Subjects:  1. 1784-1817    2. Biography    3. Biography / Autobiography    4. Biography/Autobiography    5. Burckhardt, John Lewis,    6. Explorers    7. Historical - General    8. History    9. Middle East    10. Middle East - General    11. Military - General    12. Switzerland    13. Travelers    14. African history: c 1500 to c 1900    15. Asian / Middle Eastern history: c 1500 to c 1900    16. Biography & Autobiography / Historical    17. Biography: historical    18. Burckhardt, John Lewis    19. Geographical discovery & exploration    20. Middle & Near Eastern archaeology    21. North Africa    22. STUDY NOTES - SparkNotes   

Subjects:  1. Collections Of Photographs    2. Military - World War I    3. Photo Essays    4. Photography    5. Subjects & Themes - Travel - World/Europe    6. World War I    7. First World War, 1914-1918    8. World history: First World War   

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Packed with drawings and color examples
Any college-level arts library collection including classes or studies in stained glass will want to include this specialty history, which examines the collaboration between draftsmen and glass painters in southern Germany and Switzerland from 1480 to 1530. While Albrecht Durer is the focus here, others are examined for their contributions to the stained glass field and Painting on Light is packed with drawings and color examples of their works in a unique, appealing presentation. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 15th-16th Century Art    2. 16th century    3. Art    4. Art & Art Instruction    5. Artists' preparatory studies    6. Drawing, German    7. European    8. Exhibitions    9. Germany, Southern    10. Glass Arts And Crafts    11. Medieval    12. Switzerland    13. Techniques - Drawing    14. Techniques - Painting    15. Art & Architecture | Religious Art    16. Art / History / European   

Subjects:  1. Automobile travel    2. Europe - Switzerland    3. Guidebooks    4. Switzerland    5. Travel    6. Travel - Foreign    7. TRAVEL & HOLIDAY   

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Very intresting and exciting reading
I am not a very good writer so � can not make this very long. I am a proud owner of a beatifull Patek Philippe wristwatch. All reading about Patek Philippe is very intresting.

The authoritative book on Patek Philippe
This book is an excellent reference for Patek Philippe enthusiasts and collectors. The layout is a bit confusing but the content is first class. While the reference models coverage is not exhaustive all important models and movements have been included. Blow ups of important movements made in house by Patek Philippe have been presented in exploded view illustrations as well as in photographs. The movement table at the end of the book is useful for collectors.The photographs are excellent and provide a visual history of the watchmaker. This is a book for all levels of watch appreciators. The technical content is competent and the descriptions and illustrations are a treat. The way the book is structured requires some work on the part of the reader if he or she is familiar with the house and is seeking information about a particular watch. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Clocks and watches    2. Geneva    3. History    4. Patek Philippe (Firm)    5. Switzerland   

Subjects:  1. 16th century    2. Christianity - History - General    3. Christianity - History - Protestant    4. Church history    5. Geneva    6. Geneva (Switzerland)    7. History    8. Reformation    9. Religion    10. Religion - Church History    11. Religion - Commentaries / Reference    12. Sources    13. Switzerland    14. Western Europe - General    15. Biography: general    16. Europe    17. European history (ie other than Britain & Ireland)    18. Religion & Beliefs    19. Religion / History   

Subjects:  1. Cheese industry    2. Corporate & Business History - General    3. History    4. History - U.S.    5. History: American    6. Mail-order business    7. Monroe    8. Pictorial works    9. United States - State & Local - General    10. United States - State & Local - Midwest    11. Wisconsin    12. History / United States / General   

Subjects:  1. History    2. Sports    3. Sports & Recreation    4. Bibliographies, catalogues, discographies    5. Climbing & mountaineering    6. European history: c 1750 to c 1900    7. Switzerland    8. c 1800 to c 1900   

