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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.

Lorsque Loan et Violette se sont rencontrés, ce fut un véritable coup de foudre platonique. À cette époque, Loan était en couple avec Lucie depuis quatre ans, si bien qu'il n'avait d'yeux que pour elle. Loan est un homme abattu depuis que sa petite-amie l'a quitté. Violette commence tout juste une idylle avec le beau Clément – chose que Loan se surprend à détester. Alors quand sa meilleure amie, encore vierge, le supplie d'être son premier, il hésite.

Iris a quitté Paris pour suivre Paul, son mari, dans une expatriation à Vienne. Tandis qu’il s’épanouit, elle se sent étrangère à cette ville élégante dont elle ne connaît ni les codes ni la langue. Ses journées solitaires s’étirent, rythmées par ses courses le long du Ring, le...

Prisonnier d'un mariage malheureux, Ian Jarrett est persuadé que plus jamais il ne connaîtra l'amour. Et pourtant... Lorsqu'il rencontre Marian Esguard dans un parc enneigé de Vienne, où il est venu prendre des photos pour un magazine, le coup de foudre est immédiat. De retour à Londres, Ian n'a plus qu'une idée en tête : se séparer de sa femme et rejoindre comme promis l'élue de son coeur. Mais lorsqu'il arrive enfin au rendez-vous tant attendu, sur la côte anglaise, Marian n'est pas là. Obsédé par cet amour qui a bouleversé sa vie, Ian décide alors de retrouver sa trace. Ce qu'il apprend le déconcerte davantage.

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.

Petit Ours et Petit Tigre rêvent du "bonheur sur terre" - à savoir la richesse. Et où se trouvent généralement les trésors ? Dans la terre bien évidemment ! Alors, ils creusent et en cherchent partout. Janosch raconte avec ses dessins au charme incomparable ce que les deux amis trouvent au cours de leur recherche, comment ils finissent par devenir riches puis tout perdre l'instant d'après, et comment ils s'estiment malgré tout heureux à la fin.

Alex Kovacs can see what’s coming – he can, all of his friends can, all of Vienna can. When an opportunity presents itself, a chance to thwart the Nazi invasion of Austria, he agrees to join an espionage network that will take advantage of his regular business trips to Germany to gather secret information. But a personal tragedy soon complicates Alex’s mission and entangles him with a suspicious Gestapo captain in ways that he never anticipated.

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...

As war looms over Britain and there is talk of gas masks and blackout, people are understandably jumpy and anxious. Stella Fry, who's been working in Vienna for a Jewish family, returns home with no job and a broken heart. She answers an advertisement from a famous mystery writer, Hubert Newman, who needs a manuscript typed. She takes on the job and is shocked the next day to learn of the writer's sudden, unexplained death. 

Vienne, la ville impériale, est comparable à un musée géant. Les valses de Vienne, le Strudel viennois, l'opéra de Vienne, et les cafés viennois. Voici ce à quoi on pense lorsque l'on évoque la capitale autrichienne, une des plus belles villes d'Europe...

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

Düsseldorf. Une avocate est retrouvée sauvagement assassinée chez elle. Le meurtrier a glissé une minuscule poupée nue dans le ventre de sa victime, comme un message à déchiffrer. Ce modus operandi n'est pas sans rappeler une récente affaire au commissaire Georg Stadler, qui sollicite l'aide de Liz Montario, psychologue et profileuse reconnue. Liz accepte de collaborer. Mais très vite, elle devient la cible de menaces et de lettres anonymes émanant de quelqu'un qui en sait apparemment long sur elle.

Was würdest du tun, wenn dein liebster Mensch plötzlich spurlos verschwände? Würdest du nicht Himmel und Hölle in Bewegung setzen? Dein Albtraum wird wahr... ... wenn jene, von denen du Hilfe erwartest, deine Gegner sind. Der charismatische, aber unerfahrene Privatdetektiv Andorian van Anders wird beauftragt, eine vermisste Studentin zu suchen. Das Ausmaß dieses Falls kann er nicht im Mindesten erahnen. Auch die härteste Kommissarin des Wiener LKA, Danny Friedmann, wird plötzlich in die Geschehnisse involviert.

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.

Varcare il confine vicino a Metz, attraversare il Württemberg e la Baviera, raggiungere in treno Vienna e Budapest, proseguire a cavallo per la steppa russa, superare gli Urali e la Siberia, costeggiare il lago Bajkal e ridiscendere il fiume Amur fino all’Oceano. Poi, fermarsi a Sabirk ad aspettare una nave di contrabbandieri olandesi. È così che nel 1861 Hervé Joncour, che compra e vende bachi da seta, arriva in Giappone. È così che arriva al suo destino, che ha il volto di una ragazzina.

Quando la vita la mette a dura prova, l'ostetrica e giovane vedova Tess Hartsong scappa il più lontano possibile e si rifugia a Runaway Mountain. In questa piccola e sperduta città sulle montagne del Tennessee, circondata dalla natura, spera di superare il suo dolore e trovare il conforto di cui ha bisogno per guarire. Ma, invece di pace e tranquillità, incontrerà un'artista enigmatica con una brama di solitudine; un folletto da fiaba con troppi segreti; un bambino indifeso; un mucchio di adolescenti curiosi e una città diffidente nei confronti degli estranei.

He’s seen something that could get him killed. But what? Freddie Makin is a spy for hire. For a year he’s been watching Jiang Cheng, an academic whose life seems suspiciously normal. To Freddie it’s just a job: he never asks who’s paying him and why - until the day someone is sent to kill him, and suddenly the watcher becomes the watched. On the run from whoever wants him dead, Freddie knows he must have seen something incriminating. The only trouble is, he has no idea what. Is the CIA behind all this - or does it go higher than that? Have his trackers uncovered his own murky past?

Wien, wie ihr es noch nie gehört habt. Wir berichten von inspirierenden Events, neuen Initiativen und Menschen, die diese Stadt verändern wollen.

Former intelligence expert Darren Priest tries to distance himself from his old life, and turns to a new vocation as a wine and food writer. He soon discovers that with his background, some things you can't un-volunteer for. Sent to Austria by the US President, Priest undertakes a covert mission where friend quickly turns to foe. With numerous enemies threatening his mission, can Priest figure out whom to trust - and expose the Vienna Connection?