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"Le Droit à la Paresse" est un essai écrit par Paul Lafargue, un homme politique et théoricien socialiste français du XIXe siècle. Ce texte, publié pour la première fois en 1880, propose une critique de l'organisation du travail et du capitalisme de l'époque.Lafargue, gendre de Karl Marx, aborde la question de l'épuisement des travailleurs et de l'exploitation inhérente au système capitaliste. Il explore l'idée que le progrès technologique devrait conduire à une réduction du temps de travail plutôt qu'à une augmentation, permettant ainsi aux individus de profiter davantage de leur vie en dehors du travail.L'idée centrale de l'essai est que la paresse, comprise comme la réduction du temps de travail nécessaire à la production des biens essentiels, devrait être considérée comme un droit. Lafargue soutient que cette réduction du temps de travail libérerait du temps pour des activités plus enrichissantes sur le plan personnel et culturel."Le Droit à la Paresse" a eu une influence significative sur les mouvements socialistes et syndicaux de l'époque, et il continue d'être étudié et discuté dans le contexte des débats sur la réduction du temps de travail et la qualité de vie des travailleurs.

Tout commence par la découverte du corps sans vie d'un dealer sur les docks du port de Marseille.S'ensuivent les meurtres du patron d'une boite de nuit , de l'un de ses videurs et enfin, celui du gérant d'une casse auto.Personne ne pleurera vraiment les disparitions de ces figures du grand banditisme de la cité phocéenne ...des crimes sans larme.Pour le commissaire Perrini, l'un des meilleurs flics de Marseille, il n'y a pas de doute : les modes opératoires sont les mêmes, ces quatre affaires sont liées ! Mais, il est confronté à un problème de taille : il ne parvient pas à comprendre de quelle manière ces hommes ont été tués...des crimes sans l'arme.

"At last, Charlie and Helen Louise's wedding is only a month away. They're busy preparing for the big day, and the last thing Charlie needs is a new mystery to solve. Enter Tara Martin, a shy, peculiar woman who has recently started working part-time at Helen Louise's bistro and helping Charlie in the archive. Tara isn't exactly friendly and she has an angry outburst at the library that leaves Charlie baffled. And then she abruptly leaves a catered housewarming party Charlie's son Sean is throwing to celebrate his new home in the middle of her work shift. Before ducking out of the party, Tara looked terrified and Charlie wonders if she's deliberately trying to escape notice. Is she hiding from someone? When Tara is viciously attacked and lands in the hospital, Charlie knows his instincts were correct: Tara was in trouble and someone was after her. With the help of his much beloved cat, Diesel, Charlie digs deeper, and discovers shocking glimpses into Tara's past that they could never have predicted. Will they catch the villain before Charlie's own happily ever after with Helen Louise is ruined?"--

What if you woke up to discover everyone thought you were somebody else?Pregnant and abandoned, all Helen Georgesson has is five dollars and a one-way ticket to San Francisco. Then she is involved in a train crash, and regains consciousness only to discover that she has given birth - and, in a bizarre twist of fate, has been mistaken for somebody else. Helen decides to claim this opportunity to make a new life for herself and her son. But eventually her past will catch up with her, in terrible ways...

A missing plane resurfaces - and so do long-submerged secrets...An RAF Dakota, presumed lost at sea during World War Two, has just been discovered at the bottom of a drained lake over twenty years later - complete with the skeletal remains of the pilot and a strange cargo of rubble. Why are the Soviets so interested in it, even attending the dead man's funeral? Why has unassuming civil servant David Audley been tasked with leading the investigation - and what was the plane carrying that some will kill for?

Private Detective Lew Archer doesn't believe in coincidences...A forest fire has mysteriously broken out in the hills above southern California. Meanwhile, Lew Archer has been asked by a desperate mother to find her six-year-old son. Instead, he discovers the boy's wealthy father, murdered, and buried in a hole in the ground. The mystery will lead Archer to unearth a tragic, years-old history of abandonment, obsession and illusion, where the past won't let go of the present - and everything is connected.

Who stole George Matthews' life?'Doctor, I think I'm losing my mind...'When a wealthy young man turns up at respected psychiatrist Dr George Matthews' office uttering these words, it changes his safe existence forever. Suddenly Matthews finds himself dragged into a strange, surreal world where nothing is certain. And when an actress is found murdered, a horse tied up outside her apartment, Matthews loses his memory - and must find it in a nightmarish urban jungle of mistaken identities, secrets and insanity.

Can an ace detective outwit a thief with many faces?They call him 'Gold Mask': a fiendishly clever master of disguise whose crime spree has shocked Tokyo. The dogged detective Akechi Kogoro is on the trail, and soon the two become locked in a frenzied battle of wits as his seemingly superhuman nemesis leads a chase across Japan, gleefully tricking the police at every turn. Will this ingenious villain's true identity be revealed - and will he, eventually, make a mistake?

