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Viennese ideas saturate the modern world. From California architecture to Hollywood Westerns, modern advertising to shopping malls, orgasms to gender confirmation surgery, nuclear fission to fitted kitchens—every aspect of our history, science, and culture is in some way shaped by Vienna. Richard Cockett gives us the entirety of an extraordinary story of how one city made the modern world—and how we all remain inescapably Viennese.

Vienna is unique amongst world capitals in its consistent international importance over the centuries. From the ascent of the Habsburgs as Europe's leading dynasty to the Congress of Vienna, which reordered Europe after Napoleon, to bridge-building summits during the Cold War, it is the Austrian capital that has been the scene of key moments in European and world affairs. History has been shaped by scores of figures influenced by their time in Vienna, including: Empress Maria Theresa, Count Metternich, Bertha von Suttner, Theodore Herzl, Gustav Mahler, and many others.

Sein Verrat ist grenzenlos. Doch seine Anziehungskraft ist es auch. Livia Hohenburg ist am Boden. Nach Nicolas' Vertrauensbruch stürzt die einstige Queen der Wiener Elite in grenzenlose Einsamkeit. Da ist nichts als Leere in ihr – und Hass auf den Mann, der sie hintergangen hat. Dennoch muss der schöne Schein der High Society gewahrt bleiben und so füllt Livia ihre Rolle aus, wie sie es immer getan hat. Als Nicolas erneut in ihr Leben tritt und ihr eine Neuigkeit offenbart, verändert sich alles und Livia ist gezwungen, seine Präsenz zu ertragen.

Er ist alles, was sie verabscheut. Aber es ist unmöglich, ihm nicht zu verfallen. Liebling der High Society und IT-Girl – Livia weiß, wie sie sich in der Öffentlichkeit bewegen muss und was von ihr erwartet wird. Ihre Follower lieben sie und als Tochter des Bürgermeisters liegt ihr Wien zu Füßen. Niemand weiß von ihrer Verletzlichkeit, niemand interessiert sich für das, was hinter Livias Fassade steckt. Bis Nicolas, ihr neuer »Stiefbruder«, in ihr Leben platzt. Attraktiv, arrogant und überheblich lässt er keine Gelegenheit aus, sie demonstrativ zu demütigen. Und trotzdem fühlt sich Livia zu ihm hingezogen.

Auf den ersten Blick ist Dunkelblum eine Kleinstadt wie jede andere. Doch hinter der Fassade der österreichischen Gemeinde verbirgt sich die Geschichte eines furchtbaren Verbrechens. Ihr Wissen um das Ereignis verbindet die älteren Dunkelblumer seit Jahrzehnten - genauso wie ihr Schweigen über Tat und Täter.

None of us had a perfect childhood; we are all carrying around behaviors that don’t serve us—and may in fact be hurting us. But it doesn’t have to be that way, says licensed marriage and family therapist Vienna Pharaon. Our past might create our patterns, but we can change those patterns for the better...with the right tools. In The Origins of You, Pharaon has unlocked a healing process to help us understand our Family of Origin—the family and framework we grew up within—and examine what worked (and didn’t) in that system.

Dalinar Kholin desafió al malvado dios Odium a un duelo de campeones en el que se decidirá el futuro de Roshar. Los Caballeros Radiantes solo tienen diez días para prepararse... y la repentina ascensión del taimado e implacable Taravangian al puesto de Odium lo ha sumido todo en una tremenda confusión.

1937. Katya Komarovsky is studying medicine in Glasgow, living among friends and eager to begin her career as a doctor. But when her spendthrift parents announce that they’ve run out of money and are facing ruin—and that she’ll now have to support them by working as a governess in Vienna—the life she’s dreamed of goes up in smoke. Furiously resentful, Katya rages at her wealthy employer, Thor, for stealing her future—and saddling her with twelve-year-old Gretchen, a deeply troubled child who has only a blazing musical talent to redeem her.

Winter in Vienna, 1902: a serial killer embarks upon a bizarre campaign of murder. In this second volume of the Liebermann Papers, Liebermann struggles with his own demons, Against a backdrop of mystery and terror.

