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  The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had

  by Susan Wise Bauer

  An engaging, accessible guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition. Surrounded by more books than ever, readers today are frequently daunted by the classics they have left unread. The Well-Educated Mind , debunking our own inferiority complexes, is a wonderful resource for anyone wishing to explore and develop the mind's capacity to read and comprehend the "greatest hits" in fiction,... (more)
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  God in the Dock

  by C. S. Lewis

  Lewis addresses theological and ethical questions with profoundly Christian insight in these 48 essays. Drawn from a variety of sources and written to meet a variety of needs, the essays range from popular newspaper pieces to learned defenses of the faith.
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  The Abolition of Man

  by C. S. Lewis

  C. S. Lewis sets out to persuade his audience of the importance and relevance of universal values such as courage and honor in contemporary society.
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  Flatland

  A Romance of Many Dimensions

  by Edwin A. Abbott

  How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful "romance of many dimensions" explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, this classic work of science fiction... (more)
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  The Fallacy Detective

  by Hans Bluedorn

  What is a fallacy? A fallacy is an error in logic a place where someone has made a mistake in his thinking. A cloud is 90% water. A watermelon is 90% water. Therefore, since a plane can fly through a cloud, a plane can fly through a watermelon. This book meets the needs of parents who want a do-able text for introducing logic and critical thinking to their children. -Fun to use -- not dry like a math textbook.... (more)
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  unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation

  by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Brooks Jackson

  Americans are bombarded daily with mixed messages, half-truths, misleading statements, and out-and-out fabrications masquerading as facts. The news media–once the vaunted watchdogs of our republic–are often too timid or distracted to identify these deceptions. unSpun is the secret decoder ring for the twenty-first-century world of disinformation. Written by Brooks Jackson and Kathleen Hall Jamieson, the... (more)
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  The Irrational Atheist: Dissecting the Unholy Trinity of Dawkins, Harris, and Hitchens

  by Vox Day

  A perceptive examination of modern day atheism, this book challenges the argument that religion and reason are fundamentally at odds—a contention made by three prominent scholars on atheism: Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, and Sam Harris. While other religious apologetics have challenged atheism on theological or biblical grounds, this book fights fire with fire, disproving the scholars' logic through modern,... (more)
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  Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church

  by N. T. Wright

  For years Christians have been asking, "If you died tonight, do you know where you would go?" It turns out that many believers have been giving the wrong answer. It is not heaven. Award-winning author N. T. Wright outlines the present confusion about a Christian's future hope and shows how it is deeply intertwined with how we live today. Wright, who is one of today's premier Bible scholars, asserts that... (more)
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  Handbook of Today's Religions

  by Ian McDowell, Charles Caldwell Ryrie

  Don't rely on news stories or a one-sided defense of cults, the occult, or secular and non-Christian religions. This handbook provides authoritative, evangelical perspectives on alternative religions. It includes thorough, accurate information for analyzing and measuring these groups' claims and beliefs against God's Word.
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  Darwin Day In America: How Our Politics and Culture Have Been Dehumanized in the Name of Science

  by John G. West

  At the dawn of the last century, leading scientists and politicians giddily predicted that science—especially Darwinian biology—would supply solutions to all the intractable problems of American society, from crime to poverty to sexual maladjustment.   Instead, politics and culture were dehumanized as scientific experts began treating human beings as little more than animals or machines. In criminal justice,... (more)
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  True for You, But Not for Me: Overcoming Objections to Christian Faith

  by Paul Copan

  Answers to Today's Toughest Faith Questions "Well, that may be true for you, but it's not for me" is the rallying cry of our culture. It's one of many popular sayings put forward with no evidence: "All religions lead to God." "Who are you to judge others?" "Jesus was just another great religious leader." "Christians are so intolerant." Most Christians are left grasping for a response, and the conversation... (more)
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  Between Heaven and Hell

  by Peter Kreeft

  Combining logical argument with literary imagination, Peter Kreeft uses a dialogue between C.S. Lewis, John F. Kennedy and Aldous Huxley (all of whom died within hours of each other) to investigate the claims of Christ.
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  Reading Between the Lines: A Christian Guide to Literature

  by Gene Edward Veith

  Here is a guidebook for those who want to learn how to recognize books that are spiritually and aesthetically good--to cultivate good literary taste. Gene Edward Veith presents basic information to help book lovers understand what they read--from the classics to the bestsellers. He explains how the major genres of literature communicate. He explores ways comedy, tragedy, realism, and fantasy can portray the... (more)
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  The Craft of Thought: Meditation, Rhetoric, and the Making of Images, 400-1200 (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature)

  by Mary J. Carruthers

  A companion to Mary Carruthers' earlier study of memory in medieval culture, The Book of Memory, this book, The Craft of Thought, examines medieval monastic meditation as a discipline for making thoughts, and discusses its influence on literature, art, and architecture, deriving examples from a variety of late antique and medieval sources, with excursions into modern architectural memorials. The study emphasizes... (more)
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  Immanuel Kant: Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals (2nd Edition)

  by Immanuel Kant

  The Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals or Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Immanuel Kant's first contribution to moral philosophy, argues for an a priori basis for morality. Where the Critique of Pure Reason laid out Kant's metaphysical and epistemological ideas, this relatively short, primarily meta-ethical, work was intended to outline and define the concepts and arguments shaping his future work... (more)
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  The Thinking Toolbox: Thirty-Five Lessons That Will Build Your Reasoning Skills

  by Nathaniel Bluedorn, Hans Bluedorn

  This book is like a toolbox, full of different kinds of tools you can use for different thinking tasks. Just as you use the wrench in a regular tool box to fix the sink, so you can use the tools we give you inthis book to solve thinking problems. -When it is dumb to argue -Using the scientific method -Five rules of brainstorming -Who has a reason to lie? -How to analyze opposing viewpoints -How to analyze evidence... (more)
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  Introductory Logic

  by James B. Nance, Douglas Wilson

  Logic is the art of reasoning well—of learning to think God's thoughts after Him. In this book, directed toward junior-high students, Douglas Wilson and James Nance lay the proper foundation of reasoning in the truth of God, and go on to train students in the crucial skills of defining terms, recognizing basic types of statements, arguing with syllogisms, arguing in ordinary language, and identifying informal... (more)