books about: skeptic     books:       Great Freethinkers: Selected Quotations by Famous Skeptics and Nonconformists5 reviews James C. Sanford Metacomet Books, 2004 Thoughtful, timely, useful In these times, any book that encourages free-spirited inquiry is especially welcome. It's inherently true of James Sanford's Great Freethinkers, a commonplace book on free thought that is, so far as I can tell, without precedent or equal in recent decades. With so many unaware of the significance of skepticism and free thought in human history and especially within the American experience, the ...             A Place for Skeptics: A Spiritual Journey for Those Who May Have Given Up on Church But Not on God8 reviews Scott Larson, Chris Mitchell Regal Books, 2005 Thankful for "A Place for Skeptics" After reading A Place for Skeptics...I could have entitled it "A Place for my Friends and I". All my life I have heard the Apostles Creed, and this book helped me to take the next step in understanding my faith and belief in God. More than that, this book has been a helpful tool for me to give to friends as they try to understand their own beliefs in God, and how those beliefs make it into ...             Christianity For Skeptics: An Understandable Examination of Christian Belief4 reviews Steve Kumar Hendrickson Publishers, 2000 Broad, Simple, Easy! Don't underestimate Mr. Kumar he does a masterful job at explaining complex arguments in simple understandable terms. This is a great tool for evangelism. If you are not quite sure how to answer those hard-nosed intellectual snobs, this book is a great starting point. Kumar deals with some of the most relevant objections of our time. How would you answer an Atheist? Can you really trust the ...             The Water Will Hold You: A Skeptic Learns to Pray7 reviews Harmony, 2007 Luminous. A brave and beautiful memoir, fiercely honest, fluidly told. Spiritual faith has not come easily to Crittenden, a self-proclaimed skeptic whose writing is evidence of her highly rational, ordered mind. It is through small rituals -- her "starter" prayer is simply, "I am here, you are here" -- that she finds her way to a serenity that sustains her through the worst imaginable losses. The ...             Skeptoid: Critical Analysis of Pop Phenomena6 reviews Brian Dunning CreateSpace, 2008 The truth is a beautiful thing This is a remarkable collection of incorrect beliefs laid bare. Brian has a knack for finding these nuggets of BS, researching the truth, and presenting the unbiased evidence mixed with insightful opinion. It's also very entertaining - I laughed out loud many times. Highly recommended.             Concepts: A ProtoTheist Quest for Science-Minded Skeptics10 reviews Paul Dehn Carleton Carleton House, 2004 Thoughts on the origin and nature of today's religions As the author is quick to point out, an obvious characteristic of life is purposefulness. As living creatures, we all have a sense, either unconscious, conscious, or both, of purpose. But how does this purposefulness, or "Life-Urge" fit into how we view ourselves, from a religious point of view? Carleton says there are four main ways in which people can do this. First, one can view oneself ...             Secular Wholeness: A Skeptic's Paths To A Richer Life9 reviews David Cortesi Trafford Publishing, 2002 Life's Own User Manual David Cortesi's premise is that the benefits of traditional religions are available to non-religious people if they're given the tools to reframe these benefits in secular terms. Cortesi proves capable of delivering on his generous but ambitious agenda. He's smart enough to sort through contending philosophies, honest enough to admit his biases, and grounded enough to not lose his way among the ...             Parapsychology and the Skeptics: A Scientific Argument for the Existence of ESP13 reviews Chris Carter SterlingHouse Books, 2007 Should be required reading This fine book fills a pressing need: it's an up-to-date source that can be wholeheartedly recommended to people who are under the impression that belief in so-called "paranormal" phenomena is contrary to science -- both those who are dogmatically convinced that it is, and those who do believe in the existence of psi but feel they should be apologetic about it. I am acquainted with some of each, ...             Filling the Glass : The Skeptic's Guide to Positive Thinking in Business7 reviews Barry Maher Kaplan Business, 2000 A first rate business book.. A wonderful reading experience! Having seen Maher speak, I picked up a copy of Filling the Glass as soon as I heard about it. Reading the book is even better than hearing him in person, because it lasts longer. I couldn't recommend the book more highly. Rich practical knowledge, a world of insight, fascinating and entertaining anecdotes, it's even extremely funny. It's certainly the only business book I've ever read with a ...             Awestruck - A Skeptic's Pilgrimage8 reviews Joan Weimer Dog Ear Publishing, LLC, 2005 An untraditional search for a loving God Do all roads lead to God? Perhaps, for the dedicated seeker. Some roads are short and direct, such as traditional Judaism and Christianity. Others are long and indirect, like the ancient labyrinths, requiring greater energy and determination. In Awestruck, Joan Weimer candidly discusses her own winding spiritual journey. Put off by the masculine God in traditional Judaism, she is intrigued ...             Origins: A Skeptic's Guide to the Creation of Life on Earth3 reviews Robert Shapiro Bantam New Age, 1987 A wonderful book, whatever side you take In the Origin of Life debates, most books take one side or the other and argue that point. eg, Behe says God did it. Dawkins says evolution did it. Shapiro doesn't really present a point of view as to "This must be the way it started". Rather, he goes through all the evidence in a witty yet lucid style, and really gives you an appreciation of how complex life is. By the time you've finished ...             