eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
3990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
5990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
2350 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
5990 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
8999 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, abban az esetben az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár) az érvényes, kivétel ez alól a boltban akciós könyvek.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
2350 Ft
online ár:
Webáruházunkban a termékek mellett feltüntetett fekete színű online ár csak internetes megrendelés esetén érvényes. Amennyiben a Líra bolthálózatunk valamelyikében kívánja megvásárolni a terméket, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
Hollywood March 9, 2012
f/^hristine unfolds the tissue paper inside the pink-
L/ striped hatbox and the odor of lost years floats upward. She is well acquainted with the fragrance of antiquity. Her vintage-clothing boutique offWest Sunset overflows with stylish remnants from golden years long...
FOREWORDExploration of the world seems to have occurred in stages, or waves. The Spanish influx to the New World at the interface of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries was one such wave; the rapid conquest of the Himalayas' eight-thousand-meter peaks during the 1950s another; the American-Soviet...
Chapter 1A pirate.A very contemptible line of life, with a premium at a high rate.Gilbert and Sullivan, The Pirates of Penzance, Act I"You know what your problem is?"I waited for the rumble from a distant clap of thunder to fade away into nothing before answering. "Yes. We can't get the legislature...
ONEIn the beginning there is light. At first, only a tiny shaft is shining from the far end of a long tunnel; then slowly it grows brighter and brighter.But soon the light is too intense, unbearable to bear. We would look away if we could. We would return inside, where it is warm and dark and safe,...
Chapter 1 What Mandy Sutorius liked about the Chula Vista Tap was that there were so many people getting shit-faced so fast, making so much boozy racket, and in generál generating a kind of beer-addled, in-your-face chaos, that she could drink there for hours and nobody would remember she'd been...
INTRODUCTIONr many years I have been blessed toan instrument for people to contact their loved ones on the other side. As I look back on these experiences, I realize that the unique encounters with the spiritual realms, together with my own life's lessons, were part of the preparation of writing...
ForewordbyMELVIN L. MORSE, M.D.It is an honor and a pleasure to write the foreword for this book. Sylvia Browne intervened in my life at a time when I had decided 1 would quit near-death research and devote myself to the full-time practice of pediatrics. She gave me a psychic reading that was so...
PROLOGUE
Dypcdoh. There was a house made of dawn. It was made of pollen and of rain, and the land was very old and everlasting. There were many colors on the hills, and the plain was bright with different-colored clays and sands. Red and blue and spotted horses grazed in the plain, and there...
]l : W'iii- I ' ' ; ' '. 1! ' Coming into New York City from the north, off the New England Thruway, Oliver driving as usual. Tireless, relaxed, his window half open, long blond hair whipping in the ohilly breeze. Timothy slouched beside him, asleep. The second day of our Easter vacation; the trees...
IntroductionThe New Horizon Ladder Dictionary is based on 5,000 of the most frequently used words in written English^words a person will most often see and need to know in reading general English literature. The 5,000 words constitute a vocabulary developed by the United States Information Agency...
PREFACEO OME of the most extraordinary, colorful, and tragic events in all of history shook Rome in the score of years following a.d. 47. Claudius and then Nero ruled over that volatile blend of idealism, sensuality, and cruelty which was the Roman Empire. Into such an unlikely setting Christianity...
Along the coast there's a town called Suelo, and west of Gibraltar you can see it from the water. There are other towns that follow the Spanish coast there that you cannot see. Suelo is a fishing village that stretches from the water's edge up into a small range of hills and almost makes it, as if...
The last camel collapsed at noon.
It was the five-year-old white bull he had bought in Gialo, the youngest and strongest of the three beasts, and the least ill-tempered: he liked the animal as much as a man could like a camel, which is to say that he hated it only a little.
They climbed the...
Friday
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Once íhere had been open fields here. From time imme-morial, this had been a great, rolling, grassy plain on which* perhaps—long before the Whiíe Man had moved that far West—even the Indians had raced their horses, descendants of the ranaways from the herds of the...
INTRODUCTION
Don Quixote, a lanky scarecrow of a man with his withered face and lantern jaw, dons his rusty armour and mounts his ramshackle steed Rozinante. With lance couched he still rides through our lives followed by his pot-bellied squire Sancho Panza. The ill-sorted pair played a...
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I came to Warley on a wet September morning with the sky the grey of Guiseley sandstone. I was alone in the compartment. I remember saying to myself: No more zombies, Joe, no more zombies.
My stomach was rumbling with hunger and the drinks of the night before had left a buzzing in my head and...
