"The Complete Travel Guide" Series offers a comprehensive exploration of diverse destinations worldwide. Each book provides detailed insights into local culture, history, attractions, and practical travel tips, ensuring travellers are well-prepared to embark on memorable journeys. With vibrant illustrations, beautiful pictures and up to date information, this series is an essential companion for any type of traveller seeking enriching experiences.

Guided by the thesis that literature can transform social reality, Tirana Modern draws on ethnographic and historical material to examine the public culture of reading in modern Albania. As its starting point, this book asks: How has Albanian literature and literary translation shaped social action during the longue durée of Albanian modernity? Drawing on material collected through fieldwork with a community of readers, writers, and translators attached to the independent Albanian publisher Pika pa sipërfaqe (Point without Surface), Tirana Modern provides a tightly focused ethnography of literary culture in Albania that brings into relief the more general dialectic between social imagination and social reality as mediated by reading and literature.

This publication shows the ambitious transformation of Skanderbeg Square, in Tirana, Albania. The project was initiated by the then Mayor of Tirana and current Prime Minister of Albania Edi Rama and realized under current mayor Erion Veliaj. It is the result of a collaboration between Belgian architecture office 51N4E, Albanian artist Anri Sala, Belgian environmental designers Plant en Houtgoed, and Albanian company for project implementation iRI. Transforming the central square of a nation that is founded only in 1912 and that is now a developing young democracy, the project compresses all the hope and tension that come with that transition. With its focus on transition, this publication is a pilot episode of a series called Chapters, a progressive documentation of the work of architecture office 51N4E and its collaborations with related people and practices. Every Chapter combines the presentation of one or more projects with a forward-looking reflection on the key issues that shape them. Produced progressively over the course of the next years, the ambition of the whole series is to outline how 51N4E aims to engage with contemporary society in all of its complexity.

An overview of the history and culture of Chile and its people including the geography, myths, arts, daily life, education, industry, and governments, with illustrations from primary source documents.

This text details the proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Earthquake Engineering. CD-ROM contains full text of the 650 papers in printed form. This would have been 6 volumes of 1000 pages each. Topics covered: are: Engineering seismology; Experimental aspects for soils, rocks and construction material; Computational aspects for materials, structures and soil-structure interaction; Civil engineering projects; Active and passive isolation; Industrial facilities, lifelines and equipment; Vulnerability, seismic risk and strengthening; Site effects and spatial variability of seismic motions; Reliability analyses and probabilistic aspects; Design criteria, codees and standards; Eurocode 8 and national applications; Seismic risk in the Mediterranean basin; Post earthquake investigations;