All Along the Rhine: Recipes, Wine and Lore from Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein and Holland
• Kay Shaw Nelson
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2003 •
PAPER
• 211 PAGES
A tribute to the Rhine Valley, its history, culture and especially its food. Combining over 130 authentic recipes with small bits of background information, this is a delightful introduction to the culinary traditions of the region.
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Amadeus
• Milos Forman
1984 •
DVD
This extraordinary account of Mozart's life, death and downfall won eight Academy Awards. Tom Hulce's brilliant but flighty Mozart is the perfect counterpart to F. Murray Abraham's cold and calculating but unbearably jealous and mediocre Salieri. The story is compelling and the soundtrack is, of course, fantastic. 2 disc special edition director's cut.
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Arthur Schnitzler, Four Major Plays
• Arthur Schnitzler
• Carl R. Mueller
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 224 PAGES
This collection of four plays from the Austrian writer includes "La Ronde," "Anatol," "The Green Cockatoo," and "Flirtation."
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Austria As Theater and Ideology, The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival
• Michael Steinberg
CULTURAL PORTRAIT •
2000 •
PAPER
A scholarly cultural and political history of the festival and its meaning. The author, a professor of history at Cornell, traces the festival from its origins in the wake of WWI and the fall of the Habsburgs, to the Nazis' rise to power in Austria, to the 1999 speech at Salzburg by Austrian President Thomas Klestil calling for a return to traditionalist ideals. This revealing, intriguing book is in-depth and analytical, not the usual reading for travelers, but well worth the effort.
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Bach, The Brandenburg Concertos
• Malcolm Boyd
MUSIC •
1993 •
PAPER
• 96 PAGES
This volume in the Cambridge Music Handbooks Series is an excellent overview of the Brandenburg Concertos, their sources and performance history.
(MUS50, $32.00) |
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Badenheim 1939
• Aharon Appelfeld
• Dalya Bilu
LITERATURE •
2009 •
PAPER
• 148 PAGES
This haunting tale depicts daily life of well-to-do and unsuspecting Jewish vacationers at a fictional Ausrian resort on the eve of the holocaust.
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Baedeker's Austria
• Baedeker's Travel Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2000 •
FLEXI-BOUND
• 618 PAGES
The much-revised classic with map.
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Baroque: Architecture, Sculpture, Painting
• Rolf Toman
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2008 •
PAPER
• 500 PAGES
This elaborately illustrated oversize book shows in splendid color the spread of baroque and rococo painting, architecture and sculpture styles from Rome across Europe in the 17th century.
(EUR204, $24.95) |
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Beethoven, The Music and The Life
• Lewis Lockwood
MUSIC •
2005 •
PAPER
• 604 PAGES
An insightful, engaging portrait of Beethoven, organized chronologically. Lockwood, a professor emeritus at Harvard, is a leading Beethoven scholar.
(MUS40, $22.95) |
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Beethoven, The Universal Composer
• Edmund Morris
MUSIC •
2005 •
HARD COVER
• 243 PAGES
A concise biography in the Eminent Lives series by Pulitzer-winning biographer Morris.
(MUS41, $25.99) |
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The Castle, A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text
• Franz Kafka
• Mark Harman
• Malcolm Pasley
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 328 PAGES
The story of a man, known only as K, and his fruitless struggle to gain entrance into The Castle and all that the castle may represent. This new translation of Kafka's unfinished masterpiece does great justice to the author's powerful tale.
(EUR68, $15.00) |
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Chopin in Paris, The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer
• Tad Szulc
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2000 •
PAPER
• 444 PAGES
A biography of the famed composer, who left his Polish homeland, traveled to Vienna, and then settled for two decades in Paris, where he discovered the emerging Romantic movement. Chopin worked among the minds of Hugo, Lizt and Berlioz, and became involved in a stormy relationship with feminist writer George Sand before succumbing to tuberculosis at the age of 39. Szulc draws from a collection of correspondence and private journals in a book that emphasizes the "times," rather than the music, of Chopin.
(FRN161, $20.95) |
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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
• Glynis Ridley
HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
The entertaining history of a most unusual eighteenth-century European celebrity. Clara the Indian rhinoceros was brought to Europe in 1741 by the Dutch sea captain Douwemout Van der Meer, and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of heads of state such as Louis XV and Frederick the Great. A marvelous and unique look at the introduction of Eastern wildlife into the Western world.
(FRN536, $12.00) |
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Classical Music 101, A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music
• Fred Plotkin
MUSIC •
2002 •
PAPER
• 672 PAGES
Geared to the casual, intellectually curious listener, this primer on classical music does an admirable job of describing how best to experience and appreciate the great works, both new and old. From the author of "Opera 101" (GEN175).
