The Atheist's Guide to Christmas - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0007322615 ISBN 13: 9780007322619

Publisher: The Friday Project, 2009

Synopsis

Ariane Sherine presents stories, jokes, how-to-do things, contemplations and even real science from the world's most entertaining atheist scientists, comedians, philosophers and writers.

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Review:

"Stuck on a holiday gift for your favorite atheist? This book will fill him with Christmas-like cheer.... If there's one overarching takeaway...it's that atheists have a sense of humor."--Penthouse

"[E]ntertaining and enlightening... The Atheist's Guide to Christmas is not only for atheists...nor is it an anti-religious rant or deep philosophical treatise. In essence... a good gift for anyone with a sense of humor."--Technorati.com

Stuck on a holiday gift for your favorite atheist? This book will fill him with Christmas-like cheer.... If there s one overarching takeaway...it s that atheists have a sense of humor. --Penthouse"

[E]ntertaining and enlightening The Atheist s Guide to Christmas is not only for atheists nor is it an anti-religious rant or deep philosophical treatise. In essence a good gift for anyone with a sense of humor. --Technorati.com"

From the Back Cover:

What do you get an atheist for Christmas?

If you're an atheist, you don't believe in the three wise men, so this Christmas, we bring you not three, but forty-two wise men and women, bearing gifts of comedy, science, philosophy, the arts, and knowledge. What does it feel like to be born on Christmas day? How can you most effectively use lights to make your house visible from space? And where can you listen to the echoes of the Big Bang on December 25? The Atheist's Guide to Christmas answers all these questions and more:

• Richard Dawkins tells an original Christmas story.
• Phil Plait fact-checks the Star of Bethlehem.
• Neal Pollack teaches his family a lesson on holiday spirit.
• Simon Singh offers a very special scientific experiment.
• Simon le Bon loses his faith (but keeps church music).
• AC Grayling explains how to have a truly happy Christmas.

Plus thirty-six other brilliant, funny, free-thinking pieces perfect for anyone who doesn't think of holidays as holy days.

All author advances and royalties for The Atheist's Guide to Christmas will go to Terrence Higgins Trust.

About this edition

• Publisher: The Friday Project
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0007322615
• ISBN 13: 9780007322619
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352