La Place De La Concorde Suisse

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708533
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Place de la Concorde Suisse written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La Place de la Concorde Suisse is John McPhee's rich, journalistic study of the Swiss Army's role in Swiss society. The Swiss Army is so quietly efficient at the art of war that the Israelis carefully patterned their own military on the Swiss model.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374182418
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La Place de la Concorde Suisse written by John McPhee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1984-05-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In admirable disregard for the orthodoxy of public relations, the Swiss Army has chosen Luc Massy to be the soldier companion of the American observer John McPhee during various exercices of a "refresher" course among the high Alps of the Canto de Valais.

Author : John MacPhee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9782724227062
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book La place de la Concorde suisse written by John MacPhee and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John McPhee
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780571134847
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Swiss Army: la Place de la Concorde Suisse written by John McPhee and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hagen Schulze
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674005457
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany written by Hagen Schulze and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of Germany, covering two thousand years from the revolt of the indigenous tribes against Roman domination to the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Author : Jonathan Steinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521883075
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Switzerland? written by Jonathan Steinberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-19 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised 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?

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374280390
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Uncommon Carriers written by John McPhee and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-05-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is a book about people who drive trucks, captain ships, pilot towboats, drive coal trains, and carry lobsters through the air: people who work in freight transportation. In recent years, John McPhee has spent considerable time with such people, and Uncommon Carriers is his sketchbook of them, of their work, and of his journeys in their company."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374708584
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The John McPhee Reader written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The John McPhee Reader, first published in 1976, is comprised of selections from the author's first twelve books. In 1965, John McPhee published his first book, A Sense of Where You Are; a decade later, he had published eleven others. His fertility, his precision and grace as a stylist, his wit and uncanny brilliance in choosing subject matter, his crack storytelling skills have made him into one of our best writers: a journalist whom L.E. Sissman ranked with Liebling and Mencken, who Geoffrey Wolff said "is bringing his work to levels that have no measurable limit," who has been called "a master craftsman" so many times that it is pointless to number them.

Author : Ben Coates
Publisher : Nicholas Brealey
ISBN 13 : 1473683033
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Rhine written by Ben Coates and published by Nicholas Brealey. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From rowing the canals of Amsterdam to riding a cow through the Alps, via Cold War nuclear bunkers, raucous Gay Pride parades, tranquil Lake Constance and snowy mountain climbs, The Rhine blends travelogue and offbeat history to tell the fascinating story of how a great river helped shape a continent. SHORTLISTED FOR THE STANFORD DOLMAN TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD The Rhine is one of the world's greatest rivers. Once forming the outer frontier of the Roman Empire, it flows 800 miles from the social democratic playground of the Netherlands, through the industrial and political powerhouses of Germany and France, to the wealthy mountain fortresses of Switzerland and Liechtenstein. For five years, Ben Coates lived alongside a major channel of the river in Rotterdam, crossing it daily, swimming and sailing in its tributaries. In The Rhine, he sets out by bicycle from the Netherlands where it enters the North Sea, following it through Germany, France and Liechtenstein, to where its source in the icy Alps. He explores the impact that the Rhine has had on European culture and history and finds out how influences have flowed along and across the river, shaping the people who live alongside it.

Author : John McPhee
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 142998581X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silk Parachute written by John McPhee and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A WONDROUS NEW BOOK OF MCPHEE'S PROSE PIECES—IN MANY ASPECTS HIS MOST PERSONAL IN FOUR DECADES The brief, brilliant essay "Silk Parachute," which first appeared in The New Yorker a decade ago, has become John McPhee's most anthologized piece of writing. In the nine other pieces here— highly varied in length and theme—McPhee ranges with his characteristic humor and intensity through lacrosse, long-exposure view-camera photography, the weird foods he has sometimes been served in the course of his reportorial travels, a U.S. Open golf championship, and a season in Europe "on the chalk" from the downs and sea cliffs of England to the Maas valley in the Netherlands and the champagne country of northern France. Some of the pieces are wholly personal. In luminous recollections of his early years, for example, he goes on outings with his mother, deliberately overturns canoes in a learning process at a summer camp, and germinates a future book while riding on a jump seat to away games as a basketball player. But each piece—on whatever theme—contains somewhere a personal aspect in which McPhee suggests why he was attracted to write about the subject, and each opens like a silk parachute, lofted skyward and suddenly blossoming with color and form.