Swisscellany

Swisscellany

Author: Diccon Bewes

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9783905252248

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A treasure-trove of serious and not-so-serious facts about Switzerland that will amuse and enlighten you with statistics and details you never dreamed you'd enjoy knowing.


Slow Train to Switzerland

Slow Train to Switzerland

Author: Diccon Bewes

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2013-11-07

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1857889762

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A travel diary from 1863 inspires author Diccon Bewes to retrace Thomas Cook's historic train trip that revolutionized tourism forever.


Swiss Watching

Swiss Watching

Author: Diccon Bewes

Publisher: Hachette UK

Published: 2012-03-09

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1857889916

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A Financial Times Book of the Year and international bestseller.


Cartographica Helvetica

Cartographica Helvetica

Author: Diccon Bewes

Publisher: Helvetiq

Published: 2021-09-15

Total Pages: 80

ISBN-13: 9783038691150

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A Young Reader's Journey to Switzerland in Entertaining Maps. Ever heard of the Röstigraben? Did you know, Switzerland fits into Germany eight times ... but 232 times into China? Where did Ulrich Zwingli live? What does Switzerland do to combat climat change? Are cuckoo clocks really from Switzerland? Where was the Red Cross founded? This is the children's atlas about Switzerland, that answers all the questions that curious young minds might have! Learn intresting and amusing facts about this small country and its inhabitants. Exciting and current topics like the country's languages, inventions, energy consumption or tourism and much more will be brought to life with maps and infographics, making this diverse country in the heart of Europe accessible. The 20 especially made maps in this book promise a lively, entertaining and intensive journey.


How to be Swiss

How to be Swiss

Author: Diccon Bewes

Publisher: Bergli

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783038690009

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The 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.


Around Switzerland in 80 Maps

Around Switzerland in 80 Maps

Author: Diccon Bewes

Publisher:

Published: 2015-10

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 9782940481149

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A fascinating encounter between Swiss history and original cartography. Using very little-known maps that he researched in archives around the country, Diccon Bewes presents the most important moments in Switzerland's history, ancient and recent, in a different and innovative way. The description accompanying each map is informative, amusing and easy to read.


Can You Be Happy for 100 Days in a Row?

Can You Be Happy for 100 Days in a Row?

Author: Dmitry Golubnichy

Publisher: Artisan Books

Published: 2017-12-12

Total Pages: 122

ISBN-13: 157965715X

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An inspirational, fun, and informative visual guide to help readers realize long-term happiness and fulfillment (and complete the wildly popular #100happydays challenge).


The Other Daughter

The Other Daughter

Author: Caroline Bishop

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2023-01-10

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 1982196947

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A timely novel about an ambitious London journalist who reports on the fight for women’s rights in 1970s Switzerland, and the daughter who uncovers the long-buried truth about the assignment years later—for fans of Genevieve Graham and Heather Marshall. 2016 Jess is at a crossroads in life. In her late thirties, all she has to show for it is a broken marriage and a job teaching a bunch of uninterested kids. But when she discovers a shocking secret about her late mother, Sylvia, Jess begins to question all she’s ever known. Her search for answers leads to a 1970s article about women’s rights in Switzerland that Sylvia wrote when she was a young journalist. But to uncover the real story of what happened all those years ago, Jess will have to go to Switzerland and find someone who knew her mother... 1976 Sylvia’s life is on track. She has a loving fiancé and her dream job as a features writer in a busy London newsroom—if only her editor would give her the chance to write about something important instead of relegating her to fashion, flowers, and celebrities. When Sylvia learns about the growing women’s liberation movement in Switzerland, where women only recently got the right to vote, she knows the story could be her big break. There’s just one wrinkle: she’s pregnant. Determined to put her career first, Sylvia travels to Switzerland, and as she meets the courageous band of women fighting for their rights, she stumbles across an even bigger scoop, one that would make her male colleagues take her seriously. But telling the story will change her—and her baby’s—life forever. Inspired by an important chapter of women’s history, The Other Daughter is an unforgettable novel about the bond between mothers and daughters—and the fight of women, generations over, for the freedom to choose their own path.


Voting Day

Voting Day

Author: Clare O'Dea

Publisher: Fairlight Books

Published: 2022-04-01

Total Pages: 100

ISBN-13: 1914148088

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In February 1959, Switzerland held a referendum on women’s suffrage. The men voted ‘no’. In this powerful novella, Clare O’Dea explores that day through the eyes of four very different Swiss women. Vreni is a busy farmer’s wife, longing for a break from family life. Her grown-up daughter Margrit is carving out an independent life in Bern, but finds herself trapped in an alarming situation. Esther, a cleaner, is desperate to recover her son who has been taken into care. Beatrice, a hospital administrator, has been throwing herself into the ‘yes’ campaign. The four women’s paths intersect on a day that will leave its mark on all their lives.