Swiss Life

Little orphan Heidi is sent to live with her grandfather in his remote house in the Swiss Alps. She soon begins to love her life with her grandfath...

Reducere. Following a wild and raging storm, the Swiss family Robinson are stranded at sea. But the thundering waves have swept them off to a tropical island...

Following a wild and raging storm, the Swiss family Robinson are stranded at sea. But the thundering waves have swept them off to a tropical island...

Known for its big banks and wealth, Switzerland's investors are now turning their attention to innovative entrepreneurs solving the world's most pr...

The first English-language biography of one of the great literary talents of the twentieth century, written by his award-winning translator "Bernof...

Reducere. The Swiss Family Robinson is a Johann David Wyss novel about a Swiss family shipwrecked in the East Indies en route to Port Jackson, Australia. It ...

Reducere. Nevertheless, within three weeks from that very day she was seated in the train; leaving London, leaving her life in England with every detail arra...

Reducere. One of the best-selling books ever written, "Heidi" is an 1881 children's novel written by Johanna Spyri. The story centres around the life of a 5 ...

A collection of illuminating observations on life and art, from an acclaimed Swiss modernistPublisher: Yale University PressAuthor(s): Ludwig HohlT...

Reducere. The Expert Guide is the bible for your happy and successful life in Switzerland. An ideal book for the newly arrived and the seasoned resident. It ...

Darius, son of an escaped Iranian scientist, is a pupil at an exclusive Swiss school, but his father's former bosses want him back and have no rega...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, the Swiss American artist duo Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler (born 1965 and 1962...

Reducere. Raina Petkoff has grand ideas about heroism and war that are soon thwarted by a Swiss solider using her bedroom to hide from the authorities. Arms ...

Plastic Emotions is a novel based on the true life story of Minnette de Silva - forgotten feminist icon and the first female Sri Lankan architect. ...

When five-year-old orphan Heidi is sent to live in the Swiss Alps with grumpy Grandpa, the rest of the village take pity on her. But Heidi soon dis...

DescriptionThis collection for the first time makes Karl Barth's pastoral prayers available to an English-speaking audience, offering a fresh persp...

John Kaag took journeys on foot through the Swiss Alps as an introspective teenager and later in life with his wife and child in tow, occupied on e...

Reducere. For years, my friends have been saying that I should write a book, but it has always seemed that the days were too busy to sit down and put this ou...

Reducere. Often called the 'most royal Princess in Europe', Olga's life is imbued with drama from the outset: Taken 'hostage' by her Romanov grandmother, she...

Reducere. For centuries, little was known or remembered about Jakob Ammann except his prominent role in the contentious division which split the Swiss Brethr...

The Swiss writer Robert Walser is one of the quiet geniuses of twentieth-century literature. Largely self-taught and altogether indifferent to worl...

Reducere. As collections curator for Old World Wisconsin, Chloe Ellefson delights in losing herself in antiques and folk traditions-and forgetting her messy ...

Reducere. "Hadfield is a genius, a man of science and technology and no first-timer to the universe."-New York Post Chris Hadfield has spent decades training...

Reducere. The result of a unique international collaborative investigation by Russian, French, and Swiss scholars into hundreds of private, unpublished diari...

Reducere. Cherry Ames is thrilled to be working in a picturesque ski resort town in the Swiss Alps. The town's only doctor has employed her to assist him in ...

Reducere. Discover the fascinating life of Alice Bailey: a long-forgotten occultist widely regarded as the Mother Of The New Age.Back in 1931, Alice is prepa...

Reducere. This book brings life lessons taken from the Bible and the world myths and interpreted with a Jungian reading. It also offers an easy explanation f...

Reducere. Hans Kung is one of the most celebrated theologians of the present day. His audience, which is strong within his own Roman Catholic Church, is equa...

"You are a girl, you can't be a pilot." Those words resonated in Myriam's head throughout her teenager years while growing up in a small Swiss vill...

Reducere. Now that the kids are finally old enough, and her husband s career is on track, Christina is determined to return to the working world once their s...

Reducere. "You are a girl, you can't be a pilot." Those words resonated in Myriam's head throughout her teenager years while growing up in a small Swiss vill...

Reducere. Osama bin Laden's former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family's role within it...

Reducere. With a new introduction by Francine Prose and stunning original artwork by Eko, the Restless Classics edition of Frankenstein brings Mary Shelley's...

Reducere. Against a Darkening Sky was original published in 1943. Set in a semi-rural community south of San Francisco, it is the story of an American mother...

Reducere. The Cosmic Egg Timer offers an immediate approach to using the astrological birth chart to understand yourself and others. What kind of person are ...

Reducere. Collecting a decade's worth of stories by acclaimed author David Leo Rice, Drifter is a wild trip through the occult and surreal undercurrents of c...

Reducere. In 2017, Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi was purchased at auction for a staggering $450 million. The exchange rippled beyond the art world into ...

Reducere. "What we are looking for - aside from the stolen plutonium, Mrs Pollifax - is evil in its purest form."Emily Pollifax is leading a very full life: ...

Reducere. Retired to the English countryside, an eighty-nine-year-old man, rumored to be a once-famous detective, is more concerned with his beekeeping than ...

Reducere. Here are the life journeys of three great seekers who, though separated by time and culture, had much in common. Dogen was the 13th century Japanes...

Reducere. In recognition of Karl Barths stature as a theologian and public figure in the life of Europe and the West, Swiss publisher Theologischer Verlag Zu...

DescriptionThe Dean of a Swiss university persuades Sherlock Holmes to investigate the background of a would-be lecturer. To Dr. Watson it seems a ...

Reducere. Written by wilderness wanderer Andrew Terrill, The Earth Beneath My Feet tells the extraordinary true story of a 7, 000-mile solo walk. Hiking from...

Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved c...

Reducere. Louis de Wohl As in his other popular novels, Louis de Wohl, with humility and deep religious conviction, takes us into the mind and heart of a sai...

Reducere. "Terrifically compelling ... Sit back and go along for the ride." --- Boston Globe Just after midnight on December 23, 1980, a night flight bound f...

Reducere. Both Egyptian and foreign historians have testified to the high status of women in all spheres of life during the ancient Egyptian period. Women we...

Reducere. Winner of the Independent Publishers Book Awards (Gold Medal, Romance)Set in China in the late 1800's, The Secret Language of Women tells the story...

Reducere. The Swiss writer of whom Hermann Hesse famously declared, "If he had a hundred thousand readers, the world would be a better place, " Robert Walser...

Reducere. "An unusual and beautiful book, " the first novel by the bestselling author of A Wrinkle in Time explores the life of a young artist (Los Angeles T...

Reducere. Ella Maillart was the adventurous Swiss woman who made her name as an intrepid explorer and one of the most remarkable woman travelers of the early...

Reducere. From the jungles of Belize to the streets of Atlanta, Hawker's war rages on The CIA wants James Hawker dead. For years, his one-man campaign agains...

Reducere. C. G. Jung, son of a Swiss Reformed pastor, used his Christian background throughout his career to illuminate the psychological roots of all religi...

Reducere. Located on the Pacific coast between San Francisco and Los Angeles, Cambria developed as a hub for lumbering, mining, whaling, and dairying in the ...

Reducere. DescriptionF lix Vallotton was a Swiss painter and printmaker associated with group Les Nabis. By the end of his life he had completed over 1700 pa...

Reducere. Also known as "The Witch Hammer, " The Malleus Maleficarum was a handbook for hunting and punishing witches-written by Inquisitors HEINRICH KRAMER ...

Reducere. The enormously prolific Swiss Roman Catholic theologian Hans Urs von Balthasar (1905-1988) was marginalized during much of his life, but his reputa...

Reducere. DescriptionHeinrich Bullinger, the friend and successor of Huldrych Zwingli, led the Zurich church for almost fifty years after Zwingli's death and...

Reducere. This is a verbatim reprints of Hartmann's biography of Paracelsus. It includes a broad yet detailed survey of his teachings on a wide range of subj...

Reducere. Aniela Jeffe explores the subjective world of inner experience. In so doing, she follows the path of the pioneering Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung, w...

DescriptionWhen the State Bauhaus opened in Weimar in 1918, the Swiss art theorist Johannes Itten (1888-1967) was one of the first teachers to be a...

Reducere. Description The Archisutra is a design manual giving you the necessary data for a selection of sex positions, using annotated scale drawings and in...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Living Birth Chart aims to provide insight into the practical use of the life-changing astrological approach to psychology known as ...

Reducere. Chasing the Invisible combines the suspense of a spy novel with the education and scientific insight of a medical mystery thriller, all wrapped in ...

Reducere. Chasing the Invisible combines the suspense of a spy novel with the education and scientific insight of a medical mystery thriller, all wrapped in ...

A member of the famous artist-owned photo agency Magnum Photos, Swiss photographer Ren Burri (1933-2014) found himself wherever history was happeni...

Reducere. DescriptionDisintegration threatened the nearly two-year old Anabaptist movement in 1526 in Switzerland and southern Germany. Quarrelling individua...

Klaus Merz is one of the most prominent, prolific, and versatile Swiss writers working today. Celebrated as a master of concise, condensed sentence...

"My father bought me from the council for 365 francs, " recalls the narrator in Monica Cantieni's novel The Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons. She's a ...

Reducere. Not only is one of the most famous pieces of ancient Greek art-the celebrated gold and ivory statuette of the Snake Goddess-almost certainly modern...