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In an interdisciplinary approach this book for the first time explores frontier-related elements in «real» Las Vegas as well as its representations in literature and film. Drawing on a broad range of sources, the analysis reveals that, although Las Vegas highlights its new frontiers in the entertainment industry, the city operates within a framework that builds on Old Frontier concepts adapted to meet the needs of present-day Western experience culture. The Outer Edge of the Wave therefore suggests that the concept of the American frontier as a cultural symbol has continued to be at the very core of the success of the cultural symbol Las Vegas. Today¿s Las Vegas, with its kaleidoscopic assemblage of frontier interpretations and adaptations, thus represents a unique version of the American frontier.

The issue of maintaining a diverse gene pool in the form of crop varieties is very topical world wide. This is caused by the potential benefit of crop genetic resources for addressing future demand emanating from unforeseen agricultural problems. This volume is mainly concerned with on-farm conservation as a supplement to the other in situ and ex situ conservation options. The study aims at generating relevant information for maintaining local varieties on farmers¿ fields in Ethiopia. In order to effectively devise policies for on-farm conservation, the volume argues that an improved understanding of farmers¿ incentives, attribute preferences and opportunity costs is indispensable. These issues are extensively addressed (both theoretically and empirically) with a focus on policy that is expressed by the guiding question Given the socioeconomic set-up, what policy options are available to undertake on-farm conservation of crop diversity in Ethiopia? The study results are intended to help identify optimal policies for on-farm conservation taking sorghum, coffee, and wheat as empirical examples.

Der Band dokumentiert eine Reihe von Beiträgen der IX. Internationalen wissenschaftlichen Konferenz zur Bildungsreform und Lehrerbildung (¿vietimo reforma ir mokytoj¿ rengimas.) Das Konferenzthema des Jahres 2003 lautete: Verknüpfung der Hochschul- und Gymnasialbildung: Tradition und Wechsel im Bildungs- und Erziehungsbereich unter Berücksichtigung der Pädagogik der Schule, einschließlich der Allgemeinen Didaktik und Fachdidaktik, abgekürzt wiedergegeben «Innovation durch Bildung». Zu dieser Thematik diskutierten in Vilnius (Litauen) praktizierende Pädagogen, Wissenschaftler und Mitglieder von Bildungsorganisatoren. Behandelt wurden die wichtigsten aktuell anstehenden Fragen, so die schnellere Reformierung des Studiums und die Qualität der Ausbildung im Hinblick auf die Neuorientierung an die Anforderungen der internationalen Standards. This volume presents contributions of the IX. International scientific meeting on Educational Reform and Teacher Formation (¿vietimo reforma ir mokytoj¿ rengimas). The meeting topic of the year 2003 was: Combination of the university and high school education: Tradition and change represented in the education and education area, abbreviated under consideration of the education of the school including the general didactics and subject didactics «Innovation by Education». To this topic practicing educationalists, scientists and members of education organizers, discussed in Vilnius (Lithuania). The most important currently upcoming questions, as faster reformers of the studies and the quality of education were treated with a view to the reorientation to the requests of the international standards.

This volume comprises an edited selection of papers which were originally presented at the 9 International Conference of the History of Adult Education that was held in Leiden in September 2002. The theme of that conference and this volume addresses the key dynamics associated with the impact of globalisation upon both the historical and contemporary development of the organisation of adult learning. Following a general introduction to the key themes by the chief editor, the first section of the volume comprises a number of papers of a distinctly historical nature. The focus in this section is upon the development of organised adult learning as a major component of the European modernisation project from the Enlightenment period in the eighteenth century to the twentieth century. The second section examines contemporary developments and the emergence of new forms for the organisation of adult learning in the learning society. The emphasis here is upon those societal developments that contribute to the centrality of lifelong learning in current education and training policies. The third section comprises a number of country studies focused upon the dilemmas associated with the restructuring of national education and training policies. Issues of social inclusion and the risk of exclusion form the recurring theme of these country studies.

Global trade liberalization with regard to the readymade garments industry is a topic of highest relevance for the Bangladeshi economy and linked very strongly to its changing social structure. Garment industry actually is a very new, export-oriented sector of the Bangladesh economy. It was only some twenty years ago that this sector was fully established in Bangladesh. Today it has grown to the number eighteen exporter world-wide, employing some 1.8 million people directly, of whom most of them are women, and another 10 million indirectly. The main markets are the EU and NAFTA. The development of Bangladesh garments industry was facilitated by the different Multi Fibre Arrangements. Therefore ¿ as many other new competitors have grown over the last couple of years, namely South and East Asian including China, the ASEAN, Mexico and 24 Caribbean countries ¿ Bangladesh¿s garment industry will face a difficult period after 2004.

This book follows the protection of religious ministers in armed conflict from its roots in religious law to the present-day status of religious personnel in international humanitarian law. The details of this legal protection are discussed as well as the practice of religious ministry to troops and prisoners of war. The author provides a comparison of protection of spiritual assistance to armed forces with protection granted to civilian ministry. Considering the example of German chaplaincy, he also examines interactions of international protection with the national status of religious personnel. Finally, problematic issues as new developments in the definition of religious personnel or their role in the conflicts of the 21 century are raised and relevant recent cases identified.

Dieser Band enthält 53 Beiträge von Teilnehmern am 37. Linguistischen Kolloquium, das im September 2002 an der Universität Jena stattfand. Der Leitgedanke ist auf die Rolle insbesondere der neuen Medien im Sprachgebrauch und in der Sprachwissenschaft gerichtet. Darstellungen zum Sprachsystem bedienen sich medialer Sprachkorpora oder legen ihren Untersuchungen bestimmte mediale Repräsentationsformen von Sprache zu Grunde. This volume contains 53 contributions by participants of the 37 Linguistic Colloquium which took place at Jena University in September 2002. The contributions are focused on the role of the modern media in language use and linguistics. Research into the language system is based on media language corpora or forms of language use in the media.

The Missing Link identified by Michèle Kaiser-Cooke explains the fundamental translatability of the world. Based on Darwin¿s theory of evolution, a link is established between various human interpretations of reality, as manifested in cultures, languages and disciplines. These different constructions of reality are essentially commensurable and therefore also translatable because of the common experience of the conditio humana. The only limits to translatability, whether between cultures, languages or disciplines, are set by the limits of human communication. By clearly defining the translation paradigm, the author makes it possible to explain the commensurability of all languages within the concept of the indissoluble unity of theory and practice.