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Calvinistic America

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Subjects:  1. Christianity and politics    2. Democracy    3. General    4. History    5. History - General History    6. Political Science    7. Politics/International Relations    8. Reformed Church    9. Religious aspects    10. United States    11. American history: c 1500 to c 1800    12. Calvinist, Reformed & Presbyterian Churches    13. History / General    14. Switzerland    15. USA    16. c 1600 to c 1700    17. c 1700 to c 1800   

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Fascinating, Instructive For Democracies in the 21st Century
Surprisingly, I found this not only a facscinating but instructive study for me as a citizen of democracy in America. For beyond its merit as a description of democratic governance in Switzerland,Fossedal's study persuasively shows that we in the United States are behind the curve in the way we do democracy.Read more

Subjects:  1. Civics & Citizenship    2. Government - Comparative    3. Political Ideologies - Democracy    4. Political Science    5. Politics / Current Events    6. Politics/International Relations    7. History / Europe / General    8. Political structures: democracy    9. Switzerland   

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. History - General    4. Individual Artist    5. Impressionism    6. Individual artists    7. Painting & paintings    8. Post-Impressionism   

Subjects:  1. Christianity - Canon & Ecclesiastical Law    2. Christianity - History - General    3. Christianity - History - Protestant    4. Church And Society    5. Court records    6. Discipline    7. Ecclesiastical courts    8. Geneva    9. History    10. Reformation (1517-1648)    11. Reformed Church    12. Religion    13. Religion - Church History    14. Sources    15. Switzerland    16. Christian institutions & organizations    17. History of religion    18. Social history    19. Sociology, Social Studies   

Subjects:  1. Banks and banking    2. Economic aspects    3. History    4. History: World    5. Jewish property    6. Switzerland    7. United States - 21st Century    8. World War, 1939-1945    9. European history: Second World War    10. POLITICS & GOVERNMENT    11. The Holocaust   

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Freudian Reading Of Jung
Other reviews have pointed out some serious problems with this book: the scattered telling of the story, the sometimes unclear writing, the fact that one does not come away with a very clear picture of Jung's thought even after 450 pages of summarizing his theories. But there is another reason I was disappointed in this book: namely, that Hayman is a Freudian who criticizes Jung through Freud's eyes (Read Louis Breger's "Freud: Darkness in the Midst of Vision" for an example of how bad an idea that is). While Hayman assumes as common sense that we accept the theories of the typically modern, sex-crazed, materialistic Freud, he criticizes Jung precisely for presuming to break with Freud, thereby assuring (in Hayman's mind) that Jung and Jungians will remain in the arena of madness, rather than mental health. Hayman quotes a psychoanylist, with marked approval, who says: "If [Jung's] main life's work was in the end to be founded on a personal and scientific incompatibility with Freud, there are those who believe, like myself, that this was a disaster, and in part an illusion, from which we suffer and will continue to do so until we have repaired the damage." (p. 213) In short, the only way to be an acceptable Jungian is to be a Freudian. As many of us have found the modern ethos of sex and materialism to be a dead end, and trying to re-think spirituality in an age of the dessicated fanaticism of fundamentalist religions hard enough in itself, a dependence on Freud is surely no help. If one need not acept Jung as if he were a god -- always the problem of Freudians in relation to their master -- at least Jung has pointed the way for many people to a view of life that is compatible with a regenerative spirituality, not just Freudian myths about repressed childhood trauma and the primacy of sexuality in self-understanding. Hayman's biography has the very desirable effect of presenting Jung as a man whose life was troubled by psychosis and full of the turn-of-the-century Spiritualism that tends no longer to be accepted as factual among thinking people. Worshippers of Jung doubtless don't like this aspect of the book. For myself, I found the manner of Jung's break with Freud -- his experiences of internal dialogue and vivid fantasy, his belief that sexuality is only one factor among many in human life, his refusal to submit to the enervating Freudian materialism as a final arbiter in all judgements, his wide-ranging interest in creation myths as opposed to Freud's reductive readings of Oepipus et al, his belief that we should explore the fantasies and delusions we encounter in life in relation to the world of archetypes rather than trying to extirpate them by analysis and replace them with Freud's own truncated little fantasies -- to be more creative and productive than if he had remained a Freudian true believer. But let's not worship Jung, either: reading Hayman may not make Jung quite clear, or an acceptable object of worship, but the former (along with the implicit Freudianism) is the real problem I had with his book, not the latter.