Is Carl Andersen innocent of murder, or a very good liar?Detective Chief Inspector Maigret has been interrogating the enigmatic Danish aristocrat for seventeen hours. A diamond merchant was found dead, shot at point-blank range, in the garage of Andersen's mansion, yet he will not confess to the crime. To get to the truth, Maigret must delve into the secrets of Three Widows Crossroads, the isolated neighbourhood where he lives with his mysterious, reclusive sister Else - and where, it seems, everyone has something to hide.

James Bond, the secret service's most lethal agent, is a marked manDeep inside the Soviet Union, a plot is taking shape. Under the fiendish Colonel Rosa Klebb, the Russian counter-intelligence organisation SMERSH are laying a trap that will not only eliminate Bond, but strike at the very heart of the British establishment. The bait is the irresistible 'defector' Tatiana Romanova and a precious coding machine. The weapon is the psychotic assassin, Grant. As 007 is lured to Istanbul, a deadly game begins.

Alles wird einmal vergehen, denn die Zeit bleibt niemals stehen--- Rache. Es ist das Letzte, das noch für Arthur Hill zählt, nachdem seine Frau ermordet wird. Jeder in seinem Umfeld hält ihn für den Schuldigen und selbst seine besten Freunde zweifeln an ihm. Zwar wird niemand für den Mord an Claire Hill verurteilt, doch es kann für ihn keine Ruhe geben, solange Bill und Louis Ferrans noch in Freiheit leben. Und da die Gerechtigkeit dort versagt hat, soll nun Rache siegen. Seine letzte Unterstützung ist Lord Charles Telleray, ein egoistischer Besitzer einer Burg und sonst unbedeutend, bei dem er als Butler arbeitet. Selbst dieser würde Arthur im Stich lassen, hielte man ihn nicht selbst des Mordes schuldig. Als eine Einladung auf die Insel der Ferrans-Brüder ankommt, ist für Arthur die Zukunft gewiss: Er will Rache, koste es, was es wolle. Und so machen sich beide auf den Weg, der längst nicht so geradlinig ist, wie er scheint. Ist Rache wirklich den Verlust der Wahrheit wert? Gibt es vielleicht noch einen anderen Weg? Ist alles wirklich so einfach, wie es auf den ersten Blick scheint oder steckt doch mehr hinter allem? Viele Fragen, deren Beantwortung alles entscheiden könnte. Doch letztendlich können nur Arthur und Charles selbst entscheiden, was ihnen mehr bedeutet: Rache oder Wahrheit.

When a shop worker is reported missing, the circumstances lead Inspector Blades to launch a murder investigation.A man with 'strange eyes', struggling with two suitcases, is seen leaving the building where the young woman, Emma Simpson, lived. There is a stain on the drawing room floor. It could be spilled wine, but Inspector Blades fears the worst.The woman's ex-lover is brought in for questioning. He is certainly suspicious. And he has a motive. But solving a crime is never that easy.Indeed, why did Emma's employer pack up and leave the town? And why does a local newspaper reporter seem to be one step ahead of the police? Where is he getting his information from, and did he play a part in the crime?The police will have to put the jigsaw together. Crucial will be finding the body. But they are missing certain other pieces - clues that only a wily and motivated detective will be able to discover.THE SUITCASE MURDERER takes us back 100 years to a Britain slowly recovering from the First World War. A place full of damaged, out of work men, desperate and with little else to lose. Yet also one in which women are beginning to stand up for themselves and demand equal treatment.This book is a standalone in a series of four whodunnits featuring DI Stephen Blades - a straight-talking copper who has his own doubts about his role in the war.The full list of books, available FREE with Kindle Unlimited and in paperback, is as follows:1.THE BODY UNDER THE SANDS2.DEATH WAITS FOR NO LADY3.THE RIDDLE OF THE DUNES4.THE SUITCASE MURDERER

England, late April, 1926 When Henry Astley, Duke of Sutherland, turns up dead in bed at the end of an afternoon spent calling his family on the carpet, everyone assumes that the excitement finished the old boy off. He was quite old and also quite vociferous in his opinions, so it isn't an unreasonable assumption. It isn't until the next morning, when the duke's valet and confidant is found shot to death in the hedge maze, that the whole thing takes on a more sinister cast. Bright Young Thing Philippa Darling, her best friend Christopher and his brother Francis, as well as their parents, Lord and Lady Herbert, have all been summoned to Sutherland Hall for a dressing down. So has cousin Crispin, the future duke, along with his parents, the Viscount and Viscountess St George. Everyone has a string of small peccadillos they're trying to hide, along with a few guilty secrets they don't want anyone to know about. The only question is, which secret was worth killing for? Pippa isn't worried on her own behalf. She had no reason to want the duke dead. But when it looks like suspicion might fall on Christopher, she has no choice but to step up. She'll sacrifice Francis if she has to, and would throw Crispin to the wolves without a second thought, but Scotland Yard will arrest Christopher over her dead body. And it might just come to that.