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The Rough Guide to Viennaby Rob Humphreys
Rough Guides 2011; US$ 19.99Rough Guide to Vienna is the best guide there is to one of Europe?s most elegant and civilised capital cities. Inspirational photography, neighbourhood-by-neighbourhood accounts and detailed, fantastically well-drawn, up-to-date maps help you get the most out of a visit to Vienna ? from the city?s world-class art galleries and museums to its Art Nouveau and Modernist architecture. Get off the well-beaten track and explore the narrow, cobbled backstreets of the Innere Stadt or the lively cafés and bars of the Naschmarkt area.Learn all about the city?s fascinating and rich history presented in a truly accessible way. Frank, incisive reviews take you straight to the best of the city?s coffee houses, restaurants and nightlife venues, from the minimalist... more...
Czechoslovakiaby Robin Shepherd
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2000; US$ 81.00Czechoslovakia, one of the most rigid and authoritarian of the former Soviet Union's satellite states, started the transition from communism with high hopes. But a decade of change has exposed the full extent of the damage wrought to the country through decades of communist rule. For one thing, the country could not hold together, splitting apart into two independent states in 1993. This book looks at the political and economic changes of two countries in transition and argues that much remains to be done before they have shaken off the legacy of a particularly harsh communist past. more...
War, religion and Court Language in Habsburg Austriaby Karin J. MacHardy
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2002; US$ 140.00This case study of the causes of the Thirty Years' War suggests an alternative framework to that of Absolutism, and views statebuilding as an interactive bargaining process that can engender challenges to political authority. It shows how selective court patronage changed the cultural habits of nobles in education, manners, and tastes, but failed to transform religious identities, which were intimately tied to noble interests. Instead, the confessionalization of patronage deepened divisions within the elite, providing multiple incentives for the formation of an anti-Habsburg alliance among Protestants in 1620. more...
Austria-Hungaryby Eric Roman
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 85.00This work provides readers with a greater understanding of the history of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the modern nations - Austria, Hungary, and the Czech Republic - that emerged as a result of the empire's demise. It includes an historical dictionary of A-Z entries. more...
Travel Viennaby MobileReference
MobileReference.com 2007; US$ 4.99Travel Vienna - illustrated city guide, phrasebook, and maps. Indulge Yourself with a personal tour guide on Your PDA. Fully illustrated. Historical overviews. Interesting facts. Street Map, Metro Map, and more. Museums hours and ticket info. . Access the guide anytime, anywhere - at home, on the train, in the subway. Plan the trip during airplane flight. Add Bookmarks. Text annotation and mark-up. Table of Contents. General: About | Tourism Office | History | Sleep. Maps: City Map | U-Bahn (Metro) | S-Bahn and U-Bahn | Districts | Austria. Phrasebook: About | Viennese German | Pronunciation | Phrase List. Transport: About | Get In | Get Around | U-Bahn (Metro) | S-Bahn | Ringstraße | Airport | Stations | Franz Josef Railway. Attractions: Do... more...
Austriaby Alan Allport
Infobase Publishing 2002; US$ 30.00- Information-packed volumes provide comprehensive overviews of each nation's people, geography, history, government, economy, and culture- Abundant full-color illustrations guide the reader on a voyage of discovery- Maps reflect current political boundaries more...
CultureShock! Austriaby Susan Roraff; Julie Krejci
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2008; US$ 11.17With over three million copies in print, CultureShock! is a dynamic and indispensable range of guides covering countless destinations around the world. The series is especially intended for travellers who are looking to truly understand the countries they are visiting and who might even consider residing there. more...
CultureShock! Czech Republicby Tim Nollen
Marshall Cavendish International (Asia) Ptd Ltd 2008; US$ 11.17CultureShock! Czech Republic allows readers to discover the rich history behind the country, from the Hapsburg era to the effect of Communism. Gain an insight into the local characteristics from the Czech love of nature to their musical inclination to their magical folklore. Be aware of social etiquette when dining in someones home or learn what to expect when attending a traditional wedding. Navigate your way around the complex Czech language, especially its 40-lettered alphabet and sometimes difficult pronunciation. Discover what you should expect to pay for your new home, what your tenant rights are and what documents are required for obtaining a work and spousal visa. Peppered throughout with useful phrases, terms and resources, CultureShock!... more...
Vienna in the Age of Uncertaintyby Deborah R. Coen
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 30.00Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty traces the vital and varied roles of science through the story of three generations of the eminent Exner family, whose members included Nobel Prize–winning biologist Karl Frisch, the teachers of Freud and of physicist Erwin Schrödinger, artists of the Vienna Secession, and a leader of Vienna’s women’s movement. Training her critical eye on the Exners through the rise and fall of Austrian liberalism and into the rise of the Third Reich, Deborah R. Coen demonstrates the interdependence of the family’s scientific and domestic lives, exploring the ways in which public notions of rationality, objectivity, and autonomy were formed in the private sphere. Vienna in the Age of Uncertainty... more...
Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgsby R. J. W. Evans
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 50.00These elegantly written essays by the leading historian of the Austro-Hungarian empire explore the political and religious history of the Habsburg lands, Europe's only true multinational state. They illuminate key aspects of the evolution towards modern statehood and national awareness in Central Europe over more than two centuries of cultural and social transition. - ;This book address a number of interrelated themes over two hundred years and more in the political, religious, cultural, and social history of a broad but often neglected swathe of the European continent. It seeks - against the grain of conventional presentations - to apprehend the era from the later seventeenth to the later nineteenth century as a whole, and to demonstrate... more...









