How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Asking the Right QuestionsIn a media-driven world of talking heads, gurus, urban legends, and hype, learning to think more clearly and critically, and helping others to do the same, is one of the most important things you can do. This book by Christopher Dicarlo will help you learn those skills.In this witty, incisive guide to critical thinking the author provides you with the tools to allow you to question beliefs and assumptions
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The Unheard Cry for Meaning: Psychotherapy and HumanismThe Unheard Cry for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is a wonderful book that combines humanism with self help and psychotherapy. Addressing our angst and search for meaning and it's impact on our mental health. And he does this all from an explicitly Humanist frame of reference.In these selected essays, written between 1947 and 1977, Dr. Frankl illustrates the vital importance of the human dimension in psychotherapy. Using a wide range of subjects—including Read more [...]
The Wellness SyndromeThe Wellness Syndrome is a book about how our obsession with wellness is actually hurting us. The impetus we have to equate wellness with morality is the central problem. This book straddles the discussion between humanism and wellness.In this ground-breaking new book, Carl Cederström and André Spicer argue that the ever-present pressure to maximize our wellness has started to work against us, making us feel worse and provoking us to withdraw into ourselves. The Wellness Syndrome 
The Power of Pause: How to be More Effective in a Demanding, 24/7 World The Power of Pause by Nance Guilmartin is an excellent book. It is basically about how to take a pause so you can think more rationally and strategically and thus give yourself a better chance of success. This ability to pause so you can think before you act is the first step to thinking critically. Nance provides excellent easy to implement exercises to help you master the technique. This practical method helps even the most 
Sex & God: How Religion Distorts Sexuality
It is amazing how much baggage people carry with them when they have sex. The Humanist approach to sex is that it is a foundational human urge. Similar to the need for food. It should be consensual and pleasurable, for everyone involved. We do not consider it sinful unless it is coerced or causes harm.
Dr. Darrel Ray has written a wonderful book for people who experienced religious indoctrination about sex who find now that the guilt they attach 
The Magic of Reality: How We Know What's Really True
This is a beautiful book illustrated by David McKean - Filled with clever thought experiments and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena: How old is the universe? Why do the continents look like disconnected pieces of a jigsaw puzzle? What causes tsunamis? Why are there so many kinds of plants and animals? Who was the first man, or woman? Starting with the magical, mythical explanations 
Star Stuff: Carl Sagan and the Mysteries of the Cosmos
For every child who has ever looked up at the stars and asked, "What are they?" comes the story of a curious boy who never stopped wondering: Carl Sagan. When Carl Sagan was a young boy he went to the 1939 World's Fair and his life was changed forever. From that day on he never stopped marveling at the universe and seeking to understand it better. Star Stuff follows Carl from his days star gazing from the bedroom window of his Brooklyn apartment, 
An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments
Here are cogent explanations of the straw man fallacy, the slippery slope argument, the ad hominem attack, and other common attempts at reasoning that actually fall short—plus a beautifully drawn menagerie of animals who (adorably) commit every logical faux pas. Rabbit thinks a strange light in the sky must be a UFO because no one can prove otherwise (the appeal to ignorance). And Lion doesn’t believe that gas emissions harm the planet because, if that 
The Mindful Brain: Reflection and Attunement in the Cultivation of Well-Being (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology)
by Dan Siegel is the first book ever to integrate neuroscience research with the ancient art of mindfulness. The result is a groundbreaking approach to not simply mental health, but life in general, which shows readers how personal awareness and attunement can actually stimulate emotional circuits in the brain, leading to a host of physiological benefits, including greater 
The Moral Molecule: How Trust Works
By PAUL J. ZAK, Ph.D., is professor of economic psychology and management at Claremont Graduate University. He is at the vanguard of neuroeconomics, a new discipline that integrates neuroscience and economics. This book explores the role oxytocin plays in regulating moral behavior. (Recommended by Humanist Meditation instructor Rick Heller)
Emotional Overeating: Know the Triggers, Heal Your Mind, and Never Diet Again (Praeger Series on Contemporary Health and Living)
Respected author Marcia Sirota examines this phenomenon, exploring the emotional and psychological factors involved with overeating and food addiction. The author provides an overview of the overeating and obesity problem, offers a critical look at the downfalls of dieting, and reveals the reasons why many of us use food to supplant a real emotional need. The book includes 
Strength Training for Fat Loss
By Nick Tumminello. No fads, gimmicks, or miracle claims. Just science-based programming, sensible strategies, and the results you desire. Nick is well known as a trainer of trainers, famous for his science based approach to fitness.
How to talk to your child’s school about bullying so they will actually listen and help
This is a short e-book designed to help you learn the basics of what you should be doing to help make sure your child’s school takes your reports of bullying seriously. This e-book is ~4,000 words long and should take less than ½ hour to read. The purpose of this book is to give you detailed information on how to approach the school, who in the school can help and how to get the school to actually help you 
Positive Humanism: A Primer
By Bo Bennett. This is an academically oriented book. It is meant to be a sequel to Gerard Larue's The Way of Positive Humanism . What is Positive Humanism? Is the focus of Humanism on all that is positive - how to live life better and be a better person and flourish - and a downplaying of the - what we are against approach that a lot of the modern Humanist movement seems to find itself stuck in. For someone new to the concept of Humanism, or who is coming out of the