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Women's Wisdom$16.95 Women's Wisdom - Meg Bowman. This is fifth volume of dramatic feminist readings from a publisher started by the Women and Religion Task Force of the UUA Pacific Central District. The editor, a retired professor of sociology, is a member of the First Unitarian Church of San Jose, California. Paperback - 205 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Memorial Services for Women$8.95 Memorial Services for Women - Meg Bowman. Offers some wonderful modern alternatives to the usual memorial services, which are old dogmas written by - and for - men. Paperback - 156 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The End of America$13.95 In The End of America, Naomi Wolf lays out her case for saving American democracy. In authoritative research and documentation Wolf explains how events of the last six years parallel steps taken in the early years of the 20th century’s worst dictatorships such as Germany, Russia, China, and Chile. The book cuts across political parties and ideologies and speaks directly to those among us who are concerned about the ever-tightening noose being placed around our liberties. Paperback - 176 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Not In Our Classrooms$14.00 In "Not in Our Classrooms," parents and teachers, as well as other concerned citizens, have a much-needed tool to argue against teaching intelligent design as science. In clear and lively essays, a team of experts describe not only the history of the intelligent design movement and the lack of scientific support for its claims, but also the religious, legal, and pedagogical problems that proposals to teach this idea in the public schools bring in their wake. Essential reading for anyone concerned about the teaching of science in our public schools. Paperback - 171 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
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. [Order] [Checkout] |
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] |
Kingdom Coming, The Rise of Christian Nationalism$23.99 Kingdom Coming, The Rise of Christian Nationalism. Michelle Goldberg takes us on an eye-opening journey through the Christian right grassroots, from the evolution battles in Dover, Pennsylvania to Roy's Rock in Alabama and beyond. Along the way, she makes a devastating case that underlying this movement's campaigns against abortion or gay marriage is a tremendous will to power, an ambition to achieve Christian domination of our public life and laws. Kingdom Coming offers a stark warning that our democracy is under attack from within. 241 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Descent of Man Darwin AwardsDescent of Man Darwin Awards. In this mini-volume, men meet their inner idiots as they test their testosterone levels by petting sharks, kissing snakes, chasing beer cans, and juggling hand grenades. Only when it's too late do these would-be Alpha males realize that they're actually Omega males, providing ample proof of a missing "Why?" chromosome. 192 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Felonious Failures Darwin AwardsFelonious Failures Darwin Awards. This miniature volume taken from the best-selling Darwin Awards series relays some of the best accounts of awe-inspiring (and usually fatal) criminal errors. This collection of cautionary tales proves that crime does pay... a genetic dividend! 188 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
To the Flag: The Unlikely History of the Pledge
By Richard J. Ellis. For over one hundred years, it has been deeply ingrained in American culture. Saluting the flag in public schools began as part of a national effort to Americanize immigrants, its final six words imbuing it with universal hope and breathtaking power. Now Richard Ellis unfurls the fascinating history of the Pledge of Allegiance and of the debates and controversies that have sometimes surrounded it. Hardcover - 297 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Reason: Why Liberals Will Win the Battle for America
By Robert B. Reich. Reich offers a bold plan for defeating this politics of fear and favor - whose defining gesture is to equate dissent with treason - and for reinstating the traditional American politics of reason. He calls on liberals to close ranks and maintain a permanent platform that can grow in power. Paperback - 247 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Don't Think of An Elephant!
By George Lakoff Don't Think of An Elephant! is the antidote to the last forty years of conservative strategizing and the right wing's stranglehold on political dialog in the United States. Author George Lakoff explains how conservatives think, and how to counter their arguments. He outlines in detail the traditional American values that progressives hold, but are often unable to articulate. Lakoff also breaks down the ways in which conservatives have framed the issues, and provides examples of how progressives can reframe the debate. Paperback - 144 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
What's the Matter with Kansas?
