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Price: $17.00
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Sale: $4.98
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Manufacturer: Holt Paperbacks
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Michael Shermer
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
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Edition: Revised
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Dewey Decimal Number: 133
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Publication Date: 2002-09-01
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Reading Level: 384
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Description: Few can talk with more personal authority about the range of human beliefs than Michael Shermer. At various times in the past, Shermer has believed in fundamentalist Christianity, alien abductions, Ayn Rand, megavitamin therapy, and deep-tissue massage. Now he believes in skepticism, and his motto is "Cognite tute--think for yourself." This updated edition of Why People Believe Weird Things covers Holocaust denial and creationism in considerable detail, and has chapters on abductions, Satanism, Afrocentrism, near-death experiences, Randian positivism, and psychics. Shermer has five basic answers to the implied question in his title: for consolation, for immediate gratification, for simplicity, for moral meaning, and because hope springs eternal. He shows the kinds of errors in thinking that lead people to believe weird (that is, unsubstantiated) things, especially the built-in human need to see patterns, even where there is no pattern to be seen. Throughout, Shermer emphasizes that skepticism (in his sense) does not need to be cynicism: "Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known." --Mary Ellen Curtin
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Price: $91.93
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Sale: $70.79
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Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mary Pat Fisher
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Publisher: Prentice Hall
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Edition: 7
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291
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Publication Date: 2007-11-09
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Reading Level: 568
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Description: Living Religions, 7/e presents a highly readable and stimulating survey of the modern religious world. Exploring the historical development and teachings of traditional faiths, indigenous religions, and new religious movements, this book considers how each of these traditions has evolved into contemporary beliefs and practices. This book explores in detail the changing nature of each religion, the spread of religious pluralism, the rise in violence in the name of religion, and the movement toward interfaith dialogue. Author Mary Pat Fisher offers fresh and challenging insight into how believers of today's faiths perceive their religion and its role in the changing world in which they live.
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Price: $19.88
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Sale: $12.79
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Manufacturer: Spiritis Publishing
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Glenda Green
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Publisher: Spiritis Publishing
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Dewey Decimal Number: 232.9
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Publication Date: 1998-12
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Reading Level: 365
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Description: For almost two thousand years devoted believers, mystics, innocents, and even non-believers have reported to have near-to-life, fully perceptual, visitations with Jesus Christ. In 1992 He appeared to Glenda Green and spoke with her daily for almost four months. The expressed purpose of their visit was to paint His portrait, but nothing in the history of her career as an artist or university professor had prepared her for the life transformation that was about to take place. During this time, they spoke…as friends do, of many wonderful things—both miraculous and practical. Nothing would ever be the same. Her penetrating report of this experience is sincere, unbiased, and free of religious contrivance. In many ways her perceptions provide a bridge to the new millennium. Never before has language or a state of consciousness been present to examine the nature of such a miraculous occurrence as well as to develop the profound implications of it. Here is a brilliant glimpse of eternity, rich with practical applications to life. These messages are sparkling and direct with great contemporary relevance, Imparting in every way the impact of Divinity in communion with a thoughtful and well educated woman of our generation. Amazing answers are given to more than 300 penetrating questions.
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Price: $17.95
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Sale: $11.11
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Manufacturer: Prometheus Books
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Victor J. Stenger
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Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Dewey Decimal Number: 211
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Publication Date: 2008-04-08
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Reading Level: 310
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Description: This edition includes a new Foreword by CHRISTOPHER HITCHENS, author of the #1 New York Times bestselling GOD IS NOT GREAT.
In the paperback's afterword, Victor Stenger addresses criticisms of his New York Times bestselling first edition.
Throughout history, arguments for and against the existence of God have been largely confined to philosophy and theology. In the meantime, science has sat on the sidelines and quietly watched this game of words march up and down the field. Despite the fact that science has revolutionized every aspect of human life and greatly clarified our understanding of the world, somehow the notion has arisen that it has nothing to say about the possibility of a supreme being, which much of humanity worships as the source of all reality.
Physicist Victor J. Stenger contends that, if God exists, some evidence for this existence should be detectable by scientific means, especially considering the central role that God is alleged to play in the operation of the universe and the lives of humans. Treating the traditional God concept, as conventionally presented in the Judeo-Christian and Islamic traditions, like any other scientific hypothesis, Stenger examines all of the claims made for God's existence.
