Hugh Breakey

You are about to forget everything - including your own identity. Who will you trust to tell you who you are?

The Beautiful Fall

Zwei Menschen. Eine Liebesgeschichte. Zwölf Tage, bevor das Vergessen einsetzt – diese Love-Story wird Ihnen nicht mehr aus dem Kopf gehen! Alle 179 Tage verliert Robert Penfold sein Gedächtnis. Robert weiß das, weil ihm sein altes Ich vor dem letzten Vergessen einen Brief zurückgelassen hat. Um seine wiederkehrende Amnesie in den Griff zu bekommen, führt Robert deshalb ein zurückgezogenes, streng geordnetes Leben. Das Haus zu verlassen und sich nicht mehr zu erinnern, wo – geschweige denn wer – man ist, wäre zu gefährlich! Doch zwölf Tage vor dem nächsten Vergessen stolpert Julie vor seine Tür: Clever. Cool. Chaotisch. Und genau das, was Robert gerade nicht brauchen kann. Aber Julie hat ihre ganz eigenen Pläne und Geheimnisse. Ohne recht zu verstehen, wie ihm geschieht, bringt sie Roberts Welt ins Schwanken und zeigt ihm, dass es manchmal besser ist, auf sein Herz zu hören – vor allem dann, wenn man sich nicht auf seinen Verstand verlassen kann! »Ein wunderbarer Roman – bewegend, intelligent und unterhaltsam!« Graeme Simsion

Roman

The Beautiful Fall - Die vollkommen irritierende Kettenreaktion der Liebe

Peut-on oublier sa plus grande histoire d'amour ? Tous les 179 jours, Robbie oublie tout. Il le sait parce que la dernière fois que c'est arrivé, il s'est écrit une lettre pour se l'expliquer. La désorientation. La peur. Les circonstances bizarres imposées par la maladie neurologique rare qui l'affecte. Pour survivre à l'amnésie et faire face à sa perte récurrente d'identité, Robbie mène une existence solitaire et disciplinée. Il ne parle à personne sauf en cas d'extrême nécessité. Et soudain, douze jours avant un de ces retours à la case départ, Julie débarque dans sa vie. Jeune, belle, elle est la seule femme qu'il ait jamais eu la chance de rencontrer. Un charme inattendu opère entre eux. Déstabilisé, Robbie se met à éprouver des sentiments qui lui étaient inconnus jusqu'alors... ou du moins le croit-il. Plus belle sera la chute, ou le conte drolatique de deux amoureux embarqués dans une course folle contre le temps.

Plus belle sera la chute

Joan Breakey

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Tolerating Troublesome Foods

Charles Sampford

Once a highly cosmopolitan profession, law was largely domesticated by the demands of the Westphalian state. But as the walls between sovereign states are lowered, law is globalizing in a way that is likely to change law, lawyering and legal education as much over the next 30 years – when the students entering law schools today reach the peak of their profession – as it has over the last 300. This book provides a sustained investigation of the theoretical and practical aspects of legal practice and education, synthesizing and developing nearly thirty years of Professor Sampford’s critical thought, analysis and academic leadership. The book features two major areas of investigation. First, it explains the significance of the ‘critical’, ‘theoretical’ and ‘ethical’ dimensions of legal education and legal practice in making more effective practitioners – placing ethics and values at the heart of the profession. Second, it explores the old/new challenges and opportunities for ethical lawyers. Challenges include those for lawyers working in large organisations dealing with issues from international tax minimisation to advising governments bent on war. Opportunities range from the capacity to give client’s ethical advice to playing a key role in the emergence of an international rule of law as they had to the ‘domestic’ rule of law. The book should stimulate great interest and occasional passion for legal practitioners, students, teachers and researchers of law, lawyering, legal practice and legal institutions. Its inter-disciplinary approaches should be of interest to those with interests in education theory, international relations, political science and government, professional ethics, sociology, public policy and governance studies.

Building an Ethical Profession in a Globalizing World

Law, Lawyering and Legal Education

Vesselin Popovski

Rowena Maguire

This book investigates the ways ethical values impact on where and how the global carbon integrity system works, where it fails, and how it can be improved. With a wide array of perspectives across many disciplines, the chapters explore the positive values driving the global climate change processes and offer an understanding of the motivations justifying the creation of the regime and the way that social norms impact upon the operation of the integrity system. The collection focuses on the nexus between ideal ethics and real-world implementation through institutions and laws.

Ethical Values and the Global Climate Integrity System

This book investigates the ethical values that inform the global carbon integrity system, and reflects on alternative norms that could or should do so. The global carbon integrity system comprises the emerging international architecture being built to respond to the climate change. This architecture can be understood as an 'integrity system'- an inter-related set of institutions, governance arrangements, regulations and practices that work to ensure the system performs its role faithfully and effectively. This volume investigates the ways ethical values impact on where and how the integrity system works, where it fails, and how it can be improved. With a wide array of perspectives across many disciplines, including ethicists, philosophers, lawyers, governance experts and political theorists, the chapters seek to explore the positive values driving the global climate change processes, to offer an understanding of the motivations justifying the creation of the regime and the way that social norms impact upon the operation of the integrity system. The collection focuses on the nexus between ideal ethics and real-world implementation through institutions and laws. The book will be of interest to policy makers, climate change experts, carbon taxation regulators, academics, legal practitioners and researchers.

Ethical Values and the Integrity of the Climate Change Regime

No natural rights theory justifies strong intellectual property rights. More specifically, no theory within the entire domain of natural rights thinking - encompassing classical liberalism, libertarianism and left-libertarianism, in all their innumerable variants - coherently supports strengthening current intellectual property rights. Despite their many important differences, all these natural rights theories endorse some set of members of a common family of basic ethical precepts. These commitments include non-interference, fairness, non-worsening, consistency, universalisability, prior consent, self-ownership, self-governance, and the establishment of zones of autonomy. Such commitments have clear applications pertaining to the use and ownership of created ideas. I argue that each of these commitments require intellectual property rights to be substantially limited in scope, strength and duration. In this way the core mechanisms of natural rights thinking ensure a robust public domain and categorically rule out strong intellectual property rights.

Natural Intellectual Property Rights and the Public Domain

Policy Guide to the Responsibility to Protect and the Protection of Civilians in Armed Conflicts

Enhancing Protection Capacity

Considering the steady increase in intellectual property rights in the last century, does it make sense to speak of ’user’s rights’ and can limitations on intellectual liberty be justified from a rights-based perspective? This book philosophically defends the importance of the public domain and user’s rights through the use of natural-rights thought. Utilizing primarily the work of John Locke, it contends that considerations of natural justice and human freedom impose powerful constraints on the proper reach and substance of intellectual property rights, especially copyright. It investigates both the internal and external natural-rights constraints on intellectual property, and argues in particular for the importance to human freedom of the right to intellectual liberty - the right to inform one’s actions by learning about the world. It concludes that respect for fundamental freedom-based interests require a balanced approach to the scope, strength and duration of intellectual property rights.

Natural Rights and Intellectual Property

Intellectual Liberty

What is the social licence to operate, and what are its ethical risks and promises? This collection explores these questions from a range of perspectives.

Social Licence and Ethical Practice

Michael Schwartz

Howard Harris

Charmayne Highfield

In this volume experienced educators discuss the task of teaching ethics to professionals, managers and others who are practically-minded; and expert contributors explore the nature of ethical survival in contemporary society and the range of organizations it encompasses.

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