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This is our 'A' list of bestselling books. Plenty of atheism, pro-science, freethought and humanist titles for your enjoyment and enlightenment!
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Fighting Words: A Toolkit for Combating the Religious Right
We have discounted the price of this terrific little book, as it is such a good read that we wanted more of you to see it. Every clear-headed patriot should own a copy! Fighting Words is the indispensable book for reclaiming our country. It features quotations from Jefferson, Washington, Madison, Franklin, and many more. Funny, eye-opening, accessible smart, and best of all, really useful for combating the creeping Fundamentalist scourge repeated gleefully by Fox TV and every other corporate media source. Paperback, 146 pages. |
Humanism for Parents - Parenting Without Religion$12.95 Humanism for Parents - Parenting Without Religion. By some estimates, over 1 billion people in the world are non-religious (humanist/secular/atheist) yet we base many of our parenting techniques and traditions on religion. This terrific little book outlines how non-believing parents can have rites, rituals, and practices needed for a healthy, spiritually fulfilled family - without God, Jesus, bibles and other destructive religious indoctrination. Paperback - 87 pages. |
Mark Twain: Selected Writings of an American Skeptic
$30.00 Edited by Victor Doyno. This isn't just another common anthology of Twain; it gathers together an array of his greatest fiction, essays, speeches and writings which reveal Twain's wit, humor, and social concern. Paperback, 450 pages. |
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. This book won the 2005 PEN Award for Nonfiction. The author, Sam Harris, is a graduate in philosophy from Stanford University and has studied both Eastern and Western religious traditions, along with a variety of contemplative disciplines, for twenty years. He is now completing a doctorate in neuroscience, studying the neural basis of belief, disbelief, and uncertainty with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). His newest book delving into this topic, "The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values," is due out in October of 2010. Paperback - 348 pages |
The Godless Constitution$14.95 The Godless Constitution is a ringing rebuke to the religious right's attempts, fueled by misguided and inaccurate interpretations of American history, to dismantle the wall between church and state erected by the founders. The authors, both distinguished scholars, revisit the historical roots of American religious freedom and offer a bracing return to the first principles of American governance. Paperback - 224 pages. |
There is a Purple Dragon in my Washing Machine$6.00 By Raul Martinez. When a sock comes up missing in the washer, a little boy asks his dad where the sock went. His dad then explains how some people believe a Purple Dragon is responsible for eating the sock. It's a very light-hearted approach to the arbitrary nature of belief and the advantages of rational thought. Features color illustrations and both Spanish and English versions of the story on each page. For young readers, but adults will enjoy reading and sharing the story with children too. Recommended for ages 4 and up. Stapled paper book - 24 pages. |
Why Mommy Is A Democrat children's book$9.00 Why Mommy Is A Democrat children's book. This delightful 28-page paperback isn't just for children. It depicts principles of fairness, tolerance, peace and concern for others, bringing to life the core Progressive values of the Democratic Party in ways that young children will easily understand and enjoy. It makes a great bedtime book for little Democrats! |
The Mind of the Bible Believer
$28.00 By Edmund D. Cohen. Examines the unsurpassed psychological acumen of the Bible; a look at the mind of the born-again Christian and the ominous intentions of Pat Robertson's 700 Club. Paperback - 432 pages. |
Staying Sane In A Crazy World: A Guide To Rational Living
$22.00 By Rabbi Sherwin Wine. A fresh and somewhat outrageous new approach to the search for meaning in life. In an age when it is fashionable to give people answers that they want to hear but cannot use, Wine provides less fashionable - but more effective -- answers to the fundamental issues of the human condition. Hardcover, 276 pages. Limited Quantities Available |
Ethics for Everyone: How to Increase Your Moral Intelligence
$15.95 By Arthur Dobrin. Is it always wrong to lie? Is it always right to try to help another person? Are you bound to keep every promise you make? You'll find out how well you make moral choices and learn how to increase your ability to understand and analyze ethical dilemmas. This sensible, practical guide provides thoughtful - and sometimes surprising - answers to tough real-world questions. Paperback, 272 pages. |
