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Drawing on groundbreaking personal interviews as well as decades of research from psychologists and others, John Horgan traces the pathways that lead people into violent extremism and explores what happens to them as their involvement deepens.

A day in the inner and outer lives of a college professor, blogger, divorced father, thinker, and yearner. What would it feel like to wake up inside the head of someone who writes about science for a living? John Horgan, acclaimed author of the bestseller The End of Science, answers that question in his genre-bending new book Pay Attention, a stream-of-consciousness account of a day in the life of his alter ego, Eamon Toole—a blogger, college professor, and divorced father. This work of fact-based fiction, or “faction,” follows Toole as he wakes up in his rented apartment in upstate New York, meditates with the mantra “Duh,” commutes via train and subway to an engineering school in New Jersey, teaches a William James essay on consciousness to freshmen, squabbles about Thomas Kuhn with colleagues over lunch, takes a ferry to Manhattan and spends the evening with his bossy, Tarot-reading girlfriend, Emily, on whom he plans to spring a big question. Throughout the day, Toole struggles to be rational while buffeted by fears and yearnings. Thoughts of sex and death keep intruding on his ruminations over quantum spookiness, the neural code, the Singularity and free will. Pay Attention is a profane, profound meditation on the entanglements of our inner and outer worlds and the elusiveness of truth.

In addition to its vast array of Metre Gauge systems, France also boasted a large number of smaller gauge railways. The majority of these were used for agricultural and industrial purposes, many employing the legacy of WW1 for their motive power and rolling stock. The few survivors have been adapted to a new role as tourist attractions, these short lines providing a lasting memory of their former glory. Includes 120 photographs (FULL COLOUR), large scale maps, and other details of local history.

France was once dissected by a huge eclectic array of Metre Gauge Railways. Only a few examples remain, some of which are only relatively short sections of the former systems. These are now largely attuned to the tourist industry. However these survivors do amply portray the lines of yesteryear, as they traverse the beautiful and contrasting French countryside. Includes 120 photographs (FULL COLOUR), large scale maps, and other details of local history.

A reissue of the classic work by John Horgan wherein he makes the powerful case that science is ending

Alongside its world-famous tradition of great fiction, Ireland has a less well known but thrilling tradition of reportage: journalism, dispatches and eyewitness accounts. This is an anthology of Irish reportage.

Despite being in operation since the latter years of the 19th century, the extensive metre gauge railways in the Harz Mountains of Germany were little known to the outside world until after the re-unification of the country in 1990. Since that time the now privatised system has become a magnet for enthusiasts worldwide, as portrayed in this volume featuring the HSB in many stunning locations. FULL COLOUR

The two Italian islands of Sardinia and Sicily were home to extensive narrow gauge systems which supplemented the standard gauge railways. Sardinia has retained most of its network, albeit that some of the more scenic lines are now only used for tourist trains. Conversely the majority of the narrow gauge lines in Sicily were closed by 1985, only one independent route around Mount Etna having survived. This album shows the scenic grandeur of both islands to good effect with a mixture of steam and diesel power at work in beautiful locations. Includes 120 photographs, large scale maps, and other details of local history.