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Avgo Books is an imprint of Oceanida Publications

We specialize in popular science books - with a difference. Our vision is to re-assert science into the mainstream culture of Greece. We aim to delight our readers by presenting them with the best science writing and the best science books from around the world. Our book list  (see below) comprises subjects that range from cosmology to parasitology; and yet the common denominator is always the active discourse and the lively engagement of the modern, thinking reader.

Please post regular mail, manuscripts, books etc. to:

Avgo Books (attention: George Zarkadakis)

38 Dervenion Street

Athens 106 81, Greece

Tel.: (+30)210.3806137, Fax: (+30)210.3805531

Our book list:

Catching Fire, by Richard Wrangam

The Greatest Show on Earth, by Richard Dawkins

Welcome to your brain, by Sandra Aamodt and Sam Wang

Y: The Descent of Men, by Steve Jones

Why we believe what we believe, by Andrew Newberg with M.R. Waldman

How maths explains the world, by James Stein

Physics of the impossible, by Michio Kaku

Bonk, by Mary Roach

The “God” part of the brain, by Matthew Alper

10 Questions Science Can’t Answer (yet), by Michael Hanlon

Endless Universe, by Paul J. Steinhard & Neil Turok

Cosmic Jackpot, by Paul Davies

Field Notes from a catastrophe, by Elizabeth Colbert

Riddled with Life, by Marlene Zuk

Proust was a neuroscientist, by Jonah Lehrer

Satisfaction, by Anita H. Clayton with Robin Cantor-Cooke

Four Elements, by Rebecca Rupp

Avgo (means “Egg” in Greek) Books is headed by George Zarkadakis. George has studied Systems Engineering at City University, London and has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence. He has worked as a university researcher, a business consultant, a music producer, a travel writer and a science editor. He was the creator and Editor-in-Chief of Focus magazine, the largest popular science magazine in Greece and the writer of a very successful popular science television program (Eureka!). Apart from running Avgo Books, George is a regular contributor of science stories in various magazines and newspapers as well as an active science communicator and organizer of science communication events. He is also a novelist and a playwright.