Peter Byrne: 12 books
by Peter Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
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...
by Peter Byrne
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
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...
The Many Worlds of Hugh Everett III
Multiple Universes, Mutual Assured Destruction, and the Meltdown of a Nuclear Family
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2012
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 Using Everett's unpublished papers (recently discovered in his son's basement) and dozens of interviews with his friends, colleagues,...
From The Press Box
Seventy Years of Great Moments in Irish Sport
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
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...
Gone Are the Days
Jungle Hunting for Tiger and other Game in India and Nepal 1948-1969
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
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...
Viele Welten
Hugh Everett III - ein Familiendrama zwischen kaltem Krieg und Quantenphysik
Language: German
Release Date: March 24, 2012
Peter Byrne erzählt die Lebensgeschichte von Hugh Everett III (1930–1982), dessen Theorie der multiplen Universen die Physik und Philosophie entscheidend beeinflusst hat. Neben seiner berühmten Interpretation der Quantenmechanik verfasste Everett eine klassische Arbeit zur Spieltheorie, entwickelte...
Natural Religion and the Nature of Religion
The Legacy of Deism
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
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...
Green is the Colour
The Story of Irish Football
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
The story of Irish football in the twentieth century is in many respects the story of Ireland itself, a rich, compelling narrative of events, political and social, which transformed the lifestyle of people and placed the country at the centre of international focus. Starting with Ireland's first success...
Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies
Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2011
Critical Issues in Peace and Conflict Studies: Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy, edited by Thomas Maty-k, Jessica Senehi, and Sean Byrne, discusses critical issues in the emerging field of Peace and Conflict Studies, and suggests a framework for the future development of the field and the education...
With Our Eyes Open
Book a Break anthology, #2
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Fancy a trip to Pluto? Or how about a fearful drive along a stretch of country road, or a long, hot, dusty walk to Nairobi? Unless you prefer to go to church with a strange woman in green tights, her hair alive with electricity. Here you have 34 stories, each one a journey, whether planned or unexpected,...
Advances in Bioenergy
The Sustainability Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2015
The increasing deployment of bioenergy frequently raises issues regarding the use of land and raw materials, infrastructure and logistics. In light of these sometimes conflicting interests Advances in Bioenergy provides an objective and wide-ranging overview of the technology, economics and policy...
Investigation of Reactions Involving Pentacoordinate Intermediates
The Mechanism of the Wittig Reaction
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
In this thesis, the author outlines the discovery of an effect common to representative examples of all Li salt-free Wittig Reactions. The implications of such a universally applicable effect are that all such Wittig reactions occur through the same mechanism. Although the Wittig reaction was first...