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Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Controversial knowledge
After in-depth research of the circumstances of that fateful night,
investigative writer and former journalist Noel Botham finally
reveals what he alleges to be the truth - Princess Diana fell
victim to a ruthlessly executed assassination. Twenty years later,
the tragedy still shapes Britain as we know it today. How could the
Establishment betray the trust of a whole nation? How was the
killing executed? Was there really another car in the tunnel at the
time of the crash? Reporting from the innermost sanctums of British
intelligence and royalty, Botham reveals shocking answers to what
he claims is one of the UK's most successfully kept secrets. As
Botham affirms, The Murder of Princess Diana firmly lays to rest
the outdated theory that Diana's death was a mere accident, and
finally gives the people of Britain the explanation they deserve.
Using examples from different historical contexts, this book
examines the relationship between class, nationalism, modernity and
the agrarian myth. Essentializing rural identity, traditional
culture and quotidian resistance, both aristocratic/plebeian and
pastoral/Darwinian forms of agrarian myth discourse inform
struggles waged 'from above' and 'from below', surfacing in peasant
movements, film and travel writing. Film depictions of royalty,
landowner and colonizer as disempowered, 'ordinary' or
well-disposed towards 'those below', whose interests they share,
underwrite populism and nationalism. Although these ideologies
replaced the cosmopolitanism of the Grand Tour, twentieth century
travel literature continued to reflect a fear of vanishing rural
'otherness' abroad, combined with the arrival there of the mass
tourist, the plebeian from home.
Modern Conspiracy attempts to sketch a new conception of conspiracy
theory. Where many commentators have sought to characterize
conspiracy theory in terms of the collapse of objectivity and
Enlightenment reason, Fleming and Jane trace the important role of
conspiracy in the formation of the modern world: the scientific
revolution, social contract theory, political sovereignty,
religious paranoia and mass communication media. Rather than see in
conspiratorial thinking the imminent death of Enlightenment reason,
and a regression to a new Dark Age, Modern Conspiracy contends that
many characteristic features of conspiracies tap very deeply into
the history of the Enlightenment itself: among other things, its
vociferous critique of established authorities, and a conception of
political sovereignty fuelled by fear of counter-plots. Drawing out
the roots of modern conspiratorial thinking leads us to truths less
salacious and scandalous than the claims of conspiracy theorists
themselves yet ultimately far more salutary: about mass
communication; about individual and crowd psychology; and about our
conception of and relation to knowledge.Perhaps, ultimately, what
conspiracy theory affords us is a renewed opportunity to reflect on
our very relationship to the truth itself.
Mind Synergy is about you. It is about how you lost your mind and
how with my help you're going to get it back. If you think I am
talking science fiction. Fine, but first ask yourself this; "Why do
I always doubt myself?" "Why am I stressed out?" "Why don't I have
the confidence to realise my goals?" And "Why oh why am I not happy
or at least happier?" Believe it or not your mind has the same
anatomy as Einstein or any other genius for that matter, the only
difference between you and them is that they found the way to use
their mind effectively and efficiently. Mind synergy shows you how
to silence the negative voices and how to get your mind to work in
sync with you and for you. What would your life be like if you
could use your mind to its full genius potential and you were
confident and happy? The answer is inside...
New Lands was the second nonfiction book of the author Charles
Fort, written in 1925. It deals primarily with astronomical
anomalies. Fort expands in this book on his theory about the
Super-Sargasso Sea - a place where earthly things supposedly
materialize in order to rain down on Earth - as well as developing
an idea that there are continents above the skies of Earth. As
evidence, he cites a number of anomalous phenomena, including
strange "mirages" of land masses, groups of people, and animals in
the skies. He also continues his attacks on scientific dogma,
citing a number of mysterious stars and planets that scientists
failed to account for.
Conspiracy theories are a ubiquitous feature of our times. The
Handbook of Conspiracy Theories and Contemporary Religion is the
first reference work to offer a comprehensive, transnational
overview of this phenomenon along with in-depth discussions of how
conspiracy theories relate to religion(s). Bringing together
experts from a wide range of disciplines, from psychology and
philosophy to political science and the history of religions, the
book sets the standard for the interdisciplinary study of religion
and conspiracy theories.
Does our universe exist inside of a computer? Have the strange
phenomena of quantum physics finally been explained? Not IMPOSSIBLE
demonstrates that the surprising answer may be Yes But the material
world is real we insist, knocking on wood. How can this all be just
information inside of a computer? Surely that's impossible Climb
aboard as computer science and AI researcher, G. Wells Hanson,
takes us on the seemingly impossible journey from our universe,
into the depths of a computerized universe. As you ride, your
fingers are pried loose from your current ideas of reality. Watch
as your material world slowly begins to fade. You will travel
through the machinery of the worlds of human thinking, quantum
reality, the brain, and the mind. Finally, you enter a universe
programmed within a computer, where the strange phenomena that
appear there provides an explanation for the mysterious quantum
physics that has puzzled humankind for a century. Shaun Holmes, MA,
and high school math teacher, describes the book as ...an
intellectual thrill-ride that takes us from our everyday world, to
a place where I question my very existence...and there's no going
back
Mysterious lights in the sky. Alien abductions. Government
cover-ups. Dedicated ufologists have spent years documenting
unexplained phenomena from flying saucers to extraterrestrial life.
Uncover the history of UFOs in this illustrated guide, which
separates the science fiction from the facts. The mysterious
history of flying saucers is explored in-depth, from potential
alien visitors as far back as Stonehenge to UFO cults and the
secrets of Area 51. Adam Allsuch Boardman details in his signature
graphic style the aircraft and artefacts associated with the search
for the truth about UFOs.
The Secrets of Life series is written for everyone who, frankly,
needs a spot of cheering up, and will provide conversation starters
for years after reading! O'Connor's easy-going, conversational
style brings an outsider's questioning eye to the great forces
behind life. The second book in the four-part series debates the
steps that led to us being so completely different to anything that
had ever appeared before. If we really were just another kind of
animal off the production line of life, then what were the
revolutions that turbo-charged our abilities? How is it possible
that we only arrived a fluttering of an eyelash ago compared to
evolutionary time, yet we are now so completely dominant over
everything else in life? Book Two also sets out to answer the
questions around what we did that meant we could alter ourselves in
an instant, and so avoid being stuck in an evolutionary niche like
every other organism. Why, for example, was it such a huge step
forward when we began to run? Why was the taming of fire arguably
the most important thing we ever did? How did we manage to create
the intelligence and insights that allowed us to make our own life
decisions? Why was gossiping so critical? With the same writing
approach that typified Book One, in How Did We Get To Be So
Different? O'Connor sets out to answer these and other questions by
summarising the views of the great biologists, anthropologists, and
revolutionary theorists - and then adding some opinions of his
own.. Example questions posed (and answered) in Book Two - How Did
We Get To Be So Different? If we have a degree of control over our
lives, then why were our rulers always so horrible- and why did we
put up with them? Why do we copy each other so much, and yet we'd
accept that others could be so unbelievably violent? How did fire
make us so different? Where did the free will come from that let us
override the drives of our animal pasts - something that no other
organism had ever managed before in the long history of evolution?
How did we develop language? Why was gossip so critical? How did
printing and reading completely change our world?
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