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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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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 €

  • 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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    59,86 €

  • 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
    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 €