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- Jean-Claude Brunner
- About My Library
- The entered books represent my interest in history, management and organization, natural science, literature and art (Missing are the German and French canon, some Italian and most Latin classics, whose future I see as e-texts as soon as a decent and cheap e-reader becomes available.).
¶ Literature in English, German and French probably matches the canon. This is also the area where I have a large backlog in catalogueing. My favourite novels are Microserfs by Douglas Coupland, The Cider House Rules by John Irving, The Human Stain by Philip Roth, Liaisons dangereuses by Choderlos de Laclos and most works by Vladimir Nabokov, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges and Stefan Zweig. If it is an Entwicklungsroman and it includes arcane knowledge, I will probably like it. Poetrywise, it is William Blake, Christina Rossetti, Charles Baudelaire, Robert Frost, Rainer Maria Rilke, Jacques Prévert.
¶ History, in particular social history, institutional history and the history of ideas. My favourites are Samuel Finer's three volume comparative History of Government and NAM Rodger's The Command of the Ocean.
Military history (tagging incomplete) and strategy with a special focus on the US Civil War, Swiss and Italian medieval/renaissance history (only partially catalogued), the War of the Spanish Succession and the Great Northern War, the Japanese Sengoku Jidai and the Chinese Three Kingdoms (just starting). I like tactical and operational studies with a decision-making emphasis and great maps.
¶ Visual design combines the topics of architecture (including some books on interior design) and graphic design and information presentation (such as Tufte's magnificent works). Absolute favourites are Christopher Alexander's A Pattern Language and Leonardo Benevolo's History of the City.
¶ Management covers decision-making, organization and leadership as well as mundane skills such as presenting, project management etc.
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¶ de - a book in German, fr - French, it - Italian, and so on;
Current and past LT projects
¶ Outlaws of the Marsh Read along (current)
¶ Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio Read along
¶ Story of the Stone, Red Chamber Read along, ch. 1-60, ch. 61-120
¶ Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Read along Vol. I, Vol. II, Vol. III, Vol. IV
¶ Legacies: Thomas Mann (complete), Richard III (complete), Heinrich Bullinger (complete), Helene Hanff (partial, complete), Friedrich Nietzsche (partial, ongoing), Prince Eugene (struggling with 15.000 records).
In 2014, I translated the diary of the journey around the world by Archduke Franz Ferdinand (1863-1914). Please visit: franzferdinandsworld.com. 2015 will be spent correcting, updating and annotating the text.
Comments and corrections welcome. - About Me
- The picture shows the Great Hall of the Austrian National Library which combines some of my things favourite: architecture, art, knowledge, history, museums, Vienna and books (The Austrian National Library's core comes courtesy of Prince Eugene, just as the Library of Congress was built on Thomas Jefferson's library; incidentally, these two are my heroes). Originally of Swiss stock, I am currently living in Vienna, Austria.
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- Gründungszeit ohne Eidgenossen Politik und Gesellschaft in der Innerschweiz um 1300 by Roger SablonierDie grosse Hitze oder Die Errettung Österreichs durch den Legationsrat Dr. Tuzzi : Roman by Jörg MautheInfantry warfare in the early fourteenth-century : discipline, tactics, and technology by Kelly DeVriesEmotions revealed : recognizing faces and feelings to improve communication and emotional life by Paul EkmanDer See von Han-yuan Kriminalfälle des Richters Di, alten chinesischen Originalquellen entnommen by Robert Hans van GulikAuf den Spuren von General Johann Rudolf Werdmüller in der Ägais 1664-1667 ein Bildband by Anton PestalozziDas kleine Einmaleins des klaren Denkens : 22 Denkwerkzeuge für ein besseres Leben by Christian HesseDie Verpackung des männlichen Geschlechts : eine illustrierte Kulturgeschichte der Hose by Gundula WolterDas Türkenjahr 1664 : eine europäische Bewährung ; Raimund Montecuccoli, die Schlacht von St. Gotthard-Mogersdorf und der Friede von Eisenburg (Vasvár) by Georg WagnerDer Schwed' ist im Land! : Das Ende des 30jährigen Krieges in Niederösterreich ; Ausstellung der Stadt Horn im Höbarthmuseum 22. Juni bis 2. November 1995 by Erich RablAdelige Macht und Religionsfreiheit : 1608 - der Horner Bund ; Sonderausstellung Museen der Stadt Horn 2008/2009 by Toni KurzLe armi, i cavalli, l'oro : Giovanni Acuto e i condottieri nell'Italia del Trecento by Duccio BalestracciSuperfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance by Steven D. LevittDas Mittelalter auf der Nase : Brillen, Bücher, Bankgeschäfte und andere Erfindungen des Mittelalters by Chiara FrugoniFrom Cape Charles to Cape Fear : the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron during the Civil War by Robert M. BrowningDer Preis der Leidenschaft : Chinas große Zeit ; das dramatische Leben der Li Qingzhao ; mit 1 Karte by Barbara BeuysDie Jungfrauen von Venedig : gebrochene Gelübde - das wahre Leben hinter Klostermauern