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The HUNT FOR BIGFOOT is an account of one of the great mysteries of our planet. Written by a veteran researcher with more than 50 years of study, this is a factual, sensible and down to earth account of the phenomenon, from its early beginnings to the present day.

Peter Byrne's autobiography. An adventurous life that embraces WW II service in the Royal Air Force, tea planting in north India, big game hunting in southern Nepal, Yeti hunting in the high Himalaya, international professional river running, Bigfoot hunting in the Pacific NW of the US, love affairs, humor and adventure unlimited.

Peter Byrne presents a detailed study of the role of the concept of God in Kant's Critical Philosophy. After a preliminary survey of the major interpretative disputes over the understanding of Kant on God, Byrne explores his critique of philosophical proofs of God’s existence. Examining Kant’s account of religious language, Byrne highlights both the realist and anti-realist elements contained within it. The notion of the highest good is then explored, with its constituent elements - happiness and virtue, in pursuit of an assessment of how far Kant establishes that we must posit God. The precise role God plays in ethics according to Kant is then examined, along with the definition of religion as the recognition of duties as divine commands. Byrne also plots Kant’s critical re-working of the concept of grace. The book closes with a survey of the relation between the Critical Philosophy and Christianity on the one hand and deism on the other.

A FORTUNATE LIFE, Peter Byrne's autobiography, his life and adventures and love affairs and wild and near death experience, Himalayan Yeti searches, big game hunting career, Pacific NW Bigfoot research, 825 pages, 100 photographs, in color...great reading.

This book tells the story of Hugh Everett III (1930-1982) who invented a theory of multiple universes that has had a profound impact on physics and philosophy. Everett strove to bring a "rational" order to the interlacing worlds of nuclear war and physics, even as his personal world disintegrated because of his indulgent lifestyle. Using Everett's unpublished papers and dozens of interviews, the book paints a detailed portrait of a man who influenced foundational thinking in quantum mechanics by inventing a way of viewing the universe from inside (known as the universal wave function). In addition to his famous interpretation of quantum mechanics, Everett wrote one of the classic papers in game theory; invented computer algorithms that revolutionized military operations research; and did pioneering work in artificial intelligence. As a Cold Warrior, he designed systems that modelled human behaviour along rational lines, and yet he was largely oblivious to the emotional damage his irrational behaviour inflicted upon his family, lovers and business partners. But he left behind, in the papers on which this book is based, a fascinating record of his life, including correspondence with the leading scientific minds of the day, that illuminates the often bitter struggle over the interpretation of the mystery of measurement at the heart of quantum mechanics.

Autobiography of Peter Byrne. Volume Two. A life of adventure, travel, big game hunting in South East Asia with his own oprivate safari company .. seventeen years. High Himalayan Yeti expeditions; tea planter in north Bengal, five years; British Royal Air Force, Air Sea Rescue, South East Asia, World War II, 1943 to1947. Pioneer river running in the Himalaya of Nepal, China and Africa, eight years, eleven First Descents. Love affairs with many women, from a Nepalese mistress to the richest woman. Near death experiences with wild animals and killer Indian poachers. Bigfoot hunting in the Pacific North West, 15 years. Wildlife conservation work in Nepal's souther Terai jungle, 12 years. Discoverer of the largest Asian elephant of all time. Author of twenty published books, with, among others, six major US publsihers.

The story of Irish football in the twentieth century is in many respects the story of Ireland itself, a rich, compelling narrative of events, political and social, which transformed the lifestyle of people and placed the country at the centre of international focus.