He considers the latest Intelligent Design arguments as evidence of God's influence in biology. He looks at human behavior for evidence of immaterial souls and the possible effects of prayer. He discusses the findings of physics and astronomy in weighing the suggestions that the universe is the work of a creator and that humans are God's special creation.
After evaluating all the scientific evidence, Stenger concludes that beyond a reasonable doubt the universe and life appear exactly as we might expect if there were no God.
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Price: $32.99
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Sale: $18.09
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Manufacturer: Zondervan
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: Wayne Grudem
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Publisher: Zondervan
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Dewey Decimal Number: 230.04624
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Publication Date: 1999-07-01
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Reading Level: 528
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Description: This is an abridgment of Grudem's highly commended Systematic Theology intended for laypeople and nonprofessionals.
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Price: $14.95
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Sale: $6.45
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Manufacturer: Broadway
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Dalai Lama
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Publisher: Broadway
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Dewey Decimal Number: 294.3365
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Publication Date: 2006-09-12
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Reading Level: 224
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Description: Galileo, Copernicus, Newton, Niels Bohr, Einstein. Their insights shook our perception of who we are and where we stand in the world, and in their wake have left an uneasy coexistence: science vs. religion, faith vs. empirical inquiry. Which is the keeper of truth? Which is the true path to understanding reality?
After forty years of study with some of the greatest scientific minds, as well as a lifetime of meditative, spiritual, and philosophic study, the Dalai Lama presents a brilliant analysis of why all avenues of inquiry—scientific as well as spiritual—must be pursued in order to arrive at a complete picture of the truth. Through an examination of Darwinism and karma, quantum mechanics and philosophical insight into the nature of reality, neurobiology and the study of consciousness, the Dalai Lama draws significant parallels between contemplative and scientific examinations of reality.
This breathtakingly personal examination is a tribute to the Dalai Lama’s teachers—both of science and spirituality. The legacy of this book is a vision of the world in which our different approaches to understanding ourselves, our universe, and one another can be brought together in the service of humanity.
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Price: $14.00
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Sale: $7.19
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Manufacturer: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Mircea Eliade
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Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
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Dewey Decimal Number: 290
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Publication Date: 1987-10-23
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Reading Level: 256
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Description: A noted historian of religion traces manifestations of the sacred from primitive to modern times, in terms of space, time, nature and the cosmos, and life itself. Index. Translated by Willard Trask.
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Price: $24.95
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Sale: $15.10
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Manufacturer: Westminster John Knox Press
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Reinhold Niebuhr
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Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
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Dewey Decimal Number: 301
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Publication Date: 2002-01
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Reading Level: 284
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Price: $15.95
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Sale: $8.97
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Manufacturer: Hazelden
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Paperback
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Author: Melody Beattie
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Publisher: Hazelden
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Dewey Decimal Number: 291.432
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Publication Date: 2000-10-01
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Reading Level: 432
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Description: This new volume of meditations offers clients ongoing wisdom and guidance about relationship issues. An excellent enhancement to therapy, daily thoughts provide clients with ongoing insights into issues such as surrendering, the damaging effects of manipulation, and healthy communication. This book shares unsentimental, direct help for clients recovering from chemical dependency, healing from relationships and family issues, and exploring personal growth.
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Price: $20.00
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Sale: $11.30
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Manufacturer: Hill and Wang
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Number of Items: 1
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Binding: Hardcover
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Author: John Allen Paulos
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Publisher: Hill and Wang
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Dewey Decimal Number: 212.1
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Publication Date: 2008-01-02
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Reading Level: 176
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Description: A Lifelong Unbeliever Finds No Reason to Change His Mind
Are there any logical reasons to believe in God? Mathematician and bestselling author John Allen Paulos thinks not. In Irreligion he presents the case for his own worldview, organizing his book into twelve chapters that refute the twelve arguments most often put forward for believing in God’s existence. The latter arguments, Paulos relates in his characteristically lighthearted style, “range from what might be called golden oldies to those with a more contemporary beat. On the playlist are the firstcause argument, the argument from design, the ontological argument, arguments from faith and biblical codes, the argument from the anthropic principle, the moral universality argument, and others.” Interspersed among his twelve counterarguments are remarks on a variety of irreligious themes, ranging from the nature of miracles and creationist probability to cognitive illusions and prudential wagers. Special attention is paid to topics, arguments, and questions that spring from his incredulity “not only about religion but also about others’ credulity.” Despite the strong influence of his day job, Paulos says, there isn’t a single mathematical formula in the book. |
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