[{"id":85399,"title":"The Sacred in Life and Art","subtitle":null,"description":"We are becoming increasingly aware that the forms of our life and art - of our modern civilization generally - have over the last few centuries been characterized by the progressive loss of precisely that sense which gives virtually all other civilizations and cultures of the world their undying lustre and significance: the sense of the sacred. In fact, the concept of a completely profane world - of a cosmos wholly desacralized - is a fairly recent invention of the western mind, and only now are we beginning to realize the apalling consequences of trying to order and mould our social, personal and creative life in obedience to its dictates. It is not even too much to say that we are also beginning to realize that unless we can re-instate the sense of the sacred at the heart of all our activities there can be no hope of avoiding the cosmic catastrophe for which we are heading.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is an attempt to clarify what is demanded if we are to have any chance of achieving this. It examines the nature and significance of the sacred itself, why the sense of its presence has been eroded from our consciousness over recent centuries, how we can re-awaken this sense, and what such a re-awakening must mean in terms of our personal and creative life. It complements the author's \"Rape of man and nature\", and \"Human image: World image\" (both of which focus on the emergence of the thought-forms whose ascendancy has produced our present state of dereliction and chaos) affirming as it does the ever-present, timeless qualities of beauty, love and miracle through which we can be renewed and transformed, whatever the conditions of the world in which we live.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b87442.jpg","isbn":"960-7120-18-3","isbn13":"978-960-7120-18-2","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":162,"publication_year":2004,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"12.0","price_updated_at":null,"cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":null,"publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":87442,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-sacred-in-life-and-art.json"},{"id":178470,"title":"The Murderess","subtitle":"A Social Tale","description":"The \"Murderess\" has been regarded as Alexandros Papadiamandis’s finest work. Set on his native island of Skiathos it tells the story of Hadoula, a widow with grown-up children, who has convinced herself that it is better little girls should leave this life when young so that they and their parents should not suffer the trials that inevitably would be inflicted on them by an inequitable society. In the throes of this misguided compassion she first murders her own granddaughter and afterwards finds herself set on a course she is unable to stop despite the promptings of her conscience and her awareness of the consequences.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePapadiamandis charts this course and the events in her life that preceded it, and against a background of the island’s verdant and untrodden places and the living presence of the Church he explores the particular quality evil has of disguising itself as good, but without ever passing judgement on the murderess herself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong considered one of Greece's most important writers, Papadiamandis's reflections on and observations of modern Greek life define the Greek experience in a way unmatched by any of his contemporaries.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis new translation of \"The Murderess\" has been undertaken and published to mark the centenary of Papadiamandis's death.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b181595.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-28-1","isbn13":"978-960-7120-28-1","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":9761,"name":"Romiosyni Series","books_count":5,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series'","created_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00"},"pages":290,"publication_year":2011,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"10.0","price_updated_at":"2012-07-23","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Η φόνισσα","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":181595,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/the-murderess.json"},{"id":183125,"title":"Aegean Notebooks","subtitle":"Reflections by Sea and Land in the Archipelago","description":"Zissimos Lorenzatos (1915-2004), essayist, thinker and poet, was arguably Greece’s most significant man of letters in the twentieth century. In the Aegean Notebooks, a record of his observations and reflections while sailing among the Greek islands in the 1970s and 1980s, the special quality of his literary and philosophical gifts, and of the man himself, are vividly present.\u003cbr\u003eAlong with everything a mariner yearns to bring ashore, all he has felt and experienced at sea with the wake of the boat unfurling behind him, Lorenzatos brings us in addition a lifetime’s learning and contemplation. For him, life, and the living of it, was of the essence. As he observes in his foreword to these notebooks: '...life itself writes nothing, it erases everything that is written about it, and simply, irreplaceably lives, like the inaccessible \"well of water springing up\".'","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b186255.