Athens Street Art – Hardback

by Jerry Goldstein  410 colour illustrations.

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336 pages, now £21.98     REDUCED FROM £29.99

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Athens Street Art, graffiti

Athens Street Art

ATHENS is not a city one normally associates with a creative street art culture. Yet, as Jerry Goldstein records in this 336-page, superbly illustrated hardback, wonderful works of street art can be found by exploring the backstreets of the Greek capital, in spaces not immediately obvious or visible. Most of the groundbreaking 410 murals and street logos in this book were produced between 2006 and 2007. As much of this artwork has since disappeared, this book is both a record of the boundless creativity of the genre and appreciation of its artists. It will inspire and inform enthusiasts and students of street and urban culture alike and will enthrall all those interested in the contemporary Greek art scene. “The works illustrated here prove an undoubted pictorial show of iconic power, boldness, imagination and artistic skill. They constitute a unique form of communication, one that – even though hidden – immediately stands out in the low-rise, grey, nondescript Athenian skyline.”—Katerina Gregos (Curator of Contour in Mechelen, Belgium) Jerry Goldstein was born and educated in the United States. Photography has long been a prime interest. He now lives in Athens. … more about the author. Foreword by Katerina Gregos Binding: Hardback 336 pages , 410 colour illustrations Book Dimensions: 22.7 cm (height) x 24.7 cm (width) x 22.4mm, Weight: 1.331 kg Price: £21.98 reduced from £29.99 + £2.90 P & P.

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Athens and Beyond – 30 Day Trips & Weekends

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by Diana Farr Louise Price £8.98 + £2.80 P&P

ISBN: 960-86395-3-0  228 pages

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ATHENS AND BEYOND

ATHENS AND BEYOND

Athens and Beyond 30 Day Trips & Weekends is divided by region into chapters on the Athens and Attica, Central and Northern Greece and nearby Islands and provides practical information such as restaurant recommendations, phone numbers and museum hours.

 

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Always on a Sunday

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By Brian Church  ISBN: 960-86395-2-2  Pages 106 Price  £4.99   Note: new cover

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alway on a sunday“Going home on the late-night bus, it slowly dawned on me that there were in fact two people sitting in the driver’s seat” He’s back! Brian Church, author of ‘Learn Greek in 25 Years’, selects 30 memorable pieces from his Athens News column, ‘Church on Sunday’ Is reversing on a motorway illegal in Greece? Why do Greeks always argue yet never fight?

In which year will the 2004 Athens Olympics take place? Where did hunger-strikers find themselves next to a world-record attempt at making the largest-ever profiterole? Church is one of the greatest satirical writers in Greece today John Psaropoulos, Editor, Athens News [Ed: I didn’t say that]

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The Competitiveness of the Greek Economy 2004-2008

By Robert McDonald ISBN: 960-86395-7-3 Price £9.64

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THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE GREEK ECONOMY

THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE GREEK ECONOMY

The Competitiveness of the Greek Economy is the first comprehensive survey of efforts in the Greek public and private sectors to modernise. It draws on interviews with lawmakers, the executive and businesspeople to record their progress across a 20-year period in drafting and implementing laws that harmonise Greece with the rest of the EU and the globalised

marketplace. When the survey was first published in 2004, Minister of Development Dimitris

Sioufas had it distributed to the members of the newly formed National Council of Competitiveness and Development as required reading. This edition was updated with an Introduction to include developments in the first half of 2005. The aim of the survey is to appear in updated form once a year. The survey is broken into the following chapters:

Legislation, Bureaucracy, Taxation, Corruption, Labour Education, Liberalisation, Telecommunications, Energy, Privatisation

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Greece on the Couch Session 2

Mark Dragoumis  ISBN 13:  9-789608 920002 Price £7.99

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Greece on the Couch Session 2

A Selection of weekly commentaries on how Greece dysfunctions

“Thank you for calling the Pasok hotline:

  • If you want to register a complaint, please press.1
  • If you want to whine in mild frustration, please press.2
  • If you want to stamp your feet and have a fit, please press3”

Mark Dragoumis puts Greece back on the therapy chair inGreece on the Couch 2, a new selection of  37 illuminating pieces from his popular Analyse This column in the Athens News.Join Mr Dragoumis as he tries to help the country move past its deep-seated corruption,  fear of economic competition and status quo mentality.  Hear his examination of Pasok’s election defeat, and his diagnosis of a church and state who desperately  need a divorce.

