This latest edition of Lonely Planet's Experience Greece travel guide reveals exciting new ways to explore this iconic country with all the tools you need to create your own unique trip.Discover amazing local experiences from hiking ancient trails up the thickly forested slopes of Mt Olympus, to swimming in the crystal waters that lap Naxos island's beach...

The Model of Open Cooperativism investigates the potential of open-source technologies and the digital commons in transforming the economic landscape. Drawing from the Techno- Social Innovation in the Collaborative Economy research project, the book presents case studies such as Tzoumakers (Greece), Open Food Network (Australia), CoopCycle (France), and Circles UBI (Germany). These case studies illustrate alternative business models, including platform cooperatives and Distributed...

A picture storybook about a little boy who always wears his hat to keep himself safe from sunburn and other dangers when he goes on his adventures.

Nicos seeks solitude in an abandoned village up in the mountains to study his part in the ‘Woman of Zakynthos’ (a theatrical soliloquy by the Greek national poet Dionysios Solomos regarding the Greek Revolution of 1821). Terrified, King is hiding in the forest lest he is locked up again in a mental institution. And Makis, who is divided between two ladies of the underworld and who has become rich through pimping, is worrying about the collapse of the Greek banks. Nicos, King and Makis, ent...

A reckoning with the radicalisation of modernist aesthetics that took hold in the mid-twentieth century, (In)aesthetic Theory illuminates the limits of aesthetic presentation by bringing Theodor Adorno and Alain Badiou's divergent philosophies of art into critical proximity.Both theorists uncover moments in which art ceases to represent and begins to insist – where its truth is not stated outright but intimated in a gesture beyond the world as given. Their...

This book explores the historical relationship between Yugoslavia and China, examining its features, significance, and reverberations today. Studying a wide array of state-to-state and society-to-society connections and interactions, it provides novel perspectives on Yugoslavia’s and China’s intertwined trajectories and relations. Drawing from a rich array of primary sources and multidisciplinary approaches, the contributors shed light on the key events, major developments, and important a...

Recent years have seen a surge of interest in ‘the commons’ based on a simple yet radical idea: great improvements in production and management could be achieved by reducing barriers to knowledge exchange and power-sharing. Ranging from meadows, forests and parks to language, open-source software (FLOSS and Blockchain) and 3D printers, the commons are distributed or common property resources/infrastructures that are self-managed by their user communities. While acknowledging the significan...

History is replete with false and unfulfilled promises, as well as singular acts of courage, resilience, and ingenuity. These episodes have led to significant changes in the way people think and act in the world or have set the stage for such transformations in the form of rational expectations in theory and the hopeful anticipations of dialectical imagination.Negative Dialectics and Event: Nonidentity, Culture, and the Historical Adequacy of Consciousness revisits some of Theodor W...

This edited volume of interdisciplinary essays considers the aspects of nation, identity, and collective experience in the notoriously divided island of Cyprus. The contributors examine the role of international politics particularly the involvement of Greece and Turkey and examine the changing relationship between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot communities since 1955. The book challenges prevailing assumptions about political and cultural identity in Cyprus and theorizes on the prospects f...

This book focuses on “human-smart city interaction,” exploring how people engage with smart technologies and how human factors influence the “citizen experience.” Smart cities aim to enhance urban life by infusing digital technologies, data analytics, and artificial intelligence into city functions. Through widespread use of ICT, they streamline operations, cut costs, and improve citizen experiences by analyzing real-time data from sensors, infrastructure, and residents. Yet, their full po...

(Piano Solo Sheets). Piano solo sheet music for the song composed by Vangelis and performed on his 1989 album Themes .

Rhodes is one of those places privileged to have played an important role in history which has been almost uninterrupted from the earliest time of habitation down to the present. Over whole millennia, those who lived on the island found themselves at the centre of developments of their day. They created and left behind them monuments which contributed to world culture in all its spheres: architecture, town planning, literature, poetry, rhetoric, sculpture, ceramics, as well as athletics, s...