belief and doubt

Young and naive in her isolated community, Pearl finds her secure life complicated when a curious new boy moves into the community and compels her to question everything.

Life can be challenging. It can be scary or sad and sometimes it can be just a chore. Life can also be beautiful, exciting, and rewarding. It is a cycle of highs and lows. No one escapes this cycle. The goal in this book is to ensure that your life is tipped in favor of one that is amazing, inspiring, and filled with happiness. [Adapted from intro.].

Explores doubt as an engine of creativity and as an alternative to the political and intellectual dangers of certainty, and celebrates the heroes of doubt who have challenged widely held beliefs throughout history.

Presents the historical and scientific facts surrounding the Shroud of Turin including its physical appearance, studies conducted to determine its authenticity, and theories to its nature and origin.

Presents a list of things believed, from fairies dancing to a guardian angel that never leaves one's side, and ends with an affirmation of belief in the reader who is and who will be.

Explores doubt as an engine of creativity and as an alternative to the political and intellectual dangers of certainty, and celebrates the heroes of doubt who have challenged widely held beliefs throughout history.

In Radical Honesty, Dr. Blanton coaches us on how to have lives that work, how to have relationships that are alive and passionate, and how to create intimacy where none exists. As we have been taught by the philosophical and spiritual sources of our culture for thousands of years, from Plato to Nietzsche, from the Bible to Emerson, the truth shall set you free.

Ricky Rice, a middle-aged, small-time hustler, and the sole survivor of a suicide cult, is working as a porter at a bus depot in Utica, New York, until a letter arrives summoning him to Vermont, where he joins with a group of people searching for the source of the disembodied voice they have all heard at some point in their lives and that may or may not be God.

Denialism provides insight into how to accurately assess the impact of science on our resources and daily lives. Evidence-based writing on the necessity to consider future impacts of technological choices made today.