Dropping in on the neighborhood madman.
Sometimes I feel guilty for not starting at the beginning of a book like this and reading right through. Hayman removes such guilt by the curious expediant of neglecting to put his anecdotes into any coherent form. It hardly seems to matter where you start -- the author seemed to have trouble even putting individual chapters into order. One interesting theme he mentions was how Jung served as a link between pre-modern and post-modern spirituality. Neither this nor other themes were developed. But ultimately I forgave Hayman, mostly, because much of what I found was interesting, despite the mayhem. It is like dropping in on an eccentric friend at irregular and unscheduled intervals: you do get a feel for who the man is, perhaps as much because of as in spite of the disorder. hodgepodge
Hayman's biography, though well researched, is a grave disappointment.First, the author fails to offer a balanced picture of the varied and complex person of Jung.Instead, Hayman engages in a reductive enterprise and reduces Jung to little more than a caricature.Second, Hayman continues his reductionist approach when arguing that Jung's work amounted to little more than scouting out archetypes in the dreams of his patients and in world mythology.In this, Hayman misses the deeper aspects of Jung's work and ignores the epistemological significance of the manner in which Jung presaged post-modern and post-structuralist thought. Third, the biography is badly focused and organized because it leaps from scene to scene and person to person without logical reasons for doing so.Fourth, the style of the biography is troublesome; not only is the prose in need of vigor, but the grammatical structures are often troubling:i.e., the books is rife with sentences that contain pronouns that have no clear antecedents.Fifth, the biography fails to discuss a key aspect of Jung's life:his relationship with his children. Sixth, many of Hayman's assertions and conclusions about Jung are unfounded, unsupported, and misguided. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. (Carl Gustav),    2. 1875-1961    3. Biography    4. Biography & Autobiography    5. Biography / Autobiography    6. Biography/Autobiography    7. History    8. Jung, C. G    9. Jungian Psychology    10. Psychoanalysis    11. Psychoanalysts    12. Social Scientists & Psychologists    13. Switzerland    14. Biography: general    15. Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory   

Subjects:  1. 16th century    2. 17th century    3. Acadâemie de Genáeve    4. Education / Teaching    5. Education, Higher    6. Europe    7. General    8. Higher    9. History    10. History Of Higher Education    11. Social Science    12. Sociology    13. European history: c 1500 to c 1750    14. Higher & further education    15. Social history    16. Switzerland    17. c 1500 to c 1600    18. c 1600 to c 1700   

Editorial Review

In antiquity, travelers did not enter the Alps gladly. One Roman noted that "everything in the mountains is frozen solid," while St. Ambrose, after seeing his first glacier, feared that the world would end by being suffocated in ice; heeding them, voyagers took the long way around whenever they could.Read more

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Suprised to see only three stars
I am surprised to see only a 3-star rating average currently for this book.I thought it was an engrossing read for anyone with an interest in the history and development of alpinism in general and tourism in the Alps.I had recently read Trevor Braham's "When The Alps Cast Their Spell" which left me cold.Despite it winning the Boardman Tasker Prize I found it dense and dull.Starting into Fleming's Killing Dragons I was wondering why I was reading a book that covered so much of same ground, and expected to more or less skim through it, but I soon found myself hooked.
So-so read for a long bivouac
Fleming is not, as one reviewer states, a "great writer"; he is, in fact, a fairly dull, lazy one, given to repeating himself,relying on second-hand sources (i.e., he quotes other writers quoting Dumas, Dickens, etc.) rather than the originals, and he has a silly, reductive view of theism (i.e., one either believes in natural development OR God and dragons).I can't say I *enjoyed* reading this book all that much, but it did make me want to hunt down books on mountaineering by Leslie Stephen and Edward Whymper, among others.Fleming approaches his subject--the popularization of the Alps--not from a mountaineering or literary or scientific point of view, but rather from a social one.He is very much concerned about whether so and so was a snob or a gentleman, and that's fine, but prospective readers should be aware.I would much prefer a more technical discussion of climbing, but Ferguson doesn't seem all that well-suited for this.Having bashed this book pretty well, I have to admit I learned from it and am glad I read it.It beats reading Bill O'Reilly or being poked in the eye with a sharp stick.

