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Trefwoordende (716), military history (426), USA (382), 20th century (291), 19th century (278), biography (222), US Civil War (205), Austria (178), battles and campaigns (173), novel (164) — alle trefwoorden

Wolkentrefwoordenwolk, schrijverswolk

Groepen"I See Dead People's Books", American Civil War, Ancient China, Ancient History, Architext, City-Related Books, Evolve!, German Library Thingers, INTJ, Japanese Culture —toon alle groepen, LibraryThing in German, Military History, Nabokov!, Paleontology, Renaissance Europe, Science!, Social science, Swiss Library Thingers, The Turk's Head

Favoriete schrijversAmbrose Bierce, Jorge Luis Borges, S.E. Finer, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sigmund Freud, Richard Friedenthal, Graham Greene, Thomas Hardy, Hermann Hesse, Franz Kafka, Milan Kundera, Michel de Montaigne, Vladimir Nabokov, Barbara W. Tuchman, Stefan Zweig (Gemeenschappelijke favorieten)

LievelingsboekhandelsBücher-Brocky, Berger am Kohlmarkt, Buchlandung - Mariahilfer Straße, Franz Leo & Comp KG, Rita H. Schnellmann Altstadt Antiquariat

LievelingsbibliothekenÖsterreichische Nationalbibliothek, Universitätsbibliothek Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Zentralbibliothek Zürich

Over mijzelfThe 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.

Over mijn boekenThe 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.

Tag glossary
» Currently reading (although I stray a lot);
» de - a book in German, fr - French, it - Italian, and so on;
» fave - my favourite books (incomplete);
» ribno - read it, but don't own it (public library or friends and family)

Current LT projects
» Story of the Stone, Red Chamber Read along, Vol. I (one chapter a week)
» Romance of the Three Kingdoms - Read along Vol. I, Vol. II, Vol . III, Vol. IV
» Italian Renaissance (for the Grand Tour next autumn; talk thread)
» Legacies: Thomas Mann (60% in), Heinrich Bullinger (complete), Prince Eugene (struggling with 15.000 records)

Ook opWikiThing (LT)

Werkelijke naamJean-Claude Brunner

WoonplaatsVienna, Austria

E-mailjc.brunnergmail.com

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URL's http://www.librarything.com/profile/jcbrunner (profiel)
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Lid sindsJan 21, 2006

