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Myanmar (Burma)
02 000 Ft„This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know.” So said Kipling in 1898, and a hundred years later you will say the same about Myanmar.
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One Stop
07 500 FtIn the hustle-and-bustle of our world today, convenience and efficiency have become hallmark appeals, even essential factors, in many people’s lives. New applications are churned out every day to respond to this demand. But nothing says ‘hassle-free’ more than Super Apps; apps that allow users to access several services from one single application. With Super Apps like Grab and WeChat gaining popularity, and tech giants and FinTechs looking to stake their claim in this digital revolution, many might be wondering: What exactly are Super Apps? What is their significance in our world today?Are they the future for all things digital? In One Stop, award winning FinTech lawyer, former diplomat, and dedicated social entrepreneur Neha Mehta answers these questions by tracing the history of Super Apps and analyzing cultural differences in their adoption and popularity (or lack thereof) in the East and West. Through stories of well-known Super Apps and in-depth interviews with central banks, entrepreneurs, and FinTech industry experts, this book illustrates the Super App revolution—the way it disrupts, innovates and creates opportunity. With the COVID-19 pandemic as a background highlighting the need to move to digital platforms, One Stop also examines how Super Apps can potentially create an inclusive and sustainable world for all, in a future that looks increasingly digital.
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Pope Benedict XVI – The Conscience of our Age
02 000 FtFr. D. Vincent Twomey, a former doctoral student of Joseph Ratzinger and long time friend of the Pope, felt the need to respond to the common question he heard often after the papal election, „What kind of person is the new Pope?” So often Twomey had read false depictions of both the man and his thought, especially the image presented by the media as a grim enforcer. Twomey offers here a unique double–presentation of the man, Pope Benedict XVI ― a theological portrait that encompasses both an overview of the writings, teachings and thought of the brilliant theologian and spiritual writer, as well as the man himself, and his personality traits and how he communicates with others. Twomey shows that the secret to the serene dignified behavior of Benedict is that he is open to beauty as much as truth, that he lives outside himself, and is not preoccupied with his own self. He also is a man that Twomey says „has the courage to be imperfect”, showing he has a deep humility and strives for teaching the truth even when misunderstood or not presented as well as he would like.
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Republic of Macedonia
04 000 FtMap for Businessmen & Tourists
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Republic of Macedonia
04 000 FtCity Centre of Skopje
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Secrets of the Chocolate House
01 000 FtNew York Times bestselling author Paula Brackston’s The Little Shop of Found Things was called “a page-turner that will no doubt leave readers eager for future series installments” (Publishers Weekly). Now, Brackston returns to the Found Things series with its sequel, Secrets of the Chocolate House. After her adventures in the seventeenth century, Xanthe does her best to settle back into the rhythm of life in Marlborough. She tells herself she must forget about Samuel and leave him in the past where he belongs. With the help of her new friends, she does her best to move on, focusing instead on the success of her and Flora’s antique shop. But there are still things waiting to be found, still injustices needing to be put right, still voices whispering to Xanthe from long ago about secrets wanting to be shared. While looking for new stock for the shop, Xanthe hears the song of a copper chocolate pot. Soon after, she has an upsetting vision of Samuel in great danger, compelling her to make another journey to the past. This time she’ll meet her most dangerous adversary. This time her ability to travel to the past will be tested. This time she will discover her true destiny. Will that destiny allow her to return home? And will she be able to save Samuel when his own fate seems to be sealed?
