While other states imposed economic sanctions on the apartheid regime of South Africa, Swiss authorities long adhered to the position that South Africa is a state like any other. Swiss big business corporations saw an attractive trade partner in South Africa; in part, they also profited from the boycotts of others. Additionally, some political forces sympathised openly with the regime in Pretoria. Encouraged by the debate concerning Swiss policy and activity during the Second World War, in 1997 the order was given to initiate a historical study of Swiss behaviour towards the apartheid regime. Thus this report, commissioned by the Swiss parliament and the Federal Council, and passed over to the Swiss National Science Foundation for execution, came into being. It unites the results of ten different research projects. The report identifies the most important players involved in fashioning relations with South Africa, it explains the legal situation in which these persons acted, and it describes the thought processes that led to the actions. The longest chapter deals with the attitudes and the areas of activity in the economic sector. Here the trade with loans, gold, diamonds and war materials is paramount. Other chapters are concerned with questions that are not primarily economic in nature, such as political declarations, the illusion of being in the role of a mediator, contacts in sports and culture, and, after 1986, the beginning of support for the black majority.

This collection of essays sheds light on the history of Switzerland during World War II, covering such topics as: trade; financial relations; gold; refugees; defence; and foreign relations. It also touches on official post-war measures to suppress the problematic aspects of Switzerland's involvement in the war.

Featuring new experiments, a new essay, and new coverage of nanotechnology, this organic chemistry laboratory textbook offers a comprehensive treatment of laboratory techniques including small scale and some microscale methods that use standard-scale ("macroscale") glassware and equipment. The book is organized based on essays and topics of current interest and covers a large number of traditional organic reactions and syntheses, as well as experiments with a biological or health science focus. Seven introductory technique-based experiments, thirteen project-based experiments, and sections on green chemistry and biofuels spark students' interest and engage them in the learning process. Instructors may choose to offer Cengage Learning's optional Premium Website, which contains videos on basic organic laboratory techniques.

Gain an understanding of the latest advances in spectroscopy with INTRODUCTION TO SPECTROSCOPY.This proven book provides a systematic introduction to spectra and basic theoretical concepts in spectroscopic methods and includes up-to-date spectra; a modern presentation of one-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy; an introduction to biological molecules in mass spectrometry; and coverage of modern techniques alongside DEPT, COSY, and HECTOR.

This collection of essays sheds light on the history of Switzerland during World War II, covering such topics as: trade; financial relations; gold; refugees; defence; and foreign relations. It also touches on official post-war measures to suppress Switzerland's involvement in the war.

Die Diskussion uber den Euro-Rettungsplan, die Finanzhilfen fur Griechenland, Portugal und Irland, die Einfuhrung scharferer Grenzkontrollen durch Danemark haben einen neuen Streit uber die Europaische Union entfacht. Driften die europaischen Staaten nach 60 Jahren der immer intensiveren und weitraumigeren Integration wieder auseinander? Spiegeln die Wahlbeteiligungen bei den Europawahlen eine Systemkrise? Geht uns der Sinn fur die europaischen Gemeinsamkeiten verloren? Die "Europaischen Erinnerungsorte" leisten einen Beitrag zur Standortbestimmung. Autorinnen und Autoren aus mehr als 15 Landern folgen der Annahme, dass es eine Vielzahl von Erinnerungsorten gibt, die fur Europaer aller Lander eine Bedeutung haben, die ihre Identitat mit formen und die wir mitdenken, wenn wir "Europa" sagen. Erstmals werden nicht die Erinnerungsorte einer einzelnen Nation, Region oder Epoche beschrieben, sondern Konzepte, Platze, Ereignisse, Kunstwerke, Konsumgegenstande, die gesamteuropaisch von Bedeutung sind. Der zweite Band illustriert diese Faktoren anhand von Fallbeispielen wie Der Stier, Europa-Hymne, Aachener Karlspreis, Mona Lisa, Dantes Commedia divina, Goethes Faust, Beethovens IX., Rom, Anne Frank, Frauenemanzipation, Die Alpen, Auschwitz, Die U-Bahn, Das Kaffeehaus, Liberte Egalite Fraternite, Die Volkerschlacht bei Leipzig, die KSZE, Pizza und Pizzeria."

