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• Introduction to the American Edition

1. Science and Sensibility
   • 1.1 A Devil's Chaplain
   • 1.2 What is True?
   • 1.3 Gaps in the Mind
   • 1.4 Science, Genetics and Ethics: Memo for Tony Blair
   • 1.5 Trial By Jury
   • 1.6 Crystalline Truth and Crystal Balls
   • 1.7 Postmodernism Disrobed
   • 1.8 The Joy of Living Dangerously: Sanderson of Oundle
2. Light Will Be Thrown
   • 2.1 Light Will Be Thrown
   • 2.2 Darwin Triumphant
   • 2.3 The 'Information Challenge'
   • 2.4 Genes Aren't Us
   • 2.5 Son of Moore's Law
3. The Infected Mind
   • 3.1 Chinese Junk and Chinese Whispers
   • 3.2 Viruses of the Mind
   • 3.3 The Great Convergence
   • 3.4 Dolly and the Cloth Heads
   • 3.5 Time to Stand Up
4. They Told Me, Heraclitus
   • 4.1 Lament for Douglas
   • 4.2 Eulogy for Douglas Adams
   • 4.3 Eulogy for W. D. Hamilton
   • 4.4 Snake Oil
5. Even the Ranks of Tuscany
   • 5.1 Rejoicing in Multifarious Nature
   • 5.2 The Art of the Developable
   • 5.3 Hallucigenia, Wiwaxia and Friends
   • 5.4 Human Chauvinism and Evolutionary Progress
   • 5.5 Unfinished Correspondence with a Darwinian Heavyweight
6. There is All Africa and her Prodigies in Us
   • 6.1 Ecology of Genes
   • 6.2 Out of the Soul of Africa
   • 6.3 I Speak of Africa and Golden Joys
   • 6.4 Heroes and Ancestors
7. A Prayer for My Daughter
   • 7.1 Good and Bad Reasons for Believing

• Endnotes
• Index

• I Down the Rabbit-Hole
• II The Pool of Tears
• III A Caucus-Race and a Long Tale
• IV The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill
• V Advice from a Caterpillar
• VI Pig and Pepper
• VII A Mad Tea-Party
• VIII The Queen's Croquet-Ground
• IX The Mock Turtle's Story
• X The Lobster-Quadrille
• XI Who Stole the Tarts?
• XII Alice's Evidence

• Introduction

A THE PAST

• 1 The Real Cyrano
• 2 Of What Use?
• 3 The Democracy of Learning
• 4 The Monsters We Have Lived With
• 5 The Fossil Fuels
• 6 A Stop of Water

B THE PRESENT

• 7 Smart, but Not Smart Enough?
• 8 Recipe for an Ocean
• 9 Technology and Energy
• 10 The Glorious Sun
• 11 Astronomy
• 12 The Large Satellites of Jupiter
• 13 The Natural Satellites
• 14 Of Life Beyond
• 15 The Beginning and the End
• 16 Gravitation, Unlimited
• 17 Man and Computer

C THE FUTURE

• 18 The Big Weather Change
• 19 Tighten Your Belt
• 20 America—A.D. 2176
• 21 The Coming Decades in Space
• 22 Colonizing the Heavens
• 23 The Moon as Threshold

• Preface
• About the Author
• About the British private school system
• A map of southern England and Wales
• BOY
• Starting-point
• Llandaff Cathedral School, 1923-25 (age 7-9)
• St. Peter's, 1925-36 (age 13-20)
• Vocabulary and comprehension questions
• Group work
• Writing activities

• Preface

Part I: Opening Pandora's Box

• 1 Breaking Which Spell?
  • 1 What's going on?
  • 2 A Working definition of religion
  • 3 To break or not to break
  • 4 Peering in the abyss
  • 5 Religion as a natural phenomenon
• 2 Some Questions About Science
  • 1 Can science study religion?
  • 2 Should science study religion?
  • 3 Might music be bad for you?
  • 4 Would neglect be more benign?
• 3 Why Good Things Happen
  • 1 Bringing out the best
  • 2 Cui bono?
  • 3 Asking what pays for religion
  • 4 A Martian's list of theories

Part II: The Evolution of Religion

• 4 The Roots of Religion
  • 1 The births of religions
  • 2 The raw materials of religion
  • 3 How Nature deals with the problem of other minds
• 5 Religion, the Early Days
  • 1 Too many agents: competition for rehearsal space
  • 2 Gods as interested parties
  • 3 Getting the gods to speak to us
  • 4 Shamans as hypnotists
  • 5 Memory-engineering devices in oral cultures
• 6 The Evolution of Stewardship
  • 1 The music of religion
  • 2 Folk religion as practical know-how
  • 3 Creeping reflection and the birth of secrecy in religion
  • 4 The domestication of religions
• 7 The Invention of Team Spirit
  • 1 A path paved with good intentions
  • 2 The ant colony and the corporation
  • 3 The growth market in religion
  • 4 A God you can talk to
• 8 Belief in Belief
  • 1 You better believe it
  • 2 God as intentional object
  • 3 The division of doxastic labor
  • 4 The lowest common denominator?
  • 5 Beliefs designed to be professed
  • 6 Lessons from Lebanon: the strange cases of the Druze and Kim Philby
  • 7 Does God exist?

