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Popular author Steven Lubet brings his signature blend of humor, advocacy, and legal ethics to The Importance of Being Honest , an incisive analysis of how honesty and law play out in current affairs and historical events. Drawing on original work as well as op-ed pieces and articles that have appeared in the American Lawyer , the Chicago Tribune , and many other national publications, Lubet explores the complex aspects of honesty in the legal world. The Importance of Being Honest is full of tales of questionable practices and poor behavior, chosen because negative examples are much richer, and often more remarkable, in their ultimate lessons. Wyatt Earp’s shootout with Billy Clanton, Bill Clinton’s disastrous decision to lie under oath, Oscar Wilde’s self-destructive perjury in a 1896 libel trial, and the dubious resolution of Justice Scalia’s duck hunting trip with Dick Cheney are only a few of the cases Lubet use to illustrate that law is a vague and boggy realm where truth, and falsehood, is seldom absolute. With his lively, insightful, and sometimes hilarious prose, Lubet takes readers on a tour of the law in our everyday lives, and forces us to rethink how we really feel about honesty and truth.


Plays. An Ideal Husband. A Woman of No Importance / Пьесы. Идеальный муж. Женщина, не стоящая внимания Plays. An Ideal Husband. A Woman of No Importance / Пьесы. Идеальный муж. Женщина, не стоящая внимания

Автор: Оскар Уайльд

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В сборник вошли две пьесы всемирно известного драматурга, «Идеальный муж» (1894) и «Женщина, не стоящая внимания» (1893). Действие первого произведения строится на шантаже и политических интригах. Во втором сюжет разворачивается вокруг семейной тайны. Сам того не подозревая, лорд Иллингворт назначает на должность секретаря своего незаконнорожденного сына.


De l'importance des opinions religieuses De l'importance des opinions religieuses

Автор: Jacques Necker

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Примечание: О важности религиозных убеждений Полный вариант заголовка: «De l'importance des opinions religieuses / Par Necker».


A discourse concerning the being and attributes of God A discourse concerning the being and attributes of God

Автор: Samuel Clarke

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Полный вариант заголовка: «A discourse concerning the being and attributes of God, the obligations of natural religion, and the truth and certainty of the christian revelation : in answer to Mr. Hobbs, Spinoza, the author of the Oracles of reason, and other deniers of natural and revealed religion : being 16 sermons, preach'd in the Cathedral-Church of St. Paul, in the years 1704, and 1705, at the lecture founded by the Honourable Robert Boyle : in which is inserted a discourse concerning the connexion of the Prophecies in the Old Testament, and the application of them to Christ : there is alfo, an answer to a 7th letter, concerning, the argument a priori, in proof of the being of God / by Samuel Clarke».


Russia: being a complete picture of that empire Russia: being a complete picture of that empire

Автор: Charles G. Hunter

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Полный вариант заголовка: «Russia : being a complete picture of that empire : including a full description of their government, laws, religion, commerce, manners, customs &c. ; with the history of Russia, civil, military, and ecclesiastical from the earliest period to the present time ; containing ample memorials of the reign of the illustrious emperor Alexander I / by C. G. Hunter».


Human Being Theory. For Dummies Human Being Theory. For Dummies

Автор: Jacob Feldman

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Time goes fast, new questions arise about human life, society, history, education, family, happiness… Old philosophy, old psychology have no instruments (concepts, methods, ideas) to answer these questions. New concepts like Levels-of-Mind model and Big-Triplet model plus minor models like Worlds-of-Life and Layers-of-Being wait you here. Use it to answers tough questions about the Time and the Life.