$14.00 By Thomas Frank Hailed as "dazzlingly insightful" (Chicago Tribune), "very funny and very painful" (San Francisco Chronicle), and "the best political book of the year" (The New York Times), What's the Matter with Kansas? unravels the great political mystery of our day: Why do so many Americans vote against their economic and social interests? With his acclaimed wit and acuity, Thomas Frank answers the riddle by examining his home state, Kansas - a place once famous for its radicalism that now ranks among the nation's most actively anti-liberal - and reveals how conservatism, formerly a marker of class privilege, became the creed of millions of ordinary Americans. Paperback, 322 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism Paperback
$16.00 By Susan Jacoby An authoritative history of the vital role of secularist thinkers and activists in the United States, from a writer of "fierce intelligence and nimble, unfettered imagination."-The New York Times. [Order] [Checkout] |
Weddings: the Magic of Creating Your Own$19.95 By Henry S. Basayne and Linda R. Janowitz, Ph.D. If youÆre a couple who chooses to create all or part of your own ceremony, your wedding celebration will glow with the personal and distinctive warmth of a ceremony that is truly your own. If you think that the wedding ceremony is more than food, fashion or flowers, then this is the book for you. Paperback, 217 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
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. [Order] [Checkout] |
Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women's Rights
By Nadine Strossen Traditional explanations of why pornography must be defended from would-be censors have concentrated on censorship's adverse impacts on free speech and sexual autonomy. In contrast, Nadine Strossen focuses on the women's rights-centered rationale for defending pornography. Paperback - 320 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Flesh in the Age of Reason: The Modern Foundations of Body and Soul
By Roy Porter How did we come to a modern understanding of our bodies and souls? What were the breakthroughs that allowed human beings to see themselves in a new light? Roy Porter's final book delves into these questions with a wealth of evidence to make his case. Hardcover - 574 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Gandhi, Behind the Mask of Divinity
Among prominent leaders of the twentieth century, perhaps no one is more highly regarded than Mahatma Gandhi. He is revered by the vast majority of Hindus as the hero of Indian independence, and many people throughout the world consider him to be a modern saint. In this explosive, intriguing, and provocative investigation, G. B. Singh charges that the popular image of Gandhi is highly misleading. Despite his famous philosophy of nonviolent resistance (satyagraha), Singh's analysis of the evidence leads him to conclude that Gandhi's ideology was in fact rooted in racial animosity, first against blacks in South Africa and later against whites in India. The author also finds evidence of multiple cover-ups designed to hide Gandhi's real history, including even collusion to cover up the murder of an American. This provocative thesis is sure to be controversial. Colonel G. B. Singh, a career military officer, is a professional student of Indian politics, Hinduism, and the life and teachings of Gandhi. Hardcover - 330 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
24 Days: How Two Wall Street Journal Reporters Uncovered the Lies that Destroyed Faith in Corporate America
By John R. Emshwiller & Rebecca Smith. Shows the reporter's-eye view of a David-and-Goliath battle between journalists and the giant Enron corporation, which eventually collapsed like a house of cards. Hardcover - 416 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
By Mary Wollstonecraft. Published in the late 18th century, this was a true classic in the great campaign to attain universal suffrage. Paperback - 206 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Bioterror: Scientists, Industry, Government and Ethics$5.00 By Philip J. Regal; North American Committee for Humanism, Occasional Paper No. 1 Bioterrorism implies immense challenges for university scientists, the corporate community, and government. Professor Regal's groundbreaking analysis of the implications rests upon the humanist tradition of combining information, experience, and sensitivity. Paperback, 39 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Blinded by the Right: The Conscience of an Ex-Conservative
By David Brock. In a powerful and deeply personal memoir in the tradition of Arthur Koestler's The God That Failed, David Brock, the original right-wing scandal reporter, chronicles his rise to the pinnacle of the conservative movement and his painful break with it. Paperback, 378 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Brain Gym$9.00 This is the book that reaches out to all with the message that movement and learning are necessary companions. Every page is full of high-energy illustrations of activities that are available to people of all ages. If you know that you or your child have the ability or the information but can't seem to "get it out," you need a copy of Brain Gym. This is the companion book to the Brain Gym Teacher's Edition. [Order] [Checkout] |
Close Encounters With the Religious Right
By Robert Boston. Subtitled "Journeys into the Twilight Zone of Religion and Politics," this eye-opening expose reveals a sometimes funny but more often disturbing world of fanaticism and extremism. Paperback, 289 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Compulsory Pregnancy: The War Against American Women$12.95 By John M. Swomley. An important contribution to the white-hot national debate over the right of every woman to decide for herself if and when to become a mother, and the intense campaign by some political and sectarian leaders to curtail that right. Paperback, 158 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Convictions
