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Author: Michael J. Apter Publisher: ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 248
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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: Michael J. Apter Publisher: ISBN: Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 248
Book Description
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: Judith Adamson Publisher: Springer ISBN: 1349207705 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 225
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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: John Brockman Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 0061844802 Category : Comics & Graphic Novels Languages : en Pages : 349
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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
Author: Andrew Todhunter Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 030783199X Category : Sports & Recreation Languages : en Pages : 193
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In this elegant and exciting collection Andrew Todhunter, himself an extreme sportsman and the author of the critically acclaimed Fall of the Phantom Lord, takes readers along as men and women push themselves to their limits in the world’s riskiest sports. In several of these essays Todhunter writes from personal experience, joining his subjects as they free fall from cliffs, wriggle through narrow underground crevices, and dive deep beneath the ice of a frozen lake. In these adrenaline-laced accounts of extreme sportsmanship, Todhunter captures not only the thrill of conquest but the deep pleasure of being someplace few others have gone as well.
Author: Robert Daley Publisher: Grand Central Pub ISBN: 9780446602785 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 470
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Investigating the looting of the Nice bank in the 1954 French Riviera, a detective is baffled by the skill that went into the robbery and is drawn into a complicated web of mobsters, petty players, a corrupt millionaire, the CIA, and a woman. Reprint. NYT.
Author: Irene Hannon Publisher: Revell ISBN: 1493411012 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 379
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Trish Bailey is on overload trying to deal with a demanding job, an ailing mother, and a healing heart. When a series of unsettling memory lapses leads to a tragic death--and puts Trish under police scrutiny--her world is once again thrown into turmoil. Detective Colin Flynn isn't certain what to think of the facts he uncovers during his investigation. Did Trish simply make a terrible mistake or is there more to the case than meets the eye? As he searches for answers, disturbing information begins to emerge--and if the forces at work are as evil as he suspects, the situation isn't just dangerous . . . it's deadly. Bestselling and award-winning author Irene Hannon captures readers with a mind-bending story that will have them doubling back to retrace their steps--and figure out what they missed!
Author: Michael J. Apter
Author: Michael J. Apter
Author: Judith Adamson
Author: John Brockman
Author: Tim O'Shei
Author: Tim O'Shei
Author: Christopher Priest
Author: Andrew Todhunter
Author: Robert Daley
Author: Tim O'Shei
Author: Irene Hannon