Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
By: Richard Dawkins
3.95
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to th…
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1. The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
By: Sean Carroll
4.18
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Already internationally acclaimed for his elegant, lucid writing on the most challenging notions in… read more
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"Life is short, and certainty never happens."-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
"Intellectual fascination crosses many boundaries."-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
"Life is not a substance, like water or rock; it’s a process, like fire or a wave crashing on the shore. It’s a process that begins, lasts for a while, and ultimately ends. Long or short, our moments …"-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
"Where misunderstanding dwells, misuse will not be far behind. No theory in the history of science has been more misused and abused by cranks and charlatans—and misunderstood by people struggling in g…"-Sean Carroll, The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself
2. The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
By: Matt Ridley
3.92
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
The Evolution of Everything is about bottom-up order and its enemy, the top-down twitch—the endless… read more
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3. God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.96
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
God Is Not Great makes the ultimate case against religion. In a series of acute readings of the maj… read more
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"Actually, the “leap of faith"-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"Human decency is not derived from religion. It precedes it."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
"The essential principle of totalitarianism is to make laws that are impossible to obey."-Christopher Hitchens, God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
4. 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
5. Hitch 22: A Memoir
By: Christopher Hitchens
4.02
Format: 435 pages, Hardcover
Over the course of his 60 years, Christopher Hitchens has been a citizen of both the United States … read more
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"Cheap booze is a false economy."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
" Your favorite virtue? An appreciation for irony."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
"What do you most value in your friends? Their continued existence."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
" Where would you like to live? In a state of conflict or a conflicted state."-Christopher Hitchens, Hitch 22: A Memoir
6. A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
By: Richard Dawkins , Lawrence M. Krauss
3.94
Format: 204 pages, Hardcover
Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how e… read more
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"Forget Jesus. The stars died so you could be here today."-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
"أنا غير كفؤ للحديث عن اللاشيء، لأن رجال الدين والفلاسفة هم خبراء في لاشيء!"-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
"...nuestro universo desaparecerá tan abruptamente como, probablemente, empezó."-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
"We live at a very special time. . . the only time when we can observationally verify that we live at a very special time!"-Richard Dawkins, A Universe from Nothing: Why There Is Something Rather Than Nothing
7. The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves
By: Matt Ridley
3.76
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Life is getting better--and at an accelerating rate. Food availability, income, and life span are u… read more
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8. Mortality
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.90
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
On June 8, 2010, while on a book tour for his bestselling memoir, Hitch-22, Christopher Hitchens wa… read more
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9. The Black Cloud
By: Fred Hoyle
3.50
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
A 1959 classic 'hard' science-fiction novel by renowned Cambridge astronomer and cosmologist Fred H… read more
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10. The Evolution of Cooperation
By: Richard Dawkins , Robert Axelrod
4.27
Format: None pages, Paperback
The Evolution of Cooperationprovides valuable insights into the age-old question of whether unforce… read more
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11. Letter to a Christian Nation
By: Sam Harris
4.00
Format: 96 pages, Hardcover
In response to The End of Faith, Sam Harris received thousands of letters from Christians excoriati… read more
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"There had been ample warning that a storm “of biblical proportions"-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
"These data are unequivocal: we are building a civilization of ignorance."-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
"Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms."-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
"Faith is like a pockpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms."-Sam Harris, Letter to a Christian Nation
12. The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
By: Christopher Hitchens
3.99
Format: 154 pages, Kindle Edition
At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the … read more
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"The great cultural project... may very well be to rescue what we have of the art and aesthetic of religion while discarding the supernatural."-Christopher Hitchens, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
13. Books Do Furnish a Life: Reading and Writing Science
By: Richard Dawkins
3.95
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
At a time when science can seem complex and remote, it has a greater impact on our lives, and to th… read more
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14. The Age of Grievance
By: Frank Bruni
4.13
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From bestselling author and longtime New York Times columnist Frank Bruni comes a lucid, powerful e… read more
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15. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
By: Jeff Hawkins
4.06
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
An author, neuroscientist, and computer engineer unveils a theory of intelligence, of understanding… read more
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"To avoid hallucinating, the brain needs to keep its predictions separate from reality."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Unlike species which often disappear as new ones appear, the brain evolved by adding new parts on top of the older parts."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"It is human nature - aka old brain - to suspect everyone wants to steal your idea, where the reality is that you are lucky if anyone cares about your idea at all."-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
"Reference frames in the old brain learn maps of environments. Reference frames in the what columns of the neocortex learn maps of physical objects. Reference frames in the where columns of the neocor…"-Jeff Hawkins, A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
16. The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
By: Coleman Hughes
4.46
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
An exciting new voice makes the case for a colorblind approach to politics and culture, warning tha… read more
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"Neoracists believe that we must indoctrinate children to cure them of racism. I say that children are racially innocent by nature, and we should protect that racial innocence for as long as possible."-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"The majority of effort channeled toward achieving racial equity hasn't been applied to the part of life that has the biggest influence on people's skills and mindsets: namely birth to eighteen years …"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"By [college], many skills, attitudes, and habits have already been formed. We can have a much bigger impact on people at younger ages. Efforts to achieve true equity should focus instead on high-qual…"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
"The common humanity and anti-racism of the civil rights movement had strong ties to Christianity. And Christianity promoted the value of interracial harmony: unity in Christ. But the appeal of Christ…"-Coleman Hughes, The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America
17. The Blue Machine: How the Ocean Works
By: Helen Czerski
4.23
Format: 446 pages, Hardcover
A scientist’s exploration of the "ocean engine"―the physics behind the ocean’s systems―and why it m… read more
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18. What This Comedian Said Will Shock You
By: Bill Maher
4.27
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
The hilarious and controversial host of HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher has written his funniest, m… read more
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19. Rationality
By: Steven Pinker
3.85
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021 In Rationality, Pinker rejects the cynical cliché that humans are … read more
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"Everyone wants someone to help but prefers that it not be them."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"If contemporary humans seem irrational, don't blame the hunter-gatherers."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"The press is an availability machine. It serves up anecdotes which feed our impression of what's common in a way that is guaranteed to mislead."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
"Disagreement is necessary in deliberations among mortals. As the saying goes, the more we disagree, the more chance there is that at least one of us is right."-Steven Pinker, Rationality
20. The Infernal Machine: A True Story of Dynamite, Terror, and the Rise of the Modern Detective
By: Steven Johnson
4.08
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
A riveting account of the anarchists who terrorized the streets of New York—and the detective duo w… read more
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21. The Book of Humans: A Brief History of Culture, Sex, War and the Evolution of Us
By: Adam Rutherford
3.83
Format: 273 pages, Kindle Edition
We like to think of ourselves as exceptional beings, but is there really anything special about us … read more
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