(MUS15, $18.95) |
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The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven
• Charles Rosen
MUSIC •
1997 •
PAPER
• 522 PAGES
Written in 1972, the first edition of this book won the National Book Award and became an instant classic, an eminently readable account of the Viennese Classical School. This is the revised version with an additional essay answering some critics, and expanded coverage of the later Beethoven years.
(MUS38, $23.95) |
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The Compleat Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes Brahms
• Leon Botstein
MUSIC •
1999 •
HARD COVER
• 448 PAGES
A remarkable compendium of essays by Botstein and 29 collaborators.
(GEN166, $35.00) |
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The Complete Operas of Mozart, A Critical Guide
• Charles Osborne
MUSIC •
1988 •
PAPER
This detailed study covers both the great masterpieces and the lesser-known works, incorporating biographical background, accounts of first performances and close analysis of both the music and the librettos.
(MUS12, $17.95) |
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Don Giovanni, In Full Score
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
MUSIC •
1976 •
PAPER
• 468 PAGES
Full musical score of the opera.
(AST82, $26.95) |
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Eyewitness Guide Austria
• Eyewitness Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
FLEXI-BOUND
• 384 PAGES
This superb guide to all of Austria features color photography, dozens of excellent local maps and a region-by-region synopsis of the country's attractions. Handsome, convenient and up-to-date, this is the guide to carry.
(AST59, $25.00) |
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Fatal Lies
• Frank Tallis
MYSTERY •
2009 •
PAPER
In 1903 Vienna, when a young cadet turns up dead at St Florian's military school, Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt calls on his friend -- and disciple of Freud -- Doctor Max Liebermann, to help him unravel the tangled web of motives underlying the crime.
(AST97, $15.00) |
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Flashman and the Tiger
• George MacDonald Fraser
LITERATURE •
2001 •
PAPER
• 368 PAGES
Fraser plumbs the annals of history to produce his factual, entertaining tales of folly in the service of her Majesty's empire. This 11th installment in The Flashman Papers (purportedly retrieved and not written by George Macdonald Fraser, a nice conceit), consists of three short adventures, which find our hero cavorting with Bismarck and Emperor Franz-Josef and the future Edward VI.
(WAF58, $16.00) |
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Fodor's Vienna to Salzburg
• Fodors
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
A practical guide in the growing series, Fodor's Vienna to Salzburg focuses on hotels, restaurants, attractions and activities in the land of Mozart.
(AST73, $16.99) |
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Freud in Vienna and other Essays
• Bruno Bettelheim
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1991 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
A memoir of sorts, Bettelheim's collection of essays explores a range of themes and subjects that have influenced his life and his work as a child psychologist. From Freud and fin de siecle Vienna, to the Holocaust and studies of child development, he artfully mixes real life experience with intellectual reflections.
(AST51, $19.00) |
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 294 PAGES
Scott, whose interest in the history of cathedrals began when he first saw the magnificent Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Salisbury, England, takes his reader on a historical, architectural and sociological tour of the magnificent spires and stained-glass windows that dot the landscape of Europe. It's an accessible, personable overview.
(EUR190, $21.95) |
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow. "The dead don't stay where they are buried," the protagonist's mother tells him, and this becomes the mantra for this most unusual journey through Europe's history and people.
(EUR189, $15.00) |
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Hitler and the Holocaust
• Robert S. Wistrich
HISTORY •
2003 •
PAPER
• 295 PAGES
A short history of the cultural and political circumstances surrounding the genocide of the Jews. Wistrich looks closely at Anti-Semitism in Germany, Europe and abroad in an attempt to understand the evil unleashed during World War II, cautioning that we must be always vigilant about intolerance.
(EUR114, $15.00) |
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Homestead
• Rosini Lippi
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 210 PAGES
Set firmly in a small village in the Austrian Alps, these 12 interlinking stories are almost ethnographic in their rich detail of small town life. The stories range from the turn-of-the-century to the present, accurately charting change in the remote region of Andelsbuch, Egg and Grossdorf. The author spent four years among the villages of the Bregenz forest collecting information on the local dialect. Winner of the Pen/Hemingway Award.
(ALP11, $13.95) |
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The Interpretation of Dreams
• Sigmund Freud
SCIENCE •
1994 •
HARD COVER
• 471 PAGES
A seminal text of psychoanalytic theory, Freud's examination of dreams and their link to the unconscious is a provocative and fascinating read -- and a glimpse into the world of fin-de-siecle Vienna. A Modern Library edition.
