PRESS RELEASE  Dr LEFTERIS ANASTASAKIS Industrial innovation & transformation in Postwar Greece (1950-1973) Widespread myths and invisible truths               This English version of the original Greek edition aims to acquaint the non-Greek reader with the postwar history of Greece, focusing on industrial development from 1950 until 1973. Greece’s industrial and technological history has been, until recently, a neglected field of research. It is the first empirical book that examines postwar technological industries in-depth, and [...]

PRESS RELEASE  The Greek economy in 2023   Trends and challenges                         […] The recent course of the Greek economy in the short term was positive, having started from a lower level yet managing to gain speed at a rate higher than the European average. However, significant downside risks lie ahead, not least of which those stemming from the uncertain external environment, as well as from domestic structural deficiencies. For [...]

PRESS RELEASE   MIKIS THEODORAKIS: MY POSTERS   published by KERKYRA Publications 2007   Translation: Gourntis Kalliope This is the first-time ever publication of posters from the personal archive of renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis. A rare and delightful collection of posters from 1952 to the present, spanning more than half a century of concerts from Berlin to Bilbao and from St. Petersburg to St. Paul, as the composer and his orchestra journeyed throughout the modern world spreading the word, always [...]

PRESS RELEASE CRETAN MUSIC: UNRAVELING ARIADNE’S THREAD   Kerkyra Publications   Author: Dr. Maria Hnaraki Editing: Maria Adamantidis The five chapters  Entering the Labyrinth An ethnomusicologist’s introduction to the Hellenic and Cretan musical world. Into the Labyrinth Hellenic-Cretan ideals, local traditions and Cretan identity as expressed in music, dances and the Cretan-sung distichs called mandinádes. Ariadne The “Iakinthia” music event, the role of song and dance, principal personalities on the Cretan music scene today, focus on the work of three [...]

PRESS RELEASE   MIKIS THEODORAKIS: MY POSTERS (COLLECTOR’S EDITION)       published by KERKYRA Publications   Translation: Gourntis Kalliope Editing: Adamantidis Coutroubaki Maria   This is the first-time ever publication of posters from the personal archive of renowned composer Mikis Theodorakis. A rare and delightful collection of posters from 1952 to the present, spanning more than half a century of concerts from Berlin to Bilbao and from St. Petersburg to St. Paul, as the composer and his orchestra journeyed [...]

PRESS RELEASE MAGICAL GREECE (2nd editon)   Published by KERKYRA Publications - Economia PUBLISHING   Photographs: Andreas Smaragdis Text: Eleni Gage “Wherever I go, Greece wounds me,” the Nobel-prize-winning poet George Seferis wrote. Andreas Smaragdis’ photos serve as a balm to that wound, by preserving an image of a beloved landscape and offering a hint of what the photographer calls “the ecstasy of place.” This book, then, with the truly exceptional text by Eleni Gage, a New York-based journalist, author and [...]

PRESS RELEASE Diplomats & Doormats – An Hotelier’s Odyssey   Published by economia PUBLISHING   Author: Peter Alatsas Globetrotting hotelier, Peter Alatsas was born in Greece, raised in Australia, and educated in Canada and cyberspace. Thanks to his life’s work – managing luxury hotels – Alatsas has lived all over the world from Jeddah to Japan, Thailand, Brunei, Bali, Singapore, Greece, France, Australia, China, the USA, UAE and Canada. A veteran hotelier with over 25 years experience in the hotel [...]

PRESS RELEASE   CALENDAR 2009 - FOUR SEASONS     was published by KERKYRA PUBLICATIONS S.A. Photographs: George Mouratidis, Klairi Moustafellou   Dimensions: 24x22 cm Pages: 128 Bilingual: greek, english Published: 2008 Retail price: 15 € ISBN 978-960-8386-77-8   A beautiful calendar… for all seasons. Week by week, page by page, we dream together with wonderful pictures. We plan special weekends, brief escapes or our long vacation away from everyday obligations. Some of the most beautiful parts of Greece, seen [...]

