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On the Surface of Things: Images of the Extraordinary in Science
by Felice Frankel and George M. Whitesides  Publisher Comments Using innovative photographic technology, Felice Frankel finds startling abstract beauty on the surfaces of objects all around us. Chemist George M. Whitesides explains each photograph, describing why and how each of these phenomena occur....
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The Hungarians: A Thousand Years of Victory in Defeat
by Paul Lendvai Publisher Comments The Hungarians is the most comprehensive, clear-sighted, and absorbing history ever of a legendarily proud and passionate but lonely people. Much of Europe once knew them as child-devouring cannibals and bloodthirsty Huns. But it wasn't long before the...
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One Day That Shook the Communist World One Day That Shook the Communist World: The 1956 Hungarian Uprising and Its Legacy the 1956 Hungarian Uprising
by Paul Lendvai Publisher Comments On October 23, 1956, a popular uprising against Soviet rule swept through Hungary like a force of nature, only to be mercilessly crushed by Soviet tanks twelve days later. Only now, fifty years after those harrowing events, can the full story be told...
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Wittgenstein's Vienna ((Rev)96 Edition)
by Allan Janik Publisher Comments The life and culture of Hapsburg Vienna before World War I--the city of Freud, Schoenberg, Klimt, and Wittgenstein, whose philosophy announced the birth of the modern era. An independent work...challenging, new, and useful. --New York Times Book...
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Fin-de-Siecle Vienna: Politics and Culture
by Carl E Schorske Publisher Comments A landmark book from one of the truly original scholars of our time: a magnificent revelation of turn-of-the-century Vienna where out of a crisis of political and social disintegration so much of modern art and thought was born. "Not only is it a...
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Slobodan Milosevic and the Destruction of Yugoslavia
by Louis Sell Publisher Comments With a New Afterword by the Author Louis Sell offers an insider's account of the life and times of Slobodan Milosevic, filling a gap in the literature on the Yugoslav conflicts by covering both the domestic, Yugoslav side of the collapse and the...
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A Concise History of Hungary (Cambridge Concise Histories)
by Miklos Molnar Publisher Comments This book offers a comprehensive thousand-year history of the land, people, society, culture and economy of Hungary, from its nebulous origins in the Ural Mountains to the 1988 elections. It tells above all the thrilling story of a people who became a...
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The Habsburgs
by Andrew Wheatcroft Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [347]-368) and index....
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Twelve Days: The Story of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution (Vintage)
by Victor Sebestyen Publisher Comments Twelve Days is a riveting day-by-day account of the defining moment of the Cold War—the inspiring but brutally crushed Hungarian Uprising. Victor Sebestyen, a journalist whose own family fled Hungary, gives us a totally fresh account, incorporating...
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The Quest for Compromise
by Howard Louthan Publisher Comments An account of religious moderation at the Habsburg court in late sixteenth-century Vienna....
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Burgtheater and Austrian Identity: Theatre and Cultural Politics in Vienna, 1918-38 (Legenda Main)
by Robert Pyrah Synopsis The collapse of the Habsburg monarchy in 1918 galvanized discussion about national identity in the new Republic of Austria. As Robert Pyrah shows in this thoroughly documented study, the complex identity politics of interwar Austria were played out in...
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New Vanguard #72: Austrian Napoleonic Artillery 1792-1815
by David Hollins Synopsis The Austrian artillery of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars was a creation of the renowned Lichtenstein system of the early 1750s. This weight system produced a series of weapons of 3-, 6- and 12-pdr. calibre along with 7- and 10-pdr. howitzers. In...
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Beyond Nationalism: A Social and Political History of the Habsburg Officer Corps, 1848-1918
by Istvan Deak Publisher Comments In the last seventy years of its long and distinguished existence, the Habsburg monarchy was plagued by the forces of rising nationalism. Still, it preserved domestic peace and provided the conditions for social, economic, and cultural progress in a vast...
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Welcome to Hungary (Welcome to My Country)
by Chang Shuh Cheng Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index....
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Men-At-Arms #323: Austrian Army 1836-66 (1) Infantry
by Darko Pavlovic Synopsis In the mid-19th century, Austria comprised a heterogeneous, multi-ethnic empire consisting of the Austrian or 'German' area; the Hungarian area; the Military Border; and the Kingdom of Lombardy-Venetia. The diverse nature of the empire made it difficult...
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Hitler in Vienna, 1907-1913: Clues to the Future
by J. Sydney Jones Publisher Comments This revelatory look at Hitler's formative years in Vienna provides startling insights into the future Fuhrer. Jones explores the Vienna of those fragile years before World War I, home to Sigmund Freud, Gustav Mahler, Leon Trotsky and Gustav Klimt. This...
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Nazism and the Radical Right in Austria 1918-1934
by Book News Annotation Austria during the years between the end of World War I and in the years preceding World War II was, to say the least, an unsettled place. The nation was in economic ruin and political turmoil at the conclusion of World War I, and many of the regions...
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Austria as Theater and Ideology: The Meaning of the Salzburg Festival
by Michael P. Steinberg Synopsis In this highly regarded book, Michael P. Steinberg investigates the goals and meanings of the Salzburg Festival from its origins in the wake of defeat in World War I and the collapse of the Habsburg Empire. He focuses on those aspects that reveal with...
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1956: The Hungarian Revolution and the War for Independence
by Lee (edt) Congdon Synopsis < P> This comprehensive history follows the trajectory of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, including essays from a range of noted scholars and historians and reactions from leading non-Hungarian intellectuals of the time, such as Albert Camus and...
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Habsburg Monarchy, 1618-1815 (2ND 00 Edition)
by Charles W. Ingrao Publisher Comments This is the first accessible and comprehensive history of the early modern Habsburg monarchy to appear in any language. Professor Ingrao challenges the conventional notion of Habsburg state and society as peculiarly backward by tracing its emergence as a...
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