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The Great Depression represented capitalisms most severe crisis, devastating economies worldwide and generating unemployment, poverty, and political instability that challenged democratic governance and international cooperation. Beginning with Wall Streets 1929 crash, the depression exposed financial system vulnerabilities, triggered protectionist trade wars, and forced governments to reconsider laissez-faire orthodoxy. This history examines how the crisis unfolded, why recovery proved so difficult, and what policy debates reveal about managing economic catastrophe.Drawing on government reports, banking records, personal testimonies, and economic data, the narrative traces the depressions cascading failures. Stock market speculation created unsustainable valuations. Bank failures destroyed savings and contracted credit. International gold standard transmitted deflation globally while constraining monetary responses. Falling prices and wages created debt burdens and reduced purchasing power. Unemployment reached unprecedented levels25 percent in the United States, higher in Germany. Agricultural commodity collapse devastated rural communities. Hoovervilles symbolized widespread destitution.The book explores varied national responses. Britain abandoned gold standard early, enabling modest recovery. Germanys Weimar collapse facilitated Nazi rise. France maintained gold standard longer, prolonging stagnation. Roosevelts New Deal experimented with unprecedented federal interventionbanking regulation, agricultural supports, public works programs, labor protections, social security. Keynesian economics challenged balanced budget orthodoxy, advocating deficit spending during downturns.

Between the sixteenth and twentieth centuries, scientific inquiry fundamentally reshaped human understanding of the cosmos, matter, and natures laws. A succession of revolutionary breakthroughs challenged established dogma, introduced new methodologies, and created frameworks that enabled technological transformation. This history examines how key discoveries emerged from intellectual contexts, generated fierce resistance, and ultimately restructured scientific knowledge.Drawing on original publications, correspondence, institutional records, and experimental notebooks, the narrative traces paradigm shifts across disciplines. Copernicus placed the sun at the solar systems center, contradicting geocentric cosmology and ecclesiastical authority. Galileos telescopic observations and mathematical physics established experimental methodology. Newton synthesized celestial and terrestrial mechanics through universal gravitation and calculus, creating predictive power unprecedented in natural philosophy.The book explores nineteenth-century transformations. Darwins evolutionary theory explained biological diversity through natural selection, eliminating design necessity. Maxwell unified electricity, magnetism, and light through mathematical equations. Mendels genetics revealed inheritance mechanisms. Thermodynamics established energy conservation and entropy. The periodic table organized chemical elements, predicting undiscovered substances. Medical breakthroughs identified disease causation through germ theory, transforming public health.

Three distinct civilizationsChina, India, and Japandeveloped sophisticated imperial systems that governed vast populations, generated enduring cultural traditions, and created administrative innovations that shaped Asian history for millennia. This comparative history examines how each society constructed centralized authority, balanced regional diversity with unified governance, and navigated cycles of consolidation and fragmentation.Drawing on dynastic histories, administrative records, archaeological evidence, and literary sources, the narrative traces imperial evolution across two thousand years. Chinas Qin Dynasty established bureaucratic centralization and standardization that successive dynasties refinedHan Confucian governance, Tang cosmopolitanism, Song commercial sophistication, Ming maritime expeditions, Qing territorial expansion. The examination system recruited officials based on merit, creating a scholar-gentry class that administered empire through Confucian principles.Indias political landscape differed fundamentally. The Mauryan Empire briefly unified the subcontinent, but subsequent centuries saw regional kingdoms, the Gupta golden age, and Islamic sultanates before Mughal emperors created syncretic administration blending Persian, Islamic, and Hindu traditions. Caste systems structured society alongside diverse religious traditions. Decentralized power characterized governance more than monolithic imperial control.Japans imperial system evolved distinctly. Early centralization attempts borrowed Chinese models, but feudal fragmentation transferred real authority to military rulers. The shogunate system maintained nominal imperial legitimacy while samurai clans wielded actual power. Island geography enabled cultural borrowing while preserving distinct identity. The Tokugawa period enforced isolation, creating stable governance through rigid social hierarchies.

