Benjamin Constant: A Biography |
 Dennis Wood
ISBN: 0415019370
During his own lifetime Benjamin Constant was known as a political theorist, as the courageous defender of liberal causes, and as a notable historian of the religious experience of mankind. Through his journals, autobiographical works and...(read more) |
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Blood Money: The Swiss, the Nazis and the Looted Billions |
 Tom Bower
ISBN: 0333715179
An investigation of the wartime Swiss-Nazi collaboration which used gold and assets from occupied countries to help fund Nazi supplies and munitions, and the Swiss post-war conspiracy to retain these looted private assets in the face of US Senate...(read more) |
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Calvin: A Biography |
 Bernard Cottret
ISBN: 0802842895
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Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul, An Illustrated Biography |
 Clare Dunne
ISBN: 0930407504
This new biography of Carl Jung, the groundbreaking psychologist who introduced the world to the concepts of individuation, archetypes, and the collective unconscious, is less an outward chronicle of the events in his life than it is a look into the...(read more) |
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General Henri Guisan: Commander-in-Chief of the Swiss Army in World War II |
 Willi Gautschi
ISBN: 0972557202
Intriguing account of the man responsible for mobilising Switzerland into joining the Second World War -Incisive biography of an inspirational WWII general During its darkest hour Switzerland was surrounded by aggressive fascist armies, with no allies...(read more) |
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Geneva Nights: Kosovo Refugee Camps to Swiss Hostess Bars the Colorful Life of a Young International |
 Clint J Borgen
ISBN: 0595273017
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So Far and Yet So Near: Stories of Americans Abroad |
 American Citizens Abroad (ACA)
ISBN: 2839901099
The estimated three to six million Americans who reside abroad are a diverse group, with many reasons for going overseas. All have stories to tell of cultural diversity, national identity and the complex emotions resulting from living in foreign...(read more) |
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The Beggar and the Professor: A Sixteenth-Century Family Saga |
 Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Arthur Goldhammer (Translator)
ISBN: 0226473236
In 1499 in the mountians of Valais, Thomas Platter was born and abandoned. At the age of 10 he walked barefoot out of the hills into the turbulence of 16th century Europe. He wandered the breadth of Europe for nearly 10 years with nomadic beggars and...(read more) |
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The Climb Up to Hell |
 Jack Olsen
ISBN: 0312194501
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Until Tomorrow: Christy and Todd: the College Years |
 Robin Jones Gunn
ISBN: 0764222724
College student Christy Miller is thrilled to have her two close friends visit her in Switzerland, but their plans to travel throughout Europe are stymied by conflicting expectations about the trip. |
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