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).
3499 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).
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.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
3290 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.
590 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.
5490 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.
4790 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.
INTRODUCTIONMichael KinsleyThis is a book about the possibility of expanding capitalism into new areas and using it to solve problems that previously were assigned to charity or to government. The timing is not great. As I write at the end of September 2008, we are in a financial crisis, the...
ÇJUftvv CWThe Junior League of Willow Creek, Texas, is tres exclusive, one of the oldest and most elite women's societies in the country. And we work hard to keep it that way. Outsiders need not apply.I know it sounds terrible. But really, if I don't explain everything exactly, in all its...
PREFACESi vous étiez a ma place, vous changeriez bien de langage. Il est aisé de parler contre la médecine quand on est en pleine santé.Argan a Béralde.Il est d'usage, dans les comédies de Moliere, que le personnage comique, puni par la sanction du rire, soit, a l'issue du dernier acte, exclu...
Prologue6 January 2002Tey Annie! Great news. Korea's getting totally JrTLtrashed.''Have you seen my conditioner?''The won's off five per cent against the dollar already this morning.''And my razor? Where's my goddamn razor?''Stocks are limit down, and looks like the bonds are getting crushed...
CHAPTER ONEThe brunette is telling Ben that what he's done with the space is truly remarkable. She's a lawyer with the firm, and he can't possibly unagine her knowing anything at all about matters architectural, so he guesses she's flirting with him, although in an arcane legal sort of way.The name...
ONE"Have you seen it?" asked Samantha.I leaned close to my computer so my editor wouldn't hear me on a personal call."Seen what?""Oh, nothing. Never mind. We'll talk when you get home.""Seen what?" I asked again."Nothing," Samantha repeated."Samantha, you have never once called me in the middle of...
ProliagueIT WAS HARD work, which he hadn't expected.The thief removed each leaf from the blueprint book, squatted and centered it between tape markers on the rug. When it was in place, he stood up, squinted through the camera's viewfinder, and tripped the shutter. Then he did it again, ninety-four...
"here comes the coon's mama!" a youngster called to his family, indicating me with a jerk of his thumb. As of that moment I ceased to be an individual in my own rigiht and began playing second fiddle to a wild animal baby no larger than a mother cat's fuzzy month-old kitten. Fumiy thing was that...
ChapterLx)oking out through the French doors of the Oval Office, Marshall watched the President pad through the Rose Garden, appearing as out of place as a polar bear. The huge man, his powerful gait oddly cumbersome, his dark blue suit already rumpledit was only noonstalked through the garden,...
Prologue
Martin A. Siegel hurried through Washington, D.C.'s, National Airport and slipped into a phone booth near the Eastern shutde gates. For years now, phone booths, often at airports, had served as his de facto offices. He complained often about his long hours and frequent absences from his...
It was half past five in the morning. The Police Commissioner took in the fact through a single despairing eye. Then, holding the watch by the end of the strap as if it were somehow distasteful, he reached out and allowed the thing to drop from his fingers onto the top of the bedside table. The...
chapter one
It was Wang Lung's marriage day. At first, opening his eyes in the blackness of the curtains about his bed, he could not think why the dawn seemed different from any other. The house was still except for the faint, gasping cough of his old father, whose room was opposite to his own...
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"Oh, there you are, Jason," the raven-haired beauty said to her husband's reflection in the mirror above her dressing table. Her gaze slid warily over his tall, rugged frame as he came toward her; then she returned her attention to the open jewel cases spread out before her. A...
Chapter 1It has been said that getting there is half the fun. If so, it must have been time to Get There already, because I was in real bad need of some fun. To help things along, I finished my quarter-mile, early-moming slog and emerged from the slimy-bottomed salt pond into the cool March Florida...
Alex Mack sat in English, her final class of the day, doing all she could to ignore her best friend, Raymond Alvarado. Ray had a bad habit of whispering to her as soon as he got bored with the subject matter—which was often.
"You think my dad would let me go bungee jumping?" he asked her...
Prologue
Thb land, looking from its highest point, stretched westward and south, rolling fields of broom grass and blackjack oak that glistened in the autumn dew, and a few scrubby pines and thistle bushes, and except in the draws where narrow swampy streams gurgled and tall hardwoods rose from...
1Being an American in the 1980s was not always easyas you remember. When the decade began, most of us were convinced that we had no place to go but up. After all, we had gotten by Vietnam and Richard Nixon and Iran and Jimmy Carter. What else could go wrong?Ha!Not that anything catastrophic had...
