eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
6490 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.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
5190 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.
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).
6990 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.
6290 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).
1190 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).
6990 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).
1299 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.
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, akkor az adott boltban lévő ár az irányadó.
PrologueOctober 1941The three young women stared down at the hole they'd just dug. Their gauzy pastel dresses were rumpled and slightly damp, and the heels of their dainty sandals made them teeter precariously on the rounded oyster shell mound. Their faces were flushed and shiny with perspiration....
1*Deep in darkness, there was a tiny light. Inside the light, he floated in a spaceship. It felt cold to him, floating there. Inside his body, he felt the cold of space. He could still look out the round windows of the rocket and see the Earth. He could also see the moon sometimes, coming closer....
TESSA: chapter oneWhenever I hear of someoneelse's tragedy, I do not dwell on the accident or diagnosis, or even the initial shock waves or aftermath of grief. Instead, I find myself reconstructing those final, ordinary moments. Moments that make up our lives. Moments that were blissfully taken for...
ONEIt was the sort of party where Miranda Wake Knew every guest by face or reputation, but had never spoken to any of them. At least, not in person. Of course, she'd received irate phone calls from several of the chefs present, after one of her less-than-glowing reviews, but that didn't really...
the summer i was thirteen, the Japanese came to Ellis. Not Ellis. exactly, but to the old Tallgrass Ranch, which the government had turnéd into a relocation camp. Tallgrass was a mile and a half from Ellis, less than a mile past our farmhouse. It was one of the camps the government was building...
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Until the whole thing happened, I never believed the old line about how you should be careful what you wish for, because you might get it.I believe it now.I believe in all those cautionary proverbs now. I believe that pride goeth before a fall. I believe the apple doesn't fall far from the tree,...
The Op enmgMay 1 DearBill,Another summer season is about to begin on beautiful Nantucket Island. I have just returned frorn my winter retreatNevis, Vail, Saipanit'syour guess where I've been. The important thing is that I'm back, and I am prepared to sweeten my offer to buy the hotel. Iknowyou have...
summation: 1999Well, the dreaded Y2K-crisis deadline is past, and so is the changing of the millennium (except for the calendar purists, who still shoulder the proud and lonely burden of insisting it's not the twenty-first century yet, when everybody else on earth thinks that it is), and, so far,...
A CHANCE TELEPHONE CALL
fate sometimes holds a man in check Until his moment amvcs. Hidden skills and talents lie dormant for years, only to surface after a chance encounter or extraordinary event. It is a common phenomenon but no less dramatic each time it occurs.
So it was for Howard Donahue....
PrologueClem Thompson kept one hand on the wheel, the other on a limp handkerchief for mopping his face and neck. It was almost sunset but still close to 100 degrees and no air conditioning in his Greyhound bus since the unit overloaded 80 miles back at a rest stop outside Lexington, Kentucky. The...
ONE
Lately, I've been spending a lot of time rolling on the ground with men who think a stiffy represents personal growth. The rolling around has nothing to do with my sex life. The rolling around is what happens when a bust goes crapola and there's a last ditch effort to hog-tie a big, dumb bad...
Introduction: of Chance, and Death, and MutabilityPaul HeywoodIn the late 1970s and early 1980s West European communist parties were the focus of considerable attention by political analysts. 'Eurocommunism', which generated a vast out-pouring of academie literature, was widely seen as presaging...
Preface
'Until recently the world was divided into the first, second and third world. The notion of the second world is now losing its substance. What remains is a huge amount of debris and ruins which is a combination of the first and third worlds: by its aspirations and longing to create a...
Notes on the Contributors
DAVID A. DYKERwas bom in Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1944. He graduated in economics and modern history from the University of Glasgow in 1965, and pursued graduate studies at the Institute of Soviet and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, and the Institute of...
Pest Control
The first time I was star-struck, the object of my affection was a glamorous Eastern Airlines stewardess. She had towering blond hair, frosted blue eyelids, and was well into her twenties. I was eight. We were thrown together when my parents put me on a flight by myself to...
"he weather cooperated on what would be the biggest day of Julia Roberts's professional life. It was cool for Los Angeles, with a high of just sixty-two degrees, and there was no rain in sight. That was very good news for a woman who wanted to look better than she ever had, just in case her name...
