ebooks Avro Shackleton (Flight Craft) by Neil Robinson; Martin Derry in History

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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2014 From one of England’s most distinguished intellectual historians comes “an exhilarating ride…that will stand the test of time as a masterful account of” (The Boston Globe) one of the West’s most important intellectual movements: Atheism.In 1882; Friedrich Nietzche declared that “God is dead” and ever since tens of thousands of brilliant; courageous; thoughtful individuals have devoted their creative energies to devising ways to live without God with self-reliance; invention; hope; wit; and enthusiasm. Now; for the first time; their story is revealed. A captivating story of contest; failure; and success; The Age of Atheists sweeps up William James and the pragmatists; Sigmund Freud and psychoanalysis; Pablo Picasso; James Joyce; and Albert Camus; the poets of World War One and the novelists of World War Two; scientists; from Albert Einstein to Stephen Hawking; and the rise of the new Atheists—Dawkins; Harris; and Hitchens. This is a story of courage; of the thousands of individuals who; sometimes at great risk; devoted tremendous creative energies to devising ways to fill a godless world with self-reliance; invention; hope; wit; and enthusiasm. Watson explains how atheism has evolved and reveals that the greatest works of art and literature; of science and philosophy of the last century can be traced to the rise of secularism. From Nietzsche to Daniel Dennett; Watson’s stirring intellectual history manages to take the revolutionary ideas and big questions of these great minds and movements and explain them; making the connections and concepts simple without being simplistic. The Age of Atheists is “highly readable and immensely wide-ranging…For anybody who has wondered about the meaning of life…an enthralling and mind-expanding experience” (The Washington Post).