ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
7499 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.
6340 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.
3590 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).
4499 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).
5999 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.
990 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.
Did someone say second city? Surely they can't mean Chicago!Without Chicago, the city most Americans think of as "first" wouldn't have a skyline to brag about. It wouldn't have Dick Tracy to marvel at. Its citizens couldn't solve their problems by writing to "Dear Abby." They wouldn't have a Sears...
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It might appear easy to choose 20 or so star actresses of the international cinema from its beginnings to the present time, the key films of which, in one way or another, have been about the relationships and complications of love. But it is not so easy as it appears. The film is...
INTRODUCTION
In the middle of the 18th century, treasure-laden Spanish galleons were a familiar sight along the rugged and often dangerous coast of California. Like many ships before them, they probably failed to notice a narrow inlet which led to a deep, natural harbour known today as San...
INTRODUCTION Often referred to as the 'Crossroads of America', Chicago, the country's second largest city, commands a prime position along the southern shores of Lake Michigan.
The site of Chicago was visited by Jesuit Missionaries in 1673 and Fort Dearborn, then a frontier fort, was built there...
Except for the Pacific Northwest, no place in the United States gets more rainfall than the section of the southern Appalachian Mountains that straddles the border of North Carolina and Tennessee known as the Great Smoky Mountains. The result is lush forests, mshing streams and natural springs,...
FOREWORD
New England is America's most defined region. There can be lively debate about what constitutes the West or the South or the Mid-West. But there is no doubt about the six historic states—Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont—that make up New...
INTRODUCTIONAt a private dinner attended by two of America's foremost statesmen, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton, plans were made to build a federal capital. The year was 1790 and, as inter-state jealousies made it impossible to select any existing centre, a ten acre site on the Potomac...
"The Eyes of Texas are upon you All the livelong day,"
And so begins the Texas alma mater. It all began in 1899, when university president William L. Prather ended a speech, "Students of the University of Texas, the eyes of Texas are upon you." This admonition became Prather's byword and the...
Canals, holding the reflections of tall gabled houses, arched bridges and orderly-planted, carefully-tended trees, furnish many of the essential images conjured by Amsterdam in the stranger and carried home by the visitor. The central part of the city, from which these images are drawn, is,...
It was in 1851 that the first journalists and writers found their way into Yosemite Valley. The sight that met their eyes staggered the senses. Cliffs so high and granite mountains so huge they amazed even the most hardened explorers; giant Sequoia trees so old they defied any known means of...
The hobby of aeromodelling has grown with the development of the airplane itself to the fascinating and popular pastime that it is today. Flying models out of doors is as widespread as ever, but non-flying scale display models have been found to be better suited to the confines of the home,...
INTRODUCTION
¦ There is a fascination with the future which draws nnost people - young and old, male and female, of every colour and belief - into spending some time and money on trying to discoverwhat Is going to happen to them, or what decisions they should make. (In Christian countries this...
Five hundred years agoNorth America was a virtually unknown land. Bears, moose, foxes and wolves roamed the vast forests and the rivers, lakes and coastal waters teemed with salmon and cod. In the center of the continent immense grassy plains supported enormous bison herds, and to the east and west...
Part of the decoration in the lobby of the Empire State Building in New York City consists of illustrations of the Seven Wonders of the World at the time of Alexander the Great. When the building was finished in 1931 it was widely hailed as the eighth wonder of the world, but students of...
From the lop of ils sleek silky liead lo the tip of ils wagging tail the faithful dog of today is an accepted and much loved part of our everyday lives. Man's best friend? Some think so - others are not so sure, but it is undeniably man's oldest, dating right back to the dangerous prehistoric...
At the edge of Columbia University's Baker Field, on the northern tip of Manhattan Island, there is a big rock where the path winds off into the woods. It holds a plaque proclaiming that this is the very spot where Peter Minuit bought the island from the Indians for sixty guilders in 1626.No one...