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Its All Greek To Me – Impressions of Contemporary Greek Life

John F.L. Ross   ISBN 13. 978-960-89086395-0-6   Pages: 114 Price:  £6.75

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its all greek to me

Its All Greek To Me -

Greece is a country famed worldwide for its physical beauty, wealth of antiquities and other vestiges of its unsurpassed ancient civilisation. Yet despite over ten million annual visitors and an open and inviting culture, modern Greece is not an easy country for outsiders to understand or comprehend fully. Countless tourist guides extoll its resorts and archaeological tomes unravel its classical past, but there are few books that attempt to explore the many complexities of Greek life and lifestyles right here in the present.

Until now, that is, “It’s All Greece to Me: Impressions of Contemporary Greek Life”, by longtime Athens News contributor John F.L. Ross, offers an accessible and dependable guide to the nooks and crannies of the modern Greek character, mentallity, customs and attitudes. It offers a sharp-eyed and challenging yet sympathetic look at the rapidly changing nature of contemporary Greece at the dawn of the new milleniium. Throughout, Ross writes with the clarity, gentle wit and perceptive insight that readers have come to expect from the author of the longrunning and popular Thursday column “On Second Thought.”

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Greeks and Turks in War and Peace

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Author  T. Veremis  ISBN  978-960-89200-2-6 Pages 290 PRICE £9.99

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Greeks and Turks in War and Peace

Greeks and Turks in War and Peace

By Thanos M Veremis Greeks and Turks in War and Peace chronicles the tumultuous road of Greek Turkish relations from the Ottoman conquest of 1453 to Turkey’s current courtship dance with the European Union. Leading historian Thanos Veremis sheds light on the long nurtured distrust that persists between the neighbours. At the same time, he highlights the areas of common interest between the two peoples and attempts an interpretation of their psyche, with all that may divide and unite them. Thanos Veremis is a professor of political history at the University of Athens. He is also the president of the National Council for Education in Greece. He has been Constantine Karamanlis professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and is the author of many books including Greece: The Modern Sequel, 1821 2006. ISBN 978-960-89200-2-6 

 

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The Greek Economy 1940-2004

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Author: Mark Dragoumis ISBN: 960-86395-6-5 Pages 113 Price £6.95

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THE GREEK ECONOMY 1940-2004

THE GREEK ECONOMY 1940-2004

Greece’s economic history reflects the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that have bedevilled the country ever since it became independent in 1832. The road to development has been full of pitfalls such as coups, one fully fledged civil war, several Balkan wars, two World Wars, one devastating occupation, one global crisis, and two outright bankruptcies.

These have endowed Greeks with a sense of insecurity of varying intensity. This has led to a deep-rooted conservatism in national economic planning and deep-seated protectionism on the part of industry and workers. The result is an inflexibility in the face of changing market demands that has, for many years, prevented liberalisation and reform. Mark Dragoumis has been observing Greek affairs both from inside the government and as a journalist since the 1940s. His informative and compelling account explains economic developments in the light of political ones.

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THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE GREEK ECONOMY

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By Robert McDonald   ISBN: 960-86395-7-3 Price £8.99 Pages 136

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THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE GREEK ECONOMY By Robert McDonald ISBN: 960-86395-7-3 Price £13.00

THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE GREEK ECONOMY By Robert McDonald ISBN: 960-86395-7-3 Price £13.00

The Competitiveness of the Greek Economy is the first comprehensive survey of efforts in the Greek public and private sectors to modernise. It draws on interviews with lawmakers, the executive and businesspeople to record their progress across a 20-year period in drafting and implementing laws that harmonise Greece with the rest of the EU and the globalised marketplace. When the survey was first published in 2004, Minister of Development Dimitris Sioufas had it distributed to the members of the newly formed National Council of Competitiveness and Development as required reading. This edition was updated with an Introduction to include developments in the first half of 2005. The aim of the survey is to appear in updated form once a year. The survey is broken into the following chapters: Legislation, Bureaucracy, Taxation, Corruption, Labour Education, Liberalisation, Telecommunications, Energy, Privatisation

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GREECE ON THE COUCH, Session 1

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By Mark Dragoumis  PRICE £4.99 Page 114. ISBN 978-960-86395-5-3

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Greece on the Couch - Session 1

Greece on the Couch – Session 1

“The Greeks must accept unreservedly, unequivocally, unconditionally that they are no way superior beings deserving special treatment. There are no things as ’the inalenable rights of Hellenism’.” Mark Dragoumis, author of the Greek Economy, selects 32 enlightening pieces from Analyse This, popular weekly column for the Athens News. With his characteristic wit, pathos and unsparing commentary, Dragoumis sits Greece on the couch to probe into its daily workings and unworkings. On the road to healing the nation, uncovers Greece’s deep-seated idiosyncracies: why employers call in tips on the whereabouts of illegal immigrants only on Fridays: why Greeks covet civil service appointments and shun jobs in the private sector; and why the old Pasok should be out of its misery; and why the Virgin Mary is so popular.

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