Part One of this book shows how bureaucracy sustained the Habsburg Empire while inciting economists, legal theorists, and socialists to urge reform.

This book examines the intellectual and cultural life of turn-of-the-century Vienna, one of the most important centers of creativity in Europe.

Georges Bizet composed the incidental music for Alphonse Daudet's play L'Arlésienne, which was performed beginning in October, 1872.

The second edition of this folio makes the timeless hits of the Beatles accessible for beginning pianists with 120 arrangements for easy piano, including: All My Loving * Back in the U.S.S.R. * Can't Buy Me Love * Dear Prudence * Eleanor ...

The story is considered as a kind of precursor to Rilke's only novel, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge, but the character of Ewald Tragy is said to bear a stronger resemblance to the youthful Rilke.

Unique in its balanced coverage of developments in both Czech and Slovak lands, including the Hungarian minority of southern Slovakia, this book looks beyond Prague and Bratislava to collective action in small towns, provincial factories, ...

In this engaging and factual account, Deak offers a social and political history of the Habsburg Officer Corps from 1848-1918.

In his characteristic manner, Urs Widmer spins yet another riveting yarn, but this time he threads through the many aspects of the relationship between Europe and Africa an always timely tale. "