eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
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, 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.
595 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.
1590 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.
6390 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.
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.
March 2000 North Haverhill\ New Hampshire
Several miles into his journey. Jack St. Bride decided to give up his former life.
He made this choice as he walked aimlessly along Route 10, huddling against the cold. He had dressed this morning in a pair of khaki pants, a white shirt with a nick in...
Author's Note:
Lyrics quotes in this book are assigned to the singer (or singers, or group) most commonly associated with them. This may offend the purist who feels that a song lyric belongs more to the writer than the singer. What you have done, the purist might argue, is akin to ascribing the...
FOREWORD
We are often asked how two people write a book together. The natural reply is that it is very hard to see how one person does it alone. J. B. Priestley said that though many people wanted to write a book, in practice very few had the discipline to stay in a room with themselves for...
EDITORS' FOREWORD
For some time, we've been wondering why more people haven't "discovered" Turkey, and for several years now we have advised readers of this book to go to Turkey while it is still relatively unspoiled. The expected boom has not yet taken place, and the country is still free of...
INTRODUCTION
This part of the book is called the Introduction. That is to say, having read or at least dipped into the rest of its pages, you have now turned to this bit to see what possible claims are being made for the book's right to exist. (Only publishers believe people read books by...
Introduction
The emphasis throughout this book is on the living aspects of English. At times, in order to explain its present vitality, it has been necessary to look briefly at its origins and to examine in detail its current forms. The language is constantly developing, changing, and adapting...
Chapter 1
There was a secret—something to do with men and women. Grown-ups knew it; and servants knew it, too. At least, Annié certainly did. And since servants were more vulnerable than other adults, Abigail decided that Annié was going to yield this secret.
It happened one winter day in...
August 19 21
Eva stared out at the Pennine foothills as the new motor bus chugged slowly towards Heyshaw. It had been wonderful to see all the family at her sister Polly's wedding, but she had come away envious of her two sisters' happiness. She was angry with herself for that, not wanting to be...
CHAPTER I
The sound broke through the pin-drop silence of the classroom.
It was the sound that was the start of the
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We were having an IT lesson and my best friend Daniel couldn't wait to show me the new crazy video he had been talking about, of a lion
SCHONEBERG
HE MUST HAVE BEEN GORGEOUs! Ramrod Straight, the deep blue of his perfectly tailored cavalry uniform taut across the muscles of his fencer's back, elegant face, its high cheekbones emphasizing eyes glinting clear blue behind hooded lids. "Bedroom eyes" had not been invented yet, but...
Chapter I Billy and the Briscoes
Shall I write " Ichabod" across the rosy splendour of my dreams because I have incurred the disapproval of Inspector Jennings ?
He snarls every time he meets me, and in more amiable moments, shakes his head predicting a bitter failure. As to that, to employ...
One
The front door of the Beverly Hills mansion was solid oak. It was painted a glossy white with gilt trim. Eli Hebron came out slowly, testing the day like a swimmer dipping toes. He turned a pale, night-ravaged face to the sky. In the west, over the ocean, there was a stroke of chalk across...
This volume reports on the first conference to be held, under NATO auspices,
which has dealt with decision theory and, specifically, with the problems of
applying decision theory. The aims of the conference were stated, in July 1972, as
follows:
(i) to ascertain the role of various theories...
Prologue
Some said that if he was going to kill himself, he couldn't have picked a better day for it.
Life was hardly worth living that particular Sunday afternoon, and most organisms were doing a half-assed job of it. The atmosphere was as thick and hot as breakfast grits. It sucked the energy...
Los Angeles
Hugh McPhail dropped his trousers, stuffed them into his knapsack and started to run.
As his feet settled into a rhythm he saw ahead of him the train clicking away into the distance, its smoke whorling black behind it. The old "Superchief" had carried him half way across America. It...
1
The luminous dial of his watch showed ten minutes past two in the morning. The rain had tapered off at about midnight. He would not have come out if it'd still been raining. These writers didn't work in the rain. Didn't want to get their spray cans all wet. Some writers. Scribblers was more...
I. CORINTHIANS
CALLING ON THE NAME
' All that in every place call upon the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, both theirs and ours.'—1 Cor. i. 2.
There are some difficulties, with which I need not trouble you, about both the translation and the connection of these words. One thing is quite...
Részlet:
"Y don't know!" he shouted. "If I knew . . . For Christ's
I sake!"
A The telephone bawled on, indifferent, insistent.
