The Naked Swiss

Author : Clare O'Dea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783905252989
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naked Swiss written by Clare O'Dea and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-03 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cross-cultural journalist Clare O'Dea goes in search of the truth behind the 10 clichEs that clothe modern Switzerland. Her examination of the facts and real people of this unique nation reveals a complex and dynamic land, whose citizens are often poorly served by the assumptions we make about them, which include: - The Swiss Are Neutral - The Swiss Are Xenophobic - The Swiss Are Rich - The Swiss Are Swiss - The Swiss Are Crooked Bankers - The Swiss Are Boring - The Swiss Are Sexist - The Swiss Helped the Nazis - The Swiss Have the Perfect Democracy - The Swiss Are Brilliant

Author : Clare O'Dea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783905252910
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The naked Swiss the nation behind 10 myths written by Clare O'Dea and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clare O'Dea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781912514519
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naked Irish written by Clare O'Dea and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Clare O'Dea
Publisher : Fairlight Books
ISBN 13 : 1914148088
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voting Day written by Clare O'Dea and published by Fairlight Books. This book was released on 2022-04-01 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Patrick Tucker
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1591847702
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naked Future written by Patrick Tucker and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A thorough yet thoroughly digestible book on the ubiquity of data gathering and the unraveling of personal privacy.” —Daniel Pink, author of Drive Thanks to recent advances in technology, prediction models for individual behavior grow more sophisticated by the day. Whether you’ll marry, commit a crime or fall victim to one, or contract a disease are becoming easily accessible facts. The naked future is upon us, and the implications are staggering. Patrick Tucker draws on fascinating stories from health care to urban planning to online dating. He shows how scientists can predict your behavior based on your friends’ Twitter updates, anticipate the weather a year from now, figure out the time of day you’re most likely to slip back into a bad habit, and guess how well you’ll do on a test before you take it. Tucker knows that the rise of Big Data is not always a good thing. But he also shows how we’ve gained tremendous benefits that we have yet to fully realize.

Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Bergli
ISBN 13 : 9783038690467
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "O Switzerland!" written by Mark Twain and published by Bergli. This book was released on 2018-06-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The best writing about Switzerland from history's most creative minds: Tolkien to Tolstoy, Petrarch to Prince, Julius Caesar to Geroges Sand. They wrote of wars and money, poverty and peaks, dances and prisons, wolves and fleas. "O Switzerland!" weaves together over 450 accounts to paint a dazzling and disturbing portrait of an enigmatic land.

Author : Margaret Floyd
Publisher : New Harbinger Publications
ISBN 13 : 1608823202
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naked Foods Cookbook written by Margaret Floyd and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2012-05-03 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There’s nothing better than taking a bite of a delicious meal you’ve prepared, knowing that each ingredient is helping create a more gorgeous you! Eating “naked” foods—nutrient-dense, additive-free whole foods— helps you lose weight and vastly improves the way you look and feel. And with this book, it’s easier than ever to make naturally tasty naked meals you can feel good about eating and serving to others. Written by Margaret Floyd, author of Eat Naked, and chef to the stars James Barry, The Naked Foods Cookbook includes over 150 gluten-free recipes for simple dishes that bring out the natural flavors and nutrients of fresh, whole foods. The benefits of eating naked are lifelong, and you can start seeing results within the week. So what are you waiting for? It’s time to enjoy the naked foods your body craves. Your body will love you for it, and you will love your body! Learn how to make delicious, naked comfort foods: • Grainless granola • Ketchup (with probiotics!) • Raw chocolate fudge • Nut-crusted pesto chicken • Noodle-less lasagna • Cheesy kale chips • Gluten-free pizza dough • Quinoa tabouleh • Sweet potato shepherd’s pie • Maple-sage pork tenderloin

Author : Wolfgang Koydl
Publisher : Bergli Books
ISBN 13 : 9783038690214
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Switzerland written by Wolfgang Koydl and published by Bergli Books. This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Switzerland is a mystery right at the heart of Europe. Bestselling author and cartoonist Sergio J. Lievano (Hoi: your Swiss German Survival Guide) joins forces with journalist Wolfgang Koydl to unravel the enigmas: from Swiss cheese to Swiss politics, alpine fauna to fighter jets, Albert Einstein to Roger Federer. Learning about this odd country has never been so much fun.

Author : Stephen C. Sieberson
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803286511
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Naked Mountaineer written by Stephen C. Sieberson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Naked Mountaineer recounts a series of solo journeys to some of the world’s most exotic peaks in places such as Switzerland, Japan, and Borneo. However, it is far from the typical heroic mountain-expedition book. Although Steve Sieberson did reach many summits, in most cases his travels were more memorable for what he encountered along the way than for the actual climbing. His real adventures involved peculiar people, strange foods, and tropical diseases, rather than pitons, ice axes, and carabiners. On the Matterhorn he met an English alpinist who reveled in naked selfies, he stumbled into a cockfight in a Balinese village, and on a volcano in Italy he was mistaken for a famous singer by an insistent fan. The Naked Mountaineer offers mountain-themed travel stories with a wide-eyed view of the world, while presenting irreverent commentary on climbers and their peculiar sport. These are rollicking tales, filled with the unexpected.

Author : Carla Del Ponte
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590515374
Total Pages : 510 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Madame Prosecutor written by Carla Del Ponte and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2011-10-11 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carla Del Ponte won international recognition as Switzerland's attorney general when she pursued cases against the Sicilian mafia. In 1999, she answered the United Nations' call to become the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia and for Rwanda. In her new role, Del Ponte confronted genocide and crimes against humanity head-on, struggling to bring to justice the highest-ranking individuals responsible for massive acts of violence in Rwanda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, and Kosovo. These tribunals have been unprecedented. They operate along the edge of the divide between national sovereignty and international responsibility, in the gray zone between the judicial and the political, a largely unexplored realm for prosecutors and judges. It is a realm whose native inhabitants–political leaders and diplomats, soldiers and spies–assume that they can commit the big crime without being held culpable. It is a realm crisscrossed by what Del Ponte calls the muro di gomma –"the wall of rubber"– a metaphor referring to the tactics government officials use to hide their unwillingness to confront the culture of impunity that has allowed persons responsible for acts of unspeakable, wholesale violence to escape accountability. Madame Prosecutor is Del Ponte's courageous and startling memoir of her eight years spent striving to serve justice.