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The birth of the island was in itself a geological phenomenon but the island became a biological laboratory, where scientists could investigate how organisms disperse across the ocean to islands and how plants and animals colonize barren areas like Surtsey whith its hostile habitat, sub-arctic environment and its substrate of lava, ash and pumice.

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A collection of research articles on the teaching of English in Iceland. It is the first book of it's kind and is an attempt to gather in one accessible publication the most recent research being conducted in the field of teaching and learning English as a foreign or second language in Iceland. The articles cover a wide range of studies on English language learning, pedagogy and teacher education, but their content is relevant to foreign langu...

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The Sigurdur Nordal Institute at the University of Iceland is responsible, among other things, for tuition in Icelandic at foreign universities. Student exchanges have increased greatly in recent years, not least due to the affiliation of Icelandic university-level institutions to the Nordplus and Socrates programs. Many foreign students come to Iceland to learn not Icelandic but other subjects, but unfortunately they have had little opportuni...

Some small countries have become prosperous by offering low tax rates to individuals and corporations. Can Iceland join them? Through the EEA (European Economic Area) agreement, she has access to the common European market without the political obligation

This book discusses the rise and decline of women's politics in Reykjavik between 1908 and 1922. Why did it take women so long to be elected in any numbers to national legislature? What has been the political significance of women's entry into national legislatures? By combining theories and studies on international women's movements with an empirical study on the women's lists in Reykjavik, an attempt is made to answer these questions by conn...

This volume of poems was published first in German by Rowohlt and has now been translated into three other languages and illustrated beautifully by the artist and poet Christoph Meckel. Concise and extremely visual, these poems are almost as if they are hewn into stone. The translations appear side by side and open up Hein's individual poetic world even better than many an interpretation might. The illustrations for the cover and each of the f...

The articles gathered in this volume were originally delivered as lectures at a two-day workshop on Nordic historical national accounting, jointly held by the Institute of History and the Economic Institute at the University of Iceland in Reykjavik in 2003. Nordic Historical National Accounts contains 13 articles on both the broader questions of the historical national accounting approach and case studies on economic growth and its components,...

This book contains a selection of talks given at the conference Technology in Society - Society in Technology, held 18th-19th March 2004. P¿ Sk¿lason, then rector of the University of Iceland, called for this multidisciplinary conference in order to discuss technology's role in the development of societies and the interaction of the two. Throughout, this interaction has been studied through varying approaches. Sometimes technology is studied a...

This book is divided into two parts. The first part consists of the development of theories as well as a review of the literature related to risk factors for child maltreatment. The second part presents the first study on risk factors for repeated child maltreatment in Iceland. This book is mainly for students in social work and other related disciplines in Iceland. It is also useful for child protection workers and other practitioners in Icel...

The book is, as the title indicates, written to support staff development in schools working towards inclusive education. The purpose of the material is to disseminate to teachers, parents and support services elements of successful practices of inclusive schooling in four European countries. The book is based on several case studies of successful efforts towards inclusive education in compulsory schools in these countries. The bulk of the mat...

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This book takes its title from the momentous decision of the Icelandic law-giver, Thorgeir, in AD 1000, to adopt Christianity as the island's official religion. According to tradition, this was taken as he lay "under a cloak", presumably seeking inspiration from his, pagan, deities.

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A collection of six essays dealing with statistical and modeling methodology in fisheries management. Some of the essays are principally descriptive, but others are analytical and empirical, describing estimation and modeling techniques that are more advanced that those usually employed by the public agencies charged with responsibility for formulating fisheries policy. All of the essays contained in this volume are the result of an EU-funded ...

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