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The aim of the survey is to appear in updated form once a year.\u003cbr\u003eThe survey is broken into the following chapters: Legislation, Bureaucracy, Taxation, Corruption, Labour, Education, Liberalisation, Telecommunications, Energy and Privatisation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRobert McDonald is a freelance writer and broadcaster based in London who has specialised in Greek matters for 40 years. As well as a contributor to the Athens News, he is the contributor for the Economist Intelligence Unit’s quarterly Country Report: Greece and the author of Kerkyra Publications’ quarterly Business File.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b170440.jpg","isbn":"960-86395-7-3","isbn13":"978-960-86395-7-7","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":null,"publication_year":2005,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"19.0","price_updated_at":"2011-09-12","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1093,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":170440,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/the-competitiveness-of-greek-economy-2005.json"},{"id":167377,"title":"Marathon Mysteries","subtitle":null,"description":"Paul Anastasi’s new book \"Marathon Mysteries\" takes the story of the Battle of Marathon and gives it a rich treatment, offering the reader a wealth of photos, maps, charts and more than 200 illustrations that make it a visual treat. But beyond the aesthetic attractiveness, Anastasi’s book features writing that recounts historical events in the style of an adventure novel, making it fast-paced and readable, suited not only to historians but also the lay audience. The book reminds us that at the turn of the 5th century BC the Persian Empire spread from the Indian Ocean to the Mediterranean. Greece and Europe had been approached as far as modern Bulgaria to the north, the Turkish coast, or Asia Minor, to the east, and Egypt, Libya and the north African coast.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b170444.jpg","isbn":"978-960-9442-00-8","isbn13":"978-960-9442-00-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":317,"publication_year":2010,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"25.0","price_updated_at":"2011-09-12","cover_type":null,"availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1093,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":170444,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/marathon-mysteries.json"},{"id":167374,"title":"It's All Greece to Me","subtitle":"Impressions of Contemporary Greek Life","description":"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 extol 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.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eUntil now, that is, \"It’s All Greece to Me: Impressions of Contemporary Greek Life\", by longtime Athens News contributor John FL Ross, offers an accessible and dependable guide to the nooks and crannies of the modern Greek character, mentality, 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 millennium. Throughout, Ross writes with the clarity, gentle wit and perceptive insight that readers have come to expect from the author of the long-running and popular Thursday column On Second Thought.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b170441.jpg","isbn":"960-86395-0-6","isbn13":"978-960-86395-0-8","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":null,"publication_year":null,"publication_place":"Αθήνα","price":"9.0","price_updated_at":"2011-09-12","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1093,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":170441,"url":"https://v2.bibliography.gr/books/its-all-greece-to-me.json"}]