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Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.

Varcare il confine vicino a Metz, attraversare il Württemberg e la Baviera, raggiungere in treno Vienna e Budapest, proseguire a cavallo per la steppa russa, superare gli Urali e la Siberia, costeggiare il lago Bajkal e ridiscendere il fiume Amur fino all’Oceano. Poi, fermarsi a Sabirk ad aspettare una nave di contrabbandieri olandesi. È così che nel 1861 Hervé Joncour, che compra e vende bachi da seta, arriva in Giappone. È così che arriva al suo destino, che ha il volto di una ragazzina.

Un mistero si nasconde nella mente della protagonista: solo lo stato onirico indotto dal coma potrà condurla a ripercorrere le memorie di un viaggio a Vienna e giungere così alla verità

Prisonnier d'un mariage malheureux, Ian Jarrett est persuadé que plus jamais il ne connaîtra l'amour. Et pourtant... Lorsqu'il rencontre Marian Esguard dans un parc enneigé de Vienne, où il est venu prendre des photos pour un magazine, le coup de foudre est immédiat. De retour à Londres, Ian n'a plus qu'une idée en tête : se séparer de sa femme et rejoindre comme promis l'élue de son coeur. Mais lorsqu'il arrive enfin au rendez-vous tant attendu, sur la côte anglaise, Marian n'est pas là. Obsédé par cet amour qui a bouleversé sa vie, Ian décide alors de retrouver sa trace. Ce qu'il apprend le déconcerte davantage.

A young teacher with a passion for money enters a world she never imagined... a job at the embassy, ​​a strange promotion, and rapidly growing ambitions! But is all this real? Or is there something bigger hidden? Discover the story and see the ending you won't expect!

Former intelligence expert Darren Priest tries to distance himself from his old life, and turns to a new vocation as a wine and food writer. He soon discovers that with his background, some things you can't un-volunteer for. Sent to Austria by the US President, Priest undertakes a covert mission where friend quickly turns to foe. With numerous enemies threatening his mission, can Priest figure out whom to trust - and expose the Vienna Connection?

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind - our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions - and how mind and brain relate to art.

Vienna: Years Ago includes six short stories focusing on a collection of people in 1945 Vienna, including a Vienna police inspector, an American soldier, a former SS major, an American woman doctor, and various friends, lovers, spouses, and enemies.

I'm a damsel in distress without health insurance and an upcoming surgery. Zane is my billionaire knight in a three-piece suit, an affectionate smile, and a stuttering voice. When I run out of all options, he proposes a gentleman's offer, generous and beautiful, exactly like him. We get into a marriage of convenience until my life is back to normal. Simple. But nothing is simple in my grand wedding and designer wedding dress. Ours is possibly the only fake wedding where every custom is followed to the word—including consummating the marriage.

The Battle of Vienna (1683): The History and Legacy of the Decisive Conflict Between the Ottoman Turkish Empire and Holy Roman Empire chronicles the dramatic siege, and how the Christian forces turned back the Ottomans. You will learn about the battle like never before.

Guida turistica Vienna: Vienna in tedesco Wien, in austro-bavarese Wean, in ungherese Bécs, in sloveno Dunaj) è la capitale e allo stesso tempo uno dei nove stati federali dell'Austria, completamente circondato dalla Bassa Austria.

He’s seen something that could get him killed. But what? Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he’s been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it’s just a job: he never asks who’s paying him and why - until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched. On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this - or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past?

Your Friend lo acompañará en su paseo por la ciudad de Viena. Con la ayuda de un aparato MP3 y unos auriculares usted obtendrá todas las informaciones acerca del centro de Viena.

Lottie Sprigg and her employer, Mrs. Moore, are guests at Vienna's opulent Schönbrunn Palace. But their visit goes awry when the corpse of a renowned psychoanalyst is found in the grounds. There's a handful of suspects and-tragically for Mrs. Moore—one of them is her beloved Prince Manfred.

1937. Katya Komarovsky is studying medicine in Glasgow, living among friends and eager to begin her career as a doctor. But when her spendthrift parents announce that they’ve run out of money and are facing ruin—and that she’ll now have to support them by working as a governess in Vienna—the life she’s dreamed of goes up in smoke. Furiously resentful, Katya rages at her wealthy employer, Thor, for stealing her future—and saddling her with twelve-year-old Gretchen, a deeply troubled child who has only a blazing musical talent to redeem her.

Thanks to the advances in modern medicine, the average person’s lifespan now exceeds seventy years. If you stop to think, that’s quite a long time to walk around on this earth. Along with the wonderful life expectancy increases, however, have come the detrimental effects of overeating and unhealthy eating. It seems that as we advance in one area, we regress in others. This doesn’t have to be so, however. Reaching a place of responsibility where we combine our physical health with our wellness enhances those extra years of life.

Décembre 2012, Bretagne. Un nouveau meurtrier sévit au pays des contes et des sombres légendes, des vents qui malmènent les cœurs et de la brume qui étouffe les âmes. Un meurtrier sans pitié, un meurtrier sacrilège. Un meurtrier qui s’en prend à la source même de la vie : les femmes enceintes. Quatre ont été retrouvées éventrées, le fœtus arraché à leurs entrailles et porté disparu. Réquisitionné pour diriger cette sordide enquête, le commandant Gabriel Gerfaut de la Brigade Criminelle de Paris se rend à Guingamp pour tenter d’élucider ces crimes.

Per una fortunata coincidenza Ernestine Kirsch, insegnante di latino in pensione e grande amante dell’operetta, ha due biglietti omaggio per la prima de La giacca gialla, di Franz Lehár, al Theater an der Wien. Decide così di invitare l’amico farmacista Anton Böck che, pur detestando l’operetta, accetta di accompagnarla per trascorrere una serata insieme a lei.

Vienna, the Imperial City, is like one large museum. The Viennese Waltz, the Viennese strudel, the Viennese opera, the Viennese coffee...

In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg's great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna. But this is no Anne Frank-like existence; teenage Hans passes time in the municipal library and buys standing-room tickets to the Vienna State Opera. Hans never sees his family again. Goldenberg reconstructs this unique story in magnificent reportage.