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Asperger's syndrome in children Austria Vienna History 20th century Asperger's syndrome in children Patients Austria Vienna History Asperger, Hans Austria Austria Description and travel Austria History Austria Social life and customs Austria Vienna Hallucinations and illusions Large type booksSteves, Rick
Summary: "Comprehensive coverage for spending a week or more exploring Vienna, Salzburg and Tirol Rick's strategic advice on how to get the most out of your time and money, with rankings of his must-see favorites Top sights and hidden gems, from Mozart's house...to the eerie Bone Chapel and the oldest salt mine in the world...Useful resources including a packing list, a German phrase book, a historical...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Shakespeare, William
Summary: Cruel Angelo is left in charge of Vienna when the Duke pretends to leave town. He revives an old law against fornication and sentences Claudio to death for seducing Juliet, Claudio's betrothed. Claudio's sister, Isabella, pleads for his life and Angelo offers to spare him in exchange for her virginity. His corruption and severity are punished when the Duke reveals that he has witnessed it all.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Audio Partners 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 822.33 SHAShakespeare, William
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cambridge University Press 1991
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 822.33 SHALetts, Elizabeth
Summary: "Traces the lesser-known efforts of Hitler to build a master race of the finest purebred horses and the heroic achievements of American soldiers to rescue imperiled stolen equines from a hidden Czechoslovakian farm during a 1945 battle between Third Reich and Allied forces,"--NoveList. In the chaotic last days of World War II, a small troop of American soldiers captures a German spy and learns...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 LETSummary: Join tour guide Samantha Brown as she shows some of the exciting places, popular area landmarks, and exotic locales most tourists never see. Includes Bavaria, Germany, Vienna, Austria, St. Moritz, Switzerland, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Discovery Channel 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The story of the surviving members of the Viennese Hakoah sports club women's swim team, a world-dominating competitor in the 1930s. The club was eventually shut down during Hitler's reign, though all the women managed to escape capture. Combines historical footage and contemporary interviews to reconnect the women's lives and memories.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WATSacks, Oliver W.
Summary: With his usual elegance, curiosity, and compassion, Dr. Sacks weaves together stories of his patients and of his own mind-altering experiences to illuminate what hallucinations tell us about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture's folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in us all, a vital part of the human condition.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC 2012
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA 616.89 SACSacks, Oliver W.
Summary: An investigation into the types, physiological sources, and cultural resonances of hallucinations traces everything from the disorientations of sleep and intoxication to the manifestations of injury and illness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.89 SACBade, Patrick
Summary: Gustav Klimt at Home explores the influences of Vienna and other places Klimt travelled to and called home on his life and work. Klimt was one of the most prominent members of the Vienna Secession movement. He was both influenced by and shaped the city of Vienna at the turn of the century. His trips to Ravenna, as well as annual summer holidays with the Floge family on the shores of Attersee...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Frances Lincoln 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 702 KLIMT BADDronfield, Jeremy
Summary: In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DRODronfield, Jeremy
Summary: In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Quill Tree Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 920 DRORauch, Georg
Summary: "A YA memoir of an 18-year old part-Jewish youth who, despite his heritage, is drafted into Hitler's army and sent to serve on the Russian front"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2015
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 921 RAUNguyen, Tina
Summary: "An explosive, first-person account chronicling the rise of the MAGA movement from acclaimed political journalist Tina Nguyen, who began her career--and her education--on the ground levels of the conservative recruiting machine"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: One Signal Publishers/Atria 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Explores the life of Brion Gysin, inventor of a hypnotic light device called the Dreammachine, which was intended to induce hallucinations and transform consciousness. Nik Sheehan interviews some of the '60s counter-culture's most eccentric icons including Iggy Pop, Marianne Faithful and Marcus boon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alive Mind. 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FLISacks, Oliver W.
Summary: Have you ever seen something that wasn't really there? Heard someone call your name in an empty house? Sensed someone following you and turned around to find nothing? Hallucinations don't belong wholly to the insane. Much more commonly, they are linked to sensory deprivation, intoxication, illness, or injury. People with migraines may see shimmering arcs of light or tiny, Lilliputian figures of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio Publishing Group 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 616.89 SACSheffer, Edith
Summary: "Hans Asperger, the pioneer of autism and Asperger syndrome in Nazi Vienna, has been celebrated for his compassionate defense of children with disabilities. But in this groundbreaking book, prize-winning historian Edith Sheffer exposes that Asperger was not only involved in the racial policies of Hitler's Third Reich, he was complicit in the murder of children"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 616.85882 SHELeclair, Suzanne
Summary: "The aging Sigmund Freud reflects upon the torments of age, the mouth cancer he suffers due to his cigar addiction, and the rise of Nazism. In 1923, Sigmund Freud, 67 years old and an inveterate cigar smoker, discovers that he has mouth cancer, a truth long hidden from him by doctors. Despite his diagnosis, Freud survived 15 more years, convinced the cigars that were slowly destroying him...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Life Drawn by Humanoids 2023
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FREUD, SIGMOND LECKlüger, Ruth
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Publisher / Publication Date: Feminist Press at the City University of New York 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5318 KLUSheffer, Edith
Summary: Presents an exploration of the sobering history behind Asperger's Syndrome that reveals child psychiatrist Hans Asperger's influence by Nazi psychiatry and his use of one of the Reich's deadliest killing centers to experiment on disabled children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 616.85882 SHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Psych ShefferWeyr, Thomas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5343 WEYSheehan, Sean
Summary: "Austria is a country known for its varied history and beautiful scenery. Popular figures from the country include Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the Von Trapp family, and Arnold Schwarzenegger. In this engaging book, readers learn about Austria's past, its present, and the ways in which it is working toward the future."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cavendish Square 2017
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 943.6 SHEMoore, Harold G.
Summary: To honor fallen comrades, a journalist and a soldier return to Vietnam battlefields more than 30 years later.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 959.704 MOO1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP 959.704 MOO
Bacon, Josephine
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Publisher / Publication Date: McGraw-Hill 1988