"The Roach of the Sea How the poor mans protein became a luxury meal" tells the improbable rags-to-riches story of the lobster. In 17th-century America, lobsters were so abundant they washed up on beaches in piles. They were considered "sea cockroaches," fit only for fertilizer, prisoners, and indentured servants. There were even laws forbidding masters from feeding lobster to their servants more than three times a week because it was cruel.Food historian Emily Cook tracks the transformation. With the advent of canning and railways, lobster could be shipped to inlanders who didnt know its reputation. Chefs rebranded it with butter and status.This book is a case study in perceived value. It illustrates how marketing and scarcity can flip an object from garbage to gold, proving that taste is often more about culture than flavor.

"The Energy Illusion How the smartest guys in the room built a house of lies" dissects the collapse of Enron. In 2000, Enron was named "Americas Most Innovative Company" for the sixth year in a row. It claimed revenues of $100 billion. By 2001, it was bankrupt.Financial journalist Robert Powell explains the complex "Mark-to-Market" accounting fraud. Enron booked potential future profits as actual money today. When the cash didnt materialize, they hid the debt in shell companies. The book also details how traders manipulated the California power grid, causing rolling blackouts to spike prices."The Energy Illusion" is the ultimate case study in corporate culture gone wrong. It shows what happens when a company values stock price over integrity and how 20,000 employees lost their pensions because of the greed of a few executives.

We loudly demand freedom, yet when we receive it, we are often terrified by the infinite expanse of possibilities. Why We Fear Freedom examines one of the deepest paradoxes of human existence: the drive for autonomy alongside a simultaneous longing for restrictive structures. We deconstruct the psychological mechanics that lead us to trade our freedom for the perceived security of attachments, ideologies, and rigid routines. It is the analysis of the burden of individual responsibility in a modern world.We examine the evolutionary roots of our need for belonging and why standing alone is often equated with danger by our primal brain. Learn how to recognize the unconscious programs that keep you in dependencieswhether in relationships, at work, or in your own thinking patterns. This book offers no simple recipes for happiness but a technical understanding of the internal chains we forge for ourselves to escape the fear of the unknown. It is a journey into the core of your identity and the structures of your will.Become the architect of your own liberation. In this work, we show you how to integrate the principles of freedom, psychology into your life to achieve a sovereignty that others only admire from afar. It is about returning to causality in a world of symptoms. Understand the mechanics behind your fear and use this knowledge as a lever for a truly self-determined life. Freedom is not the absence of structure, but the ability to choose your own. Break the trance of dependency and step into the light.

"The Happy Cage Why everything we think about addiction is wrong" revisits the revolutionary "Rat Park" experiments of the 1970s. Standard addiction studies put a rat alone in a cage with two bottles: water and heroin-water. The rat always chose the drugs and died.Psychologist Rebecca Miles explains how Bruce Alexander changed the variable. He built a "Rat Park" with toys, food, and other rats for sex and socializing. In this environment, the rats tried the drugs but didnt become addicted. They preferred their social lives.This book argues that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety, but connection. It challenges the "War on Drugs" and explains why soldiers returning from Vietnam (where heroin was rampant) didnt remain addicts once they returned to their families.

"The Hundred Hour War Did a soccer match really start a war?" investigates the 1969 conflict between El Salvador and Honduras, famously known as the "Football War." Tensions exploded during the qualifying matches for the 1970 FIFA World Cup, leading to riots in the stadiums and eventually a four-day military invasion.Historian Carlos Field explains that soccer was just the spark, not the fuel. The real causes were land reform, immigration, and trade disputes. However, the image of fan violence turning into aerial dogfights (the last in history to use piston-engine planes like the Corsair) captivated the world.This book serves as a grim reminder of how nationalism can weaponize sports. It deconstructs the myth while acknowledging that for four days in July 1969, the line between a game and a battlefield completely vanished.

