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Michael B

member since June 9 2008

The Men Who Stare at Goats

by Jon Ronson

Rated 4 stars

The Return of Depression Economics and the Crisis of 2008

by Paul Krugman

Rated 4 stars

Armageddon in Retrospect

by Kurt Vonnegut

The Age of American Unreason

by Susan Jacoby

Robert G. Ingersoll: A Life

by Frank Smith

The Greatest Show on Earth

by Richard Dawkins

Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (Vintage)

by Richard Hofstadter

Rated 4 stars

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An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding (The Clarendon Edition of the Works of David Hume)

by 1711-1776. Hume, David, Antony Flew, David Hume, Tom L. Beauchamp

Rated 4 stars

In Defense of Secular Humanism

by Paul Kurtz

On Liberty

by John Stuart Mill

The Problems of Philosophy.

by Bertrand. Russell

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Freethinkers: A History Of American Secularism

by Susan Jacoby

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut

Rated 4 stars

Thomas Paine and the Promise of America

by Harvey J. Kaye

Rated 5 stars

Giordano Bruno: Philosopher/Heretic

by Ingrid D. Rowland

Rated 3 stars

Hegemony or Survival

by Noam Chomsky

Rated 4 stars

The Dragons of Eden

by Carl Sagan

Rated 4 stars

Nemesis

by Chalmers A. Johnson

Rated 4 stars

The Philosophy of Jean-paul Sartre

by Jean-Paul Sartre

Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: The Evolutionary Origins of Belief

by L. Wolpert

Rated 4 stars

The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Care, Share, and Follow the Golden Rule

by Michael Shermer

Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA

by tim weiner

Rated 4 stars

Hot, Flat, and Crowded

by Thomas L. Friedman

Rated 3 stars

Consciousness Explained

by Daniel C. Dennett, Paul Weiner

The Oxford Book of Modern Science Writing

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

by Editor-Naomi Klein

Why People Believe Weird Things

by Michael Shermer

Rated 4 stars

On the Gods and Others Essays

by Robert Green Ingersoll

Rated 5 stars

A People's History of American Empire

by Mike Konopacki, Paul Buhle, Howard Zinn

Rated 4 stars

Senator Joe McCarthy

by Richard H. Rovere

Rated 4 stars

The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen Scientist (Helix Books)

by Richard P. Feynman

Rated 4 stars

Alexander Hamilton: Writings (Library of America)

by Alexander Hamilton

Rated 5 stars

Thomas Paine : Collected Writings : Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters (Library of America)

by Thomas Paine

Rated 5 stars

Religion Is Not About God: How Spiritual Traditions Nurture Our Biological Nature And What to Expect When They Fail

by Loyal D. Rue

1776

by David G. McCullough

Ballad of the Whiskey Robber : A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Hearts

by Julian Rubinstein

The World Without Us

by Alan Weisman

Rated 3 stars

The Sorrows of Empire

by Chalmers A. Johnson

Blowback

by Chalmers A. Johnson

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history, hofstadter, intellectualism, recommended, richard hofstadter, sociology