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"Khubla" |
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05 Jan 2006 06:27:17 PM |
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NEED ATHEIST BOOK LIST FOR LOCAL LIBRARY |
My local county library is woefully lacking on Atheist literature. When I
brought this to the Collection Development head she ask that I submit a list
of books and videos that I would suggest and she would review. One
restriction, these must be recent publications, not old works due to her
resource mandate. If you know of some really good books/videos of recent
vintage let me know.
Thanks,
Khubla
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| User: "Jim07D6" |
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| Title: Re: NEED ATHEIST BOOK LIST FOR LOCAL LIBRARY |
05 Jan 2006 06:47:21 PM |
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"Khubla" <khubla@adelphia.net> said:
My local county library is woefully lacking on Atheist literature. When I
brought this to the Collection Development head she ask that I submit a list
of books and videos that I would suggest and she would review. One
restriction, these must be recent publications, not old works due to her
resource mandate. If you know of some really good books/videos of recent
vintage let me know.
Thanks,
Khubla
Huh? Resource mandate against old books? Probably mold/mildew issues.
New editions of Ingersoll; Voltaire's Candide, even Mark Twain's The
Mysterious Stranger, and books on mythology (Joseph Campbell, The
Golden Bough by Sir James George Frazer) Joseph Lewis's classic
"Atheist Manifesto" or "Atheism" should be in every library. See if
they are.
--- Jim07D6
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| User: "Enkidu" |
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| Title: Re: NEED ATHEIST BOOK LIST FOR LOCAL LIBRARY |
05 Jan 2006 06:34:21 PM |
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"Khubla" <khubla@adelphia.net> wrote in
news:nrednVcY4ffJJCDeRVn-uQ@adelphia.com:
My local county library is woefully lacking on Atheist literature.
When I brought this to the Collection Development head she ask that I
submit a list of books and videos that I would suggest and she would
review. One restriction, these must be recent publications, not old
works due to her resource mandate. If you know of some really good
books/videos of recent vintage let me know.
Books:
"Atheism: The Case Against God" by George H. Smith
"Losing Faith in Faith" by Dan Barker
Video:
"A Brief History of Disbelief" by Jonathan Miller
http://tinyurl.com/czy5w
--
Enkidu AA#2165
http://www.thoughts.leaddogs.org/
EAC Chaplain and ordained minister,
ULC, Modesto, CA
PGP ID: 0xC4CE8CF0
How many things we held yesterday as articles of faith which today we
tell as fables.
-- Michel De Montaigne
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| User: "DaveJr" |
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| Title: Re: NEED ATHEIST BOOK LIST FOR LOCAL LIBRARY |
05 Jan 2006 10:19:46 PM |
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"Enkidu" <jdwnx4702@sneakemail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns9742A8968CAB7255229@130.133.1.4...
"Khubla" <khubla@adelphia.net> wrote in
news:nrednVcY4ffJJCDeRVn-uQ@adelphia.com:
My local county library is woefully lacking on Atheist literature.
When I brought this to the Collection Development head she ask that I
submit a list of books and videos that I would suggest and she would
review. One restriction, these must be recent publications, not old
works due to her resource mandate. If you know of some really good
books/videos of recent vintage let me know.
Books:
"Atheism: The Case Against God" by George H. Smith
"Losing Faith in Faith" by Dan Barker
Video:
"A Brief History of Disbelief" by Jonathan Miller
http://tinyurl.com/czy5w
As mentioned before....Richard Dawkins is a MUST! Golden Bough is
excellent too.
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| User: "Bonfire of the Deities..." |
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| Title: Re: NEED ATHEIST BOOK LIST FOR LOCAL LIBRARY |
05 Jan 2006 08:08:25 PM |
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Books:
"Why I Am not A Christian" by Bertrand Russell
Video/DVD:
"The God Who Wasn't There" by Brian Fleming
(see http://www.thegodmovie.com/)
Bonf.
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| User: "chibiabos" |
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| Title: Re: NEED ATHEIST BOOK LIST FOR LOCAL LIBRARY |
06 Jan 2006 08:37:11 AM |
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In article <nrednVcY4ffJJCDeRVn-uQ@adelphia.com>, Khubla
<khubla@adelphia.net> wrote:
My local county library is woefully lacking on Atheist literature. When I
brought this to the Collection Development head she ask that I submit a list
of books and videos that I would suggest and she would review. One
restriction, these must be recent publications, not old works due to her
resource mandate. If you know of some really good books/videos of recent
vintage let me know.
Thanks,
Khubla
Here's the most comprehensive list I've ever seen, posted a few years
ago here on alt.atheism:
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.atheism/search?q=top+300+books&start=
0&
Link is to a list of posts by Dan Fake, an atheist who unfortunately
had other issues, and subsequently left aa in a snit.
His list of 300 books for atheists, agnostics, freethinkers and
humanists, however, is excellent.
-chib
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Member of S.M.A.S.H.
Sarcastic Middle-aged Atheists with a Sense of Humor
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| User: "Scott Richter" |
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| Title: Re: NEED ATHEIST BOOK LIST FOR LOCAL LIBRARY |
05 Jan 2006 09:14:20 PM |
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Khubla <khubla@adelphia.net> wrote:
My local county library is woefully lacking on Atheist literature. When I
brought this to the Collection Development head she ask that I submit a list
of books and videos that I would suggest and she would review. One
restriction, these must be recent publications, not old works due to her
resource mandate. If you know of some really good books/videos of recent
vintage let me know.
