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  • The Rise of the House of Rothschild

    by Egon Corti ...
    The progenitors of the House of Rothschild lived under conditions such as those in the ghetto of Frankfort. The earlier ancestors of Meyer Amschel Rothschild, who laid the foundations of the future greatness of the house, existed in the middle of the sixteenth century; we know their names, and their tombs have been preserved in the old Jewish cemetery at Frankfort. Formerly the houses in the ... Read more

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  • Egon Erwin Kisch, The Raging Reporter: A Bio-Anthology

    Egon Erwin Kisch (1885-1948) is widely regarded as one of the most outstanding journalists of the 20th century. He is also credited with virtually defining reportage as a form of literary art in which accuracy of observation and fidelity to facts combine with creative narrative.Born in Prague under the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Kisch began his career as a crime reporter for local newspapers. He saw ... Read more

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  • Bodies Adjacent

    Ardyth's Memoir & Egon's Journal

    Part memoir, part confession, part journal, Bodies Adjacent is the story of two lives told by each one about the other. The novelist Ardyth Kennelly and her physician husband, the Jewish Viennese émigré Egon V. Ullman, began their unlikely love affair in the heart of Oregon's Willamette Valley in the 1930s and continued it for nearly three decades in Portland-contending first with the Depression, ... Read more

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    Wally

    Egon Schiele and the Story of a Portrait that Changed the World

    by Rich Cohen ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours

    An engrossing work of narrative nonfiction that reads like a novel, Wally traces the strange journey of a single picture—from its creation in the ateliers of fin de siècle Vienna to its theft by a Nazi on the eve of the Second World War, to its emergence decades later at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, to the legal battle championed by some of America’s most legendary prosecutors.Painted by ... Read more

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  • Wally

    Egon Schiele and the Story of a Portrait that Changed the World

    by Rich Cohen ...
    An engrossing work of narrative nonfiction that reads like a novel, Wally traces the strange journey of a single picture—from its creation in the ateliers of fin de siècle Vienna to its theft by a Nazi on the eve of the Second World War, to its emergence decades later at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, to the legal battle championed by some of America’s most legendary prosecutors.Painted by ... Read more

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  • Rigorous Methods in Theory and Practice

    Essays Dedicated to Egon Börger on the Occasion of His 80th Birthday

    Series series Computer Science (R0)
    This Festschrift is in honor of Egon Börger on the occasion of his 80th birthday. It reflects his impact as a scientist, author, mentor, and community organizer. A pioneer in the fields of logic and computer science, Egon Börger's research interests are unusual in scope, from programming languages to hardware architectures, software architectures, control systems, workflow and interaction patterns ... Read more

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  • African Peacebuilding

    Transformative Practices for Global Development

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book shows that in our interconnected world, conflicts in one area have consequences that go beyond borders, and for the environment that sustains us. In two volumes it addresses more than 140 topics, which include: socio-economic issues, cultural and political development, conflict management, sustainable development, spirituality, history, gender, philosophy and the humanities. Gathering ... Read more

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  • Egon Schiele: His Palette

    by Arron Adams ...
    With his signature graphic style, embrace of figural distortion, and bold defiance of conventional norms of beauty, Egon Schiele was one of the leading figures of Austrian Expressionism. He was an Austrian painter, a protégé of Gustav Klimt and important figurative painter of the early 20th century. The twisted body shapes and the expressive line that characterize his paintings and drawings mark ... Read more

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  • Sensation Fair: Tales of Prague

    Sensation Fair: Tales of Prague by Egon Erwin Kisch (translated from the German by Guy Endore, 121,000 words)Sensation Fair: Tales of Prague (Marktplatz der Sensationen) is the memoir of the writer who elevated journalism to the status of literature in 20th century Europe. Taking his cue from the blind Czech balladeer who sang in the courtyard of his family’s Prague apartment in the 1890s, Egon ... Read more

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  • Egon Schiele Paintings

    Annotated Paintings

    by Daniel Coenn ...
    Series series My Pocket Gallery
    With his signature graphic style, embrace of figural distortion, and bold defiance of conventional norms of beauty, Egon Schiele was one of the leading figures of Austrian Expressionism.Schiele's symbolic works, such as "Death and the Maiden," "The Hermits," or even such seemingly content themes as "Mother with Two Children" show the same penetrating insight for which his portraits have become ... Read more

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  • Peace as Nonviolence

    Topics in African Peace Studies

    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book advances the peace discourse as defined in UN guidelines, while also working towards the implementation of the science of peace in various educational contexts in Africa, particularly at universities. The contributions gathered here are intended to highlight the role of university peace studies programs, particularly their relevance for peace education, peace research and peace work.The ... Read more

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  • Egon Schiele

    Eros and Expressionism

    Egon Schiele’s work is so distinctive that it resists categorisation. Admitted to the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts at just sixteen, he was an extraordinarily precocious artist, whose consummate skill in the manipulation of line, above all, lent a taut expressivity to all his work. Profoundly convinced of his own significance as an artist, Schiele achieved more in his abruptly curtailed youth than ... Read more

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