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This lovely and nevertheless rather spooky tale by Nikolai Gogol is rooted in Ukrainian lore. It starts quite ordinary - a young man is in love with a beautiful young girl, but other people and unforeseen circumstances stand in the way of their happiness. Quite unexpectedly, our young hero receives an offer of help from a very unlikely source.

Bionics uses mechanical and electronic technology to solve biological problems. How does it help people who have lost limbs walk again? How does it return hearing or vision to the deaf or blind? What crucial organs can it replace inside the body? Learn more about how today's bionics are extending, improving, and saving lives.

Gogol's classic tale of mayhem, mischief, and marriage, inspired by Ukrainian lore, everyday life, and traditional comedy.

The comedic adventures of a time traveler named Alistair and his friends Penny and Nicodemus as they save all of time and space from the hands of a superintelligent madman. It is the first audiobook in a novelization of the television show by the same name.

In The Most Interesting Man in the World, Gray Barker carefully explains several of Nikola Tesla’s inventions in language the average listener can understand. He also includes articles by Tesla experts Tom Bearden, William R. Lyne, and Fred Bobb, as well as several chapters written by Tesla himself which presage the advent of radio, television, the Internet, satellites, cellphones, and lasers, proving just how far ahead of everyone else Tesla really was.

There plenty of spooky action in this volume of tales. Ghosts, apparitions, entire armies of fairies and fairy queens. The volume opens with Shakespeare's timeless classic A Midsummer Night's Dream and continues to get more frightening with haunted castles in Leskov's The Ghost of the Engineers' Castle.

To those who believed that all the great electric discoveries had already been made, Tesla says, “What has been so far done by electricity is nothing as compared with what the future has in store.” In this fascinating article, he discusses the possibilities yet to be enacted using electricity. He successfully predicted current inventions, including common smartphone technologies of sending photos and using voice-to-text tools. Others are yet to be accomplished to his full vision....

Inventor and scientist Nikola Tesla believed in life on other planets. One night in his laboratory in the Colorado mountains, he began noting electronic signals that he deduced came from an intelligent life form on another planet. While over 100 years later we have still failed to prove the existence of alien life, Tesla’s short article provides a fascinating look at the possibility of interplanetary communication. To the visionary who invented wireless communication, sending a message to Mars was merely the logical next step.

Where does human energy come from, and where is it going? In this fascinating text, notable inventor Nikola Tesla examines these fundamental questions as he theorizes ways of maximizing human energy. While he thinks like a scientist, Tesla writes like a philosopher, making the text accessible for a wider audience. The Problem of Increasing Human Energy functions as both a valuable contribution to scientific thought and a self-help book for humanity.

Ausgerechnet dem berühmten und äußerst attraktiven Fernsehkoch Raphael Franz bricht die junge Anästhesistin Jo während der Narkose einen Schneidezahn ab. Zu dumm, dass sie mit ihren Versuchen, sich zu entschuldigen, alles nur noch schlimmer macht. Jo ist davon überzeugt, dass Raphael ihr den ganzen Ärger heimzahlen wird. Doch was sie nicht ahnt: Raphael kocht nicht nur exzellent, sondern auch vor Leidenschaft.

Es ist ein goldener Sommer im England der späten 50er Jahre: Die 16jährige Elizabeth ist begeistert von den jungen Leuten, die sie auf dem Anwesen der Freunde ihrer Eltern in Sussex kennenlernt. Sie erlebt unbeschwerte Tage mit Ausflügen, Picknicks und Partys. Und sie verliebt sich... London, 40 Jahre später. Nach dem Unfalltod ihrer Mutter erhält Adele Harington einen mysteriösen Anruf: Ein Mann spricht von "neuen Spuren" und nennt immer wieder ein Datum. Und dann steht plötzlich eine Fremde vor der Tür und behauptet, Teil der Familie zu sein.

Leonie ist eine Powerfrau: Sie liebt ihren Job und hat Erfolg. Dann wird ihr vorgeworfen, die Geschäftsidee der charmanten Brüder Emil und Benjamin geklaut zu haben. Und zwei Stunden später hat sie Freizeit pur - eine Horrorvorstellung für Leonie. Sie muss unbedingt denjenigen finden, der ihr das eingebrockt hat. Der Einzige, der ihr helfen kann: Emil. Doch der hat sich aufs Land verkrochen. Und plötzlich steht Leonie offline zwischen Erdbeerfeldern und Kuhfladen und spürt: Ihr Herz klopft für Emil.

Written in 1900 by Nikola Tesla, this book gives great ideas on automation, agriculture, energy, and increasing human output to improve the human condition.

Gogol's great Russian classic is the Pickwick Papers of Russian literature. It takes a sharp but humorous look at life in all its strata but especially the devious complexities in Russia, with its landowners and serfs. We are introduced to Chichikov, a businessman who, in order to trick the tax authorities, buys up dead 'souls', or serfs, whose names still appear on the government census. Despite being a dealer in phantom crimes and paper ghosts, he is the most beguiling of Gogol's characters.

Gogol's phantasmagorical tale about a man whose nose decides to abscond and begin living a life of its own is one of the earliest and most celebrated examples of absurdist literature. Apart from its recondite humor, it is remarkable for Gogol's skill in characterization and his ability to paint a picture of contemporary life in Russia in a few verbal brushstrokes.

W. Nikola-Lisa explores new terrain - his childhood experiences growing up in south Texas during the early 1960s. Unlike his previous books, this is not a book for young children as the author explores the darker elements growing up in a harsh environment. Although the work feels like a memoir, it sounds like a novel with the author's spare, unrelenting narrative a perfect accompaniment to the time, place, and underlying familial issues.

After his divorce, Pete has nothing left to live for. Having lost his home and money, he finds himself in a hotel where he spends a night with a man he does not know. And when the next day that man is found dead, Pete is the main suspect. During his investigation to find the murderer he finds more about himself and his roots. He meets people that change his life forever.

Im Russland des Zaren heckt Pawel Tschitschikow einen meisterhaften Plan aus. Um zu Reichtum zu gelangen, macht er sich eine Eigenheit des russischen Steuersystems zunutze. Da der Staat seine Register nur periodisch aktualisiert, müssen Großgrundbesitzer auch für ihre verstorbenen Leibeigenen - ihre toten Seelen - Steuern entrichten.

In US Foreign Policy and Defense Strategy, the authors analyze the strategic underpinnings of hegemony, assess the national security establishment that sustains dominance, consider the impact on civil-military relations, and explore the intertwining relationships between foreign policy, defense strategy, and commercial activities.

Nicolai Gogol's classic ghost story set in the streets of St. Petersburg in the 19th century.