The Minority Game, invented in the late 1990s, makes it possible to understand stock market fluctuations in terms of information ecology between traders. With a minimal set of ingredients & drastic assumptions, this model reproduces market ecology among different types of traders. Its emphasis is on speculative trading & information flow. ...

Focusing on the Gaelic community in Scotland & the Sorbs of Lusatia, this study examines assumptions & rationales in relation to minority language revitalisation ideologies in Scotland & Germany & shows how they have been affected by assimilation processes arising from globalisation. ...

As part of a common cultural heritage minority languages in Europe need protection. The contributions to this book reflect urgent, stimulating & productive debates among researchers in sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, politics & sociology, & among language activists & policy makers. ...

Providing an innovative approach to the written displays of minority languages in public space this volume explores minority language situations through the lens of linguistic landscape research. Based on very tangible data it explores the 'same old issues' of language contact & language conflict in new ways. ...

The book outlines the evolution & role of minority languages locally & nationally; it investigates current educational language policies in minority areas; & it assesses the social & economic outcomes of language change for communities in contemporary China. ...

Tom Cruise stars as a cop pursued by his own colleagues in this Steven Spielberg-directed adaptation of the short story by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick (' Blade Runner', ' Total Recall'). John Anderton (Cruise) works for the Pre-Crime Division of the Washington DC police force, a special unit which acts on information obtained from mutants with pre-cognitive abilities in order to prevent murders before they have been committed. When the mutants have visions of a murder carried out by Anderton himself, the cop goes on the run & attempts to prove his own future-innocence. But no matter how hard he tries, Anderton cannot stay hidden from the city's advanced surveillance systems for long. ...

Tom Cruise stars as a cop pursued by his own colleagues in this Steven Spielberg-directed adaptation of the short story by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick (' Blade Runner', ' Total Recall'). John Anderton (Cruise) works for the Pre-Crime Division of the Washington DC police force, a special unit which acts on information obtained from mutants with pre-cognitive abilities in order to prevent murders before they have been committed. When the mutants have visions of a murder carried out by Anderton himself, the cop goes on the run & attempts to prove his own future-innocence. But no matter how hard he tries, Anderton cannot stay hidden from the city's advanced surveillance systems for long. ...

Tom Cruise stars as a cop pursued by his own colleagues in this Steven Spielberg-directed adaptation of the short story by sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick (' Blade Runner', ' Total Recall'). John Anderton (Cruise) works for the Pre-Crime Division of the Washington DC police force, a special unit which acts on information obtained from mutants with pre-cognitive abilities in order to prevent murders before they have been committed. When the mutants have visions of a murder carried out by Anderton himself, the cop goes on the run & attempts to prove his own future-innocence. But no matter how hard he tries, Anderton cannot stay hidden from the city's advanced surveillance systems for long. ...