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| Catalog of Books | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Author(s) / Editors | Title | Date | Subtitle or Comments |
| Academy of Humanism | Neo-Fundamentalism | 1988 | The Humanist Response |
| Ahmed, Akbar | Discovering Islam | 1988 | making sense of Muslim history and society |
| Alper, Matthew | The "God" Part of the Brain | 2001 | a scientific interpretation of human spirituality and God |
| Armstrong, Karen | Muhammad | 1992 | A biography of the prophet |
| Auer, J.A.C.F & Hartt, Julian | Humanism Versus Theism | 1951 | A debate? |
| Azimov, Isaac | A Choice of Catastrophes | 1979 | The disasters that threaten our world |
| Baumeister, Roy | Meanings of Life | 1991 | - |
| Beder, Sharon | Global Spin | 2002 | the corporate assault on environmentalism |
| Blackburn, Simon | Think | 1999 | a compelling introduction to philosophy |
| Blackham, H.J. | Humanism | 1968 | humanism as an attitude of mind |
| Bloom, Harold | The American Religion | 1992 | the emergence of the post-Christian nation |
| Boguslaw, Robert | The New Utopians | 1965 | a study of system design and social change |
| Boston, Robert | The Most Dangerous Man in America | 1996 | Pat Robertson and the rise of the Christian coalition |
| Caporale, Lynn Helena | Darwin in the Genome | 2003 | Molecular strategies in biological evolution |
| Carroll, Sean B | Endless Forms Most Beautiful | 2005 | New Science of Evo Devo (evolutionary developments biology) |
| Charlesworth, James | Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls | 1992 | collection of writings by various authors |
| Cohen, Arthur | The Natural and The Supernatural Jew | 1962 | - |
| Cortesi, David | Secular Wholeness | 2001 | a skeptic's paths to a richer life |
| Daloz, Laurent et al | Common Fire | 1996 | Leading Lives Of Commitment In a Complex World |
| Daly, Herman & Cobb, John B Jr | For The Common Good | 1989 | Redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future |
| Davies, Paul | God and The New Physics | 1983 | The impact of science on what were formerly religious issues |
| Dawkins, Richard | The Selfish Gene | 1976 | A "must" read for all humanists |
| De Bono, Edward | Lateral Thinking | 1973 | creativity step by step |
| De Botton, Alain | How Proust Can Change Your Life | 1997 | A self-help manual for the intelligent person |
| deChardin, Pierre Teillhard | Christianity and Evolution | 1971 | - |
| Dennett, Daniel | Brain Children | 1998 | essays on designing mind |
| Denton, Michael | Nature's Destiny | 1998 | How the laws of biology reveal purpose in the universe |
| Dewey, John | A Common Faith | 1934 | Call for emancipation of religion from dogma and supernaturalism. |
| Dewey, John | Reconstruction In Philosophy | 1954 | - |
| Diamond, Jared | Collapse | 2005 | How societies choose to fail or succeed |
| Diamond, Malcolm & Litzenburg, Thomas | The Logic of God: Theology and Verification | 1975 | collection of writings by various authors |
| Diamond, Sara | Spiritual Warfare | 1989 | The politics of the Christian Right |
| Dupont-Sommer, A | The Essene Writings From Quran | 1960 | - |
| Dyer, Wayne | You'll See it When You Believe it | 1989 | the way to your personal transformation |
| Eller, David | Natural Atheism | 2004 | foundations, concepts, applications |
| Faber, M.D. | The Psychological Roots of Religious Belief | 2004 | Is God out there or just inside our heads? |
| Fingarette, Herbert | On Responsibility | 1967 | - |
| Flew, Antony | The Presumption of Atheism and other Essays | 1976 | - |
| Flew, Antony | Atheistic Humanism | 1993 | - |
| Ford, Charles | Lies, Lies, Lies | 1996 | the psychology of deceit |
| Freke, Timothy | Spiritual Traditions | 2000 | Essential teachings to transform your life |
| Goleman, Daniel | The Varieties of the Meditative Experience | 1977 | - |
| Goodwin, Brian | How The Leopard Changed Its Spots | 1994 | the evolution of complexity |
| Goodwin, Brian & Sole, Ricard | Signs of Life | 2000 | how complexity pervades biology |
