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1. Biology and the Riddle of Life (HTML)- Charles Birch

Charles Birch considers fundamental questions about Life and the relationship between science and religion. Questions such as: What is Life? What does it mean to be alive? Is God necessary? Birch shows that viewing the world as a realm of experience rather than as a collection of objects allows one to come to a naturalistic understanding of God which is very different from traditional religious notions.

2. Darwin Loves You: Natural Selection and the Re-enchantment of the World - George Levine

Levine argues persuasively that an understanding of Darwinism can lead to a secular enchantment of the sort experienced by Darwin himself as he worked to make sense of the world around him: "an attitude of awe and love toward the multiple forms of life" in all their extraordinary diversity. Enchantment of this type, Levine explains, is no less important or meaningful than enchantment arising from religion. Levine also offers a textual analysis of Darwin to demonstrate that much writing that claims to derive from Darwin, especially within the realm of politics, does not necessarily follow from his original intent. With polemicists from all portions of the political spectrum attempting to use Darwin to their own advantage, Levine offers a fair warning to readers to be wary of the political extrapolation, because scientific theories themselves have no political content.

3. The Covert World of UFO Crash Retrievals - An Overview of Personnel Management in Majestic-12 Group Projects 2006

The evidence concerning UFO crashes that are extraterrestrial in origin, and their covert retrieval
by highly specialized teams involving joint military and government personnel, is extensive and
persuasive. Evidence has been accumulated by pioneers of UFO crash research such as Leonard
Stringfield, and more recently by Dr Robert Wood and Ryan Wood.
Understanding the highly
classified procedures established to manage the retrieval of crashed UFOs received a significant
boost with the public emergence of the Special Operations Manual – SOM1-01 in 1994.
provides an important analytical framework for understanding, and answering questions
about, classified procedures used for locating, isolating and recovering crashed UFOs that are
extraterrestrial in origin. Signficantly, SOM1-01 described the classified government entity
created for the managing crash retrieval operations. Known as the Majestic-12 Group, it evolved
out of the “Majestic 12 Operation” created by President Truman on September 24, 1947.

4. A Concealed God: Religion, Science, and the Search for Truth

If there is a God, then it is unlikely that only one religion is right about God and all others are wrong. The Truth is likely to be found in what unites religions

A highly concealed god poses two intriguing questions? Does god truly exist? If so, is the concept of god logical and in agreement with the knowledge of the world that science has provided to date? The god presented by most religions doesn't make sense in today's world; we have little room for miracles. Furthermore, there are irreconcilable aspects in the world's religions. Must we abandon our faith or belief in god? Perhaps not, says popular Swedish thinker Stefan Einhorn. We can behave as scientists do when they run experiments only to obtain contradictory results. They ask themselves whether there might not be a logical conclusion that binds all the results together and leads to the most probable explanation. Einhorn hypothesises that if god truly exists, then many different religions would have discovered this. He finds a common denominator in the concept of a hidden god in seven major religions: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, and Confucianism. But even with this shared belief, can we know if god exists? Did humankind create the idea of god to answer the unexplainable?

5. When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law - Shawn Francis Peters

Relying on religious traditions that are as old as their faith itself, many devout Christians turn to prayer rather than medicine when their children fall victim to illness or injury. Faith healers claim that their practices are effective in restoring health - more effective, they say, than modern medicine. But, over the past century, hundreds of children have died after being denied the basic medical treatments furnished by physicians because of their parents' intense religious beliefs. The tragic deaths of these youngsters have received intense scrutiny from both the news media and public authorities seeking to protect the health and welfare of children. When Prayer Fails: Faith Healing, Children, and the Law is the first book to fully examine the complex web of legal and ethical questions that arise when criminal prosecutions are mounted against parents whose children die as a result of the phenomenon known by experts as religion-based medical neglect. Do constitutional protections for religious liberty shield parents who fail to provide adequate medical treatment for their sick children? Are parents likewise shielded by state child-neglect faith laws that seem to include exemptions for healing practices? What purpose do prosecutions really serve when it's clear that many deeply religious parents harbor no fear of temporal punishment? Peters offers a review of important legal cases in both England and America from the 19th century to the present day. He devotes special attention to cases involving Christian Science, the source of many religion-based medical neglect deaths, but also considers cases arising from the refusal of Jehovah's witnesses to allow blood transfusions or inoculations. Individual cases dating back to the mid-19th century illuminate not only the legal issues at stake but also the profound human drama of religion-based medical neglect of children. Based on a wide array of primary and secondary source materials - among them judicial opinions, trial transcripts, police and medical examiner reports, news accounts, personal interviews, and scholarly studies - this book explores efforts by the legal system to balance judicial protections for the religious liberty of faith-healers against the state's obligation to safeguard the rights of children.

