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Silence and Denial in Everyday LifeThe fable of the Emperor&'s New Clothes is a classic example of a conspiracy of silence, a situation where everyone refuses to acknowledge an obvious truth. But the denial of social realities--whether incest, alcoholism, corruption, or even genocide-is no fairy tale.   In The Elephant in the Room, Eviatar...

The Function of Law in the International Community, first published in 1933, is one of the seminal works on international law. Its author, Sir Hersch Lauterpacht, is widely considered to be one of the great international lawyers of the 20th century. It continues to influence those studying and working in international law today. This republication...

A Critique of Analytic PhilosophyPeter Unger&'s provocative new book poses a serious challenge to contemporary analytic philosophy, arguing that to its detriment it focuses the predominance of its energy on "e;empty ideas."e;  In the mid-twentieth century, philosophers generally agreed that, by contrast with science, philosophy should offer...

This pocketbook addresses the key management points and summarises the properties of the stents and the clinical pharmacology of the antithrombotic agents to be used in patients committed to long-term oral anticoagulation....

An Unfinished StoryTibet&'s enduring myth, animated by the tales of Himalayan adventurers, British military expeditions, and the novel, Lost Horizon, remains an inspirational fantasy, a modern morality play about the failure of brutality to subdue the human spirit. Tibet also exercises immense "e;soft power"e; as one of the lenses through...

XXII/2In recent years the impact of human rights and fundamental rights on private law has risen in prominence and led to a whole series of detailed investigations. &'Constitutionalization of private law&' is the flag under which most of the research on the increasing impact of national constitutional rights on national private legal orders is...