Part III: Religion Today

• 9 Toward a Buyer's Guide to Religions
  • 1 For the love of God
  • 2 The academic smoke screen
  • 3 Why does it matter what you believe?
  • 4 What can your religion do for you?
• 10 Morality and Religion
  • 1 Does religion make us moral?
  • 2 Is religion what gives meaning to your life?
  • 3 What can we say about sacred values?
  • 4 Bless my soul: spirituality and selfishness
• 11 Now What Do We Do?
  • 1 Just a theory
  • 2 Some avenues to explore: how can we home in on religious conviction?
  • 3 What shall we tell the children?
  • 4 Toxic memes
  • 5 Patience and politics

• Appendixes
• A The New Replicators
• B Some More Questions About Science
• C The Bellboy and the Lady Named Tuck
• D Kim Philby as a Real Case of Indeterminacy of Radical Interpretation

• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

• Acknowledgements
• Picture Acknowledgements
• 1 Facing Mount Rushmore
• 2 Silken Fetters
• 3 The Message from the Mountain
• 4 Getting off the Ground
• 5 The Forty-fold Path to Enlightenment
• 6 The Museum of All Shells
• 7 Kaleidoscopic Embryos
• 8 Pollen Grains and Magic Bullets
• 9 The Robot Repeater
• 10 'A Garden Inclosed'
• Bibliography
• Index

• Introduction — The Seventh Sense
• The Tractable Apostrophe
• That'll Do, Comma
• Airs and Graces
• Cutting a Dash
• A Little Used Punctuation Mark
• Merely Conventional Signs
• Bibliography

• Second Dawn
• "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth..."
• Breaking Strain
• History Lesson
• Superiority
• Exile of the Eons
• Hide and Seek
• Expedition to Earth
• Loophole
• Inheritance
• The Sentinel

• Preface

Chapter 1: Natural Freedom

• Learning What We Are
• I Am Who I Am
• The Air We Breathe
• Dumbo's Magic Feather and the Peril of Paulina

Chapter 2: A Tool for Thinking About Determinism

• Some Useful Oversimplifications
• From Physics to Design in conway's Life World
• Can We Get the Deus ex Machina?
• From Slow-motion Avoidance to Star Wars
• The Birth of Evitability

Chapter 3: Thinking About Determinism

• Possible Worlds
• Causation
• Austin's Putt
• A Computer Chess Marathon
• Events without Causes in a Deterministic Universe
• Will the Future Be Like the Past?

Chapter 4: A Hearing for Libertarianism

• The Appeal of Libertarianism
• Where Should We Put the Much-needed Gap?
• Kane's Mode of Indeterministic Decision-making
• "If you make yourself really small, you can externalize virtually everything"
• Beware of Prime Mammals
• How Can It Be "Up to Me"?

Chapter 5: Where Does all the Design Come From?

• Early Days
• The Prisoner's Dilemma
• E Pluribus Unum?
• Digression: The Threat of Genetic Determinism
• Degrees of Freedom and the Search for Truth

Chapter 6: The Evolution of Open Minds

• How Cultural Symbionts Turn Primates into Persons
• The Diversity of Darwinian Explanations
• Nice Tools, but You Still Have to Use Them

Chapter 7: The Evolution of Moral Agency

• Benselfishness
• Being Good in Order to Seem Good
• Learning to Deal with Yourself
• Our Costly Merit Badges

Chapter 8: Are You Out of the Loop?

• Drawing the Wrong Moral
• Whenever the Spirit Moves You
• A Mind-writer's View
• A Self of One's Own

Chapter 9: Bootstrapping Ourselves Free

• How We Captured Reasons and Made Them Our Own
• Psychic Engineering and the Arms Race of Rationality
• With a Little Help from My Friends
• Autonomy, Brainwashing, and Education

Chapter 10: The Future of Human Freedom

• Holding the Line against Creeping Exculpation
• "Thanks, I Needed That!"
• Are We Freer Than We Want to Be?
• Human Freedom Is Fragile

• Bibliography
• Index

• One: Putting It Mildly
• Two: Religion Kills
• Three: A Short Digression on the Pig: or, Why Heaven Hates Ham
• Four: A Note on Health, to Which Religion Can Be Hazardous
• Five: The Metaphysical Claims of Religion Are False
• Six: Arguments from Design
• Seven: Revelation: The Nightmare of the "Old" Testament
• Eight: The "New" Testament Exceeds the Evil of the "Old" One
• Nine: The Koran Is Borrowed from Both Jewish and Christian Myths
• Ten: The Tawdriness of the Miraculous and the Decline of Hell
• Eleven: "The Lowly Stamp of Their Origin": Religion's Corrupt Beginnings
• Twelve: A Coda: How Religions End
• Thirteen: Does Religion Make people Behave Better?
• Fourteen: There Is No "Eastern" Solution
• Fifteen: Religion as an Original Sin
• Sixteen: Is Religion Child Abuse?
• Seventeen: An Objection Anticipated: The Last-Ditch "Case" Against Secularism
• Eighteen: A Finer Tradition: The Resistance of the Rational
• Nineteen: In Conclusion: The Need for a New Enlightenment
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Index

1. Against Stupidity...
2. ... The Gods Themselves...
3. ... Contend in Vain?

• Preface
• [9 unnamed chapters]
• The Text of The Great Gatsby
• Publisher's Afterword
• Explanatory Notes
• Further Reading
• Publisher's Note About the Author
• A Brief Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Plates
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• Further Reading
• A Note on the Text

Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver

• Advertisement
• A Letter from Capt. Gulliver to his Cousing Sympson
• The Publisher to the Reader
• The Contents
• Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput
• Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag
• Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib and Japan
• Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms

• Notes
• Textual Notes

• Foreword
• Prologue with Premonitions
• Yvonne
• The Commander
• Fragments from an Education
• Cambridge
• The Sixties: Revolution in the Revolution
• Chris or Christopher?
• Havana versus Prague
• The Fenton Factor
• Martin
• Portugal to Poland
• A Second Identity: On Becoming an (Anglo) American
• Changing Places
• Salman
• Mesopotamia from Both Sides
• Something of Myself
• Thinking thrice about the Jewish Question...
• Edward Said in Light and Shade (and Saul)
• Decline, Mutation, or Metamorphosis?
• Acknowledgments
• Index

• Foreword by Gregory Benford
• Preface
• Introduction by One of the Last Men

Chapter I: Balkan Europe

1. The European War and AFter
2. The Anglo-French War
3. Europe after the Anglo-French War
4. The Russo-German War

Chapter II: Europe's Downfall

1. Europe and America
2. The Origins of a Mystery
3. Europe Murdered

Chapter III: America and China

1. The Rivals
2. The Conflict
3. On an Island in the Pacific

Chapter IV: An Americanized Planet

1. The Foundation of the First World State
2. The Dominance of Science
3. Material Achievement
4. The Culture of the First World State
5. Downfall