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Shunga
012 000 FtIt was from the time of Manet that Japanese art began to inspire the Europeans to apply fresh ideas through a change of style and taste, which was going to be the basis for Impressionism and what developed from it. The important impact of Japanese art on the old continent provided a link between the aesthetic conceptions of each of these two worlds. Our interest in eroticism dates back to the Golden Age of Greco-Latin pottery, but the freedom of expression displayed by the Japanese in this field was to impress itself to a considerable extent on the artists of the old continent by rousing their sensitivity to this subject. The erotic works reproduced in this volume are called Shunga, ‘springpictures’; a name which evokes initiatory serenity linked with the rebirth of nature. Classical Japanese literature abounds in descriptions of sexual relations, as is borne out by Gengi monogatari, the very famous Tale of Gengi, the work of a lady of the Court, Murasaki Shikibu, who wrote it about the year 1000. It is the first novel, and one of the most important, in Japanese literature, outstanding also in its length, with 4234 pages divided into 54 chapters, 44 of which are taken up with an enumeration of the happy and less happy love affairs of the handsome prince Gengi. From the horizontal roll, the makemono, the presentation of manuscripts developed towards what present-day publishers call an offprint, with the twelve separate illustrations of Tosa Misunobu (1434-1525). This kind of reproduction was widely used for the polychrome wood engravings carried out by the artists of the Ukiyo-e. Sexual manuals were numerous and widely circulated throughout the country, as the primitive society of lords and warriors saw the merchant and bourgeois class constantly growing.
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Silk Road Countries
04 000 FtThe Great Silk Road and surrounding Territory
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Sons of Nimrod
03 600 FtThere are few peoples the origin of which has been the subject of so many fanciful theories and so much idle speculation as the Hungarians. Perhaps because they have no known relatives, or not very close ones, at any rate, and are a strange race in the heart of Europe, the Magyars have at times excited hostile feelings among the surrounding nations and this hostility has often clouded the judgment of historians and ethnic theorists dealing with their origins and early history. Indeed, this proud and talented race had a ‘hostile press’ from the moment of its appearance on the fringes of the West, probably due to its military superiority, and the prejudices implanted in western minds by the contemporary news media lingered long in historical literature. It was thus with some glee that western writers of the Age of Enlightenment began to assign some extremely primitive and backward tribes to the ancestry of the Hungarians, in much the same way as their mediaeval predecessors made them descend from devils and ogres. All this was diametrically opposed to the traditions of the Hungarians but they protested in vain against the strange relations foisted of them, for the ‘objectivity’ of western writers soon found support in Hungary itself and was firmly embraced by the Hungarian Academy. It so happened then that Hungarians were officially declared to be a Finno-Ugrian people, related to the remotest and least-developed branch of that group, and their ancestors were identified as hunters and fishermen of a low degree of development, inhabiting the forest regions of Russia until they were conquered and civilised by a more advanced people of Turkic race. The writer was brought up on this ‘official’ theory and duly believed it until well into middle age when he started to have doubts and resolved to investigate matters afresh. He approached the subject with an open mind and, being a lawyer by training, took pains in sifting facts from fiction. As he went along, an xi
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South-East Asia on a shoestring
02 400 FtLonely Planet Southeast Asia on a Shoestring is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to skip, what hidden discoveries await you, and how to optimise your budget for an extended continental trip. Wander among the temples of Angkor, dine like an emperor in Hoi An’s Old Town, or lock eyes with prehistoric monsters at Komodo National Park, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Southeast Asia and begin your journey now!
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South-East Asia on a shoestring
03 600 FtLonely Planet Southeast Asia on a Shoestring is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to skip, what hidden discoveries await you, and how to optimise your budget for an extended continental trip. Wander among the temples of Angkor, dine like an emperor in Hoi An’s Old Town, or lock eyes with prehistoric monsters at Komodo National Park, all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Southeast Asia and begin your journey now!
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Stage 3: Moondial
0450 FtMoondial!’ As Minty spoke the word, a cold wind went past her, and her ears were filled with a thousand frightened voices. She shut her eyes and put her hands over her ears – and the voices and the wind went away. Minty opened her eyes . . . and knew that she was in a different morning, not the one she had woken up to. And so Minty’s strange adventure begins – a journey through time into the past, where she finds Tom, and Sarah . . . and the evil Miss Vole.
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Star Profiles
03 600 FtFrom the dust jacket: STAR PROFILES contains 91 candid biographies of the all-time greats, providing an extraordinary insight into an industry whose private and public worlds often alarmingly coincide. The book briefly describes Joan’s four marriages (and romantic relationships) and film career.
