How much are these old books worth?




Adam


I found these old books in my closet from the 1940s and 50s. How much are they worth?

-The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (1958)
-A Treasury of The Essay (1955)
-A Treasury of Philosophy: Vol. 1 and 2 (1955)
-A Treasury of The World's Great Speeches (1954)
-A Treasury of American Literature: Vol. 1 and 2(1948)
-A Treasury of Humor and the Toastmaster's Handbook (1955)
-A Treasury of The Familiar (1942)
-The Home Book of musical Knowledge (1954)

Thanks!



Answer
The Complete Works Of William Shakespeare - $7-18 NEW, $7-2 USED
thats all I could find

Any of you read any book about religion or so?




Mr. Presid


If so can you tell me the name and if you have summary of your own or where I can find it?
not Bible

I have to read a simple book.



Answer
Sources:
http://www.nobeliefs.com/exist.htm

Briant, Pierre, "Alexander the Great: Man of Action Man of Spirit," Harry N. Abrams, 1996

Doherty, Earl, "The Jesus Puzzle," Canadian Humanist Publications, 1999

Flavius, Josephus (37 or 38-circa 101 C.E.), Antiquities

Gauvin, Marshall J., "Did Jesus Christ Really Live?" (from: www.infidels.org/)

Gould, Stephen Jay "Dinosaur in a Haystack," (Chapter 2), Harmony Books, New York, 1995

Graham, Henry Grey, Rev., "Where we got the Bible," B. Heder Book Company, 1960

Graves, Kersey "The World's Sixteen Crucified Saviors," 1875

Helms, Randel McCraw , "Who Wrote the Gospels?", Millennium Press

Irenaeus of Lyon (140?-202? C.E.), Against the Heresies

Leedom, Tim C. "The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You To Read," Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1993

Massey, Gerald, "Gerald Massey's Lectures: The Historical Jesus and Mythical Christ," 1900

McKinsey, C. Dennis "The Encyclopedia of Biblical Errancy," Prometheus Books, 1995

Metzger, Bruce,"The Text of the New Testament-- Its Transmission, Corruption, and Restoration," Oxford University Press, 1968

Pagels, Elaine, "The Gnostic Gospels," Vintage Books, New York, 1979

Pagels, Elaine, "Adam, Eve, and the Serpent," Vintage Books, New York, 1888

Pagels, Elaine, "The Origin of Satan," Random House, New York, 1995

Price, Robert M.," Deconstructing Jesus," Prometheus Books, 2000

Pritchard, John Paul, "A Literary Approach to the New Testament," Norman, University of Oklahoma Press, 1972

Remsberg, John E., "The Christ," Prometheus Books

Robertson, J.M. "Pagan Christs," Barnes & Noble Books, 1966

Romer, John, "Testament : The Bible and History," Henry Holt and Company, New York, 1988

Schonfield, Hugh Joseph, "A History of Biblical Literature," New American Library, 1962

Spong, Bishop Shelby, "Rescuing the Bible from Fundamentalism," HarperSanFrancisco, 1991

Tacitus (55?-117? C.E.), Annals

Wilson, Dorothy Frances, "The Gospel Sources, some results of modern scholarship," London, Student Christian Movement press, 1938

The Revell Bible Dictionary," Wynwood Press, New York, 1990

King James Bible, 1611

U.S. News & World Report, Dec. 10, 1990

Various issues of Bible Review magazine, published by the Biblical Archaeology Society, Washington D.C.

Online sources:
[1] "James (book of Bible)," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001

[2] "John, Epistles of," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001

[3] "Peter, Epistles of," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2001

Sources:
http://www.nobeliefs.com/luther.htm
Goldhagen, Daniel Johah, Hitler's Willing Executioners: Ordinary Germans and the Holocaust , Alfred A. Knoph, NY, 1996

Luther, Martin, On the Jews and Their Lies, translated by Martin H. Bertram, Fortress Press, 1955

Shirer, William L., The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, Simon and Schuster, NY, 1960

Steigmann-Gall, Richard "The Holy Reich: Nazi conception of Christianity, 1919-1945," Cambridge University Press, 2003

