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Category : Switzerland
Languages : en
Pages : 12
Book Description
Switzerland
Author: Why Switzerland?
Author: Jonathan SteinbergPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316284158
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
Switzerland is a special and fascinating place. Its unique institutions, its direct democracy, multi-member executives, absence of strikes, communal autonomy, its universal military service, its wealth, and four national languages make it interesting in itself. But it has wider significance, in representing the 'Europe that did not happen', the Europe that escaped the centralisation of state and economy associated with the modern world. Today, there is a new special feature. Switzerland is an island surrounded by the European Union, and resists membership. Why Switzerland? attempts to answer three related questions: why has such an exception to European norms survived? Why should outsiders notice its peculiarities and what can they learn from them? Finally, can so unusual a society continue to exist when many of the conditions in which it evolved have disappeared?
Swiss Monetary History since the Early 19th Century
Author: Ernst BaltenspergerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107199301
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
The Importance of Monetary Stability as the Main Objective of Central Bank Policy in a Paper Money System -- Fixed versus Flexible Exchange Rates -- Small Country, Independent Currency: the Value of Monetary Sovereignty -- Bibliography -- Index
Appearances of Soviet Leaders
Author: Discovering Early Modernism in Switzerland
Author: Daniel KorwanPublisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3035626723
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An insightful and engagingly narrated exploratory work on a pioneer of modern architecture from Switzerland The Queen Alexandra Sanatorium in Davos is a masterpiece of early modernist architecture by the Swiss architects Pfleghard & Haefeli (Schatzalp, Davos) and the renowned civil engineer and bridge builder Robert Maillart. A new form of architecture was forged here, full of contradictions and compromises and the result of intense collaboration between engineer, architect, and client. It stands at the threshold of modernism, which is largely characterized by the use of reinforced concrete. Apart from certain early mentions in architectural history, very little has been written about this Swiss precursor of modernist architecture. Drawing on numerous archival records, Daniel Korwan now provides the first detailed chronology of this 1909 building, thus expanding the record on the historical reception of modernism. First publication on a Swiss building that prefigured modern architecture Unpublished illustrations and plans of the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium in Davos Insightful and engagingly narrated new contribution to the study of 20th century modernism
The Value of Risk
Author: Peter BorscheidPublisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199689806
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
This book explains how today's insurance industry developed and highlights the role of the reinsurance industry in spreading risks globally. The book examines the development of insurance markets and of the reinsurance industry in particular, and the history of Swiss Re, one of the leading reinsurance companies in the world.
Official Gazette of the United States Patent and Trademark Office
Author: Arbitration in Switzerland
Author: Dr. Manuel ArroyoPublisher: Kluwer Law International B.V.
ISBN: 9041192743
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 3026
Book Description
Arbitration in Switzerland
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Time: Almanac 2002
Author: Editors of Time MagazinePublisher: Time Almanac
ISBN: 9781929049288
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 1048
Book Description
From the experts at "Information Please" and the editors of "Time" magazine comes this comprehensive assembly of incredible facts and statistics on just about anything--famous people, demographic data, geography, history, and more. From global trends to election results, all the up-to-the-minute facts, dates, and information one needs. 32-page color insert.