Throughout history, encounters between distinct cultures generated profound transformationsexchange of goods, technologies, and ideas alongside conflict, conquest, and cultural destruction. These moments of contact revealed how societies interpreted difference, negotiated power imbalances, and adapted foreign practices while defending indigenous traditions. This history examines major cross-cultural encounters, analyzing dynamics of exchange and domination that reshaped civilizations on both sides of contact.Drawing on travel accounts, missionary records, archaeological evidence, and indigenous sources, the narrative explores encounters across continents. Alexanders conquests created Hellenistic synthesis blending Greek, Persian, and Indian elements. Roman expansion incorporated Celtic, Germanic, and Near Eastern peoples into imperial framework. Islamic expansion transmitted Greek philosophy, Indian mathematics, and Chinese technologies across three continents. Mongol Empires Pax Mongolica enabled unprecedented Eurasian exchange.The book examines European overseas expansions transformative impact. Portuguese navigators encountered African kingdoms, Asian empires, and American civilizations, initiating sustained contact that fundamentally altered global relationships. Columbian Exchange transmitted crops, animals, diseases, and peoples between hemispheres, reshaping economies, diets, and demographics worldwide. Spanish conquistadors destroyed Aztec and Inca empires through military technology, indigenous alliances, and epidemic disease. Indigenous peoples resisted, adapted, and selectively adopted European practices while maintaining cultural continuity.

"The Highlighter Trap Why your favorite study method is useless" is a wake-up call for students. Based on the comprehensive 2013 review by Professor John Dunlosky, it reveals that the most popular study techniqueshighlighting, rereading, and summarizingare also the least effective. They create an "illusion of competence" (it feels like youre learning, but you arent).Education expert Sarah Wright presents the alternatives that actually work: "Active Recall" (testing yourself) and "Spaced Repetition" (spreading study out over time). These methods feel harder and more frustrating, which is exactly why they workthe brain has to struggle to retrieve information.This book is a practical guide to studying smarter, not harder. It encourages students to put down the neon pen and pick up the flashcards.

History remembers Rome, Byzantium, and the Ottomansbut countless smaller kingdoms rose with equal ambition, only to vanish from collective memory. This exploration examines polities that briefly flourished before external pressures, internal weaknesses, or sheer contingency ended their expansion and erased their legacies.Through archaeological evidence and fragmentary chronicles, discover kingdoms like the Khazar Khaganate, which controlled Eurasian trade routes before collapsing into obscurity. Follow the Srivijaya maritime empire, whose naval dominance shaped Southeast Asian commerce for centuries before leaving minimal traces. Witness the Bulgar Khanates transformation from steppe power to forgotten footnote. Understand how the Armenian Kingdom of Cilicia balanced Crusader and Muslim powers before geographic vulnerability sealed its fate.Each case reveals factors that determine imperial survival beyond military strengthgeographic position, succession stability, cultural adaptability, economic resilience, diplomatic flexibility. Documentary sources show how these kingdoms viewed themselves as permanent fixtures, while archaeological remains mark the material traces of their vanished grandeur.These civilizations were not historical footnotes during their existencethey commanded armies, minted coins, built cities, shaped regional politics. Their disappearance from historical consciousness was neither inevitable nor deserved, but the result of specific conditions that can be reconstructed and analyzed.

For Caitlin Bailey the past has been far from easy. Living in the shadows of her mothers mental illness, she has been brought up in Dublin by her Aunt Milla. Now aged 22 and with her mother back home, Caitlin is escaping to London with her artist boyfriend Fitz to live life on her own terms. What does she want? Who can she be?The emerging art scene of early 90s London brings a job as a gallery assistant and exciting new friends but intrusive memories of her childhood haunt Caitlins nights. And then Fitz leaves to work in Rye its temporary but feels like another abandonment. What follows will change everything.A love story in which past and present reverberate, Three Flowers asks what we need to hold and what we need to let go in order to love and live well.

Prémio da Crítica da GalizaPrémio Follas Novas para Melhor LivroPrémio Xerais de RomanceUm dos Melhores Livros Galegos do Ano (El País)Entre o silêncio e o grito, entre o que se diz e o que se cala,

Romance inaugural de László Krasznahorkai sobre um mundo em decadência, falsos profetas e utopias falhadas, já considerado uma obra-prima da literatura contemporânea, foi igualmente adaptado ao cinem

