wyszukanych pozycji: 22
The End of Science: Facing the Limits of Knowledge in the Twilight of the Scientific Age
ISBN: 9780465065929 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 368 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In The End of Science, John Horgan makes the case that the era of truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our place in it is over. Interviewing scientific luminaries such as Stephen Hawking, Francis Crick, and Richard Dawkins, he demonstrates that all the big questions that can be answered have been answered, as science bumps up against fundamental limits. The world cannot give us a "theory of everything," and modern endeavors such as string theory are "ironic" and "theological" in nature, not scientific, because they are impossible to confirm. Horgan's argument...
In The End of Science, John Horgan makes the case that the era of truly profound scientific revelations about the universe and our place in it ...
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97,66 zł |
Rational Mysticism: Dispatches from the Border Between Science and Spirituality
ISBN: 9780618446636 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 292 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In Rational Mysticism, acclaimed journalist John Horgan embarks on an adventure of discovery, investigating the ways in which scientists, theologians, and philosophers are attempting to formulate an empirical explanation of spiritual enlightenment. Horgan visits and interviews a fascinating Who's Who of experts, including theologian Huston Smith; Andrew Newberg, explorer of the brain's "God module"; Ken Wilber, a transpersonal psychologist and Buddhist; psychedelic pharmacologist Alexander Shulgin; Oxford-educated psychologist and Zen practitioner Susan Blackmore; and postmodern shaman...
In Rational Mysticism, acclaimed journalist John Horgan embarks on an adventure of discovery, investigating the ways in which scientists, theologians,...
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72,94 zł |
Pay Attention: Sex, Death, and Science
ISBN: 9781949597097 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 234 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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122,19 zł |
Great Irish Reportage
ISBN: 9780241967126 / Angielski / Miękka / 2015 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Reports and dispatches from Ireland's finest writers: the first-ever anthology of Irish reportage. Alongside its world-famous tradition of great fiction, Ireland has a less well known but thrilling tradition of reportage: journalism, dispatches and eyewitness accounts. From Elizabeth Bowen to Colm Toibin, from Flann O'Brien to Maeve Binchy, some of Ireland's greatest writers have produced first-rate journalism. And from R.M. Smyllie and Conor Cruise O'Brien to Eamon Dunphy and Olivia O'Leary, Ireland has also produced a remarkable number of journalists who can really write. Now, for the first...
Reports and dispatches from Ireland's finest writers: the first-ever anthology of Irish reportage. Alongside its world-famous tradition of great ficti...
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92,23 zł |
Undiscovered Mind: How the Human Brain Defies Replication, Medication, and Explanation
ISBN: 9780684865782 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. GRAY MATTER UNDER INVESTIGATION In his acclaimed book The End of Science, John Horgan ignited a firestorm of controversy about the limits of knowledge in a wide range of sciences. Now in The Undiscovered Mind he focuses on the single most important scientific enterprise of all -- the effort to understand the human mind.
Horgan takes us inside laboratories, hospitals, and universities to meet neuro-scientists, Freudian analysts, electroshock therapists, behavioral geneticists, evolutionary psychologists, artificial intelligence engineers, and philosophers of... GRAY MATTER UNDER INVESTIGATION In his acclaimed book The End of Science, John Horgan ignited a firestorm of controversy about the limits...
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85,29 zł |
Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right
ISBN: 9780231198387 / Twarda / 2023 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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509,12 zł |
His Angels at Our Side
ISBN: 9781682780305 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. We all believe in and love angels, but most of us know little about them and their roles in our lives. Angels do not form a separate universe they are an integral part of our own world. In these pages, Fr. John Horgan introduces us to everything Scripture and the Church tells us about angels. We all believe in and love angels, but most of us know little about them and their roles in our lives. Angels do not form a separate universe they ... |
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77,01 zł |
Irish Media: A Critical History Since 1922
ISBN: 9780415216401 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Irish Media: A Critical History maps the landscape of media in Ireland from the foundation of the modern state in 1922 to the present. Covering all principal media forms, print and electronic, in the Republic and in Northern Ireland, John Horgan shows how Irish history and politics have shaped the media of Ireland and, in turn, have been shaped by them.
Beginning in a country ravaged by civil war, it traces the complexities of wartime censorship and details the history of media technology, from the development of radio to the inauguration of television in the 1950s and 1960s. It... Irish Media: A Critical History maps the landscape of media in Ireland from the foundation of the modern state in 1922 to the present. Coveri...
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696,20 zł |
The Psychology of Terrorism
ISBN: 9780415698009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. John Horgan presents a detailed, critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology, and in doing so, highlights substantial shortcomings and limitations of the nature and direction of current research.
