Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
By: Alain de Botton
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist be…
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1. Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
By: Karen Armstrong
3.75
Format: None pages, Paperback
Through the Narrow Gateis Karen Armstrong's intimate memoir of life inside a Catholic convent. With… read more
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"Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden."-Karen Armstrong, Through the Narrow Gate: A Memoir of Spiritual Discovery
2. Don't Tell Mum I Work on the Rigs, She Thinks I'm a Piano Player in a Whorehouse
By: Paul Carter
3.86
Format: 204 pages, Paperback
A 'take no prisoners' approach to life has seen Paul Carter heading to some of the world's most rem… read more
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3. The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
By: Bertrand Russell , Karl Marx , George Orwell , Richard Dawkins , Mark Twain , H.P. Lovecraft , Thomas Hardy , Omar Khayyám , Ian McEwan , Penn Jillette , George Eliot , John Updike , Carl Sagan , Christopher Hitchens , Sigmund Freud , A.C. Grayling , Joseph Conrad , David Hume , Daniel C. Dennett , Charles Darwin , Sam Harris , Albert Einstein , Salman Rushdie , Percy Bysshe Shelley , Emma Goldman , Steven Weinberg , Anatole France , John Stuart Mill , Martin Gardner , Victor J. Stenger , James Boswell , H.L. Mencken , Thomas Hobbes , Leslie Stephen , Philip Larkin , Ayaan Hirsi Ali , Baruch Spinoza , Lucretius , A.J. Ayer , Carl van Doren , John Betjeman , Ibn Warraq , Michael Shermer , Chapman Cohen , J.L. Mackie , Charles Templeton , Elizabeth S. Anderson
4.03
Format: 525 pages, Paperback
«Οι οπαδοί των νεράιδων δεν χτυπάνε την πόρτα σου για να σε προσηλυτίσουν. Δεν απαιτούν να διδάσκετ… read more
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"Owners of dogs will have noticed that, if you provide them with food and water and shelter and affection, they will think you are god. Whereas owners of cats are compelled to realize that, if you pro…"-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
"By now the valley of the shadow of doubt was overrunneth with skepticism, so God became angry, so angry that God lost His temper and cursed the first humans, telling them to go forth and multiply the…"-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
"The pre-history of our species is hag-ridden with episodes of nightmarish ignorance and calamity, for which religion used to identify, not just the wrong explanation but the wrong culprit. Human sacr…"-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
"I have met some highly intelligent believers, but history has no record to say that [s]he knew or understood the mind of god. Yet this is precisely the qualification which the godly must claim—so mod…"-Bertrand Russell, The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever
4. The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are
By: Alan W. Watts
3.00
Format: 508 pages, Mass Market Paperback
At the root of human conflict is our fundamental misunderstanding of who we are. The illusion that … read more
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5. Muhammad
By: Karen Armstrong
2.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
A fresh, evenhanded biography of the founder of Islam by the author of "A History of God." "Portray… read more
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6. Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion
By: Alain de Botton
3.47
Format: 156 pages, Hardcover
What if religions are neither all true or all nonsense? The boring debate between fundamentalist be… read more
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- nonfiction
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7. The Parthenon
By: Mary Beard
3.99
Format: 32 pages, Hardcover
Read the Bldg Blog interview with Mary Beard about the Wonders of the World series (Part I and Part… read more
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8. Galileo's Dream
By: Kim Stanley Robinson
4.14
Format: 200 pages,
At the heart of a provocative narrative that stretches from Renaissance Italy to the moons of Jupit… read more
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9. The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
By: Carol J. Adams
3.98
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
First published in 1990, The Sexual Politics of Meat is a landmark text in the ongoing debates abou… read more
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"Manhood is constructed in our culture, in part, by access to meat eating and control of other bodies."-Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
"Equality isn’t an idea; it is a practice. We practice it when we don’t treat other people or other animals as objects."-Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
"The story of meat follows a sacred typology: the birth of a God, the dismemberment of the god's body, and the god's resurrection."-Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
"If the wartime killing of human beings is used to establish the legitimacy of meat eating, then challenging meat eating challenges a world at war."-Carol J. Adams, The Sexual Politics of Meat: A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory
10. Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia
By: John Gray
4.25
Format: None pages,
For the decade that followed the end of the cold war, the world was lulled into a sense that a cons… read more
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11. Heat and Light
By: Ellen Van Neerven
3.85
Format: 238 pages, Paperback
Winner of the 2013 David Unaipon Award In this award-winning work of fiction, Ellen van Neerven tak… read more
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12. A History of the World in 10½ Chapters
By: Julian Barnes
2.83
Format: 288 pages,
Beginning with an unlikely stowaway's account of life on board Noah's Ark, A History of the World i… read more
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13. De onzichtbaren
By: Frank Nellen
3.88
Format: 234 pages, Kindle Edition
Kiev, eind jaren tachtig. Het eens zo machtige Sovjetimperium wankelt. Tijdens een roerige debatavo… read more
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14. The Liar
By: Stephen Fry
3.65
Format: 404 pages, Kindle Edition
Stephen Fry's breathtakingly outrageous debut novel, by turns eccentric, shocking, brilliantly comi… read more
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"There can't be that many individual souls. Not souls like mine. There isn't room. There can't be."-Stephen Fry, The Liar
"It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive."-Stephen Fry, The Liar
"Either a municipal bog is a private place or it isn't. If it is a private place in which to shit, how is it not a private place in which to fellate?"-Stephen Fry, The Liar
"I don't think we should be unafraid not to discuss the gay dialectic as an energy and the homophobic constraints that endorse its marginalisation as a functionally reactive discourse."-Stephen Fry, The Liar
15. The Unfinished Business of Eadie Browne
By: Freya North
4.25
Format: 420 pages, Kindle Edition
When your present meets your past, what do you take with you – and what do you leave behind? Ea… read more
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16. The Yoga Manifesto
By: Nadia Gilani
3.86
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
How did an ancient spiritual practice become the preserve of the privileged? Nadia Gilani has be… read more
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17. Science and Cooking: Physics Meets Food, From Homemade to Haute Cuisine
By: Michael P. Brenner
3.84
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
Based on the popular Harvard University and edX course, Science and Cooking explores the scientific… read more
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18. The Day I Die: The Untold Story of Assisted Dying in America
By: Anita Hannig
4.37
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
An intimate investigation of assisted dying in America and what it means to determine the end of ou… read more
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19. The Sane Society
By: Erich Fromm
4.26
Format: 386 pages, Kindle Edition
Social psychologist Erich Fromm’s seminal exploration of the profound ills of modern society, and h… read more
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"Solidarity isn't merely a task, it is a pleasure and the best assurance of security."-Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
"That millions of people share the same forms of mental pathology does not make these people sane."-Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
"The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots."-Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
"The absolutely alienated individual worships at the altar of an idol, and it makes little difference by what names this idol is known."-Erich Fromm, The Sane Society
20. The Classical Music Book: Big Ideas Simply Explained (DK Big Ideas)
By: Katie Derham
3.97
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
This original, graphic-led book explores and explains the key ideas underpinning the world's greate… read more
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21. Corey Fah Does Social Mobility
By: Isabel Waidner
3.69
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
A novel that celebrates radical queer survival and gleefully takes a hammer to false notions of suc… read more
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