Thanks,
Khubla
"The End of Faith: Religion, Terror and the Future of Reason" by Sam
Harris.
This book won the 2005 PEN award for nonfiction.
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| User: "" |
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| Title: Re: NEED ATHEIST BOOK LIST FOR LOCAL LIBRARY |
06 Jan 2006 11:42:16 AM |
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Khubla wrote:
My local county library is woefully lacking on Atheist literature. When I
brought this to the Collection Development head she ask that I submit a list
of books and videos that I would suggest and she would review.
Suggest any Martin Gardner books. His writings are not atheist,
and if he is he gives no hint of it, but his books are great for
teaching people how to think logically and critically.
Religious fucknuts might attempt to steal and burn a Stephen Jay
Gould book, but not a Gardner book.
Also, because of the success of the crappy "I, Robot" movie,
some xians at two schools where I worked brought in Asimov's
book thinking it was the same stupid god-crap story.
One
restriction, these must be recent publications, not old works due to her
resource mandate. If you know of some really good books/videos of recent
vintage let me know.
The reason for the restrictions is probably cost. Books that
are current usually have lower prices than those out of print
or from back catalogues. It's undoubtedly cheaper to order a
number of books and ship them all at once than to acquire them
one at a time.
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
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"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,
it's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
- George W. Bush, US President
"I've never seen a pro-choicer bomb any churches. Have you?"
- Aaron Kinney, speaking on Eric Rudolph
"The best thing about the Left Behind books is the way the
non-Christians get their guts pulled out by God."
- 15-year-old fundamentalist fan of the books
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: NEED ATHEIST BOOK LIST FOR LOCAL LIBRARY |
07 Jan 2006 02:56:48 AM |
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On 6 Jan 2006 09:42:16 -0800, wrote:
Khubla wrote:
My local county library is woefully lacking on Atheist literature. When I
brought this to the Collection Development head she ask that I submit a list
of books and videos that I would suggest and she would review.
Suggest any Martin Gardner books. His writings are not atheist,
Mr. Garder is most definitely a theist.
and if he is he gives no hint of it, but his books are great for
teaching people how to think logically and critically.
Religious fucknuts might attempt to steal and burn a Stephen Jay
Gould book, but not a Gardner book.
Also, because of the success of the crappy "I, Robot" movie,
some xians at two schools where I worked brought in Asimov's
book thinking it was the same stupid god-crap story.
One
restriction, these must be recent publications, not old works due to her
resource mandate. If you know of some really good books/videos of recent
vintage let me know.
The reason for the restrictions is probably cost. Books that
are current usually have lower prices than those out of print
or from back catalogues. It's undoubtedly cheaper to order a
number of books and ship them all at once than to acquire them
one at a time.
Bob Dog
Atheist #153 = 1^3 + 5^3 + 3^3
EAC's chief cook and brainwasher
-----
"Stop throwing the Constitution in my face,
it's just a goddamned piece of paper!"
- George W. Bush, US President
"I've never seen a pro-choicer bomb any churches. Have you?"
- Aaron Kinney, speaking on Eric Rudolph
"The best thing about the Left Behind books is the way the
non-Christians get their guts pulled out by God."
- 15-year-old fundamentalist fan of the books
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: NEED ATHEIST BOOK LIST FOR LOCAL LIBRARY |
05 Jan 2006 07:57:47 PM |
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On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:27:17 -0500, "Khubla" <khubla@adelphia.net>
wrote:
My local county library is woefully lacking on Atheist literature. When I
brought this to the Collection Development head she ask that I submit a list
of books and videos that I would suggest and she would review. One
restriction, these must be recent publications, not old works due to her
resource mandate. If you know of some really good books/videos of recent
vintage let me know.
Thanks,
Khubla
Everything and anything by Prof. Richard Dawkins would be an essential
start.
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| User: "J Forbes" |
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| Title: Re: NEED ATHEIST BOOK LIST FOR LOCAL LIBRARY |
05 Jan 2006 08:50:54 PM |
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Michael Gray wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:27:17 -0500, "Khubla" <khubla@adelphia.net>
wrote:
My local county library is woefully lacking on Atheist literature. When I
Everything and anything by Prof. Richard Dawkins would be an essential
start.
And Daniel Dennet....
A subscription to Free Inquiry magazine would also be in order.
Jim
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| User: "Michael Gray" |
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| Title: Re: NEED ATHEIST BOOK LIST FOR LOCAL LIBRARY |
06 Jan 2006 03:26:27 AM |
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On 5 Jan 2006 18:50:54 -0800, "J Forbes" <jforbspam@fastmail.fm>
wrote:
Michael Gray wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 19:27:17 -0500, "Khubla" <khubla@adelphia.net>
wrote:
My local county library is woefully lacking on Atheist literature. When I
Everything and anything by Prof. Richard Dawkins would be an essential
start.
And Daniel Dennet....
A subscription to Free Inquiry magazine would also be in order.
Jim
Agreed.
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