The convention is sold out... but YOU CAN STILL ATTEND! You can view all of the convention proceedings as a live video stream and bring your friends.
PRE-SALE save 20%. Are you one of the lucky ones? You can buy your books now and pick them up at the convention SAVE 20% on all author signing books NOW! This is a great opportunity to get all your holiday shopping done, with great personalized gifts. And you'll save 20% by entering the coupon code: 'AAI2007' on our checkout page.
This coupon expires September 20, 2007
Remember to put a note on the checkout page stating that you will pick up your book(s) at the Convention, and we will remove the shipping charges from your order.
Not attending the convention? You can still get an autographed book from the convention and save 20%! Here is what to do;
Order the books, at check out you have an opportunity to give us "Ordering Instructions". Tell us here how you want the books signed; maybe you are giving Sam Harris' "Letter to a Christian Nation" to your brother-in-law, Bill, for his birthday; we'll ask Sam to address the book to Bill as he signs it. Order as many books as you like. We will charge your card when we get your order. We will have the books signed at the convention, and then we will ship them to you after the convention.
This is a great opportunity to get all your holiday shopping done, with great personalized gifts. And you'll save 20%
Enter coupon code AAI2007.
This offer expires on September 20, 2007.
See below for our selection.
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason $13.95
In The End of Faith, Sam Harris delivers a startling analysis of the clash between reason and religion in the modern world. He offers a vivid, historical tour of our willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs-even when these beliefs inspire the worst of human atrocities. Harris argues that in the presence of weapons of mass destruction we cannot expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Most controversially, he argues that "modernization" of religion poses considerable dangers of its own, as the accommodation we have made to religious faith in our society now blinds us to the role that faith plays in perpetuating human conflict. Paperback - 348 pages
God is Not Great $24.99
Hitchens, who once described Mother Teresa as "a fanatic, a fundamentalist, and a fraud," is notorious for making mincemeat out of sacred cows, but in this book it is the sacred itself that is skewered. Religion, Hitchens writes, is "violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women and coercive toward children." Channeling the anti-supernatural spirits of other acolytes of the "new atheism," Hitchens argues that religion is "man-made" and murderous, originating in fear and sustained by brute force. Like Richard Dawkins, he denounces the religious education of young people as child abuse. Like Sam Harris, he fires away at the Koran as well as the Bible. Hardcover - 307 pages.
40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania $25.95
Charles Darwin's great-great grandson and a successful Hollywood screenwriter, describes the 2005 intelligent design (ID) trial in Dover, Pa. The native-born Brit loves his adopted American home, but is terrified at the rise of a belligerent fundamentalism that seems to him invincibly ignorant and contemptuous of such scientific commonplaces as evolution. The 40 days and nights of the trial convince him that ID should indeed be taught in every science classroom in America: as an exercise in removing the kid gloves with which religion is treated in this country, science teachers should demolish ID before their pupils' eyes. Hardback - 288 pages.
Freedom Evolves $17.00
By Daniel C. Dennett
Can there be freedom and free will in a deterministic world? Renowned philosopher Daniel Dennett answers with an emphatic yes, showing us how we alone among the animals have evolved minds that give us free will and morality. Paperback, 347 pages.
Breaking The Spell $16.00
Trading in a supernatural soul for a natural soul - is this a fair bargain?" Daniel Dennett, seeking to fend off "caricatures of Darwinian thinking" that plague his philosophical camp, argues in this incendiary, brilliant, even dangerous book that it is. Picking up where he left off in Darwin's Dangerous Idea (a Pulitzer and National Book Award finalist), he zeroes in on free will, a sticking point to the opposing camp. Drawing on evolutionary biology, neuroscience, economic game theory, philosophy and Richard Dawkins's meme, the author argues that there is indeed such a thing as free will, but it "is not a preexisting feature of our existence, like the law of gravity."
Darwin's Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meaning of Life $16.00
By Daniel C. Dennett.
"This is the best single-author overview of all the implications of evolution by natural selection available...Lucid and entertaining."
-John Gribbin, Sunday Times, London. Paperback - 586 pages.
Infidel $26.00
Readers with an eye on European politics will recognize Ali as the Somali-born member of the Dutch parliament who faced death threats after collaborating on a film about domestic violence against Muslim women with controversial director Theo van Gogh (who was himself assassinated). Even before then, her attacks on Islamic culture as "brutal, bigoted, [and] fixated on controlling women" had generated much controversy. In this suspenseful account of her life and her struggle with her Muslim faith, she discusses how these views were shaped by experiences amid the political chaos of Somalia and other African nations. Hardcover - 353 pages.
Parenting Beyond Belief $17.95
In Parenting Beyond Belief, Dale McGowan celebrates the freedom that comes with raising kids without formal indoctrination and advises parents on the most effective way to raise freethinking children. In the age of creeping, invasive fundamentalism, this great book is more relevant than ever! 290 pages. [Order][Checkout]
Nothing - Nica Lalli (paperback) $17.00
Nica Lalli chronicles her journey of acceptance as she came of age in a family that refused to embrace organized religious belief. When the author was seven, she decided she would like to join a Catholic friend in making her first communion. "I wanted the white dress," Lalli admits. When she asked her parents, "What are we?" she was surprised at the answer. Her once-Catholic father responded, "We are nothing." Thus began the Lalli's quest to define her secular beliefs in a society where religion often separates rather than unites people. Paperback - 224 pages.
Atheist Alliance International Convention T-shirt 2007 $16.00$8.95 Price reduced!!
The 2007 Atheist Alliance Convention in Washington DC was a huge hit! But you can still get these shirts, which were made for the convention. They feature the 'Crystal Clear Atheism' logo on the front. The back of the shirt features a larger logo and the impressive list of speakers. Click on the image for a list of the speakers. 100% cotton blue, with 3 color design. Only a few of these shirts left!
The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
God is Not Great
40 Days and 40 Nights: Darwin, Intelligent Design, God, Oxycontin, and Other Oddities on Trial in Pennsylvania
Breaking The Spell
Infidel
Nothing - Nica Lalli (paperback)