Chapter V: The Fall of the First Men

1. The First Dark Age
2. The Rise of Patagonia
3. The Cult of Youth
4. The Catastrophe

Chapter VI: Transition

1. The First Men at Bay
2. The Second Dark Age

Chapter VII: The Rise of the Second Men

1. The Appearance of a New Species
2. The Intercourse of Three Species
3. The Zenith of the Second Men

Chapter VIII: The Martians

1. The First Martian Invasion
2. Life on Mars
3. The Martian Mind
4. Delusions of the Martians

Chapter IX: Earth and Mars

1. The Second Men at Bay
2. The Ruin of Two Worlds
3. The Third Dark Age

Chapter X: The Third Men in the Wilderness

1. The Third Human Species
2. Digressions of the Third Men
3. The Vital Art
4. Conflicting Policies

Chapter XI: Man Remakes Himself

1. The First of the Great Brains
2. The Tragedy of the Fourth Men
3. The Fifth Men
4. The Culture of the Fifth Men

Chapter XII: The Last Terrestrials

1. The Cult of Evanescence
2. Exploration of Time
3. Voyaging in Space
4. Preparing a New World

Chapter XIII: Humanity on Venus

1. Taking Root Again
2. The Flying Men
3. A Minor Astronomical Event

Chapter XIV: Neptune

1. Bird's-Eye View
2. Da Capo
3. Slow Conquest

Chapter XV: The Last Men

1. Introduction to the Last Human Species
2. Childhood and Maturity
3. A Racial Awakening
4. Cosmology

Chapter XVI: The Last of Man

1. Sentence of Death
2. Behaviour of the Condemned
3. Epilogue

• Afterword by Doris Lessing
• Time Scales

• Chapter 1: Caroline at Play
• Chapter 2: Lawrence Builds a Computer
• Chapter 3: Caroline and Anne-Marie
• Chapter 4: After the Night of Miracles
• Chapter 5: Caroline Approaches
• Chapter 6: After the Change
• Chapter 7: Caroline and Lawrence
• Chapter 8: After the Fall

PART I: INTRODUCING MICROSOFT VISUAL C# AND MICROSOFT VISUAL STUDIO 2013

• Chapter 1: Welcome to C#
• Chapter 2: Working with variables, operators, and expressions
• Chapter 3: Writing methods and applying scope
• Chapter 4: Using decision statements
• Chapter 5: Using compound assignment and iteration statements
• Chapter 6: Managing errors and exceptions

PART II: UNDERSTANDING THE C# OBJECT MODEL

• Chapter 7: Creating and managing classes and objects
• Chapter 8: Understanding values and references
• Chapter 9: Creating value types with enumerations and structures
• Chapter 10: Using arrays
• Chapter 11: Understanding parameter arrays
• Chapter 12: Working with inheritance
• Chapter 13: Creating interfaces and defining abstract classes
• Chapter 14: Using garbage collection and resource management

PART III: DEFINING EXTENSIBLE TYPES WITH C#

• Chapter 15: Implementing properties to access fields
• Chapter 16: Using indexers
• Chapter 17: Introducing generics
• Chapter 18: Using collections
• Chapter 19: Enumerating collections
• Chapter 20: Decoupling application logic and handling events
• Chapter 21: Querying in-memory data by using query expressions
• Chapter 22: Operator overloading

PART IV: BUILDING PROFESSIONAL WINDOWS 8.1 APPLICATIONS WITH C#

• Chapter 23: Improving throughput by using tasks
• Chapter 24: Improving response time by performing asynchronous operations
• Chapter 25: Implementing the user interface for a Windows Store app
• Chapter 26: Displaying and searching for data in a Windows Store app
• Chapter 27: Accessing a remote database from a Windows Store app

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction

1. The Beginnings of Christian Scripture
2. The Copyists of the Early Christian Writings
3. Texts of the New Testament: Editions, Manuscripts, and Differences
4. The Quest for Origins: Methods and Discoveries
5. Originals That Matter
6. Theologically Motivated Alterations of the Text
7. The Social Worlds of the Text

• Conclusion: Changing Scripture: Scribes, Authors, and Readers
• Notes
• Index

• Introduction: The Moral Landscape
• Chapter 1: Moral Truth
• Chapter 2: Good and Evil
• Chapter 3: Belief
• Chapter 4: Religion
• Chapter 5: The Future of Happiness
• Acknowledgments
• Notes
• References
• Index

• Introduction
• The Nine Billion Names of God
• I Remember Babylon
• Trouble with Time
• Rescue Party
• The Curse
• Summertime on Icarus
• Dog Star
• Hide and Seek
• Out of the Sun
• The Wall of Darkness
• No Morning After
• The Possessed
• Death and the Senator
• Who's There?
• Before Eden
• Superiority
• A Walk in the Dark
• The Call of the Stars
• The Reluctant Orchid
• Encounter at Dawn
• "If I Forget Thee, Oh Earth..."
• Patent Pending
• The Sentinel
• Transience
• The Star

• Foreword by Leonard Mautner
• Preface by Ralph Leighton
• Acknowledgment

1. Introduction
2. Photons: Particles of Light
3. Electrons and Their Interactions
4. Loose Ends

• Index

• Introduction
• Little Lost Robot
• Robot Dreams
• "Breeds There a Man...?"
• Hostess
• Sally
• Strikebreaker
• The Machine That Won the War
• Eyes Do More Than See
• The Martian Way
• Franchise
• Jokester
• The Last Question
• Does a Bee Care?
• Light Verse
• The Feeling of Power
• Spell My Name With an S
• The Ugly Little Boy
• The Billiard Ball
• True Love
• The Last Answer
• Lest We Remember