A ferramenta essencial para alcançar o sucesso no trabalho e na vidaMilhes de pessoas em todo o mundo tornaram-se mais bem-sucedidas ao compreenderem o simples facto de que 80% dos seus resultados provem de 20% dos seus esforços. E este e o livro que lhe mostra como o fazer.O Principio 80/20, escrito pelo visionario Richard Koch, e mais poderoso e essencial do que nunca. Mostra-lhe como funciona a regra 80/20 e revela-lhe como usa-la de maneira sistematica e pratica para aumentar significativamente a sua eficacia e melhorar os seus resultados.Seja mais eficaz com menos esforço: Identifique os metodos que levam a otimos resultados; Evite o trabalho arduo; Seja seletivo no que faz; E, no fim, tenha uma otima vida.Hoje, muito pouco daquilo em que despende o tempo tem impacto no seu sucesso. Ao concentrar-se no que importa, pode desbloquear o enorme potencial dos 20% magicos.Os elogios da critica:"Leia este livro e use-o."Tim Ferriss, autor de 4 Horas por Semana"Aqui encontra ideias que podem mudar a sua vida."The Good Book Guide"A gesto do tempo no e organizar as suas tarefas diarias, mas sim organizar as tarefas diarias essenciais e descartar o resto. Richard Koch ganhou milhes com isto - um bestseller baseado numa unica ideia - provando que funciona."Gentlemens Quarterly"Richard Koch e um entusiasta do Principio 80/20. Leia-o e tambem se tornara um."Andrew Campbell, diretor do Ashridge Strategic Management Centre"Perspicaz e acessivel, este livro ajuda as pessoas a concentrarem-se em no desperdiçar as suas vidas."Theodore Zeldin, fellow do St Antonys College, Oxford"Damos 5 estrelas a esta obra-prima este livro vale muito mais do que o seu preço."The Weston Review

A forma perfeita de planear as refeições da sua semana sem esforço!Comprovado, acessível e eficaz: o método que já mudou a rotina de quem achava que não tinha tempo para cozinhar.«Não tenho tempo.» Q

Poderá um diagnóstico médico causar mais mal do que bem?UM DOS MELHORES LIVROS DO ANOThe Times * The Sunday Times * Financial TimesThe Guardian * The Economist * The London StandardThe Observer * The New Statesman * The Irish TimesO diagnostico e visto como a chave que abre a porta de acesso a muito daquilo por que ansiamos uma explicaço, o potencial de recuperaço, apoio, uma tribo de outros pacientes com a mesma doença , mas atras dessa porta tambem existem aspetos mais negros que nem sempre so devidamente ponderados.Do autismo as alergias, da PHDA a Covid longa, cada vez mais pessoas recebem rotulos medicos. Sera que estamos realmente a ficar menos saudaveis ou apenas a considerar patologicas as normais imperfeiçes humanas?Quando sofremos, e natural desejarmos um rotulo claro, compreenso e, naturalmente, tratamento. No entanto, muitos diagnosticos no so to definitivos quanto parecem e, nalguns casos, podem transformar pessoas saudaveis em pacientes.O avanço de tecnicas sofisticadas de sequenciaço genetica significa que ate os mais saudaveis podero, em breve, ser rastreados em busca de potenciais anomalias. Nunca tantas pessoas foram classificadas como doentes.Baseando-se em historias reais, em decadas de pratica clinica e na investigaço medica mais recente, a Dra. Suzanne OSullivan apela a necessidade de encontrarmos novas e melhores linguagens para falar do sofrimento e de desenvolvermos formas de apoiar as pessoas sem as medicalizar.Os elogios da critica:A melhor escritora de ciencia da atualidade uma verdadeira herdeira de Oliver Sacks.Sathnam Sanghera, jornalista e autor bestsellerRevelador. Aborda tantos temas que me tem preocupado, mas que eu no conseguia resolver sozinho como pai e medico.Chris Van Tulleken, medico e autor do bestseller Pessoas Ultra ProcessadasUm estudo brilhante sobre os perigos do sobrediagnostico.The GuardianTornamos as pessoas mais doentes pelo simples ato de as diagnosticarmos com um problema medico. Um livro fascinante.The TimesCom clareza de prosa e raciocinio, A Era dos Diagnosticos deve fazer-nos refletir a todos se estamos mais ou menos saudaveis quando recebemos um diagnostico.Elizabeth F. Loftus, psicologa e professora na Universidade da California