$35.00 By Sidney Hook. Pierces to the heart of momentous issues: human rights, racial equality, cultural freedom, and the separation of ethical behavior from religious belief. Hardcover, 310 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Deadly Doctrine: Health, Illness, and Christian God-Talk
$29.95 By Wendell W. Watters, M.D. Caution: Christianity may be hazardous to your health! Hardcover, 198 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Ecohumanism
Volume 15 of Humanism Today Edited by Robert B. Tapp, in cooperation with the North American Committee for Humanism. Humanists are sometimes accused of being so focused on the human race that they ignore the environment and other species. This book is designed to address these criticisms. The contributors, all humanists in the naturalistic tradition, show that in fact humanism as a worldview has much to offer environmentalism. Hardcover, 333 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
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. [Order] [Checkout] |
Euthanasia: The Moral Issues
$21.00 Edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum. Covers the pros and cons of euthanasia, several first person stories, and several group statements on the topic. Paperback, 182 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Final Exit
$15.00 By Derek Humphrey. This controversial bestseller explores the issues surounding euthanasia. Hardcover, 192 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Goddess Unmasked: The Rise of Neopagan Feminist Spirituality
Philip G. Davis gives a comprehensive and revealing study of the history and development of modern Goddess spirituality. His examination of archaeological, historical, and literary evidence has lead him to conclude that the roots of Goddess spirituality lie not in prehistoric matriarchal societies, as exponents of Goddess beliefs have claimed, but rather in Western esoteric traditions and in the Romantic movement of the 19th century. Paperback, 418 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
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Humanhood: Essays in Biomedical Ethics $32.00 By Joseph Fletcher. Taking a critical look at some of the recent controls over human life, health, and death, Fletcher draws a vivid picture of contemporary biological needs and ethical responsibility. Genetic engineering, fetal research, abortion, suicide, human experimentation, infanticide, and euthanasia are some of the issues explored. Hardcover, 211 pages. Limited Quantities Available. [Order] [Checkout] |
Prescription: Medicide
$36.00 By Jack Kevorkian, M.D. The famed "suicide doctor" talks about why he continues his struggle, and addresses the need to assist the terminally ill to die, how death row inmates should be allowed to donate organs after their deaths, and the need for medical reform to create a rational program of dignified, humane, beneficial planned death. Paperback, 268 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Rational Recovery: The New Cure for Substance Addiction
By Jack Trimpey. Outlining the Addictive Voice Recognition Technique, a self-recovery program for alcoholism and drug addiction, this helpful guide presents an alternative to traditional substance abuse approaches and profiles the addiction "Beast". Rational Recovery offers new hope to addicted people. We sent one up the road to Ted Haggard of the New Life Church, it probably did him more good than all of those hollow prayers. Paperback - 354 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
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 [Order] [Checkout] |
Suicide: Right or Wrong?
$14.00 Edited by John Donnelly. Classic volume revisits and clarifies the heated debate over life's ultimate choice. Paperback, 212 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Taking Nature By The Hand
Harold A. Tichenor writes for the general reader and student of philosophy, and makes the case for naturalism in philosophy. Hardcover - 255 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Teaching Right from Wrong: 40 Things You Can Do to Raise a Moral Child
$13.00 By ArthuráDobrin. Caring parents want to raise children who are kind, trustworthy, considerate and fair. But sometimes it seems like there's no shortage of bad examples to lead them astray. Based on sound psychological theory, drawing on current research - and most importantly, rooted in the real world that parents face today - this book shows how children develop a moral sensibility, and what parents can do to refine and reinforce it. Wise, warm, and thoroughly practical, this is an essential book for all loving parents-who want to raise loving children. Paperback, 224 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The Darwin Awards: Evolution in Action
$11.00 By Wendy Northcutt. With over a quarter million copies in print and six months on The New York Times bestseller list, The Darwin Awards shows that readers crave humor. And what better place to find it than in the stories of those human beings who improve the gene pool by removing themselves from it in a sublimely idiotic fashion. Paperback, 352 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The Destroying Angel$38.00 By John Money. Subtitled "Fitness and Food in the Legacy of Degeneracy Theory, Graham Crackers, Kellog's Corn Flakes & American Health History", this is a study of the historical genesis and present-day persistence of antisexualism in American healthcare and social/legal policy. Hardcover, 213 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The Earth Policy Reader
By Lester R. Brown, Janet Larsen, & Bernie Fischlowitz-Roberts; Earth Policy Institute An award-winning environmental analyst and his colleagues chart progress in building the eco-economy, an economy that is compatible with the earth's ecosystem. Paperback, 192 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The Ethics of Abortion: Pro-Life vs. Pro-Choice, 3rd Edition