6. Dis-Enclosure: The Deconstruction of Christianity - Jean Luc Nancy

Christian Monotheist and Atheist? Nancy ingeniously dismantles these two structures which are typically opposed to one another, detailing their common provenance in (or as) Western culture. The questions and insights which Nancy raises are stirring and merit much reflection. Nancy's project does not take place in a strict philosophical confine. He is careful to glean from the ongoing status and conflict in the world around---while still being mindful of his own European roots.

7. Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped Our History - Dorathy H. Crawford

Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At the same time, our changing human culture has itself influenced the evolutionary path of microbes. Dorothy H. Crawford here shows that one cannot be truly understood without the other. Beginning with a dramatic account of the SARS pandemic at the start of the 21st century, she takes us back in time to follow the interlinked history of microbes and man, taking an up-to-date look at ancient plagues and epidemics, and identifying key changes in the way humans have lived - such as our move from hunter-gatherer to farmer to city-dweller - which made us vulnerable to microbe attack. Showing how we live our lives today - with increasing crowding and air travel - puts us once again at risk, Crawford asks whether we might ever conquer microbes completely, or whether we need to take a more microbe-centric view of the world. Among the possible answers, one thing becomes clear: that for generations to come, our deadly companions will continue to shape human history.

8. Fundamentals of the Stem Cell Debate: The Scientific, Religious, Ethical, and Political Issues

Few recent advances in science have generated as much excitement and controversy as human embryonic stem cells. The potential of these cells to replace diseased or damaged cells in virtually every tissue of the body heralds the advent of an extraordinary new field of medicine. Controversy arises, however, because current techniques required to harvest stem cells involve the destruction of the human blastocyst. This even-handed, lucidly written volume is an essential tool for understanding the complex issues--scientific, religious, ethical, and political--that currently fuel public debate about stem cell research. One of the few books to provide a comprehensive overview for a wide audience, the volume brings together leading scientists, ethicists, political scientists, and doctors to explain this new scientific development and explore its ramifications.

9. The Psion Handbook

10. Masonic Clubs & Symbology: Two Faces of Freemasonry - John Daniel 2007

Freemasonry is a religion of works. One of its many symbols
is the balance. Masons believe they will be judged by their
works, based upon the balance of right and wrong in their lives.
In this Picture Book you will see the true nature of Freemasonry.
In II Cor. 11:13-15 we read of the "works" religions:
"For such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming
themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan
himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore, it is no
great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers
of righteousness; whose end shall be according to their works."

11. Anti-Gravity and the World Grid (Lost Science) - David Hatcher Childress

David Childress compiled this now classis collection of works relating to the geometric structure of the planet, the "world grid". Ancient civilizations knew about this geometry and sited their monuments at its points, including the Great Pyramid, Easter Island, and the Chinese and Maya pyramids. The Bermuda triangle is one such point among many. Many unusual natural features also occur at points which correlate with the earth grid geometry. For example, the Hawaiian volcanic seamount occurs at a 'tetrahedral' point which will be of interest to readers of Hoagland's Mars materials and followers of Drunvalo's flower-of-life work.

The book includes, among others, articles by Bethe Hagens & William Becker, who designed the EarthStar globe; Barbara Hero calculates and explains the musical equivalents of globe distances; Bruce Cathie's early method of detecting grid patterns through UFO sightings, and anomolies at other points, including nuclear testing.

A.G.W.G. shows many maps of the geometric relationship of sacred places, including the world, Europe, Afica, and Cairo. Also shows the maps of sites in Somerset England in the pattern of the costellation Canus Major. I highly recommended it for students of Earth Mysteries, Sacred Geometry, and for alchemists.

12. Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America: Lost History And Legends, Unearthed And Explored - David Hatcher Childress, Zecharia Sitchin, Wayne May, Andrew Collins, Frank Joseph 2006

The nursery rhyme begins, "In fourteen hundred and ninety two, Columbus sailed the ocean blue." Less well-known is the line that follows: "…to learn if the old maps were true." How can there be "old maps" of a land no one knew existed? Were others here before Columbus? What were their reasons for coming and what unexplained artifacts did they leave behind?

The oceans were highways to America rather than barriers, and when discoverers put ashore, they were greeted by unusual inhabitants. In Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America, the author of The Atlantis Encyclopedia turns his sextant towards this hemisphere. Here is a collection of the most controversial articles selected from seventy issues of the infamous Ancient American magazine. They range from the discovery of Roman relics in Arizona and California's Chinese treasure, to Viking rune-stones in Minnesota and Oklahoma and the mysterious religions of ancient Americans. Many questions will be raised including:

What role did extraterrestrials have in the lives of ancient civilizations?

What ancient pyramids and towers tell us about the people who built them?

Are they some sort of portals to another dimension?

What prehistoric technologies have been discovered, and what can they tell us about early settlers, their religious beliefs, and possible other-worldly visitors?

Did El Dorado exist, and what of the legendary Fountain of Youth?

Was Atlantis in Cuba?

What are America’s lost races and what happened to them?

Discovering the Mysteries of Ancient America brings to the fore the once-hidden true past of America’s earliest civilizations

Frank Joseph is the author of The Atlantis Encyclopedia (New Page Books), as well as a dozen other books on history, prehistory, and metaphysics. He has been the editor-in-chief of Ancient American magazine since its first issue in 1993. He lives in Wisconsin.

Wayne May is the founder-publisher of Ancient American. Laura Lee is the award-winning producer and host of the nationally syndicated "The Laura Lee Show". David Hatcher Childress wrote the best-selling Lost Cities series. Zecharia Sitchin is the author of the best-selling Earth Chronicles series. Andrew Collins is world-renowned for his consistent bestsellers, including Gateway to Atlantis.

13. Thinking It Through: An Introduction to Contemporary Philosophy - Kwame Anthony Appiah 2003

What legal and political circumstances justify civil disobedience? When does lying qualify as a moral act? It is by probing a wide range of such questions that a Princeton professor demonstrates what it means to do philosophy. Hoping to discipline readers in the systematic analysis of inquiries, Appiah shows the uninitiated how to weigh alternative perspectives and test the internal consistency of arguments. The alternative perspectives scrutinized include those of classic thinkers (including Plato, Descartes, and Kant), and the conundrums surveyed include many central to the philosophic tradition (such as the mind-body problem), but readers quickly learn how rigorous philosophical thinking can guide them through a thicket of contemporary issues not yet in the textbooks. Beginners who can't tell a "counterfactual" from a "foundational belief" soon find themselves understanding how such technical terms can tighten their reasoning about language, morality, politics, and other topics. By the time they finish the book, many readers will discover that their timid curiosity about philosophy has grown into a bold willingness to explore the professional literature. Bryce Christensen

"This book is excellent, one of the best of its kind that I've seen. It accomplishes what few general introductions to philosophy even attempt: to integrate contemporary discussion and argument into a treatment of our perennial problems without losing sight of their roots."--David Sosa, University of Texas at Austin

"The distinguishing mark of this work, which will set it clearly apart from all the best introductory books of this kind, is the way it makes deep and insightful connections among the various topics. It introduces the reader to all the main problems of contemporary philosophy, and makes philosophical concepts come alive in systematic exploration of the deep thoughts and difficult arguments to which Appiah gives lucid access."--Neil Tennant, The Ohio State University

14. Allied Special Forces Insignia 1939-1948 - Peter Taylor 2000

Over the years the author has amassed a large collection of insignia associated with the Special Forces units of World War II. This detailed text and the 400 color illustrations which accompany it are the result of a lifetime of research, and is surely the most definitive book ever to be published on Special Forces insignia.

