Uncovers data on sudden shifts in religious and non-religious belief. This title focuses on some amazing people, with unique stories to tell those who join a religious group in spite of being raised in non-religious families, and those who, at great personal cost, choose to leave religion in spite of having a deeply religious background.
The 5 November 1996 decision by voters in California to eliminate most forms of state sanctioned affirmative action ignited a civil rights debate. The vote had critics celebrating the dawn of a new era of equal rights, while opponents warned of school and workplace discrimination without the protective blanket of affirmative action.
What the Warning Label Doesn't Tell You : The First Comprehensive Guide to the Health Consequences of Smoking
From impotence to diabetes, cataracts to psoriasis, the proven dangers of smoking go well beyond heart and lung disease. This book details the various known health threats of smoking. It features chapters that explain how cigarette smoking can effect the body from head to toe.
Presents a treasury of rationalism and religious conflict extracted from the span of over 200 years of moral and religious history since the French Enlightenment. Committed to the separation of church and state and liberty of conscience, this work lures the reader into the worlds of outspoken, courageous, and witty iconoclasts.
Why do some individuals triumph in situations that would physically or emotionally destroy most people? Could 'flow' be the way out an antidote to the poisons of our time? This work answers such questions by offering stories of three men who were close to the author and who conquered their separate demons.
Possibly the best authoritative work on the world's mysteries. From fire walking to the prophesies of Nostradamus, this new book pares the fiction from many popular theories, and urges us to educate ourselves through critical inquiry. Jeane Dixon claims she predicted the assassination of President Kennedy, and to millions this prediction gives ......
Rejecting Hegelian idealism for the pragmatism of William James, the author, through his collection of essays, articulates his philosophical concepts of knowledge and truth and the nature of reality. He introduces his scientific method and uses critical intelligence to reject the traditional ways of viewing philosophical discourse.
A Divorced Father's Struggle With the Child Custody Industry
Exposes a twisted legal system, its obvious abuses of civil rights, and indifferent courts that subject caring fathers across the nation to vengeful ex-wives, opportunistic psychologists and psychiatrists, and overzealous attorneys. This book argues that all fathers should not be viewed as deadbeat dads who shirk their responsibilities.
Looking at class structure, this work argues that Christianity fosters the resentment of success; and discusses the impact of this feeling in science, technology, medicine, the arts, and politics.