(GEN319, $19.95) |
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Introducing Austria, A Short History
• Lonnie Johnson
HISTORY •
1989 •
PAPER
• 196 PAGES
A short, thematic history of modern Austria from WWI to the late 1980s by the author of Central Europe: Enemies, Neighbors Friends.
(AST76, $14.95) |
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Knopf Mapguide Vienna
• Knopf Guides
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 32 PAGES
A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps.
(AST87, $10.95) |
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Letters of W. A. Mozart
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
• Hans Mersmann
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1972 •
PAPER
• 276 PAGES
These 100 candid letters to friends, family and patrons illluminate the culture and society of 18th-century Austria, Mozart's music, family and finances.
(AST71, $10.95) |
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Lieutenant Gustl
• Arthur Schnitzler
• Richard L. Simon
LITERATURE •
2003 •
PAPER
• 56 PAGES
Schnitzler's novella takes the form of an interior monologue of a pessimistic (and ultimately suicidal) lieutenant who is bored at the opera.
(AST54, $9.95) |
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Lonely Planet Austria
• Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 432 PAGES
A comprehensive, practical guide to Vienna, the Danube and Austria in the popular series.
(AST69, $22.99) |
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Lonely Planet Central Europe
• Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 662 PAGES
• BEST SELLER
A comprehensive guide to Central Europe, including Austria, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Liechtenstein, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Switzerland. It is a compact overview of the region, especially appropriate for the independent-minded traveler visiting several countries. With local and regional maps, a section of color photographs, and information on history, culture and attractions.
(EUR94, $29.99) |
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Lonely Planet Encounter Vienna
• Caroline Sieg
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
With a section of not-to-be-missed highlights and a calendar of annual events, this lively pocket guide organized by neighborhood includes suggested side trips, along what to see and where to shop, eat, drink and play. With a double-sided pullout map.
(AST109, $12.99) |
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Lonely Planet Vienna
• Neal Bedford
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 266 PAGES
A practical guide in the popular series.
(AST61, $18.99) |
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
FIELD GUIDE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals, it's a comprehensive handbook, with detailed descriptions, range maps and commentary on behavior.
(FG61, $38.50) |
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The Man in the Box
• Thomas Moran
LITERATURE •
1997 •
PAPER
• 272 PAGES
A story of the human spirit and the rite of passage, set in a small Austrian village during World War II, told through the eyes of an adolescent Niki. Niki's family takes on a task of the highest secrecy: hiding a Jew.
(AST41, $12.00) |
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The Man Without Qualities: Volume I, A Short Introduction and Pseudoreality Prevails
• Robert Musil
• Sophie Wilkins
• Burton Pike
LITERATURE •
1996 •
PAPER
The first volume in German author Robert Musil's unfinished epic masterpiece, set just before World War I in Vienna. Part of a two volume set restored with a new translation and including, for the first time in English, the complete existing text, it is the story of a former soldier who finds himself at the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The second volume is also available (AST38).
(AST37, $23.00) |
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The Man Without Qualities: Volume II, Into the Millennium and from the Posthumous Papers
• Robert Musil
• Sophie Wilkins
• Burton Pike
LITERATURE •
1996 •
PAPER
The second of two volumes in Musil's sprawling story of pre-World War I Vienna and the collapse of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Musil died before he could complete the entire epic, but this new translation incorporates all the text he ever wrote. Volume I is also available (AST37).
(AST38, $27.50) |
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Michelin the Green Guide Austria
• Michelin Travel Publications
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 416 PAGES
With the same focus on driving tours, detailed maps and the Michelin star system, the venerable Green Guides are even better -- organized regionally, in color and with an overview of history, art and culture.
(AST90, $21.99) |
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Mozart
• Peggy Woodford
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
1990 •
PAPER
• 144 PAGES
Part of "The Illustrated Lives of the Great Compos-ers Series," this book is a concise account of the life and work of the famous Austrian composer, with much of the information drawn from his own writ-ings and correspondences.
(AST44, $19.95) |
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Mozart and His Operas
• David Cairns
MUSIC •
2006 •
HARD COVER
• 288 PAGES
A well-considered, accessible biography of the composer in the context of his lfie and times by the chief music critic of the Sunday Times and music critic and arts editor of the Spectator.
(AST84, $35.00) |
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Mozart's Operas
• Daniel Heartz
• Thomas Bauman
MUSIC •
1992 •
PAPER
Berkeley music professor and Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz presents these engaging essays on the history, meaning and influence of Mozart's operas. He focuses on the composer's three greatest -- Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi Fan Tutte. Don Giovanni, and Cosi Fan Tutte. University of Washington's Bauman is also a contributor.
