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When a body is discovered in Falkenberg under circumstances that raise more questions than answers, Detective Inspector Kajsa Rudolfsson and her team are drawn into an investigation where nothing is quite what it seems. As the case unfolds, old secrets resurface and long-buried truths begin to connect people who believed their past was safely forgotten.With pressure mounting and personal loyalties tested, Kajsa soon realizes that the danger is closer than anyone suspects. As past and present collide, the consequences threaten to become deadly.Unknown Origins is the fourth book in the Falkenberg Murders series, a gripping Swedish crime novel set on the Halland coast, where small-town calm hides dark secrets.

"The Orchid Madness The Victorian obsession that stripped jungles bare" explores the phenomenon known as "Orchidelirium." In the 19th century, wealthy Victorians developed a fanatical obsession with collecting rare orchids. These flowers became ultimate status symbols, leading to a frantic biological gold rush.Author Sarah J. Pike recounts the tales of "orchid hunters" who ventured into the Andes and the Amazon. These explorers faced cannibals, tigers, and yellow fever to bring back new species. The competition was so fierce that hunters would burn down entire forests after harvesting to ensure no rival could find the same flower."The Orchid Madness" is a story of beauty and destruction. It illustrates how the love for a delicate flower led to ecological devastation and high-stakes adventure, revealing the dark side of the Victorian passion for natural history.

The Weimar Republic unfolded not in grand political pronouncements alone, but in the lived experiences of people navigating impossible choices: a factory worker deciding whether to join a strike amid inflation that devoured wages overnight, a Jewish shopkeeper watching former neighbors embrace antisemitic rhetoric, a cabaret performer balancing artistic freedom against rising censorship demands, a war veteran unable to reconcile military defeat with civilian accusations of betrayal.This book reconstructs the Republic through personal testimonies that reveal how political chaos translated into daily uncertainty. It follows a middle-class family watching their savings evaporate during hyperinflation, forced to sell possessions for bread while politicians debated reparations. It traces a single mothers navigation of new social welfare programs while facing judgment from traditional communities. It examines a university students radicalization as economic prospects collapsed and extremist movements offered belonging and purpose. It explores an artists conflicting impulses toward experimentation and commercial survival in Berlins explosive cultural scene.Drawing on personal diaries, private correspondence, oral histories, memoirs written decades later, and photographic documentation of everyday moments, it captures the Republics contradictions: unprecedented creative freedom alongside political violence, progressive social reforms alongside economic devastation, cosmopolitan urban culture alongside rural resentment, hope for democratic renewal alongside cynicism about institutional failure. It reveals how ordinary people made sense of dizzying change, formed political allegiances, maintained dignity amid humiliation, and witnessed their societys disintegration.This is not a story of inevitable descent into dictatorship, but of individuals confronting choices whose consequences they could not fully grasp.

Anxiety doesnt just live in thoughtsit lives in tight shoulders, shallow breath, clenched jaws, and restless legs. Sometimes the mind calms down, but the body still remembers.This book explores anxiety as a somatic experience, examining how the nervous system stores unprocessed stress and why thinking your way out of anxiety often isnt enough. It looks at the intelligence of physical tension, the protective function of bracing, and how the body creates safety through patterns we rarely noticeuntil they exhaust us.Rather than offering techniques to fix or eliminate anxiety, this book reframes somatic symptoms as information about unprocessed emotion and incomplete stress cycles. It examines grounding, regulation, discharge, and the subtle ways our bodies communicate beyond words. It explores the difference between controlling anxiety and allowing the nervous system to complete its natural rhythms.For anyone carrying tension they cant explain, feeling anxious despite knowing theyre safe, or sensing anxiety living somewhere deeper than thoughtthis book offers insight into why the body holds on, and the quiet relief that comes from listening instead of overriding.

