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  • Freedom Pursued

    Memoirs of a Hungarian Engineer

    In his book "FREEDOM PURSUED" the author presents a memoir of a Hungarian Engineer rather than of a Hungarian Immigrant. In this he emphasizes that he is both: a person born and raised in Hungary and one who graduated as a Mechanical Design Engineer, and begins to work as a designer. Consequetly, he first writes about his life as a Hungarian student and later as a practising engineer up to 1941. ... Read more

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    Daniel Loew, a poet based in London, has been told since childhood that one day he would become his wealthy uncle’s only heir. When he learns of his uncle’s death, in Caracas, a few weeks have passed. A close friend of his uncle’s tells Loew that he alone has been named executor of the will and blocks Loew from receiving his inheritance.In a harrowing chase from Venezuela to Miami, via Hamburg and ... Read more

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  • Franz Werfel: A Life in Prague, Vienna, and Hollywood

    Franz Werfel: A Life in Prague, Vienna, and Hollywood by Peter Stephan Jungk (translated from the German by Anselm Hollo; 133,000 words and 40 illustrations)Czech-born playwright, novelist and poet Franz Werfel (1890-1945) became internationally famous(and a special target of the Nazis) after he wrote The Forty Days of Musa Dagh, the first novel about the Armenian Genocide. He later published the ... Read more

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  • Advanced Boundary Element Methods

    Treatment of Boundary Value, Transmission and Contact Problems

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book is devoted to the mathematical analysis of the numerical solution of boundary integral equations treating boundary value, transmission and contact problems arising in elasticity, acoustic and electromagnetic scattering. It serves as the mathematical foundation of the boundary element methods (BEM) both for static and dynamic problems. The book presents a systematic approach to the ... Read more

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  • The Perfect American

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    Translated by Michael Hofmann ...
    The Perfect American is a fictionalized biography of Walt Disney's final months, as narrated by Wilhelm Dantine, an Austrian cartoonist who worked for Disney in the 40s and 50s, illustrating sequences for Sleeping Beauty. It is also the story of Dantine himself, who desperately seeks Disney's recognition at the risk of his own ruin.Peter Stephan Jungk has infused a new energy into the genre of ... Read more

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  • Golden Harvest:Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust

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    It seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally notices the "crops" scattered in front of the group, what seemed innocent on first view become horrific skulls and bones. Where are we? Who are the people in the photograph, and what are they doing? The ... Read more

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  • Servents of Evil: Voices from Hitlers Army

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