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	All Along the Rhine: Recipes, Wine and Lore from Germany, France, Switzerland, Austria, Liechtenstein and Holland • Kay Shaw Nelson • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A tribute to the Rhine Valley, its history, culture and especially its food in 130 authentic recipes. (GER111, $14.95)
	Arthur Schnitzler, Four Major Plays • Arthur Schnitzler • Carl R. Mueller • LITERATURE • A collection of four full-length plays from the Austrian writer. (AST53, $19.95)
	Austria As Theater and Ideology, The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival • Michael Steinberg • CULTURAL PORTRAIT • A scholarly analysis of the relation between the festival, politics and Austrian cultural identity. This revealing, intriguing book is in-depth and analytical, not the usual reading for travelers, but well worth the effort. (AST55, $22.95)
	Badenheim 1939 • Aharon Appelfeld • Dalya Bilu • LITERATURE • A haunting tale of the daily life of well-to-do and unsuspecting Jewish vacationers at a fictional Ausrian resort on the eve of the holocaust. (AST35, $12.95)
	Baedeker's Austria • Baedeker's Travel Guides • GUIDEBOOK • The much-revised classic with map. (AST56, $25.00)
	Beethoven's Concertos: History, Style, Performance • Leon Plantinga • MUSIC • An insightful source of helpful and practical information, written with color and style. (GEN165, $49.95)
	Beethoven, The Music and The Life • Lewis Lockwood • MUSIC • An insightful, engaging portrait of the man and especially his musical development, by a leading Beethoven scholar. (MUS40, $21.95)
	Beethoven, The Universal Composer • Edmund Morris • MUSIC • A concise biography in the Eminent Lives series by Pulitzer-winning biographer Morris. (MUS41, $21.95)
	The Castle, A New Translation, Based on the Restored Text • Franz Kafka • Mark Harman • Malcolm Pasley • LITERATURE • A new translation of Kafka's unfinished masterpiece. (EUR68, $14.00)
	Chopin in Paris, The Life and Times of the Romantic Composer • Tad Szulc • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography of the famed composer Fryderyk Chopin. (FRN161, $20.95)
	Civilization and Its Discontents • Sigmund Freud • Peter Gay • HISTORY • The standard edition. (AST50, $12.95)
	Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe • Glynis Ridley • HISTORY • The entertaining history of an Indian rhinoceros named Clara, who was brought to Europe in 1741 by a Dutch sea captain and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of several heads of state. (FRN536, $12.00)
	The Classic Art of Viennese Pastry, From Strudel to Sachertorte--More Than 100 Traditional Recipes • Christine Berl • FOOD • Berl combines traditional recipes handed down to her through her family with techniques based on her own years as a Viennese pastery chef. (AST89, $39.95)
	Classical Music 101, A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Classical Music • Fred Plotkin • MUSIC • A primer on classical music. (MUS15, $18.95)
	The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven • Charles Rosen • MUSIC • 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. (MUS38, $21.95)
	The Compleat Brahms: A Guide to the Musical Works of Johannes Brahms • Leon Botstein • MUSIC • A remarkable compendium of essays by Botstein and 29 collaborators. (GEN166, $35.00)
	The Complete Operas of Mozart, A Critical Guide • Charles Osborne • MUSIC • (MUS12, $17.95)
	Culture Smart! Austria, A Quick Guide to Customs and Etiquette • Peter Gieler • GUIDEBOOK • A concise and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (AST91, $9.95)
	The Danube Cycleway, Donaueschingen to Budapest • John Higginson • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, practical guide to the popular biking route along the Danube from Donaueschingen in Bavaria though Austria to Budapest. (CEU20, $18.95)
	Don Giovanni, In Full Score • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • MUSIC • Full musical score of the opera. (AST82, $26.95)
	Emperor Francis Joseph: Life, Death and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire • John Van Der Kiste • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A popular short biography of the Austro-Hungarian monarch. (EUR213, $24.95)
	Eyewitness Guide Austria • Eyewitness Guides • GUIDEBOOK • 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. (AST59, $25.00)
	Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture • Carl E. Schorske • HISTORY • A landmark study of turn-of-the century Vienna -- one of the key chapters in modern intellectual history. Among its luminaries were Freud, Klimt, Kokoshka and Schoenberg. (AST04, $22.95)
	Flashman and the Tiger • George MacDonald Fraser • LITERATURE • 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, $14.95)
	Fodor's Austria • Fodor's Guides • GUIDEBOOK • COMING IN MARCH • A practical guide in the popular series, filled with valuable information on accommodation, shopping, sights, and dining. (AST95, $21.95)
