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MARTENS, Bob / PETER, Herbert

DESTROYED SYNAGOGUES OF VIENNA - A VIRTUAL WALKABOUT Virtual excursions to the destroyed synagogues of Vienna: This book is dedicated to those Viennese synagogues which vanished from the cityscape due to nationalsocialistic efforts. Like their killed or driven-out visitors, they left an unfilled gap in society and culture. Through modern technical means,... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-313-0
Pages: 256
Dimension: 12,5 x 21 cm

MÜLLER-KAMPEL, Beatrix / SCHMUTZ, Wolfgang

WILLING FLESH - AN ANTHOLOGY OF LITERARY TIDBIDS OF AUSTRIAN CUISINE

Austrian kitchen is neither lacking in fat, nor meat, nor sweet delicacies; but it does suffer the absence of Iiterary flavour.

In numerous cookbooks one finds recipes, but there is no literary text beyond a few quotations. This "insatiable" anthology... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-316-1
Pages: 304
Dimension: 15 x 24 cm

TRUPP, Claudia / TRUPP, Alexander

ETHNO-TOURISM - INTERCULTURAL MEETING BETWEEN EQUALS?

"Ethno-tourism" is a unique way of travelling. It specifically leads tourists to "alien" and "aboriginal" cultures (be it the Himba in Namibia, the Akha in Thailand or the people living in the austrian Alps) and spotlights the local inhabitants as objects of... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-318-5
Pages: 176
Dimension: 12 x 21 cm

ZHANG, Yu

BUDDHA JUMPED OVER THE WALL - CULINARY DELIGHTS FROM THE SOUTH OF CHINA

For many europeans "The Middle Kingdom", China, is a land far far away, strange and unimaginable and therefore usually treated with a certain reservation. Curiously, the first association with China is neither the cultural revolution, nor the economic boom, but... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-317-8
Pages: 216
Dimension: 15x24 cm

DIERCKS, Christine / SCHLÜTER, Sabine (Hg.)

FREUD LECTURES 2007

"Main controversial issues in psycho analysis" was the motto of the Sigmund Freud- lectures of 2007. Hence, this volume broaches the issue of the numerous quarrels since the beginning of psychoanalysis and most importantly the development of new theories, that traditionally resulted from these disputes.

Through... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-290-4
Pages: 300
Dimension: 15 x 24 cm

KLUY, Alexander

JEWISH MUNICH

"Jewish Munich" presents an exciting view on the city with more to become acquainted with than "Weißwurst" (bavarian veal sausages) and "Oktober-Fest"!

In 2007 Germany´s most spectacular new synagogue with about 9000 members, was inaugurated in Munich. But there were different times... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-314-7
Pages: 222
Dimension: 12,5 x 21 cm

MARBOE, Alexander / OBENAUS, Andreas (Hg.)

SEAFARING AND THE EARLY EUROPEAN EXPANSION

Spreading from the mediterranean region and the northwestern Atlantic, the european naval powers - first of all Portugal and Spain - found their way across the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, thereby changing the local market- and power structures strongly. Now, regions like India,... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-299-7
Pages: 224
Dimension: 12 x 21 cm

STRASSEGGER, Friedrich

GOLDSTEIN`S CONFESSION - a novel

The successfull jewish businessman Daniel Goldstein, born Hermann Westermayer and former SS-man, is spending a quiet holiday in Eilat, when one day a letter arrives. The blackmailer addresses him as "Sturmscharführer Westermayer" and thus the lie of a lifetime shatters to pieces. Westermayer takes... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-287-4
Pages: 328
Dimension: 12,5 x 21 cm

BECKERMANN, Ruth / DOBRONYI, Margit

ALIVE! - JEWS IN VIENNA AFTER 1945

Who would have guessed, there would be any jews wanting to resettle in Vienna? Austria has after all been a land, the persecuted people wanted to leave as soon as possible! Nevertheless, the collection of photographies from 1958 to 1998 tells another story. They show modern jewish life, happy people, frolic parties and gay... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-251-5
Pages: 304
Dimension: 17x24 cm

BOTZ, Gerhard

National Socialism in Vienna

The whys and hows of the development and consolidation of national-socialistic ideas in Vienna have been a taboo in Austrian history for a long time. This book provides a detailed overlook on the mechanisms of control and manipulation of individuals and groups during the Nazi-regime, using Vienna -... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-252-2
Pages: 734
Dimension: 15,3x24 cm