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February 2011Bohemia-Moravia Pontificia
Germania Pontificia. Vol. V/3: Provincia Maguntinensis, Pars VII
by Könighaus, Waldemar
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December 2009Mendelism in Bohemia and Moravia, 1900–1930
Collection of Selected Papers
by Herausgegeben von Simunek, Michal; Herausgegeben von Hoßfeld, Uwe; Herausgegeben von Breidbach, Olaf; Herausgegeben von Müller, Miklós
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August 2015Die vielen Leben der Ruth Landshoff-Yorck
by Thomas Blubacher
Die erste Biographie der Ruth Landshoff-Yorck Sie spielte Krocket mit Thomas Mann, wurde von Oskar Kokoschka porträtiert, verhalf Marlene Dietrich zu ihrer Rolle im Blauen Engel, verkehrte mit Andy Warhol, Patricia Highsmith und Salvador Dalí … Ruth Landshoff-Yorck war Glitzergirl und androgyne Stil-Ikone, vor allem aber eine vielseitige Literatin, die die Presse der Weimarer Republik mit flotten Feuilletons versorgte und mehrere Romane publizierte. Ihre Kurzgeschichten und Gedichte wurden weltweit veröffentlicht. Das Leben der Ruth Landshoff schlägt eine Brücke von der Bohème der Weimarer Republik zur amerikanischen New Bohemia der 60er Jahre, vom expressionistischen Stummfilm zur Entstehung des experimentellen Off-Off-Broadways und nicht zuletzt von der schwulen Subkultur der „goldenen“ Zwanziger zur alternativen Szene New Yorks. In jahrelanger Arbeit hat Thomas Blubacher unbekannte Dokumente aufgespürt und Zeitzeugen befragt. Erstmals liegt nun eine Biographie der verkannten Avantgarde-Literatin und engagierten Antifaschistin vor, deren viele Leben in Berlin, Paris und Venedig, London und New York die Zeitläufte eines halben Jahrhunderts spiegeln.
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FictionThe Countess and the Organ Player
by Cesia Hirshbein
In the historical context of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the height of the Romantic era, the 19th century, Anton Bruckner, the famous Austrian composer and organist, falls in love with the imposing Countess Henriette. She had been appointed lady-in-waiting to Princess Charlotte of Belgium, the wife of Prince Maximilian of Habsburg, to attend to her during the couple's Mexican endeavor. They had been named Emperor and Empress of Mexico and would embark on a journey to America for this mission. Bruckner meets the countess by chance at the funeral of Maximilian, who had been assassinated in Querétaro in 1867, during the so-called Second Mexican Empire. On the recommendation of a musician friend of Henriette's, who sees him at the funeral, she takes piano lessons with Bruckner. When she tells him that she had accompanied the empress to Mexico, the composer becomes enchanted. He admired Maximilian and was passionate about Mexico; he had even wanted to accompany the emperor. Ultimately, the only trips he made were to give organ concerts in London and another at Notre Dame in Paris. Between classes, the countess tells him of the Atlantic crossing, the arrival in Veracruz, and the entrance to Mexico City. Gradually, they grow closer. In one of his concerts, Bruckner meets Franz Liszt, who was a patron of Maximilian's empire in Mexico. Meanwhile, the countess and the organist plan a Requiem, which will be the turning point between them.
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Thriller / suspenseAugust 2001Sherlock Holmes and the Adler Papers
by John Hall
When Sherlock Holmes recovered a compromising photograph and saved the reputation of the King of Bohemia he thought the case was closed. However, the attractive villainess, Irene Adler - now a respectable married woman - summons Holmes a year after her marriage to further assist the King who was now being threatened by even more determined enemies.
