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  • The Soul in the Stone

    Why the Worldview That Will Save Our Planet Is More Credible Than the One That Is Destroying It

    by Ashley Curtis ...
    The currently unfolding ecological catastrophe is the result of more than just deforestation, fossil fuel extraction, and factory farming. Behind the immediate causes of the degradation of our environment lies something else: a deeply rooted but ultimately absurd understanding of our place in the universe. Through a series of encounters with a striking array of protagonists - from revolutionary ... Read more

    $19.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Why do the Swiss have such great sex?

    Extraordinary answers to 66 improbable questions about Switzerland

    by Ashley Curtis ...
    What's the risk of a Swiss tsunami? Could Swiss gold sink the Swiss navy? How many lives does a tunnel cost? You might never have thought you wanted to know what happens to a corpse in a glacier, or how much heroin costs in Switzerland, but once you dip into these 66 fascinating Q&As, you won't be able to put them down. ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • “O Switzerland!”

    Travelers’ Accounts, 57 BCE to the Present

    by Ashley Curtis ...
    The most incisive writing about Switzerland from the world’s most creative minds: from Tolkien to Tolstoy, Petrarch to Prince, Julius Caesar to George Sand. They wrote of wars and money, poverty and peaks, dances and prisons, wolves and fleas. “O Switzerland!” deftly weaves together over 450 first-hand accounts to paint a dazzling and disturbing portrait of an enigmatic land. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Error and Loss

    A Licence to Enchantment

    by Ashley Curtis ...
    Error and Loss digs out and exposes a fundamental assumption deeply buried both in common thought and in materialist philosophy: that reason transcends its evolutionary pedigree, allowing us to speak coherently of a reality divorced from all experience. As we have moved from a religious to a scientific explanation of our cosmos this error has led directly to a terrible loss—the disenchantment that ... Read more

    $22.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Expert Guide to Your Life in Switzerland

    by Diccon Bewes ...
    Translated by Ashley Curtis ...
    '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 contains must-know information on immigration and permits, advice on making friends and immersing yourself in Swiss life, savvy tips on finding the right job, the perfect place to live, on how to save money on your taxes and health insurance, and the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Laboratory of Progress

    Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 1

    by Joseph Jung ...
    Translated by Ashley Curtis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course of a single century.That a tiny landlocked country should become a dominant steamship builder for the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • The Laboratory of Progress

    Switzerland in the Nineteenth Century, Volume 2

    by Joseph Jung ...
    Translated by Ashley Curtis ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    The Laboratory of Progress: Switzerland in the 19th Century tells the improbable story of how a small, backward, mountainous agricultural country with almost no raw materials became an industrial powerhouse, a hub of innovation, a touristic mecca and a pioneer in transportation – all in the course of a single century.That a tiny landlocked country should become a dominant steamship builder for the ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

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    Illustrated Travel Guide, Phrasebook & Maps. Includes: Berlin, Brandenburg, Saxony, Dresden, Saxony-Anhalt & more

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    Illustrated Travel Guide, Phrasebook and Maps. Includes Munich, Nuremberg, Augsburg, Nördlingen, Rothenburg ob der Tauber, Wuerzburg, Bavarian Alps, Romantic Road

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