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In response to its limited surface area and the process of coming to terms with its neighbors, Switzerland has devised forms of expression that have earned the country respect far beyond its frontiers: among them, opportunities for individual development and participation in government processes, mechanisms to redress imbalances between the various linguistic and cultural regions, legal rights, economic prosperity and a commitment to preserving the authenticity of an incomparable landscape.How does Switzerland live with itself? What is Swiss daily life like?Designed as a reference work and subject archive, this book offers insight into the many facets of a small country in the heart of Europe. ... Read more

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Chapters: Linear Pottery Culture. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 45. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Linear Pottery culture is a major archaeological horizon of the European Neolithic, flourishing ca. 55004500 BC. The heaviest concentrations are on the middle Danube, the upper and middle Elbe, and the upper and middle Rhine. The culture represents a major impulse if not the advent of agriculture into this part of the world. The pottery after which it was named consists of simple cups, bowls, vases and jugs, without handles, but in a later phase with lugs or pierced lugs, bases and necks. They were obviously designed as kitchen dishes, or for the immediate or local transport of food and liquids. Important sites include Nitra in Slovakia; Bylany in the Czech Republic; Langweiler and Zwenkau in Germany; Brunn am Gebirge in Austria; Elsloo, Sittard, Köln-Lindenthal, Aldenhoven, Flomborn and Rixheim on the Rhine; Lautereck and Hienheim on the upper Danube; Rössen and Sonderhausen on the middle Elbe. Two variants of the early Linear Pottery Culture are recognized: Middle and late phases are also defined. In the middle phase, the Early Linear Pottery Culture intruded upon the Bug-Dniester culture and began to manufacture Musical note pottery. In the late phase, the Stroked Pottery Culture moved down the Vistula and Elbe. A number of cultures ultimately replaced the Linear Pottery culture over its range, but there is no one-to-one correspondence between its variants and the replacing cultures. The culture map instead is complex. Some of the successor cultures are the Hinkelstein, Großgartach, Rössen, Lengyel, Cucuteni-Trypillian, and Boian-Maritza. Linear pottery. "The vessels are oblated globes, cut off on the top and slightly flattened on the bottom suggestive of a gourd."Frank H...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=4407586 ... Read more

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Chapters: La Tène Culture, Neuchâtel, Aventicum, Martigny, Augusta Raurica, Holzbrücke Rapperswil-Hurden, Horgen, Kempraten, Busskirch, Schnidejoch, Petinesca, Lousonna. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 73. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt:Neuchâtel (literally: New Castle in Old French) is the capital of the Swiss canton of Neuchâtel on Lake Neuchâtel. The city has as of December 2007 approximately 32,600 inhabitants (80,000 in the agglomeration), by and large French-speaking, although the city is sometimes referred to historically by the German name ·), which has the same meaning, since Prussia ruled the area until 1848. Neuchâtel is a pilot city of the Council of Europe and the European Commission Intercultural cities programme. The city is located on the northwestern shore of the Lake of Neuchâtel ("lac de Neuchâtel" in French and "Neuenburgersee" in German), a few kilometers east of Peseux and west of Saint-Blaise. Above Neuchâtel, roads and train tracks rise steeply into the folds and ridges of the Jura range known within the canton as the Montagnes Neuchâteloises. Like the continuation of the mountains to either side, this is wild and hilly country, not exactly mountainous compared with the high Alps further south but still characterized by remote, windswept settlements and deep, rugged valleys. It is also the heartland of the celebrated Swiss watchmaking industry, centred on the once-famous towns of La Chaux-de-Fonds and Le Locle, which both rely heavily on their horological past to draw in visitors. The River Doubs marks the border with France, set down in a gorge and forming along its path an impressive waterfall, the Saut du Doubs, and lake, the Lac des Brenets. Neuchâtel in 1645 Map of town centre showing the evolution of the shorelineIn 1011, Rudolph III of Burgundy pr...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=494581 ... Read more

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Switzerland has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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"Hors-Sol" is a record of poster actions conducted by fine artists in public places in Switzerland, starting with the sensational campaign mounted by the Zurich Concrete Artists in 1961. Though the poster is usually a medium for commercial messages, here it is used to convey new meanings, some firmly anchored in the context of art, others explicitly aimed at advertising. Disturbing intrusions into everyday life, these visual actions cause people to reflect on the condition in which art and PR function. In historical comparison, they function as a mirror of the time and reveal a great deal about changing social conditions. The poster campaigns that took place in the 1960s and 80s were impressively explosive and alarmingly direct, whereas today's artistic forays into the poster as medium are evidence that PR aesthetics and the art world are becoming more and more indistinguishable.

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At the 6th International Zermatt Symposium Professor Antonino Zichichi presented a lecture about the creative process that distinguish mankind from other forms of life. This volume explores Professor Zichichi's experience in the creative sphere of our existence. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The La Tène culture was a European Iron Age culture named after the archaeological site of La Tène on the north side of Lake Neuchâtel in Switzerland, where a rich trove of artifacts was discovered by Hansli Kopp in 1857. La Tène culture developed and flourished during the late Iron Age in eastern France, Switzerland, Austria, southwest Germany, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Hungary. To the north extended the contemporary Jastorf culture of Northern Germany. La Tène culture developed out of the early Iron Age Hallstatt culture without any definite cultural break, under the impetus of considerable Mediterranean influence from Greek, and later Etruscan civilizations. A shift of settlement centres took place in the 4th century. La Tène cultural material appeared over a large area, including parts of Ireland and Great Britain, northern Spain, Burgundy, and Austria. Elaborate burials also reveal a wide network of trade. In Vix, France, an elite woman of the 6th century BCE was buried with a bronze cauldron made in Greece. Exports from La Tène cultural areas to the Mediterranean cultures were based on salt, tin and copper, amber, wool and leather, furs and gold. ... Read more

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A collection of printed pages from Wikipedia in black and white. HALF the "book" is on modern Switzerland, including the size of the military, and their equipment. It is theft at any price, but $50 ? ... Read more