Do You Think Like a Negotiator or Like a Strategist?Most people believe that the success of a negotiation depends on strong arguments, experience, or the ability to persuade the other party.In reality, the biggest negotiations are won long before they begin.After nearly thirty years of experience in the real estate industry, Giannis D. Kallieris completes his trilogy by presenting a comprehensive system of strategic thinking for pro...

A fresh interdisciplinary examination of the thought of Henri Lefebvre which sheds light on the politics of utopia and commoning through the examination of the wide-ranging socio-political dimensions of space.The book emphasizes political elements of Lefebvre's work that have been little explored in research such as his understanding of nationalism, ideology and anti-fascism, while further extending existing research on key concepts by Lefebvre, such as the right t...

This volume is the second part of an English School project focusing on the position and role of the United States in international society.With a shift in focus to the twentieth century and a specific interest in how US practice has influenced and, in turn, how it has been influenced by developments in world politics, the expert contributors consider the derivative primary institutions of international society and the historically specific shape of the practices of the foundationa...

THE SECOND BOOK IN THE REAL ESTATE PSYCHOLOGY & NEGOTIATION SERIESAfter exploring the hidden psychology, invisible rules, and costly mistakes that shape real estate decisions in How Not to Lose Money in Real Estate, this second book moves from understanding the game to winning it.How to Win Real Estate Negotiations is not a sales manual.It is not a negotiation course.It is not a collection of tricks, scripts, or manipulatio...

How Not to Lose Money in Real Estate is not a technical investment manual.It is a practical psychological guide to understanding how people behave during property negotiations — and how costly mistakes are often created long before contracts are signed.Drawing from nearly three decades of experience observing real estate negotiations and property transactions within the Greek and Southern European market environment, Yannis D Kallieris explores the hidden mechanisms that sh...

The Poetry Book Society Recommended Translation for the Winter Quarter, 2012.Yannis Ritsos (1909-1990) is one of Greece's finest and most celebrated poets, and was nine times nominated for a Nobel Prize. Louis Aragon called him 'the greatest poet of our age'. He wrote in the face of ill health, personal tragedy and the systematic persecution by successive hard-line, right-wing regimes that led to many years in prison, or in island detention camps. Despite this, his lifetime's work ...

It could be happening here…or there. Today the place is Greece, wracked by a crisis that has pushed people to the brink. Two strangers meet in a train headed for Athens. One spews out his disgust at the foreigners and the poverty that have invaded the neighborhood he calls home, Vic City. He even has a "final solution" in mind. The other, seized by fright—or is it resignation and apathy?— squirms as his haughty silence gives way to voyeurism and to political correctness. While the former, ...

Over the last decade, the topics of corruption and recovery of its proceeds have steadily risen in the international policy agenda, with the entry into force of the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) in 2005, the Arab Spring in 2011, and most recently a string of scandals in the financial sector. As states decide how best to respond to corruption and recover assets, the course of action most often discussed is criminal investigation and prosecution rather than private law...

Life in Damascus for Ari Boletis, UNRWA’s chief information officer in the Syrian capital, and Laura Heineken, the BBC journalist, is overshadowed by the civil war that has crippled the country. They are in love with each other and cherish their moments together, but at the same time they have to deal with the threats emanating from terrorist groups, criminal gangs or the ruthless state apparatus.One day Laura is found dead in the rebel-held outskirts of Damascus. Her killers could...

A collection of the three volumes by Yannis Andricopoulos on ancient Greek wisdom applied to modern culture and society, including:- Volume 1: In Bed with Madness- Volume 2: The Greek Inheritance- Volume 3: The Future of the PastIn Bed with MadnessGlobalism endowed us with McDonald's, 'the world's local bank’, English football teams without English players and an irrepressible desire for more as enough is never good enough - the blanket is always too short. Our personal world as much as ou...

Crete, 20 May 1941: the first campaign-sized airborne assault is launched. Many books have been written about this famous invasion, with the emphasis mainly on the battles for Maleme and Chania. The Battle for Heraklion - an epic struggle - remained largely forgotten and widely unstudied. Yet the desperate fight for Heraklion had everything: street-fighting in the town; heroic attacks against well-fortified positions and medieval walls; heavy losses on all sides; and tragic stories involvi...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th Asian Conference on Recent Challenges in Intelligent information and Database Systems, ACIIDS 2026, held in Kaohsiung, Taiwan during April 13–15, 2026.The 81 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 431 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Deep Learning Methods and Architectures; Generative, Foundation and Large Language Model...