Illustrated Stories From The Bible4 reviews Paul John Farrell American Atheist Press, 2005 If gods are nice guys, why do bibles depict them as monsters? Once upon a time, when Yahweh's nice Spokesman, Elisha, was about to enter Bethel, a gaggle of 42 children laughed at him and jeered at his bald head. So Elisha, in righteous indignation, called on his god to inflict appropriate punishment on the perpetrators of such irreverence. Yahweh promptly summoned two bears, and the bears mauled the 42 children to death. Since the obvious moral of that ...             I Once Was Lost: What Postmodern Skeptics Taught Us About Their Path to Jesus4 reviews Don Everts, Doug Schaupp IVP Books, 2008 How Not to be a Jerk for Jesus For so many of us, sharing our faith is a frustrating exercise. We have the best of intentions, but end up being jerks for Jesus. We avoid non-Christians like the plague for a while. Then some one or some thing convinces us that we really ought to evangelize. So we gear up with self-righteous, fire and brimstone fear of hell for the next round. And we wonder why Christians have a ...             The Skeptic's Guide To The Adventures Of Life4 reviews Connie R. Siewert Expanded Thought Pr, 2004 A Fascinating Exploration of Alternative Healing Beautifully written this book takes you on Connie's personal journey through many kinds of alternative healing. I couldn't put the book down, finding myself smiling with pleasure at each new discovery and revelation. Most important it opened me up to try those therapies I had never experienced. An excellent read. Diana Cooper             A Changed Man: An Old Army Mystery2 reviews Trafford Publishing, 2000 A Changed Man, An Old Army Mystery This is a fascinating true mystery! The historical comments are interesting as well. Much of the book reads like a "Little House" book, except for adults, and about a different time period. Humorous anecdotes add a personal touch. The author goes back and forth between the mystery of why her father changed his identity and left his family, to her mother's extensive memoirs of the period ...             The Healthy Skeptic: Cutting through the Hype about Your Health4 reviews Robert Davis University of California Press, 2008 A Lot of good advice Robert Davis has given us a good wake up call here. He reminds us how easy it is to get complacent in our lifestyle, going from diet to diet, falling prey to the latest fad health tips. "The Healthy Skeptic" doles out a good dose of common sense, backed up by a book-full of reminders to check out the research behind what we think is good advice - those "health" claims may not be supported by ...             Spiritual Realism: The Skeptic's Guide to Happiness3 reviews David A. Gurdjieff Ph.D. iUniverse, Inc., 2004 Always question.... A must read! An extremely disturbing yet necessary book. Gurdjieff forces you to open your eyes and take a deep look inside yourself. You may not like what you find, but he shows you how to fix what you don't like. Gurdjieff gets at the core of spirituality, shedding superstitious and religious belief systems as readily as we shed our dirty clothes. Although the exercises seem simple, they ...             Inner Strength Defies the Skeptic: A Psychological And Spiritual Guide from Fear to Freedom4 reviews Duane Campbell Immediex Publishing, 2006 Of value to anyone needing to get out of a rut Reviewed by Nina Larson for Reader Views (11/06) On the surface, Duane Campbell's book, "Inner Strength Defies the Skeptic," is about looking inside oneself to find your personal truth, path and spirituality. His main claim is that value and identity has to come from inside a person, not outside, and especially not from anyone who has a vested interest in skewing that identity for the worse. ...             Nobody's Fool: A Skeptic's Guide to Prosperity2 reviews Allan B. Jacobs Tableau Publishing, 2002 Expressly for the benefit of non-specialist general readers Nobody's Fool: A Skeptic's Guide to Prosperity by experienced entrepreneur A. B. Jacobs is a practical, "user friendly" guide to financial ways and means written expressly for the benefit of non-specialist general readers. Individual chapters address the truth about Social Security, effective approaches to maintaining one's health, need-to-know information on mutual funds, and much, much more. ...             Human Genetic Engineering: A Guide for Activists, Skeptics, and the Very Perplexed2 reviews Pete Shanks Nation Books, 2005 Choosing where we should go This is a great primer and source-book on just about everything connected with human genetic engineering -- cloning, stem cells, the fertility industry, gene therapy (and how it hasn't worked), and even the history of eugenics. There's really nothing like it. Every chapter has got suggestions for further reading, there's an appendix listing all the best websites and books ... and on top of it ...              search for books activists, adventures, analysis, awestruck, christian, christianity, critical, engineering, examination, existence, freethinkers, happiness, illustrated, nonconformists, parapsychology, perplexed, phenomena, pilgrimage, postmodern, prosperity, prototheist, psychological, quotations, science-minded, scientific, selected, skeptics, spiritual, understandable, wholeness books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen book: Taking Wal-Mart Global: Lessons from Retailing's Giant we recommend Should be required reading Impressum - about us get your own shoutbox