Trial of The Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-- 1 October 1946, Vol. 12, p.318

Other reading:
You might also find the article by Norma E. Cunningham interesting, in that it comes out of her Lutheran upbringing, "What They Never Told Us About Martin Luther": http://www.infidels.org/org/ffrf/fttoday/jan_feb98/cunningham.html

Also:
The influence of Martin Luther on Nazism: http://www.infidels.org/org/ffrf/fttoday/back/hakeem/holocaust4.html

Further reading:
http://www.nobeliefs.com/Creationism.htm

Instead of relying on superstition and faith, the following books and articles reveal thoughts about the known universe and evolution.

Stephen W. Hawking, "A Brief History of Time," Bantam Books, 1988

Stephen W. Hawking, "Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays," Bantam Books, 1994

John Boslough, "Stephen Hawking's Universe," Quill/William Morrow, New York, 1985

Stephen Hawking & Roger Penrose, "The Nature of Space and Time," [Scientific American, July 1996]

David N. Spergel & Neil G. Turok, "Textures and Cosmic Structure," [Scientific American, March 1992]

Geoffrey Burbidge, "Why Only One Big Bang? [Scientific American, February 1992]

Madhusree Mukerjee, "Explaining Everything," [Scientific American, January 1996]

Victor J. Stenger, "Was the Universe Designed to Produce Us?," [Skeptic, Vol. 4, No. 2, 1996]

Richard Dawkins, "Climbing Mount Improbable," W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1996

Richard Dawkins, "The Blind Watchmaker,*" W.W. Norton & Co., New York, 1986*

Carl Sagan, "The Demon-Haunted World," Random House, New York, 1995

Stephen Jay Gould, "Dinosaur in a Haystack," Harmony Books, 1995

Tim M. Berra, "Evolution and the Myth of Creationism," Stanford University Press, 1990

*Note, Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker beautifully destroys the argument from design hypothesis.

Internet sites:

The Talk Origins Archives: http://www.talkorigins.org/origins/search.html

The World of Richard Dawkins: http://www.world-of-dawkins.com/

The Genetic Algorithms Archive: http://www.aic.nrl.navy.mil/galist/

Lab molecules replicate and evolve: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_217000/217054.stm

Frequently Encountered Criticisms in Evolution vs. Creationism: http://icarus.uic.edu/~vuletic/cefec.html

Five Major Misconceptions about Evolution: http://www.talkorigins.org/faqs/faq-misconceptions.html

Concrete evidence about how the human eye evolved: http://www.embl.org/aboutus/news/press/2004/press28oct04.html

Intelligence: an operational meaning: http://www.nobeliefs.com/intelligence.htm
The Myth of the Beginning of Time: http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=00042F0D-1A0E-1085-94F483414B7F0000

http://www.nobeliefs.com/facts.htm
The Book Your Church Doesn't Want You To Read, by Tim C. Leedom, Ed., Kendall/Hunt Pub. Co., 1993

A Guide Book of United States Coins (42nd Revised Edition), R.S. Yeoman, Western Publishing Co.

Would You Believe?, by Sydney J. Harris, Argus Communications, 1979

A Brief History of Religious Mottoes on United States Currency and Coins, by Madalyn O'Hair, American Atheists Online, 1992

Constantine's Sword, by James Carroll, Houghton Mifflin Co., 2001

Karl Marx and Friedrich Engles on Religion, Schocken Books, 1964

Stalin, by T.H. Rigby, Ed., Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1966

Microsoft(R) Encarta(R) 96 Encyclopedia. (c) 1993-1995 Microsoft Corporation.

Encyclopedia Britannica, 1969

http://www.nobeliefs.com/islam.htm
Recommend Books:
Why I Am Not a Muslim by Ibn Warraq

Leaving Islam: Apostates Speak Out by Ibn Warraq (Editor)

Islam Unveiled: Disturbing Questions About the World's Fastest Growing Faith by Robert Spencer

And anything by:
Alamgir Hussain

Syed Kamran Mirza

Faiyaz Taffakur

Mumin Salih

Imran Hossain

Amil Imani

MA Khan




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