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Facts Lab Book of Greece – Relaunch promo!

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The Facts Lab Book of Greece by Theodore Koukouvitisby Theodore Koukouvitis

The first of our trivia books, It’s all Greek to them! 101 amazing facts about Greece and the Greeks, has been relaunched to bring it into line with our others in the Facts Lab series.

Predictably enough, it’s now called The Facts Lab Book of Greece, and has a shiny new cover modelled on the other books in the series, The Facts Lab Book of Brazil and The Facts Lab Book of Insects. It’s unchanged in other respects.

To celebrate the relaunch, we’re giving it away free for two days! You can get it at the Kindle Store for nothing from 0700 GMT on Friday 14 March*. But make sure you don’t delay, because the offer closes again 48 hours later, at 0700 GMT on Sunday 16 March*!
*Because of delays in the Amazon system, the promotion may begin and end anything up to two hours after the time stated.

The Facts Lab Book of Greece: 101 amazing facts about Greece and the Greeks

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The Facts Lab Book of Greece by Theodore Koukouvitisby Theodore Koukouvitis
Revised Edition: published 13 March 2014
(This book was originally published on 7 March 2013 as It’s all Greek to them!)

Ever wondered why we say, “It’s all Greek to me!”, or why we’re warned to beware of Greeks bearing gifts? This book will tell you.

The Facts Lab Book of Greece: 101 amazing facts about Greece and the Greeks is Theodore Koukouvitis’s second Ergo Guides book about his ever-intriguing homeland, and in it he’s come up with a cornucopia of facts, reflecting his own wide-ranging interests and the diversity of Greek culture, society and landscape.
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The Smart Tourist’s Guide to Greece

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The Smart Tourist's Guide to Greece by Theodore Koukouvitisby Theodore Koukouvitis
First Edition: published 20 September 2012

When you consider that Greece is considered to be the cradle of Western civilisation and that it’s also the chosen destination of millions of tourists each year, it seems a pity that there’s so little connection between those two facts.

That’s the reason why Theodore Koukouvitis’s The Smart Tourist’s Guide to Greece is unlike any guidebook to Greece that you’ll ever have read before. A professional writer by trade who’s spent much of his life dealing with the Greek hospitality industry as both a customer and a worker, he has a rare grasp of what the average international tourist in Greece gets to experience – and, crucially, what gets missed out.
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