On June 22, 1936, the philosopher Moritz Schlick was on his way to deliver a lecture at the University of Vienna when Johann Nelböck, a deranged former student of Schlick's, shot him dead on the university steps. Some Austrian newspapers defended the madman, while Nelböck himself argued in court that his onetime teacher had promoted a treacherous Jewish philosophy. David Edmonds traces the rise and fall of the Vienna Circle - an influential group of brilliant thinkers led by Schlick.

A brilliant book by Nobel Prize winner Eric R. Kandel, The Age of Insight takes us to Vienna 1900, where leaders in science, medicine, and art began a revolution that changed forever how we think about the human mind - our conscious and unconscious thoughts and emotions - and how mind and brain relate to art.

Vianna Stibal was diagnosed with a serious health condition. When conventional and alternative medicine failed her, she discovered a simple technique that cured her illness and sparked a worldwide phenomenon. ThetaHealing® is essentially applied quantum physics. Using a theta brain wave, which until now was believed to be accessible only in deep sleep or yogi-level meditation, the practitioner is able to connect with the energy of All That Is - the energy in everything - to identify issues with and witness healings on the physical body, and to identify and change limiting beliefs.

Du wirst nicht glauben, womit man in Wien sein Geld verdienen konnte! Begib dich mit Jascha Novak und Simone Schedl auf eine Entdeckungsreise in längst vergangene Arbeitswelten. Erfahre von kuriosen Berufen, die es so nicht mehr (oft) gibt und lege mit uns ein unbekanntes Stück Wiener Stadtgeschichte frei. Wir sprechen mit langgedienten HüterInnen althergebrachten Handwerks, mit jungen UnternehmerInnen, die fast verlorene Traditionen wiederbeleben und entdecken mystische Arbeitsstätten.

Spring 1938. The Vienna Writers Circle meets at Café Mozart to share hopeful stories during a hopeless time. Mathias and Johannes - fellow writers, cousins, and close as brothers - thrive within this creative group of friends. But when the Nazis take over Austria, everything changes. With their families' lives now under threat, the men hide in plain sight using false identities. The safety of their loved ones and their writing is their only salvation.

Lottie Sprigg and her employer, Mrs. Moore, are guests at Vienna's opulent Schönbrunn Palace. But their visit goes awry when the corpse of a renowned psychoanalyst is found in the grounds. There's a handful of suspects and-tragically for Mrs. Moore—one of them is her beloved Prince Manfred.

Vienna, the Imperial City, is like one large museum. The Viennese Waltz, the Viennese strudel, the Viennese opera, the Viennese coffee...

In 1930s and 1940s Vienna, child psychiatrist Hans Asperger sought to define autism as a diagnostic category, aiming to treat those children, usually boys, he deemed capable of participating fully in society. Depicted as a compassionate and devoted researcher, Asperger was in fact deeply influenced by Nazi psychiatry. Although he did offer individualized care to children he deemed promising, he also prescribed harsh institutionalization and even transfer to Spiegelgrund for children with greater disabilities, who, he held, could not integrate into the community.

In autumn 1942, Anna Goldenberg's great-grandparents and one of their sons are deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp. Hans, their elder son, survives by hiding in an apartment in the middle of Nazi-controlled Vienna. But this is no Anne Frank-like existence; teenage Hans passes time in the municipal library and buys standing-room tickets to the Vienna State Opera. Hans never sees his family again. Goldenberg reconstructs this unique story in magnificent reportage.

Louis Charles ("Lucy") Lynch has spent all his 60 years in upstate Thomaston, New York, married to the same woman, Sarah, for 40 of them, their son now a grown man. Like his late, beloved father, Lucy is an optimist, though he's had plenty of reasons not to be: chief among them his mother, still indomitably alive.

Art restorer and sometime spy Gabriel Allon is sent to Vienna to authenticate a painting, but the real object of his search becomes something else entirely: to find out the truth about the photograph that has turned his world upside down. It is the face of the unnamed man who brutalized his mother in the last days of World War II, during the Death March from Auschwitz. But is it really the same one? If so, who is he? How did he escape punishment? Where is he now?