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  • Revelations
    Brian Rappert
    Revelations sets out to examine both how the making available through revealing is accomplished as well as the implications of revealing. In other words, it is concerned with how revelations are realized and what is realized through them. ...
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    70,90 €

  • Revelations
    Brian Rappert
    Revelations sets out to examine both how the making available through revealing is accomplished as well as the implications of revealing. In other words, it is concerned with how revelations are realized and what is realized through them. ...
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    254,86 €

  • Performing Deception
    Brian Rappert
    In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself. Through this novel meditation on reasoning and skill, Rappert elevates magic from the undertaking of mere trickery to an art that offers the basis for rethinking our possibili...
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    38,71 €

  • Performing Deception
    Brian Rappert
    In Performing Deception, Brian Rappert reconstructs the practice of entertainment magic by analysing it through the lens of perception, deception and learning, as he goes about studying conjuring himself. Through this novel meditation on reasoning and skill, Rappert elevates magic from the undertaking of mere trickery to an art that offers the basis for rethinking our possibili...
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    56,95 €

  • Controlling the Weapons of War
    Brian Rappert
    A fresh examination of the ethical and intellectual issues and dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry. This new study considers how governments, non-governmental organizations, academics, political commentators and others have responded to the predicaments associated with imposing classifications about the relative acceptability o...
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    42,20 €

  • How to Look Good in a War
    Brian Rappert
    This book examines the methods used to depict, defend and justify the use of state violence. While others have shown how ’truth is the first casualty of war’, this is the first to analyse exactly how pro-war narratives are constructed and normalised. Brian Rappert details the ’upside-down’ world of war in which revelation conceals, knowledge fosters uncertainty, and transparenc...
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    42,45 €

  • Biosecurity
    Brian Rappert / Chandré Gould
    The Definitions, Uses and Implications of Biosecurity; B.Rappert PART I: BIOSECURITY IN THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA The Pre-History of Biosecurity: Strategies of Managing Risks to Collective Health; F.Lentzos The Rise of Biosecurity in International Arms Control; J.Revill& M.Dando Science of Mass Destruction: How Biosecurity Became an Issue for Academies of Science; K.van der Brugg...
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    132,68 €

  • Experimental Secrets
    Brian Rappert
    This book addresses an unsettling question asked in recent years about the revolutionary potential of modern biotechnology: might the knowledge being gained be used to further-rather than prevent-the spread of disease? The conventions of statecraft, science, and social research are examined to convey to readers what is at stake. ...
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    63,47 €

  • Technology and Security
    Brian Rappert
    This book takes forward the existing state of academic understanding where security and technology intersect. It assesses the challenges posed by emerging scientific and technological developments for security while understanding how perceptions of security threats are themselves formed in relation to conceptions of science and technology. ...
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    48,11 €

  • Technology and Security
    Brian Rappert
    The relationship between science, technology and the security has been a topic of longstanding concern, one given renewed salience since September 11th 2001. The pace and breadth of scientific and technological developments are often seen as challenging the viability of systems of governance. ’Technology’ in its broadest sense factors into most security problems and proposed so...
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    65,17 €

  • Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits
    Brian Rappert
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    65,31 €

  • Technology and Security
    Brian Rappert
    This book takes forward the existing state of academic understanding where security and technology intersect. It assesses the challenges posed by emerging scientific and technological developments for security while understanding how perceptions of security threats are themselves formed in relation to conceptions of science and technology. ...
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    66,55 €

  • Controlling the Weapons of War
    Brian Rappert
    This book examines the ethical and intellectual issues and political dilemmas associated with attempts to establish formal humanitarian limits on weaponry. ...
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    76,01 €