From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German company of the Pennsylvania Volunteers in the Mexican-American War and died defending Lee’s battery at the Siege of Veracruz in 1847. Lee wrote a letter home, praising this unnamed fallen voluntee...

De seguro muchas veces llegar a fin de mes es trabajo arduo. El sueldo no alcanza, los gastos aumentan ¡y no queda dinero para guardar y menos para invertir! ¿Es posible generar más de lo que gastamos? ¿Podemos invertir con pocas lucas? Les puedo asegurar que sí. Este libro es una invitación a que observemos nuestro comportamiento, establezcamos metas y las alcancemos con dedicación y constancia. Para eso les enseñaré sobre hábitos de ahorro, distintos tipos de inversiones y la mentalidad ...

Chief Detective Stephen Kiss and his team at the newly formed Specialized Combined Taskforce of the NYPD find themselves thrust in the middle of a case as a lunatic serial killer plagues the art world. His victims are being mutilated in what is clear to Stephen as the killer’s twisted renditions of the world’s most acclaimed artists’ canvases.The killer’s masterpieces are strewn across the city at an alarming rate and it is not long before the media and public realize there is a ser...

Chief Detective Stephen Kiss and his team must find a killer who has crept into the hearts of the public. The city’s worst criminals are being burned alive. It does not take long before the press hails the vigilante killer as a hero. Stephen fears copy-cat killers eager to share in the vigilante’s fame will soon follow suit.While fighting changes in their department, the team must take extra measures not to be side-tracked and keep their focus. The case leaves Stephen and the team ...

Después de enseñarnos a manejar nuestras finanzas y a invertir en diferentes instrumentos, Francisco Ackermann nos revela todos sus secretos para entrar al mundo inmobiliario desde cero y con poco capital. Con su estilo directo y cercano, explica cómo evaluar ubicaciones, calcular rentabilidad, apalancarse de manera segura, negociar preventas y evitar errores comunes. Un libro que convierte un sector muchas veces intimidante en un camino claro hacia la independencia financiera.

La réunion en un seul volume des œuvres complètes de Louise Ackermann, en offrant une vision globale de ses écrits, peut nous permettre de réaliser aujourd’hui à quel point son Journal, ses Pensées et ses poèmes forment un tout, charpenté par une ténacité sans équivalence dans le paysage littéraire.Son caractère tranché, son esprit scrutateur et sa façon de refuser tout compromis allaient de pair avec l’incapacité d’assurer sa propre publicité. Elle connut la célé...

In harmony and balance with the horse – this is every rider's dream. Physical and mental balance are the fundamental prerequisites for a sound partnership of animal and human on any equestrian level. There is, however, also the opposite: Why do we see so many beautiless images of animals in Rollkur and with unclean gaits? Voices criticizing today's equestrian sport and training methods geared toward quick successes are getting increasingly loud. Is this criticism justifi ed? How can we turn...

Una donna. Una donna innamorata e capace di sopportare tutto da un uomo che chiaramente non la merita e che fa di tutto per umiliarla, controllarla, sottometterne il carattere e la vita quotidiana stessa. Una storia che potrebbe essere come tante, purtroppo, ma che si dipana negli anni in un crescendo di persecuzioni e di maschilismo esasperato. Una donna che non cessa di amare, mai, e che avvolge di questo amore tanto il suo torturatore, quanto i figli che soltanto a tratti riescono a com...

Estatico, sperimentale, zuccherino. Nato all'inizio degli anni Duemiladieci dalle manipolazioni sonore di SOPHIE e A.G. Cook, l'hyperpop irrompe nel mainstream con la brat summer di Charli XCX. Flirtando apertamente con la cultura consumistica, la mercificazione sfrenata e la messa in scena del sé, la musica hyperpop esaspera le caratteristiche del pop per portarle all'estremo, in uno slancio al contempo critico e godereccio. Tra colori sgargianti e voci angeliche, velocità vertiginose e a...

Ackermann's Repository of Arts was an illustrated British periodical published from 1809-1828 by Rudolph Ackermann. The formal title of the journal was Ackermann's Repository of arts, literature, commerce, manufactures, fashions, and politics, and it did cover all of these fields. In its day, it had great influence on English taste in fashion, architecture, and literature. The magazine is best-known for its fashion prints, two per issue, for twenty years. This book includes all 480 fashion...

Talani kry werk as 'n nanny om afstand tussen haar en haar verloofde te kry. Dit is egter die oulike seunskind se pa wat sy net nie uit haar gedagtes kan kry nie.

In "Der Ackermann aus Böhmen" entführt Johannes von Tepl die Leser in die tiefen Abgründe menschlicher Existenz und philosophischer Auseinandersetzung. Dieses hochmittelalterliche Werk ist nicht nur ein theologisches und ethisches Plädoyer, sondern auch ein Meisterwerk der deutschen Literatur. Durch einen Dialog zwischen einem trauernden Ackermann und dem Tod, verkörpert von einer personifizierten Figur, untersucht das Buch die Fragen nach Leben, Sterblichkeit und dem Sinn des Daseins. Der...