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Autobiography: historical, political & militaryFrank Vlchek
The Story of My Life
by William Chrislock (author)
The Story of My Life, originally published in Czechoslovakia in 1928, is the engaging and informative autobiography of Frank Vlchek, a Czech immigrant who became a successful businessman in Cleveland, Ohio, during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The youngest of fourteen children, Vlchek was born to peasant parents in Budyn, southern Bohemia, in 1871. After attempting a career in blacksmithing in Bohemia, at the age of seventeen he decided to follow his two older sisters to Cleveland, home to America’s second-largest Czech community.Vlchek worked a variety of unsatisfactory jobs during his first years in Cleveland. In 1895 he opened his own smithing operation, which after a long struggle was transformed into a successful corporation that specialized in the manufacture of toolkits for automobiles. His narrative relates tales of labor issues, competitors, mergers and acquisitions, and the successes and travails of his operation. Vlchek was often able to travel home to Czechoslovakia, and during those trips he noted the different cultural and political attitudes that had evolved between Czechs and their Czech American cousins.Vlchek’s memoir provides a rare primary source about Czech immigrants. It also offers insight into a self-made man’s life philosophy, illustrates relations between ethnic groups in Cleveland during the 1880s, and demonstrates the assimilation of a late-nineteenth-century immigrant in America.Readers interested in immigration history as well as the history of Cleveland will enjoy this fascinating autobiography.
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June 2016Literary Travel Guide Bohemian Spa Triangle
Karlovy Vary/Karlsbad, Mariánské Lázně/Marienbad, Františkovy Lázně/Franzensbad
by Roswitha Schieb/Václav Petrbok/Tanja Krombach
The West Bohemian spas in the Czech Republic were throughout all epochs international attractions for writers and others personalities from the world of art and politics. In the Literary Travel Guide This is mirrored by a wealth of German and Czech as well as other foreign-language texts. The walks through the famous spa towns Karlsbad/Karlovy Vary, Marienbad/Mariánské Lázně and Franzensbad/Františkovy Lázně lead on the traces of most famous authors like Goethe and Kafka, but also of less known names like Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach or Louis Fürnberg. Quotations of representatives of Czech literature such as Božena Němcová, Jan Neruda or Karel Čapek in turn show a very own view of the spas inhabited mostly by Bohemian Germans. The book invites to a voyage of discovery into the region, where the cultural flair of the past and the present can be experienced through new impulses like local initiatives and festivals. Content sample: https://www.kulturforum.info/attachments/bib/Bib_BoeBae_20Seiten.pdf
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September 2018
The Standard Bearer of the Roman Church: Lawrence of Brindisi and Capuchin Missions in the Holy Roman Empire (1599-1613)
Lawrence of Brindisi and Capuchin Missions in the Holy Roman Empire (1599-1613)
by Andrew J.G. Drenas
The Standard Bearer of the Roman Church examines the missionary work of the early modern Capuchin friar, and doctor of the Church, Lawrence of Brindisi. Renowned in his own day as a preacher, Bible scholar, missionary, chaplain, and diplomat, as well as vicar general of his order, Lawrence led the first organized, papally-commissioned Capuchin mission among the non-Catholics of Bohemia in the Holy Roman Empire from 1599 to 1602. He returned again under papal mandate, from 1606 to 1613. Andrew Drenas analyzes Lawrence’s evangelistic and polemical strategies in central Europe in order to shed light on some of the ways the Capuchins labored in religiously divided territories to confirm Catholics in their faith and to win over heretics. The introduction explains, principally, the book’s purpose and the historiographical background. After providing a brief biographical sketch of Lawrence’s life followed by details of his afterlife, Drenas examines Lawrence’s leading role in establishing the Capuchins’ new Commissariate of Bohemia-Austria-Styria in 1600, and specifically its first three friaries in Prague, Vienna, and Graz. From there the volume moves on to treat his preaching against heresy, followed by a focus on how Lawrence, while in Prague, involved himself directly in theological disputations with two different Lutheran preachers. The first dispute, with Polycarp Leyser, took place in July 1607, and dealt with good works and justification. The second, with a Lutheran whose identity remains unknown, and which occurred in August 1610, concerned Catholic veneration of the Virgin Mary. This is followed by an analysis of the Lutheranismi hypotyposis, or The Express Image of Lutheranism, Lawrence’s literary refutation of Lutheranism following additional contact with Polycarp Leyser in 1607. Finally, Drenas considers briefly the effectiveness of Lawrence’s apostolate and closes with a review of the book as a whole.