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Switzerland – The Green Guide
01 600 FtThis addition to the Michelin Green Guide series provides travellers with a comprehensive guide to the cultural and natural highlights of Switzerland.
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The Best of MGM
02 800 FtA photographic tribute to the legendary movie studio features more than 250 full-color and black-and-white illustrations and a well-written text that traces the studio’s history and discusses its films and stars.
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The Bone Clocks
02 000 FtFollowing a scalding row with her mother, fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes slams the door on her old life. But Holly is no typical teenage runaway: a sensitive child once contacted by voices she knew only as “the radio people,” Holly is a lightning rod for psychic phenomena. Now, as she wanders deeper into the English countryside, visions and coincidences reorder her reality until they assume the aura of a nightmare brought to life. For Holly has caught the attention of a cabal of dangerous mystics—and their enemies. But her lost weekend is merely the prelude to a shocking disappearance that leaves her family irrevocably scarred. This unsolved mystery will echo through every decade of Holly’s life, affecting all the people Holly loves—even the ones who are not yet born. A Cambridge scholarship boy grooming himself for wealth and influence, a conflicted father who feels alive only while reporting from occupied Iraq, a middle-aged writer mourning his exile from the bestseller list—all have a part to play in this surreal, invisible war on the margins of our world. From the medieval Swiss Alps to the nineteenth-century Australian bush, from a hotel in Shanghai to a Manhattan townhouse in the near future, their stories come together in moments of everyday grace and extraordinary wonder.
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The Book of Fate
018 000 FtA sors könyve, amely korábban Napóleon, Franciaország néhai császárának birtokában volt, most először angolra fordítva egy 1801-ben talált ősi egyiptomi kézirat német fordításából.
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The Bourne Ultimatum
01 600 FtAt a small-town carnival, two men, each mysteriously summoned by telegram, witness a bizarre killing. The telegrams are signed “Jason Bourne.” Only they know Bourne’s true identity and understand that the telegrams are really a message from Bourne’s mortal enemy, Carlos, known also as the Jackal, the world’s deadliest and most elusive terrorist. And furthermore, they know what the Jackal wants: a final confrontation with Bourne. Now David Webb, professor of Oriental studies, husband, and father, must do what he hoped never to do again—assume the terrible identity of Jason Bourne. His plan is simple: to infiltrate the politically and economically omnipotent Medusan group and use himself as bait to lure the cunning Jackal into a deadly trap—a trap from which only one of them will escape.
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The Cuisine of Hungary
012 000 FtGeorge Lang, aki Deutsch Györgyként látta meg a napvilágot Székesfehérváron, s később Láng Györgyre változtatta nevét, 1946-ban hagyta el hazáját. Dolgozott a világhírű Waldorf-Astoriában, a The Plaza-ban, majd a Restaurant Associates-hez került. Az úttörő vállalkozás, akkor élte virágkorát, mikor a vendéglátás világszerte modernizálódott, mikor ezerszámra nyíltak jobbnál jobb éttermek és vendéglő szerte a világon. A társaság több híres, innovatív projektet is létrehozott, melyek közül kiemelkedik a Four Seasons. Ezt később Láng vezette, s működése alatt lett a világ egyik legjobb étterme. Láng György több nagyszerű könyvet is írt, ezek közül kiemelkedik a Klasszikus Magyar Konyha, a Konyhai különlegességek és képtelenségek. Ez a könyve több mint 300 autentikus magyar receptet mutat be a paraszti konyha leveseitől az arisztokrata konyháig.
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The Destruction of Jerusalem and the Idea of Redemption in the Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch
04 500 FtThe Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch is a pseudepigraphic apocalyptic work ascribed to Baruch son of Neriah, the scribe of Jeremiah. Its overt content concerning the last days of the First Temple period disguises a description of the fall of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. Contrary to the general scholarly view, this book attempts to show that the internal structure and central ideas of II Baruch must be understood in a Christian context. This theological identity is reflected mainly in traditions which describe the destruction of Jerusalem and the three apocalyptic visions which depict the coming of the Messiah and the eschatological redemption. The author’s conclusion may shed light on the Christian character of other Pseudepigraphic and apocalyptic books.