	Fodor's Vienna to Salzburg • Fodors • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide in a growing series focusing on restaurants, attractions and activities in the land of Mozart. (AST73, $16.95)
	Freud in Vienna and other Essays • Bruno Bettelheim • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A collection of essays on subjects ranging from Freud to the Holocaust and child psychology. (AST51, $19.00)
	German, A Language Map • Kristine K. Kershul • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • This durable, foldout card, featuring 1,000 words and phrases, works as a quick reference for travelers. (GER165, $7.95)
	The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral • Robert A. Scott • ART & ARCHITECTURE • An accessible overview of the medieval cathedral, its history, design and architecture with black-and-white photographs. (EUR190, $17.95)
	Hands Around, A Cycle of Ten Dialogues • Arthur Schnitzler • LITERATURE • Superficial sexual encounters in the absence of true love. (AST42, $1.00)
	Here Is Where We Meet • John Berger • LITERATURE • 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. (EUR189, $14.00)
	Hitler and the Holocaust • Robert S. Wistrich • HISTORY • 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, $13.95)
	Hitler's Austria: Popular Sentiment in the Nazi Era, 1938-1945 • Evan Burr Bukey • HISTORY • AN eye-opening portrait of Austria after its annexation by Germany in 1938. (AST63, $19.95)
	Homestead • Rosini Lippi • LITERATURE • 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 village. (ALP11, $13.00)
	The Improbable Voyage • Tristan Jones • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • Jones, an inveterate Welsh sailor, adventurer and storyteller, channels Eastern Europe circa 1985 in his tale of a tough voyage along the Rhine and Danube to the Black Sea. (EUR156, $16.50)
	Introducing Austria, A Short History • Lonnie Johnson • HISTORY • A short, thematic history of modern Austria, from WWI to the late 1980s. (AST76, $14.95)
	Knopf Mapguide, Vienna • Knopf Guides • GUIDEBOOK • A practical and handy passport-sized guide to the city, featuring fold-out maps. (AST87, $9.95)
	Land Salzburg, Salzkammergut Map • Freytag & Berndt • A folded, regional map of Salzkammergut and Salzburg at a scale of 1:200,000. (AST60, $10.95)
	Letters of W. A. Mozart • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Hans Mersmann • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • 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)
	Lieutenant Gustl • Arthur Schnitzler • Richard L. Simon • LITERATURE • The interior monologue of a pessimistic lieutenant. (AST54, $9.95)
	A Listener's Guide to Mozart's Great Operas • Patrick Cairns Hughes • Spike Hughes • MUSIC • (MUS11, $7.95)
	The Lonely Empress, A Biography of Elisabeth of Austria • Joan Haslip • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A biography of the free spirited empress consort of Austria who presided over the Habsburg court from 1854 until her assassination in 1898. An avid traveler and lover of sport, Elisabeth, also known as Sisi, was wife to emperor Franz Joseph and mother of crown prince Rudolph. (AST81, $19.95)
	Lonely Planet Austria • Lonely Planet • GUIDEBOOK • A comprehensive, practical guide to Vienna, the Danube and Austria in the popular series. (AST69, $21.99)
	Lonely Planet Central Europe • Lonely Planet • GUIDEBOOK • With dozens of maps, color photographs and sections on history and culture, this practical guide introduces Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Poland and their neighbors. (EUR94, $28.99)
	Lonely Planet Vienna • Neal Bedford • GUIDEBOOK • A practical guide in the popular series. (AST61, $16.99)
	Mammals of Europe • Priscilla Barrett • David W. MacDonald • FIELD GUIDE • 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. (FG61, $34.95)
	The Man in the Box • Thomas Moran • LITERATURE • A story of a gentile family in a small Austrian town hiding a Jew during World War II, told through the eyes of an adolescent boy. (AST41, $12.00)
	The Man Without Qualities: Volume I, A Short Introduction and Pseudoreality Prevails • Robert Musil • Sophie Wilkins • Burton Pike • LITERATURE • 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, $22.00)
	The Man Without Qualities: Volume II, Into the Millennium and from the Posthumous Papers • Robert Musil • Sophie Wilkins • Burton Pike • LITERATURE • The second and final volume in Musil's epic masterpiece. (AST38, $26.00)
	Michelin the Green Guide Austria • Michelin Travel Publications • GUIDEBOOK • A straightfoward, practical guide to the country. (AST90, $21.95)
	Mozart • Peggy Woodford • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • Part of "The Illustrated Lives of the Great Composers Series," this book is a concise account of the life and work of the famous Austrian composer. (AST44, $19.95)