• INTRODUCTION
• PREFACE
• PROLOGUE
• THE NINE SATANIC STATEMENTS

(FIRE)
—BOOK OF LUCIFER—
The Enlightenment

• I Wanted!: God—Dead or Alive
• II The God You SAVE May be Yourself
• III Some Evidence of a New Satanic Age
• IV Hell, the Devil, and How to Sell Your Soul
• V Love and Hate
• VI Satanic Sex
• VII Not all Vampires Suck Blood
• VIII Indulgence... NOT Compulsion
• IX On the Choice of a Human Sacrifice
• X Life After Death Through Fulfillment of the Ego
• XI Religious Holidays
• XII The Black Mass

(EARTH)
—BOOK OF BELIAL—
The Master of the Earth

• I Theory and Practice of Satanic Magic: (Definition and Purpose of Lesser and Greater Magic)
• II The Three Types of Satanic Ritual
• III The Ritual, or "Intellectual Decompression," Chamber
• IV The Ingredients Used in the Performance of Satanic Magic:
  • A. Desire
  • B. Timing
  • C. Imagery
  • D. Direction
  • E. The Balance Factor
• V The Satanic Ritual:
  • A. Some Notes Which are to be Observed Before Beginning Ritual
  • B. The Thirteen Steps
  • C. Devices Used in Satanic Ritual

(WATER)
—BOOK OF LEVIATHAN—
The Raging Sea

• I Invocation to Satan
• II The Infernal Names
• III Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Lust
• IV Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Destruction
• V Invocation Employed Towards the Conjuration of Compassion
• VI The Enochian Keys (The nineteen Keys will be listed here in chronological order)

• INTRODUCTION
• CONCERNING THE RITUALS
• THE ORIGINAL PSYCHODRAMA—Le Messe Noir
• L'AIR EPAIS—The Ceremony of the Stifling Air
• THE SEVENTH SATANIC STATEMENT—Das Tierdrama
• THE LAW OF THE TRAPEZOID—Die elektrischen Vorspiele
• NIGHT ON BALD MOUNTAIN—Homage to Tehort
• PILGRIMS OF THE AGE OF FIRE—The Statement of Shaitan
• THE METAPHYSICS OF LOVECRAFT—The Ceremony of the Nine Angles and The Call to Cthulhu
• THE SATANIC BAPTISMS—Adult Rite and Children's Ceremony
• THE UNKNOWN KNOWN

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction

I: Lost in the Cosmos

• 1 How to Build a Universe
• 2 Welcome to the Solar System
• 3 The Reverend Evans's Universe

II: The Size of the Earth

• 4 The Measure of Things
• 5 The Stone-Breakers
• 6 Science Red in Tooth and Claw
• 7 Elemental Matters

III: A New Age Dawns

• 8 Einstein's Universe
• 9 The Mighty Atom
• 10 Getting the Lead Out
• 11 Muster Mark's Quarks
• 12 The Earth Moves

IV: Dangerous Planet

• 13 Bang!
• 14 The Fire Below
• 15 Dangerous Beauty

V: Life Itself

• 16 Lonely Planet
• 17 Into the Troposphere
• 18 The Bounding Main
• 19 The Rise of Life
• 20 Small World
• 21 Life Goes On
• 22 Goodbye to All That
• 23 The Richness of Being
• 24 Cells
• 25 Darwin's Singular Notion
• 26 The Stuff of Life

VI: The Road to Us

• 27 Ice Time
• 28 The Mysterious Biped
• 29 The Restless Ape
• 30 Goodbye

• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

• Introduction

1. First Meeting
2. The Making of Sirius
3. Infancy
4. Youth
5. Sheep-Dog Apprentice
6. Birth-Pangs of A Personality
7. Wolf Sirius
8. Sirius At Cambridge
9. Sirius And Religion
10. Experiences in London
11. Man As Tyrant
12. Farmer Sirius
13. The Effects of War
14. Tan-Y-Voel
15. Strange Triangle
16. Plaxy Constripted
17. Outlaw

INTRODUCTION

THE SUN

• 1 Out, Damned Spot!
• 2 The Sun Shines Bright
• 3 The Noblest Metal of Them All

THE STARS

• 4 How Little?
• 5 Siriusly Speaking
• 6 Below the Horizon

THE PLANETS

• 7 Just Thirty Years

THE MOON

• 8 A Long Day's Journey
• 9 The Inconstant Moon

THE ELEMENTS

• 10 The Useless Metal
• 11 Neutrality!
• 12 The Finger of God

THE CELL

• 13 Clone, Clone of My Own

THE SCIENTISTS

• 14 Alas, All Human

THE PEOPLE

• 15 The Unsecret Weapon
• 16 More Crowded!
• 17 Nice Guys Finish First!

• Introduction
• A—About the Moon
  • 1—The Tragedy of the Moon
  • 2—The Triumph of the Moon
  • 3—Moon Over Babylon
  • 4—The Week Excuse
• B—About Other Small Worlds
  • 5—The World Ceres
  • 6—The Clock in the Sky
• C—About Carbon
  • 7—The One and Only
  • 8—The Unlikely Twin
• D—About Micro-organisms
  • 9—Through The Microglass
  • 10—Down From The Amoeba
  • 11—The Cinderella Compound
• E—About the Thyroid Gland
  • 12—Doctor, Doctor, Cut My Throat
• F—About Society
  • 13—Lost in Non-Translation
  • 14—The Ancient and the Ultimate
  • 15—By The Numbers
• G—And (You Guessed It!) About Me
  • 16—The Cruise And I
  • 17—Academe And I

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Discourses of Raphael Hythloday, of the Best State of a Commonwealth
• Chapter 2: Of Their Towns, Particularly of Amaurot
• Chapter 3: Of Their Magistrates
• Chapter 4: Of Their Trades, and Manner of Life
• Chapter 5: Of Their Traffic
• Chapter 6: Of the Travelling of the Utopians
• Chapter 7: Of Their Slaves, and of Their Marriages
• Chapter 8: Of Their Military Discipline
• Chapter 9: Of the Religions of the Utopians