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-31-1","isbn13":"978-960-7120-31-1","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":9761,"name":"Romiosyni Series","books_count":5,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni' 'series'","created_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00","updated_at":"2017-04-13T02:21:03.425+03:00"},"pages":138,"publication_year":2012,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"9.0","price_updated_at":"2013-02-15","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Στου τιμονιού το αυλάκι","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":186255,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/aegean-notebooks.json"},{"id":219006,"title":"A Hesychast from the Holy Mountain in the Heart of a City","subtitle":"Saint Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia","description":"Elder Porphyrios of Kavsokalyvia (1906-1991), who was formally glorified as a saint by the Holy Synod of the Ecumenical Patriarchate in November 2013, has long been acknowledged and recognized as a luminary and spiritual guide with the special grace of 'clear sight'. His life was particularly remarkable in that he lived it in both ascetic fastnesses and urban contexts.\u003cbr\u003eHe left the world for Mount Athos at a young age and joined the Skete of Kavsokalyvia where, for seven years, under the guidance of the Elders Panteleimon and Ioannikios he lived a hesychastic life. It was there he underwent his most powerful formative experiences and received his gift of grace, and he always considered it his spiritual home. Bad health, however, forced him to return to the world and, after a number of years on his native island of Evia, at the beginning of the Second World War in Greece he was appointed chaplain of the Polyclinic Hospital next to Omonia Square in the heart of the city of Athens. After thirty-three years at the Polyclinic he retired first to his monastic retreat in the tiny monastery of St Nicholas at Kallisia, north of Athens, and later went on to found the Holy Monastery of the Transfiguration at Milesi. In 1991, seeing his life was nearing its end, he returned to his hermitage on the Holy Mountain where he fell asleep in the Lord on 2 December.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis short study of the life and teaching of Saint Porphyrios is, in the words of its author Athanasios Papathanasiou, 'an exercise in encounter with the present'. He takes into consideration present realities and conditions, both in the Church and society, and in the light of theology understood as a living discipline endeavours to determine certain particular qualities of the saint, drawing particularly on the saint's own words as recorded in the book Wounded by Love. His insights and interpretations have an immediacy and freshness of singular relevance to our perception of what constitutes a holy personage in the modern world and point to how we can reorient our thinking accordingly.","image":"http://www.biblionet.gr/images/covers/b222225.jpg","isbn":"978-960-7120-35-9","isbn13":"978-960-7120-35-9","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":null,"pages":46,"publication_year":2014,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"4.0","price_updated_at":"2017-10-27","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Ένας ησυχαστής του Αγίου Όρους στην καρδιά της πόλης: Όσιος Πορφύριος Καυσοκαλυβίτης","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":222225,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/a-hesychast-from-the-holy-mountain-in-heart-of-city.json"},{"id":218415,"title":"Loxandra","subtitle":null,"description":"\"Loxandra\" is the story of a Greek family living in Constantinople (Istanbul) from the mid-18th century up to the beginning of the First World War. It is not biographical as such, and many of the characters are fictional. Others, including the main character of Loxandra, are real. Constantinople was the author's home during the first years of her life and in her book she conveys the historical events, the customs, the spirit of those times when life for the Greeks of Constantinople was relatively untroubled. The real Loxandra was brought up in the Anatolian tradition of love of good food; culinary delights flowed from her hands and her kitchen as from the horn of plenty, and her generosity and enthusiasm for life and food was not confined to her family but spilled over to whomsoever she had contact with.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Greek edition of Loxandra , first published in 1963, has been perhaps the most acclaimed and best-selling popular publication in Greece of the 20th century and remains continuously in print.","image":null,"isbn":"978-960-7120-39-7","isbn13":"978-960-7120-39-7","ismn":null,"issn":null,"series":{"id":12826,"name":"Romiosyni","books_count":1,"tsearch_vector":"'romiosyni'","created_at":"2017-10-11T06:00:27.896+03:00","updated_at":"2017-10-11T06:00:27.896+03:00"},"pages":266,"publication_year":2017,"publication_place":"Λίμνη Ευβοίας","price":"14.0","price_updated_at":"2017-10-10","cover_type":"Μαλακό εξώφυλλο","availability":"Κυκλοφορεί - Εκκρεμής εγγραφή","format":"Βιβλίο","original_language":null,"original_title":"Λωξάντρα","publisher_id":1194,"extra":null,"biblionet_id":221634,"url":"https://bibliography.gr/books/loxandra.json"}]