John Horgan presents a detailed, critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology, and in doing so, highlights su...
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928,27 zł |
Divided We Stand: The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland's Dissident Terrorists
ISBN: 9780199772858 / Angielski / Twarda / 2013 / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Terrorism has returned to the streets of Northern Ireland. In the years after the 1998 Real IRA bombing of Omagh, which killed 29 people, violent dissident Republican groups have re-emerged as a major security threat to a region that has been denied peace, stability, and prosperity for too long. Those responsible have many names. They are breakaways, splinter factions, spoilers, and "residual" terrorists. The Real IRA, Continuity IRA, and Oglaigh na hEireann are only some of the groups now responsible for a growing wave of bombings, shootings, threats, and intimidation across Northern...
Terrorism has returned to the streets of Northern Ireland. In the years after the 1998 Real IRA bombing of Omagh, which killed 29 people, violent diss...
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209,00 zł |
Terrorist Minds: The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right
ISBN: 9780231198394 / Miękka / 2023 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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127,28 zł |
Mind-Body Problems: Science, Subjectivity & Who We Really Are
ISBN: 9781731440488 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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64,00 zł |
Irish Media: A Critical History Since 1922
ISBN: 9780415216418 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 228 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Irish Media: A Critical History maps the landscape of media in Ireland from the foundation of the modern state in 1922 to the present. Covering all principal media forms, print and electronic, in the Republic and in Northern Ireland, John Horgan shows how Irish history and politics have shaped the media of Ireland and, in turn, have been shaped by them.
Beginning in a country ravaged by civil war, it traces the complexities of wartime censorship and details the history of media technology, from the development of radio to the inauguration of television in the 1950s and 1960s. It... Irish Media: A Critical History maps the landscape of media in Ireland from the foundation of the modern state in 1922 to the present. Coveri...
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190,76 zł |
The Psychology of Terrorism
ISBN: 9780415698023 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded. The book presents a critical analysis of our existing knowledge and understanding of terrorist psychology. Despite the on-going search for a terrorist pathology, the most insightful and evidence-based research to date not only illustrates the lack of any identifiable psychopathology in terrorists, but demonstrates how frighteningly 'normal' and unremarkable in psychological terms are those who engage in terrorist activity. By producing a clearer map of the processes that impinge upon... This new edition of John Horgan's critically acclaimed book is fully revised and expanded. The book presents a critical analysis of ... |
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273,27 zł |
Walking Away from Terrorism: Accounts of Disengagement from Radical and Extremist Movements
ISBN: 9780415439442 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Offers a look at how and why individuals leave terrorist movements. This title considers the lessons and implications that emerge from this process.
Offers a look at how and why individuals leave terrorist movements. This title considers the lessons and implications that emerge from this process.
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206,23 zł |
Terrorism Studies: A Reader
ISBN: 9780415455053 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This new Reader aims to guide students through some of the key readings on the subject of terrorism and political violence. In an age when there is more written about terrorism than anyone can possibly read in a lifetime, it has become increasingly difficult for students and scholars to navigate the literature. At the same time, courses and modules on terrorism studies are developing at a rapid rate. To meet this challenge, this wide-ranging Reader seeks to equip the aspiring student, based anywhere in the world, with a comprehensive introduction to the study of terrorism.... This new Reader aims to guide students through some of the key readings on the subject of terrorism and political violence. In an age when t... |
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278,43 zł |
Walking Away from Terrorism: Accounts of Disengagement from Radical and Extremist Movements
ISBN: 9780415439435 / Angielski / Twarda / 2009 / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. This accessible new book looks at how and why individuals leave terrorist movements, and considers the lessons and implications that emerge from this process. Focusing on the tipping points for disengagement from groups such as Al Qaeda, the IRA and the UVF, this volume is informed by the dramatic and sometimes extraordinary accounts that the terrorists themselves offered to the author about why they left terrorism behind. The book examines three major issues:
This accessible new book looks at how and why individuals leave terrorist movements, and considers the lessons and implications that emerge from th... |
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773,57 zł |
The Future of Terrorism
ISBN: 9780714680903 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. These papers are from a meeting at University College Cork, Ireland, at which terrorism experts from academia and law enforcement presented and dicussed their views on future developments in terrorism. This book brings together papers presented at the meeting and offers a series of challenging, and at times controversial, perspectives on the unfolding nature of terrorism.
These papers are from a meeting at University College Cork, Ireland, at which terrorism experts from academia and law enforcement presented and dicuss...
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247,49 zł |
Small Arms: Children and Terrorism
ISBN: 9780801453885 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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113,58 zł |
Ethics and Terrorism
ISBN: 9781032120652 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. |
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696,20 zł |