• Introduction: Watching and Writing

• Massinello Pietro
• The Visit
• The Twilight Greens
• The Murder
• When the Bough Breaks
• We'll Always Have Paris
• Ma Perkins Comes to Stay
• Doubles
• Pater Caninus
• Arrival and Departure
• Last Laughs
• Pietà Summer
• Fly Away Home
• Un-pillow Talk
• Come Away with Me
• Apple-core Baltimore
• The Reincarnate
• Remembrance, Ohio
• If Paths Must Cross Again
• Miss Appletree and I
• A Literary Encounter
• America

• Foreword: The Positive Power of Skepticism by Stephen Jay Gould
• Introduction to the Paperback Edition: Magical Mystery Tour: The Whys and Wherefores of Weird Things
• Prologue: Next on Oprah

Part 1: Science and Skepticism

• 1. I Am Therefore I Think: A Skeptic's Manifesto
• 2. The Most Precious Thing We Have: The Difference Between Science and Pseudoscience
• 3. How Thinking Goes Wrong: Twenty-five Fallacies That Lead Us to Believe Weird Things

Part 2: Pseudoscience and Superstition

• 4. Deviations: The Normal, the Paranormal, and Edgar Cayce
• 5. Through the Invisible: Near-Death Experiences and the Quest for Immortality
• 6. Abducted!: Encounters with Aliens
• 7. Epidemics of Accusations: Medieval and Modern Witch Crazes
• 8. The Unlikeliest Cult: Ayn Rand, Objectivism, and the Cult of Personality

Part 3: Evolution and Creationism

• 9. In the Beginning: An Evening with Duane T. Gush
• 10. Confronting Creationists: Twenty-five Creationist Arguments, Twenty-five Evolutionist Answers
• 11. Science Defended, Science Defined: Evolution and Creationism at the Supreme Court

Part 4: History and Pseudohistory

• 12. Doing Donahue: History, Censorship, and Free Speech
• 13. Who Says the Holocaust Never Happened, and Why Do They Say It?: An Overview of a Movement
• 14. How We Know the Holocaust Happened: Debunking the Deniers
• 15. Pigeonholes and Continuums: An African-Greek-German-American Looks at Race

Part 5: Hope Springs Eternal

• 16. Dr. Tipler Meets Dr. Pangloss: Can Science Find the Best of All Possible Worlds?
• 17. Why Do People Believe Weird Things?

• Bibliography
• Index

• Introduction

1. About Nothing
2. A Perfect Fit
3. Belief
4. Death of a Foy
5. Fair Exchange?
6. For the Birds
7. Found!
8. Good Taste
9. How It Happened
10. Ideas Die Hard
11. Ignition Point!
12. It Is Coming
13. The Last Answer
14. The Last Shuttle
15. Lest We Remember
16. Nothing for Nothing
17. One Night of Song
18. The Smile That Loses
19. Sure Thing
20. To Tell at a Glance
21. The Winds of Change

• Introduction (George Mann)
• iCity (Paul Di Filippo)
• The Space Crawl Blues (Kay Kenyon)
• The Line of Dichotomy (Chris Roberson)
• Fifty Dinosaurs (Robert Reed)
• Mason's Rats: Black Rat (Neal Asher)
• Blood Bonds (Brenda Cooper)
• The Eyes of God (Peter Watts)
• Sunworld (Eric Brown)
• Evil Robot Monkey (Mary Robinette Kowal)
• Shining Armor (Dominic Green)
• Book, Theatre, and Wheel (Karl Schroeder)
• Mathralon (David Louis Edelman)
• Mason's Rats: Autotractor (Neal Asher)
• Modem Times (Michael Moorcock)
• Point of Contact (Dan Abnett)

• Artemis Fowl: A Psychological Assessment
• Prologue
• Chapter 1: Family Ties
• Chapter 2: Cruisin' for Chix
• Chapter 3: Going Underground
• Chapter 4: Fowl Is Fair
• Chapter 5: Daddy's Girl
• Chapter 6: Photo Opportunity
• Chapter 7: Joining the Dots
• Chapter 8: To Russia with Gloves
• Chapter 9: No Safe Haven
• Chapter 10: Trouble and Strife
• Chapter 11: Mulch Ado About Nothing
• Chapter 12: The Boys Are Back
• Chapter 13: Into the Breach
• Chapter 14: Father's Day
• An Epilogue or Two

• Prologue
• PART ONE: ATTACK
• Chapter 1: The Cube
• Chapter 2: Lockdown
• Chapter 3: On Ice
• Chapter 4: Running in the Family
• Chapter 5: The Metal Man and the Monkey
• Chapter 6: Assault on Fowl Manor
• Chapter 7: Best-laid Plans
• PART TWO: COUNTERATTACK
• Chapter 8: Hooks, Lines, and Sinkers
• Chapter 9: Ghosts in the Machine
• Chapter 10: Fingers and Thumbs
• Chapter 11: The Invisible Man
• Chapter 12: Mind Wipe
• Epilogue

• Prologue
• Chapter 1: Totally Obsessed
• Chapter 2: The Fairy Thief
• Chapter 3: Nearly Departed
• Chapter 4: Narrow Escapes
• Chapter 5: Meet the Neighbours
• Chapter 6: Troll Nasty
• Chapter 7: The Temple of Artemis
• Chapter 8: Some Intelligent Conversation
• Chapter 9: Daddy's Girl
• Chapter 10: Horse Sense
• Chapter 11: A Last Goodbye
• Epilogue

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• Chapter 0: Black Lagoon
• Chapter 1: Ring-Ding Ship Chase
• Chapter 2: Rasta Blasta - Part I
• Chapter 3: Rasta Blasta - Part II
• Chapter 4: Rasta Blasta - Part III
• Black Lagoon: The High School Episode

• Chapter 05: Die Rückkehr des Adlers - Part I
• Chapter 06: Die Rückkehr des Adlers - Part II
• Chapter 07: Die Rückkehr des Adlers - Part III
• Chapter 08: Die Rückkehr des Adlers - Part IV
• Chapter 09: Calm Down Two Men - Part I
• Chapter 10: Calm Down Two Men - Part II
• Chapter 11: Bloodsport Fairy Tale - Part I
• Chapter 12: Bloodsport Fairy Tale - Part II
• Black Lagoon: The Magical Girl Episode

