Skip to main content
Search Button
Canada Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


Showing 1 - 12 of 21 results for “john horgan”
Skip side bar filters

  • John Horgan

    In His Own Words

    by John Horgan ...
    This candid, unvarnished memoir of British Columbia’s most popular premier reveals a legacy of enduring value to Canadian politics and culture.The public outpouring of emotion at the time of John Horgan’s death in 2024 surprised few who had come to know him well. The tributes to BC’s most popular premier reflected a man whose multifaceted character won admiration that deepened over time—someone ... Read more

    $21.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Rational Mysticism

    Spirituality Meets Science in the Search for Enlightenment

    by John Horgan ...
    The author of The End of Science chronicles the most advanced research into such experiences as prayer, fasting, and trances in this "great read" ( The Washington Post).How do trances, visions, prayer, satori, and other mystical experiences "work"? What induces and defines them? Is there a scientific explanation for religious mysteries and transcendent meditation? John Horgan investigates a wide ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End Of Science

    Facing The Limits Of Knowledge In The Twilight Of The Scientific Age

    by John Horgan ...
    As staff writer for Scientific American, John Horgan has a window on contemporary science unsurpassed in all the world. Who else routinely interviews the likes of Lynn Margulis, Roger Penrose, Francis Crick, Richard Dawkins, Freeman Dyson, Murray Gell-Mann, Stephen Jay Gould, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Kuhn, Chris Langton, Karl Popper, Stephen Weinberg, and E.O. Wilson, with the freedom to probe ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Terrorist Minds

    The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right

    by John Horgan ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
    Runner-up, 2025 Airey Neave Memorial Book Prize, Airey Neave TrustWhat makes a person want to become a terrorist? Who becomes involved in terrorism, and why? In what ways does participating in violent extremism change someone? And how can people become deradicalized?John Horgan—one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of terrorism—takes readers on a globe-spanning journey into the ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Sean Lemass: The Enigmatic Patriot

    The Definitive Biography of Ireland's Great Modernising Taoiseach

    by John Horgan ...
    The definitive biography of Seán Lemass, the finest Taoiseach in the history of the Irish StateThere are few facets of Irish life which do not owe something to the genius, effectiveness or determination of Lemass. Horgan's biography explores that contribution quite brilliantly.Bertie Ahern, The Irish TimesAs a boy Seán Lemass fought in the 1916 rising. He was a member of de Valera's first cabinet, ... Read more

    $9.29 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The End of War

    by John Horgan ...
    War is a fact of human nature. As long as we exist, it exists. That's how the argument goes. But longtime Scientific American writer John Horgan disagrees. Applying the scientific method to war leads Horgan to a radical conclusion: biologically speaking, we are just as likely to be peaceful as violent. War is not preordained, and furthermore, it should be thought of as a solvable, scientific ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Terrorists's behavior

    by John Horgan ...
    Terrorism is first and foremost about psychological warfare. One of their main concerns is to project strength and power that far exceeds what they are capable of in reality. They come out of the shadows, strike, and then disappear again. They rely on these tactics because otherwise they would probably be destroyed, but also because it allows them to appear stronger and more powerful than they ... Read more

    $1.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Divided We Stand

    The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland's Dissident Terrorists

    by John Horgan ...
    Terrorism has returned to the streets of Northern Ireland. In the years after the 1998 Real IRA bombing of Omagh, which killed 29 people, violent dissident Republican groups have re-emerged as a major security threat to a region that has been denied peace, stability, and prosperity for too long. Those responsible have many names. They are breakaways, splinter factions, spoilers, and "residual" ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Divided We Stand

    The Strategy and Psychology of Ireland's Dissident Terrorists

    by John Horgan ...
    Terrorism has returned to the streets of Northern Ireland. In the years after the 1998 Real IRA bombing of Omagh, which killed 29 people, violent dissident Republican groups have re-emerged as a major security threat to a region that has been denied peace, stability, and prosperity for too long. Those responsible have many names. They are breakaways, splinter factions, spoilers, and "residual" ... Read more

    $35.19 CAD

  • Pay Attention

    Sex, Death, and Science

    by John Horgan ...
    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 ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Terrorist Minds

    The Psychology of Violent Extremism from Al-Qaeda to the Far Right

    by John Horgan ...
    Series series Columbia Studies in Terrorism and Irregular Warfare
    Runner-up, 2025 Airey Neave Memorial Book Prize, Airey Neave TrustWhat makes a person want to become a terrorist? Who becomes involved in terrorism, and why? In what ways does participating in violent extremism change someone? And how can people become deradicalized?John Horgan—one of the world’s leading experts on the psychology of terrorism—takes readers on a globe-spanning journey into the ... Read more

    $31.19 CAD

  • Irish Media

    A Critical History since 1922

    by John Horgan ...
    Irish Media: A Critical History maps the landscape of media in Ireland from the foundation of the modern state in 1922 to the present. Covering all principal media forms, print and electronic, in the Republic and in Northern Ireland, John Horgan shows how Irish history and politics have shaped the media of Ireland and, in turn, have been shaped by them.Beginning in a country ravaged by civil war, ... Read more

    $81.06 CAD