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A follow-up to "Cracking Cases", this title describes the author's work in personally investigating five notorious murder cases, while demonstrating the fascinating scientific techniques of forensic science.

Examines the variety of pseudoscientific conjectures that dominate the media. With an emphasis on parapsychology and occultism, this collection addresses the evidence put forth to support claims of ESP, psychokinesis, faith healing, and other pseudoscience.

Localises the source of our irrationality in the limbic id - the part of our brain that endlessly thirsts for status, sex, territory, nurturance, and survival. This book offers advice on how to handle our own Inner Dummies with built-in rewards and punishments. It illustrates how we can apply 'ID prevention' in our daily lives.

Written by the renowned creator of one of the successful forms of psychotherapy - Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), this book offers a self-assessment, which reveals how the author overcame his own mental and physical problems using the techniques of REBT. Part memoir and part self-help guide, it also traces his private struggles.

The twentieth century witnessed the blossoming of Western culture including communications and transportation systems, and educational, agricultural and medical advances. This book argues that humankind could keep a firm hold on its destiny only if the critical intelligence of scientific method and its democratic counterpart were promoted.

Epicurus (ca 341-271 B.C.) founded one of the most famous and influential philosophical schools of antiquity. This title helps readers trace Epicurus' views on atomism, physical sensation, duty, morality, the soul, and the nature of the gods.

Tells the story of Jerry Butler's erotic voyage from average child to sex star. This edition aims to answer the question: where will Jerry go from here?

Metaphysics is the study of existence at the highest level of generality. This book presents key topics that have always figured on the agenda of metaphysics: the nature and rationale of existence, the differentiation of what is actual from the unreal and mere possibility, and the prospects and limits of our knowledge of the real.

Offers an introduction to Heidegger.

Sappho's poems survive only in fragments following religious conspiracies to silence her. Sappho penned verse on the intense power of the female libido; on the themes of romance, love, yearning, heartbreak, and personal relationships with women. This work retains the standard numerical order of the fragments and has been arranged in six sections.

Ponders most-asked questions about atheism including: What is atheism? How can atheists have morals? How can atheists have purpose in their lives? Doesn't the Bible show that god exists? Do reports of miracles prove the existence of a god? Aren't there philosophical proofs demonstrating that god exists?

Analyzes and documents ways in which anthropological thinking and practice have been affected by British colonialism.

Includes four short works, "Euthyphro", "Apology", "Crito", and "Phaedo", which help readers experience the range of Socrates' penetrating mind.

Answers questions such as: Are women really better than men at reading other people's minds? Are longer-married couples better than newlyweds at anticipating their partners' thoughts and feelings? Do we all possess a dormant "sixth sense" that, if fully utilized, could allow us to intuit with great accuracy what other people are thinking?

Each of us is controlled in some way by shame, one of the ugliest emotions in human experience. It saps our self-respect, builds walls between people, and forces us to create elaborate defences to protect ourselves. This book analyses the role of shame in our lives and helps us to understand the root of our insecurity.

This title encourages having an open mind and checking things out to find the truth, rather than blindly accepting everything we hear.

Based on his years of experience as a consultant for the FBI, the author produces published evidence of the Church's morally questionable financial dealings with sinister organizations over seven decades.

What would any rational person believe to be worth wanting or working for? This book argues that rational people would choose a utilitarian moral code that the purpose of living should be to strive for the greatest good for the largest number of people.

Since Old Testament days discrimination against minorities and other groups has been the rule in history rather than the exception. Chief among these repressive attitudes has been the inferior social and political status of women. This title argues against the disenfranchisement of women and the 2nd-class status they experienced within marriage.

Introduces us to this extraordinary man, Dr Irving Joshua Matrix. Believed by many to be the greatest numerologist who ever lived, Dr Matrix claims to be a reincarnation of Pythagoras. This title follows Dr Matrix as he roams the world and assumes new identities and discovers new manifestations of the power of numbers to explain and predict.

A collection of Goldman's speeches and writings, it attempts to show the relevance of Goldman's work and her life.

Reviews the historical roots of non-belief going back to the ancient Greeks. This book argues that philosophy can serve as an important alternative to religion, and defends reason as the most reliable method humans have for establishing truth and conducting one's life.

Most of the major schools of contemporary philosophy, from Marxism to Existentialism, are reactions to Hegelianism and all, if they are to be understood, require some understanding of Hegel's "Logic". First published in 1812, this work deals with Hegel's system.

Love - our hearts yearn for it, we fall into it, we'll do almost anything to attain and keep it. This book discusses relationship between love and romance, caring, concern, compassion, thoughtfulness, sex, and the many other components whose power can give strength to the weakest among us, or turn powerhouses of strength into emotional mush.

An introduction to a large and complicated subject, which has come to be called the Scientific Revolution, this book refers to the fundamental changes in our understanding of the natural world that occurred in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. These changes led to a rejection of ancient and medieval thinking about the universe in favor of the new thinking that gave birth to modern science.Professor Jacob does not pretend to tell the whole story of this momentous transformation, which is perhaps more important than any other in modern history. But he does highlight and survey what are often considered to be the six principal developments associated with this shift from old to new science. The six changes are: first, the abandonment of an ancient Greek picture of an earth-centered universe and its replacement by the modern picture of a solar system surrounded by an enormous universe; second, the gradual rejection of the Aristotelian binary physics in favor of the modern physics of universal forces; third, a medical revolution that culminated in the discovery of the circulation of the blood, and put animal (and human) physiology on a new foundation; fourth, the shift from an Aristotelian theory of knowledge to a modern skepticism; fifth, the development of new methods for establishing scientific certainty; and, finally, the founding of the world's first national, government-sponsored scientific societies for promoting research, spreading scientific knowledge, and stimulating inquiry.

Offers a plea for freedom of conscience and religious expression. This book outlines the limits of social and political incursion into the realm of personal belief or non-belief, discusses the dangers of mixing church and state, and strikes hard at those who would use the power of the state to fulfil religious or political goals.

Elucidates the critical issues that exist among the existentialists, such as phenomenology and ontology, the existential subject, intersubjectivity, religion, and psychotherapy. This book presents short selections from important existentialist writers and their forerunners.

Addresses the problems of the twenty-first century and the millennium beyond. This book provides a defence of scientific naturalism and technology. It recommends long-range attainable goals and generates confidence in the ability of the human species to solve its problems by rational means and a positive outlook.