Journalist James Haught grew up in an Appalachian farm town in the 1930's and clearly remembers the use of outdoor plumbing, kerosene lamps, handle pumps, and horses and wagons. He now does his work at a video terminal, with a roof dish that fills the screen with news from a satellite 22,000 miles above the equator. As he points out in the introduction to Science in a Nanosecond, there have been greater scientific advances in his lifetime than in all previous human history; and now, more than ever before, science awareness is necessary to grasp the amazing technological revolutions that are...
Journalist James Haught grew up in an Appalachian farm town in the 1930's and clearly remembers the use of outdoor plumbing, kerosene lamps, handle pu...
Presents lovemaking as healthy, natural, tender, romantic, wholesome, fulfilling and joyful tribute to the goodness of sex, incorporating art, poetry, and commentary.
Presents lovemaking as healthy, natural, tender, romantic, wholesome, fulfilling and joyful tribute to the goodness of sex, incorporating art, poetry,...
Society rarely acknowledges the many and varied gifts that disbelievers give to the world. This insightful, witty collection sets the record straight by profiling dozens of famous people who were skeptical of conventional religious beliefs. Included, among others, are Isaac Asimov, W.E.B. DuBois, Thomas Edison, Albert Einstein, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Benjamin Franklin, Omar Khayyam, Abraham Lincoln, James Madison, John Stuart Mill, Ayn Rand, Gene Roddenberry, Margaret Sanger, George Bernard Shaw, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Voltaire, with many quotes that reveal their rejection of the...
Society rarely acknowledges the many and varied gifts that disbelievers give to the world. This insightful, witty collection sets the record straight ...
When you think of saints, you envision stained-glass pictures of piety. But the truth can be horribly different. Consider Saint Pius V: As Grand Inquisitor, he sent Catholic troops to kill 2,000 Waldensian Protestants in southern Italy. After becoming pope, he sent Catholic troops to kill Huguenot Protestants in France. Pius also launched the final crusade against Muslims, sending a Christian naval armada to slaughter thousands in the Battle of Lepanto in 1571. And, he intensified the Roman Inquisition, torturing and burning Catholics whose beliefs varied from official dogma. After his death,...
When you think of saints, you envision stained-glass pictures of piety. But the truth can be horribly different. Consider Saint Pius V: As Grand Inqui...
Despite the prevalence of religious belief in the United States, a growing minority of US adults identify with no religion whatsoever. This work addresses the secular segment of American society to give voice to honest doubts about religious beliefs. It makes clear the many scientific, philosophical, and ethical difficulties that plague religion.
Despite the prevalence of religious belief in the United States, a growing minority of US adults identify with no religion whatsoever. This work addre...
