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The London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA) Rules are among the most modern and forward-looking of the various institutional arbitration rules. This is the first full length and comprehensive commentary on these rules, written by two well-known and experienced arbitration practitioners. Portable and functional, this book acts as a guide...

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This book discusses deep problems about our place in the world with a minimum of jargon. It argues that 'absolutist' ideas dating back to Plato continue to mislead generations of mathematicians, physicists and theologians, and reveals the underlying reasons for the current conflicts between science and religion....

The book is a popular discussion of different kinds of illusion from the perspectives of philosophy, cognitive science, and Buddhist thought. The book discusses examples of illusion (magical tricks, dreams, rainbows, reflections in a mirror) by following a famous Tibetan list of `twelve examples of illusion' from an 18th-century Buddhist...

BaAka Musical Life and the Ethnography of PerformanceBased on ethnographic research that author Kisliuk conducted from 1986 through 1995, this book describes BaAka songs, drum rhythms, and dance movements--and their immediate, interactive contexts--in an elegantly written narrative illustrated with many photographs, musical illustrations, and field...