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The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
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Anderson, Elizabeth author
Ayer, A. J.1910-1989 author
Betjeman, John,1906-1984 author
Boswell, James,1740-1795 author
Cohen, Chapman author
Ayer, A. J.1910-1989 author
Betjeman, John,1906-1984 author
Boswell, James,1740-1795 author
Cohen, Chapman author
Conrad, Joseph,1857-1924 author
Darwin, Charles,1809-1882 author
Dawkins, Richard,1941- author
Dennett, D. C. author
Einstein, Albert,1879-1955 author
Eliot, George,1819-1880 author
France, Anatole,1844-1924 author
Freud, Sigmund,1856-1939 author
Gardner, Martin,1914-2010 author
Goldman, Emma,1869-1940 author
Grayling, A. C. author
Hardy, Thomas,1840-1928 author
Harris, Sam,1967- author
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan,1969- author
Hitchens, Christopher Author
Hobbes, Thomas,1588-1679 author
Hume, David,1711-1776 author
Ibn Warraq author
Jillette, Penn author
Larkin, Philip author
Lovecraft, H. P.1890-1937 author
Lucretius Carus, Titus author
Mackie, J. L. author
Marx, Karl,1818-1883 author
McEwan, Ian author
Mencken, H. L.1880-1956 author
Mill, John Stuart,1806-1873 author
Omar Khayyam author
Orwell, George,1903-1950 author
Rushdie, Salman author
Russell, Bertrand,1872-1970 author
Sagan, Carl,1934-1996 author
Shelley, Percy Bysshe,1792-1822 author
Shermer, Michael author
Spinoza, Benedictus de,1632-1677 author
Stenger, Victor J.,1935-2014 author
Stephen, Leslie,1832-1904 author
Templeton, Charles,1915-2001 author
Twain, Mark,1835-1910 author
Updike, John author
Van Doren, Carl,1885-1950 author
Weinberg, Steven,1933- author
Darwin, Charles,1809-1882 author
Dawkins, Richard,1941- author
Dennett, D. C. author
Einstein, Albert,1879-1955 author
Eliot, George,1819-1880 author
France, Anatole,1844-1924 author
Freud, Sigmund,1856-1939 author
Gardner, Martin,1914-2010 author
Goldman, Emma,1869-1940 author
Grayling, A. C. author
Hardy, Thomas,1840-1928 author
Harris, Sam,1967- author
Hirsi Ali, Ayaan,1969- author
Hitchens, Christopher Author
Hobbes, Thomas,1588-1679 author
Hume, David,1711-1776 author
Ibn Warraq author
Jillette, Penn author
Larkin, Philip author
Lovecraft, H. P.1890-1937 author
Lucretius Carus, Titus author
Mackie, J. L. author
Marx, Karl,1818-1883 author
McEwan, Ian author
Mencken, H. L.1880-1956 author
Mill, John Stuart,1806-1873 author
Omar Khayyam author
Orwell, George,1903-1950 author
Rushdie, Salman author
Russell, Bertrand,1872-1970 author
Sagan, Carl,1934-1996 author
Shelley, Percy Bysshe,1792-1822 author
Shermer, Michael author
Spinoza, Benedictus de,1632-1677 author
Stenger, Victor J.,1935-2014 author
Stephen, Leslie,1832-1904 author
Templeton, Charles,1915-2001 author
Twain, Mark,1835-1910 author
Updike, John author
Van Doren, Carl,1885-1950 author
Weinberg, Steven,1933- author
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9780306816086
9780306902468
9780306817229
9780306902468
9780306817229
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Acknowledgments
Introduction / Christopher Hitchens
from De rerum natura (On the nature of things), Book I / Lucretius, translated by W. Hannaford Brown
from Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám: a paraphrase from several literal translations by Richard Le Gallienne / Omar Khayyám
Of religion, from Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes
Theological-political treatise / Benedict de Spinoza
The natural history of religion ; Of miracles / David Hume
An account of my last interview with David Hume, Esq. / James Boswell
A refutation of deism / Percy Bysshe Shelley
Moral influences in my early youth, from Autobiography / John Stuart Mill
Contribution to the critique of Hegel's philosophy of right / Karl Marx
Evangelical teaching / George Eliot
Autobiography / Charles Darwin
An agnostic's apology / Leslie Stephen
Miracle / Anatole France
Thoughts of God, from Fables of Man ; Bible teaching and religious practice, fom Europe and elsewhere and A pen warmed up in hell / Mark Twain
Author's note to The shadow line / Joseph Conrad
God's funeral / Thomas Hardy
The philosophy of atheism / Emma Goldman
A letter on religion / H. P. Lovecraft
Why I am an unbeliever / Carl Van Doren
Memorial service / H. L. Mencken
from The future of an illusion / Sigmund Freud ; translated and edited by James Strachey
Selected writings on religion / Albert Einstein
from A clergyman's daughter / George Orwell
In Westminster Abbey / John Betjeman
Monism and religion ; An old story / Chapman Cohen
An outline of intellectual rubbish / Bertrand Russell
Aubade ; Church going / Philip Larkin
The wandering Jew and the second coming / Martin Gardner
The demon-haunted world ; The God hypothesis / Carl Sagan
from Roger's version / John Updike
Conclusions and implications, from The miracle of theism: arguments for and against the existence of God / J. L. Mackie
Genesis revisited: a scientific creation story / Michael Shermer
That undiscovered country / A. J. Ayer
Thank goodness! / Daniel C. Dennett
from A farewell to God, a personal word ; Questions to ask yourself / Charles Templeton
Why there almost certainly is no God ; Gerin oil ; Atheists for Jesus / Richard Dawkins
from God: the failed hypothesis, cosmic evidence / Victor Stenger
A working definition of religion, from "Breaking which spell?" / Daniel C. Dennett / If God is dead, is everything permitted? / Elizabeth Anderson
There is no God / Penn Jillette
End of the world blues / Ian McEwan
What about God? from Dreams of a final theory / Steven Weinberg
"Imagine there's no heaven": a letter to the six billionth world citizen / Salman Rushdie
The Koran ; The totalitarian nature of Islam / Ibn Warraq
In the shadow of God, from The end of faith / Sam Harris
Can an atheist be a fundamentalist? from Against all gods / A. C. Grayling
How (and why) I became an infidel / Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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