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The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 43,797 ratings — published 2004
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 82,078 ratings — published 1995
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 114,020 ratings — published 2007
The God Delusion: A Study of Religious Belief and Skepticism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 286,422 ratings — published 2006
Letter to a Christian Nation (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 42,899 ratings — published 2006
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 32,862 ratings — published 2018
The Enigma of Reason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,250 ratings — published 2017
Free Will (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 38,782 ratings — published 2012
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 52,234 ratings — published 2014
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 605,786 ratings — published 2011
Lying (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 22,717 ratings — published 2011
The Moral Landscape: How Science Can Determine Human Values (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 24,558 ratings — published 2010
The Age of American Unreason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 3,279 ratings — published 2008
Critique of Pure Reason (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 43,525 ratings — published 1781
Menti tribali. Perché le brave persone si dividono su politica e religione (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 68,079 ratings — published 2012
Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,093 ratings — published 1992
Atheist Universe: The Thinking Person's Answer to Christian Fundamentalism (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 4,694 ratings — published 2003
Rationality (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 6,611 ratings — published 2021
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,740 ratings — published 2018
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 115,161 ratings — published 2017
Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts
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avg rating 4.04 — 29,478 ratings — published 2007
Mere Christianity (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 — 467,256 ratings — published 1952
Naked Empire (Sword of Truth, #8)
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avg rating 3.83 — 56,818 ratings — published 2003
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
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avg rating 3.78 — 248,708 ratings — published 1974
The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,074 ratings — published 2013
The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 42,201 ratings — published 1986
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 10,152 ratings — published 1994
How We Know What Isn't So: The Fallibility of Human Reason in Everyday Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 3,197 ratings — published 1991
Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 12,992 ratings — published 2006
A Case of Conscience (After Such Knowledge, #4)
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avg rating 3.60 — 7,557 ratings — published 1958
The Assault on Reason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 7,379 ratings — published
The Edge of Reason (ebook)
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avg rating 3.58 — 1,195 ratings — published 2023
Being Logical: A Guide to Good Thinking (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,196 ratings — published 2004
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 123,816 ratings — published 2007
Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.95 — 9,131 ratings — published 2020
Don’t Burn This Book: Thinking for Yourself in an Age of Unreason (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.76 — 3,820 ratings — published 2020
Gödel's Proof (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 5,619 ratings — published 1958
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.22 — 58,384 ratings — published 2018
Nonsense: Red Herrings, Straw Men and Sacred Cows: How We Abuse Logic in Our Everyday Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 466 ratings — published 2002
The Thinker’s Guide to Analytic Thinking (Thinker's Guide Library)
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avg rating 3.93 — 216 ratings — published 2003
Paranormality: Why We See What Isn't There (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 5,048 ratings — published 2010
Against Empathy: The Case for Rational Compassion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.57 — 6,654 ratings — published 2016
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 64,884 ratings — published 2016
Reasons and Persons (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 1,962 ratings — published 1984
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 906,285 ratings — published 2005
A Rulebook for Arguments (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 3,293 ratings — published 1986
The Selfish Gene (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 195,923 ratings — published 1976
Faith of the Fallen (Sword of Truth, #6)
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avg rating 4.11 — 75,044 ratings — published 2000
Confessor (Sword of Truth, #11)
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avg rating 4.09 — 52,131 ratings — published 2007
The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 41,244 ratings — published 2004
“I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time -- when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness...
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance”
― The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark
“Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why.”
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