Manolis: 28 books

The “Apitherapy” Guide is an effort to inform and familiarize people with the bee products, for preventive and therapeutic purposes. In this guide you will find practical recipes, without side effects and high cost, which can be used by a simple family or even by specialized therapists. You...

Presenting current trends in the development and applications of intelligent systems in engineering, this monograph focuses on recent research results in system identification and control. The recurrent neurofuzzy and the fuzzy cognitive network (FCN) models are presented. Both models are suitable...

For years I’ve prepared myself for that big momentthe miracle of the century, on the other handyou have to admit I’m one of a kind in my field —but, God, what happened, who betrayed me, wherethey found all the proof? The procedure was quickthe district attorney to the point, “are you him?”he asked me, “him” I answeredis there any worst charge?

ExcerptHakim sits on the windowsill, his gaze spreading to the other side of the road from his fourth-floor, 1000-square-foot, two bedroom apartment opposite Grandview Memorial Park. He has been renting this small place for the past three years, while trying to save for a down payment to buy...

Life has been good to Petros Spathis: he has just finished his BA in Economics from the University of Athens with the highest marks in his class, and he is offered a professorship on the condition that he acquire a Master's degree from a North American university. He is also handsome and charming...

The author, educator, philosopher and poet Dimitris Liantinis, Professor of philosophy in education at the University of Athens until 1998, was born in 1942 in the prefecture of Lakonia.He finished the High School of Sparta in 1960. He studied at the Department of Philology of the Faculty of Philosophy...

Ioanna Frangia was born in Peireus and lives in Athens. She worked as a tourist guide and also as a clinical psychologist. Because of her first career she travelled all over Greece and studied in depth the historical path of ancient Greek civilization from the prehistoric times to today. She studied...

Tzoutzi Mantzourani was born in Athens – Greece, in 1959. She studied French Literature and Language at Pepperdine University Malibu, CA. USA, and worked as a journalist in several Greek newspapers and magazines until 2009. She has published up three poem collections and a book of short stories.

The Quest is the story about a young boy's dream of someday returning to his family's home on the island of Crete. Pericles grew up listening to his grandfather tell stories of the Greek myths and life in the family's former home. His family had come to live in Romania before Pericles was born but...

Prominent economists present detailed analyses of the conditions that made Greece vulnerable to economic crisis and offer policy recommendations for comprehensive and radical change. More than eight years after the global financial crisis began, the economy of Greece shows little sign of recovery,...

Divided into 12 chapters, Matrix Methods for Advanced Structural Analysis begins with an introduction to the analysis of structures (fundamental concepts and basic steps of structural analysis, primary structural members and their modeling, brief historical overview of methods of static analysis,...

This book focuses on the mathematical potential and computational efficiency of the Boundary Element Method (BEM) for modeling seismic wave propagation in either continuous or discrete inhomogeneous elastic/viscoelastic, isotropic/anisotropic media containing multiple cavities, cracks, inclusions...

This book is an exploration of science in the making. It offers readers the opportunity to critically reflect on the process of development of Vygotsky's research program from the perspective of dialectics, focusing on the dramatic process of building and rebuilding cultural historical theory. Vygotsky's...

This modern textbook offers an introduction to Quantum Mechanics as a theory that underlies the world around us, from atoms and molecules to materials, lasers, and other applications. The main features of the book are: Emphasis on the key principles with minimal mathematical formalism Demystifying...