• Chapter 13: Bloodsport Fairy Tale - Pt. III
• Chapter 14: Bloodsport Fairy Tale - Pt. IV
• Chapter 15: Bloodsport Fairy Tale - Pt. V
• Chapter 16: Goat, Jihad, Rock'n'Roll Pt. I
• Chapter 17: Goat, Jihad, Rock'n'Roll Pt. II
• Chapter 18: Goat, Jihad, Rock'n'Roll Pt. III
• Chapter 19: Goat, Jihad, Rock'n'Roll Pt. IV
• Chapter 20: Goat, Jihad, Rock'n'Roll Pt. V
• Black Lagoon: The Melancholy of Balalaika

• 1. Road of Skulls
• 2. A Gift from the Culture
• 3. Odd Attachment
• 4. Descendant
• 5. Cleaning Up
• 6. Piece
• 7. The State of the Art
• 8. Scratch

• Acknowledgments
• Pronunciation
• 1. A Parting
• 2. A Meeting
• 3. Clean Hands
• 4. Jane
• 5. The Lusitania Fleet
• 6. Varelse
• 7. Secret Maid
• 8. Miracles
• 9. Pinehead
• 10. Martyr
• 11. The Jade of Master Ho
• 12. Grego's War
• 13. Free Will
• 14. Virus Makers
• 15. Life and Death
• 16. Voyage
• 17. Ender's Children
• 18. The God of Path

• Acknowledgments
• 1. "I'm Not Myself"
• 2. "You Don't Believe in God"
• 3. "There Are Too Many of Us"
• 4. "I Am a Man of Perfect Simplicity!"
• 5. "Nobody Is Rational"
• 6. "Life Is a Suicide Mission"
• 7. "I Offer Her This Poor Old Vessel"
• 8. "What Matters Is Which Fiction You Believe"
• 9. "It Smells Like Life to Me"
• 10. "This Has Always Been Your Body"
• 11. "You Called ME Back from Darkness"
• 12. "Am I Betraying Ender?"
• 13. "Till Death Ends All Surprises"
• 14. "How They Communicate with Animals"
• 15. "We're Giving You a Second Chance"
• 16. "How Do You Know They Aren't Quivering in Terror?"
• 17. "The Road Goes On without Him Now"
• Afterword

• I. VOLUNTEERS
  • 1. Petra
  • 2. Bean
  • 3. Message in a Bottle
  • 4. Custody
  • 5. Ambition
• II. ALLIANCES
  • 6. Code
  • 7. Going Public
  • 8. Bread Van
  • 9. Communing with the Dead
  • 10. Brothers in Arms
• III. MANEUVERS
  • 11. Bangkok
  • 12. Islamabad
  • 13. Warnings
  • 14. Hyderabad
  • 15. Murder
• IV. DECISIONS
  • 16. Treachery
  • 17. On a Bridge
  • 18. Sayagraha
  • 19. Rescue
  • 20. Hegemon
• Afterword

• PROLOGUE

PART I SEARCH BY THE MULE

• 1 TWO MEN AND THE MULE
  First Interlude
• 2 TWO MEN WITHOUT THE MULE
  Second Interlude
• 3 TWO MEN AND A PEASANT
  Third Interlude
• 4 TWO MEN AND THE ELDERS
  Fourth Interlude
• 5 ONE MAN AND THE MULE
• 6 ONE MAN, THE MULE—AND ANOTHER
  Last Interlude

PART II SEARCH BY THE FOUNDATION

• 7 ARCADIA
• 8 SELDON'S PLAN
• 9 THE CONSPIRATORS
• 10 APPROACHING CRISIS
• 11 STOWAWAY
• 12 LORD
• 13 LADY
• 14 ANXIETY
• 15 THROUGH THE GRID
• 16 BEGINNING OF WAR
• 17 WAR
• 18 GHOST OF A WORLD
• 19 END OF WAR
• 20 "I KNOW..."
• 21 THE ANSWER THAT SATISFIED
• 22 THE ANSWER THAT WAS TRUE

• Prologue
• 1. Councilman
• 2. Mayor
• 3. Historian
• 4. Space
• 5. Speaker
• 6. Earth
• 7. Farmer
• 8. Farmwoman
• 9. Hyperspace
• 10. Table
• 11. Sayshell
• 12. Agent
• 13. University
• 14. Forward!
• 15. Gaia-s
• 16. Convergence
• 17. Gaia
• 18. Collision
• 19. Decision
• 20. Conclusion
• Afterword by the Author

• PART I GAIA
  • 1. The Search Begins
  • 2. Toward Comporellon
• PART II COMPORELLON
  • 3. At the Entry Station
  • 4. On Comporellon
  • 5. Struggle for the Ship
  • 6. The Nature of Earth
  • 7. Leaving Comporellon
• PART III AURORA
  • 8. Forbidden World
  • 9. Facing the Pack
• PART IV SOLARIA
  • 10. Robots
  • 11. Underground
  • 12. To the Surface
• PART V MELPOMENIA
  • 13. Away from Solaria
  • 14. Dead Planet
  • 15. Moss
• PART VI ALPHA
  • 16. The Center of the Worlds
  • 17. New Earth
  • 18. The Music Festival
• PART VII EARTH
  • 19. Radioactive?
  • 20. The Nearby World
  • 21. The Search Ends

• MISSION: 01 The transfer student is a dangerous soldier!?
• MISSION: 02 Categorical imperative! Protect Kaname's secret!
• MISSION: 03 My first assignment...vs. a bunch of assassins!?
• MISSION: 04 Bread and Bullets
• MISSION: 05 Sinister Stirrings
• MISSION: 06 Kaname's Cross—Jindai High hanging by a thread!
• MISSION: 07 An afternoon Misunderstanding

• MISSION: 08 The Gloomy School Trip
• MISSION: 09 Cries from the Abyss
• MISSION: 10 Commence Operation
• MISSION: 11 The Long, Dark Night
• MISSION: 12 Eyes in the Heavens
• MISSION: 13 When Feelings Are Conveyed
• MISSION: 14 The Great Escape

• MISSION: 15 Suspicion, confusion and aggravation at the basketball tournament?!
• MISSION: 16 A mystery? Just who is this exchange student?!
• MISSION: 17 Together under on roof?!
• MISSION: 18 The miracle animal mission!!
• MISSION: 19 Holidays are for romance?!
• MISSION: 20 I ain't afraid of no ghost! Deserted island search team!!

