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CORDON, Cécile

»I know what I'm worth!« Irma Trksak - A Life in Resistance

»We children helped our father to disseminate the prohibited paper of the labour movement. It was published by Otto Bauer in Brno and we distributed it secretly in Vienna. My sisters and brothers and I had worked for resistance from the cradle. Already in the Czech schools of the... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-234-8
Pages: 162
Dimension: 12,5 x 21 cm

STACHER, Irene / HUSA, Karl / BILGER, Veronika / KRALER, Albert (Hg.)

Migrations. The Global Developments since 1850

The analysis of migration movements as a spatiotemporal phenomenon offers principally the study of wide spatiotemporal structures, social dynamics and processes of change. Migration is not only a result of the global structures of inequality and spatial differentiation, but also expression and... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-240-9
Pages: 248
Dimension: 12,3x18 cm

WABER, Linde / SCHWENDTER, Rolf (Hg.)

cook au vin. wine dishes, recipes and divagations

This special book contains about 200 recipes and all kinds of divagations concerning the cooking with wine. It comprises culinary, literary and artistic moments. About 200 artists, writers, gastronomes, wine-growers as well as their friends draw and cook, for example Walter Asmus | Peter... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-228-7
Pages: 312
Dimension: 15x23 cm

SCHÄBLER, Birgit (Hg.)

Area Studies and the World. World Regions and New Global History

Since the 1980s a new concept of world history in the sense of a »global history« has begun to gain acceptance. Important here is not only the overcoming of a Eurocentric perspective, but also the manifestation of the processes of globalisation and the analyses of the influencer... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-241-6
Pages: 200
Dimension: 12,3x18 cm

BOTZ, Gerhard (Hg.)

Silence and Speech of a Generation. Conversations with Victims, Delinquents and Opportunists of the National Socialism

National Socialism and holocaust are family story irrespectively whether in families of victims, opportunists or delinquents. The remembrances of the Nazi regime are diversely present as after-images in public and (half)... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-242-3
Pages: 168
Dimension: 15x23 cm

FISCHER, Margot

Wild Consumption. An Encyclopaedia of Eatable Wild Plants

Cookbook of herbs and encyclopaedia of eatable wild plants at the same time, this extensive reference work invites the reader to browse in the cultural history as well as to inform him/her about medical applications or the cooking of about 500 stimulating recipes.

Margot... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-217-1
Pages: 488
Dimension: 20x27 cm

STOUTENBEEK, Jan / VIGEVENO, Paul

Jewish Amsterdam. A city guide

Take a look around Amsterdam - it won't be long before you notice a building adorned with a Star of David, a cafe selling kosher sandwiches or one of the many monumental buildings with a Jewish past, ranging from synagogues to imposing diamond factories. For the past 400 years this city has been home to Jews who... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-183-9
Pages: 256
Dimension: 12,5x21 cm

SCHMITZER, Ulrike / NÖSTLINGER, Elisabeth (Hg.)

Bourdieu's Heirs. Social Elite Formation in Germany and Austria

From a sociological, psychological and political point of view the question is pursued how today's elite formation is designed, which was analysed in French society by Bourdieu in »La distinction«.

Are these norms still valid, have they - and if how - changed and... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-194-5
Pages: 80
Dimension: 15x23 cm

ALAKUS, Baris / KNIEFACZ, Katharina / REISINGER, Werner (Hg.)

Chevolution. Myth and Impact of Ernesto Guevara

Who was »Ché« really? Many publications have dealt with the person Ernesto Guevara since his death in 1967 and analysed his role as freedom fighter, politician and utopian in Latin America and Africa. In the 1970s also in the German-speaking countries various studies were published, his... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-227-0
Pages: 307
Dimension: 12 x 18 cm

METZLER, Hannes

Dishonoured Forever? - Rehabilitation of Wehrmacht Deserters

Deserters of the Wehrmacht (German Armed Forces) were not discussed in Germany and Austria for decades. Their refusal to join in Hitler's crusade of death had not been worth of any positive notice in postwar German and Austrian society and memory. On the contrary, they were faced... [more]

ISBN: 978385476-218-8
Pages: 240
Dimension: 15x24 cm