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Biography: generalMarch 2020Karl Kraus
´The Dissenter
by Jens Malte Fischer
At the age of 25 he founded Die Fackel, which he wrote alone from 1911 to 1936; Die Letzten Tage der Menschheit (The Last Days of Mankind) was a radical reckoning with the First World War, Die Dritte Walpurgisnacht (The Third Walpurgis Night) took issue with Hitler. According to Elias Canetti, Karl Kraus was “the greatest and most caustic man living in Vienna today.” Kraus, born in 1874 in JičÍn in Bohemia, died in 1936 in Vienna: for some he was God, for others the devil incarnate. His name has remained legendary, but what he represented is beginning to fade. Jens Malte Fischer now brings him into the present with this compre-hensive biography. Kraus’s personality and work, his friends and enemies, aphorisms and antagonisms are brought to life to reveal one of the greatest writers of his time and beyond.
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Classic fiction (pre c 1945)April 2024The Queen's Lender
by Jean Findlay
George Heriot, jeweller to King James VI, moves with the Court from Edinburgh to London to take over the English throne. It is 1603. Life is a Babel of languages and glittering new wealth. James gives Shakespeare his first secure position. To calm the perfidious religious tensions in the country, he commissions his translation of the Bible. He creates the Union Jack, called after himself. George becomes wealthier than the king as he sets a fashion for hat jewels and mingles with Drummond of Hawthornden, Ben Johnson, Inigo Jones and the mysterious ambassador Luca Von Modrich. However, both king and courtier bow before the phenomenal power invested in their wives.
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Children's & YAPop! Lit for Kids (Set 1)
by Multiple Authors
Taking classic stories from Asia and the West, Pop! Lit for Kids reimagines them into easy-to-read stories that provide the perfect introduction to classic tales. The most well-loved stories from around the world have been adapted into a form that will excite and entertain children everywhere. Readers can embark on new adventures with famous beloved storybook characters. In addition, the books come to life with augmented reality features, giving readers an enhanced experience that they'll never forget! Contents: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Introduction Before You Read The Adventure of the Speckled Band Helen Stoner An Urgent Matter Understanding the Story The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle The Mysterious Stone The Goose Chase Understanding the Story A Scandal in Bohemia The Photograph Holmes Gets Outsmarted Understanding the Story Around the World in Eighty Days: Introduction Before You Read The Wager Detective Fix Understanding the Story Across India Clowning Around Understanding the Story Across America On the Way Home The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Introduction Before You Read Rob Becomes an Outlaw Rob Becomes Robin Hood Understanding the Story Robin Hood Meets Little John The Sheriff is Robin's Guest Understanding the Story Robin Hood Marries Marian The Malay Annals: Attack of the Garfish and Other Adventures: Introduction Before You Read How Singapura Got Its Name Before You Read Badang the Strong Before You Read Attack of the Garfish Understanding the Story Before You Read Outwitted with Kangkung Before You Read Hang Tuah & Hang Jebat Before You Read The Princess of Mount Ophir Understanding the Story Ramayana: The Quest to Rescue Sita: Introduction Before You Read Who Is the Strongest? Understanding the Story Troubles Arrive A Nasty Trick Understanding the Story A Hero From Out of the Blue Crossing Scary Seas Battling with Demons Journey to the West: Chaos in Heaven: Introduction Before You Read A Rock Gives Birth Monkey Bullies the Dragons How to Bluff Heaven into Giving You a Fancy Title Understanding the Story The Monkey King Gets Squished by a Mountain Why Tripitaka is Called Tripitaka Though Tripitaka is Not Tripitaka's Real Name Tripitaka Gets Lots of Presents (Even Though It is Not His Birthday) Understanding the Story
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February 2015Pin-Up
Comics Picarescos en Chile
by Moises Hasson
Hasson’s story of the Pin-Up magazines in Chile, represent a correlate of the history of Chile in the 20th century and of how this society lived humor and eroticism, in a time of great nocturnal bohemia. This exhaustive compilation by researcher Hasson brings together dozens of covers, and relives the times of brilliance, death and resurrection of pin-up magazines in Chile, forming a continuum with his other two works Comics in Chile, and Political Satire in Chile.
