The dangerous edge
Author : Gavin Lambert
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Page : pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Gavin Lambert
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,24 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Judith Adamson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 43,95 MB
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349207705
Since the war Graham Greene has travelled habitually to the world's trouble-spots and has provided leading newspapers and journals with articles about what he saw. While contending that a writer must be free of political affiliations he has commmitted himself to many countries and causes, and while insisting that literature must never be used for political ends he has written novels informed by a political urgency. The Dangerous Edge is about his political reportage and how the observations that formed it were transformed into literature. It is about how a novelist who struggled to record public issues dispassionately became in the process an important political conscience.
Author : Michael J. Apter
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,95 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Medical
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Why do many people enjoy risky activities--skydiving, bullfighting, or fast driving--that cause fear in others? Every normal human being seems to need excitement at times, yet for years this need remained largely unstudied. Now a professor of psychology explains why we experience the need for excitement at various times and what happens when excitement-seeking goes wrong.
Author : William Frederick Temple
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Page : 224 pages
File Size : 18,85 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : Ted Allbeury
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Page : pages
File Size : 42,68 MB
Release : 1993
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Author : Robert Daley
Publisher : Dell Publishing Company
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 37,1 MB
Release : 1984
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440118091
Author : Michael J. Apter
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Page : pages
File Size : 41,61 MB
Release : 1994-01-01
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ISBN : 9780517114421
Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher :
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 14,48 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Authorship
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Author : Ted Allbeury
Publisher :
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 32,93 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9780450495991
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Author : John Brockman
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 24,50 MB
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0061844802
The world's leading scientific thinkers explore bold, remarkable, perilous ideas that could change our lives—for better . . . or for worse . . . From Copernicus to Darwin, to current-day thinkers, scientists have always promoted theories and unveiled discoveries that challenge everything society holds dear; ideas with both positive and dire consequences. Many thoughts that resonate today are dangerous not because they are assumed to be false, but because they might turn out to be true. What do the world's leading scientists and thinkers consider to be their most dangerous idea? Through the leading online forum Edge (www.edge.org), the call went out, and this compelling and easily digestible volume collects the answers. From using medication to permanently alter our personalities to contemplating a universe in which we are utterly alone, to the idea that the universe might be fundamentally inexplicable, What Is Your Dangerous Idea? takes an unflinching look at the daring, breathtaking, sometimes terrifying thoughts that could forever alter our world and the way we live in it. Contributors include Daniel C. Dennett • Jared Diamond • Brian Greene • Matt Ridley • Howard Gardner and Freeman Dyson, among others