Swiss Watching
Author: Diccon Bewes
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2012-03-09
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1857889916
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA Financial Times Book of the Year and international bestseller.
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Swiss Watching, 3rd Edition
Author: Diccon Bewes
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Published: 2018-09-25
Total Pages: 203
ISBN-13: 147369972X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNew updated edition of the international bestseller, featuring new statistics and a new epilogue, as well as new sections on the Swiss elections, the Swiss citizenship test and how Brexit has affected Switzerland "A great subject for a cultural anthropologist and Bewes is a perfect guide." Financial Times, Book of the Year One country, four languages, 26 cantons, and 7.5 million people (but only 75% of them Swiss): there's nowhere else in Europe like it. Switzerland may be hundreds of miles away from the nearest drop of seawater, but it is an island at the center of Europe. Welcome to the landlocked island. Swiss Watching is a fascinating journey around Europe's most individual and misunderstood country. From seeking Heidi and finding the best chocolate to reliving a bloody past and exploring an uncertain future, Diccon Bewes proves that there's more to Switzerland than banks and skis, francs and cheese. This book dispels the myths and unravels the true meaning of Swissness.
History of the Swiss Watch Industry
Author: Pierre-Yves Donzé
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783034316453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tackles the history of the Swiss watch industry in a global perspective: it gives particular attention to rival nations such as the United Kingdom, the USA and Japan. The author demonstrates how Swiss watchmakers succeeded in facing various challenges: the industrialization of production at the end of the 19th century, the delocalization of production in the interwar years and globalization since the 1960's. These challenges helped Switzerland to maintain and strengthen its position as a leader on the world market. This study shows how innovation and new technologies, the industrial policy of the Swiss authorities, the industrial district organization and the relations with trade unions explain the worldwide success of the Swiss watch industry.
Slow Train to Switzerland
Author: Diccon Bewes
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2013-11-07
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 1857889762
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA travel diary from 1863 inspires author Diccon Bewes to retrace Thomas Cook's historic train trip that revolutionized tourism forever.
A Concise History of Switzerland
Author: Clive H. Church
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-05-23
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 1107244196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite its position at the heart of Europe and its quintessentially European nature, Switzerland's history is often overlooked within the English-speaking world. This comprehensive and engaging history of Switzerland traces the historical and cultural development of this fascinating but neglected European country from the end of the Dark Ages up to the present. The authors focus on the initial Confederacy of the Middle Ages; the religious divisions which threatened it after 1500 and its surprising survival amongst Europe's monarchies; the turmoil following the French Revolution and conquest, which continued until the Federal Constitution of 1848; the testing of the Swiss nation through the late nineteenth century and then two World Wars and the Depression of the 1930s; and the unparalleled economic and social growth and political success of the post-war era. The book concludes with a discussion of the contemporary challenges, often shared with neighbours, that shape the country today.
How to be Swiss
Author: Diccon Bewes
Publisher: Bergli
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9783038690009
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe art of being Swiss isn't an easy thing to master, even if you have a head start by being born that way, but How to be Swiss will help you make it (or fake it). This instruction manual is the result of years of hard work by the authors themselves, one British and one Swiss.
Switzerland: A Village History
Author: D. Birmingham
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2000-05-09
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780333800140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSwitzerland is a remarkable country half of whose territory lies in the Alps. The raising of cattle and the making of cheese eventually brought a modest wealth to the peasants but the destructive Napoleonic invasion brought revolution and poverty. The democratic unification of Switzerland created a common market and a single currency. This history of one alpine village illustrates a one-thousand-year struggle for survival on the edge of this white wilderness.
Moonwatch Only
Author: Grégoire Rossier
Publisher: Watchprint.com Sarl
Published: 2019-12-11
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9782940506309
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Initially designed for automobile racing teams and engineers, the OMEGA Speedmaster embarked on a very different trajectory when NASA chose it to accompany astronauts heading for the Moon in 1965. Its involvement in the space adventure has propelled the Moonwatch to the top of the list of celebrated timepieces. After years of research and observation, the authors present a complete panorama of the Moonwatch in a systematic work that is both technical and attractive, making it the inescapable reference book for this legendary watch. This third edition has been enriched with 17 new models, revised information and a new chapter featuring pictures of astronauts and their Speedmasters."--Back cover.
Why Switzerland?
Author: Jonathan Steinberg
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-11-19
Total Pages: 405
ISBN-13: 0521883075
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRevised and completely updated edition of Jonathan Steinberg's classic account of Switzerland's unique political and economic system. Why Switzerland? examines the complicated voting system that allows citizens to add, strike out, or vote more than once for candidates, with extremely complicated systems of proportional representation; a collective and consensual executive leadership in both state and church; and the creation of the Swiss idea of citizenship, with tolerance of differences of language and religion, and a perfectionist bureaucracy which regulates the well-ordered society. This third edition tries to test the flexibility of the Swiss way of politics in the globalized world, social media, the huge expansion of money in world circulation and the vast tsunamis of capital which threaten to swamp it. Can the complex machinery that has maintained Swiss institutions for centuries survive globalization, neo-liberalism and mass migration from poor countries to rich ones?
Bread
Author: Jeffrey Hamelman
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2021-04-06
Total Pages: 72
ISBN-13: 1119577519
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Bread was first published in 2004, it received the Julia Child Award for best First Book from the International Association of Culinary Professionals and became an instant classic. Hailed as a "masterwork of bread baking literature," Jeffrey Hamelman's Bread features over 130 detailed, step-by-step formulas for dozens of versatile rye- and wheat-based sourdough breads, numerous breads made with yeasted pre-ferments, simple straight dough loaves, and dozens of variations. In addition, an International Contributors section is included, which highlights unique specialties by esteemed bakers from five continents. In this third edition of Bread, professional bakers, home bakers, and baking students will discover a diverse collection of flavors, tastes, and textures, hundreds of drawings that vividly illustrate techniques, and evocative photographs of finished and decorative breads.
