switzerland

Text and photographs present the home life and day-to-day activities of a family who lives in the cheese-making region of Emmental, Switzerland.

Author Yangzom Brauen shares details about her life and the lives of her mother and grandmother, who lived in Tibet during Chinese rule and were forced to find ways to preserve their identity and culture while in exile.

A Swiss orphan is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

Discusses Swiss biologist Friedrich Miescher's discovery of nucleic acid in the late 1800s, examines related breakthroughs in the field, and looks at how Miescher's workled to the DNA technology being used in the twenty-first century.

A memoir and portrait of three generations of Tibetan women whose lives are forever changed when Chairman Mao's Red Army crushes Tibetan independence, sending a young mother and her six-year-old daughter on a treacherous journey across the snowy Himalayas toward freedom. Kunsang thought she would never leave Tibet. When soldiers arrived at her mountain monastery, destroying everything in their path, Kunsang and her family fled across the Himalayas only to spend years in Indian refugee camps. This is a vivid glimpse of life in rural Tibet before the arrival of the Chinese in 1950.

Offers a brief profile of the life of tennis player Roger Federer, discussing his childhood, early successes in the sport, and professional career.

An abbreviated version of the tale of the Swiss orphan who is heartbroken when she must leave her beloved grandfather and their happy home in the mountains to go to school and to care for an invalid girl in the city.

After Heidi, an orphan, builds a strong bond with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps, she is sent into town to attend school and be a friend to a wealthy man's daughter, who is restricted to a wheelchair, but Heidi's health begins to fail as her desire to return to her home in the mountains increases.

Primary and secondary resources, narrative and analysis, and thought-provoking questions enable students to better understand Germany and Switzerland's reformation.