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Somewhere in the world there may be a noisier street than Acharnon Street; but I hope not. 92 Acharnon Street is a loving portrait of Athens in all its dusty, dirty, trafficridden reality, complete with bars, prostitutes, corruption and imperious bureaucrats. This is a book about Greeks not just Gre..

It is not a recognized mental illness like agoraphobia or depression ... Its largely a matter of luck whether one suffers from border syndrome: it depends where you were born. I was born in Albania. After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the miniskirts and quiz s..

After spending his childhood and school years in Albania, imagining that the mini-skirts and quiz-shows of Italian state TV were the reality of life in the West, and fantasising accordingly about living on the other side of the border, the death of Hoxha at last enables Gazmend Kapllani to make his ..

The island of Crete was home to Europes earliest civilization. Since the time of the Minoans, 4000 years ago, it has served as a crossroads where the Eastern and Western worlds have met and exchanged skills and ideas, materials and artefacts. At Knossos, with its gigantic palace complex where the le..

Mairi Hedderwick embarks on a six-month-long journey to 40 islands from Arran to Lewis, recounting her pilgrimage around the archipelago of the Western Isles with which she has had a lifelong love affair. Filled with wit and wisdom that is matched by her spell-binding illustrations, Mairi Hed..

NEW LIMITED EDITION OF THE SUNDAY TIMES No.1 BESTSELLER A beautiful little book by a brilliant mind DAILY TELEGRAPH Effortlessly instructive, absorbing, up to the minute and - where it matters - witty GUARDIAN The world-famous cosmologist and #1 bestselling author of A Brief History of Time..

An irresistible stocking-filler: a hilarious romp through the science of Christmas. How does snow form? Why are we always depressed after Christmas? How does Santa manage to deliver all those presents in one night? (He has, in fact, little over two ten-thousandths of a second to get between each ..

Causation is the most fundamental connection in the universe. Without it, there would be no science or technology. There would be no moral responsibility either, as none of our thoughts would be connected with our actions and none of our actions with any consequences. Nor would we have a system of l..