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  • Übermensch
    Manolis Aligizakis
    In his latest book of poems, Manolis Aligizakis celebrates the 'imperfect perfection of the imperfect chaos,' energetic and lucid philosophic meditations on the mysteries of being human. Übermensch is derived from one of Nietzsche’s most challenging and frequently misunderstood concepts, the Superman or Overman. Nietzsche believed that we are capable of being better than we are...
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    14,08 €

  • Wheat Ears
    Manolis Aligizakis
    Wheat fields, plants, and grains have inspired numerous poets and songwriters around the globe. ('We are captives, even if our wheat grows over the fences/ and swallows rise from our broken chains' - Mahmoud Darwish). Manolis is one among them. His poems in Wheat Ears speak of his experiences in Crete, Greece and Canada. He has published more than 20 books of poetry, three nove...
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    24,73 €

  • Marginal
    Manolis Aligizakis
    A loss of harmony with the surrounding space, the inability to feel at home in the world, so oppressive to an expatriate, a refugee, an immigrant, paradoxically integrates him in contemporary society and makes him, if he is an artist, understood by all. Even more, to express the existential situation of modern man, one must live in exile of some sort, wrote Milosz Czeslaw.In th...
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    14,52 €

  • Orange
    Manolis Aligizakis
    Like the song, Orange is about longing and desire: the passing seasons, autumn turns into winter, permeate these lyrics with a finely tuned eloquence. Vibrant and radiant, the poems are inspired by a powerful and subtle music, becoming deeply embedded beneath the skin. A prolific poet, Manolis Aligizakis possesses a distinctly Mediterranean flavour, as would a poet schooled on ...
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    14,47 €

  • Medusa
    Manolis Aligizakis
    MEDUSA is a present-day triptych, a rich and profoundly nuanced contemporary narrative, sensitive to all the immanent and minute shades of reality, aspiring to embrace and incorporate the whole spectrum of lived experience. This lively, alert, highly critical, cynical, daring and often intrepid portrait of our age, this unyielding reckoning, offers us a large-scale panorama fil...
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    14,39 €

  • The Incidentals
    Manolis Aligizakis
    In his new collection of poems, Manolis Aligizakis dives deep into the human psyche to deal with the manner each person perceives life and reacts to it. Surely one considers tradition the most important factor upon which one bases his decision to act one way or another and to lead his life. This indisputable pull of tradition which forces upon every individual a certain way of ...
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    14,27 €

  • Impluses
    Manolis Aligizakis
    Sometimes words are ghosts dancing with myth and memory. Greek-Canadian poet Manolis Aligizakis demonstrates this in Impulses, his new collection of poems. His poetry springs from a congenital intimacy with a culture and its history. In essence, we are before a poetic glance that is also a revolving metaphor encircling feelings from a Mediterranean philosophy.Poets tend to be w...
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    14,39 €

  • Nikos Engonopoulos - Poems
    Manolis Aligizakis
    My father was a man who knew how to talk to a young child, he could enter my world and stir my interest. While he was still alive, I typed all his handwritten works. After his passing, I discovered a partially typed and handwritten piece of work. It consisted of 4-5 translations and a few prose pieces, which I passed to his publisher. I have always been awed by his work, and th...
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    21,79 €

  • Air Show Performers
    Daniel Kwasi Adjekum / Manolis Karachalios
    This book aims to close the knowledge gap on safety management in air shows. It imparts to the aviation sector and other high-risk, high-performance industries the experience and knowledge that airshow performers have gained regarding risk assessment, psychological aspects, and mindfulness techniques used for safe and effective performances. ...
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    94,90 €

  • The Big Tummy Ache - Our Yarning
    Wayahpo Manolis
    Azzy and Tony have $10 and decide to buy as many lollies as they can. However, eating so many sweets comes with consequences.Your purchase of this book from the Our Yarning collection supports Library For All in its mission to make knowledge available to all, equally.    ...
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    12,05 €

  • Geospatial Data Science
    Manolis Koubarakis
    This introductory textbook teaches the simple development of geospatial applications based on the principles and software tools of geospatial data science. It introduces a new generation of geospatial technologies that have emerged from the development of the Semantic Web and the Linked Data paradigm, and shows how data scientists can use them to build environmental application...
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    78,24 €

  • Freight Derivatives and Risk Management in Shipping
    Dimitris A. Tsouknidis / Ilias D. Visvikis / Manolis G. Kavussanos
    This advanced practical textbook deals with the issue of risk analysis, measurement and management in the shipping industry. It identifies and analyses the sources of risk in the shipping business and explores in detail the 'traditional' and 'modern' strategies for risk management at the investment and operational levels of the business. ...
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    130,40 €

  • Rethinking Cultural-Historical Theory
    Manolis Dafermos
    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 creative and dramatic journey is no less important than the concrete resul...
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    133,76 €

  • Seismic Wave Propagation in Non-Homogeneous Elastic Media by Boundary Elements
    George D. Manolis / Petia S. Dineva / Tsviatko V. Rangelov
    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 and surface topography. BEM models may take into account the entire seismic wave p...
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    136,33 €

  • Transformations of Late Antiquity
    Manolis Papoutsakis
    ’Transformation’ is a notion apposite to essays in honour of Peter Brown. ’The transformation of the classical heritage’ is a theme to which he has devoted, and continues to devote, much energy. All the essays here in some way explore this notion of transformation; the late antique ability to turn the past to new uses, and to set its wealth of principle and insight to work in n...
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    98,39 €

  • Exploring the Hospitable Sea
    Manolis Manoledakis
    Proceedings of the International Workshop on the Black Sea in Antiquity held in Thessaloniki, 21-23 September 2012.This volume presents the proceedings of an international workshop hosted by the School of Humanities of the International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki (September 2012) on the theme of ‘The Black Sea in Antiquity’, aiming at bringing together young scholars fro...
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    99,48 €

  • Risk and Return in Transportation and Other US and Global Industries
    Manolis G. Kavussanos / Stelios Marcoulis
    The type of research methodologies used in analysing stock returns in the book is outlined in this technical chapter. The chapter begins with definitions of useful summary statistics, such as the mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, and their interpretation. Tests statistics for inferences on population means, proportions and differences of means, among others, a...
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    48,29 €

  • Adaptive Control with Recurrent High-order Neural Networks
    George A. Rovithakis / Manolis A. Christodoulou
    The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies ... , new ch...
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    134,28 €

  • Risk and Return in Transportation and Other US and Global Industries
    Manolis G. Kavussanos / Stelios Marcoulis
    The type of research methodologies used in analysing stock returns in the book is outlined in this technical chapter. The chapter begins with definitions of useful summary statistics, such as the mean, standard deviation, coefficient of variation, and their interpretation. Tests statistics for inferences on population means, proportions and difference...
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    134,37 €

  • Image and Signal Processing for Networked eHealth Applications
    Ilias G. Maglogiannis / Kostas Karpouzis / Manolis Wallace
    E-health is closely related with networks and telecommunications when dealing with applications of collecting or transferring medical data from distant locations for performing remote medical collaborations and diagnosis. In this book we provide an overview of the fields of image and signal processing for networked and distributed e-health applications and their supporting tech...
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    51,70 €

  • Footprints In Sandstone
    Manolis
    As in a game of hide and seek, when in search of wisdom, an open mind is of most importance as it finetunes us to the receiving and accepting the signals transmitted towards us.Let us then become open minded and playful in order to enjoy this trip. ...
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    13,90 €