Monkey Girl
Evolution, Education, Religion, and the Battle for America's Soul
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Edward Humes
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What should we teach our children about where we come from? Is evolution a lie or good science? Is it incompatible with faith? Have scientists really detected evidence of a creator in nature?
From best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edward Humes comes a dramatic story of faith, science, and courage unlike any since the famous Scopes Monkey Trial. Monkey Girl takes you behind the scenes of the recent war on evolution in Dover, Pennsylvania, when the town's school board decision to confront the controversy head-on thrust its students, then the entire community, onto the front lines of America's culture wars.
Told from the perspectives of all sides of the battle, it is a riveting true story about an epic court case on the teaching of "intelligent design," and what happens when science and religion collide.
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In It's Dangerous to Believe, Mary Eberstadt documents how people of faith - especially Christians who adhere to traditional religious beliefs - face widespread discrimination in today's increasingly secular society. Eberstadt details how recent laws, court decisions, and intimidation on campuses and elsewhere threaten believers who fear losing their jobs, their communities, and their basic freedoms solely because of their convictions.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Not about Freedom of Religion
- De A. A. Gunnarsdóttir en 01-29-19
De: Mary Eberstadt
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Giving the Devil His Due
- Reflections of a Scientific Humanist
- De: Michael Shermer
- Narrado por: Michael Shermer
- Duración: 13 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 156
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 129
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 126
Who is the "Devil"? And what is he due? The devil is anyone who disagrees with you. And what he is due is the right to speak his mind. He must have this for your own safety's sake, because his freedom is inextricably tied to your own. If he can be censored, why shouldn't you be censored? If we put barriers up to silence "unpleasant" ideas, what's to stop the silencing of any discussion? This book is a full-throated defense of free speech and open inquiry in politics, science, and culture by the New York Times best-selling author and skeptic Michael Shermer.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Flawed Audio
- De Private en 04-10-20
De: Michael Shermer
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Fight of the Century
- Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases
- De: Michael Chabon - editor, Ayelet Waldman - editor
- Narrado por: an all-star cast
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 42
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
In collaboration with the ACLU, authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman have curated an anthology of essays about landmark cases in the organization’s 100-year history. Fight of the Century takes you inside the trials and the stories that have shaped modern life. Some of the most prominent cases that the ACLU has been involved in - Brown v. Board of Education, Roe v. Wade, Miranda v. Arizona - need little introduction. Others you may never even have heard of, yet their outcomes quietly defined the world we live in now.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Outstanding
- De Nancy B en 10-06-20
De: Michael Chabon - editor, y otros
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Idiot America
- How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
- De: Charles P. Pierce
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 9 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 667
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 596
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 597
The culture wars are over and the idiots have won. This is a veteran journalist’s caustically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. The three Great Premises of Idiot America: · Any theory is valid if it sells books, soaks up ratings, or otherwise moves units; anything can be true if someone says it loudly enough; "fact" is that which enough people believe. And "truth" is determined by how fervently they believe it.
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5 out of 5 stars
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You Get What You Paid For
- De Vargas en 09-19-11
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The Metaphysical Club
- De: Louis Menand
- Narrado por: Henry Leyva
- Duración: 6 h y 53 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 304
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 167
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 163
Hardly a club in the conventional sense, the organization referred to in the title of this superb literary hybrid (part history, part biography, part philosophy) consisted of four members and probably existed for less than nine months.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Great American Experiment
- De Victoria en 12-08-03
De: Louis Menand
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Atheism for Dummies
- De: Dale McGowan PhD
- Narrado por: Paul Mantell
- Duración: 15 h y 49 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 61
Atheism For Dummies offers a brief history of atheist philosophy and its evolution, explores it as a historical and cultural movement, covers important historical writings on the subject, and discusses the nature of ethics and morality in the absence of religion. A simple, yet intelligent exploration of an often misunderstood philosophy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great topic...irritating narrator
- De Duke Playbent en 10-26-14
De: Dale McGowan PhD
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The War on the West
- De: Douglas Murray
- Narrado por: Douglas Murray
- Duración: 12 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 5,105
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 4,546
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 4,516
In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn’t we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? Embers of racism remain to be stamped out in America, but what about the raging racist inferno in the Middle East and Asia?
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5 out of 5 stars
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Every Human (seriously, everyone) Read This!
- De aaron en 04-27-22
De: Douglas Murray
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Speak of the Devil
- How the Satanic Temple Is Changing the Way We Talk About Religion
- De: Joseph P. Laycock
- Narrado por: Thomas Allen
- Duración: 9 h y 57 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 378
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 329
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 330
Speak of the Devil is the first book-length study of The Satanic Temple. Joseph Laycock, a scholar of new religious movements, contends that the emergence of "political Satanism" marks a significant moment in American religious history that will have a lasting impact on how Americans frame debates about religious freedom.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent book about a misunderstood topic!
