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The late Ottoman capital was a polyglot multiethnic and multicultural city where forty percent of the population was non-Muslim. The Istanbul of today is Muslim and Turkish-speaking, but large parts of it still testify to the presence and achievements of past inhabitants long since vanished. It is a city of absences – its current dwellers have little contact with the city’s history and past, while most of its original inhabitants are scattered to the four corners of the word. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book attempts to bridge a gap brought about by the tragic history of the Levant, as forces of nationalism annihilated centuries of multicultural existence. Massavetas travels back to Byzantine and Ottoman Constantinople to unearth the legacy of a world city. It is this legacy that helped Istanbul resist becoming provincial in the process of becoming ethnically homogeneous. 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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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThanos 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\".","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b121844.jpg","isbn":"978-960-89200-2-6","isbn13":"978-960-89200-2-6","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":287,"publication_year":2007,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"17.0","price_updated_at":"2007-06-29","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1093,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":121844,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/greeks-and-turks-in-war-peace.json"},{"id":90662,"title":"The Greek Economy 1940-2004","subtitle":null,"description":"Greece's economic history reflects the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune that have bedevilled the country ever since it bacame indepentent 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.\u003cbr\u003eThese have endowed Greeks with a sense of insecurity of varying intesity. This has led to a deep-rooted conservatism in natoinal 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.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b92713.jpg","isbn":"960-86395-6-5","isbn13":"978-960-86395-6-0","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":111,"publication_year":2004,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"9.0","price_updated_at":"2005-02-22","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1093,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":92713,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-greek-economy-19402004.json"},{"id":91121,"title":"Greece on the Couch","subtitle":"A Selection of Weekly Commentaries on How Greece Dysfunctions","description":"The Greeks must accept unreservedly, unequivocally, unconditionally that they are in no way superior beings deserving special treatment. There are no such things as \"the inalienable rights of Hellenism\".","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b93174.jpg","isbn":"960-86395-5-7","isbn13":"978-960-86395-5-3","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":103,"publication_year":2004,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"9.0","price_updated_at":"2005-03-02","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1093,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":93174,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/greece-on-the-couch.json"},{"id":106626,"title":"Greece on the Couch","subtitle":"A Selection of Weekly Commentaries on How Greece Dysfunctions","description":"\"Thank you for calling the Pasok hotline:\u003cbr\u003e· If you want to register a complaint, please press 1\u003cbr\u003e· If you want to whine in mild frustration, please press 2\u003cbr\u003e· If you want to stamp your feet and have a fit, please press 3\"\u003cbr\u003eMark Dragoumis puts Greece back on the therapy chair in Greece on the Couch 2, a new selection of 37 illuminating pieces from his popular Analyse This column in the Athens News.\u003cbr\u003eJoin Mr Dragoumis as he tries to help the country move past its deep-seated corruption, fear of economic competition and status quo mentality. 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But when last did you venture into the country's four northern regions - Macedonia, Thrace, Epirus and Thessaly?\u003cbr\u003eClearly laid out and stunningly illustrated, this book will take you far from the tourist-filled beaches and open your eyes to an area of Greece that deserves to be visited by everyone at least once. Discover Byzantine churches and Turkish mosques; silk towns, fur towns and even a reborn town; the legendary Mt Olympos and the mystical Meteora; the crystal-clear rivers of the Zagorohoria and the jagged peaks beyond.\u003cbr\u003eTo be used in picking out an individual location, dipped into from time to time, or simply indulged from cover to cover, this book is indispensable to anyone who wants to complete their picture of Greece.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b116193.jpg","isbn":"960-86395-9-X","isbn13":"978-960-86395-9-1","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":287,"publication_year":2006,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"15.0","price_updated_at":"2007-02-15","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1093,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":116193,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/travels-in-northern-greece.json"},{"id":118439,"title":"Surviving Greek Bureaucracy","subtitle":"A Cradle-to-Grave Guide to the State","description":"Do I need a residence permit?\u003cbr\u003eHow do I register a newborn?\u003cbr\u003eWho is eligible for military service?\u003cbr\u003eCan anyone marry in an Orthodox church?\u003cbr\u003eHow should I draft a will?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eThese are just some of hundreds of questions answered in Surviving Greek Bureaucracy, a guide to almost every aspect of your contact with the state, local government and the law. European Union citizens and non-Europeans residing in Greece will both find the answers they require. Drafted by Greece's most respected English-language publication, refined through years of news coverage and screened by lawyers, this book is designed to save you time, money and trouble.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b121032.jpg","isbn":"978-960-89200-4-0","isbn13":"978-960-89200-4-0","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":235,"publication_year":2007,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"10.0","price_updated_at":"2007-05-30","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1093,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":121032,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/surviving-greek-bureaucracy.json"},{"id":124853,"title":"The Competitiveness of the Greek Economy 2004-2008","subtitle":null,"description":"Robert McDonald's book is a comprehensive survey of efforts in the Greek public and private sectors to modernise. 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Learn how to compost, mulch and turn one pest against another.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiscover indigenous Greek species and the secrets of their survival.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b86872.jpg","isbn":"960-86395-4-9","isbn13":"978-960-86395-4-6","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":298,"publication_year":2004,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"17.0","price_updated_at":"2010-08-26","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1093,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":86872,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/greece-garden-of-the-gods.json"},{"id":167376,"title":"Athens and Beyond: 30 Day Trips \u0026 Weekends","subtitle":null,"description":"\"In the old days, even fifteen years ago, you had to be tough to venture into most of Greece's mountains. And I don't mean just to walk or hike amongst the glorious peaks or verdant upper pastures. 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There are signs that a revolution is taking place in formerly remote mountain regions\". \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhether in hot pursuit of a rumoured revival in the mountains, a riveting fresco hidden in an Attica church, a new find in the archaeological sites of the Peloponnese, or even just a very good island wine - Diana Farr Louis has been taking to the roads less travelled in Greece for the last forty years and coming back to Athens with ever more stories, recipes, and a deep sense of what makes the country what is today.\u003cbr\u003eIn this collection of articles printed in the Athens News from 1997 to 2003, the paper's foremost travel columnist recounts her day trips around Athens and short weekends further afield, bringing together the history, mythology, cuisine and culture of each place with the ease of a local and the eye for detail of a modernday Pausanias.\u003cbr\u003eAthens and Beyond is divided by region into chapters on Athens and Attica, the Peloponnese and Central Greece, and nearby Islands. 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