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"Atheism Explained" explores the claims made both for and against
the existence of God. On the pro side: that the wonders of the
world can only be explained by an intelligent creator; that the
universe had to start somewhere; telepathy, out-of-body
experiences, and other paranormal phenomena demonstrate the
existence of a spirit world; and that those who experience God
directly provide evidence as real as any physical finding. After
disputing these arguments through calm, careful criticism, author
David Ramsay Steele presents the reasons why God cannot exist:
monstrous, appalling evils; the impossibility of omniscience; and
the senseless concept that God is a thinking mind without a brain.
He also explores controversial topics such as Intelligent Design,
the power of prayer, religion without God, and whether a belief in
God makes people happier and healthier. Steele's rational,
easy-to-understand prose helps readers form their own conclusions
about this eternally thorny topic.
More people are in psychotherapy than ever before. Yet most of them
have no idea of the vast differences between the hundreds of
various schools of therapy. "Therapy Breakthrough" is the first
book to clearly explain the theories and practices of the two big
camps: Psychodynamic or PD therapy and Cognitive-Behavioral or CB
therapy. PD therapists believe that emotional problems are caused
by hidden forces in our unconscious minds, forces that cannot be
observed directly and that resist being uncovered. CB therapists,
by contrast, maintain that the roots of people's emotional and
behavioral disturbances can be identified by direct questions, and
these problems can then be tackled by straightforward techniques.
"Therapy Breakthrough" is written from the standpoint of CB
therapy. Using psychological research, philosophy, and common
sense, it argues that PD therapy is founded on mistaken theories of
the mind, and explains how to apply CB methods directly to your own
problems.
The Conquistador with His Pants Down: David Ramsay Steele’s
Legendary Lost Lectures assembles fourteen of the penetrating,
provocative presentations by this controversial libertarian speaker
and writer. The targets of Steele’s acerbic and witty criticisms
include Scott Adams, Mattias Desmet, Sigmund Freud, Sam Harris,
Karl Marx, George Orwell, Jordan Peterson, Ayn Rand, and all things
conventionally Wokish. Steele’s heroes encompass Immanuel Kant,
Robert Michels, Ludwig von Mises, Dexter Morgan, Karl Popper, and
all who, howsoever confusedly, come down on the side of liberty,
truth, and unsocial justice.
Three Minute Therapy can help to change your life for the better.
You will find yourself looking at life in a different way. Your
emotional troubles will seem less mysterious and less powerful. If
you take the trouble to learn the techniques explained in Three
Minute Therapy, think about them, and apply them to your problems,
you will be able to tackle difficulties that may have seemed
impossible. Some of your worst fears and anxieties can diminish or
dissolve away, and you will become more effective at pursuing your
chosen life goals. The techniques used in Three Minute Therapy show
you, clearly and simply, how you needlessly upset yourself, and it
gives you many thinking, feeling, and action methods of reducing
your disturbances while still retaining your main goals, values,
and preferences. Three Minute Therapy can add years of healthier
and happier living to your life. This book will show you how to
change your thinking and change your life!
To those who think they know what George Orwell is all about, this
book unpacks surprise after surprise. Orwell Your Orwell reveals an
Orwell very different from the one most people think of. It gives
an unexpected yet convincing picture of Orwell's beliefs, every key
point precisely documented. Orwell adopted a habitual rhetoric in
which he portrayed himself as a lone, embattled dissident. But
objectively examined, his opinions broadly corresponded with those
of conventional leftwing thinking. Far from being skeptical of
prevailing orthodoxies, Orwell emerges as a True Believer in the
orthodoxies of the 1930s Left, though a believer who sharply drew
attention to some of the serious problems with these ideologies. In
his short life, Orwell underwent several dramatic conversions -
such as his overnight switch in August 1939 from being fiercely
anti-war to enthusiastically pro-war - while cleaving to some fixed
positions - such as his opposition to the British Empire,
totalitarianism, and birth control. Dr. Steele identifies both the
conversions and the continuities, as well as some aspects of his
thought which gradually evolved. As well as recovering Orwell's
actual beliefs from the many accumulated misrepresentations, Dr.
Steele also criticizes some of these beliefs, exposing the
fallacies in Orwell's thinking on such issues as the economics of
imperialism, the dangers of hedonism, the significance of the
Spanish Civil War, and the efficacy of mind control. Reviews: "This
is an absolutely dazzling book on Orwell, casting a brilliant new
light, not just on Orwell himself, but on the entire intellectual
history of our time. It is a 'must read', not just for devotees of
Orwell, but for anyone concerned with discussions of socialism and
capitalism, totalitarianism and democracy, ideological passion and
intellectual honesty. It will prove a superb teaching aid at both
undergraduate and graduate levels."-Yuri Maltsev, co-author of The
Tea Party Explained and editor of Requiem for Marx "There has
always been some mystery about how Orwell could give us the
nightmare world of Ingsoc (English Socialism) while himself
remaining an unrepentant English Socialist. This and other puzzles
about Orwell are convincingly solved in Dr. Steele's masterly
account. If you want to know what made Orwell tick, you just have
to read this eloquent, provocative, and hugely entertaining
book."-Barry Smith, Director of the National Center for Ontological
Research and author of Austrian Philosophy
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