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Mans Search for Meaning
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Viktor Emil Frankl
Psychiatrist Victor Frankl tells the story of the three years he spent as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, where he discovered that the will to find meaning in life motivates human existence. One of the 10 most influential books in the Library of Congress/Book-of-the-Month Club's 1991 "Survey of Lifetime Readers."
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Berlin Noir
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Philip Kerr
This is a combined edition of: "March Violets", "The Pale Criminal", and, "A German Requiem" by Philip Kerr.
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Vienna Prelude
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Bodie Thoene, Ph.D.
Elisa Lindheim, of Jewish heritage, and John Murphy, New York Times reporter, become entangled in a web of intrigue, danger, and conspiracy.
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A Death in Vienna
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Daniel Silva
This fourth volume in a series about Gabriel Allon sends the art restorer and Israeli spy to Vienna to investigate a bombing that put an old friend in a coma and left others dead. The case takes on a hideously personal cast when Allon discovers that an Austrian industrialist who seems to be connected to the incident might also be the brutal Nazi ...
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Moonlight on the Magic Flute
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Mary Pope Osborne (Read by)
Jack and Annie head to 18th-century Austria, where they must find a musician by the name of Mozart. Their hunt is hampered by the appearance of a mischievous little boy who is determined to follow them everywhere. Illustrations.
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Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust
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Edith Hahn Beer, Susan Dworkin
This memoir recounts how one Jewish woman went underground in Nazi Germany, bravely posing as a non-Jew to survive. In her deception, she fell in love with and married a Nazi Party member. Here, accompanied by reproductions of original documents, she describes the psychological trauma of her ordeal.
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A Death in Vienna
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Dr. Frank Tallis
In Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, Max Liebermann is at the forefront of psychoanalysis, practicing the controversial new science with all the skill of a master detective. Every dream, inflection, or slip of tongue in his "hysterical" patients has meaning and reveals some hidden truth. When a mysterious and beautiful medium dies under ...
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Measure for Measure
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William Shakespeare
Written in 1604 when James I--a king particularly concerned with the religious aspects of his leadership--was fresh on the throne, MEASURE FOR MEASURE is a reflection of its time. In it, a sovereign's role in the legislation of morality is explored, as two extreme poles of government are navigated--the Duke's over-leniency as the play opens, and ...
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The Piano Teacher
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Elfriede Jelinek
Nobel Prizewinner Elfriede Jelinek's 1988 novel is the story of Erika Kohut, a middle-aged piano teacher in Vienna whose refuge from her constricted life is hardcore pornography. When she becomes involved in an affair with one of her piano students, she is able to fulfill her dark side as she forces him into increasingly sadomasochistic sexual ...
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The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II
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Patrick K O'Donnell
An impossible mission / Behind enemy lines / The never-before-told true story of a small team of American saboteurs with orders to sever the Third Reichs main supply artery-the Brenner Pass. Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare, a small team of American special operatives parachutes into Italy under the noses of thousands of German troops. Their ...
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The Little Book
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Selden Edwards
The Little Book is the extraordinary tale of Wheeler Burden, California-exiled heir of the famous Boston banking Burdens, philosopher, student of history, legends son, rock idol, writer, lover of women, recluse, half-Jew, and Harvard baseball hero. In 1988 he is forty-seven, living in San Francisco. Suddenly he isstill his modern selfwandering in ...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
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Ray Monk
Born in 1889, Wittgenstein grew up in one of the wealthiest families in Vienna, and here emerged an all-consuming preoccupation with spiritual, ethical and cultural questions. His development as a philosopher began in 1922 when he became a student of Bertrand Russell at Cambridge. The work which he started then culminated in "Tractatus Logico ...
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Rick Steves' Germany & Austria
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Rick Steves
Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers how to take the Do-It-Yourself Dresden Baroque Blitz Tour or the Short and Scenic Black Forest Joyride? With Rick Steves' "Germany & Austria 2008", travellers can experience Rick's favourite destinations in Munich, Bavaria, Baden-Baden, Rothenburg, Wursburg, Frankfurt, the Rhine Valley, Dresden, Berlin, ...
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What Is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches
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Roger Schrodinger, Erwin Schrodinger, Roger Penrose (Foreword by)
Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman, but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of the structure of DNA ...
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Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536
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James Reston, Jr.
A bestselling historian recounts 16 years that shook the world--the epic clash between Europe and the Ottoman Turks that ended the Renaissance and brought Islam to the gates of Vienna.
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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889
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Frederic Morton
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36 Yalta Boulevard
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Olen Steinhauer
Edgar, Anthony, Macavity, and Historical Dagger finalist Olen Steinhauer continues his brilliant and acclaimed suspense series.
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Freud: A Life for Our Time
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Professor Peter Gay
This biography of Freud provides an overview of his life and of the academic life of other early psychoanalysts. It also discusses his Jewishness - the way it influenced his life and the anti-Semitism in Vienna - while emphasizing his bourgeois aspirations.
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The Complete Training of Horse and Rider in the Principles of Classical Horsemanship
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Alois Podhajsky
For over a quarter of a century, Colonel Alois Podhajsky was the Director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, home of the famous white Lipizzaner stallions whose remarkable performances have thrilled audiences throughout the world. Now for the first time, Col. Podhajsky has set forth explicitly and in practical, instructive fashion the step-by ...
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Rick Steves' Germany, Austria & Switzerland
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Rick Steves
Rick Steves' Germany, 2003 Covers Munich, Bavaria, Vienna, Salzburg, the Berner Oberland, and includes Prague. It is the most current information available in any European guidebook, based on research conducted during the summer before publication. He shows travellers how to delve into European culture, make friends with the locals, and experience ...
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Vienna Blood
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Dr. Frank Tallis
In the grip of a Siberian winter in 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. Vicious mutilation, a penchant for arcane symbols, and a seemingly random choice of victim are his most distinctive peculiarities. Detective Inspector, Oskar Rheinhardt summons a young disciple of Freud - his friend Dr. Max Liebermann - ...
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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914
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Frederic Morton
From the author of A Nervous Splendor, a dazzling portrait of the epicenter of the apocalypse that was World War I. Thunder at Twilight is a landmark of historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Viennaand in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the ...
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A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918
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Robert A Kann
'An impressive achievement in a task of extraordinary difficulty...The outstanding asset of this work does not consist in its comprehensiveness and objectivity, however, nor even in the wide knowledge and special expertise Kann can bring to bear from his early legal training, his formidable scholarship on the nationalities question, and his keen ...
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Where Eagles Dare
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Alistair MacLean
Seven men and one woman parachute onto a German-occupied mountain to thwart a Nazi plan to extract secrets from a captured American general.
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Farewell Sidonia
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Erich Hackl
The fictional recreation of the short life of a young Austrian gypsy girl, caught in the wheels of history and sent to perish in Auschwitz. This novel is written by the author of "Aurora's Motive".
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