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City of Fortune, How Venice Ruled the Seas

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A Pig in Provence: Good Food and Simple Pleasures in the South of France

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Anyone Can Say I, Tales from the End of the Postwar Era

Anyone Can Say I, Tales from the End of the Postwar Era


by Robert Menasse

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 170 PAGES

Born in 1954, the contemporary Austrian cultural critic and popular author Robert Manasse captures the Austria of his generation in this short stories. (AST115, $16.00)

The Castle, A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text

The Castle, A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text


by Franz Kafka | Mark Harman | Malcolm Pasley

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 328 PAGES

A new translation of Kafka's unfinished masterpiece. (EUR68, $15.00)

Fodor's Austria

Fodor's Austria


by Fodor's Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2009
  • PAPER
  • 502 PAGES

A practical guide in the popular series, filled with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining. (AST95, $21.95)

Freud in Vienna and other Essays


by Bruno Bettelheim

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 1991
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

A collection of essays on subjects ranging from Freud to the Holocaust and child psychology. (AST51, $19.00)

Hitler and the Holocaust

Hitler and the Holocaust


by 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. (EUR114, $15.00)

Lonely Planet Austria

Lonely Planet Austria


by Lonely Planet

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

A comprehensive, practical guide to Vienna, the Danube and Austria in the popular series. (AST69, $22.99)

Lonely Planet Vienna

Lonely Planet Vienna


by Neal Bedford

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 266 PAGES

A practical guide in the popular series. (AST61, $18.99)

The Man Without Qualities: Volume I, A Short Introduction and Pseudoreality Prevails


by 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. A former soldier finds himself at the center of the crumbling Austro-Hungarian Empire. The second volume is also available (AST38). (AST37, $23.00)

Michelin the Green Guide Austria

Michelin the Green Guide Austria


by 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)

The Road into the Open


by Arthur Schnitzler | Roger Byers | Russell A. Berman

  • LITERATURE
  • 1992
  • PAPER
  • 314 PAGES

Set in fin-de-siecle Vienna, this novel, about the death of Austrian liberal society in an atmosphere of nationalism and anti-Semitism, features a handsome composer's encounters with intellectuals and artists. (AST02, $27.95)

The Austrians, A Thousand-Year Odyssey

The Austrians, A Thousand-Year Odyssey


by Gordon Brook-Shepherd

  • HISTORY
  • 2003
  • PAPER
  • 512 PAGES

Detailed, impressively researched and readable, this book is a wide-ranging narrative history of the last 1,000 years of Austria and the Austrian character. (AST10, $23.00)

Egon Schiele


by Frank Whitford

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 1987
  • PAPER
  • 207 PAGES

The life and work of an intriguing artist, who died at the young age of 27. The author delves into Schiele's troubled personal life and the surrounding atmosphere of his home in Vienna, creating a unique portrait of a man. (GER57, $14.95)

Mozart, A Life

Mozart, A Life


by Maynard Solomon

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2006
  • PAPER
  • 640 PAGES

Solomon here tears down the myth of Mozart as the "eternal child," while adding great depth to the psychological and artistic development of the musical genius. The book also illustrates life in 18th-century Salzburg. (AST06, $22.95)

 

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