"But it's six . , . not even six yet," she said, her voice queru-lous; she was on the verge of accusation.
He ripped his dressing-gown cord tighter, moving sluggishly...
WTHEN THE HOUSE lights dimmed, the magic began. As the dark velvet curtain separating the orchestra from the audience made its slow, dramatic ascent, the air seemed to lighten, cleansing itself until it was weightless, completely clear, a transparent canvas on which the glory of sound could...
Chapter One
It was humid inside the small laboratory in spite of the window which was open contrary to all regulations. Outside the sun shone and, but for the absence of foliage on the trees surrounding the squat grey stone buildings which comprised the Midlands Biological Research Centre, one...
AUTHOR'S NOTE
Few people are aware that the Americans' much-publicised plans to develop Star Wars space-defence technology were, in fact, initiated in response to the surprise discovery that the Soviet Union was already close to deploying various land-based systems.
It sent shockwaves through...
NOTHING TO FEAR
My belief is that the institutional Church as we know it will endure, and should now willingly prepare itself to endure, something amounting to a crucifixion of its structure, of its security, of its dogmatic assurance, of its traditions; in order that it may 'going through the...
If Winter Comes Chafter I
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"^O take Mark Sabre at the age thirty-four and at the place Penny Green needs first to look back a little from that point, but has him in good light for observation. Encountering him hereabouts, one who had shared schooldays with him at his preparatory school so much...
Prologue
0745 HOURS LOCAL, SUNDAY 20 JULY 1958 UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY (PROVISIONAL) LOWRY AIR FORCE BASE, DENVER, COLORADO
The young men stood at positions of exaggerated attention on the grass field in front of the cadet barracks at Lowry Air Force Base. The morning breeze ruffled...
ONE
Alan pushed open the door of the small terraced house, remembering not to knock. There was no front garden, and he stepped straight from the pavement into the tiny hall, then across to the front room where the double bed had been put up. It filled most of the space, leaving just enough...
THE BELLS 1.
Hear the sledges with the bells— Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night!
Prologue
'Jörg, expect $7 million from Crédit Parisian in the No. 2 account by 6 pm tonight, Central European time, and place it with first-class banks and triple "A" commercial names. Otherwise, invest it in the overnight Euro-dollar market. Understood?'
'Yes, Harvey.'
'Place $1 million in...
'BLUE WEDNESDAY'
The first Wednesday in every month was a Perfectly Awful Day - a day to be awaited with dread, endured with courage and forgotten with haste. Every floor must be spotless, every chair dustless, and every bed without a wrinkle. Ninety-seven squirming little orphans must be...
November, 1997
The vast metal ball hung from the jib, held still by its own dead weight. He felt the weight of that ball as if it were an extension of himself, a responsibility that kept him in the cab for hours on end.
Operating cranes of this nature was a vocation of sorts. It kept men like...
acob Bkonowski was one of a small group of men and women in any age who find all of human knowledge—the arts and sciences, philosophy and psychology—interesting and accessible. He was not confined to a single discipline, but ranged over the entire panorama of human learning. His book and...
In revising William Freeman's Dictionary, I have done nothing to change the two objects he had in view. The first was to furnish both the native or the foreign reader with a simple and practical guide to the most frequently used idiomatic expressions in English-those countless expressions which...
Introduction
How does advertising work? Why do companies spend so much on it? Is it really necessary? What are the techniques that advertisers' use? Who really benefits from advertising? Is it really honest ? Could it be improved ?
Advertising impinges upon all of our lives, hundreds and often...
ONE
I
The child had been playing contentedly by the water's edge for some time, oblivious of the eyes that watched from the concealment of the surrounding forest. The day was warm, barely a breath of breeze stirring the early autumn air, and the child's warden, a bow-kneed man no longer in his...
FOREWORD
Los Angeles has long been dubbed the "Entertainment Capital of the World." More than twelve million people spend some time in the "Big Orange" and in the surrounding Southland every year.
Fodor's Los Angeles is designed to explain just what this stimulating city is all about. It is...
T
PREFACE
^HE more I think of it," says Mr. Ruskin, "I find this conclusion more impressed upon me—that the greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way." In these pages an attempt is made to tell " in a plain way" a few of the...
Introduction
We were driving southwards out of Tehran towards the old city of Rey, once the capital of Persia. At the head of our convoy was a Mercedes with the splendid figure of a black-robed mullah sitting in the back seat. One by one in the heat haze the cars turned into the yard of the Sadi...