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What are the fundamental mechanisms of decision making, processing speed, memory and cognitive control? How do these mechanisms differ in individuals, and how do they change as people age? What are the neural mechanisms underlying these functions? How do these functions relate to the demands of everyday, 'real life' behaviour? This volume brings...

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The most prolific international criminal court to date, the International Criminal        Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia had a broad impact on international law, human        rights, the creation of the International Criminal Court, and the rule of law in the        former Yugoslavia. In this book a group of leading experts take stock of...

The control over marble and metal resources was of major importance to the Roman Empire. Alfred Hirt's comprehensive study defines the organizational outlines and the internal structures of the mining and quarrying ventures under imperial control....

Both pain and addiction are tremendous public health problems. Practitioners of        every stripe say that they learned precious little about pain or addiction in their        training and readily admit that instruction on the interface of pain and addiction        is nonexistent. The recent problem of prescription drug abuse has only served...