The Weimar Republic did not fall to external invasion but collapsed under the weight of internal contradictions: a democratic constitution without widespread democratic conviction, economic instability that radicalized the middle class, political parties unable to build governing coalitions, and institutions that failed to protect themselves from those who sought their destruction.This book examines the Republics political dynamics through the decisions of key actors and the structural weaknesses they exploited. It traces how the Versailles Treatys punitive terms poisoned early legitimacy, how hyperinflation in 1923 destroyed savings and trust in state institutions, how paramilitary violence became normalized in street clashes between Communist and Nazi militants, and how centrist parties fragmented while extremes gained electoral strength. It analyzes the emergency presidential powers that circumvented parliament, the judiciarys lenient treatment of right-wing political violence, and the conservative elites who believed they could control radical movements for their own purposes.Drawing on parliamentary debates, newspaper coverage, political memoirs, police reports, and personal testimonies from citizens across the political spectrum, it reveals the everyday erosion of democratic norms: how propaganda techniques shaped public opinion, how economic anxiety translated into scapegoating, how coalition governments proved too weak to address crises, and how procedural democracy continued even as substantive democracy withered. It explores how workers, intellectuals, women newly enfranchised, and veterans navigated political chaos while institutions meant to safeguard liberty instead enabled authoritarianism.This is a systematic examination of how democracies fail when citizens lose faith in shared institutions and elites prioritize power over principle.

The Age of Exploration reshaped the worldbut not through the heroic narratives that dominate textbooks. Behind every charted coastline lay brutal working conditions aboard overcrowded ships, behind every landing stood Indigenous communities whose knowledge made survival possible, and behind every profitable voyage stretched supply chains built on enslaved labor and resource extraction.This book traces European maritime expansion through multiple perspectives: the sailors who endured scurvy, shipwreck, and mutiny for wages that often never materialized; the navigators who relied heavily on African and Asian pilots while claiming sole credit; the coastal communities who watched foreign ships arrive with mounting alarm; and the merchants who calculated profit margins against human suffering. It examines how technological innovations in shipbuilding and navigation enabled longer voyages, how competing European powers justified territorial claims through dubious legal frameworks, and how early contact moments revealed profound misunderstandings on all sides.Drawing on ship logs, survivor accounts, Indigenous oral histories preserved in colonial records, and archaeological evidence from shipwrecks and early settlements, it reveals the environmental devastation of resource extraction, the deliberate destruction of local maritime traditions, and the demographic catastrophe that followed European arrival in the Americas. It explores how disease, violence, and forced labor systems accompanied every expedition, and how exploration narratives systematically erased these realities.This is an unflinching examination of how curiosity, ambition, and greed combined to create global connections through profoundly unequal exchanges.

Anxiety often feels like something we need to fix, manage, or overcome. But the anxious mind isnt malfunctioningits actually doing its job, just in overdrive.This book explores anxiety not as a flaw in thinking, but as a pattern worth understanding. It examines how cognitive loops form, why certain thoughts feel so urgent and convincing, and how our threat detection system becomes overly sensitive. Through the lens of cognitive awareness, it offers insight into rumination, catastrophic thinking, safety behaviors, and the exhausting cycle of mental vigilance.Rather than prescribing steps to eliminate anxiety, this book reframes it as information about how your mind protects youand why that protection sometimes costs more than it offers. It explores the shift that happens when we work with anxious thoughts instead of against them, and how understanding cognitive patterns can change your relationship with worry itself.For anyone caught in cycles of overthinking, hypervigilance, or constant mental preparation, this book offers a compassionate look at why anxiety makes senseand the clarity that emerges when you stop fighting your own mind.

