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Posted by admin | Mar 5th, 2010
Alien Worlds – Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact
Alien Worlds Social and Religious Dimensions of Extraterrestrial Contact
Discusses the controversial culture of UFOs, extraterrestrial phenomena, and cosmic mysteries.
This intriguing collection of essays presents reflections upon the birth, proliferation, enduring appeal, and future of extraterrestrial mythology. Highly respected authors and researchers representing the varied and sometimes competing...
Posted by admin | Mar 4th, 2010
Is Critique Secular – Blasphemy, Injury and Free Speech – The Townsend Papers in the Humanties
Is Critique Secular Blasphemy Injury and Free Speech The Townsend Papers in the Humanties
In this volume, four leading thinkers of our times confront the paradoxes and dilemmas attending the supposed stand-off between Islam and liberal democratic values. Taking the controversial Danish cartoons of Mohammad as a point of departure, Talal Asad, Wendy Brown, Judith Butler, and Saba Mahmood inquire into...
Posted by admin | Feb 25th, 2010
Apocalypse – How Turn the End Times into the Best of Times
Apocalypse How Turn the End Times into the Best of Times
People have been predicting the end of the world since…well, the beginning of it. Oh, the form it takes may vary–firestorm, earthquake, plague, new ice age, alien invasion, nuclear cloud, or the rise of our machines–but everyone who survives will be starting over at Square One. Your needs won't be that different from today's:...
Posted by admin | Feb 23rd, 2010
The End of Poverty – Economic Possibilities for Our Time
The End of Poverty Economic Possibilities for Our Time
Celebrated economist Jeffrey Sachs has a plan to eliminate extreme poverty around the world by 2025. If you think that is too ambitious or wildly unrealistic, you need to read this book. His focus is on the one billion poorest individuals around the world who are caught in a poverty trap of disease, physical isolation, environmental stress, political...
Posted by admin | Feb 22nd, 2010
Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9-11 – A Call to Reflection and Action
Christian Faith and the Truth Behind 9 11 A Call to Reflection and Action
Probing disturbing questions that beg for a response from the Christian community, distinguished scholar of religion and popular writer David Ray Griffin provides a hard-hitting analysis of the official accounts of the events of September 11, 2001. A tireless investigator, Griffin has sorted through enormous amounts of government...
Posted by admin | Feb 6th, 2010
Tearing Apart the Land – Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand
Tearing Apart the Land Islam and Legitimacy in Southern Thailand
Since January 2004, a violent separatist insurgency has raged in southern Thailand, resulting in more than three thousand deaths. Though largely unnoticed outside Southeast Asia, the rebellion in Pattani and neighboring provinces and the Thai government's harsh crackdown have resulted in a full-scale crisis. Tearing Apart the Land by...
Posted by admin | Feb 6th, 2010
The Blood of Lambs – A Former Terrorists Memoir of Death and Redemption
The Blood of Lambs A Former Terrorists Memoir of Death and Redemption
The Blood of Lambs reveals the true inside story of the making and mind-set of a Muslim terrorist. Though his ties with terrorism were severed more than twenty years ago, it was not until 9/11, when radical Muslims rained terror on American shores, that Kamal Saleem stepped out of the shadows and revealed his true identity. Today, he...
Posted by admin | Feb 5th, 2010
While Europe Slept – How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
While Europe Slept – How Radical Islam is Destroying the West from Within
The struggle for the soul of Europe today is every bit as dire and consequential as it was in the 1930s. Then, in Weimar, Germany, the center did not hold, and the light of civilization nearly went out. Today, the continent has entered yet another “Weimar moment.” Will Europeans rise to the challenge posed by radical Islam,...
Posted by admin | Feb 5th, 2010
My Year Inside Radical Islam, A Memoir
My Year Inside Radical Islam A Memoir
My Year Inside Radical Islam is a memoir of first a spiritual and then a political seduction. Raised in liberal Ashland, Oregon, by parents who were Jewish by birth but dismissive of strict dogma, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross yearned for a religion that would suit all his ideals. At college in the late nineties he met a charismatic Muslim student who grounded his political...
Posted by admin | Feb 4th, 2010
The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
The Taliban and the Crisis of Afghanistan
The Taliban remain one of the most elusive forces in modern history. A ragtag collection of clerics and madrasa students, this obscure movement emerged out of the rubble of the Cold War to shock the world with their draconian Islamic order. The Taliban refused to surrender their vision even when confronted by the United States after September 11, 2001. Reinventing...
Posted by admin | Feb 3rd, 2010
The Great Theft – Wrestling Islam from the Extremists
The Great Theft Wrestling Islam from the Extremists
Despite President George W. Bush's assurances that Islam is a peaceful religion and that all good Muslims hunger for democracy, confusion persists and far too many Westerners remain convinced that Muslims and terrorists are synonymous. In the aftermath of the attacks of 9/11, the subsequent wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the recent bombings in...
Posted by admin | Jan 25th, 2010
Custer Died for Your Sins – An Indian Manifesto
Custer Died for Your Sins An Indian Manifesto
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Excellent source for the Native American viewpoint
Despite the authors name, he has Indian ancestry, as do many contemporary author's do today. Non-Indians expect to see traditional names like Sitting Bull as writers. Due to many reasons, the first Americans have changed names or had them changed for them over a long period...
Posted by admin | Jan 20th, 2010
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt – Toward a Secular Theocracy
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt Toward a Secular Theocracy
Multiculturalism and the Politics of Guilt extends Paul Gottfried's examination of Western managerial government's growth in the last third of the twentieth century. Linking multiculturalism to a distinctive political and religious context, the book argues that welfare-state democracy, unlike bourgeois liberalism, has rejected...
Posted by admin | Jan 17th, 2010
Black Feminist Thought Knowledge Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment Routledge Classics
Black Feminist Thought Knowledge Consciousness and the Politics of Empowerment Routledge Classics
In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, originally published in 1990, Patricia Hill Collins set out to explore the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals...
Posted by admin | Jan 10th, 2010
Coming of Age in Second Life – An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
Coming of Age in Second Life An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human
Millions of people around the world today spend portions of their lives in online virtual worlds. Second Life is one of the largest of these virtual worlds. The residents of Second Life create communities, buy property and build homes, go to concerts, meet in bars, attend weddings and religious services, buy and sell virtual goods...
Posted by admin | Jan 5th, 2010
Idiot America – How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Idiot America How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
Book Description
The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won.
A veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States.
In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles Pierce had a defining moment at the Creation Museum...
Posted by admin | Dec 18th, 2009
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance – An Inquiry into Values
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance An Inquiry into Values
In his now classic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig brings us a literary chautauqua, a novel that is meant to both entertain and edify. It scores high on both counts.
Phaedrus, our narrator, takes a present-tense cross-country motorcycle trip with his son during which the maintenance of the motorcycle becomes an...
Posted by admin | Dec 18th, 2009
A Very Bad Wizard – Morality Behind the Curtain
A Very Bad Wizard Morality Behind the Curtain
Do we have free will? What counts as justice in the Peruvian Amazon? Is Catherine Zeta-Jones objectively hotter than Drew Barrymore? These are just a few of the questions that philosopher Tamler Sommers attempts to answer in far-spanning interviews with ten acclaimed researchers in the burgeoning field of moral psychology. Philip Zimbardo talks about his famous...
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