• MISSION: 21 So many memories! Sosuke, completely defeated?! (Part 1)
• MISSION: 22 So many memories! Sosuke, completely defeated?! (Part 2)
• MISSION: 23 Surprise! Who are you?!
• MISSION: 24 Nothing to counter the captain's tears?!
• MISSION: 25 Sosuke's decision
• MISSION: 26 Sosuke, please be safe!

• MISSION: 27 Rescue the two pretty girls!
• MISSION: 28 A place for Takuma
• MISSION: 29 Last wish
• MISSION: 30 At the end of the battle
• MISSION: 31 Sweet memories
• MISSION: 32 The long road to the vacation house
• Special Project: Taiwan Manga Exclusive Report

• MISSION: 33 The "Art" of War
• MISSION: 34 Food is Heavenly, but Making it is Hell
• MISSION: 35 Battlefield Christmas?!
• MISSION: 36 Sosuke, New Years and New Views
• MISSION: 37 The Classics Notes Caper
• MISSION: 38 A Mysterious Message, a Mercenary in a Mess
• MISSION: 39 Special Ordinary Days

• MISSION: 40 Beware of Mouse Burglars!
• MISSION: 41 Sergeant Sosuke's Secret Pleasure?!
• MISSION: 42 We Are Water Guys!
• MISSION: 43 This Is How You Negotiate?!
• MISSION: 44 Freaked Out In Fantasy Fetish?!
• MISSION: 45 Her Grandpa Is A First Lieutenant?!
• EXTRA MISSION What Comes From Acting Brave

• MISSION: 46 An Invitation to Summer—Kaname's Fateful Feeling?!
• MISSION: 47 Party de Danaan!
• MISSION: 48 Pressures and Promises
• MISSION: 49 The Demon that Lurks on the Battlefield
• MISSION: 50 The Arbalest in Error
• MISSION: 51 A World in Which I Don't Belong

• BOMB1 HE ENTERS WITH A BANG
• BOMB2 CRAZY FIRST PERIOD
• BOMB3 HOW TO SPEND STUDY HALL
• BOMB4 TOGETHER WITH SOSUKE
• BOMB5 THE LURE OF THE POOL
• BOMB6 WARNUT AND FESTIVAL NUT?

• BOMB7 THE GIGOLO SOLDIER ATTACKS
• BOMB8 REQUIEM FOR THE SICK
• BOMB9 NEW YEAR'S CRISIS
• BOMB10 VALENTINE'S DAY AND THE RINGING OF THE BELLS
• BOMB11 FULL MUTTLE PANIC!
• BOMB12 FLOWERS AND BOMBS

• //Phase 1// A Stardust Sky
• //Phase 2// A Girl from Beyond the Earth
• //Phase 3// A Cigarette Under Starlight
• //Phase 4// Scenery for a Rocket
• //Phase 5// Ignition

• //Phase 6// Running Man
• //Phase 7// Tanabe
• //Phase 8// A Black Flower Named Sakinohaka (Part 1)
• //Phase 9// A Black Flower Named Sakinohaka (Part 2)
• //Phase 10// Lost Souls
• //Phase 11// СПАСИБО

• //Phase 12// A Cat in the Evening
• //Phase 13// Windmillville
• //Phase 14// Boy and Girl
• //Phase 15// A Day of Kyakurai
• //Phase 16// Hachimaki
• //Extra Phase// Red Star/While Ball

• //Phase 17// How to Make a Hundred Friends
• //Phase 18// Just Like Guskou Sudori
• //Phase 19// Dog Days
• //Phase 20// Man's Best Friend
• //Phase 21// Little Girls and Underdogs

• //Phase 22// A Crying Dog
• //Phase 23// A Running Dog
• //Phase 24// A Barking Dog
• //Phase 25// 45 Minutes at the Speed of Light
• //Phase 26// What a Wonderful World

• Acknowledgments
• Nicole's Journal
• At the Node
• Rendezvous at Mars
• Epithalamion
• The Trial

• Acknowledgments
• Prologue
• Escape
• The Rainbow Connection
• The Emerald City
• War in Rama
• Return to the Node

• Introduction
• 1. Conversation with a Commissioner
• 2. Round Trip on an Expressway
• 3. Incident at a Shoe Counter
• 4. Introduction to a Family
• 5. Analysis of a Murder
• 6. Whispers in a Bedroom
• 7. Excursion into Spacetown
• 8. Debate over a Robot
• 9. Elucidation by a Spacer
• 10. Afternoon of a Plain-clothes Man
• 11. Escape along the Strips
• 12. Words from an Expert
• 13. Shift to the Machine
• 14. Power of a Name
• 15. Arrest of a Conspirator
• 16. Questions Concerning a Motive
• 17. Conclusion of a Project
• 18. End of an Investigation

• 1 Baley
• 2 Daneel
• 3 Giskard
• 4 Fastolfe
• 5 Daneel and Giskard
• 6 Gladia
• 7 Again Fastolfe
• 8 Fastolfe and Vasilia
• 9 Vasilia
• 10 Again Vasilia
• 11 Gremionis
• 12 Again Gremionis
• 13 Amadiro
• 14 Again Amadiro
• 15 Again Daneel and Giskard
• 16 Again Gladia
• 17 The Chairman
• 18 Again the Chairman
• 19 Again Baley

