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"The Poverty of Philosophy" is a book by Karl Marx published in Paris and Brussels in 1847, where he lived in exile from 1843 until 1849. This work is a scathing criticism of the economic and philosophical arguments of Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's "The Philosophy of Poverty".

The increasing need for cleaner and sustainable energies provoked by the contamination emitted to the atmosphere made by petrol sources had made biodiesel an option to reduce those emissions by using a renewable, clean product as vegetable to impulse diesel engines. In this book we will try to expose the chemistry behind the processing of vegetable oil (waste or clean), the equipment, safety measures, and setup for the area to process a batch of biodiesel at home.

The US Army acquires a new top-secret energy source. News of this discovery leaked into the wrong hands, Iraq’s Tariq'Allah. They offer Captain Eric Miller a bribe to participate in espionage for a kickback. The military intelligence officer refuses. This clandestine encounter leaves one of the foreign emissaries dead.

A trip to a quiet bar after a work conference turns interesting for Scott when he starts talking to the barman. His offer of a drink is accepted and it turns to more when the barman takes a break to have a cigarette. Scott can’t resist the urge to join him outside....

Was kommt heraus, wenn man alle Rollen einer Karl-May-Story mit den Oberindianern der deutschen Comedy besetzt...

Die Blutsbrüder Winnetou und Old Shatterhand jagen den skrupellosen Schurken Cornel Brinkley, der auf der Suche nach dem legendären Schatz im Silbersee ist. Um an die geheime Schatzkarte zu gelangen, geht er über Leichen. Winnetou und Old Shatterhand sind ihm dicht auf den Fersen, werden jedoch in einen Hinterhalt gelockt. Als Brinkley schließlich die Schatzhöhle erreicht, glaubt er, am Ziel seiner Träume zu sein. "Der Schatz im Silbersee", gelesen von Martin Seifert, ist einer der berühmtesten Romane von Karl May – und ein wahrer Klassiker der Abenteuer-Literatur.

Winnetou IV ist der letzten vollendeten Roman Karl Mays. Es war dies gleichzeitig der letzte Band der „Gesammelten Reiseerzählungen“. In diesem Roman verarbeitete der Schriftsteller die Eindrücke seiner Amerikareise von 1908. Der inzwischen über 60-jährige Old Shatterhand bekommt daheim in seiner Villa in Radebeul mehrere Briefe, unter anderem von den Söhnen Old Surehands und Apanatschkas. In ihnen wird er über den bevorstehenden Bau eines Winnetou-Denkmals informiert und dazu eingeladen.

In Durchs wilde Kurdistan setzt Kara Ben Nemsi zusammen mit Halef und dem spleenigen Sir David Lindsay seine Orientreise fort...

Seit Generationen gehört Karl May zu den beliebtesten und meistgelesenen deutschen Schriftstellern. Nach vielen Abenteuern und blutigen Kämpfen beim Bau der Great Western Eisenbahn erringt Old Shatterhand die Freundschaft des edlen Apatschen-Häuptlings Winnetou und die Liebe dessen Schwester. Das tragische Schicksal Nscho-tschis verleiht dieser Geschichte einen Hauch von Schwermut. Karl May: 25.2.1842 geboren in Hohenstein-Ernstthal, gestorben 30.3.1912 in Radebeul bei Dresden. Sohn eines armen Webers, war bis zum 5. Lebensjahr blind.

A summer visit to his uncle's ranch takes an unexpected twist for 23-year-old Greg when he finds there's a new ranch hand dealing with the horses. It’s clear the older man is interested from the first minute they meet and Greg is all too keen to enjoy a new experience when they’re alone in the stables. He gets what he wants when he finds himself tied up and dominated by a man that wants to use his body.

Investigative reporter Peter Michaels takes a fresh look at one of Chicago’s most heinous crimes of the past century: the brutal rape and murder of an attractive, young female medical student. Four men were originally caught, tried, convicted, and sentenced to life in prison, but was the crime really solved?

Having financial independence that can provide both stability and freedom is a dream for everyone in the world. Investing, however, is overwhelming due to the many choices it offers and the many forms in which it exists. Suppose you are a beginner wanting to invest in a financial instrument that can increase its value over time and provide higher returns but cannot choose which is the best one according to your requirements. In that case, this book can help you clear away your doubts.

Black is back and he’s facing his toughest challenge yet. Tasked with uncovering crucial information from a psychopath nicknamed the Red Serpent, Adam Black infiltrates one of Scotland’s hardest prisons. A young woman has been abducted and the Red Serpent may have the answers to her whereabouts. But the clock is ticking. When Black is betrayed, his only option is to break out of prison in order to find the woman and the identity of her abductor. Can Black rescue the woman and stop a deranged psychopath? Will he make it out of this alive?

In Demand, Adrian Slywotzky provides a radically new way to think about demand, with a big idea and a host of practical applications - not just for people in business but also for social activists, government leaders, non-profit managers, and other would-be innovators. To succeed in their various missions, all these groups need to master such ground-breaking concepts as the hassle map (and the secrets of fixing it); the curse of the incomplete product (and how to avoid it); why “very good” does not equal “magnetic”....

Ten steamy man-on-man and threesome stories. This bundle has everything you could want to get you going, including spanking, cowboys, firemen, doctors, younger man/older man, sex toys, bondage, and more!

In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother’s home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn’t really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little brother, Joar, on his own, he no longer has time or space for lofty speculations.

Das Basispaket zum Verständnis fremder Religionen. Es sprechen Referenten, die den Ruf ihrer Fachrichtung mitbegründet haben.

How to interpret and understand the true intentions of others without any effort even if you have failed at every previous attempt. Way too often I’ve placed trust in people who didn’t deserve it at all! Realizing that you’ve been fooled or used, misunderstanding other people’s feelings can be extremely unpleasant. But then I found out that I could learn to identify personality types and quickly analyze the person I was dealing with.

In an ocean of weightless air where sunlight has never been seen, only the running lights of the city of Pacquaea glitter in the dark. One woman, Leal Hieronyma Maspeth, lives and dreams of love among the gaslit streets and cafés. And somewhere in the abyss of wind and twisted cloud through which Pacquaea eternally falls, a great voice has begun speaking. As its cold words reach from space to the city walls—and as outlying towns and travelers' ships start to mysteriously disappear—only Leal has the courage to try to understand the message thundering from the distance.

Originally published in 1848 as a political pamphlet, The Communist Manifesto by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels would become one of the most influential works of the era. Written as a summary of the authors' political thought, the manifesto is also a reflection of the unrest and the revolutions of the time.