I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
By Stephen Jay Gould. In distinction to Gould's monumental The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, the tenth and final collection of the his Natural History columns can be sampled an essay or two at a sitting. They reveal an intellectual curiosity so brimming that Gould seems good-spirited even as he robustly debunks another anti-Darwinian argument. As always, his alert exercises in problem solving are delightfully colored by his own obsessions, e.g., baseball and his beloved Boston Red Sox. Apart from Gould's scientific achievements, he deserves to be acknowledged as one of the premier essayists in our language. Paperback - 432 pages. |
Toward a New Political Humanism
Edited by Barry F. Seidman and Neil J. Murphy Where should humanists stand on various political issues, and how can political activists bring humanism into their work? Twenty-five leading humanists discuss these questions in TOWARD A NEW POLITICAL HUMANISM, using humanism - a secular, planetary, and active philosophy whose aim is to build a cooperative human society where science, reason, compassion, and the use of evidence in each and every decision are paramount - as the basic philosophical core of human beliefs and nature that we can use as a foundation for creating a better society for the twenty-first century. Hardcover - 418 pages. |
Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor$16.00 Isaac Asimov's Treasury of Humor. 640 of Asimov's favorite jokes, anecdotes, and limericks, complete with notes on how to tell them, from America's leading renaissance man! Paperback - 431 pages. |
Jefferson’s Scissors Book $20.00 A book that outlines the conflict between religious belief and scientific belief and between religious values and democratic values. |
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Death by Black Hole, Nei DeGrasse Tyson $0.00 |
Why I Am Not A Muslim
$31.00 By Ibn Warraq. "Transcends The Satanic Verses in terms of sacrilege. Where Rushdie offered an elusive critique of Islam in an airy tale of magical realism, Ibn Warraq brings a scholarly sledgehammer to the task of demolishing Islam. Such an act, especially for an author of Muslim birth, is so incendiary that the author must write under a pseudonym; not to do so would be an act of suicide" - The Weekly Standard Hardcover - 402 pages. |
Time Traveling with Science and the Saints
By George A. Erickson. History reveals that religion in general and Christianity in particular has retarded social and scientific progress and been the source of immeasurable woe. President Thomas Jefferson said as much when he wrote, "In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty. He is always in alliance with the despot." Hardcover - 180 pages. |
Kiss My Left Behind
$15.95 By Earl Lee, who boldly states on the front cover "This is a parody of moronic books about 'The Rapture,' and if you don't like it you can...Kiss My Left Behind." If you've heard your christian friends praising and praying over the "Left Behind series", this is the book for you. It reportedly walks the reader through a lot of similar events, with very dis-similar outcomes. |
How to Behave and Why
$14.95 By Munro Leaf. In a time when all the rules for raising children have been redefined dozens of times, here is a book for bewildered parents from a simpler time when we all agreed on what was right and what was wrong. First published in 1946, Munro Leaf's How To Behave And Why gives touchingly sincere yet gently funny lessons in Honesty, Fairness, Strength, and Wisdom. Reading level: Ages 4-8 Hardcover: 48 pages |
The Devil's Dictionaries
$49.95 By Ambrose Bierce & Chaz Bufe. RARE - this book is out of print and we only have one copy left. Great for a collector! This much-expanded second edition of The Devil's Dictionaries combines the best 200+ definitions from Ambrose Bierce's classic The Devil's Dictionary with 500+ definitions from its best modern successor, Chaz Bufe's American Heretic's Dictionary (newly revised and expanded). |
Godless, Dan Barker$14.95 If you are at all familiar with the freethought movement in the United States over the last 20 years you'll recognize Dan Barker's name. His story, that of an evangelical preacher turned athiest, is legendary. His book comes across with the true kindness and insight that is Dan's alone. Bonus forward by Richard Dawkins. Read and enjoy. |
The Happy Heretic
By Judith Hayes. A humorous and refreshingly down-to-earth call for common sense over the irrational beliefs and maddening inconsistencies that often characterize popular religion. Hardcover - 268 Pages. |
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