15. Hamlet's Mill An Essay on Myth and the Frame of Time - Giorgio De and Hertha Von Dechend Santillana 1968

Ever since the Greeks coined the language we commonly use for scientific description, mythology and science have developed separately. But what came before the Greeks? What if we could prove that all myths have one common origin in a celestial cosmology? What if the gods, the places they lived, and what they did are but ciphers for celestial activity, a language for the perpetuation of complex astronomical data? Drawing on scientific data, historical and literary sources, the authors argue that our myths are the remains of a preliterate astronomy, an exacting science whose power and accuracy were suppressed and then forgotten by an emergent Greco-Roman world view. This fascinating book throws into doubt the self-congratulatory assumptions of Western science about the unfolding development and transmission of knowledge. This is a truly seminal and original thesis, a book that should be read by anyone interested in science, myth, and the interactions between the two.

16. Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law - Jeffrey Wilson 2006

The Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law is a twovolume encyclopedia of practical information on laws and issues affecting people’s everyday lives. Readers will turn to this work for help in answering questions such as, “What is involved in estate planning?” “Do I have any recourse to noisy neighbors?” and “What are the consequences of an expired visa?” This Encyclopedia aims to educate people about their rights under the law, although it is not intended as a self-help or ‘do-it-yourself’ legal resource. It seeks to fill the niche between legal texts focusing on the theory and history behind the law and shallower, more practical guides to dealing with the law.

17. Survival, Evasion and Recovery - Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Army 2006

How to survive, evade & recover. This book gives much detail to concealment, movement, what to eat and how to test for poisonous foods. A very useful tool to any one wants the knowledge of survival and how to cope with rough situations. Very detailed illustration on compasses, fire building, shelter and first aid.

18. Database Nation - The Death of Privacy in the 21st Century By Simson Garfinkel 2000

As the 21st century dawns, advances in technology endanger our privacy in ways never before imagined. Direct marketers and retailers track our every purchase; surveillance cameras observe our movements; mobile phones will soon report our location to those who want to track us; government eavesdroppers listen in on private communications; misused medical records turn our bodies and our histories against us; and linked databases assemble detailed consumer profiles used to predict and influence our behavior. Privacy -- the most basic of our civil rights -- is in grave peril.
Simson Garfinkel -- journalist, entrepreneur, and international authority on computer security -- has spent his career testing new technologies and warning about their implications. Database Nation is his compelling account of how invasive technologies will affect our lives in the coming years. It's a timely, far-reaching, entertaining, and thought-provoking look at the serious threats to privacy facing us today. The book poses a disturbing question: how can we protect our basic rights to privacy, identity, and autonomy when technology is making invasion and control easier than ever before?
Garfinkel's captivating blend of journalism, storytelling, and futurism is a call to arms. It will frighten, entertain, and ultimately convince us that we must take action now to protect our privacy and identity before it's too late.
Background:
Fifty years ago, in 1984, George Orwell imagined a future in which privacy was demolished by a totalitarian state that used spies, video surveillance, historical revisionism, and control over the media to maintain its power. Those who worry about personal privacy and identity--especially in this day of technologies that encroach upon these rights-- still use Orwell's "Big Brother" language to discuss privacy issues. But the reality is that the age of a monolithic Big Brother is over. And yet the threats are perhaps even more likely to destroy the rights we've assumed were ours.
Today's threats to privacy are more widely distributed than they were in Orwell's state, and they represent both public and private interests. Over the next fifty years, we'll see new kinds of threats to privacy that don't find their roots in totalitarianism but in capitalism, the free market, advances in technology, and the unbridled exchange of electronic information.

19. Your Body: The Missing Manual - by Matthew MacDonald

What, exactly, do you know about your body? Do you know how your immune system works? Or what your pancreas does? Or the myriad -- and often simple -- ways you can improve the way your body functions?

