Hitch-22: A Memoir – Christopher Hitchens (Audiobook + E-book)

The desires of the heart are as crooked as corkscrews
Not to be born is the best for man
The second best is a formal order
The dance’s pattern, dance while you can.
Dance, dance, for the figure is easy
The tune is catching and will not stop
Dance till the stars come down with the rafters
Dance, dance, dance till you drop.
W.H. Auden, “Death’s Echo”

Christopher Hitchens died at 62, on December 15, 2011.It is said that “God is Not Great, but Hitch is.” and that’s so right!

this is the story of his life. He will be sorely missed…

Audiobook (size : 596 MB) [Direct]

E-Book (size : 9 MB) [Direct]

 

The difference between faith and insanity…

 

Therein lies the ideological difference….

 

The Labyrinth

 

Mary Roach: 10 things you didn’t know about orgasm

Death, the afterlife, and now sex — Mary Roach tackles the most pondered and least understood conundrums that have baffled humans for centuries. (She’s funny, too !)

“… she takes an entertaining topic and showcases its creepier side. And then she makes the creepy funny.”

- Pamela Paul, New York TImes

Filmed : Feb 2009

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The End of Faith : Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason

The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason ; By : Sam Harris

An impassioned plea for reason in a world divided by faith.

This important and timely book delivers a startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today’s world. Harris offers a vivid historical tour of mankind’s willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify harmful behavior and sometimes heinous crimes. He asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can no longer tolerate views that pit one true god against another. Most controversially, he argues that we cannot afford moderate lip service to religion—an accommodation that only blinds us to the real perils of fundamentalism. While warning against the encroachment of organized religion into world politics, Harris also draws on new evidence from neuroscience and insights from philosophy to explore spirituality as a biological, brain-based need. He calls on us to invoke that need in taking a secular humanistic approach to solving the problems of this world.

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size:   1.69 MB

FPGA-based Implementation of Signal Processing Systems

This is what I am reading :

By :  Roger Woods, John Mcallister, Richard Turner, Ying Yi, Gaye Lightbody

FPGA-based Implementation of Signal Processing Systems is an important reference for practicing engineers and researchers working on the design and development of DSP systems for radio, telecommunication, information, audio-visual and security applications. Senior level electrical and computer engineering graduates taking courses in signal processing or digital signal processing shall also find this volume of interest.

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size:   4.13 MB

The God Debate II: Sam Harris vs. William Lane Craig

The second annual God Debate features atheist neuroscientist Sam Harris and Evangelical Christian apologist William Lane Craig as they debate the topic: “Is Good From God?” The debate was sponsored in large part by the Notre Dame College of Arts and Letters: The Henkels Lecturer Series, The Center for Philosophy of Religion and the Institute for Scholarship in the Liberal Arts.

[Highly Recommended for those who dare to question]

Sam Harris is a neuroscientist and the author of the New York Times bestsellers, The End of Faith, Letter to a Christian Nation, and The Moral Landscape.

William Lane Craig is an American Evangelical Christian apologist, theologian, and analytic philosopher known for his work in the philosophy of religion, historical Jesus studies, and the philosophy of time.

File Size : 400 mb

https://www.rapidshare.com/files/458113752/The.God.Debate.II.Harris.vs.Craig.part1.rar
https://www.rapidshare.com/files/458095191/The.God.Debate.II.Harris.vs.Craig.part2.rar
https://www.rapidshare.com/files/458108666/The.God.Debate.II.Harris.vs.Craig.part3.rar