| Gould, Stephen J. | What a Wonderful Life | 1989 | The Burgess Shale and the nature of history |
| Greider, William | The Soul of Capitalism | 2003 | opening paths to a moral economy |
| Hawke, David Freeman | Paine | 1974 | biographical |
| Hecht, Jennifer | Doubt | 2003 | The great doubter throughout history |
| Ingersoll, Robert | The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Dresden Memorial Edition | 1900 | 10 volumes of the 12 volume set: Lectures, Discussions, Political, Legal, Miscellany, Tributes |
| Jacoby, Susan | Freethinkers | 2004 | a history of American secularism |
| Jenkins, Philip | Mystics and Messiahs | 2000 | Cults and new religions in American History |
| Johnson, George | Fire in The Mind | 1995 | Science, Faith, and the search for order |
| Kelly, Frederick Joseph | Man Before God | 1974 | Thomas Merton on Social Responsibility |
| King, William Peter | Humanism | 1931 | collection of writings by various authors |
| Klinghoffer, David | The Discovery of God | 2003 | Abraham and the birth of monotheism |
| Kuehn, Robert E. | Aldous Huxley | 1974 | a collection of critical essays |
| Kurtz, Paul | Science and Religion: Are They Compatible | 2003 | collection of writings by various authors |
| Kurtz, Paul | The Humanist Alternative | 1973 | Some definitions of humanism |
| Lakein, Alan | How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life | 1973 | Best seller. Emphasizes priority and meaning. |
| Lamont, Corliss | The Philosophy of Humanism | 1988 | 6th edition |
| Lamont, Corliss | The Philosophy of Humanism | 1957 | - |
| Lesser, Elizabeth | The New American Spirituality | 1999 | a seekers guide |
| Lewis, Bernard | What Went Wrong? | 2002 | The clash between Islam and modernity in the middle east |
| Lorenz, Konrad | The Waning Of Humaneness | 1983 | - |
| Mack, Burton | Who Wrote the New Testament? | 1995 | The making of the Christian myth |
| Mack, Burton | The Christian Myth | 2001 | origins, logic, and legacy |
| Manchester, William | H.L. Mencken: Disturber of the Peace | 1967 | - |
| Margulis, Lynn & Sagan, Dorion | Acquiring Genomes | 2002 | A theory of the origins of species |
| Marietta, Don E. Jr. | For People and the Planet | 1995 | Holism and Humanism in environmental ethics |
| Maslow, Abraham | Religions, Values, and Peak Experiences | 1964 | - |
| McBeth, Leon | Strange New Religions | 1977 | - |
| McCutcheon, Russell | The Insider / Outsider Problem in the Study of Religion | 1999 | collection of writings by various authors |
| McLennan, Rev Scotty | Finding Your Religion | 1999 | When the faith you grew up with has lost its meaning |
| Menninger, Karl | Whatever Became of Sin? | 1973 | - |
| Miles, Jack | God | 1995 | A biography |
| Miller, Emmett | Software for the Mind | 1987 | how to program your own mind for optimum health and performance |
| Mithen, Steven | The Prehistory of the Mind | 1996 | The cognitive origins or art and science |
| Mizuno, Kogen | The Beginnings of Buddhism | 1980 | Intro to Buddhism, including history, principles and practices |
| Moore, David | The Dependent Gene | 2001 | The fallacy of nature vs nurture |
| Moyers, Bill | A World of Ideas | 1989 | Conversations about life today and the issues shaping our future |
| Nader, Ralph | Crashing the Party | 2002 | Taking on the corporate government in an age of surrender |
| Neiman, Susan | Evil In Modern Thought | 2002 | An alternative history of philosophy |
| Newman, William | The Social Meanings of Religion | 1974 | - |
| Ornstein, Robert | Evolution of Consciousness | 1991 | The origins of the way we think |
| Parsons, Keith | The Science Wars | 2003 | debating scientific knowledge and technology |
| Patton, Kenneth | A Religion for One World | 1964 | Art and symbols for universal religion |
| Pennock, Robert | Tower of Babel | 1999 | The evidence against the new creationism |
| Plotkin, H.C. | The Role of Behavior in Evolution | 1988 | collection of writings by various authors |