- De Deena M Engelmann en 09-24-20
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Imbeciles
- The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck
- De: Adam Cohen
- Narrado por: Dan Woren
- Duración: 13 h y 19 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 274
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 238
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 237
Imbeciles is the shocking story of Buck v. Bell, a legal case that challenges our faith in American justice. A gripping courtroom drama, it pits a helpless young woman against powerful scientists, lawyers, and judges who believed that eugenic measures were necessary to save the nation from being “swamped with incompetence.”
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3 out of 5 stars
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Compelling Concept, Aggravating Execution
- De Gillian en 04-05-16
De: Adam Cohen
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Why Darwin Matters
- The Case for Evolution and Against Intelligent Design
- De: Michael Shermer
- Narrado por: uncredited
- Duración: 4 h y 22 m
- Versión resumida
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 170
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 105
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 105
Columnist and publisher Michael Shermer, once an evangelical Christian and a creationist, argues that Intelligent Design proponents invoke a combination of ad science, political antipathy, and flawed theology in their new brand of creationism. He refutes their pseudoscientific arguments and then demonstrates why conservatives and people of faith can and should embrace evolution. Why Darwin Matters is an incisive examination of what is at stake in the debate over evolution.
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1 out of 5 stars
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TOTAL MISREPRENTATION: WHERE IS THE EVIDENCE?
- De Theo Tsourdalakis en 09-04-11
De: Michael Shermer
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Freethinkers
- A History of American Secularism
- De: Susan Jacoby
- Narrado por: Rich Miller
- Duración: 13 h y 38 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 62
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 52
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 53
At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist heritage that gave Americans the first government in the world founded not on the authority of religion but on the bedrock of human reason. In impassioned, elegant prose, celebrated author Susan Jacoby traces more than 200 years of secularist activism, beginning with the fierce debate over the omission of God from the Constitution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Essential history of free thought in America
- De Clark Savage en 11-27-17
De: Susan Jacoby
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American Sketches
- Great Leaders, Creative Thinkers, and Heroes of a Hurricane
- De: Walter Isaacson
- Narrado por: Cotter Smith
- Duración: 9 h y 26 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 227
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 183
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 186
In this collection of essays, Walter Isaacson reflects on the lessons to be learned from Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, Bill Gates, Henry Kissinger, Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev, Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton, and various other interesting characters he has chronicled as a biographer and journalist. The people he writes about have an awesome intelligence, in most cases, but that is not the secret of their success.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Not Really Sketches
- De DAVID en 11-04-11
De: Walter Isaacson
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The Tyranny of Clichés
- How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
- De: Jonah Goldberg
- Narrado por: Jonah Goldberg
- Duración: 11 h y 6 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 734
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 656
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 649
According to Goldberg, if the greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn’t exist, the greatest trick liberals ever pulled was convincing themselves they’re not ideological. Today “objective” journalists and academics and “moderate” politicians peddle some of the most radical arguments by hiding them in homespun aphorisms.
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4 out of 5 stars
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I enjoyed it...and I'm a Democrat!!
- De Private. en 05-14-12
De: Jonah Goldberg
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The Fire Is upon Us
- James Baldwin, William F. Buckley Jr., and the Debate over Race in America
- De: Nicholas Buccola
- Narrado por: Prentice Onayemi
- Duración: 14 h y 42 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 154
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 134
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 132
On February 18, 1965, an overflowing crowd packed the Cambridge Union in Cambridge, England, to witness a historic televised debate between James Baldwin, the leading literary voice of the civil rights movement, and William F. Buckley Jr., a fierce critic of the movement and America's most influential conservative intellectual. The topic was "the American dream is at the expense of the American Negro", and no one who has seen the debate can soon forget it. Nicholas Buccola's The Fire Is upon Us is the first book to tell the full story of the event.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Sadly, the story is timeless.
- De Edward P. Cerne en 01-17-20
De: Nicholas Buccola
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Fantasyland
- How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History
- De: Kurt Andersen
- Narrado por: Kurt Andersen
- Duración: 19 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,861
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,520
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,498
A razor-sharp thinker offers a new understanding of our post-truth world and explains the American instinct to believe in make-believe, from the Pilgrims to P. T. Barnum to Disneyland to zealots of every stripe...to Donald Trump. In this sweeping, eloquent history of America, Kurt Andersen demonstrates that what's happening in our country today - this strange, post-factual, "fake news" moment we're all living through - is not something entirely new, but rather the ultimate expression of our national character and path.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Bland Title For An Amazing Book!
- De David Larson en 09-07-17
De: Kurt Andersen
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The Atheist Muslim
- A Journey from Religion to Reason
- De: Ali A. Rizvi
- Narrado por: Neil Shah
- Duración: 9 h y 8 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 230
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 211
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 209
Struggling to reconcile the Muslim society he was living in as a scientist and physician and the religion he was being raised in, Ali A. Rizvi eventually lost his faith. Discovering that he was not alone, he moved to North America and promised to use his new freedom of speech to represent the voices that are usually quashed before reaching the mainstream media - those of Atheist Muslims.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An honest book
- De Naeem Rahim en 11-28-16
De: Ali A. Rizvi