Back at the turn of the century, when most Americans would no sooner have planned a vacation in Alaska than contemplate a holiday in Siberia, an explorer predicted, quite accurately, that the day was not too far off when Alaska would be near the top of everyone's list of must-see places. But he...
In 1978, when it once again became possible for Westerners to visit China, 1.8 million people took advantage of the opportunity. By 1987, the number had swelled to 23.7 million, and the rate of growth doesn't show any signs of slowing down.
As though there wasn't enough for them to see and do,...
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'A big book,' said Cailimachus the Alexandrian poet, 'is a big evil!' On the whole I feel inclined to share this view. If, therefore, I venture to put the present volume before the reader, it is because, as evils go, this book is a minor one. Nevertheless, it calls for a special...
More than thirty years before Captain John Smith sailed up the northeastern coast of North America and named it New England, Sir Francis Drake had sailed past the opposite coast and, possibly because it was- raming that day, his thoughts turnéd to home and he called it Nova Albion, which means the...
First page: the flag of the Lone Star State, (previous pages) a
cattle drive reminiscent of olden days and (facing page) the
University of Texas Tower in Austin, the state capital.
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Alamo is the most unforgettable. Without the memory,
some...
INTRODUCTIONThe scene of some of history's most stirring events, the legendary land of Israel, Yedinat Yesra'ei in the ancient Hebrew tongue of its Jewish people, is today a long-awaited dream come true.As if by a miracle worthy of its Biblical ancestors, out of the empty barren waste and crumbling...
Introduction: A History of National ParksJim Bridger was a hunter, trapper, frontier guide, and bizarre and solitary man. He made his living hunting deer, elk, and bear in the area around what are today Wyoming and Montana. One of America's greatest frontiersmen, he was almost certainly the first...
At the edge of Columbia University's Baker Field, on the northern tip of Manhattan Island, there is a big rock where the path winds off into the woods. It holds a plaque proclaiming that this is the very spot where Peter Minuit bought the island from the Indians for sixty guilders in 1626.No one...
o many, New York City, that colossus of roads, bridges, skyscrapers, and humanity, is America. From its pastoral beginnings, this city grew to encompass dozy villages and working farms, úrban grandeur and surburban sprawl. Indeed, New York-big, boastful, materialistic, and multicultural since its...
Ii^trodactioi^IN the top left hand corner of 'Old Glory', against afield of thirteen alternate red and white stripes,fifty white stars stand out on a deep blue canton. Fifty shining white stars that represent the states of the West's most powerful nation and the fourth most populous in the world -...
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INTRODUCTIONThe city of Boston occupies a significant position in the development of America as a whole, for its history and the history of the U.S. began almost simultaneously and many of the events central to the formation of America as it is today took place in and around this early settlement....
Far up on the North Shore of Laké Superior, near the tip of Minnesota's Arrowhead Country, lies the Indián village of Grand Portage. To reach it by land you must wind your way down a narrow dirt road to a small bay on the laké shore. In the 1790s it was the busiest, most exciting place in all...
This book is an interesting pubiication on one of the states of the Republic - Guerrero, deeply rooted in the history of our country as part of one of the viceregal provinces, being created a new state of the Republic of Mexico by decree on October 27th 1847 and bearing the name of the rebel...
In 1831 Henry Schoolcraft, an Indian Agent, led an expedition to the Algonquin villages on the shore of Lake Superior. He had never experienced anything like it. "Vastness is the term by which it is, more than any other, described" he wrote. "That nature has created such a scene of magnificence...
FOREWORDChicago, city of immigrants from every nation, the city of the big shoulders, is still "stormy, husky, brawling," as poet Carl Sandburg extolled it, still rolling up its sleeves and getting to work. This boisterous, boastful, teeming, yet remarkably well-scrubbed prairie city is still king...
Switzerland is one of Europe's smallest countries, but one of the most important for travel. Due to its situation in the Central Alps, and its well-developed traffic communication network, it is the most important transit station from north to south. Quite apart from this, it soon became...