• To Stanley: In Memoriam
• Foreword to the Millennial Edition
• Foreword
• Part One: Primeval Night
  • Chapter 1: The Road to Extinction
  • Chapter 2: The New Rock
  • Chapter 3: Academy
  • Chapter 4: The Leopard
  • Chapter 5: Encounter in the Dark
  • Chapter 6: Ascent of Man
• Part Two: TMA-1
  • Chapter 7: Special Flight
  • Chapter 8: Orbital Rendezvous
  • Chapter 9: Moon Shuttle
  • Chapter 10: Clavius Base
  • Chapter 11: Anomaly
  • Chapter 12: Journey by Earthlight
  • Chapter 13: The Slow Dawn
  • Chapter 14: The Listeners
• Part Three: Between Planets
  • Chapter 15: Discovery
  • Chapter 16: Hal
  • Chapter 17: Cruise Mode
  • Chapter 18: Through the Asteroids
  • Chapter 19: Transit of Jupiter
  • Chapter 20: The World of the Gods
• Part Four: Abyss
  • Chapter 21: Birthday Party
  • Chapter 22: Excursion
  • Chapter 23: Diagnosis
  • Chapter 24: Broken Circuit
  • Chapter 25: First Man to Saturn
  • Chapter 26: Dialogue with Hal
  • Chapter 27: "Need to Know"
  • Chapter 28: In Vacuum
  • Chapter 29: Alone
  • Chapter 30: The Secret
• Part Five: The Moons of Saturn
  • Chapter 31: Survival
  • Chapter 32: Concerning E.T.'s
  • Chapter 33: Ambassador
  • Chapter 34: The Orbiting Ice
  • Chapter 35: The Eye of Japetus
  • Chapter 36: Big Brother
  • Chapter 37: Experiment
  • Chapter 38: The Sentinel
  • Chapter 39: Into the Eye
  • Chapter 40: Exit
• Part Six: Through the Star Gate
  • Chapter 41: Grand Central
  • Chapter 42: The Alien Sky
  • Chapter 43: Inferno
  • Chapter 44: Reception
  • Chapter 45: Recapitulation
  • Chapter 46: Transformation
  • Chapter 47: Star-Child

• Author's Note
• I * Leonov
  • 1. Meeting at the Focus
  • 2. The House of the Dolphins
  • 3. SAL 9000
  • 4. Mission Profile
  • 5. Leonov
• II * Tsien
  • 6. Awakening
  • 7. Tsien
  • 8. Transit of Jupiter
  • 9. The Ice of the Grand Canal
  • 10. A Cry from Europa
  • 11. Ice and Vacuum
• III * Discovery
  • 12. Downhill Run
  • 13. The Worlds of Galileo
  • 14. Double Encounter
  • 15. Escape From the Giant
  • 16. Private Line
  • 17. Boarding Party
  • 18. Salvage
  • 19. Operation WINDMILL
  • 20. Guillotine
  • 21. Resurrection
• IV * Lagrange
  • 22. Big Brother
  • 23. Rendezvous
  • 24. Reconnaissance
  • 25. The View From Lagrange
  • 26. Probation
  • 27. Interlude: True Confessions
  • 28. Frustration
  • 29. Emergence
• V * A Child of the Stars
  • 30. Homecoming
  • 31. Disneyville
  • 32. Crystal Spring
  • 33. Betty
  • 34. Valediction
  • 35. Rehabilitation
  • 36. Fire in the Deep
  • 37. Estrangement
  • 38. Foamscape
  • 39. In the Pod Bay
  • 40. "Daisy, Daisy..."
  • 41. Graveyard Shift
• VI * Devourer of Worlds
  • 42. The Ghost in the Machine
  • 43. Thought Experiment
  • 44. Vanishing Trick
  • 45. Escape Maneuver
  • 46. Countdown
  • 47. Final Flyby
  • 48. Over the Nightside
  • 49. Devourer of Worlds
• VII * Lucifer Rising
  • 50. Farewell to Jupiter
  • 51. The Great Game
  • 52. Ignition
  • 53. A Gift of Worlds
  • 54. Between Suns
  • 55. Lucifer Rising
• Epilog: 20,001
• Acknowledgments

• Author's Note
• I * The Magic Mountain
  • 1. The Frozen Years
  • 2. First Sight
  • 3. Reentry
  • 4. Tycoon
  • 5. Out of the Ice
  • 6. The Greening of Ganymede
  • 7. Transit
  • 8. Starfleet
  • 9. Mount Zeus
  • 10. Ship of Fools
  • 11. The Lie
  • 12. Oom Paul
  • 13. "No One Told Us to Bring Swimsuits..."
  • 14. Search
• II * The Valley of Black Snow
  • 15. Rendezvous
  • 16. Touchdown
  • 17. The Valley of Black Snow
  • 18. Old Faithful
  • 19. At the End of the Tunnel
  • 20. Recall
• III * Europan Roulette
  • 21. The Politics of Exile
  • 22. Hazardous Cargo
  • 23. Inferno
  • 24. Shaka the Great
  • 25. The Shrouded World
  • 26. Night Watch
  • 27. Rosie
  • 28. Dialog
  • 29. Descent
  • 30. Galaxy Down
  • 31. The Sea of Galilee
• IV * At The Water Hole
  • 32. Diversion
  • 33. Pit Stop
  • 34. Car Wash
  • 35. Adrift
  • 36.The Alien Shore
• V * Through the Asteroids
  • 37. Star
  • 38. Icebergs of Space
  • 39. The Captain's Table
  • 40. Monsters from Earth
  • 41. Memoirs of a Centenarian
  • 42. Minilith
• VI * Haven
  • 43. Salvage
  • 44. Endurance
  • 45. Mission
  • 46. Shuttle
  • 47. Shards
  • 48. Lucy
• VII * The Great Wall
  • 49. Shrine
  • 50. Open City
  • 51. Phantom
  • 52. On the couch
  • 53. Pressure Cooker
  • 54. Reunion
  • 55. Magma
  • 56. Perturbation Theory
  • 57. Interlude on Ganymede
• VIII * The Kingdom of Sulfur
  • 58. Fire and Ice
  • 59. Trinity
• IX * 3001
  • 60. Midnight in the Plaza
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• Addendum