This full-color, visually rich guide answers these questions and more. Matthew MacDonald, noted author of Your Brain: The Missing Manual, takes you on a fascinating tour of your body from the outside in, beginning with your skin and progressing to your vital organs. You'll look at the quirks, curiosities, and shortcomings we've all learned to live with, and pick up just enough biology to understand how your body works. You'll learn:

* That you shed skin more frequently than snakes do
* Why the number of fat cells you have rarely changes, no matter how much you diet or exercise -- they simply get bigger or smaller
* How you can measure and control fat
* That your hair is made from the same stuff as horses' hooves
* That you use only a small amount of the oxygen you inhale
* Why blood pressure is a more important health measure than heart rate -- with four ways to lower dangerously high blood pressure
* Why our bodies crave foods that make us fat
* How to use heart rate to shape an optimal workout session -- one that's neither too easy nor too strenuous
* Why a tongue with just half a dozen taste buds can identify thousands of flavors
* Why bacteria in your gut outnumbers cells in your body -- and what function they serve
* Why we age, and why we can't turn back the clock
* What happens to your body in the minutes after you die

Rather than dumbed-down self-help or dense medical text, Your Body: The Missing Manual is entertaining and packed with information you can use. It's a book that may well change your life.

20. Materials for Automobile Bodies - Geoff Davies

Materials for Automobile Bodies presents detailed up-to-date information on material technologies for the automobile industry, embracing steels (including high-strength steels) aluminium, plastics, magnesium, hydro-forming and composite body panels. Coverage also includes: materials processing; formability; welding and joining; anti-corrosion technologies; plus a comprehensive consideration of the implications of materials selection on these processes. Dealing with the whole assembly process from raw material to production, right through to recycling at the end of a vehicle's life, this book is the essential resource for practising engineers, designers, analysts and students involved in the design and specification of motor vehicle bodies and components.

* Up-to-date information on contemporary autobody materials
* International case studies, examples and terminology
* Fully illustrated throughout, with examples from Honda, Ferrari, Lotus, BMW and Audi

21. An Encyclopedia of Humor - Lowell D. Streiker 1998

Lowell Streiker's Encyclopedia of Humor provides abundant "good clean fun" whenever you need inspirational slices of life, bracing quips, quotable wisdom, or a refreshing dose of nonsense to enrich your sermons or talks.

22. Alarm Bells in Medicine: Danger Symptoms in Medicine - Nadeem Ali 2005

What’s your worst nightmare as a doctor? Missing a life-threatening condition must be among the biggest fears for health professionals. But sometimes the clue to the diagnosis lies in just a single symptom. So what if a patient comes to your clinic with an ear which hurts when they swallow, and you don’t think of a tumour ? Or a numb chin, and you don’t suspect metastases? Or an itch, and you miss a leukaemia? Alarm Bells in Medicine brings you up to speed on recognising the symptoms of serious illnesses. Internationally renowned authors list the most crucial presenting symptoms in their own specialties that should ring the alarm bells for you. They provide clear information on diagnosis and action. Organised under the relevant specialties, the information is quick and easy to find. Since patients disclose alarm symptoms in all clinical settings, this book is as relevant for consultants as it is for GPs, as useful for junior doctors as it is for medical students.

23. Black’s Medical Dictionary - Harvey Marcovitch 2006

The 41st edition of this worldwide best-selling medical reference book presents more than 5,000 definitions and descriptions of medical terms and concepts, along with more than 100 diagrams and drawings including 16 pages of color illustrations. It includes updated and revised material on topics such as apoptosis, autism, prostheses, suicide, and transfusion. The 41st edition is an invaluable reference for a wide audience- from health care professionals and journalists to attorneys and interested consumers.

24. Carnivorous Plants Of The World - James Pietropaolo; Patricia Pietropaolo 2005

Few groups of plants capture the imagination like these carnivores, which act as predators rather than prey. Among the best known are the Venus fly trap and the various pitcher plants; these and many others are covered.

25. Causing a Scene: Extraordinary Pranks in Ordinary Places - Charlie Todd 2009

In January 2008, Improv Everywhere organised nearly 2,000 people to take their pants off on the subways in ten cities around the world. In Causing a Scene, the group's founder, Charlie Todd, gives a unique behind-the-scenes view of the creation, execution and aftermath of the ingenious stunts of the most influential pranksters of the Internet age, complete with photographs and illustrations. Readers will learn insider tips on how to cause the biggest scene, no matter where you live - all with the unique, good-natured, and uplifting spirit that has made Improv Everywhere famous.

