Pascal's Wager: The Man Who Played Dice with God
10 best books like Pascal's Wager: The Man Who Played Dice with God (James A. Connor): Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies, A Hunger Artist, The House of the Dead/Poor Folk, The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution, The Art and Craft of Problem Solving, Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof, Psychology Applied to Modern Life, Global Sociology, A Primer on the Absolute Primacy of Christ: Blessed John Duns Scotus and the Franciscan Thesis, Middle Rages: Why the Battle for Medieval Studies Matters to America
Atheist Delusions: The Christian Revolution and Its Fashionable Enemies
| Author | David Bentley Hart |
| ISBN | 0300111908 |
In this provocative book one of the most brilliant scholars of religion today dismantles distorted religious “histories” offered up by Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, and other contemporary critics of religion and advocates of atheism. David Bentley Hart provides a bold correction...
| Author | Franz Kafka |
| ISBN | 8090217117 |
The last book published during Kafka's lifetime, A Hunger Artist (1924) explores many of the themes that were close to him: spiritual poverty, asceticism, futility, and the alienation of the modern artist.
He edited the manuscript just before his death, and these four stories are some of...
| Author | Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
| ISBN | 1593081944 |
The House of the Dead and Poor Folk, by Fyodor Dostoevsky, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some...
The Four Horsemen: The Conversation That Sparked an Atheist Revolution
| Author | Christopher Hitchens |
At the dawn of the new atheist movement, the thinkers who became known as “the four horsemen,” the heralds of religion's unraveling—Christopher Hitchens, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett—sat down together over cocktails. What followed was a rigorous, pathbreaking, and...
The Art and Craft of Problem Solving
| Author | Paul Zeitz |
| ISBN | 0471789011 |
The newly revised Second Edtion of this distinctive text uniquely blends interesting problems with strategies, tools, and techniques to develop mathematical skill and intuition necessary for problem solving. Readers are encouraged to do math rather than just study it. The author draws upon his...
Mathematical Reasoning: Writing and Proof
| Author | Ted Sundstrom |
| ISBN | 0131877186 |
This title is intended for one-semester courses in Transition to Advanced Mathematics that emphasize the construction and writing of mathematical proofs. Focusing on the formal development of mathematics, this text teaches students how to read and understand mathematical proofs and to construct...
Psychology Applied to Modern Life
Filled with comprehensive, balanced coverage of classic and contemporary research, relevant examples, and engaging applications, this text shows students how psychology helps them understand themselves and the world--and uses psychological principles to illuminate the variety of opportunities...
| Author | Robin Cohen |
| ISBN | 0814716857 |
The second edition of this pioneering text, Global Sociology, offers an innovative approach to sociology that takes the global dimensions of the contemporary world as its overarching framework. Fully revised and updated with a new Introduction and three new chapters, Global Sociology is written...
A Primer on the Absolute Primacy of Christ: Blessed John Duns Scotus and the Franciscan Thesis
| Author | Maximilian Mary Dean |
| ISBN | 1601140401 |
The entire text of the booklet can be found at this web link: http://absoluteprimacyofchrist.org/
(At the link, videos are added to the text). The booklet can also be purchased. This is a great introduction to the Absolute Primacy of Christ put forth by Blessed John Duns Scotus. A worthy read for...
Middle Rages: Why the Battle for Medieval Studies Matters to America
Medieval Studies is the critical study of Europe’s self-identity. No understanding of Western civilization is possible without it. Inevitably, Left-wing academics want to introduce gender studies and race theory to the field—and punish those who refuse to conform. When one University of...
Blessed Miguel Pro: 20th Century Mexican Martyr
| Author | Ann Ball |
| ISBN | 0895555425 |
This is the inspiring story of the famous Father Miguel Pro who was executed in Mexico in 1927 for the crime of being a Catholic priest. This young Jesuit spent most of his short life in the priesthood dodging the Mexican police as he ministered to the underground Church during the Mexican Revolution....
The New Politics of Sex: The Sexual Revolution, Civil Liberties, and the Growth of Governmental Power
| Author | Stephen Baskerville |
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The Map of Knowledge: How Classical Ideas Were Lost and Found: A History in Seven Cities
In The Map of Knowledge Violet Moller traces the journey taken by the ideas of three of the greatest scientists of antiquity – Euclid, Galen and Ptolemy – through seven cities and over a thousand years. In it, we follow them from sixth-century Alexandria to ninth-century Baghdad, from Muslim Cordoba...
Loving-Kindness in Plain English: The Practice of Metta
| Author | Henepola Gunaratana |
| ISBN | 1614292493 |
The bestselling author of Mindfulness in Plain English invites us to explore the joyful benefits of living with loving-kindness.
With his signature clarity and warmth, Bhante Gunaratana shares with us how we can cultivate loving-kindness to live a life of joyful harmony with others. Through...
| Author | The Rev. James W. Jackson Fssp |
| ISBN | 0997032901 |
This is one of the most informationally dense books I have ever read. It takes you through the Rite of St. Gregory step by step from entering the building through the closing procession (or even through the funeral Mass, if you want to travel all the way through Appendix IV like I did).
The most...
The Risk of Education: Discovering Our Ultimate Destiny
| Author | Luigi Giussani |
| ISBN | 0824518993 |
This is an English translation of an Italian work first published in 1995. Based in Milan, Italy, Giussani heads the Communion and Liberation movement and is a council for the Congregation for the Clergy and the Pontifical Council for the Laity. He discusses education in terms of fundamental truths,...
To Build the City of God: Living as Catholics in a Secular Age
| Author | Brian M. McCall |
| ISBN | 1621380734 |
Is man an isolated, voluntaristic, autonomous individual, as modernity would have him? Or is he subject to natural, social, and transcendent orders? Much has been written since Rerum Novarum in 1891 on the general outlines of Catholic social, economic, and political thought, but what Catholics...
The Great Facade: The Regime of Novelty in the Catholic Church from Vatican II to the Francis Revolution
| Author | Christopher A. Ferrara |
| ISBN | 1621381498 |
In this second edition of The Great Facade, co-author Christopher A. Ferrara brings the original work up to date with six new chapters addressing what Bishop Athanasius Schneider has called "the fourth great crisis" in the history of the Catholic Church. The additional chapters chronicle the attempts...
