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  • From The Press Box

    Seventy Years of Great Moments in Irish Sport

    by Peter Byrne ...
    Following the success of his book My Part of the Day, first published in 1981, Peter Byrne's second collection of stories, From the Press Box, provides fitting testimony to the most successful era in the history of Irish sport. From Gaelic Games and rugby to football and athletics, this book straddles the broad spectrum of sport as Byrne renews acquaintances with many of the personalities and ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III

    Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family

    by Peter Byrne ...
    Peter Byrne tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982), whose "many worlds" theory of multiple universes has had a profound impact on physics and philosophy. Using Everett's unpublished papers (recently discovered in his son's basement) and dozens of interviews with his friends, colleagues, and surviving family members, Byrne paints, for the general reader, a detailed portrait of the genius ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Natural Religion and the Nature of Religion

    The Legacy of Deism

    by Peter Byrne ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Philosophy of Religion
    This study offers students of religion and philosophy introductory chapters concerning the concept of natural religion. It holds that we can’t engage in useful discussion about the present concept of religion without a knowledge of the philosophical history that has shaped that concept. This is discussed with reference to the notion of natural religion to illustrate certain aspects of deism and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Companion Encyclopedia of Theology

    Edited by Peter Byrne, Leslie Houlden, Rev Prof Leslie Houlden ...
    Series series Routledge Companion Encyclopedias
    The Companion Encyclopedia of Theology provides a comprehensive guide to modern theological thought. An international team of theologians and practitioners of both the Christian and Jewish faiths investigate and consider aspects of theology in 48 self-contained articles. Neither partisan and denominational, nor detached and abstract, this Companion explores the resources and applications of ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Early Intervention in Psychiatry

    EI of Nearly Everything for Better Mental Health

    Edited by Peter Byrne, Alan Rosen ...
    Early intervention (EI) is the single most important advance in mental health care in recent decades, representing a key shift in both theoretical standpoint and service delivery.Early Intervention in Psychiatry clearly describes best practice for extending this approach to all psychiatric disorders. Beginning with the rationale for EI, it informs interventions in people from all age groups across ... Read more

    $109.95 USD

  • Gone Are the Days

    Jungle Hunting for Tiger and other Game in India and Nepal 1948-1969

    by Peter Byrne ...
    Peter Byrne has led the life most of us can only dream about. After WW II he returned to Ireland, but being restless, he decided to find a job that would take him to exotic lands. Using his family's connections, he was hired as a manager on a huge Indian tea plantation in the Himalayan foothills--a posh job that came with 17 servants and a mansion. Almost immediately on arrival he was plunged into ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • God and Realism

    by Peter Byrne ...
    Series series Routledge Philosophy of Religion Series
    Peter Byrne’s study of God and realism offers a critical survey of issues surrounding the realist interpretation of theism and theology. Byrne presents a general argument for interpreting the intent of talk about God in a realist fashion and argues that judging the intent of theistic discourse should be the primary object of concern in the philosophy of religion. He considers a number of important ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Kant on God

    by Peter Byrne ...
    Series series Ashgate Studies in the History of Philosophical Theology
    Peter Byrne presents a detailed study of the role of the concept of God in Kant's Critical Philosophy. After a preliminary survey of the major interpretative disputes over the understanding of Kant on God, Byrne explores his critique of philosophical proofs of God’s existence. Examining Kant’s account of religious language, Byrne highlights both the realist and anti-realist elements contained ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • The Everett Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics

    Collected Works 1955-1980 with Commentary

    Edited by Jeffrey A. Barrett, Peter Byrne ...
    Hugh Everett III was an American physicist best known for his many-worlds interpretation of quantum mechanics, which formed the basis of his PhD thesis at Princeton University in 1957. Although counterintuitive, Everett's revolutionary formulation of quantum mechanics offers the most direct solution to the infamous quantum measurement problem--that is, how and why the singular world of our ... Read more

    $82.79 USD

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    In Denial

    The Stolen Generations and the Right

    by Robert Manne ...
    Narrated by Peter Byrne ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - Quarterly Essay

    Unabridged

    4 hours 22 min

    In this national bestseller Robert Mane attacks the right-wing campaign against the Bringing them home report that revealed how thousands of Aborigines had been taken from their parents. What was the role of Paddy McGuinness as editor of Quadrant? How reliable was the evidence that led newspaper columnists from Piers Akerman in the Sydney Daily Telegraph to Andrew Bolt in the Melbourne Herald Sun ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Macquarie

    by Grantlee Kieza ...
    Narrated by Peter Byrne ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 9 min

    Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming a harsh, foreboding penal colony into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society. He also helped shape Australia's national character. An egalitarian at heart, Macquarie saw boundless potential in Britain's refuse, and under his rule many former convicts went on to become successful administrators, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

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    Vietnam

    The Australian War

    by Paul Ham ...
    Narrated by Peter Byrne ...

    Unabridged

    31 hours 20 min

    Seen as the last 'hot' frontline of the Cold War, the ten-year struggle in the rice paddies and jungles of South Vietnam unleashed the most devastating firepower on the Vietnamese nation and visited terrible harm on civilians and soldiers. Yet the Australian forces applied tactics that were very different from those of the Americans. Guided by their commanders' experience of jungle combat, ... Read more

    $24.99 USD