| Press, Bill | Spin This! | 2001 | all the ways we don't tell the truth |
| Quinn, Daniel | Ishmael | 1992 | an adventure of the mind and spirit (fiction, about a talking gorilla) |
| Rheingold, Howard | Tools for Though | 1985 | The history of mind expanding technology |
| Ridley, Matt | The Agile Gene | 2003 | how nature turns on nurture |
| Ridley, Matt | Genome | 1999 | The autobiography of a species in 23 chapters |
| Rolston, Holmes III | Biology, Ethics, and the Origins of Life | 1995 | - |
| Rosaldo, Renato | Culture and Truth | 1989 | The remaking of social analysis |
| Rose, Steven | The Future of the Brain | 2005 | The promise and perils of tomorrows neuroscience |
| Rothman, Tony & Sudharshan, George | Doubt and Certainty | 1996 | a stimulating mix of science and philosophy (written by physicist) |
| Ruether, Rosemary Radford | Gaia and God | 1992 | a eco-feminist theology of earth healing |
| Ruse, Michael | The Evolution-Creation Struggle | 2005 | - |
| Russell, Jeffrey | The Devil | 1977 | Perceptions of evil from antiquity to primitive Christianity |
| Sagan, Carl | Cosmos | 1980 | - |
| Sagan, Carl | Brocas Brain | 1979 | Reflections on the romance of science |
| Said, Edward & Hitchens, Christopher | Blaming the Victims | 1986 | Spurious scholarship and the Palestinian question |
| Sangiuliano, Iris | In Her Time | 1978 | The common life journeys of women and the crises that trigger their growth |
| Sapp, Jan | Evolution By Association | 1994 | A History of Symbiosis |
| Schillebeeckx, Edward | Jesus: An Experiment in Christology | 1979 | Examination of the biblical evidence for the meaning of Jesus |
| Schuster, M. Lincoln | A Treasury of the World's Great Letters | 1940 | from ancient days to our own time |
| Seligmann, Kurt | Magic, Supernaturalism, and Religion | 1948 | - |
| Shermer, Michael | Why People Believe Weird Things | 1997 | Pseudo-science, superstition, and other confusions of our time |
| Shlain, Leonard | Sex, Time, and Power | 2003 | How women's sexuality shaped human evolution |
| Sills, Judith | Exceses Baggage | 1993 | Getting out of your own way |
| Singer, Irving | Meaning In Life | 1992 | The Creation of Value |
| SkyLight Path Press | Spiritual Perspective on America's Role as Superpower | 2003 | collection of writings by various authors |
| Sober, Elliott & Wilson, David | Unto Others | 1998 | the evolution and psychology of unselfish behavior |
| Solomon, Robert & Higgins, Kathleen | The Philosophy of Erotic Love | 1991 | collection of writings by various authors |
| Stent, Gunther | Morality as a Biological Phenomenon | 1980 | collection of writings by various authors |
| Storer, Morris | Humanist Ethics | 1980 | collection of writings by various authors |
| Tester, Keith | Civil Society | 1992 | meanings and preconditions of freedom, responsibility, and social order |
| Thrower, James | Religions: The Classical Theories | 1999 | - |
| Tiger, Lionel | Optimism | 1979 | The Biology of Hope |
| Twain, Mark | The Mysterious Stranger | 1969 | - |
| Vertosick, Frank T. Jr. | The Genius Within | 2002 | Discovering the intelligence of every living thing |
| Wach, Joachim | The Comparative Study of Religions | 1958 | - |
| Weinstein, Fred & Platt, Geral | The Wish to Be Free | 1969 | Society, psyche, and value change |
| Weir, Robert | Ethical Issues in Death and Dying | 1986 | collection of writings by various authors |
| Wetmore, Donald | K.I.S.S. (Keep it Simple ..) | 2001 | Guide to organizing your life |
| White, L Michael | From Jesus To Christianity | 2004 | How four generations of visionaries and storytellers created the new testament and Christian faith |
| White, Morton | Science and Sentiment in America | 1972 | Historical responses to the challenge of science and its affect on civilization |
| Witham, Larry | Where Darwin Meets the Bible | 2002 | Creationists and evolutionists in America |
| Woodcock, George | Mohandas Gandhi | 1971 | - |
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