Aan het lezenDr. Johnson's London : Everyday Life in London in the Mid 18th Century door Liza Picard
Catch-22 door Joseph Heller
Francesco Petrarca. Ein Intellektueller im Europa des 14. Jahrhunderts. door Karlheinz Stierle
Walther Rathenau Deutscher und Jude door Wolfgang Brenner
Jung : A Biography door Deirdre Bair
Kaltblütig door Truman Capote
On the Road door Jack Kerouac
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values door Robert M. Pirsig
Antike Staatsformen : eine vergleichende Verfassungsgeschichte der Alten Welt door Alexander Demandt
Rot ist mein Name. door Orhan Pamuk
General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory door Robert Collins
Römische Geschichte. Bd. 1. Könige und Konsuln door Theodor Mommsen
A History of Venice door John Julius Norwich
Die drei Kulturen. Soziologie zwischen Literatur und Wissenschaft. door Wolf Lepenies
The life of Belisarius door Lord Mahon
Alexander the Great door Robin Lane Fox
The Generalship Of Alexander The Great door J. F. C. Fuller
The search for Alexander door Robin Lane Fox
The Battle of the Wilderness, May 5-6, 1864 door Gordon C. Rhea
Kafka : die Jahre der Erkenntnis door Reiner Stach
Ramillies 1706 : year of miracles door James Falkner
1688 : a global history door John E. Wills
Everyday life in early imperial China during the Han period 202 BC - AD 220 door Michael Loewe
Emerson: The Mind on Fire (Centennial Books) door Robert D. Richardson Jr.
Révolutions door Jean Marie G. Le Clézio
Gründungszeit ohne Eidgenossen Politik und Gesellschaft in der Innerschweiz um 1300 door Roger Sablonier
Die grosse Hitze oder Die Errettung Österreichs durch den Legationsrat Dr. Tuzzi : Roman door Jörg Mauthe
Infantry warfare in the early fourteenth-century : discipline, tactics, and technology door Kelly DeVries
Emotions revealed : recognizing faces and feelings to improve communication and emotional life door Paul Ekman
Telling lies : clues to deceit in the marketplace, politics, and marriage door Paul Ekman
Medieval Chinese warfare, 300-900 door David Andrew Graff
Cochrane the Dauntless: The Life and Adventures of Thomas Cochrane, 1775-1860 door David Cordingly
Men against fire : the problem of battle command door S. L. A. Marshall
Konrad Lorenz: Biographie door Klaus Taschwer
Dry Store Room No. 1: The Secret Life of the Natural History Museum door Richard Fortey
A Dream of Red Mansions (3 Volume Set) v. 1 door Cao Xueqin
The search for modern China door Jonathan D. Spence
Der See von Han-yuan Kriminalfälle des Richters Di, alten chinesischen Originalquellen entnommen door Robert Hans van Gulik
200 Jahre Marchfeldschlachten Aspern und Wagram 1809-2009 door Peter Kolecko
Begegnungen mit Büchern : Aufsätze und Einleitungen aus den Jahren 1902 - 1939 door Stefan Zweig
Radetzky : eine Biographie door Franz Herre
Auf den Spuren von General Johann Rudolf Werdmüller in der Ägais 1664-1667 ein Bildband door Anton Pestalozzi
Remix : making art and commerce thrive in the hybrid economy door Lawrence Lessig
Samuel Pepys : the unequalled self door Claire Tomalin
Illness as metaphor ; and, AIDS and its metaphors door Susan Sontag
The Hussite Wars, 1420-34 door S. R. Turnbull
The enemy at the gate : Habsburgs, Ottomans and the Battle for Europe door Andrew Wheatcroft
Das kleine Einmaleins des klaren Denkens : 22 Denkwerkzeuge für ein besseres Leben door Christian Hesse
The military campaigns of the Wars of the Roses door Philip A. Haigh
Die Verpackung des männlichen Geschlechts : eine illustrierte Kulturgeschichte der Hose door Gundula Wolter
Das Türkenjahr 1664 : eine europäische Bewährung ; Raimund Montecuccoli, die Schlacht von St. Gotthard-Mogersdorf und der Friede von Eisenburg (Vasvár) door Georg Wagner
Die Schlacht bei St. Gotthard-Mogersdorf 1664 door Kurt Peball
Der Schwed' ist im Land! : Das Ende des 30jährigen Krieges in Niederösterreich ; Ausstellung der Stadt Horn im Höbarthmuseum 22. Juni bis 2. November 1995 door Erich Rabl
Adelige Macht und Religionsfreiheit : 1608 - der Horner Bund ; Sonderausstellung Museen der Stadt Horn 2008/2009 door Toni Kurz
Le armi, i cavalli, l'oro : Giovanni Acuto e i condottieri nell'Italia del Trecento door Duccio Balestracci
Mestre 1848-49 door Luigi Brunello
Burgund und das Reich : spätmittelalterliche Außenpolitik am Beispiel der Regierung Karls des Kühnen (1465 - 1477) door Petra Ehm
Morat (1476) l'indépendance des cantons suisses door Pierre Streit
L'État bourguignon 1363-1477 door Bertrand Schnerb
The Hemingses of Monticello : an American family door Annette Gordon-Reed
Confessions of a Public Speaker door Scott Berkun
Superfreakonomics : global cooling, patriotic prostitutes, and why suicide bombers should buy life insurance door Steven D. Levitt
Murten Bild einer Stadt door Florens Deuchler
Jugendstil door Gabriele Fahr-Becker
Gardens in China door Peter Valder
Bowling alone : the collapse and revival of American community door Robert D. Putnam
Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction door Thomas K. McCraw
The original of Laura door Vladimir Nabokov
Hirsebrei und Hellebarde auf den Spuren des mittelalterlichen Lebens in der Schweiz door Werner Meyer
Struggle for the heartland : the campaigns from Fort Henry to Corinth door Stephen Douglas Engle
Lincoln's Labels: America's Best Known Brands and the Civil War door James M. Schmidt
Streetlights and shadows : searching for the keys to adaptive decision making door Gary A. Klein
Die Schweizergarde in Rom [1506-2006] door Paul Maria Krieg
Astronomie : die kosmische Perspektive door Jeffrey Bennett
Eleanor of Aquitaine : by the wrath of God, Queen of England door Alison Weir
Armagnacs et Bourguignons la maudite guerre, 1407-1435 door Bertrand Schnerb
The pirate coast : Thomas Jefferson, the first marines, and the secret mission of 1805 door Richard Zacks
Vermeer : die Malkunst ; Spurensicherung an einem Meisterwerk ; eine Ausstellung des Kunsthistorischen Museums Wien ; Kunsthistorisches Museum, 26. Januar bis 25. April 2010 ; with English translations of the essays = Vermeer : the art of painting ; scrutiny of a picture door Sabine Haag
Kampf um die Stadt : Politik, Kunst und Alltag um 1930 door Wolfgang Kos
Genius loci : towards a phenomenology of architecture door Christian Norberg-Schulz
Mr. Jefferson's university door Garry Wills
Manhunt : the twelve-day chase for Lincoln's killer door James L. Swanson
Mr. Jefferson and the giant moose : natural history in early America door Lee Alan Dugatkin
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