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Biography & True StoriesMarch 2021Mozart in Prague
by Dr. Daniel E. Freeman
ISBN-13: 978-1-950743-50-6 Dismissed in Vienna as a compose of excessively complicated music with little popular appeal, Mozart found complete recognition for his talents in Prague, likely as a byproduct of the exceptional musical literacy of the general population. Accounts of the affection lavished on Mozart by the people of Prague can be deeply moving for those acquainted with his bleak struggles for recognition in Vienna. Indeed, he was manhandled like a rock star at the concert in 1787 that featured the first performance of the "Prague" symphony in a way that he never experienced anywhere else. And in contrast to the tawdry ceremonies that accompanied Mozart's burial in Vienna in 1791, his funeral in Prague, attended by thousands of mourners, brought life there to a standstill. It was the residents of Prague, not Vienna, who took responsibility to provide for Mozart's widow and children. Mozart in Prague tells the story of the amazing civic revival that was responsible for Mozart's unique personal and musical relationship with this beautiful city and the colorful characters who helped shape it, including Marie Antoinette and Giacomo Casanova.
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Oral historyFebruary 2018Hitler, Stalin and I
An Oral History
by Heda Margolius Kovály and Helena Třeštíková; translated by Ivan Margolius
This life and death human drama is not just about one survivor but a meaningful observation of an even more significant story about the bloody outcomes of extremism. – New York Journal of Books Through interviews with award-winning filmmaker Helena Treštíková, Kovály recounts her experiences under fascist and communist oppression. Miraculously surviving both Łódz Ghetto and Auschwitz, then escaping from a death march, Heda participated in the Prague Uprising and its liberation. Later, under Communist rule Heda suffered extreme social isolation after her first husband Rudolf Margolius was unjustly accused in the infamous Slánský Trial and executed for treason. Her son and translator of the book, Ivan Margolius, adds critical contextual information surrounding the trial and its recently uncovered documents and film footage. Remarkably, Kovály, who was exiled in the United States after the brutal crushing of the Prague Spring, only had love for her country and continued to believe in its people. She returned to Prague in 1996 and died there in 2010 at the age of 91.
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FictionNovember 2015El plan Bérkowitz
by Mario J. Les
The autumn of 2001 has barely begun. An elderly prisoner wakes up in his cell like every morning since an eternity. Tired of the endless confinement, he awaits for his own death as the only way out from the nightmare that haunts him. During the summer of that same year, three young men, partners in a modest audiovisual company, are hired by an eccentric millionaire to make some nature documentaries in Kenya. Excited, they face the opportunity of their lives: a dream job and the possibility of refloating his battered economy. However, they will soon discover that not all that glitters around their patron is gold. In the troubled Germany of 1938, Eyal Bérkowitz was one among hundred Jewish prisoners who were transferred from the Dachau concentration camp to the newly opened Flossenbürg. There they will work from sunrise to sunset in the neighboring quarry, extracting the granite necessary for the constructions that Albert Speer has designed for Hitler's imperialist Germany. The Jewish group, with Bérkowitz leading, will suffer in their flesh the abuse of power by the head of their barracks, Ludwig von Häussler, captain of the SS. With the background of World War II, the attack on Reinhard Heydrich and Operation Valkyrie, Eyal Bérkowitz will devise a risky plan that can save his own life ... and mortgage that of others. * * * Apenas comenzado el otoño de 2001, un anciano prisionero despierta en su celda como cada mañana desde hace una eternidad. Hastiado de ese interminable encierro, aguarda su propia muerte como única salida a la pesadilla que le atormenta. Durante el verano de ese mismo año, tres jóvenes, socios de una modesta empresa audiovisual, son contratados por un excéntrico millonario para realizar unos documentales de naturaleza en Kenia. Entusiasmados, se ven ante la oportunidad de sus vidas; un trabajo soñado y la posibilidad de reflotar su maltrecha economía. Sin embargo, pronto descubrirán que no es oro todo lo que reluce en torno a su mecenas. En la convulsa Alemania de 1938, Eyal Bérkowitz forma parte del centenar de presos judíos que son trasladados del campo de concentración de Dachau al recién inaugurado Flossenbürg. Allí trabajarán de sol a sol en la cantera vecina extrayendo el granito necesario para las construcciones que Albert Speer ha proyectado para la Alemania imperialista de Hitler. El grupo judío, con Bérkowitz a la cabeza, sufrirá en sus carnes el abuso de poder por parte del jefe de su barracón, Ludwig von Häussler, capitán de las SS. Con el trasfondo de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, el atentado contra Reinhard Heydrich y la Operación Valkiria, Eyal Bérkowitz ideará un arriesgado plan que puede salvar su propia vida… e hipotecar la de otros.
