Here's an endorsement of "Saving Gaia" by a pretty renowned atheist writer. It's very flattering because neology (coining words) has been a hobby of mine since college days—futureword, end-meme, others. Dr. Dana says, "Every page drips with such factoid snacks for hungry minds."
"Factoid" is a neologism first used by Norman Mailer in one of his novels in the '50s. It's defined as "insignificant facts" of little practical use. But I'd like to bring out that factoids are the bricks that, piled one atop another, are the foundation of our worldview, our philosophy of life.
Endorsement
Reading Goscicki makes me wish I had paid more attention in school. His store of esoterica is encyclopedic: William Golding attended a British Chipsian (taken from Good-bye Mr. Chips) boys school; Galileo's daughter was prohibited from visiting him while under house arrest in his villa in 1660; Sonderkommandos were Jewish slaves who emptied Nazi gas chambers of their corpses; Carl Sagan denounced St. Augustine as the man most responsible for bringing on the Dark Ages; Tethys the Sea Goddess is the daughter of Gaia. Who knew? Every page drips with such factoid snacks for hungry minds.

Dan Dana, PhD
Author of The Reason Revolution: Atheism, Secular Humanism, and the Collapse of Religion
www.dandana.us/atheism