Books with author Benjamin Barker

You've heard of the "Great Books"?These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive--in fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. In his scintillating new book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (And 5 Others That Didn't Help), he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day. In this witty, learned, and provocative exposé, you'll learn: * Why Machiavelli's The Prince was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand)* How Descartes' Discourse on Method "proved" God's existence only by making Him a creation of our own ego* How Hobbes' Leviathan led to the belief that we have a "right" to whatever we want* Why Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto could win the award for the most malicious book ever written* How Darwin's The Descent of Man proves he intended "survival of the fittest" to be applied to human society* How Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil issued the call for a world ruled solely by the "will to power"* How Hitler's Mein Kampf was a kind of "spiritualized Darwinism" that accounts for his genocidal anti-Semitism* How the pansexual paradise described in Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa turned out to be a creation of her own sexual confusions and aspirations* Why Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was simply autobiography masquerading as science Witty, shocking, and instructive, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World offers a quick education on the worst ideas in human history--and how we can avoid them in the future.

You've heard of the "Great Books"? These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive--in fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. In his scintillating new book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World (And 5 Others That Didn't Help), he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day.

Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught. He is known for being part of a group led by Major Andrew Ellicott that surveyed the borders of the original District of Columbia, the federal capital district of the United States. Banneker's knowledge of astronomy helped him author a commercially successful series of almanacs. He corresponded with Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the topics of slavery and racial equality. Abolitionists and advocates of racial equality promoted and praised his works. Although a fire on the day of Banneker's funeral destroyed many of his papers and belongings, one of his journals and several of his remaining artifacts are presently available for public viewing. Parks, schools, streets and other tributes have commemorated Banneker throughout the years since he lived. However, many accounts of his life exaggerate or falsely attribute his works.

The Lord has thrown a pillar of righteousness from the heavens to crush the head of the serpent and you are holding it in your hand. The wisdom of God is contrary to the way of our natural minds; we believe we need to be strong, and the last thing we want is to become weak or come to the end of ourselves. We have a survival instinct which causes us to just keep on keeping on with the works of the flesh; one more time around the mountain, one more attempt in our own strength and maybe, if we tell the same story one more time, it might finally become the truth. But it never does, and the flesh always produces the same bitter harvest, always bringing forth the same briars and thorns. Volume One: Out of the Darkness, is about coming out of the denial, and out of the shadows so that we may enter into the secret hiding place of the Most High God, because it’s not in the shadows, and you won’t find it in the darkness, nor will we find it, if we allow the darkness to remain hidden within o

You've heard of the "Great Books"?These are their evil opposites. From Machiavelli's The Prince to Karl Marx's Communist Manifesto to Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, these "influential" books have led to war, genocide, totalitarian oppression, family breakdown, and disastrous social experiments. And yet these authors' bad ideas are still popular and pervasive-in fact, they might influence your own thinking without your realizing it. Here with the antidote is Professor Benjamin Wiker. In his scintillating new book, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World: And 5 Others That Didn't Help, he seizes each of these evil books by its malignant heart and exposes it to the light of day. In this witty, learned, and provocative expose, you'll learn:-Why Machiavelli's The Prince was the inspiration for a long list of tyrannies (Stalin had it on his nightstand)-How Descartes's Discourse on Method "proved" God's existence only by making Him a creation of our own ego-How Hobbes's Leviathan led to the belief that we have a "right" to whatever we want-Why Marx and Engels's Communist Manifesto could win the award for the most malicious book ever written-How Darwin's Descent of Man proves he intended "survival of the fittest" to be applied to human society-How Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil issued the call for a world ruled solely by the "will to power"-How Hitler's Mein Kampf was a kind of "spiritualized Darwinism" that accounts for his genocidal anti-Semitism-How the pansexual paradise described in Margaret Mead's Coming of Age in Samoa turned out to be a creation of her own sexual confusions and aspirations-Why Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male was simply autobiography masquerading as scienceWitty, shocking, and instructive, 10 Books That Screwed Up the World offers a quick education on the worst ideas in human history-and how we can avoid them in the future.

Benjamin Banneker (November 9, 1731 – October 9, 1806) was a free African American almanac author, surveyor, naturalist and farmer. Born in Baltimore County, Maryland, to a free African American woman and a former slave, Banneker had little formal education and was largely self-taught. He is known for being part of a group led by Major Andrew Ellicott that surveyed the borders of the original District of Columbia, the federal capital district of the United States.Banneker's knowledge of astronomy helped him author a commercially successful series of almanacs. He corresponded with Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the United States Declaration of Independence, on the topics of slavery and racial equality. Abolitionists and advocates of racial equality promoted and praised his works.Although a fire on the day of Banneker's funeral destroyed many of his papers and belongings, one of his journals and several of his remaining artifacts are presently available for public viewing. Parks, schools, streets and other tributes have commemorated Banneker throughout the years since he lived. However, many accounts of his life exaggerate or falsely attribute his works.

Alexander has no idea who he is or where he came from. His friends all know. Everyone seems to know, actually. But they are all bound by an ancient, irritating oath – an oath that forbids them to tell. Pretty much the only thing Alexander knows is that he is “supposedly” here to fulfill some half-finished prophecy that some half-dead Oracle half-delivered. He works for “The Fallen,” a straggling group of gods and heroes who are all that remain of the Greek Dynasty that the Titans wiped out years ago when they escaped the foul pits of Tartarus. Every hundred years or so Alexander has to battle some prehistoric Sea Demon, or retrieve a magical artifact that someone decided to leave at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea – but nothing too abnormal.And then on a clear afternoon not that long ago, and not too far from where you are reading, one of the Greek Gods is reborn in the body of a teenage boy named Paul. There was uproar. Panic. Chaos. The Fallen immediately send Alexander to retrieve the nascent god, saying that he is the only one powerful to rescue him. Because there is one titanic complication: Cronus (big, supreme evil guy who is Lord of the Titans) wants Paul as well, and he will stop at nothing to get him. Magic duels, sword fights, and terrible secrets lay in wait for Alexander. He races across the country on a moody, flight-capable equestrian, battling enormous sea serpents, man-eating horses, impudent teenagers, and other such monsters. And as he slowly unravels the mystery of his past, he begins to realize that Cronus may not be the biggest monster out there.