Collects the most notorious and celebrated essays and other writings of rabble-rouser and critic Leslie Fiedler, professor of English at the University of Buffalo, New York, and author of 25 books of
This wide-ranging collection of essays is based on papers delivered at a world conference on pornography held in Los Angeles. Representatives of the legal and academic communities, including many inte
This book purports to be a "serious" study of the film and video pornography industry, but is not sufficiently well-written to satisfy this claim. While it may synthesize some information not easily
Includes articles on the puzzles in James Joyce's Ulysses and on the fantasies of Ray Bradbury, Arthur C. Clarke, Lord Dunsany, Gilbert Chesterton, and H.G. Wells
Ackerman (emeritus, surgery, New York Medical College) examines the physical and psychological aspects of morbid obesity (over 100 pounds above ideal weight); discusses his personal experiences in tre
In The Star Rover London indicts the savagery of prison life: San Quentin death row inmate Darrell Standing can escape his confinement and torture only by withdrawing into dreams of past lives during
American suffragist and feminist Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) was also an outspoken critic of the Bible because of the many injustices against women in the scriptures. The 1870 revision of the A
Explores the personalities, conflicts, and motivations involved in media attacks on corporations and well-known people, and presents a communication approach to slowing, reversing, and preventing such
"It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anythingupon insufficient evidence." -- W. K. CliffordThe above forthright assertion of mathematician and educator W. K. Clifford (1845-1879
America's most renowned social philosopher John Dewey shines his powerful intellect on the serious public and cultural issues surrounding the place of the individual in a technologically advanced soci
English economist and professor Thomas R. Malthus (1766-1834) caused great public controversy among the optimistic positivitists of his day when his Essay on the Principle of Population (1798) showed
With more than thirty of the most important, influential, and up-to-date articles from leaders in ethics, medicine, sociology, law, and politics, The Ethics of Organ Transplants examines the numerous
Provides up-to-date commentary and opinion on the latest controversial and precedent-setting journalistic developments as well as an ethical analysis of the media in the Information Age. Thirty-four e
A collection of 47 essays by self-described secular humanist Katz (senior editor at The American Rationalist ). He discusses logical fallacies in the writings of the three major Western religions and
Expert in chemical microscopy and long-time researcher Walter McCrone presents exhaustive scientific evidence demonstrating that the Shroud of Turin is an inspired medieval painting rather than part o
The surviving sister and nephew of Iranian feminist and physician Dr. Homa Darabi recount the story of her life, her struggle to challenge state-sponsored violence against women and children, and her
Called the "Tenth Muse" by the ancients, Greece's greatest female lyric poet Sappho (ca. 610-580 b.c.e.) spent the majority of her life on the famed island of Lesbos. Passionate and breathtaking, Sapp
Controversial sexual researcher Money presents a third collection of his recent essays. They are arranged in sections on theoretical, developmental, and evolutionary sexology; clinical principles; and
Twenty-five contemporary anecdotes offer challenging situations where principles, personal integrity, accountability, and self-discipline must be drawn upon to answer the problem, and where a well-rea
The legendary 1960s were the seedbed for many of the social changes evident all around us today. In this book, Jeff Riggenbach takes a long, hard look at that fabulous decade and sees something a bit
Physicist, mathematician, and logician Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914) was America's first internationally recognized philosopher, the man who created the concept of "pragmatism," popularized by William
Nearly two years before his powerful Communist Manifesto, Marx (1818-1883) co-wrote The German Ideology in 1845 with friend and collaborator Friedrich Engels expounding a new political worldview, incl
New edition of a reader containing 33 essays (10 new to this update), arranged in sections on science and pseudoscience, the natural and social sciences, explanation and law, theory and observation, c
Mathematician and author Lewis Carroll (1832-1898) has delighted millions with his most widely regarded book, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Known for pointing out the absurdities of life in his fi
A revised and expanded version of a book originally published in the UK as Thinking about Thinking and later reissued in the US as Thinking Straight. Flew (emeritus, philosophy, Reading University, UK
An advocate of market-based solutions to environmental problems documents the enormous waste of energy and heat in the US, and calls for further deregulation of what he calls the 90-year monopoly on t
An anthology of essays on Islam's sacred text, the Koran, dispels the notion that the text is error free and cannot be evaluated, with essays that attempt to remedy these deficiencies and deepen under
The memoir of immunologist and 1980 Nobel prize winner Benacerraf. Born in 1920 to a family of Jewish textile importers in Caracas, Venezuela, he moved to Paris at the age of five. He discusses his ye
A fascinating look at the personal and creative lives of four major talents tormented by manic-depression (Dickens, Newton, Beethoven, and Van Gogh), probing the stereotype of the mad genius and the r
Now updated and expanded with twenty new ways to think better, this is Steve Allen's humorous and provocative examination of the increasing American tendency toward muddle-headedness and ineptitude,
Royalties from Forever Changed will aid those survivors and family members who have contributed to this book.Much has been written about the Oklahoma City bombing and how 168 people were killed. But n
With the detachment of a clinician and dramatic talent of a poet, Thucydides (ca. 460-400 B.C.E.) chronicles the bitter rivalry between Athens and Sparta "antiquity's Vietnam" (according to the May-Ju
The four primary documents that, since 1878, formed a type of "preamble" to the revised United States Code the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Northwest Ordinance, and
Comparing the lived world with the ideal world, noted American philosophical naturalist, poet, and literary critic George Santayana (1863-1952) seeks in this influential compilation of his earlier wor
The ability to think clearly and the power to reason well set leaders apart from the crowd. All of us have these abilities, but some may not be able to use their capabilities to full advantage at home
Published between 1850 and 1870, English social and political philosopher John Stuart Mill (1806-1873) offers his most sustained analysis of religious belief. Though not prepared to abandon the idea o
Atheist and college educator Krueger examines the eight most commonly asked questions about nonbelief while providing responses, rebuttals, and related points to those who find atheism unacceptable. A
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) championed the belief that people of conscience were at liberty to follow their own opinion. In these selections from his writings, we see Thoreau the individualist and
In this privately published work (1872), written in the tradition of Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels, English novelist, essayist, and iconoclast Samuel Butler (1835-1902) describes an imaginary v
