JEFFREY W. KNOPF is a professor and program chair of nonproliferation and terrorism studies at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and a senior research associate with the institute’s James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
15 Ebooks by Jean-Pierre Dupuy
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: Mark of the Sacred
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls "enlightened doomsaying, " has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this …
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€27.57
Anne I. Harrington & Jeffrey W. Knopf: Behavioral Economics and Nuclear Weapons
Recent discoveries in psychology and neuroscience have improved our understanding of why our decision making processes fail to match standard social science assumptions about rationality. As research …
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€64.99
Martina Bengert & Vittoria Borsò: Catastrophe & Spectacle
From epidemics in the 17th century and the Lisbon earthquake in 1755 to Guernica in World War II, the essays in this volume trace the development of the catastrophic imagination, relying heavily on …
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€25.00
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: Economy and the Future
<DIV>A monster stalks the earth—a sluggish, craven, dumb beast that takes fright at the slightest noise and starts at the sight of its own shadow. This monster is the market. The shadow …
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€24.78
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: Short Treatise on the Metaphysics of Tsunamis
<DIV>In 1755 the city of Lisbon was destroyed by a terrible earthquake. Almost 250 years later, an earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean unleashed a tsunami whose devastating effects were felt …
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€19.93
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: Short Treatise on the Metaphysics of Tsunamis
<DIV>In 1755 the city of Lisbon was destroyed by a terrible earthquake. Almost 250 years later, an earthquake beneath the Indian Ocean unleashed a tsunami whose devastating effects were felt …
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€21.65
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: Mechanization of the Mind
In March 1946, some of the greatest minds of the twentieth century–among them John von Neumann, Norbert Wiener, Warren Mc Culloch, and Walter Pitts–gathered at the Beekman Hotel in New York City …
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€35.00
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: Economy and the Future
<DIV>A monster stalks the earth—a sluggish, craven, dumb beast that takes fright at the slightest noise and starts at the sight of its own shadow. This monster is the market. The shadow …
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€21.67
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: Les savants croient-ils en leurs théories ?
Bousculant les frontières entre disciplines, entre philosophie et sciences, entre sciences de la nature et sciences humaines, entre sciences et techniques, les sciences cognitives représentent l’une …
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€7.09
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: Les savants croient-ils en leurs théories ?
Bousculant les frontières entre disciplines, entre philosophie et sciences, entre sciences de la nature et sciences humaines, entre sciences et techniques, les sciences cognitives représentent l’une …
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€7.13
Adauto Novaes & Jean-Pierre Dupuy: Mutações: novas configurações do mundo
Mutações coloca em discussão as transformações tecnocientíficas, as novas propostas de vida que a tecnologia vem apresentando e a derrocada de sólidos paradigmas morais, éticos e políticos. O livro …
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€4.49
Adauto Novaes: Mutações: a outra margem da política
O conjunto de textos que compõe o livro Mutações: a outra margem da política responde à fragilização das democracias atuais, cujos postos passaram a ser ocupados por meio de artifícios tecnológicos …
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€7.99
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: Retorno de Chernobyl – Diário de um homem irado
Após embarcar em missão para Chernobyl, Jean-Pierre Dupuy, cientista renomado convertido à filosofia, descobre o que está por trás deste nome tornado familiar. Lá, se depara com aquilo que ele …
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€8.99
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: The War That Must Not Occur
The possibility of a nuclear war that could destroy civilization has influenced the course of international affairs since 1945, suspended like a sword of Damocles above the heads of the world’s leade …
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€27.99
Jean-Pierre Dupuy: L”auto-organisation
Ce colloque, qui se tint en juin 1981 à Cerisy, réunit des physiciens, philosophes, biologistes et anthropologues autour d’une aspiration commune : faire émerger une pensée neuve au carrefour des sci …
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€28.82