Edited by Robert M. Baird and Stuart E. Rosenbaum. This powerful collection of essays gained instant recognition as one of the first attempts to present both sides of the abortion debate in the words of leading proponents. Paperback, 272 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
The Pope and the New ApocalypseBy Stephen D. Mumford. Details The Vatican's holy war against family planning. Paperback - 82 pages. Out of print for 20 years - very limited quantities! [Order] [Checkout] |
Visions Of Reality: What Fundamentalist Schools Teach
By Albert J. Menendez. "If you are wondering what is taught by many fundamentalists in their private schools and home schools, here are the unsettling details." - Book Report. Paperback - 152 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
What the Bible Really Says
$35.00 Edited by Morton Smith and R. Joseph Hoffmann. Separates age-old interpretations of (and apologies for) the Bible from what it actually teaches about social issues as government, segregation, marriage, war, and wealth. Hardcover, 256 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Why Abortion?: The Myth of Choice for Women Who Are Poor$3.00 By Anne Nicol Gaylor. Truly heart-rending stories of women seeking to gain control of their lives. Pregnant women who are poor, ill and disadvantaged continue to be denied the abortions they seek, indeed, plead for. Obviously, if a woman is too poor to afford an abortion, she is much too poor to afford a child, yet the pro-natalist mindset of her government ignores her pleas. Contains the entire text of "What Does The Bible Say About Abortion?" debunking religious opposition to abortion. Booklet - 44 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets
$34.00 By Barbar Walker. Learn new facts on seemingly secular concepts and new twists on religious folklore. Paperback, 450 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Women/Nature/Destiny: Female-Male Equity for Global Survival$6.95 By Richard L. Crowther. Only by a female/male caring interaction can we effectively reset our priorities for a sustainable and survivable world. Paperback, 101 pages. OUT OF PRINT - LIMITED QUANTITIES AVAILABLE [Order] [Checkout] |
Swaggart; the Unauthorized Biography
By Ann Rowe Seaman. Based on interviews with key people and a thorough literature search, Swaggart provides a well-documented account of the life of notorious evangelist Jimmy Swaggart. Paperback - 438 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
America's Most Hated Woman
$24.95 By Ann Rowe Seaman This is the real story of "the most hated woman in America," by the only author to interview the killer and those close to him and to witness the family's secret burial in Austin, Texas. Hardcover, 391 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Baubles of Blasphemy$20.00 By Edwin Kagin. Edwin Kagin has penned a delightful book reflecting his views as freethinking social critic, humorist and, yes, curmudgeon of sorts. Between the covers a reader (depending on his or her intellectual disposition) is sure to discover a gather of essays and poetry that will inform and provoke, anger and elate, seduce - and in some cases surely outrage - and finally do what any book should do, namely, clamor for a place on the bookshelf of any thoughtful person, believer or infidel. -Ellen Johnson. Paperback, 254 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Keep Your Brain Alive
By Lawrence C. Katz, Ph.D. & Manning Rubin. No more punch lines that just slipped away, no more names on the tip of your tongue, no more senior moments! Drawing on cutting-edge neurological research, how to keep your brain alive: 83 neurobic exercises bring help to everyone whose memory is starting to slip. Paperback - 148 pages. [Order] [Checkout] |
Natural Atheism$18.00 Everything is here to help those who already are Atheists better understand the logic of their lives and see Atheism's social and political implications. Those who are not yet Atheists will be helped by this scientist's common-sense analysis of the so-called 'proofs of God' to see the irrationality - indeed, the meaninglessness - of god-beliefs. What is belief? What is knowledge? As Pilate is alleged to have asked, "What is truth?" Understandable and clear answers to all these questions are given by a seasoned anthropolgist who has been able to see around the blinders imposed by Judaeo-Chirstian cultures. [ Add to Cart] [ View Cart] |
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human NatureIn The Blank Slate, Steven Pinker, one of the world's leading experts on language and the mind, explores the idea of human nature and its moral, emotional, and political colorings. With characteristic wit, lucidity, and insight, Pinker argues that the doctrine that the mind has no innate traits - a doctrine embraced by many intellectuals during the past century - denies our common humanity and our individual preferences, replaces objective analyses of social problems with feel-hood slogans, and distorts our understanding of politics, violence, parenting, and the arts. Injecting calm and rationality into debates that are notorious for ax-grinding and mud-slinging, Pinker shows the importance of an honest acknowledgement of human nature based on science and common sense. [Order] [Checkout] |
120 Banned Books$19.95 Throughout history, nations, peoples, and governments have censored writers and their works on political, religious, sexual, and social grounds. Although the literary merit of the majority of these books has been proven time and time again, efforts are still in place today to suppress some of them. From "Animal Farm" to "Ulysses", this book examines the struggle 120 of these works faced to be read. 120 Banned Books provides a summary and censorship history of each work and lists suggestions for further reading. This new edition expands on the ever-popular 100 Banned Books. Paperback - 502 pages [Order] [Checkout] |
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. [Order] [Checkout] |
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