PREFACEWe ransacked the Believe It or Not! files to produce material on the subject of Number 14.Some years ago a Frenchman named Quatorze (Fourteen ) called at our office. He informed us that the family name was assumed by an ancestor who was a professional fourteenth guest whenever thirteen were...
jfit the time the pigeon affair overtook him, unhinging his life from one day to the next, Jonathan Noel, already past fifty, could look back over a good twenty-year period of total uneventfulness and would never have expected anything of importance could ever overtake him again—other than...
Fedlapja kissé megkopott. Néhány lap alsó sarka foltos. Kötése jól tart. Sholom Aleichem was the great Yiddish story-teller whose classic tales of Jewish life in Eastern Europe under the Czars are filled with rib-tickling humor and cockeyed, preposterous, but lovable characters. This...
Chapter One
The Forest was the abode of warlocks, folk said, and goblins, and other creatures even worse. Still, Alan bent his staggering steps toward the Forest, as' a desperate man will. Robbers had stripped him of everything—horse, weapons, even his clothing. The peasants could not spare...
In my end is my beginning, . That's a quotation I've often heard people say. It sounds all right—^but what does it really mean?
Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident"?
Did my...
A Martian Comes to Dinner
The lights in the chandelier began to wink. The bulbs went out, one by one, sounding like firecrackers, and I felt the electricity zap into my body. With each zap I grew a little taller, a little slimier. The skin on my nose began to tingle. Out of the corner of one...
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.ister Deck, are you my stinkin' Daddy?" a youthful, female, furious voice said into the phone.
I could not have been more startled if I had looked up into the blue Texas sky and seen a nuclear bomb on its way down. I was on my south patio, having breakfast with Godwin, watching the fine...
ACKNOWLEDGMENTSNo man is an island and no writer, at least not this one, writes alone. Special glowing thanks to my editors, Michael V. Korda and Chuck Adams, who are always the sine qua non of my books from conception to publication. Particularly and especially with this one and at this time,...
1It came time to put Mamiy in a school. The government had a special school. The law stipulated that Manny could not go to a regular school because of his condition; there was nothing Elias Tate could do about that. He could not get around the government ruling because this was Earth and the zone...
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sat on my bed, my hair still wet from the shower, staring at the decade old snapshot I'd nabbed from my trophy shelf. There I was, Jonathan Moxon—^Mox to most folks—^aged seven or eight, grinning in an oversized blue-on-blue football jersey. My hair, which is now light brown and wavy,...
Introduction
The Good Earth:
Demystifying the East -^^-
In The Good Earth (1931), Pearl Buck tells a timeless stoiy about a farmer struggling to eke out a living from the earth. Hardworking and wildly ambitious, Wang Limg and his wife, O-lan, pull themselves out of poverty, bring children into...
Foreword
Some may ask, Why call up anew this gruesome crime of more than thirty years ago? Let time cover it, let it be forgotten.
Surely I would not recall it for the sake of sensation. I write of it in the hope of applying to it the increase of understanding of such cnmes that has come,...
The Ides of October marked the end of the campaigning season, and on that day a race was held on the grassy sward of the Campus Martius, just outside the Servian Walls of Republican Rome.
The year's best war horses were harnessed in pairs to chariots and driven at breakneck pace; the right-hand...
Pnface
I must make it clear at the outset that the information contained in the following pages does not pretend to be in any sense exhaustive. Books on a grand scale generally are not well adapted to the needs of the youngest generation of judoka (judo fans) for whom this book is particularly...
Dan Baldwin is an ex-colonel whose lifehas crashed. Rescued from a gutter inNorth Africa, he Is forced to join a trioabout to raid a secret diamond field inDan has to battle with a vulture before hecan barter and bribe his way back tocivilization. And, in a furious climax, hemust clash with a...
. . . "This was what Vinteuil had done for the little phrase. Swann felt that the composer had been content (with the instruments at his disposal) to draw aside its veil, to make it visible, following and respecting its outlines with a hand so loving, so prudent, so delicate and so sure, that the...
PREFACE
The language of thesacred writings of the Jews, from the earliest documents of the Bible down to modern times, has been Hebrew. Its history extends over a period of three millennia, during which time the language had naturally undergone significant linguistic development.
The Jewish...
LIA
I watched her for three days, sitting by myself in the park underneath an elm tree, beside an empty fountain with a series of uneaten sandwiches in my lap and my purse at my side.
Purse. It's not a purse, really. Before, I had purses—a fake Prada bag, a real Chanel baguette Sam had bought...
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A rat feeds greedily on rotten human meat. A rotting, human limb, attached to a living body.
The desperate man knows it will be easier to detach the...