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Fedlapjai kissé kopottasak, gerinc borítása enyhén megrepedt. The anonymous narrator of this remarkable debut novel is a young drifter in search of his future. The son of a passionate beauty and gentle doctor, he roams the border between the United States and Mexico, eventually settling in a...

Foreword All of the singers included here are in some way special. The quality of voice, the art of its usage, the character behind it: these, or any one of them, may be sufficient to account for the specialness. It may also have to do with the taste of the times, associations of repertoire,...

PREFACE The gentle reader is invited to approach this novel as if it were a historical romance, an alas! imperfect but imaginative reconstruction of an epoch, the memory of which is almost obliterated, an inquest into the causes and conditions that preceded and perhaps were partly responsible...

IntroductionA year or so ago, a raider armed with a dummy gun carried out a hold-up on a shop in Germany. An unremarkable occurrence these days, except that the raider demanded only one item. He made off with the shop's entire stock of ginseng, worth some $100. Everything else, including the till,...

Ungvári Tamás könyvtárából. John Passmore was an Australian philosopher. Passmore was as much a historian of ideas as a philosopher, and his scholarship always paid careful attention to the complex historical context of philosophical problems. He published about twenty books, many of which...

PREFACE The first edition of this book consisted of a number oL talks given at the Training Institute, Roffey Park Rehabilitation Centre, in 1947 and 1948; they had all been designed to provoke discussion among small groups—the members of the courses on human relations. They were in no sense...