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  • Life After Faith

    The Case for Secular Humanism

    Series series The Terry Lectures Series
    Although there is no shortage of recent books arguing against religion, few offer a positive alternative—how anyone might live a fulfilling life without the support of religious beliefs. This enlightening book fills the gap. Philip Kitcher constructs an original and persuasive secular perspective, one that answers human needs, recognizes the objectivity of values, and provides for the universal ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Corruption in America

    From Benjamin Franklin’s Snuff Box to Citizens United

    When Louis XVI presented Benjamin Franklin with a snuff box encrusted with diamonds and inset with the King’s portrait, the gift troubled Americans: it threatened to “corrupt” Franklin by clouding his judgment or altering his attitude toward the French in subtle psychological ways. This broad understanding of political corruption—rooted in ideals of civic virtue—was a driving force at the ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • Faith Versus Fact

    Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible

    The New York Times bestselling author explains why any attempt to make religion compatible with science is doomed to fail.What we read in the news today is full of subjectivity, half-truths, and blatant falsehoods; and thus it is more necessary now than ever to safeguard the truth with facts. In his provocative new book, evolutionary biologist Jerry A. Coyne aims to do exactly that in the arena of ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Meaning of Human Existence

    New York Times BestsellerFinalist for the National Book Award (Nonfiction)How did humanity originate and why does a species like ours exist on this planet? Do we have a special place, even a destiny in the universe? Where are we going, and perhaps, the most difficult question of all, "Why?"In The Meaning of Human Existence, his most philosophical work to date, Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • A Universe from Nothing

    Why There Is Something Rather than Nothing

    Bestselling author and acclaimed physicist Lawrence Krauss offers a paradigm-shifting view of how everything that exists came to be in the first place.“Where did the universe come from? What was there before it? What will the future bring? And finally, why is there something rather than nothing?”One of the few prominent scientists today to have crossed the chasm between science and popular culture ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

    Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

    by Sam Harris ...
    Natalie Angier wrote in The New York Times: "The End of Faith articulates the dangers and absurdities of organized religion so fiercely and so fearlessly that I felt relieved as I read it, vindicated....Harris writes what a sizable number of us think, but few are willing to say."This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world. Harris ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Letters to a Young Contrarian

    From bestselling author and provocateur Christopher Hitchens, the classic guide to the art of principled dissent and disagreement.**“Hitchens is, first and last, a writer, an always exciting, often exacting, furious polemicist.” -**The Boston GlobeIn Letters to a Young Contrarian, Christopher Hitchens inspires the radicals, gadflies, mavericks, rebels, and angry young people of tomorrow. Exploring ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • Humanism

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Peter Cave ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    The quintessential guide to living a meaningful life without God.Why should we believe in God without any evidence? How can there be meaning in life when death is final? With historical adherents including such thinkers as Einstein, Freud, Philip Pullman, and Frank Zappa, "Humanism"'s central quest is to make sense of such questions, explaining the ethical and metaphysical by appealing to shared ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Faith No More

    Why People Reject Religion

    During his 2009 inaugural speech, President Obama described the United States as a nation of "Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus--and nonbelievers." It was the first time an American president had acknowledged the existence of this rapidly growing segment of the population in such a public forum. And yet the reasons why more and more people are turning away from religion are still poorly ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • Not Seeing God: Atheism in the 21st Century

    Atheism is an evolving worldview - not the single proposition that God does not exist, but everything else that might or might not go with it. With only a single sentence about the existence of single entity, there is huge scope - necessity, even - for having to reasonably work everything else out. It's a lot more difficult to figure out the world when it's not handed to you in an old, outdated ... Read more

    $14.93 CAD

  • The Homemade Atheist

    A Former Evangelical Woman's Freethought Journey to Happiness

    In this personal memoir, a former evangelical Christian shares her journey away from her confining faith toward a happier, healthier, nonreligious life.Betty Brogaard was raised to be a good Christian. By the time she was twenty years old, she had joined a fundamentalist church. She even met and married a young man who became a minister in the congregation. However, the more she came to understand ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Positive Humanism: A Primer

    by Bo Bennett ...
    Positive humanism is an applied secular humanistic philosophy based on the scientific findings of positive psychology that focuses on personal, professional, and societal flourishing. As an applied philosophy its focus is on ideas that lead to increased well-being. As a secular humanistic philosophy, there are no appeals to the supernatural, the magical, or the mystical. The philosophy is founded ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus