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Pages: 162
Authors: John McPhee
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-01 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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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 th
Germany
Language: en
Pages: 372
Authors: Hagen Schulze
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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.
The Patch
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: John McPhee
Categories: Literary Collections
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-13 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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The Patch is the seventh collection of essays by the nonfiction master, all published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. It is divided into two parts. Part 1, “The
Why Switzerland?
Language: en
Pages: 405
Authors: Jonathan Steinberg
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-19 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Revised and completely updated edition of Jonathan Steinberg's classic account of Switzerland's unique political and economic system. Why Switzerland? examines
The Control of Nature
Language: en
Pages: 290
Authors: John McPhee
Categories: Nature
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-01 - Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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While John McPhee was working on his previous book, Rising from the Plains, he happened to walk by the engineering building at the University of Wyoming, where