ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
4690 Ft
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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.
1120 Ft
online ár:
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ár a könyvön:
Az eredeti ár (könyvre nyomtatott ár), a kiadó által ajánlott fogyasztói ár, amely megegyezik a bolti árral (bolti akció esetét kivéve).
2490 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.
3990 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.
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While we in the United States have attained the political maturity to accept our responsibilities in the world of today, we find it difficult to visualize the cold war. To the German, the cold war is a grim reality, with the boundary line between the free and communistic worlds...
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In February 1952 an event took place in a modest brownstone building in Ankara that, in a very real sense, represented the culmination of nine centuries of Turkish history. On that occasion the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, in a unanimous vote, accepted an invitation to...
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Since birds, like men, are largely diurnal creatures and share with us the familiar daytime world of color and sound, our association with them is, not surprisingly, a long and intimate one. Man has always had a double interest in birds—on the one hand esthetic, personal,...
Introduction
This is the first of a series of books designed to give the American reader a clear and comprehensive picture of what life is like in a number of the world's great countries.
It is fitting that this first volume should deal with Russia. It is not always easy for people in a...
Introduction
In recent years our attention has been so often fixed on crises in Berlin or the Congo or South Vietnam that the countries of Scandinavia have not received the attentive recognition commensurate with their remarkable accomplishments. These peaceful, strong, prosperous nations offer...
Introduction
Victor Hugo wrote that in history Switzerland will have the last word. In the light of current history, this statement is hard to refute. Certainly no other nation today can equal the Swiss achievement of finding advantage in adversity, of maintaining unity in a diverse and varied...
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Between 1420 and 1620 Europeans learned that all seas are one; that seamen, given adequate ships and stores, skill and courage, could in time reach any country in the world which had an ocean coast, and—what was more important—return home. No other period in the history of the...
j [^U^'J'j Q ^ story told in the following pages is of buried
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The treasure is real, as a glance at the illustrations will show: gold, silver, exquisitely carved ivories, gems cut in carnelian, serpentine, lapis lazuli. And yet that seems the least of it. The...
INTRODUCTION
Nowadays historians habitually break history into ages or periods—the Homeric Age; the Periclean Age; the Middle Ages; the Renaissance; the Enlightenment; and others. Among all these ages the Renaissance in Italy holds a special place. First, it is the subject of the most famous...
THE HUMAN PLAINS Indian tales often begin with the set formula: "Once there was a poor orphan." Perhaps the phrase does in truth reflect man's eternal vision of himself. He yearns for the lost safety of the old instinctive world he has abandoned. Perhaps, in moments of reflection and nostalgia,...
INTRODUCTION
When the peoples of Europe overflowed into the rest of the world between the 16th and 19th Centuries, the indigenous populations of most colonized lands went under. Indians in America and aborigines in Australia had not sufficiently tamed and filled their continents to prevent...
AN INTRODUCTION by VANNEVAR BUSH President of the Carnegie Institution of Washington Wartime Chief of the Office of Scientific Research and Development FOR as long as man has lived in the world he has been interested in knowing something about it. When he lived in a cave, his very existence...
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Introduction
The famous Spanish writer José Maria Giro-nella says in the preface to his novel The Cypresses Believe in God. "Spain is an unknown country. Experience proves that it is hard to view my country impartially. Even writers of high order succumb to the temptation to adulterate the...
Introduction Many readers may not have been aware of one principle that has all along guided the editors of the Life World Library in selecting authors for its series. This was that no volume should be written by a national of the country under discussion, and the idea was to establish a cool and...
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Events since Pearl Harbor have brought about a marked change in the political horizons of Australia and New Zealand. The traumatic experiences of the fall of Singapore, the Battle of the Coral Sea and the bombing of Australia by Japanese planes have caused a reassessment of their...
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It was a 15th Century follower of St. Francis of Assisi wiio wrote, "Nowe let us syng and mery be For Crist oure kyng hathe set us fre." Another Franciscan carol in the same vein exults: "O, my heart is full of mirth At Jesus' birth."
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Introduction
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For most of us in the...
Introduction
Events since Pearl Harbor have brought about a marked change in the political horizons of Australia and New Zealand. The traumatic experiences of the fall of Singapore, the Battle of the Coral Sea and the bombing of Australia by Japanese planes have caused a reassessment of their...