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Becoming Europe
Across Europe, millions of immigrants, refugees, and asylum-seekers have often had difficulties fitting into their new societies. Most analysts have laid the blame on a clash of cultures. Becoming Europe provides evidence that institutions matter more than culture in determining the shape of ethnic relations.Patrick Ireland argues that it is incorrect blithely to anticipate unavoidable conflict between Muslim immigrants and European host societies. Noting similarities in the structure of the welfare states in Germany, the Netherlands, and Belgium—as well as in their respective North African and Turkish immigrant communities—he compares national- and city-level developments to show how approaches toward immigrant settlement have diverged widely and evolved over time. Becoming Europe demonstrates how policymakers have worked hard to balance immigrants' claims to distinct traditions with demands for equal treatment. Ultimately, it reveals a picture of people learning by doing in the day-to-day activities that shape how communities come together and break apart.
Die liberale Nation
Auf Basis einer Untersuchung nationalen Empfindens in der deutschen, französischen und amerikanischen Geschichte wird eine Theorie nationaler Identität entworfen - um diese für eine vergleichende Erforschung heutigen Nationalbewusstseins in den neuen und alten Bundesländern nutzbar zu machen. Erst durch einen derartig integrativen Ansatz erschließt sich die Relevanz der Idee Nation für moderne, offene und liberale Gesellschaften. Denn er überbrückt die Kluft in der Nationsforschung zwischen historisch-theoretischem Wissen hier und empirisch-quantitativem dort. Am Beispiel Deutschlands lassen sich so die Konturen beider Gesichter des Januskopfes Nation systematisch ausleuchten: des humanistisch-liberalen wie des aggressiv-integralen. Die vernetzende Analyse fördert zutage, dass nationale Identität in der Gegenwart bedeutende Rollen spielt - und ambivalente. Diese werden im Diskurs über das Für und Wider einer "multikulturellen Gesellschaft" oft übersehen oder zu gering veranschlagt, weshalb die Debatte allzu glatte Antworten produziert auf die brisante Frage: Nation - Wohl oder Wehe?
Winning in the Chess Opening
Every chess player loves to win early in the opening. However you should never lose sight of the most important objective of your opening play: the proper development of your pawns and pieces. That is why this book is more than just an enjoyable collection of traps and tricks. Prolific Russian chess author Nikolai Kalinichenko has collected 700 brilliant miniatures, topical games from a wide variety of players, from World Champions to amateurs. They are selected for their instructional value, and not merely to highlight blunders or accidents. In his notes Kalinichenko always explains the ideas and plans behind the opening and how play could have been improved. The games are arranged by opening, so the book can be used as a manual. Playing through these exciting games is not just highly enjoyable but will also teach you how to recognize opportunities to ambush your opponent in the first 20 moves. And, reversely, how to avoid such pitfalls in the opening. With the ideas presented in this well-organized book, the adventurous player will certainly win more games, and more rapidly!
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Deutsch als Fremdsprache. 2. Halbband
This series of HANDBOOKS OF LINGUISTICS AND COMMUNICATION SCIENCE is designed to illuminate a field which not only includes general linguistics and the study of linguistics as applied to specific languages, but also covers those more recent areas which have developed from the increasing body of research into the manifold forms of communicative action and interaction.For ""classic"" linguistics there appears to be a need for a review of the state of the art which will provide a reference base for the rapid advances in research undertaken from a variety of theoretical standpoints, while in the m.
