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his... ( read more)
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for Everyone and No One (Penguin Classics)
by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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The ancient Persian prophet Zarathustra descends from the mountains to tell the world that God is dead and that Superman, the human embodiment of divinity, is his successor. Nietzsche argues that the meaning of existence is not religious.... ( read more)
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Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar...: Understanding Philosophy Through Jokes
by Thomas Cathcart and Daniel Klein
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Here's a lively, hilarious, not-so-reverent crash course through the great philosophical traditions, schools, concepts, and thinkers; it's Philosophy 101 for everyone who knows not to take all this heavy stuff too seriously. Some included Big Ideas are... ( read more)
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The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, 3rd Edition
by Thomas S Kuhn
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Thomas S. Kuhn's classic book is now available with a new index. "A landmark in intellectual history which has attracted attention far beyond its own immediate field. . . . It is written with a combination of depth and clarity that make it an almost... ( read more)
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Prince
by Machiavelli And Bull
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"Note on books": p. 27-[28].... ( read more)
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The Gospel of the Flying Spaghetti Monster
by Bobby Henderson
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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... ( read more)
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The Persian Letters (Penguin Classics)
by Charles Montesquieu
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Richly evocative novel. Translated by C.J. Betts.... ( read more)
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The Birth of Tragedy (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Philosopher's classic study declares that Greek tragedy achieved greatness through a fusion of elements of Apollonian restraint and control with Dionysian components of passion and the irrational.<BR>... ( read more)
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Godless Morality: Keeping Religion Out of Ethics
by Richard Holloway
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Richard Holloway's highly acclaimed analysis of contemporary morality has met with great success in the U.K., while causing a great deal of controversy with its broadminded and refreshingly unhypocritical and honest views on life in modern society... ( read more)
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Screened Out
by Jean Baudrillard
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World-renowned for his lively and often iconoclastic reading of contemporary culture and thought, Jean Baudrillard here turns his hand to topical political debates and issues. In this stimulating collection of journalistic essays Baudrillard addresses... ( read more)
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