eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
5190 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).
4590 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.
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.
eredeti ár:
A termék ára Líra Könyv Zrt.-nél, ami nem tartalmaz online kedvezményt.
4990 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.
4190 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).
6599 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.
Prologue: Forty'Oh, baby,' I murmur, brushing Luke's hair away from his forehead as he fights back tears.He's still my 'baby', even if he is almost fifteen years old.'I can't believe I'm going to be holed up for the rest of the summer,' he says in a choked voice. 'And I'm going to miss Angie's...
Chapter 1She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain. Louisa May AlcottAnyone who says that money can't buy happiness has clearly never been inside a bookstore. And certainly not one like Chaucer's, Darcy Archer thought proudly, glancing around the gorgeous place she was lucky enough to...
The morning fog has painted everything white. It's exactly like one of my rabbit-hole dreams, where I get trapped, suspended in a cloud, and I can't seem to wake myself up.Then the foghorn blares, the mist breaks into lace, and I see Jar Island, spread out along the horizon just like in one of Aunt...
It was early evening, and a boy named Dávid sat on a tenement floor, glued to the TV. "Who's that?" the boy asked his mother, pointing to the sereen. His mother looked up from a frayed sofa and set her newspaper aside. "That's Barack Obama," she said. "Braco-what?" "Barack Obama," she repeated...
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A MEMORY from eight years ago:
It's late spring, our junior year at Yale—a time when classes are getting easier and one lazy day starts following another until it seems as if winter never really existed—and about a hundred of us are sitting on a quad lawn where the drama division is...
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Rebekah of the violet eyes heard a voice that would haunt her the rest of her life.
"I know she's only ten. I'll be patient."
She hugged her doll and tossed on her pallet. The heat, the flies, and the soothing words of the strange man in the next room interrupted her sleep. Visitors were...
Introduction: The Secret to Building Wealth and Lifestyle
It is common wisdom today that the key to building wealth is taking risks. People who take higher risks get the higher returns and wealth. There are risk/return graphs in investment and business that prove this. Most of us by now have...
INTRODUCTION
Of the many pleasures of home cooking, baking is high on my list. What makes the kitchen-tested recipes in this book especially enjoyable to prepare is that they are all easy to make. You do not have to knead dough or set it aside to rise. Instead, often within just an hour, your...
FOREWORD This book is intended to help writers and speakers in search of a better way to say what they want to. Traditionally, such a need was to be served by supplying a synonym. Within limits, this is sound auctorial practice, to cultivate choice of words and to replace words hastily or ineptly...
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The Wonder of Flight
There is no doubt that more books have been written about birds than about any other...
THE REAL WORLD
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-N TOASTING THE BEGINNING of a new relationship between China and the United States in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing twenty years ago, I quoted from a poem in which Mao Zedong exhorted his followers to work for the
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FOREWORD
All material in nature, the mountains and the streams and the air atid we, are made of Light which has been spent, and this crumpled mass called material casts a shadow, and the shadow belongs to light. Louis Kahn (I90I-I974)
I wrote this book because I wanted to know how to light my...
PREFACERecent research on the hemispheres of the brain has made us aware that we possess two different and complementary ways of processing informationa linear, step-by-step style that analyzes the parts that make up a pattern (in the left hemisphere) and a spatial, relational style that seeks and...
When the publishers first suggested that his letters be put into a book, Groucho, a diffident man—well, fairly dijSident— beat about no bushes. He wired back:
Your letter received and promptly burned. I prefer not to have strangers prying into my mail. WoULD discuss this in detail but my...
IntroductionThere's no satisfactory way to explain the United States or even to describe it since it's so big it goes out of sight in all directions, and the parts in any given view reliably contradict one another. Strangers to our shores have explained bits and pieces brilliantly, but our vastness...
Cijapter^ i ^In my dream I smelted the dark sulphurous stink of a passing witch and I pulled up the coarse blanket over my head and whispered, "Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us" to shield me from my nightmare of terror. Then I heard shouting and the terrifying crackle of hungry flames and I...
FOREWORD
The publication in 1988 of Webster's New World Dictionary, Third College Edition, was the triumphant result of more than four years of concentrated editorial effort and nearly as much time again in long-range research and planning. The new edition replaced the Second College Edition,...
INTRODUCTIONWelcome to the universe. Magnificent Universe is your ticket to the cosmos, a portrait of the beauty and splendor of the heavens. With it you will journey from the yellow-white clouds of Venus and the orange deserts of Mars to the white rings of Saturn and the icy plains of distant...
Introduction
^ / ow that women like Elizabeth Taylor, Jacqueline / y Onassis, and Debbie Reynolds are grandmothers, peo-C/ ^ pie understand that grandmothers no longer have to look like those little roly-poly grannies in first-grade readers.
We don't have to wear round glasses and square...
Prologue It is jarring to be planning a trip somewhere, to have, as the French aptly say, already departed, morally speaking, only to find that your friends all seem to believe you are going somewhere else. This is even more troubling when the two destinations in question are, in fact, one and the...
FOREWORD
Hillary Rodham Clinton is called to testify before a grand jury, the first time a first lady has ever been subpoenaed in a criminal probe. On the Senate floor, Lauch Faircloth, conservative North Carolina Republican, calls her a liar. After vowing not to, President Bill Clinton invokes...
UNIT XV Planning a Trip
I. PLANNING A TRIP
John is worried because Peter is not in school. He décidés to go to Peter's house to find out if something is the matter. He's sorry to hear that Peter is ill.
He tells Peter everything the class did at school. The class is planning to visit a...
Prologue The best stories are the ones that make you laugh and cry. Enrico told this story several times, and it generally made people laugh. It used to make him cry. Lucy would get him to repeat it while he sliced paper-thin rashers of pancetta, or scooped the glistening balls of creamy buffalo...
Monsters of the Deep
love you," Ross says.
I laugh, "You don't even know me " and he looks startled, like I've just exploded something in his face. He sinks back against the pillows, confused, like maybe he read the manual wrong. Aren't all girls supposed to want to hear this?
"I do so. I know...
FOREWORD
by Haskel Frankel
I don't know if dog people know other dog people, or if parakeet people know other parakeet people. But cat people always seem to know other cat people. I think we seek each other out, and though we never really say it to each other, we consider ourselves superior to...