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Freud for beginners

1993
An introduction to Sigmund Freud's theories and arguments on self-perception, interpersonal relationships, and human behavior.

Mozart

from child prodigy to tragic hero
1993
Examines the life of the musician and composer who was child prodigy and wrote his first minuet at the age of six.

Haydn

his life and times
1980

Lily Ren?ee, escape artist

from Holocaust survivor to comic book pioneer
2011
A graphic novel biography of Lily Ren?ee Wilheim, who, at fourteen years old, was forced to travel alone from Austria to England to escape the Nazis and faced servitude, hardship, and danger before becoming a pioneer of the comic book genre.

Persepolis

2003
Contains black-and-white comic strip images in which the author shares the story of her life in Tehran, Iran, where she lived from ages six to fourteen while the country came under control of the Islamic regime.

One eye laughing, the other weeping

the diary of Julie Weiss
2000
During the Nazi persecution of the Jews in Austria, twelve-year-old Julie escapes to America to live with her relatives in New York City.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

2006
Presents a short biography of eighteenth-century Austrian composer, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; and chronicles his life and works which included operas, sonatas, and symphonies.

The Anne Frank Case

Simon Wiesenthal's search for the truth
2009
Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal's quest to prove the veracity of Anne Frank's diary.

The goose man

the story of Konrad Lorenz
2009
This book tells the true story of Konrad Lorenz, whose love for animals as a child led to his winning the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking research of the behavior of geese.

Mozart tonight

1991
On the eve of his great operatic triumph "Don Giovanni," Mozart looks back on the events of his life that led to this moment.

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