The Economic Time Bomb
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.or the first time in many years, I feel a sense of immediate danger about the economy.
I believe the prosperity we've enjoyed in the 1980s is about to end.
The economy is threatened by three grave problems left over from the turbulent 1970s. These problems were...
IntroductionWe know so much about Matthew Arnold's contribution to literary criticism, and so little about his contemporaries who wrote as professional men of letters, that a book of this sort, reviewing the careers of seven major bookmen, has become a needed contribution to our understanding of...
1
I should have known it was going to be a long season when old man Woods dropped dead right in front of me on Easter Sunday morning. He was lining up a putt he wouldn't have made anyway when he slipped to his knees with a grunt and pitched forward. I'd never seen a dead person before, except...
Chapter One 1919
Pei
Her first memory of pain was an image of her mother. Pei was three or four the first time, and the same thing that had happened then was happening now. Her mother's moans almost woke her from this daydream, but she squeezed her eyes shut, and could see her mother's silk...
AUTHOR'S NOTE
First, let me say that I'm more than aware of the fact that the ancient calendar differed dramatically from our own. But since I'm dealing with a time of unrecorded history, I used our calendar for the dates to allow the reader to have an idea of when things were taking place. I...
I was lying back comfortably up to my earlobes in hot Steaming water. Pandora was perched on the end of the tub, trying to catch droplets of water as they dripped from the tap. Now and then, just to keep her on her toes, 1 lobbed a few drops at her from my end of the tub. After ail, even a Siamese...
PREFACE
to the Revised Edition 1962
To most people who know it, Roget's Thesaurus suggests a collection of synonyms on a grand scale with an index, very useful if you are looking for an alternative expression or are simply at a loss for a word to fit a thought. That the popular idea largely...
JUST DO IT
Sometimes when you work in advertising you'll get a product that's really garbage and you have to make it seem fantastic, something that is essential to the continued quality of life. Like once, I had to do an ad for hair conditioner. The strategy was: Adds softness you canfeel, body...
Pest Control
The first time I was star-struck, the object of my affection was a glamorous Eastern Airlines stewardess. She had towering blond hair, frosted blue eyelids, and was well into her twenties. I was eight. We were thrown together when my parents put me on a flight by myself to...
Commercial Break
When I was seven, I was plucked from my uneventful life deep in darkest Massachusetts and dropped into a Tang Instant Breakfast Drink commercial. It was exactly like being abducted by aliens except without the anal probe. I was a lonely kid with entirely imaginaiy friends. I...
One< 1 >'Things appear to have got into a bit of a mess since I last descended on you,' Miranda Jones observed, casting a disapproving eye round her father's studio on the Wednesday before Easter. 'It's lucky I decided to come for the whole week.'Miranda, who was then in her second year at a London...
PREFACE" there is no such thing as justice either in or out of court.In fact, the word cannot be defined.'' Clarence S. DarrowAt the very core of the American justice system a strong voice screams out for fundamental fairness and preservation of human rights, but the true course of justice is...
PROLOGUE
In ancient Buddhist scriptures the Himalaya are referred to as the "storehouse of snow," and in 1996 the storehouse was filled again and again as unusual amounts of snow fell in the mountains.
In the early evening of May 10, 1996, a particularly vicious storm blew into Mount Everest...
Every year, the case for a cross-cultural composition reader becomes more eompelling. Daily papers and nightly newscasts remind us how interdependent we in the United States are with our worldwide neighbors. Look at recent upheavals in Europe, the Soviet Union, the Persian Gulf, South Africa, or...
Two shoes fell
noisily on the floor.
Boris Pasternak, 'Winter Night'
And his mother said good night and we drank more sherry and he talked about Paris, how beautiful it is, the men fishing on the banks for gudgeon and the vines of the Seine that turn blood-red in the autumn and how small the...
CHAPTER ONE
When Lucy Marinn was seven years old, three things happened: Her little sister Alice got sick, she was assigned her first science fair project, and she found out that magic existed. More specifically, that she had the power to create magic. And for the rest of her life, Lucy would be...
6 ITALIA
INTRODUCTION
¦^he bello!' and '0 bella!' are exclamations which may be heard at any moment of the day or night, in any place all over haly from men, women and children of every description. These expressions are an automatic reaction to any pleasurable experience. They indicate in a...