Uma portentosa investigação jornalística às origens do Chega.Um documento essencial para compreender o momento atual da democracia portuguesa.Fundado em abril de 2019, o Chega apresentou-se ao país p

Midnight Reliquaries I – The Reliquary of Forgotten WishesBy Evelyne DLórienThere are places the heart remembers long after the mind has let go—rooms where old wishes sleep, doors that open only for

Nelle classi Freinet e larea della matematica che spesso pone la maggiore resistenza alla pratica centrata sul bambino.Gli insegnanti che desiderano adottare il Metodo naturale in matematica affrontano difficolta ricorrenti: cosa fare con la creazione di un bambino? Come reagire? Sentiamo che questo evento che avviene in classe porta con se un concetto matematico, ma come possiamo coinvolgere i bambini in un fruttuoso percorso di ricerca? Come possiamo garantire che attraverso questa ricerca lapprendimento della matematica abbia successo? Il Laboratorio di Ricerca Cooperativa ICEM propone questo insieme di materiali per mettere in risalto le azioni dellinsegnante: cosa dicono e cosa fanno linsegnante e il gruppo per trasformare gradualmente le proposte dei bambini in strumenti matematici di conoscenza allinterno di un ambiente cooperativo che allo stesso tempo funzioni come supporto e come stimolo.Le situazioni didattiche sono analizzate sulla base di alcuni testi teorici e descritte nel modo piu preciso possibile in una serie di schede pratiche. Queste schede ridefiniscono i concetti matematici essenziali per supportare i bambini nella loro ricerca. Gli stessi concetti matematici sono illustrati con esempi tratti dalla vita quotidiana e da numerose situazioni di classe.

O Direito Processual Civil constitui a ciência dedicada ao estudo da prestação jurisdicional em seu sentido mais amplo, abrangendo todas as formas de entrega de soluções jurídicas às demandas que eme

Considerado pelo New York Times o melhor thriller e romance policial de 2024, incluído na lista dos "100 livros de leitura obrigatória do ano" da revista Time e eleito o número 1 do ano pela People, Ecos da floresta conduz o leitor a uma historia de sucesses e segundas chances, mergulhando nas tenses entre uma familia e a comunidade ao seu redor e da qual ninguem saira impune. Em breve uma serie da Netflix!Manh, agosto de 1975. A monitora do Acampamento Emerson encontra uma das camas vazia a campista Barbara Van Laar desapareceu.No entanto, Barbara no e qualquer menina de treze anos; ela e a filha dos donos do acampamento, que tambem empregam grande parte dos moradores da regio. E essa no e a primeira vez que uma criança dos Van Laar some: catorze anos antes, o irmo mais velho de Barbara desapareceu de forma semelhante e nunca mais foi encontrado.Junto com uma busca frenetica, desenrola-se uma emocionante trama, com pontos de vistas de diferentes pessoas e epocas. Ao destrinchar todas as camadas do misterio em torno da poderosa familia Van Laar e da comunidade que vive e trabalha a sua sombra, a historia multifacetada de Liz Moore convida os leitores a uma rica e cativante dinastia de segredos."Uma joia rara, um thriller literario imersivo e envolvente. Um romance sobre o amor apos uma tragedia e sobre familias do melhor e do pior tipo." PAULA HAWKINS"Um romance que, no começo, e dificil parar de ler. E, a partir da pagina duzentos, impossivel." STEPHEN KING"Extraordinario me lembra da estreia de Donna Tartt, em 1992, com A historia secreta... Eu estava submersa em um mundo ficcional to rico, que passei horas sem emergir em busca de ar." MAUREEN CORRIGAN"Esse thriller ardilosamente ritmado tem o cinetismo de uma minisserie bem elaborada." THE NEW YORKER

I am drawing a map of distances. The swimmer. The sleeper. The dreamer. Another afternoon traipsing the incomprehensible corridors of the brain. Nothing uttered.Alia Kobuszkos poetry is as immediate as it is mysterious. She is unafraid of detonating form or trusting a quiet phrase, and saturates these poems with surreal and sensuous aspects. In this enchanting and piercing debut, strange horses gallop - embodying metamorphic freedom and power. The speaker becomes the rider, the horse itself and even the field, enacting how the poet inhabits and unanchors their subject so that girl and horse / stand still- / field runs through them.