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MusicLEONARD COHEN
An Illustrated Record
by Mike Evans
For more than four decades, Leonard Cohen’s mournful ballads of desire, heartbreak and lost faith have captivated audiences the world over. Since his death in November 2016, the awardwinning Canadian songwriter, novelist and poet is now more popular than ever. Cohen is revered as a cultural icon and master of his craft, and this is the first complete guide to his studio and live albums. Offering a comprehensive overview of each LP – from writing and recording through to release and legacy – Leonard Cohen: An Illustrated Record is a richly illustrated tribute to the body of recorded work that has made Cohen a legend in his own lifetime.
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October 2021Literary Travel Guide Wrocław
Seven City Walks
by Roswitha Schieb
A walk through the literary city of Wrocław, centre of of humanism and German baroque poetry, place of work of important authors such as Gerhart Hauptmann and Olga Tokarczuk, in the 1920s the nucleus of the radio avant-garde and, since the 1970s, a centre of attraction for outstanding Polish poets and theatre-makers. In 2016 Wrocław was European Capital of Culture and UNESCO World Book Capital. The revised new edition of the classic from the publishing programme of the Culture Forum's publishing programme presents quotations from the 14th to the 21st century, as well as comprehensive information on the culture and history of the UNESCO City of Literature.
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Biography: science, technology & engineeringAugust 2012A Physicists Labour In War And Peace
by E W Kellermann
This informative book covers the pre war period to the 1990s spanning the author s experience of the rise of Nazism on the continent, his research and his involvement in the planning of Science and Higher Education in Britain. He gives a wry commentary on education and science in Britain, and describes his role in pressing for adequate funding for science, especially during the Thatcher era. His research in Edinburgh with the future Nobel Laureate Max Born, one of the giants of Theoretical Physics, led to a breakthrough in solidstate physics. In Manchester he worked with Patrick Blackett, also a future Nobel Laureate, measuring Extensive Air Showers . These are sprays of particles, which fall on the earth generated by nuclear particles from the cosmos. Later in Leeds he was one of the initiators of the National British Air Shower Experiment. He writes about some of the famous scientists he has met, and also of his disappointments which are often the fate of a working scientist. This is not a rounded autobiography. Much of the book is concerned with Kellermann s research in solid state and cosmic ray physics and his interaction with outstanding physicists of the time, notably his work with Karl Przibram in Vienna and later with Max Born, Patrick Blackett and E C Stoner, and his meetings with C F Powell in Great Britain. There is also an account of his meeting with Max Planck, his discussions with the later atom spy Klaus Fuchs and other notable scientists of the period. It is concerned also with British science policy and Kellermann s commitment to promote support for science by British governments of the day. But a life in physics spanning the second half of the twentieth century is also likely to be a life deeply marked by warfare, antiSemitism, and disruption. These intelligently written memoirs (Professor Geoffrey Cantor, University of Leeds) offer perceptive assessments of contemporary events and of many of the scientists and politicians Kellermann encountered. The Leitmotiv during Kellermannss later years was his research on cosmic ray extensive air showers. The nonspecialist will find a clear account of how these showers, caused by enormously energetic particles from the cosmos are clues to its understanding, an account leading right up to the present state of the art.
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December 2014How Reading Is Written
A Brief Index to Gertrude Stein
by Astrid Lorange
A critical guide to the poetics and philosophy of Gertrude Stein
