Reason, Faith, and Revolution: Reflections on the God Debate

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

Christopher Hitchens · 499 pages

Presents excerpts on the subject of religion from the writings of such notable non-believers as John Stuart Mill, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Albert Einstein, Richard Dawkins, and Salman Rushdie.

Commentaries on Living 1

Jiddu Krishnamurti · 254 pages

Cloud-hidden, Whereabouts Unknown

Alan W. Watts · 185 pages

The Doors of the Sea: Where Was God in the Tsunami?

David Bentley Hart · 109 pages

As news reports of the horrific December 2004 tsunami in Asia reached the rest of the world, commentators were quick to seize upon the disaster as proof of either God's power or God's nonexistence, asking over and over, How could a good and loving God -- if such exists -- allow such suffering? In The Doors of the Sea David Bentley Hart speaks at once to those skeptical of Christian faith and to th

Fear and Trembling/Repetition

Soren Kierkegaard · 464 pages

The two books comprised in this volume are in greater demand than any other works of Kierkegaard. This preference is a credit to the public taste, for Kierkegaard himself called them "the most perfect books I have written," though in this commendation he included The Concept of Dread, and later stretched it to include Training in Christianity.

Religion for Atheists: A Non-Believer's Guide to the Uses of Religion

Alain de Botton · 320 pages

The boring debate between fundamentalist believers and non-believers is finally moved on by Alain de Botton's inspiring new book, which boldly argues that the supernatural claims of religion are of course entirely false - and yet that religions still have some very important things to teach the secular world.

Myths to Live By

Joseph Campbell · 276 pages

Includes material on "the buffalo-gods, Quetzalcoatls, Buddhas, fairy queens and other such figures."

Waiting for God

Simone Weil · 208 pages

"Emerging from the thought-provoking discussions and correspondence Simone Weil had with the Reverend Father Perrin, this classic collection of essays contains the renowned philosopher and social activist's most profound meditations on the relationship of human life to the realm of the transcendent. An enduring masterwork and "one of the most neglected resources of our century" (Adrienne Rich), Wa

Miracles

C.S. Lewis · 192 pages

An impeccable inquiry into the proposition that supernatural events can happen in this world. C. S. Lewis uses his remarkable logic to build a solid argument for the existence of divine intervention. "This book is intended as a preliminary to historical inquiry. I am not a trained historian, and I shall not examine the historical evidence for the Christian miracles. My effort is to put my reade

An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World

Pankaj Mishra

Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related Subjects

Bertrand Russell · 245 pages

The Analects

Confucius · 252 pages

"Formulated in the ruins of a society that had been founded on untenable spiritualistic concepts of governance, Confucius' philosophy postulated a humanistic social order that has survived as China's social ideal ever since." "Confucius' teachings are very literary in nature. The Analects is made up of dialogues, stories, and anecdotes, always aphoristic and full of poetic turns of thought."--BOOK

Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander

Thomas Merton · 351 pages

For the Time Being

Annie Dillard · 205 pages

Following a novel, a memoir, and a book of poems, Annie Dillard returns to a form of nonfiction she has made her own--now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.This personal narrative surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

C.G. Jung · 244 pages

The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought

Marilynne Robinson · 254 pages

In the tradition of nineteenth-century novelists who turned to the essay, Marilynne Robinson offers an authoritative approach to refining the ideas our culture has handed down to us. Whether considering how the McGuffey readers were inspired by midwestern abolitionists; how creationism, "long owned by the Religious Right," has spurred on contemporary Darwinism; or how John Calvin, who was a French

The Archaic Revival

Terence McKenna · 276 pages

In these essays, interviews, and narrative adventures, McKenna takes us on a mesmerizing journey deep into the Amazon as well as into the hidden recesses of the human psyche and the outer limits of our culture, giving us startling visions of the past and future.

The Tao of Pooh

Benjamin Hoff · 158 pages

The how of Pooh? The Tao of who? The Tao of Pooh!?! Yes, Winnie-the-Pooh has a certain Way about him, a way of doing things that has made him the world's most beloved bear. In these pages Benjamin Hoff shows that Pooh's Way is amazingly consistent with the principles of living envisioned long ago by the Chinese founders of Taoism. The author's explanation of Taoism is through Pooh, and Poo

Heretics

G.K. Chesterton · 160 pages

Gilbert Keith Chesterton was born in London, England on the 29th of May, 1874. Though he considered himself a mere rollicking journalist, he was actually a prolific and gifted writer in virtually every area of literature. A man of strong opinions and enormously talented at defending them, his exuberant personality nevertheless allowed him to maintain warm friendships with people - such as George B

This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women

Jay Allison, Dan Gediman · 291 pages

Presents essays expressing the core principles that guide the lives of 89 different people, some famous, some not, including politicians, nurses, artists, athletes, parents, students and more.

Why I Am An Atheist

Bhagat Singh · 30 pages

The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell

Aldous Huxley · 151 pages

"Doors of perception" describes how the author submitted himself as a guinea pig to mescaline. "Heaven and hell" explains how drugs can take the experimenter into an unexplored world of the mind. This world can have the characteristics of heaven, but negative emotions will turn it into hell.

Satan Speaks!

Anton Szandor LaVey, Blanche Barton, Marilyn Manson · 179 pages

Notes From The Tilt-A-Whirl: Wide-Eyed Wonder in God's Spoken World

N.D. Wilson · 224 pages