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"A brand new edition of the international bestseller, with new sections on the Swiss elections, the Swiss citizenship test and how Brexit has affected Switzerland. One country, four languages, 26 cantons, and 7.5 million people (but only 80% 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....
52) Nicolas Party
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Swiss-born Nicolas Party, one of the most successful and critically acclaimed artists working today, is known for his color-saturated paintings of everyday objects, with distinctly personal yet very accessible and recognizable imagery - bright, graphic patterns applied to canvases, ceramics, furniture, floors, ceilings, doorways, and walls. He captures the essence of his subjects in surprising ways, heightening their physical and emotional resonance....
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The Swiss conspiracy: When a Swiss bank can no longer protect its clients from theft, an American investigator is called upon. But when an illegal scheme of fraud and deceit begins to unravel, the perpetrators will do everything in their power to stop the investigator from uncovering their actions. Will he survive this deadly game of corporate scandal, seduction and murder?
Casablanca express: It is fall of 1942; Winston Churchill boards a British...