God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher Hitchens

God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything by Christopher HitchensWith his unique brand of erudition and wit, Hitchens describes the ways in which religion is man made. "God did not make us," he says. "We made God." He explains the ways in which religion is immoral: We damage our children by indoctrinating them. It is a cause of sexual repression, violence, and ignorance. It is a distortion of our origins and the cosmos. In the place of religion, Hitchens offers the promise of a new enlightenment through science and

indomitable voice of Lucy Barton

Michael Hulse's new translation perfectly conveys the unsettling beauty of the original and is accompanied by an introduction on Rilke's life and the biographical and literary influences on the Notebooks

The enthralling story of Rama

but they all started with WHY

The death of a homeless man and the disappearance of his daughter draw the haunted

sex is surrounded by taboos

When the tents are all aglow

The fact that so many of us today are

and assesses the nature of the mercantile system

As she discovers

and shows us how to use real intelligence every day

the price of freedom - and the power of love