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Ένα αινιγματικό χειρόγραφο φτάνει στα χέρια ενός τυπογράφου· η εμμονή του με την αλήθεια δείχνει πόσο μακριά μπορεί να φτάσει η λογοτεχνία όταν συναντά το ανεξήγητο.

Henry Chinaski endures the bureaucracy and exhaustion of postal work through alcohol, gambling, dark humour, and stubborn resistance.

Chinaski drifts through low-paid jobs and cheap rooms, sustaining himself with alcohol, women, and an uncompromising determination to write.

Raw, transgressive stories of bars, outsiders, violence, loneliness, sex, poverty, absurdity, and the desperate comedy of everyday survival.

A brutal coming-of-age novel about Chinaski’s abusive childhood, poverty, acne, alienation, and discovery of literature in Depression-era Los Angeles.

A stark poetry collection about desire, loneliness, sex, alcohol, failed relationships, emotional hunger, and love’s capacity to wound.

Later poems confronting survival, ageing, love, loss, creative persistence, and the character revealed by walking steadily through hardship.

Chinaski enters the film industry, where writing a screenplay becomes a chaotic, cynical, and darkly comic encounter with Hollywood.

An analysis of how democratic norms, shared reality, language, institutions, and civic imagination can erode—and how authoritarianism may be resisted.

A deeply reported investigation into the Tsarnaev brothers and the family, immigrant, social, and political forces surrounding the Boston Marathon bombing.

The story of Grigori Perelman, who solved the Poincaré Conjecture, transformed mathematics, and then rejected fame, medals, and a million-dollar prize.

Through the lives of several Russians, Gessen traces how post-Soviet hopes for freedom gradually gave way to renewed authoritarian rule.

A handsome young man’s abduction draws him into a bizarre noir conspiracy involving beauty, sexuality, science, and post-war jazz-club culture.

In an imaginary desert, an unnecessary railway project becomes a surreal satire of bureaucracy, industrial absurdity, hopeless love, and human ambition.

A psychoanalyst enters a superstitious village where guilt, possessive motherhood, cruelty, fantasy, and absurd social rituals collide.

Ιστορικό μυθιστόρημα που ακολουθεί μια οικογένεια από το 1685 έως το 1920, μέσα από πολέμους, έρωτες, εκδίκηση και μεγάλες στιγμές της ελληνικής ιστορίας.

Μελέτη για την έννοια του πατριωτισμού, την ελληνική εθνική ταυτότητα και τις ιδεολογικές αντιπαραθέσεις γύρω από την ιστορική συνέχεια του έθνους.

Βιογραφία του πολιτικού και διανοουμένου Παναγιώτη Κανελλόπουλου, με φόντο τις κρίσεις της Ελλάδας από τον Μεσοπόλεμο έως το πραξικόπημα του 1967.

A father-and-daughter essay arguing that Jewish continuity is carried through texts, stories, questions, arguments, humour, memory, and language.

Amos Oz’s memoir intertwines childhood in Jerusalem, his family’s European past, Israel’s founding, and the lasting trauma of his mother’s suicide.

An epistolary novel in which a shattered marriage and family struggle become a revealing portrait of Israel’s political, religious, and emotional divisions.

Žižek rebuilds dialectical materialism through sex, contradiction, incompleteness, and the productive failure of every supposedly absolute system.

Žižek confronts war, ecological crisis, political paralysis, and social breakdown while arguing for radical action before catastrophe becomes unavoidable.

Žižek separates the visible, ‘subjective’ violence of crime and terror from the systemic and symbolic violence that quietly sustains it.

Žižek brings Hegelian dialectics, Lacanian psychoanalysis and quantum mechanics together to rethink history, reality and the chances of radical political change today.

A Darwinian account of consumer behaviour, explaining how evolution shapes our choices in food, status, relationships, gifts, and popular culture.

A practical guide to recognising, understanding, expressing, and regulating emotions so they become useful information rather than hidden obstacles.

A master strategist enters an empire where one vast game determines social rank, political power, and the fate of an entire civilisation.

A funny and tender memoir narrated in the voice of Kalb’s late grandmother, preserving generations of family stories, advice, love, and grief.

Condoleezza Rice recounts the difficult foreign-policy decisions, diplomatic encounters, crises, and personal responsibilities of her years in Washington.

A global journey asking whether rivers should be understood as living beings—and granted legal rights, dignity, and protection.

Rory Sutherland explores how behavioural science, advertising, and unconscious biases influence choices that appear rational but often are not.

The Roman emperor’s private Stoic reflections on duty, resilience, self-command, mortality, and living according to reason and virtue.