	Mozart's Letters, Mozart's Life, Selected Letters • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart • Robert (T Spaethling • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A varied selection of Mozart's letters, translated to keep the composer's often colorful language. (MUS49, $19.95)
	Mozart's Operas • Daniel Heartz • Thomas Bauman • MUSIC • Berkeley music professor and Mozart scholar Daniel Heartz is the editor of these engaging essays on the history, meaning and influence of Mozart's operas. The scholars focus on the composer's three greatest -- Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi Fan Tutte. (AST72, $26.95)
	Mozart, A Cultural Biography • Robert W. Gutman • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • By delving into the political, intellectual and artistic forces that shaped 18th-century Europe, Gutman reveals a new interpretation of this luminous musician. (AST34, $25.00)
	Mozart, His Character, His Work • Alfred Einstein • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • A scholarly analysis of not only Mozart's music but also his complex relationship his family and contemporaries. (AST88, $42.00)
	The Name of the Rose • Umberto Eco • LITERATURE • Umberto Eco's masterwork is, among other things, a murder mystery, a riff on the Book of Revelations, and a meticulous recreation of medieval Europe, particularly of Benedictine monastic life in Italy. (ITL413, $15.00)
	The New Grove Second Viennese School • Oliver Neighbour • Paul Griffiths • George Perle • ART & ARCHITECTURE • A study of the Viennese School of musical innovators, Schoenberg, Webern and Berg. (AST26, $16.95)
	Night Games, and other Stories and Novellas • Arthur Schnitzler • Margaret A. Schaefer • LITERATURE • Nine stories and novellas from the Viennese modernist. (AST52, $28.50)
	Opera 101, A Complete Guide to Learning and Loving Opera • Fred Plotkin • Placido Domingo • MUSIC • 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. (GEN175, $16.95)
	The Penguin Concise Guide to Opera • Amanda Holden • REFERENCE • An essential reference for the opera enthusiast. Well organized, with short descriptions of plots, characters, performances and historical background. (MUS01, $20.00)
	The Piano Teacher • Elfriede Jelinek • LITERATURE • A controversial novel by one of Austria most renowned contemporary authors. (AST36, $12.00)
	The Radetzky March • Joseph Roth • LITERATURE • First published in 1932, this powerful novel spins a tale of three generations of the Trotta family set against the waning days of the Habsburg Empire. (AST83, $20.00)
	Rick Steves' French, Italian & German Phrase Book & Dictionary • Rick Steves • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary. (EUR142, $9.95)
	Rick Steves' German Phrase Book & Dictionary • Rick Steves • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS • A compact phrase book for travelers, organized thematically and with a brief dictionary. (GER125, $7.95)
	The Right Hand of Sleep • John Wray • LITERATURE • (AST48, $24.00)
	Rough Guide Austria • Rough Guide • GUIDEBOOK • A practical, comprehensive guide in the excellent British series. (AST70, $19.99)
	Rough Guide Vienna • Rough Guide • GUIDEBOOK • A compact, authoritative guide to Vienna, its history, culture and attractions. (AST62, $19.99)
	Salzburg Map • Borch Maps • A convenient, detailed map of Salzburg and surroundings at a scale of 1:15,000. With maps of Salzkammergut, a regional overview, a more detailed map of the inner city and fortress, and a map of the city's bus routes. (AST32, $7.95)
	Schlepping Through the Alps, My Search for Austria's Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd • Sam Apple • TRAVEL NARRATIVE • A hilarious and touching exploration of history, tradition and sheep. This account of travels in Austria with Hans Breuer, a shepherd who sings Yiddish folk songs to his sheep, is admittedly a comic quest, but it also delves into some of the darker corners of Austria's history in World War II. (AST74, $14.95)
	Still Alive, A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered • Ruth Kluger • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR • (EUR143, $24.95)
	Symphony No. 5 • Ludwig Van Beethoven • MUSIC • A Dover miniature score. (MUS42, $7.95)
	Travelers' Tales, A Woman's Europe • Marybeth Bond • Mary Morris • ANTHOLOGY • Visit Europe through the eyes of women writers, including Frances Mayes and Jan Morris. (EUR160, $17.95)
	Twentieth Century Opera, A Guide • George Martin • MUSIC • A survey of 20th century opera. (MUS02, $25.00)
	Vienna Map • Borch Maps • A handy laminated map of the city center. (AST31, $7.95)
	Western Austria Tyrol Map • Freytag & Berndt • A colorful regional map of western Austria, including the Tyrolean region. (AST05, $10.95)

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