(AST72, $29.95) |
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Mozart, A Cultural Biography
• Robert W. Gutman
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2000 •
PAPER
• 864 PAGES
By delving into the political, intellectual and artistic forces that shaped 18th-century Europe, Gutman reveals a new interpretation of this luminous musician in this affectionate biography. Gutman's Mozart is a complex one, influenced greatly by both his relationship with his domineering father and the political and cultural upheavals of the day. An astute analysis of Mozart's most famous works is also included.
(AST34, $46.95) |
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Mozart, His Character, His Work
• Alfred Einstein
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2003 •
PAPER
• 512 PAGES
A scholarly analysis of not only Mozart's music but also his complex relationship his family and contemporaries.
(AST88, $44.99) |
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Mozart, His Life and Works
• Julian Rushton
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2006 •
HARD COVER
• 300 PAGES
This marvelous, well-informed account of Mozart, his life and work, published in celebration of the 250th anniversary of his birth, is a volume on Oxford's masterful Master Musicians series.
(EUR215, $50.00) |
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The New Grove Second Viennese School
• Oliver Neighbour
• Paul Griffiths
• George Perle
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
1998 •
PAPER
• 201 PAGES
A study of the Viennese School of musical innovators, Arnold Schoenberg, Anton von Webern and Alban Berg. Through their experimentation they would develop the truly 20th-century "12-note," or "serial," technique.
(AST26, $16.95) |
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Night Games, and other Stories and Novellas
• Arthur Schnitzler
• Margaret A. Schaefer
LITERATURE •
2001 •
HARD COVER
• 288 PAGES
Nine stories and novellas from the Viennese modernist, plumbing the psychological depths of sex, love and death. Along with the title tale, it contains "Dream Story," the source of inspiration for Stanley Kubrick's "Eyes Wide Shut."
(AST52, $28.50) |
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Opera 101, A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera
• Fred Plotkin
• Placido Domingo
MUSIC •
1994 •
PAPER
• 494 PAGES
A well-written introduction to opera, this volume includes a brief history of the art form, a guide to operatic terms and a review of 11 famous operas. With an introduction by Placido Domingo.
(GEN175, $17.99) |
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The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera
• Amanda Holden
REFERENCE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 530 PAGES
An essential reference for the opera enthusiast. Well organized, with short descriptions of plots, characters, performances and historical background.
(MUS01, $20.00) |
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The Piano Teacher
• Elfriede Jelinek
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
This controversial novel, the first of Elfriede Jelinek's published in English, is not for the faint of heart. Written in the present tense, it tells the story of a piano teacher at the Viennese Conservatory who finds herself drawn into a bizarre, violent love triangle. For those not put off by graphic descriptions of sex and violence, this is a powerful story -- terrifying and darkly comic.
(AST36, $12.00) |
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Requiem in Vienna
• J. Sydney Jones
MYSTERY •
2010 •
HARD COVER
• 320 PAGES
At first it seemed like a series of accidents plagued Vienna's Court Opera. But after a singer is killed during rehearsals of a new production, the evidence suggests something much more dangerous: someone is trying to murder the famed conductor and composer Gustav Mahler. Alma Schindler, one of Mahler's many would-be mistresses, asks the lawyer and aspiring private investigator Karl Werthen to stop the attacks. Soon Werthen discovers that Mahler might not be the first musical genius to be dispatched by this unknown killer. With the recent deaths of Johann Strauss and Johannes Brahms, he fears a madman is killing the great musicians of Vienna.
(AST107, $24.99) |
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Rick Steves' German Phrase Book & Dictionary
• Rick Steves
LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS •
2008 •
PAPER
• 192 PAGES
A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary. This is no dry litany of phrases but is instead peppered with humor and Rick Steves' insider insight into how to break the ice and make friends around the world.
(GER125, $8.95) |
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The Right Hand of Sleep
• John Wray
LITERATURE •
2001 •
HARD COVER
• 336 PAGES
(AST48, $24.00) |
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Rough Guide Austria
• Rough Guide
GUIDEBOOK •
2008 •
PAPER
• 615 PAGES
A practical, comprehensive guide in the excellent British series.
(AST70, $24.99) |
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Rough Guide Vienna
• Rough Guide
GUIDEBOOK •
2008 •
PAPER
• 412 PAGES
A compact, authoritative guide to Vienna, its history, culture and attractions with good local maps.