PRESS RELEASE MIKIS THEODORAKIS - FINDING GREECE IN HIS MUSIC   published by KERKYRA Publications 2010 Author: Angelique Mouyis   Dimensions: 220 x 220 mm Pages: 134 Language: English ISBN: 978-960-8386-98-3 Retail price: € 10,00 Published: 2010   The book interrogates the construction of modern Greek identity in Theodorakis’ music. After examining the composer’s musical and political life in connection with Greece’s modern history and culture, the author focuses on characteristic works of varying genres − from Axion Esti and [...]

PRESS RELEASE THE STORY OF MINOS ZOMBANAKIS Banking Without Borders     Published by economia PUBLISHING 2011   Author David Lascelles   Copy Editor Mike Hatzidakis   David Lascelles is a leading international writer on financial affairs. A former Banking Editor and New York correspondent for the Financial Times, he is now Senior Fellow of the Centre for the Study of Financial Innovation, a London-based think tank which explores the future of the financial services industry. He is also the [...]

PRESS RELEASE   MARIKA MITSOTAKI: RECIPES OF LOVE   published by Kerkyra Publications Economia Publishing Author MARIKA MITSOTAKI Text EMMANUELA NIKOLAIDOU Recipes edited by KATERINA MITSOTAKI Translated by MARIA ADAMANTIDIS COUTROUBAKI   Dimensions: 22,5x25,5 cm Pages: 168 1st english edition: 2012 Price: € 25 ISBN: 978-960-9490-18-4   Marika Mitsotaki, wife, mother and cook extraordinaire, serves up a lifetime of memories: about her mother and mentor in things culinary; about the serious blow to her health when as a child she [...]

PRESS RELEASE   Chronicle of a Life in Shipping 2010 published by             Author: John D. Koilalous   Dimensions: 170 x 220 mm Pages: 128 Language: English ISBN: 978-960-9490-01-6 Edition: 2010 Retail price: €14,16   A personal narrative spanning close to sixty years of a career in shipping ― from the author’s humble beginnings in Chios Island in the 1930s, to apprenticeship and early work in London in the 1950s, and further to the establishment [...]

PRESS RELEASE New from economia PUBLISHING Tourism and Crisis Published by economia PUBLISHING 2014   Edited by Margarita Dritsas Preface by Harry Coccossis   co-authored by: Christophe Bouneau Margarita Dritsas Cédric Humair Katerina Papadoulaki Mary Quek Laurent Tissot John Walton           How can tourism achieve economic development? What is its relation with crisis in its various forms: economic, political, social or organizational? How recessions and depressions have interacted with tourism in the past? Does tourist development [...]

PRESS RELEASE WHO ARE WE? Τhe Geopolitics of Greek identity     Drawing on the insights of the French Geographical School and key ideas of Arnold Toynbee and Samuel Huntington, Prevelakis redefines modern Hellenism as a residue of Hellenic civilisation, left over from the diluting historical waves after the fall of Rome. Greeks share the Hellenic heritage with western and eastern Europeans, Muslims and Jews. Language, religion, landscapes and certain other less visible elements, however, link Greeks more directly to [...]

PRESS RELEASE Benefaction in Modern Greece Theory and History                             The communities of the Hellenic diaspora have been the cradle of Modern Greek benefaction. Eminent entrepreneurs acting as benefactors undertake works of common interest, substituting for the official state, collectivities and institutions. The benefactor realises a personal epopee in the service of the common good. Benefaction for him represents a defining passion determining his/her personal and collective [...]

  This book develops a comprehensive framework of winning shipping strategies through the application of established Strategic Management theory to the analysis of the shipping industry, while taking into consideration the many specificities of this hypercompetitive, cyclical, global sector. Empirical evidence is drawn from case studies of leading firms from the thriving Greek shipping community. The synergistic juxtaposition of theory and empirical evidence sheds light in this under-researched vital area of economic activity and leads to useful conclusions about workable [...]