by Mary LavenThe white man's burden : why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good by William Russell EasterlyDie Märztage des Jahres 1798 kriegsgeschichtliche Darstellung der Ereignisse im Kampfe Berns mit den französischen Armeen ; Einleitung und Anhang, enthaltend verschiedene Berichte von Augenzeugen ; mit 2 geographischen Uebersichtskarten & Truppenstellungen im Februar und März 1798 by Gustav Adolf BadertscherChina between Empires: The Northern and Southern Dynasties (History of Imperial China) by Mark Edward LewisThe Epigenetics Revolution: How Modern Biology is Rewriting Our Understanding of Genetics, Disease and Inheritance by Nessa CareyThe business of war : military enterprise and military revolution in early modern Europe by David ParrottHirtenstab und Hellebarde : die Päpstliche Schweizergarde in Rom 1506-2006 ; mit einer Dokumentation der offiziellen Festansprachen = Crosse et hallebarde : la Garde suisse pontificale 1506-2006 ; avec les discours officiels du jubilée by Urban FinkThe process of creating life : an essay on the art of building and the nature of the universe by Christopher AlexanderThe age of insight : the quest to understand the unconscious in art, mind, and brain : from Vienna 1900 to the present by Eric R. KandelAndreas Baumkircher : Erben und Nachfolger : Symposium im Rahmen der Schlaininger Gespräche vom 20.-24. September 1989 auf Burg Schlaining by Rudolf KropfUmgang mit Chrysanthemen : 81 Erzählungen der ersten vier Bücher aus der Sammlung Liao-dschai-dschi-yi by Songling Pu"Die Eingeborenen machten keinen besonders günstigen Eindruck" : Tagebuch meiner Reise um die Erde 1892–1893 by Franz Ferdinand Österreich-EsteGeschichte der Regierung des Kaisers Maximilian I. und die französische Intervention in Mexiko, 1861-1867 by Ritter Ernst Schmit von TaveraMakers of Modern Architecture, Volume II: From Le Corbusier to Rem Koolhaas (New York Review Collections) by Martin FillerIsabel - La Espana de Isabel, un viaje por los lugares que marcaron la vida fr una reina by Teresa CunilleraThe shifts and the shocks : what we've learned -- and have still to learn -- from the financial crisis by Martin WolfKlösterreich : Geschichte und Gegenwart der Stifte und Klöster in Bayern, Österreich und der Schweiz by Joachim F. AngererDie Heere der Hussiten: Teil 1: Ausrüstung, Organisation, Einsatz (Heere & Waffen) by Alexander QuerengässerThe lost battles : Leonardo, Michelangelo and the artistic duel that defined the Renaissance by Jonathan JonesLa spada di Radetzky: le armate imperiali dalla Restaurazione alla Rivoluzione 1836-1849 by Massimo ZoppiThe gunpowder age : China, military innovation, and the rise of the West in world history by Tonio AndradeDie Heere der Hussiten: Teil 2: Die Hussitenkreuzzüge und "Herrliche Heerfahrten" (Heere & Waffen) by Alexander QuerengässerDas Café der Existenzialisten Freiheit, Sein und Aprikosencocktails mit Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Albert Camus, Martin Heidegger, Edmund Husserl, Karl Jaspers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty und anderen by Sarah BakewellHöhe- und Wendepunkte deutscher Militärgeschichte : von Leuthen bis Stalingrad by Franz Uhle-WettlerSöldner, Bilderstürmer, Totentänzer mit Niklaus Manuel durch die Zeit der Reformation by Susan MartiThe Chickamauga Campaign : a mad irregular battle : from the crossing of Tennessee River through the Second Day, August 22 - September 19, 1863 by David A. PowellStorytelling with data : a data visualization guide for business professionals by Cole Nussbaumer KnaflicHero of the empire : the Boer War, a daring escape and the making of Winston Churchill by Candice MillardAuf den Spuren von Byron und Tolstoi Eine literarische Wanderung von Montreux nach Meiringen by Michail SchischkinNapoleon in Aspern: Archäologische Spuren der Schlacht 1809 (Wien archäologisch) by Christine RansederDie Stadt von der Neuzeit bis zum 19. Jahrhundert urbane Entwürfe in Europa und Nordamerika by Vittorio Magnago LampugnaniIdeen können nicht erschossen werden: Revolution und Demokratie in Österreich 1789 - 1848 - 1918 by Wolfgang HauslerFactfulness : ten reasons we're wrong about the world-and why things are better than you think by Hans RoslingMillionenstädte Chinas Bilder- und Reisetagebuch einer Architektin (1958) by Margarete Schütte-LihotzkyMarco Polo : von Venedig nach China ; [Niedersächsisches Landesmuseum Hannover, 23. September 2011 - 26. Februar 2012] by Giandomenico RomanelliBeute und Triumph Zum kulturgeschichtlichen Umfeld antiker und mittelalterlicher Kriegstrophäen by Florens DeuchlerThe inner level : how more equal societies reduce stress, restore sanity and improve everybody's wellbeing by Richard G. WilkinsonFrom Empire to Republic: Stories from Central Europe, 100 Years After the End of the Habsburg Monarchy by Jacob LassarDer Triumph: Siegesfeiern im antiken Rom - Ihre Dokumentation auf Ehrenbögen in Farbe by Ritchie PogorzelskiOtto Neurath liest Stefan Zweigs "Die Welt von Gestern" zwei Intellektuelle der Wiener Moderne im Exil by Friedrich Stadler
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Libraries: Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Universitätsbibliothek Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Zentralbibliothek Zürich
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