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God: The Failed Hypothesis. How Science Shows That God Does Not Exist
Victor J. Stenger
Prometheus Books, 2008
Great Arguments
I found some great nuggets of logic and wisdom in this book. I want to re-read it for additional detail, but overall I would recommend it!
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Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking
Thomas E. Kida
Prometheus Books, 2006
Regarding Pseudoscience, 2006:
One of my favorite quotes from this book:
"why do we hold many pseudoscientific beliefs? Probably the main reason is that we want to believe them. As the noted astronomer Carl Sagan observed, pseudoscience and other weird beliefs often meet our emotional needs ...
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Distracted: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age
Maggie Jackson
Prometheus Books, 2008
Now, Readers, Please Pay...Uh...Attention!
There is little doubt that over the past few decades, particularly during what has been referred to as "the computer age," the world of intellectual activity has substantially changed. So-called "multitasking" has become common. "Sound-bites" provide many people with ...
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Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the U.S. Meat Industry
Gail A. Eisnitz
Prometheus Books, 2006
Confirming the gross-ness
This book just confirms the other reading I have done on the subject. Read it if you are ready to get the facts and stop ignoring what I like to refer to as the "gross-ness" of the meat and dairy industry (both in terms of the animals' treatment, and the impact for ...
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The General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money (Great Minds Series)
John Maynard Keynes
Prometheus Books, 1997
The Economics of Pessimism
One sometimes hears that money is the root of all evil. Keynes would agree, but not because of any animosity towards the profit motive (Keynes was definitely not a socialist and he even agreed with and endorsed Hayek's "The Road to Serfdom"), but because in an economy ...
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Relics of Eden: The Powerful Evidence of Evolution in Human DNA
Daniel J. Fairbanks
Prometheus Books, 2007
There's No Controversy
I've been expecting a book on this subject and Fairbanks does a superb job.
Tracking fossil evidence in DNA means following the histories of mutations in non-coding DNA segments. There are several different kinds of mutations - some of them more unique than a ...
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50 Reasons People Give for Believing in a God
Guy P. Harrison
Prometheus Books, 2008
Harrison offers intelligent answers to these questions.
Guy Harrison has written a good book for the non-technically oriented person interested in the God hypothesis. Harrison does a wonderful job of articulating why it makes little sense to believe in the face of 50 of the real reasons why the average person in the pew ...
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Blind Spots: Why Smart People Do Dumb Things
Madeleine L. Van Hecke
Prometheus Books, 2007
Get ...and stay...Smart!
If every person in a position of responsibility read this book, perhaps there would be fewer catastrophes! Granted, there are so many things at play in complex situations, a mere human may not be able to change entire outcomes. However, there are so many stupid ...
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Energy Victory: Winning the War on Terror by Breaking Free of Oil
Robert Zubrin
Prometheus Books, 2007
Victory through ingenuity
Gas is $3.80. OPEC continues to bleed us. The Saudi's continue to export radical Islam financed by our oil dollars. Environmentalist continue to obstruct. To counter these factors Zubrin lays out a solid, cogent plan utilizing METHANOL not corn based ETHANOL. This ...
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The Legacy of Islamic Antisemitism: From Sacred Texts to Solemn History
Prometheus Books, 2008
A Factual Historic Analysis
Andrew Bostom has performed an invaluable service in editing this volume. All one hears are opinions and projections of personal beliefs onto the religion of Islam. (Our President's view is one such example.) Using the words and expositions of Islamic leaders and ...
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If You Had to Choose, What Would You Do?
Sandra McLeod Humphrey
Prometheus Books, 1995
Kids and parents will love this book
This book is such a wonderful way to open up dialogue with yourchildren. They love to tell you what they would do and you get theopportunity to share your values at the same time. I really think this is a wonderful way to talk to your kids about peer pressure and ...
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Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin
David R. Contosta
Prometheus Books, 2008
an excellent pick for any community library collection dedicated to history
Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin, although both famous, would not be said by many to have a lot in common. David R. Contosta disagrees, and "Rebel Giants: The Revolutionary Lives of Abraham Lincoln & Charles Darwin" is his reasoning why. The two figures, hugely ...
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Flim-Flam! Psychics, ESP, Unicorns, and Other Delusions
James Randi
Prometheus Books, 1982
An early skeptic classic
After being a magician for over thirty years, James "The Amazing" Randi devoted his considerable talents in helping people see the hand behind the curtain in such popular delusions as ESP, spoon bending, levitation, TM, UFOology and the like.
This book represents a ...
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Evil Genes: Why Rome Fell, Hitler Rose, Enron Failed and My Sister Stole My Mother's Boyfriend
Barbara Oakley
Prometheus Books, 2007
Fascinating science!
Three or four times a year I come across a book so compelling that I bubble over telling friends about it and impulsively read passages aloud to my long-suffering husband. Evil Genes is such a book.
As the book description says, Barbara Oakley began getting really ...
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What If It's Not Alzheimer's?: A Caregiver's Guide to Dementia (Updated & Revised)
Prometheus Books, 2008
Dementia other than Alzheimer's
I wish I had found this book over a year ago. Statistically the largest portion of people diagnosed with dementia are diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease. The sad truth is that many people diagnosed as having Alzheimer's are mis-diagnosed and don't have Alzheimer's ...
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