Swiss Watching

Swiss Watching
Author: Diccon Bewes
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2012-03-09
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1857889916

A Financial Times Book of the Year and international bestseller.

Slow Train to Switzerland

Slow Train to Switzerland
Author: Diccon Bewes
Publisher: Hachette UK
Total Pages: 243
Release: 2013-11-07
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1857889762

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

Swiss Made

Swiss Made
Author: R. James Breiding
Publisher: Profile Books
Total Pages: 751
Release: 2013-01-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1847658091

Why has Switzerland - a tiny, land-locked country with few natural advantages - become so successful for so long at so many things? In banking, pharmaceuticals, machinery, even textiles, Swiss companies rank alongside the biggest and most powerful global competitors. How did they get there? How do they continue to refresh themselves? Does the Swiss 'Sonderfall' (special case) provide lessons others can learn and benefit from? Can the Swiss continue to perform in a hyper-competitive global economy? Swiss Made offers answers to these and many other questions about the country as it describes the origins, structures and characteristics of the most important Swiss companies. The authors suggest success is due to a large degree to sound entrepreneurial thinking and an openness to new ideas. And they venture a surprising forecast on the country's ability to keep pace in an age of globalisation.

Swiss Watching, 3rd Edition

Swiss Watching, 3rd Edition
Author: Diccon Bewes
Publisher: Nicholas Brealey
Total Pages: 203
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 147369972X

New 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.

How to be Swiss

How to be Swiss
Author: Diccon Bewes
Publisher: Bergli
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: National characteristics, Swiss
ISBN: 9783038690009

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.

Cartographica Helvetica

Cartographica Helvetica
Author: Diccon Bewes
Publisher: Helvetiq
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9783038691150

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.

Swisscellany

Swisscellany
Author: Diccon Bewes
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 2012
Genre: Switzerland
ISBN: 9783905252248

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.

Xenophobe's Guide to the Swiss

Xenophobe's Guide to the Swiss
Author: Paul Bilton
Publisher: Xenophobe's Guide
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008-08
Genre: National characteristics, Swiss
ISBN: 9781906042509

Highlights the unique character and behavior of the nation. Frank, irreverent, funny--almost guaranteed to cure Xenophobia.