"Materialism asserts that the universe and everything within it, including ourselves, is a deterministic machine, trapped until the end of time on the rigid tracks of inviolable laws. Only the mechanisms of physics - forces, electrical charges, and so on - are consequential; nothing else matters. Experiences, such as the taste of honey, feelings, thoughts, choices: everything concerning the mind is an illusion, or is at best a useless and absurd epiphenomenon....

After kicking open the doors to twentieth-century philosophy in Thus Spake Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche refined his ideal of the superman with the 1886 publication of Beyond Good and Evil. Conventional morality is a sign of slavery, Nietzsche maintains, and the superman goes beyond good and evil in action, thought, and creation. Nietzsche especially targets what he calls a "slave morality" that fosters herd like quiescence and stigmatizes the...

President Will Lee is having a rough week. There are some loose nukes in Pakistan--and a rogue CIA agent--that might just trigger World War III if Lee's diplomatic efforts fall short. It's up to Holly Barker, Lance Cabot, and a few other Stuart Woods series regulars to save the world--and the upcoming election.

"Self-Interest vs. Altruism in the Global Era regards the world's challenges as necessary consequences of humanity's growing egotism, rather than a series of errors. The book suggests ways to use our egos for society's benefit, rather than trying to suppress them. The books offers a novel understanding of humanity's existence on this planet, a birds-eye view of history as a record of humankind's growing egotism, as well as a solution to our current...

"Do we have free will? And if we don't, why do we think we do? Scientists and philosophers have been battling with this issue for years. In this book, a former Christian minister who is now an internationally recognized authority on atheism addresses these questions."--Page 2 of cover.

When a mild-mannered actuary sleeps with the sexy British au pair who's taking care of his children in Seattle in 1962, he sets in motion a tragedy of epic proportions. Their orphaned child, adopted and adored, grows up to be Edward Aaron King, a billionaire Internet tycoon and international celebrity-- who unknowingly hurtles through life toward a fate he may have no power to shape.

First published in 1739 to an unenthusiastic British public, Hume's "A Treatise of Human Nature" has since been referred to as one of the most significant books in the history of philosophy. Hume, a Scottish philosopher, claimed that he was attempting to discuss moral issues with a methodical reasoning, and proceeded to do so in this foundational text. Divided into three large sections, Hume begins his work with a discussion of human understanding,...

Sneaking into her grandfather's potions lab to brew a love spell that she hopes will stop a classmate's bullying, herbalist trainee Jolina is surprised by the bully's increasingly friendly overtures, before a magically consequential storm begins to gather.

The Message of a Master is the story of a seemingly miraculous change that takes place in a man after he meets a true master of life. He learns, and shares with us, teachings that allow him to develop his powers so that he can accomplish anything he desires.

Do you want to stop depending on others for your Happiness? Or attaching your Happiness to some future event that never arrives? Would you like to gain an understanding of common mistakes that keep us from experiencing our own Happiness? • Do others expect you to provide their Happiness? • Are you unhappy most of the time? • Do you find yourself negatively focused and unable to pull yourself out of the funk? • Are you feeling consumed...