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Over the past decade, the percentage of elective surgical procedures performed on a day case basis has increased from 55% to over 70%. The current interest and focus on day surgery is a result of public demand and government-imposed targets. This concise handbook provides the practising day surgery professional with a modern overview of current...

Morals from Motives develops a virtue ethics inspired more by Hume and Hutcheson's moral sentimentalism than by recently-influential Aristotelianism. It argues that a reconfigured and expanded "e;morality of caring"e; can offer a general account of right and wrong action as well as social justice. Expanding the frontiers of ethics, it...

Countermeasures against Wrongful SanctionsIn the last few years, the Security Council has imposed highly controversial sanctions on both individuals and States, some of which can be considered to violate international law. This book argues that the law of international responsibility allows States to disobey these obligations when they would result...

The long story of Greek terrorism was meant to have ended in the summer of 2002 with the collapse of the country&'s premier terrorist organisation and one of Europe&'s longest-running gangs, the notorious 17 November group (17N). However, rather than demoralising and emasculating the country&'s armed struggle movement, the dismantling of 17N and...

Much of our behavior is guided by our understanding of events. We perceive events when we observe the world unfolding around us, participate in events when we act on the world, simulate events that we hear or read about, and use our knowledge of events to solve problems. In this book, Gabriel A. Radvansky and Jeffrey M. Zacks provide the first...

This is the only book that MCEM candidates will need to pass the MCEM Part B exam. This revision guide is framed around the most recent CEM syllabus, focusing on all the components of the exam. Each section of the book is tailored to match different elements of the syllabus, allowing candidates to revise efficiently and comprehensively.  This...