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How did Farage persuade Reckless and Carswell to ditch the Conservatives? Would UKIP ever do a deal with another party? How have three near-death experiences shaped Farage's politics? How does Nigel feel about controversial kippers and their high-profile gaffes? Twenty-one years after its formation as a single-policy protest party, and on the eve of what promises to be one of the closest, most exciting general elections in recent memory, the truly remarkable rise of UKIP and its charismatic leader, Nigel Farage, have caused nothing less than a tectonic shift in British politics. And the afters

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Der Autor fällt ein vernichtendes Urteil über die bisherige Wirtschaftspolitik der Regierung Gorbacev. Seiner Ansicht nach ließen sich die verantwortlichen in der UdSSR seit 1985 von utopischen Vorstellungen über Zusammenhänge und Entwicklungsmöglichkeiten der Wirtschaft der UdSSR leiten. Deutlich sichtbar wird dies in der Investitionspolitik. Mit einem gewaltigen Investitionsschub sollten zuerst die Maschinenindustrie, dann der Konsumgüter- und Sozialbereich angekurbelt werden. Tatächlich sind die Investitutionen in der UdSSR stark gestiegen. Sie bleiben jedoch ohne positive Wirkung für die Volkswirtschaft, da ihnen eine gemeinsame Zielrichtung und wirtschaftpolitische Koordination fehlen. Unzählige Projekte wurden begonnen und nicht zu Ende geführt. Gewaltige Defizite im Haushalt und Inflationsschübe sind die Folge. Die Chance, daß ausländisches Kapital für eine Stabilisierung der ökonomischen Situation sorgen könnte, setzt der Autor angesichts der insuffizienten Wirtschaftspolitik der sowjetischen Führung als äußerst gering an. (BIOst-Rsg)

How death should be measured was a subject of intense debate during the late 1960s, and one in which transplant surgeons had a particular interest. Legislation required a doctor to first pronounce 'extinct' the patients from whom 'spare parts' were sought for grafting. But transplant surgeons increasingly argued the moment of death was less important than was the moment of establishing that a patient was beyond the point of no return in dying, at which time she or he should be passed to the transplant team. This raised concerns that people identified as being a potential source of organs might not be adequately cared for in their own right. In 1968 the World Medical Association issued an international statement on death at its meeting in Sydney, Australia following a debate between delegates about how and by whom death should be assessed prior to organ removal. Soon afterwards Australian surgeons performed two of the one hundred and five heart transplants carried out around the world that year, dubbed by the New York Times to be one during which an 'international epidemic' of such grafts were carried out. This essay examines debates about death and transplanting, then analyses the pioneering Australian heart transplants, in the context of the Declaration of Sydney and continuing international discussions about whether these operations were moral and legal.

Consciously applied sustainable principles of building emerge in architecture since 1973. The cause was the oil crises. It forced a re-evaluation and an abandonment of the previous energy wasting building concepts and triggered the need to seek a new and more efficient architecture, sources of energy and materials. Years 1973 to 1982 can be described as a period of searching for more efficient building concepts, new energy sources and a radical re-assessment of traditional building technologies and energy sources. The period of utilization of alternative energy sources, mainly from solar power and from wind followed. In the 80s, the economics of the developed countries stabilized, which, to some extent, attenuated the development of ecologically conscious architecture. It ascended to the centre of interest only in the last decade of the 20th century, after the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development in Rio de Janeiro and the World Congress of the UIA in Chicago in 1993. Sustainability in architecture and construction began to acquire a significant position. Currently, projects and urban complexes implementing ecological ideas are being built while getting a significant attention from critics of architecture. After the year 2000, significant documents exalting sustainable architecture to general principles of building are being issued. Perhaps the most important document adopted at the European level is the European Directive on the Energy Performance of Buildings and the European Strategy 20-20-20.Forming thoughts about sustainability in architecture reached Slovak architectural scene with a slight delay. While in abroad first projects focusing on new sources of energy originated in late 70s of the 20th century, in our territory these thoughts came in the centre of interest only in the 90s. The period before the change of political situation in our country in 1989 can be characterized by numerous discussions and forming thoughts on reducing energy consumption of buildings and on utilizing ...