William Harwood

Hold it! Sit! Stay! That’s better. No, I am not suggesting that you go to the New York Times and tell them, “I have a book, written by the devil. Only he’s not really the devil. He’s an extra-terrestrial. And he’s not evil. He’s God’s good brother. It’s God who is evil.” Do you think I came to you to have you put in a funny farm? You’re to publish my manuscript under your own name, as science fiction. Isn’t science fiction the only format under which any sane moral philosophy could be published for the past fifty years? You agree? I am so glad. I have to go now. The Overlords are waiting to take me home.

Third Edition, 2011

Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology

Michael Cabbage

On February 1, 2003, the unthinkable happened. The space shuttle Columbia disintegrated 37 miles above Texas, seven brave astronauts were killed and America's space program, always an eyeblink from disaster, suffered its second catastrophic in-flight failure. Unlike the Challenger disaster 17 years earlier, Columbia's destruction left the nation one failure away from the potential abandonment of human space exploration. Media coverage in the immediate aftermath focused on the possible cause of the disaster, and on the nation's grief. But the full human story, and the shocking details of NASA's crucial mistakes, have never been told -- until now. Based on dozens of exclusive interviews, never-before-published documents and recordings of key meetings obtained by the authors, Comm Check takes the reader inside the conference rooms and offices where NASA's best and brightest managed the nation's multi-billion-dollar shuttle program -- and where they failed to recognize the signs of an impending disaster. It is the story of a space program pushed to the brink of failure by relentless political pressure, shrinking budgets and flawed decision making. The independent investigation into the disaster uncovered why Columbia broke apart in the sky above Texas. Comm Check brings that story to life with the human drama behind the tragedy. Michael Cabbage and William Harwood, two of America's most respected space journalists, are veterans of all but a handful of NASA's 113 shuttle missions. Tapping a network of sources and bringing a combined three decades of experience to bear, the authors provide a rare glimpse into NASA's inner circles, chronicling the agency's most devastating failure and the challenges that face NASA as it struggles to return America to space.

The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia

Comm Check...

This book is designed to educate the unlearned masses, and as a reference forscholars on points outside of their expertise. Commentators are free to quoteor reprint unlimited excerpts, provided the source is properly acknowledged.Some illustrations courtesy of Discover and American Atheist. I haveassumed that illustrations located through Google, unless otherwise indicated, are public domain. My apologies if I have accidentally violated anycopyright. Since the pictures are intended to illustrate the entries that theyaccompany, some artwork had been retouched to make it do so moreappropriately. For example, a painting of an idealized crucifixion has beenmodified to give it a closer resemblance to actual crucifixions. Elishaillustration by Kathy Demchuck (Illustrated Stories from the Bible), courtesyof American Atheist Press. Bush cartoon @ Mariali, courtesy MarilyseDevoyault & Aline Dieguez.

Dictionary of Contemporary Mythology Third Edition 2011

Stephen P. Maran

Provides a guided tour through the universe starting with the Solar system, then voyaging farther out into space, showing nebulae, white dwarfs, and black holes, and speculating about possible future astronomical discoveries.

Voyaging Through the Cosmos

Space Odyssey

The first book to critically analyze, and take issue with, every section of the Judeo-Christian Bible from a wholly skeptical, utterly scholarly perspective, Mythology's Last Gods is a comprehensive history of the development of Judeo-Christian god-mythology.

Yahweh and Jesus

Mythology's Last Gods

There has long been a need for a translation of the Judaeo-Christian Bible that did not deliberately mistranslate certain words and sentences for the purpose of concealing that the biblical authors' beliefs were quite different from those of modern Jews, Christians and Muslims. For example, "The LORD" is a falsification of the proper name Yahweh, a god like Zeus or Jupiter. But the most blatant fraud has been the rendering of the Hebrew word allahiym as the male proper name, "God." Allahiym is neither a proper name nor singular nor unisexual. Al means a god. The suffix -ah is a feminine singular inflection, so that allah means "goddess." The suffix -iym is a masculine plural inflection, making allahiym a dual-sex, generic plural, "male and female gods," or, in the common gender, "gods." This translation corrects such falsifications. For extra copies contact: www.worldaudience.org

William Harwood

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