Written in the form of an explorer's log, this book condenses four billion years into a single year, making it easier to assess the relative distances between major events and the duration of each evolutionary era.
Contemplates the belief systems, prejudices, and institutions that have brought humankind to a dreadful impasse, where it stands at the brink of destruction - or of a new beginning. This book points out how absurd and outmoded religious beliefs, marked by intolerance, hatred, and exclusion, have poisoned human beings' relations.
For reasons largely political, mainstream philosophy is reluctant to attack feminism, instead relegating it to the status of a crazy aunt in the attic. This work scales the forbidden staircase to critique contemporary feminism. It undresses academic feminism, exposing its pretensions, dogmas, fallacies, and peccadilloes.
Traces the materialist hypothesis that all existence is an unbroken, material continuum from its origins in ancient Greece to modern times. Starting with Lucretius' first-century-BC poem, "The Nature of Things", this work concludes by examining the 20th century literature of mind-brain materialism.
Offers an evaluation of reincarnation and Karma in any language. This book exposes the many flaws in the arguments supporting the belief in reincarnation and the so-called Law of Karma. It covers the alleged evidence in support of reincarnation, including child prodigies, deja vu experiences, hypnotic regressions, and 'reincarnation memories'.
As Lenin lay dying, the once-powerful Bolsheviks were splitting into hostile groups. The 'direct' and 'indirect' heirs to power were moving into the light of history, each having his own identity and peculiar features, ambitions and purposes. This book attempts to give scientific and documental presentation of the struggle at that stage.
History has become focused on the future; the age of the information superhighway finds us always looking to the next horizon. But will there be a future for humanity? This book features an essay that follows the course of Western history into the post-religious present in terms of cultural inheritance and legacy.
From the Catholic-Protestant killings in Northern Ireland to the Hindu-Sikh-Muslim massacres in India, from the Orthodox-Catholic-Muslim horror in the former Yugoslavia to the Branch Davidian cult tragedy in Waco, Texas, religion is a powerful force that pits people against one another. This book chronicles the many surges of religious hostility.
Details the revival of the German armed forces after World War I and the assistance given to them by the Soviet Union. The authors aim to reveal the contents of uncovered secret documents that prove that German forces trained and built new equipment, including tanks and airplanes, in a shroud of secrecy on Russian soil.
