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Mans Search for Meaning

Mans Search for Meaning more books like this

by Viktor Emil Frankl

Psychiatrist Victor Frankl tells the story of the three years he spent as a prisoner in Nazi concentration camps, where he discovered that the will to find meaning in life motivates human existence. One of the 10 most influential books in the Library of Congress/Book-of-the-Month Club's 1991 "Survey of Lifetime Readers."

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Berlin Noir

Berlin Noir more books like this

by Philip Kerr

This is a combined edition of: "March Violets", "The Pale Criminal", and, "A German Requiem" by Philip Kerr.

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Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust

Nazi Officer's Wife: How One Jewish Woman Survived the Holocaust more books like this

by Edith Hahn Beer, Susan Dworkin

This memoir recounts how one Jewish woman went underground in Nazi Germany, bravely posing as a non-Jew to survive. In her deception, she fell in love with and married a Nazi Party member. Here, accompanied by reproductions of original documents, she describes the psychological trauma of her ordeal.

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Rick Steves' Germany

Rick Steves' Germany more books like this

by Rick Steves

Rick Steves' Germany 2009 offers up the best of Deutschland, from the otherworldly castles of Bavaria to the rowdy beer halls of Munich. Rick covers the must-see sights of Berlin, Munich, and Frankfurt, and also includes a healthy dose of little-known destinations in the Black Forest and Mosel Valley. With Rick's expert advice travelers can save ...

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A Death in Vienna

A Death in Vienna more books like this

by Daniel Silva

This fourth volume in a series about Gabriel Allon sends the art restorer and Israeli spy to Vienna to investigate a bombing that put an old friend in a coma and left others dead. The case takes on a hideously personal cast when Allon discovers that an Austrian industrialist who seems to be connected to the incident might also be the brutal Nazi ...

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Moonlight on the Magic Flute

Moonlight on the Magic Flute more books like this

by Mary Pope Osborne (Read by)

Jack and Annie head to 18th-century Austria, where they must find a musician by the name of Mozart. Their hunt is hampered by the appearance of a mischievous little boy who is determined to follow them everywhere. Illustrations.

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Vienna Prelude

Vienna Prelude more books like this

by Bodie Thoene, Ph.D.

Elisa Lindheim, of Jewish heritage, and John Murphy, New York Times reporter, become entangled in a web of intrigue, danger, and conspiracy.

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The Little Book

The Little Book more books like this

by Selden Edwards

An irresistible triumph of the imagination more than 30 years in the making, "The Little Book" is a breathtaking love story that spans generations, ranging from fin de siecle Vienna through the pivotal moments of the 20th century.

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A Death in Vienna

A Death in Vienna more books like this

by Dr. Frank Tallis

In Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, Max Liebermann is at the forefront of psychoanalysis, practicing the controversial new science with all the skill of a master detective. Every dream, inflection, or slip of tongue in his "hysterical" patients has meaning and reveals some hidden truth. When a mysterious and beautiful medium dies under ...

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Measure for Measure

Measure for Measure more books like this

by William Shakespeare

Written in 1604 when James I--a king particularly concerned with the religious aspects of his leadership--was fresh on the throne, MEASURE FOR MEASURE is a reflection of its time. In it, a sovereign's role in the legislation of morality is explored, as two extreme poles of government are navigated--the Duke's over-leniency as the play opens, and ...

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The Brenner Assignment: The Untold Story of the Most Daring Spy Mission of World War II more books like this

by Patrick K O'Donnell

An impossible mission / Behind enemy lines / The never-before-told true story of a small team of American saboteurs with orders to sever the Third Reichs main supply artery-the Brenner Pass. Like a scene from Where Eagles Dare, a small team of American special operatives parachutes into Italy under the noses of thousands of German troops. Their ...

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Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture more books like this

by Carl E Schorske

A landmark study of Habsburg Vienna in the late 19th and 20th centuries by one of the truly original scholars of our time. Photos included.

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A History of the Habsburg Empire, 1526-1918 more books like this

by Robert A Kann

'An impressive achievement in a task of extraordinary difficulty...The outstanding asset of this work does not consist in its comprehensiveness and objectivity, however, nor even in the wide knowledge and special expertise Kann can bring to bear from his early legal training, his formidable scholarship on the nationalities question, and his keen ...

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Rick Steves' Germany & Austria more books like this

by Rick Steves

Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers how to take the Do-It-Yourself Dresden Baroque Blitz Tour or the Short and Scenic Black Forest Joyride? With Rick Steves' "Germany & Austria 2008", travellers can experience Rick's favourite destinations in Munich, Bavaria, Baden-Baden, Rothenburg, Wursburg, Frankfurt, the Rhine Valley, Dresden, Berlin, ...

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The Piano Teacher more books like this

by Elfriede Jelinek

Nobel Prizewinner Elfriede Jelinek's 1988 novel is the story of Erika Kohut, a middle-aged piano teacher in Vienna whose refuge from her constricted life is hardcore pornography. When she becomes involved in an affair with one of her piano students, she is able to fulfill her dark side as she forces him into increasingly sadomasochistic sexual ...

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A Nervous Splendor: Vienna 1888-1889 more books like this

by Frederic Morton

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A Song for Summer more books like this

by Eva Ibbotson

A love story about a young Englishwoman who takes a job as house mother at a Viennese boarding school just before World War II breaks out.

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Freud: A Life for Our Time more books like this

by Professor Peter Gay

This biography of Freud provides an overview of his life and of the academic life of other early psychoanalysts. It also discusses his Jewishness - the way it influenced his life and the anti-Semitism in Vienna - while emphasizing his bourgeois aspirations.

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Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536 more books like this

by James Reston, Jr.

A bestselling historian recounts 16 years that shook the world--the epic clash between Europe and the Ottoman Turks that ended the Renaissance and brought Islam to the gates of Vienna.

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Vienna Blood more books like this

by Dr. Frank Tallis

In the grip of a Siberian winter in 1902, a serial killer in Vienna embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. Vicious mutilation, a penchant for arcane symbols, and a seemingly random choice of victim are his most distinctive peculiarities. Detective Inspector Oskar Rheinhardt summons a young disciple of Freud - his friend Dr. Max Liebermann - to ...

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Berlin Diaries, 1940-1945 more books like this

by Marie Vassiltchikov

The secret diaries of a 23-year-old White Russian princess who worked at the German Foreign Office from 1940 to the end of the war provides a unique look at World War II from the German side. 16 page photo insert.

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The Complete Training of Horse and Rider in the Principles of Classical Horsemanship more books like this

by Alois Podhajsky

For over a quarter of a century, Colonel Alois Podhajsky was the Director of the Spanish Riding School in Vienna, home of the famous white Lipizzaner stallions whose remarkable performances have thrilled audiences throughout the world. Now for the first time, Col. Podhajsky has set forth explicitly and in practical, instructive fashion the step-by ...

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What Is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches more books like this

by Roger Schrodinger, Erwin Schrodinger, Roger Penrose (Foreword by)

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrodinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman, but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of the structure of DNA ...

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The Memorist more books like this

by M J Rose

As a child, Meers Logan had been haunted by memories of another time and place. Now the hand of the past has reached out again, in the form of a drawing of an 18th-century gaming box. Determined to unlock the mystery of who she once had been, Meers travels to Vienna to find the box.

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Where Eagles Dare more books like this

by Alistair MacLean

Seven men and one woman parachute onto a German-occupied mountain to thwart a Nazi plan to extract secrets from a captured American general.

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