Uma distopia com um plot twist nunca antes visto e que inquieta pelas estranhas semelhanças com a nossa realidade cada vez mais virtual.Num mundo à beira do colapso, a humanidade está dividida em doi

Um romance imerso nos desacertos pessoais e políticos que moldam o doloroso fio do dia a dia da contemporaneidade, que nos traz a voz única de um dos autores mais lúcidos e atentos do nosso tempo.Uma trabalhadora de uma gigantesca empresa de expediço de encomendas, Barbara de seu nome de guerra, vive um precario equilibrio entre uma gravidez escondida, o conforto das redes sociais e o aconselhamento terapeutico aos colegas de trabalho, prisioneiros de ansiedades varias. Convidada a partilhar um voo de turismo espacial como unica operaria entre astronautas milionarios, aproveita o passeio na atmosfera para anunciar a sua condiço e exercer uma pequena grande vingança sobre um dos milionarios, reconhecido assediador.Regressada do espaço, assiste ao lento desmoronar da atmosfera fabril, com a chegada de novas maquinas trabalhadeiras a relegarem o operariado ao despedimento e ao desespero, enquanto a administraço oferece como menu consolador uma panoplia de eremitas, falsos santos, mulheres-magicas e especialistas do fim do mundo, entre outros.Os elogios da criticaA arte de Jose Gardeazabal consiste em encontrar um terreno comum entre o triunfo da linguagem desenfreada e a voz imperiosa da consciencia social.Alberto ManguelUm livro extraordinario, ninguem escreve com esta estranheza, inteligencia e talento em Portugal.Jose Riço Direitinho (sobre Quando eramos peixes)Mereceria integrar as antologias dos melhores textos da literatura portuguesa de todos os tempos.Miguel Real, Jornal de Letras (sobre A melhor maquina viva)[...] um autor com uma cultura literaria extraordinaria, este e o desenho de uma distopia radical.Eliane Robert Moraes, Juri do Premio Literario Oceanos (sobre A melhor maquina viva)Se necessario fosse, o segundo romance de Jose Gardeazabal vem confirma-lo como uma das grandes vozes da literatura portuguesa.Jose Riço Direitinho, Publico (sobre A melhor maquina viva)[Um livro que,] pela sua qualidade literaria e originalidade estrutural, e tambem pelo testemunho que as paginas sumariam, cristalizara este tempo estranho transfigurado na memoria estetica da Literatura.Miguel Real, Jornal de Letras (sobre Quarentena - Uma historia de amor)O aparecimento de Jose Gardeazabal no plano literario europeu contribui para uma desconstruço da Europa moderna.Ana Catarina Anjos, A Europa Face a Europa: Poetas Escrevem a EuropaMaquina narrativa em que a ferocidade da ironia esmaga os leitores desavisados. [] esta e uma catarse literaria continua.Revista Viso (sobre Origami)Origami e um livro politico, [] no sentido moderno e abrangente. Uma lucida biografia dos nossos tempos.Jose Riço Direitinho, Publico

O novo livro de Mafalda Santos é uma história comovente, chocante e brilhantemente escrita, sobre um mundo onde o toque humano mata.Quando o toque se torna mortal, o que resta da humanidade?Num mundo que ja se habituou a indiferença, um som impossivel ecoa do ceu e da terra e, num instante, tudo muda. Depois dele, surge uma nova verdade, to simples quanto devastadora: o toque mata. Milhares sucumbem. As regras da convivencia e do amor so rescritas e a sociedade renasce sob um novo pacto, o da distancia.Mas como continuar a ser gente num mundo onde o afeto e proibido? Sera a liberdade e a justiça algo de que estamos dispostos a abdicar para sobreviver?Cinco desconhecidos duas mulheres, dois homens e uma criança surda embarcam numa jornada perigosa rumo a um refugio remoto, onde acreditam existir uma cura.Entre a esperança e a manipulaço, eles tornam-se herois improvaveis de uma epopeia distopica que reflete, com inquietante preciso, o mundo em que vivemos. Uma historia sobre o medo, a coragem e o poder devastador e redentor do contacto humano.