Seneca offers practical Stoic counsel on time, adversity, wealth, ambition, friendship, death, and the disciplined pursuit of a good life.

John McPhee investigates the history, cultivation, science, commerce, varieties, and cultural significance of oranges and orange juice.

A self-help framework for releasing the urge to control other people and redirecting energy toward one’s own choices and responses.

A comprehensive marketing guide covering customer value, positioning, brand strategy, innovation, disruption, competitive defence, and modern market management.

A critical search for the historical roots of Turkey’s authoritarian turn in Ottoman legacies, nationalism, political Islam, and troubled relations with the West.

The rise of the Corleone family and Michael's turn from outsider to boss — power, loyalty, and what a family will do to keep hold of both.

Fifteen stories on marriage, ageing and grief — seven following one couple across a lifetime, the rest ranging from the speculative to the wickedly funny.

Having largely beaten famine, plague and war, humanity reaches for immortality and godlike power — and Harari asks what is left of us once the algorithms know us best.

Ο Οθωμανός περιηγητής του 17ου αιώνα διασχίζει την Ελλάδα από τη Θράκη ως την Αττική και καταγράφει πόλεις, ανθρώπους και συνήθειες με το βλέμμα ενός ξένου που τα παρατηρεί όλα.

A compendium of the late satirist's sharpest quotes and riffs — on government, politics and nearly everything else — edited by Terry McDonell, with an introduction by Christopher Buckley.

Bryson's history of science, retold for younger readers and illustrated throughout — from the Big Bang and the dinosaurs to the rise of humans.

An A-to-Z guide to the spellings, usages and pitfalls of English that most often trip up writers and editors — with a copy editor's precision and Bryson's wit.

Ο Bill Bryson περιηγείται δωμάτιο προς δωμάτιο το σπίτι του, ένα πρεσβυτέριο του 19ου αιώνα στο Νόρφολκ, και από την κουζίνα ως την κρεβατοκάμαρα αφηγείται την ιστορία της ιδιωτικής ζωής.

The Nobel laureate gathers the voices of those who lived through the 1986 Chernobyl disaster — widows, liquidators, scientists, children — into a chorus of testimony.

Ο Ορχάν Παμούκ επιστρέφει στα παιδικά και νεανικά του χρόνια στην Ιστανμπούλ και αφηγείται την πόλη και τη μελαγχολία της μέσα από αναμνήσεις και ασπρόμαυρες φωτογραφίες.

The first part of the Divine Comedy: guided by Virgil, Dante descends through the nine circles of Hell — in Mark Musa's blank-verse translation.

The Devil arrives in 1930s Moscow while the story of Pontius Pilate unfolds alongside — Bulgakov's satire, published more than a quarter of a century after his death.

A comprehensive study of Jalāl al-Dīn Rumi — his life, teachings and poetry — and of how he has been read, translated and reinvented from medieval Konya to the modern West.

Short poems by the 13th-century Sufi mystic, translated from the Persian and gathered around the garden of the soul, the heart and the spirit.

Poems by Rumi never before translated into English, rendered from the Persian and paired with paintings.

Το σατιρικό έργο του Γεώργιου Σουρή, που επί δεκαετίες σχολίαζε έμμετρα την πολιτική και κοινωνική ζωή της Αθήνας μέσα από τον «Ρωμηό», την εφημερίδα που έγραφε ολόκληρη σε στίχους.

In Mexico City, Kerouac falls for Tristessa, a young woman addicted to morphine — a short, tender novella about love, faith and the impermanence of everything.

Ο οικονομολόγος και πρώην υπουργός εξετάζει ποιους μύθους πρέπει να αφήσει πίσω της η Ελλάδα για να διαχειριστεί τις γρήγορες αλλαγές και την αβεβαιότητα — με άξονες την πολιτική, τον σοσιαλισμό και το μέλλον.

Σύντομο πεζό από τη σειρά «Μονόλογοι» των εκδόσεων Πόλις: η λογοτεχνική πλευρά του οικονομολόγου, καθηγητή και πολιτικού Τάσου Γιαννίτση.

Δύο αρχαία κείμενα για τα πολιτεύματα της Σπάρτης και της Αθήνας σε έναν τόμο: η Σπάρτη του Λυκούργου από τον Ξενοφώντα και η Αθήνα του Σόλωνα από τον Αριστοτέλη.

A young Brahmin leaves home in search of enlightenment — through asceticism, love and wealth to the quiet wisdom of the river.

Harry Haller, a lonely intellectual torn between the man and the ‘wolf of the steppes’ within him, is drawn into the Magic Theatre, where his many selves come to light.