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The God Delusion
Dawkins, R July 27, 2007. #
Religion and Religious Criticism
From Scientific American
Richard Dawkins, in The God Delusion, tells of his exasperation with colleagues who try to play both sides of the street: looking to science for justification of their religious convictions...
Primates and Philosophers
De Waal, F July 27, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences
From Publishers Weekly
Celebrated primatologist de Waal expands on his earlier work in Good Natured: The Origins of Right and Wrong in Humans and Other Animals to argue that human traits of fairness, reciprocity and...
Breaking the Spell
Dennett, D July 27, 2007. #
Religion and Religious Criticism, Philosophy
From Publishers Weekly
In his characteristically provocative fashion, Dennett, author of Darwin’s Dangerous Idea and director of the Center for Cognitive Studies at Tufts University, calls for a scientific, rational...
Consciousness Explained
Dennett, D.C July 27, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
Amazon.com
Consciousness is notoriously difficult to explain. On one hand, there are facts about conscious experience—the way clarinets sound, the way lemonade tastes—that we know subjectively, from the inside. On the...
Darwin’s Dangerous Idea: Evolution and the Meanings of Life
Dennett, D.C July 27, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
Amazon.com
One of the best descriptions of the nature and implications of Darwinian evolution ever written, it is firmly based in biological information and appropriately extrapolated to possible applications to...
The Case for Israel
Dershowitz, A July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History
From Publishers Weekly
Noting that he has been working on versions of these arguments since 1967, famed Harvard law professor Dershowitz offers “a proactive defense of Israel,” a kind of amicus brief to “the court of...
Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking
Dershowitz, A July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History, Religion and Religious Criticism
From Booklist
This author, if it needs explaining, is a renowned lawyer and Harvard law professor, author of several best-selling books, and an abiding advocate and defender of personal rights and freedoms. Although he...
The Fabric of Reality
Deutsch, D July 27, 2007. #
Physical Science
Amazon.com
“Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense,” writes physicist David Deutsch. In The Fabric of Reality, Deutsch traces what he considers the four main...
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
Diamond, J July 27, 2007. #
Politics and History
Amazon.com
Explaining what William McNeill called The Rise of the West has become the central problem in the study of global history. In Guns, Germs, and Steel Jared Diamond presents the biologist’s answer: geography,...
The Flight of the Garuda, Second Edition: The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism
Dowman, K (Ed) August 28, 2007. #
Eastern Philosophy and Meditation
Imagined Worlds
Dyson, F July 27, 2007. #
Physical Science, Mind and Life Sciences
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“Thanks to new technologies, researchers can see much farther into the galaxies, much deeper into the genetic structure of life, and more clearly into the heart of the atom than ever before. But envisioning...
Remembered Present: A Biological Theory Of Consciousness
Edelman, G. May 27, 2010. #
Mind and Life Sciences
Wider Than the Sky: The Phenomenal Gift of Consciousness
Edelman, G. May 27, 2010. #
Mind and Life Sciences
A Universe Of Consciousness How Matter Becomes Imagination
Edelman, G. & Tononi, G. May 27, 2010. #
Mind and Life Sciences
Sick Societies: Challenging the Myth of Primitive Harmony
Edgerton, R.B. June 2, 2010. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Politics and History
Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible and Why
Ehrman, B July 27, 2007. #
Religion and Religious Criticism
From Booklist
The popular perception of the Bible as a divinely perfect book receives scant support from Ehrman, who sees in Holy Writ ample evidence of human fallibility and ecclesiastical politics. Though himself...
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The Destructive Power of Religion: Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam [4 volumes]
Ellens, J.H. (Ed.) September 4, 2007. #
Religion and Religious Criticism
The Mental and the Physical: The Essay and a Postscript
Feigl, H. May 27, 2010. #
Mind and Life Sciences, Philosophy
Altered Egos: How the Brain Creates the Self
Feinberg, T.E July 27, 2007. #
Mind and Life Sciences
From Booklist
Feinberg is a neurologist whose treatment of patients with bizarre mental illnesses has led him to ponder that sense of mental unity we call experience. As brain research has progressed, that sense has...
The Meaning Of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
Feynman, R August 2, 2007. #