Almost entirely Mount Blanc & the Matterhorn
It was hard to decide whether to give this book four stars or five.The book isn't anywhere near to being a complete history of the conquest of the alps (con), but what is here is extremely well-written and interesting stuff which I could barely put down (pro) even though it's a pretty hefty 360 pages in all.Read more

Subjects:  1. 19th Century World History    2. 19th century    3. Alps    4. Biography    5. Discovery and Exploration    6. History    7. History - General History    8. History: World    9. Modern - 19th Century    10. Mountain Climbing    11. Mountaineering    12. Mountaineers    13. Western Europe - General   

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Interesting read
This is a very interesting topic, and very coherently written. It is informative and has great pictures to accompany. I'm sure you will enjoy reading about the evolution of many mechanical designs and breakthroughs. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Art    2. Art & Art Instruction    3. Clock and watch making    4. Design    5. Design - General    6. Fashion    7. History    8. History - General    9. Jewelry Arts And Crafts    10. Pocket watches    11. Switzerland    12. Technical & Manufacturing Trades    13. Wrist watches    14. Industrial / Commercial Art & Design    15. Photography / Fashion   

Subjects:  1. Alps    2. Photographs: collections    3. Places & peoples: general interest   

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A Well Written View Of History
Lebor's analytical look at the long forgotten links between Switzerland's bankers and the Nazi regime of Adolf Hitler is a must read for anyone interested in understanding the Third Reich's rise to power. Lebor carefully maps out the strategic ties between the two that allowed Germany to rearm after WWI, to launch war against Europe and the Soviet Union and to successfully plan and finance genocide. In a word, this book is a must for any student of history, and for all those interested in understanding how the seeds for the darkest period of the 20th century were planted and germinated. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. Banks And Banking    2. Economic aspects    3. Europe - Germany    4. History    5. History - General History    6. History: World    7. Holocaust    8. Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)    9. Jewish property    10. Military - World War II    11. Switzerland    12. World War II - Europe    13. World War, 1939-1945   

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A Small Caveat
This is an excellent book, but I have to take issue with its subtitle. By 1750 Calvinism was no longer a majority opinion in Geneva, at least, not the orthodox variety that had made Geneva synonomous with Calvinism. The ideas of the enlightenment had so thoroughly affected the Reformed movement that no conclusions can be drawn from Geneva's place as the capital of calvinism and the increase in suicides there.In fact, a very good case could be made for the opposite. Although a scion of the famous Turretin family was Geneva's leading theologian at the time, it was his watering down of his father and grandfather's calvinism that he was best known for. A better subtitle would have been "Suicide after the decline of Calvinism in Geneva".

A thorough, scholarly, deftly presented case study
Choosing Death: Suicide And Calvinism In Early Modern Geneva by Jeffrey R. Watt (Associate Professor in History, University of Mississippi) is a thorough, scholarly, deftly presented case study of the Republic of Geneva and its history of suicide. From views of the suicide in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that regarded self-destruction as the result of demonic possession, and that harshly appropriated the property of those who took their own lives, to the late eighteenth century turn of thought that recognized the role that mental illness and personal trauma often played in suicide. Choosing Death is a fascinating, informative, thoughtful and thought-provoking social history of an admittedly grim subject within the historical context of a proud and sovereign European nation. ... Read more

Subjects:  1. 16th century    2. Calvinism    3. Europe - Scandinavia    4. History    5. History: World    6. Psychology    7. Suicide    8. Switzerland