Bust of Socrates

This is a list of some good books on popular philosophy that I recommend. For more information click one of the links below. (** Books that especially influenced me.) Continue reading Good Books on Popular Philosophy →

Herodotus (c. 484 BC – c. 425 BC) has been called the “father of history.”

This is a list of some books on history that I have read and recommend. For more information click on one of the links below. Continue reading Best Books on History →

Toshiba JW-10 stand-alone word processor released in 1978.

These are the books on writing that I recommend. For more information click on one of the links below. (**Zinnser’s is the single best book on writing in my opinion.) Continue reading Best Books on Writing →

Ludwig Feuerbach

These are some books on atheism and agnosticism that I recommend. For more information click on one of the links below. (** Books that had a special influence on me.)

• Paulo Bitencourt ~ Liberated from Religion The Inestimable Pleasure of Being…
• Paulo Bitencourt ~ Wasting Time On God: Why I Am an Atheist
• Alain De Botton ~ Religion for Atheists: A Non-believer’s Guide to the Uses of Religion
• Marshall Brain ~ How “God” Works: A Logical Inquiry on Faith
• Richard Carrier ~ On the Historicity of Jesus: Why We Might Have Reason for Doubt
• Richard Carrier ~ Jesus from Outer Space: What the Earliest Christians Really Believed …
• Richard Carrier ~ Why I Am Not a Christian: Four Conclusive Reasons to Reject the Faith
• Richard Carrier ~ Hitler Homer Bible Christ: The Historical Papers of Richard Carrier…
• Richard Carrier ~ Not the Impossible Faith
• Richard Carrier ~ Bart Ehrman and the Quest of the Historical Jesus of Nazareth…
• Richard Carrier ~ Sense & Goodness Without God: A Defense of Metaphysical Naturalism
• Richard Carrier ~ Proving History: Bayes’s Theorem and the Quest for the Historical Jesus
• Simon Critchley ~ The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments In Political Theology
• Richard Dawkins ~ The God Delusion
• Daniel Dennett ~ Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon **
• Ronald Dworkin ~ Religion without God **
• Greg Graffin ~ Anarchy Evolution: Faith, Science, and Bad Religion in a World Without God
•  A. C. Grayling ~ The Good Book: A Humanist Bible
• Sam Harris ~ The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
• Sam Harris ~ Letter to a Christian Nation
• S. C. Hitchcock ~ Disbelief 101: A Young Person’s Guide to Atheism
• Christopher Hitchens ~ God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
• Julian Huxley ~ Religion Without Revelation
• Philip Kitcher ~ Life After Faith: The Case for Secular Humanism
• John W. Loftus ~ The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails
• John W. Loftus ~ The End of Christianity
• John W. Loftus ~ Christianity Is Not Great: How Faith Fails
• Michel Onfray ~ Atheist Manifesto: The Case Against Christianity, Judaism, and Islam
• Robert Price ~The Empty Tomb: Jesus Beyond The Grave
• Bertrand Russell ~ Why I Am Not a Christian and Other Essays on Religion and Related…**
• Victor Stenger ~ God and the Folly of Faith: The Incompatibility of Science and Religion
• Mitchell Stevens ~ Imagine There’s No Heaven: How Atheism Helped Create the Modern…
• Phil Torres ~ A Crisis of Faith – Atheism, Emerging Technologies and the Future of…
• Peter Watson ~ The Age of Atheists: How We Have Sought to Live Since the Death of God

Rachel Carson, author of The Silent Spring, the book that launched environmentalism.

These are books about the future that I recommend. For more information click on one of the links below. (**Books that especially influenced me.) Continue reading Good Books about the Future →