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Book Synopsis The Spell of the Vienna Woods by : Paul Hofmann
Download or read book The Spell of the Vienna Woods written by Paul Hofmann and published by Owl Books. This book was released on 1995-06-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of the Vienna Woods, and describes its influence on artists, composers, and writers
Book Synopsis And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain by : Elisabeth Åsbrink
Download or read book And in the Vienna Woods the Trees Remain written by Elisabeth Åsbrink and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2020-01-21 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus Reviews and a Notable Translated Book of the Year by World Literature Today Winner of the August Prize, the story of the complicated long-distance relationship between a Jewish child and his forlorn Viennese parents after he was sent to Sweden in 1939, and the unexpected friendship the boy developed with the future founder of IKEA, a Nazi activist. Otto Ullmann, a Jewish boy, was sent from Austria to Sweden right before the outbreak of World War II. Despite the huge Swedish resistance to Jewish refugees, thirteen-year-old Otto was granted permission to enter the country—all in accordance with the Swedish archbishop’s secret plan to save Jews on condition that they convert to Christianity. Otto found work at the Kamprad family’s farm in the province of Småland and there became close friends with Ingvar Kamprad, who would grow up to be the founder of IKEA. At the same time, however, Ingvar was actively engaged in Nazi organizations and a great supporter of the fascist Per Engdahl. Meanwhile, Otto’s parents remained trapped in Vienna, and the last letters he received were sent from Theresienstadt. With thorough research, including personal files initiated by the predecessor to today’s Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) and more than 500 letters, Elisabeth Åsbrink illustrates how Swedish society was infused with anti-Semitism, and how families are shattered by war and asylum politics.
Book Synopsis The Creation of Doctor B by : Richard Pollak
Download or read book The Creation of Doctor B written by Richard Pollak and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1998-04-06 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demythologizing biography of world-famous Vienna-born psychoanalyst, bestselling author and authority on troubled children.
Book Synopsis Interwar Salzburg by : Robert von Dassanowsky
Download or read book Interwar Salzburg written by Robert von Dassanowsky and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2024-02-08 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long-overdue reassessment of post-1918 Salzburg as a distinct Austrian cultural hub that experimented in moving beyond war and empire into a modern, self-consciously inclusive, and international center for European culture. For over 300 years, Salzburg had its own legacy as a city-state at an international crossroads, less stratified than Europe's colonial capitals and seeking a political identity based in civic participation with its own economy and politics. After World War I, Salzburg became a refuge. Its urban and bucolic spaces staged encounters that had been brutally cut apart by the war; its deep-seated traditions of citizenship, art, and education guided its path. In Interwar Salzburg, contributors from around the globe recover an evolving but now lost vanguard of European culture, fostering not only new identities in visual and performing arts, film, music, and literature, but also a festival culture aimed at cultivating an inclusive public (not an international elite) and a civic culture sharing public institutions, sports, tourism, and a diverse spectrum of cultural identities serving a new European ideal.
Book Synopsis The Seasons of Rome by : Paul Hofmann
Download or read book The Seasons of Rome written by Paul Hofmann and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1999-03-15 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wends his way through the city streets, stopping to chat with mail carriers and construction workers, or lingers over a cappuccino, letting his thoughts wander back into the city's history and half a century of personal experience there, one follows closely behind and listens to the voices of the city - past and present - rise up in his lucid prose. Hofmann speaks from the very heart of Rome.
Book Synopsis The Vatican's Women by : Paul Hofmann
Download or read book The Vatican's Women written by Paul Hofmann and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2002-10-08 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four hundred of the 3,800 people who permanently live or work in the State of Vatican City, the smallest sovereign and independent state on the globe, are women. They are nuns and members of the laity; some are housekeepers of churchmen; others are secretaries, translators, editors, lawyers, and middle-level officials of the papal administration. Expansive in scope and enlightening in detail, The Vatican's Women recalls women who wielded power in the Vatican, including St. Catherine of Siena, Queen Christina of Sweden, Mother Pascalina (Pope Pius XII's longtime housekeeper and confidante), and Mother Teresa. With an unflinching eye, Paul Hofmann examines the papacy's reaction to Catholic women's (and nuns') liberation, and women's struggles, especially today, to fortify their positions within the Church. The Vatican's Women is a thorough and revealing exploration that will herald a new level of insight and dialogue amongst feminists, theologians, and laypeople alike.
Book Synopsis Hampton on Hampton by : Christopher Hampton
Download or read book Hampton on Hampton written by Christopher Hampton and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A lot of my plays begin as comedies and mutate in the course of the evening, because my instinct is that you have to welcome the audience in and make sure they're sitting comfortably before you can give them an adequate punch on the jaw.'Since the acclaimed London première of his first play in 1966, Christopher Hampton has established himself as one of Britain's most prominent, and least predictable, dramatists.From his best-known play, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, and its Oscar-winning film version, Dangerous Liaisons, to personal and critical favourites like Total Eclipse and Tales from Hollywood; from his films as writer-director (Carrington, Imagining Argentina) to his work as screenwriter-for-hire (Mary Reilly, The Quiet American); from translations (Art) to musicals (Sunset Boulevard), Hampton eloquently - and entertainingly - explores his varied career with interviewer Alistair Owen, and discusses its recurring theme: the clash of liberal and radical thought, exemplified by his most recent play, The Talking Cure, about the fathers of psychoanalysis, Jung and Freud.