"Europa und die Welt" zeigt, wie die europaische Expansion und die Erfahrungen aus anderen Kontinenten auf Europa zuruckwirkten. Aus den Kontakten mit dem Fremden erwuchsen neue Kunstformen, Lebensvorstellungen, Konsummuster: Rassismus, Gospel-Gottesdienste, Kunstkammern, Das chinesische Restaurant, Che Guevara, UNESCO."

Driften die europaischen Staaten nach 60 Jahren der immer intensiveren und weitraumigeren Integration wieder auseinander? Geht uns der Sinn fur die europaischen Gemeinsamkeiten verloren? Die "Europaischen Erinnerungsorte" sind ein Beitrag zur Standortbestimmung. Autorinnen und Autoren aus mehr als 15 Landern folgen der Annahme, dass es eine Vielzahl von Erinnerungsorten gibt, die fur Europaer aller Lander eine Bedeutung haben, die ihre Identitat mit formen und die wir mitdenken, wenn wir "Europa" sagen. Erstmals werden nicht die Erinnerungsorte einer einzelnen Nation, Region oder Epoche beschrieben, sondern Konzepte, Platze, Ereignisse, Kunstwerke, Konsumgegenstande, die gesamteuropaisch von Bedeutung sind. Der erste Band des Werks behandelt, ausgehend vom Mythos Europa, grundlegende Faktoren des europaischen Selbstverstandnisses, zum Beispiel Christentum, Judentum, Antike, Aufklarung, Gewaltenteilung. Menschenrechte, Himmelsrichtungen, Sprachenvielfalt, Friedensvisionen, Das Europa der Kriege, Europas Wirtschaftsbegriff."

Torn Modernism illuminates an important moment in the history of the Kunstmuseum Basel's collection. In 1937 the Nazi cultural policy denounced thousands of works as "degenerate" and forcibly removed from German museums. The Third Reich's Ministry of Propaganda correctly assumed that a portion of such works would find buyers abroad, in this way certain artworks deemed "internationally exploitable" reached the art market via various channels. Georg Schmidt (1896-1966), the museum's director at the time, managed in 1939 to acquire the Painting Animal Destinies by Franz Marc (1880-1916) and twenty avant-garde masterpieces all at once. In the catalogue, renowned experts trace the events based on the seizures in German museums and explain the historical contexts. The actors of the institutions and the art market are presented, and the Nazi regime's act of cultural violence is revealed, which resulted in an artificial fragmentation of Modernism into art that was "exploitable" on the one hand, and art that had been destroyed or forgotten on the other. Contributions on the auction of the Galerie Fischer in Lucerne, on Georg Schmidt's approach, and on the classification of the acquisitions in the context of Basel's collection history bring specific Swiss aspects into focus.

Featuring new experiments, a new essay, and new coverage of nanotechnology, this organic chemistry laboratory textbook offers a comprehensive treatment of laboratory techniques including small scale and some microscale methods that use standard-scale ("macroscale") glassware and equipment. The book is organized based on essays and topics of current interest and covers a large number of traditional organic reactions and syntheses, as well as experiments with a biological or health science focus. Seven introductory technique-based experiments, thirteen project-based experiments, and sections on green chemistry and biofuels spark students' interest and engage them in the learning process. Instructors may choose to offer Cengage Learning's optional Premium Website, which contains videos on basic organic laboratory techniques.

Comet Photo AG was founded in Zurich 1952 to supply images to local and national media. The agency quickly built a reputation for both the documentary and aesthetic quality of its photographers' work, with the 1950s and 1960s arguably marking the culmination their achievements. Commercially, Comet Photo's heyday were the 1960s and 1970s, followed by a slow decline eventually leading to its closing-down in 1999. Comet Photo's legacy of around 1m images is now kept at ETH Zurich's Image Archive. Photo Mosaic Switzerland features some 150 images from the Comet Photo collection, documenting the rapid changes Switzerland underwent during the 20th century's later decades. They are arranged by topic, such as change and modernisation, industry, agriculture, the vanishing and vanished, the traditional and timeless, celebrities and glamour, or major events. An introductory essay tells the story of Comet Photo AG and its work and legacy, placing it among its competitors national and international, and looks also at Switzerland's social and cultural history from the 1950s to the end of the 20th century.

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