(AST62, $19.99) |
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Schlepping Through the Alps, My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd
• Sam Apple
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 304 PAGES
A hilarious and touching exploration of history, tradition and sheep. This is a young New Yorker's account of his travels in Austria with Hans Breuer, a "peripatetic philosopher" who sings Yiddish folk songs to his sheep as he wanders. Admittedly a comic quest, Apple nonetheless delves into some of the darker corners of Austria's history -- its anti-Semitism and role in World War II.
(AST74, $16.00) |
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The Story of the Trapp Family Singers
• Maria von Trapp
BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR •
2001 •
PAPER
• 312 PAGES
• HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE
Fans of the movie musical "The Sound of Music" will be interested to learn the true story of the von Trapp family singers, as remembered by Maria von Trapp herself. Maria was indeed a novice nun, but there ends her resemblance to the Julie Andrews character. Her autobiography reveals a likelier, but still crowd-pleasing, story of life in pre-Anschluss Salzburg.
(AST47, $13.99) |
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Symphony No. 5
• Ludwig Van Beethoven
MUSIC •
1997 •
PAPER
• 96 PAGES
A Dover miniature score.
(MUS42, $7.95) |
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The Third Man
• Carol Reed
1949 •
DVD
Graham Greene collaborated with the director Carol Reed on this adaptation of his novel, about a pulp mystery writer who accepts an invitation to visit an old friend in Vienna. When he gets there, he discovers his friend is dead, and must sort through lies and allegations to find the truth behind his friend's past. A haunting look at postwar Vienna and a classic piece of film noir starring Orson Welles and Joseph Cotten. Part of the Criterion Collection.
(AST66, $39.95) |
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A Time of Gifts
• Patrick Leigh Fermor
TRAVEL NARRATIVE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 384 PAGES
• BEST SELLER
Fermor effortlessly interweaves anecdote, history and culture in this exuberant account of a walk as a young man in 1933 across Europe. This first volume chronicles his trip from the Hook of Holland, up the Rhine and down the Danube. The adventure continues in Between the Woods and Water, thankfully also reissued by NYRB. The books were written not by the young adventurer but the accomplished author 40 years later, adding perspective and a sweet nostalgia.
(CEU30, $16.95) |
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Time Out Vienna
• Sarah Guy
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
An up-to-date guide on what to do and where to go by the people who publish Time Out Magazine.
(AST78, $19.95) |
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Twentieth Century Opera, A Guide
• George Martin
MUSIC •
1999 •
PAPER
• 703 PAGES
First published in 1979, and now in it's fourth edition, this survey of 20th century opera contains thoughtful essays, as well as capsule descriptions of 90 of the century's best operas.
(MUS02, $25.00) |
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Vienna Blood
• Frank Tallis
MYSTERY •
2008 •
PAPER
• 485 PAGES
A bizarre series of murders reunite Inspector Rheinhardt and Dr. Lieberman in this second psychoanalytic thriller set in the sophisticated -- and depraved world of Sr. Sigmund Freud.
(AST98, $15.00) |
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Vienna Secrets
• Frank Tallis
MYSTERY •
2010 •
PAPER
• 448 PAGES
This fourth entry in the series from Frank Tallis, (himself a clinical psychologist and frequent traveller,) finds psychoanalyst Max Liebermann and detective Oskar Reinhardt tracking the murderer of two men found beheaded in a church courtyard. The connection between the victims and an anti-Semetic group leads Liebermann to the close-knit Hasidic community of Vienna, which the author explores in wondrous detail. Face-paced and action-packed, another great read that serves as a tour of the backstreets of Austria's beautiful capital.
(AST106, $15.00) |
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Western Austria Tyrol Map
• Freytag & Berndt
MAP
A regional map of western Austria, including the Tyrolean region, Innsbruck and bordering regions of Italy, Switzerland and Germany. The map, which features excellent full-color shaded relief, is at the very good scale of 1:200,000. With an index. One Side. 34x48 inches.
(AST05, $11.95) |
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Wine Country Europe, Touring, Tasting, And Buying At European Regional Wineries
• Ornella D'Alessio
• Marco Santini
FOOD •
2005 •
HARD COVER
• 324 PAGES
Part how-to, part guidebook, part picture book, this charming coffee table treat covers sprawling French vineyards as well as lesser-known hidden treasures in Austria and Hungary. The authors, both Italian journalists and wine connoisseurs, provide helpful tips alongside the hundreds of magnificent color photographs.
(EUR191, $35.00) |
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Wittgenstein's Vienna
• Allan Janik
• Stephen Toulmin
HISTORY •
1996 •
PAPER
• 314 PAGES
A portrait of Vienna and its cultural life in the days before WWI. This is the modernist city of not only Wittgenstein but also Klimt, Freud and Schoenberg.
(AST68, $19.95) |
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