Book Synopsis Symbolic Landscapes by : Gary Backhaus
Download or read book Symbolic Landscapes written by Gary Backhaus and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2008-11-09 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Symbolic Landscapes presents a definitive collection of landscape/place studies that explores symbolic, cultural levels of geographical meanings. Essays written by philosophers, geographers, architects, social scientists, art historians, and literati, bring specific modes of expertise and perspectives to this transdisciplinary and interdisciplinary study of the symbolic level human existential spatiality. Placing emphasis on the pre-cognitive genesis of symbolic meaning, as well as embodied, experiential (lived) geography, the volume offers a fresh, quasi-phenomenological approach. The editors articulate the epistemological doctrine that perception and imagination form a continuum in which both are always implicated as complements. This approach makes a case for the interrelation of the geography of perception and the geography of imagination, which means that human/cultural geography offers only an abstraction if indeed an aesthetic geography is constituted merely as a sub-field. Human/cultural geography can only approach spatial reality through recognizing the intimate interrelative dialectic between the imaginative and perceptual meanings of our landscapes/place-worlds. This volume reinvigorates the importance of the topic of symbolism in human/cultural geography, landscape studies, philosophy of place, architecture and planning, and will stand among the classics in the field.
Book Synopsis Rick Steves Vienna, Salzburg & Tirol by : Rick Steves
Download or read book Rick Steves Vienna, Salzburg & Tirol written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2017-04-18 with total page 704 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling in Vienna. With this guide, you'll explore elegant Vienna—the epicenter of opera, coffee, Art Nouveau, and waltz music. Meander through Habsburg palaces and nibble a Sacher torte in a velvet-lined café. In the evening, catch a classical concert, or sip wine with the locals in a traditional Heuriger garden. Beyond Vienna, stroll the Baroque street of Salzburg, home to Mozart and The Sound of Music for a taste of the Alpine living, head to the snowy peaks and green valleys of Tirol. Rick's candid, humorous advice will guide you to good-value hotels and restaurants. He'll help you plan where to go and what to see, depending on the length of your trip. You'll get up-to-date recommendations about what is worth your time and money. More than just reviews and directions, a Rick Steves guidebook is a tour guide in your pocket.
Book Synopsis Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall by : Katy Hamilton
Download or read book Brahms in the Home and the Concert Hall written by Katy Hamilton and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection explores the boundaries between Brahms' professional identity and his lifelong engagement with private and amateur music-making.
Download or read book Fritz Kreisler written by Amy Biancolli and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Violinist and composer Fritz Kreisler was a most beloved musician, bringing to the musical stage a grace and warmth that were unmatched during his prime. Born in 1875, he was the last, best ambassador of nineteenth-century Vienna to a twentieth-century world. Nurtured in the rich musical environment of that European capital, Kreisler had a middling career as a prodigy, never attaining the early celebrity of a young Heifetz or Menuhin, and he even abandoned the violin for several years while exploring other pursuits. Yet Kreisler was to become the most influential musician among string players the world over. This lively portrait by a perceptive critic brings back to life a musical giant of the first half of the twentieth century, examining important themes and events of his life and his views on politics and art as well as on music and musicians. It reveals a man whose gift was a unique ability to communicate joys and sorrows to an adoring world through music.
Download or read book Vienna written by C. M. Peniston-Bird and published by ABC-CLIO. This book was released on 1997 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vienna is a paradox in the heart of Europe. A capital and a province, cosmopolitan and insular, the city has evoked feelings of love and hatred, often simultaneously. Vienna is one of the world's truly great cities. Its vibrant musical and theatrical life, as well as its museums, parks and coffee houses, attract tourists from all over the world.
Book Synopsis Rick Steves' Vienna, Salzburg, and Tirol by : Rick Steves
Download or read book Rick Steves' Vienna, Salzburg, and Tirol written by Rick Steves and published by Rick Steves. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description based on: 1st ed., published Apr. 2009; title from title page.
Download or read book Cumulative Book Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 2328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world list of books in the English language.
Book Synopsis Thunder at Twilight by : Frederic Morton
Download or read book Thunder at Twilight written by Frederic Morton and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thunder at Twilight is a landmark historical vision, drawing on hitherto untapped sources to illuminate two crucial years in the life of the extraordinary city of Vienna-and in the life of the twentieth century. It was during the carnival of 1913 that a young Stalin arrived in Vienna on a mission that would launch him into the upper echelon of Russian revolutionaries, and it was here that he first collided with Trotsky. It was in Vienna that the failed artist Adolf Hitler kept daubing watercolors and spouting tirades at fellow drifters in a flophouse. Here Archduke Franz Ferdinand had a troubled audience with Emperor Franz Joseph-and soon the bullet that killed the Archduke would set off the Great War that would kill ten million more. With luminous prose that has twice made him a finalist for the National Book Award, Frederic Morton evokes the opulent, elegant, incomparable sunset metropolis-Vienna on the brink of cataclysm.
Book Synopsis Monsieur L'Vampyre and Friends by : Vee Bdosa
Download or read book Monsieur L'Vampyre and Friends written by Vee Bdosa and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book VIENNESE YARNS written by LAURIE CAMPBELL and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 653 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth book is about the Prussian family. The father is trying to take care of his wife, who is addicted to the drugs of the ninteenth century, a time when addiction hasn't been identified. There is only one place in the world trying to treat people for drugs, Vienna. So Otto has to take his family there and cope with the Viennese way of seeing and doing things. Will Hildegard overcome her dependencies? How will Otto cope with the strange life? How long will it take?