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The Divine Comedy
02 000 FtRobin Kirkpatrick’s masterful verse translation of The Divine Comedy, published in a single volume, is the ideal edition for students as well as the general reader coming to this great masterpiece of Italian literature for the first time The Divine Comedy describes Dante’s descent into Hell with Virgil as a guide; his ascent of Mount Purgatory and encounter with his dead love, Beatrice; and finally, his arrival in Heaven. Examining questions of faith, desire and enlightenment, the poem is a brilliantly nuanced and moving allegory of human redemption.
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The Divine Conspiracy
02 000 FtThe Divine Conspiracy has revolutionized how we think about the true meaning of Christian discipleship. In this classic work of spiritual formation, one of the most brilliant Christian thinkers of our times and author of the acclaimed The Spirit of Disciplines, Dallas Willard, skillfully weaves together biblical teaching, popular culture, science, scholarship, and spiritual practice, revealing what it means to „apprentice” ourselves to Jesus. Using Jesus’s Sermon on the Mount as his foundation, Willard masterfully explores life-changing ways to experience and be guided by God on a daily basis, resulting in a more authentic and dynamic faith.
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The History of Television
01 500 FtChronicles the medium that has changed the face of politics, world news, art, entertainment, and leisure time, and presents its technical development and hit programs
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The History of The Hungarian Pipemaker’s Craft
08 000 FtThe earliest pipes and pipe-smoking accessories of outstanding cultural history value entered the Hungarian National Museum collection in the mid 1860’s. In addition to the historical value of pipes of famous personalities – Ferenc Rakoczi II, Ferenc Wesselenyi, Sandor Kisfaludy, Mihaly Vorosmarty and Janos Vajda – knowledge of smoking history was furthered by the remarkably skillfully wrought pipe-carvings as works of applied art. Regrettably, a major portion of this collection was destroyed during World War II. In the early 1970’s the Hungarian National Museum purchased some 500 pipes from the estate of the noted collector and former mayor of Budapest, Istvan Barczy, the collection featuring the works of master Hungarian meerschaum carvers and other European, mainly Austrian and German pipe-makers. as a result of consistent museological collection and cataloguing, the Hungarian National Museum today possesses the largest and the most significant Smoking History Collection in Hungary. Through studies and articles by noted authors, this book offers a summary of the Hungarian history of smoking and pipe-collecting. It deals with the pipe finds from archeological digs, the activities of early pipe-making centers, and the making of pipes of various materials and forms. A separate study analyzes the historical subject appearing on pipes and pipe-stems, also identifying the drawings on which the sculpted depictions on the pipes were modeled. With the aid of the exhibition catalogue section of this book, the visitor may not only follow the material on display but also gain a comprehensive view of a hitherto little-known area of art history uniquely combining Hungarian cultural history and applied art. The year 2000 is an especially great occasion for Hungarians throughout the world. One thousand years ago the Hungarian state was formed when King Stephen The Saint converted to Christianity and was crowned king. He had succeeded in establishing a state and culture which, despite its linguistic isolation, would survive and take root in the Carpathian Basin, fitting into the family of European nations. To quote Gyula Illyes: ”…a people may live a thousand years only by means of miracles: on the model of the phoenix.” Hungarian-ness, like the phoenix, has always been capable of rebirth, not only preserving but also enriching its culture. The Millennium – like other historic anniversaries – has directed public attention to the outstanding values of the national cultural heritage. The characteristic forms of manifestation of this are the exhibitions held in the museums. The pipe history exhibition jointly organized by the Hungarian National Museum and the Balaton Museum of Keszthely takes a worthy place among these, as well as being the most significant presentation to date of the Smoking History Collection of the Hungarian National Museum. The exhibition will be on display at the Balaton Museum from April to September, 2000, then at the Deri Museum in Debrecen, and finally at the Hungarian National Museum.
Honterus Antikvárium és Aukciós Ház
