Product Description: 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...read more

Draws on interviews with many of the world's leading scientists to discuss the possibility that humankind has reached the limits of scientific knowledge

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: Mapping Irish Media offers up-to-date research and analysis of the Irish media by Ireland's leading experts in the field. It is specially intended as a much-needed textbook for the fast growing numbers of media studies students in Ireland, but it is highly readable and suitable for those with a general interest in the subject...read more

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Product Description: News and current affairs have been at the core of RTÉ's activity ever since its foundation, but more particularly since the inauguration of Irish television in 1961. This book focuses on the pressures, the programmes and the presenters in this controversial area...read more

Product Description: In the course of a long political career, Dr Noel Browne held public office for less than three years, as Minister for Health from 1948 to 1951. In that brief time he left an indelible mark on Irish life. His introduction of the controversial Mother and Child Scheme, which was effectively vetoed by the Catholic hierachy at the urging of Archbishop John Charles McQuaid and Bishop Michael Browne, and was then abandoned by the cabinet, was a defining moment in Irish church/state relations...read more

A respected journalist chronicles the contemporary effort to reach an 'empirical' understanding of spiritual enlightenment, drawing on neurology, theology, and psychology to paint this vivid portrait of the intersection between religion and science in the modern world. Reprint.

The justification for the war in Iraq, the 7/7 London bombings and the introduction of new laws on holding terrorist suspects all illustrate how entwined 'terrorism' is with religion, race, human rights, globalization, civil liberties and the media. This book is a guide for those seeking to understand this global issue that affects each one of us.

Records a conversation between a rationalist and a clergyman about the role of God on September 11, whether religious differences played a part, how religion responds to the bereaved and the traumatized, and related issues. (view table of contents)

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 covers the birth, development and - sometimes - the death of major Irish media during this period, examining the reasons for failure and success, and government attempts to regulate and respond to change. Finally, it addresses questions of media globalisation, ownership and control, and looks at issues of key significance for the future.Horgan demonstrates why, in a country whose political divisions and economic development have given it a place on the world stage out of all proportion to its size, the media have been and remain key players in Irish history.

A respected journalist explores the fields of science that try to explain the mysteries of the human mind, arguing that science has done little to plumb the depths of our minds and cannot ever rationally explain all of human behavior (view table of contents)

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Product Description: ¿Hemos contestado ya a todas las grandes preguntas? ¿Se ha alcanzado toda la sabiduría merecedora de retenerse? ¿Se llegará algún día a una teoría completamente definitiva, que suponga el fin de nuestras investigaciones? ¿Hemos dejado ya atrás la era de los descubrimientos? ¿Es la ciencia actual un mero rompecabezas que s...read more

An intimate portrait of Ireland's youngest president and the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights documents her rise to power as a defender of the unfortunate, and details her childhood, family and friends, legal victories for women's rights, and other qualities of an extraordinary and distinctive woman. IP. (view table of contents)