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This is an essay on the current predicament of the Olympic games, written by an expert. Ioannis Koinis was successful as an athletic champion in the field and earned respect as a medical surgeon. His enormous experience in issues surrounding modern sport is distilled in this short, well-documented book, an authoritative account containing a wealth of information. It covers wonderfully the historical perspective from antiquity to our times, the miracle of amateur competition and fair play: issues of high moral ground. It also covers aberrations from what is natural, fair, an...

The project on Weight and Value deals mainly with metrology and trade in the Bronze Age in relation to societies in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East whose economies were at the time in a pre-coinage stage. Although the main thrust of the project was and is the metrology and economy in the Aegean era, it employs documentation from Egypt and the Near East, necessary to the understanding of the main theme. (από τον πρόλογο του βιβλίου)

This second volume by the same author, on the subject of weight and value in pre-coinage societies1, consists of five parts. Each explores an independent subject, although all five focus on those who owned and used measuring tools in Bronze Age societies in the Aegean and the Orient. Part I presents the framework of the discussion: it deals with the material and symbolic significance of the balance and with the circulation of goods that required measurement and accounting. Part II presents a case study from the Aegean, the settlement of Akrotiri on the island of Thera. Bala...

Ο Weather Report ήταν ένα από τα σημαντικότερα και πιο πετυχημένα jazz συγκροτήματα όλων των εποχών, ένα πραγματικό supergroup, που επέκτεινε τα όρια και καθόρισε το ύφος της jazz rock και της jazz fusion. Στα 15 χρόνια της αρμονικής συνύπαρξής τους, οι καινοτόμοι συνθέτες και δημιουργοί Joe Zawinul και Wayne Shorter συνεργάστηκαν με πολλούς κορυφαίους μουσικούς της jazz και ηχογράφησαν μερικά από τα πιο αξιόλογα και εμπορικά έργα στην ιστορία της σύγχρονης μουσικής. Η τεράστια επιτυχία του δίσκου "Heavy Weather" τους μετέτρεψε σε παγκόσμιους σούπερσταρ, ενώ το πασίγνωστο "...

This guide presents the most widely spread form of power in Greece, water power and its better known uses: fulling-mill, water-saw, water-powered olive oil press, fulling-tub and the water-mill, which formed the most important water-powered preindustrial constructions.

A study of the major wars of the twentieth century, focusing upon the causes, nature and consequences of these conflicts. Contents include: -Warfare -The First World War -The Russian Civil War -The Spanish Civil War -The Chinese Civil War -The Sino-Japanese War -The Second World War -The Arab-Israeli Wars -Writing Essays on Wars and Warfare.

The book "Wandering in Byzantine Thessaloniki" reveals the Byzantine face of the city to the modern visitor, through the marks stamped on it by 2,300 years of history. The text describes and evaluates all the most recent evidence for the Byzantine monuments of the city; together with the lavish illustrations, it offers an elegant account of the history of Byzantine civilization, enticing visitors along the major streets and narrow alleyways of the Upper town and introducing them, through the expertise of the specialist and the love of the admirer, to the enchantment of its...

Walking in Athens is a unique compilation of photos and accompanying articles, that came about from walking in various neighborhoods of the city. Mixed architectural styles, crumbling houses juxtaposed with concrete buildings, empty facades next to sound apartment blocks, this is a guide to a secret landscape. A compilation that speaks not just about architecture - it speaks about people coming and going, society changing, civilization evolving.

Η αξιοσημείωτη αντοχή που επέδειξε ο Γερμανικός Στρατός κατά τη φάση της μακράς υποχώρησης και της ήττας που οριστικοποιήθηκε την άνοιξη του 1945, οφείλεται σε μεγάλο βαθμό στην απόδοση των επίλεκτων μονάδων των Waffen SS. Από την ανάλυση των μεγάλων μαχών που διεξήχθησαν στο Ανατολικό και το Δυτικό μέτωπο από το 1943 και μετά, προκύπτει ότι χωρίς τη συμβολή των μονάδων πρώτης γραμμής των Waffen SS η κατάρρευση του Γ' Ράιχ θα είχε συντελεστεί με πολύ ταχύτερο ρυθμό.

Προσεκτικά επιλεγμένοι για τον φανατισμό, τη σωματική διάπλαση, την αντοχή και τη σκληρότητά τους, οι άνδρες των Waffen SS πολέμησαν σε όλα σχεδόν τα θέατρα του Β' Παγκοσμίου Πολέμου με ανδρεία και αυτοθυσία, κάτω από δυσμενείς πολλές φορές συνθήκες. Με την αξία τους μετέτρεψαν την απέχθεια των συναδέλφων τους της Wehrmacht σε σεβασμό και εκτίμηση. Πολλές φορές θυσιάστηκαν για να σώσουν του γόητρο του Γερμανικού Στρατού και του "αήττητου Αρίου στρατιώτη". Η εξαιρετική πολεμική τους δράση, όμως, θα συνοδεύεται πάντα και από τη σκιά των εγκλημάτων πολέμου που διέπραξαν στο όν...

The selection of Volos as an Olympic City for 2004 is an important achievement in the modern history of the city. This, to a great extent, is based on the city's social economic and cultural infrastructure, as well as an optimistic and ambitious prospects. This publication aims at contributing towards helping the public get acquainted with the achievements of the city of Volos during the 19th and the first half of the 20th century, when the city's main city's modern image. This is a collective depicting the intellectual toil and scientific interests of those who have stud...

Volos, the seaport of central Greece, is almost equidistant from the country's two large urban centres, Athens and Thessaloniki. However you approach Volos, you see a modern city built on an inlet of the Pagasitikos Gulf, at the foot of verdant Mt Pelion. It is true that Pelion and the sea have not only influenced the physical aesthetics of the city, they have also contributed significantly to shaping its economic and social character, especially during the early decades. Volos is a young city. It was established in the first half of the 19th century, when the phenomenon o...

Un grand efford a ete fait pour faire reviver les mythes de la periode minoenne et pour que le lecteur, jeune ou moins jeune, puisse les reviver le plus intensement possible. De plus, il franchira la porte du grand palais, s'approchera du roi Minos, admirere l'architecture et l'art des Minoens, participera a leurs manifestations et applaudira leur dexterite. Bien de choses de la vie d'alors ont ete omises. Il est pourtant certain qu'une part de l'eclat de la plus ancienne civilization europeenne, de notre civilization minoenne, se gravera a jamais en lui. C'est cette civ...