Preface
Long before this book was written, when we first became interested in business, we discovered to our dismay that many of our assumptions about it were false. We also discovered that we were by no means alone in our ignorance—that our friends and colleagues were as uninformed as we...
A. a (S) firae letter of the English alphabet. —adj,^ indef, art, one; any. a- pref, 1» not. in» on. 3, an intensive, as in arouse,
AA (ä'äO n. antiaircraft fire.
aard'varkf (ärd'värk') n. an African ant-eating mammaj; groundhog.
ab- pref, away from; off.
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There are reasons I hate to drive fast. For one, the Blue Beetle, the mismatched Volkswagen bug that I putter around in, ratdes and groans dangerously at anything above sixty miles an hour. For another, I don't get along so well with technology. Anything manufactured after about World...
1The Discovery c^ the Scrolls1. Hhe ^Manuscripts from Wadi QumranEarly in the spring of 1947, some Bedouins of the Ta'amire tribe took a roundabout journey from Transjordan into Palestine. It is said that they wished to avoid the legal points of entry at the frontier since the merchandise they were...
Acknowledgments
It is with intense pleasure that I thank the descendants of Charles Darwin for their warmhearted welcome, cooperation, and friendship during the five years it took to research and write this book. Lady Nora Barlow of Cambridge, Charles Darwin's last remaining grandchild, has been...
Shakespeare: Prefatory Remarles
Between the record of his baptism in Stratford on 26 April 1564 and the record of Ws burial in Stratford on 25 April 1616, some forty documents name Shakespeare, and many others name his parents, his children, and his grandchildren. More facts are known about...
BOOK I
Selden paused in surprise. In the afternoon rusli of the Grand Central Station his eyes had been refreshed by the sight of Miss Lily Bart,
It wa.s a Monday in early September, and he was returning to his work from a hurried dip into the country, but what was Miss Bart doing in town at...
FrefaceThis story is such a mixture that even upon reflection I camiot be sure of unravelling the experienced from the imagined. There seemed no point in giving Bradfield a pseudonym, since it is widely known to be unique in having a Greek theatre where plays are performed in the original Greek....
5 a.m.
The Jupiter C missile stands on the launch pad at Complex 26, Cape Canaveral. For secrecy, it is draped in vast canvas shrouds that hide everything but its tail, which is that of the Army's familiar Redstone rocket. But the rest of it, under the concealing cloak, is quite unique
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PART I:
Thursday Evening
1: PEN PALS
From the outset, let us bring you news of your protagonist, The following is from Time magazine, October 27, 1967.
A shaky start
Washington's scruffy Ambassador Theater, normally a pad for psychedelic frolics, was the scene of an unscheduled scatological...
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The November heat wave was a tease, a molecule-thick layer of warmth laid over the chill of fall. It wouldn't last, Roger Tejeda thought. In another few days the joggers would have the beach to themselves again; no more tourists lying on the damp sand—which had to be thirty degrees colder...
Civilizing Huck-Miss Watson-^ Tom Sawyer Waits
YOU don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told...
CHAPTER 1They were playing truant. They crept along passageways and down staircases, dodging into dark corners to avoid the sleepy guards coming off duty at dawn. They came out of the chateau at a side door and crossed the lawns near the cages of the hunting leopards, expecting every minute to be...
PREFACE
This dictionary is based on the Funk Wagnalls Standard® Desk Dictionary and other dictionaries in the Funk Wagnalls Standard dictionary series, reference works familiar to and respected by generations of readers. Included in the more than 82,000 entries in this completely re-edited and...
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This dictionary supplies the spelling, syllabication, pronunciation, and meaning of the most useful words of the English language as it is spoken in the United States. Abbreviations, foreign words and phrases, and the names and...
PrefaceUFO research is hard and lonely work, misunderstood by skeptics and generally ignored by science. Within the past few years, however, there have been heartening signs that an interdisciplinary approach is at last being brought to bear on the problem. Hopefully, through the joint efforts of...
PETER MARK ROGET was an English Physician who was born in 1779 and died in 1869. As a hobby he liked to make lists of words and group them together when they were related to one another. Somé were related because they were synonyms, such as illegal and unlawful; somé because they were antonyms,...
BIRDS OF AMERICA 'is a virtuoso perforuiance, an endlessly fascinating növel. It is not, of course, about birds. It Is about change. Change in society, change in values, in environment, politics and youth. It abounds in beautifully crafted scenes, New England, Paris, Rome." -San Francisco...