Em um contexto de acelerada degradação ambiental – visível nos incêndios que devastam florestas, nos rios adoecidos, na poluição do ar e nos demais eventos climáticos extremos – o Direito é chamado a

Zé, um garoto criado no topo de uma colina, nunca teve a chance de contemplar o mar. Observando uma extensão azul no horizonte, ele começa a indagar sua família sobre aquela visão intrigante. Ao ser

Na margem do rio Tapajós, uma avó fascina a aldeia com narrativas que resistem ao tempo. Dentre elas, destaca-se a lenda do Barquinho, um pequeno aventureiro feito a partir do tronco da sumaúma, que diariamente parte em busca de algo enigmatico e regressa carregado de riquezas imperceptiveis. Acompanhado pela ave Urumutum, ele distribui tesouros coletados ao longo do rio, preservando a tradiço da partilha e do encantamento. "O Segredo do Barquinho" convida tanto crianças quanto adultos a explorarem as aguas da imaginaço e a ponderarem sobre a relevancia das narrativas na formaço de nossa identidade.

Alguns anos se passam até que o grupo siga novamente atrás de William para resgatá-lo do exílio imposto pelo Círculo de magos élficos. A travessia entre os mundos se torna uma tarefa bastante árdua quando alguns velhos conhecidos reaparecem, mesclada entre sonhos turbulentos e combates incessantes. Arcadia se torna palco para uma trama ainda maior arquitetada por Rodrigo, podendo transformar por completo o cenario de todos os reinos. Cabe aos gemeos tentarem mais uma vez impedir que algo ruim aconteça.

You know logically theyre not leaving. But your body doesnt believe it. You monitor their tone, analyze their silences, prepare for the moment they prove you were right to guard yourself. Abandonment wounds dont live in your thoughtsthey live in your nervous system, replaying old patterns in every new relationship.This book explores why early experiences of being left, unseen, or emotionally unavailable create lifelong bracing patterns. It examines how childhood abandonment shapes adult attachment, why you might push people away to avoid being left first, and how hypervigilance around connection becomes its own prison. It reframes abandonment fear not as irrational clinginess or self-sabotage, but as adaptive protection from a pain your younger self couldnt survive.Rather than offering steps to heal or overcome these wounds, this book helps you understand what abandonment trauma actually does to your relational wiring. It explores the difference between being left and feeling left, why reassurance never quite sticks, and what it means to stay present in connection when every instinct screams run or hold tighter. Its about making sense of patterns that feel automatic and unchangeable.For anyone who cant stop bracing for loss even in safe relationships, this book offers clarity about where the fear comes fromand compassion for why it persists.

"The Enemy Conversion Making people like you by asking for a favor" explores the "Ben Franklin Effect." The Founding Father famously won over a rival legislator not by doing him a favor, but by asking to borrow a rare book from him. When the rival obliged, he had to rationalize his own behavior: "I lent him a book, so I must like him."Social psychologist Henry Franklin explains the mechanism of cognitive dissonance. Our brains hate inconsistency. If we help someone we dislike, our brain rewrites our attitude to match our action. The book provides a toolkit for using this counter-intuitive strategy to heal rifts, build rapport, and turn haters into fans."The Enemy Conversion" flips the script on people-pleasing. Instead of trying to buy affection with gifts, it teaches readers to give others the gift of being helpful, creating a bond that is scientifically proven to be stronger.

"The Bat Men The fake news story that convinced the world life existed on the moon" recounts the Great Moon Hoax of 1835. The New York Sun published a series of articles claiming that the famous astronomer Sir John Herschel had built a super-telescope and discovered civilization on the moon. The articles described unicorns, two-legged beavers, and tribes of winged humanoids ("Bat Men") living in crystal temples.Media historian Thomas Print reveals that the story was a total fabrication designed to sell papers. It worked: The Sun became the best-selling newspaper in the world overnight. The public was so desperate for wonder that they believed it for weeks, even as scientists tried to debunk it."The Bat Men" is the origin story of viral fake news. It shows how the mix of scientific authority, mass media, and human wishful thinking can create a reality that millions accept as truth, proving that we have always preferred a good story over a boring fact.