THE WAY TO GREECE EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW FROM ANTIQUITY TO MODERN TIMES MARIA BELIVANI ELLINIKA GRAMMATA ATHENS 2004 PART I Preface by Maria Belivani, April 2004 Is there a way to live in harmony with ourselves and the environment? The aim of this book is to suggest some answers to this …
AMERICAN FARM SCHOOL BRUCE LANSDALE MEMORIAL PART III BRUCE AND TAD: THE BEGINNING IN AMERICA A review of MY METAMORPHOSIS A TAPESTRY OF PEOPLE, PLACES AND EVENTS ELIZABETH LANSDALE ENARETOS PRESS 2007 info@afs.edu.gr www,afs.edu.gr PART I Foreword by Dimitris Zannas My Metamorphosis by Tad Lansdale is about a love affair. In this …
THERMOPYLAE THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED THE WORLD PAUL CARTLEDGE THE OVERLOOK PRESS 2006 The inside cover In 480 BC, a huge Persian army, led by the fabled King Xerxes, entered the mountain pass of Thermopylae as they marched on Greece, intending to conquer the land with little difficulty. But the Greeks – led by King …
THE FIVE LESSONS OF LIFE BILL ADAMS RIDER 2000 PART VI Chapter 8: Love Within twenty minutes we were standing outside the door of a stone hovel, a dilapidated dwelling with a flat earth roof and two tiny windows. No running water. No electricity. This was the house of a very poor person. It was …
ALEXANDER AND THE EAST DIMITRIOS PANDERMALIS THESSALONIKI CULTURAL CAPITAL OF EUROPE 1997 ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI This guide to the exhibition ALEXANDER AND THE EAST was printed in 3,000 copies in December 1997 under the auspices of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki on behalf of “Thessaloniki Cultural Capital of Europe 1997” Prologue For …
THE CHAOS POINT THE WORLD AT THE CROSSROADS ERVIN LASZLO PIATKUS BOOKS 2006 PART V PART ONE: THE TIDES OF TRANSFORMATION Chapter 4: Parameters of a Positive Transformation The data we have just reviewed tells us that we are approaching a critical condition: Our world has become economically, socially, and ecologically unsustainable. …
A WAR LIKE NO OTHER HOW THE ATHENIANS AND SPARTANS FOUGHT THE PELOPONNESIAN WAR VICTOR DAVIS HANSON RANDOM HOUSE 2005 Prologue In April 404 B.C. the Spartan admiral Lysander finally led his vast armada of ships, crammed with some 30,000 jubilant seamen, into the hated port of Athens at the Piraeus to finish the Peloponnesian …
EATING ANIMALS JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER BACK BAY BOOKS 2009 PART IV Chapter 4: Hiding/Seeking In the typical cage for egg-laying hens, each bird has 67 square inches of space – the size of this page. Nearly all cage-free birds have approximately the same amount of space. I’m not the kind of person who finds …
THE BATTLE OF SALAMIS THE NAVAL ENCOUNTER THAT SAVED GREECE – AND WESTERN CIVILIZATION BARRY STRAUSS SIMON & SCHUSTER 2004 Time Table of Events Relating to the Battle of Salamis, 480 B. C. May: Xerxes begins to move troops across the Hellespont. June: Xerxes begins march from the Hellespont to Athens. Third week of August: …
THE END OF POVERTY HOW WE CAN MAKE IT HAPPEN IN OUR LIFE TIME JEFFREY SACHS PENGUIN BOOKS 2005 PART I The Goal For the first time in history, our generation has the opportunity to end extreme poverty in the world’s most desperate nations. Jeffrey Sachs lays out how poverty has been beaten in …