26. Encyclopedia of Modern U.S. Military Weapons - Timothy M. Laur 1995

this book covers everything from aegis cruisers to M1A1 tanks. It is a good book. It doesn't go into detail about weapons but it does mention a weapon's stregths weaknesses and performance specs.

27. NASA Apollo11 Press Kit

NASA Apollo 11 First Manned Lunar Landing Press Kit. Published by NASA in 1969.

28. Nasa History - Chariots for Apollo 2002

Apollo was America's program to land men on the moon and get them safely back to the earth. In May 1961
President Kennedy gave the signal for planning and developing the machines to take men to that body. This
decision, although bold and startling at the time, was not made at random—nor did it lack a sound engineering
base. Subcommittees of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA), predecessor of the
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), had regularly surveyed aeronautical needs and
pointed out problems for immediate resolution and specific areas for advanced research. After NASA's
creation in October 1958, its leaders (many of them former NACA officials) continued to operate in this
fashion and, less than a year later, set up a group to study what the agency should do in near-earth and
deep-space exploration. Among the items listed by that group was a lunar landing, a proposal also discussed
in circles outside NASA as a means for achieving and demonstrating technological supremacy in space. From
the time Russia launched its first Sputnik in October 1957, many Americans had viewed the moon as a logical
goal. A two-nation space race subsequently made that destination America's national objective for the 1960s.

America had a program—Project Mercury—to put man in low-earth orbit and recover him safely. In July
1960 NASA announced plans to follow Mercury with a program, later named Apollo, to fly men around the
moon. Soon thereafter, several industrial firms were awarded contracts to study the feasibility of such an
enterprise. The companies had scarcely finished this task when the Russians scored again, orbiting the first
space traveler, Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, on 12 April 1961. Three weeks later the Americans succeeded in
launching Astronaut Alan Shepard into a suborbital arc. These events—and other pressures to “get America
moving”—provided the popular, political, and technological foundations upon which President Kennedy
could base his appeal for support from the Congress and the American people for the Apollo program.

29. NASA: 83122main 1970

30. NASA: 83123main 1971

31. NASA: 83116main 1964

32. I Know Why the Aliens Don't land! - Jeremy Vaeni

Alien abductee Jeremy Vaeni takes us on a whirlwind tour of his life and the world around him to illustrate exactly why aliens do not publicly land and greet us with open arms. I Know Why The Aliens Don't Land! is a revelation with laughter. It is what happens when a true outside mystery injects its presence into the cynical mind of Generation X.

Vaeni soars and cleaves in the spirit of the finest Giordano Bruno and, that good, may even live to grace the stake of same. --Alfred Lehmberg, Alien Views

A wild ride with many curves and loops...fascinating. --Jim Marrs, author of Alien Agenda and Rule By Secrecy

33. The God Part of the Brain - Matthew Alper

From the moment he first became cognizant of his own mortality, Matthew Alper had been on a quest to discover the true nature of spirit and God. Was Man a spiritual being, immortal, created by a God or was He strictly physical in nature, destined to eternal dust? So begins the personal odyssey that propels the author into an arduous investigation of the entire physical universe that eventually leads him-full circle-back to his own DNA.Asserting that it's no coincidence that every culture has believed in some form of a spiritual realm, Alper posits that the human animal must be genetically "hard-wired" to perceive reality this way. And why would the forces of evolution have selected such an inherited perception? According to Alper, in order to assuage the crippling anxiety engendered by our species' unique awareness of death, humans evolved a cognitive adaption--a coping mechanism-that compels us to believe that though our bodies will one day die, our "spirits" will live on forever. In our brains lie nature's survival mechanisms in which gods, souls and afterlives are nothing but protective lenses through which humanity is "wired" to view the world...an inherited perception Alper refers to as "nature's white lie."Building upon this "Bio-Theological" premise, Alper goes on to investigate the physical nature of religious/spiritual beliefs and experiences, atheism, religious conversion, drug-induced transcendental states, self-conscious awareness, near-death experiences, speaking in tongues, moral consciousness and more. In this expanded rerelease of what has been referred to as a modern cult classic, Alper asks us to look beyond our inherent religious propensities that repeatedly incite discrimination and war so as to replace them with a more promising secular humanistic paradigm.