The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever by John Betjeman, David Hume, Sigmund Freud, Elizabeth S. Anderson, Michael Shermer, Carl Van Doren, John Leslie Mackie, A.C. Grayling, John Stuart Mill, Albert Einstein, Philip Larkin, Omar Khayyám, Lucretius, Richard Dawkins, Charles Darwin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, George Eliot, Thomas Hobbes, Ian McEwan, George Orwell, Emma Goldman, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, Salman Rushdie, Victor J. Stenger, Martin Gardner, Christopher Hitchens, John Updike, Daniel C. Dennett, Baruch Spinoza, Chapman Cohen, Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken, Steven Weinberg, Penn Jillette, Carl Sagan, Ibn Warraq, Karl Marx, Charles Templeton, H.P. Lovecraft, James Boswell, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bertrand Russell, A.J. Ayer, Anatole France, Leslie Stephen, Sam Harris

The Portable Atheist: Essential Readings for the Nonbeliever

John Betjeman, David Hume, Sigmund Freud, Elizabeth S. Anderson, Michael Shermer, Carl Van Doren, John Leslie Mackie, A.C. Grayling, John Stuart Mill, Albert Einstein, Philip Larkin, Omar Khayyám, Lucretius, Richard Dawkins, Charles Darwin, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, George Eliot, Thomas Hobbes, Ian McEwan, George Orwell, Emma Goldman, Mark Twain, Thomas Hardy, Salman Rushdie, Victor J. Stenger, Martin Gardner, Christopher Hitchens, John Updike, Daniel C. Dennett, Baruch Spinoza, Chapman Cohen, Joseph Conrad, H.L. Mencken, Steven Weinberg, Penn Jillette, Carl Sagan, Ibn Warraq, Karl Marx, Charles Templeton, H.P. Lovecraft, James Boswell, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Bertrand Russell, A.J. Ayer, Anatole France, Leslie Stephen, Sam Harris

870 pages • first pub 2007 (editions)

nonfiction philosophy religion challenging informative reflective slow-paced
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From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of God Is Not Great, a provocative and entertaining guided tour of atheist and agnostic thought through the ages with never-before-published pieces by Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. ...

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