The most up-to-date analysis of today's immigration issues. As the authors state in Chapter 1, "the movement of people across national borders represents one of the most vivid dramas of social reality in the contemporary world." This comparative text examines contemporary immigration across the glob[...]

The president of New York University offers a love letter to America's most beloved sport and a tribute to its underlying spirituality.
For more than a decade, John Sexton has taught a wildly popular New York University course about two seemingly very different things: religion and baseball. Ye[...]

This volume critically explores the state of religious and civic life and politics on the margins of state spaces by analysing the themes of borders, education, and religions in northern Europe. It suggests that the formation of religious and civic identity through education is not becoming less par[...]

'A bitter fool' King Lear The lobby of a grand hotel, New Year's Eve. A snow storm rages. Minetti, a long-forgotten actor, arrives in great spirits to discuss his comeback as King Lear with a theatre director. While he waits patiently in the hotel lobby, Minetti's obsessive personality reveals itse[...]

As World War II entered its later stages and Germany was forced increasingly onto the defensive, the need for fast-moving mobile forces lessened and the Wehrmacht required better protected and more powerfully armed tanks. After debacles against the T-34, Hitler and the Panzerwaffe were determined no[...]

Complete summary of Peter Killing, Thomas Malnight and Tracey Keys' book: "e;Must-Win Battles: How to Win Them, Again and Again"e;.This summary of the ideas from Peter Killing, Thomas Malnight and Tracey Keys' book "e;Must-Win Battles"e; shows that there are three to five key battles[...]

Diese Studie untersucht systematisch die politische Dimension der Dramen von Thomas Bernhard und Peter Handke. Obgleich beide Autoren als Provokateure und Skandal-Inszenatoren gelten, deren offentliche Auftritte wie Werke heftige Debatten auslosten, fehlt bisher eine umfassende wissenschaftliche Aus[...]

(Eulenberg Audio plus Score). Includes a detailed preface and a companion CD with a performance by the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland conducted by Gerhard Markson.[...]