Through the new use of new empirical evidence derived from analysing employment services, gender equality policies and flexicurity in Greece and Portugal, this book provides compelling new insights into how European Employment Strategy (EES) can influence the domestic employment policy of European Union member states.  Meer

This superbly illustrated book explores these unique castles' design, development and fate in detail, documenting the rich architectural heritage of this region and its complex history.  Meer

A vivid and contemporary retelling of the Greek myths.  Meer

This book examines the history and politics of modern Greece from the early nineteenth century to the present. It also considers the relationship between Greeks in Greece and the Greeks of the diaspora in the United States, and explores how this relationship has affected developments in Greece.  Meer

In this volume, first published in 2006, Sandra Blakely considers technological myths and rituals associated with ancient Greek daimones, who made metal; and African rituals in which iron plays a central role.  Meer

Photographer Takis Tloupas was born in Thessaly, grandson of a coppersmith and son of a carpenter, and lived and worked there in Larisa.  He toured Greece, first by Vespa then in a Deux Chevaux, taking over 30,000 photographs of what he saw, but it was Larisa that he photographed most as time went by.  Meer

This pivot compares mourning rituals in Archaic & Classical Greece and Pre-Qin China to illustrate some of the principles and methods used in comparative studies.  Meer

The Enlightenment in modern Greece is, without exception, characterised in our recent literature as a period of outstanding significance for the cultural history of modern Hellenism.  Meer

Vasileios Balaskas explores the revival of classical drama at ancient venues as a sociopolitical apparatus of the European nation-states in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.  Meer

This book presents an innovative theoretical framework for exploring the intellectual culture of ancient Greece in the period 450–350 BC. The bewildering questions and surprising opportunities posed by emergent styles of ontological thinking at this time, about issues of being and becoming, of presence (what is or is not there for us), and about different modes of existence, moulded the divergent responses of figures such as Herodotus and Thucydides, Parmenides, Protagoras, and Democritus, as well as cultural practices such as tragedy, and the fiercely abstract thinking of the early Greek geometers and mathematicians.  Meer

Why the path from climate change to a habitable future winds through the world's forests  Meer

This book examines in detail how British policy towards Greece was formulated and implemented from 1941 to 1944. The defeat of Greece and the fall of the dictatorial regime of General Metaxas confronted the British with new problems, the most important being the reconciliation of military and political objectives.  Meer