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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 111. Chapters: Charlie Chaplin, Ingmar Bergman, Vaclav Havel, Jean Piaget, Marc Chagall, Mary Robinson, Renzo Piano, Mauricio Kagel, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Olivier Messiaen, Isaiah Berlin, Jacques Delors, Austria, Amnesty International, Claude Levi-Strauss, Henry Moore, Simon Wiesenthal, Ninette de Valois, Martin Buber, Robert Schuman, Jean Monnet, Adam Michnik, Abdolkarim Soroush, Karl Jaspers, Bernard Haitink, Edward Schillebeeckx, Herbert Read, Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, Leszek Ko akowski, Peter Sellars, Oskar Kokoschka, Raymond Aron, Gabriel Marcel, Marguerite Yourcenar, Sigmar Polke, Romano Guardini, Ernst Gombrich, International Commission of Jurists, Jean Prouve, Archivo General de Indias, Gustav Leonhardt, Grahame Clark, Jan Tinbergen, William Hardy McNeill, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Claudio Magris, Alan Davidson, Fatema Mernissi, Maurice Bejart, Die Zeit, Massimo Pallottino, Neue Zurcher Zeitung, Steven Shapin, Simon Schaffer, Antonio Cassese, Alexander King, Paul Delouvrier, Hans van Manen, Zeit Wissen, Poppentheater. Excerpt: Austria ( or; German: ), officially the Republic of Austria (German: Republik Osterreich), is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the west. The territory of Austria covers 83,855 square kilometres (32,377 sq mi) and has a temperate and alpine climate. Austria's terrain is highly mountainous due to the presence of the Alps; only 32% of the country is below 500 metres (1,640 ft), and its highest point is 3,798 metres (12,461 ft). The majority of the population speaks German, which is also the country's official language. Other local official languages are Croatian, Hungarian and Slovene. The origins of Austria ...
