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Travel to the Burgdale valleys in a sweeping romance that inspired the landscapes of modern high fantasy. The story details the alliance between the dalesmen and the "sons of the wolf" as they unite to drive out a horde of Huns threatening their peaceful existence. With its detailed descriptions of clothing, architecture, and the natural world, the novel builds a fully realized setting that feels both historic and mythic. It is a celebration of the simple life and the courage required to defend it.

Wake up in a future England where industrial squalor has been replaced by a pastoral socialist utopia. The protagonist, a Victorian traveler, discovers a society without money, class conflict, or government, where work is performed for the sheer joy of creation. This dream vision serves as both a critique of 19th-century capitalism and a hopeful blueprint for a world based on beauty and fellowship. It is a gentle yet radical work of political imagination that argues for the transformative power of art and community.

Traverse the gap of sixteen years in a romance that moves from a tragic court gripped by delusional jealousy to a pastoral festival of renewal. The play begins with a kings irrational destruction of his family but shifts halfway through to a world of youth, music, and impossible reunions. It explores the themes of time as a healer and the miraculous possibility of redemption for past sins. The famous final scene offers one of the most magical and moving moments of grace in the canon.

Enter the bustling marketplace of life in a novel without a hero, where the ambitious Becky Sharp battles her way through the strata of English society. Set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars, this satirical panorama exposes the greed, hypocrisy, and vanity that drive human behavior. The narrative puppeteer guides the reader through a world where virtue is rarely rewarded and wickedness is often delightful. It remains one of the sharpest and most entertaining critiques of social maneuvering ever written.

Não dá para entender o Ocidente sem conhecer suas heresias. Muito antes das ideologias modernas, foram erros de fé que corroeram instituições, remodelaram costumes, leis e até a psicologia do homem c

Tracks: A Journey Through Metroland tells the story of Metroland and the development of suburbia that grew alongside the Metropolitan Railway. Originally the brainchild of eminent Victorians, the Metropolitan grew to become the queen of underground lines, eventually expanding to a point some fifty miles outside London. Author Kevin J. Last describes how the concept of Metroland was an aspiration for several levels of society, promising a better lifestyle well away from the deprivations of wartime. The idea that the working man could live comfortably outside the smoke in individually designed houses would mean that he could also thrive at work, largely due to the regular service offered by the new railway. This was quite exceptional in that, while nominally an underground line, most of the Mets route was above ground and, in length, went far beyond other similar lines, far out into the Buckinghamshire countryside. Not marked on any map, Metroland is as much a concept of the mind as a real place.

A lesbian office romance about rewriting the past and winning over the legendary ice queen who once inspired you. When free-spirited artist Sienna Fisher is mistaken for an intern at a New York luxury goods empire, the last thing she expects is for the CEO to be aloof English art curator Jasmine Gemayel. Years ago in London, Jasmine shredded Siennas art and mocked her for knowing nothing of life, setting her on a path to wander the world.Now Sienna has a second chance to impress Jasmine, and shes not about to waste it. Even if it means becoming an intern at age thirty-four and trying to win an in-house design competition, all to dazzle the woman who changed her lifeand doesnt even remember her. As if thats not hard enough, theres that strange business of the sparks that keep flying every time she argues art with her boss. Of course, thats entirely one-sided given Jasmines straight and marriedright?Oris she?

Ao evitar a dilatação semântica que muitas vezes esvazia o termo "fascismo" no debate contemporâneo, Sabino Cassese nos convida neste livro a observar as minúcias da máquina pública. Compreender como

"As sete faces de um anjo sem trombeta", novo romance da escritora Lilian Dias, acompanha os últimos sete dias da vida de Mundo, titereiro que apresenta seu teatro de bonecos nas ruas de Lisboa. A estrutura temporal inversa, começando na segunda-feira, seu ultimo dia, e retrocedendo ate a terça-feira da semana anterior, cria um efeito de espiral aberta, que espelha a forma no cronologica como nossa mente processa as memorias de uma vida, estabelecendo-se, assim, uma meditaço profunda e poetica sobre a finitude. "A infancia precisa ser inventada. E uma construço pessoal, iluminada pelo ludico, com a força da metafora. Ha que se interpretar um mundo que no se domina, de que no se tem conhecimento suficiente. Nesse esforço do pequeno, movendo-se no oceano das incertezas, todos somos, necessariamente, poetas. A despeito de assumirmos ou no o posto avançado da escrita, seguimos sempre a procura de sentido, como forma de credenciar a vida, com a responsabilidade do adulto assentada no papel carbono da infancia. E a talentosa Lilian Dias nos introduz nesse mundo com maestria, a conta da voz tranquila e firme de quem tem muito a ensinar. Perfilando seus personagens na cronologia primaria dos dias da semana, como costumavamos gerir o tempo, quando ainda pequenos, Lilian confere ao texto uma respiraço propria, um andamento muito particular e admiravel, que desagua na percepço do homem como um ser, por natureza, semantico, que precisa significar e encontrar significado, construir uma narrativa, para justificar-se.Transitando por seus cenarios e referencias, percebi a obra As sete faces de um anjo sem trombeta como quem assiste, em meio a praça dos encontros fortuitos, um teatro de fantoches, espelhando a propria existencia. Lembrei-me, tambem, daquele sonho intenso e realista, que amanhece nitido e invade o dia, nos desafiando a decifra-lo. O leitor que caminhar por essa senda sabera se reconhecer e enxergar que a poesia carece ser vivida." Rodrigo Carpi Nejar

Unantropologa e ricercatrice indaga le memorie dei rimasti dopo lesodo: uomini e donne che nei turbolenti anni del secondo dopoguerra non hanno lasciato lIstria assieme a gran parte della comunita italiana per raggiungere lItalia; persone che sono rimaste in Jugoslavia e da maggioranza sono diventate minoranza. Voci scomode sia per chi vorrebbe raccontare lesodo solo come migrazione di vittime sia per chi invece lo intende solo come opzione di scelta. Voci ridotte al silenzio per decenni che finalmente raccontano la propria storia.Nel complesso mosaico di cio che e stato lesodo giuliano-dalmata, si inserisce ora un tassello mancante: il racconto dei destini delle persone comuni che rimasero, che si adattarono, che ricostruirono una societa assieme a coloro che arrivarono dallinterno della Jugoslavia a colonizzare il selvaggio West istriano.Un racconto composto da testimonianze toccanti, raccolte in dieci anni con rigoroso metodo antropologico nellarea litoranea slovena e con un obiettivo principale: abbandonare gli stereotipi e lasciare finalmente parlare il silenzio.

The golf course as a place of enlightenment... Descartes would have loved it. The green offers plenty of space for fun, but other emotions such as frustration, enthusiasm, despair, and ambition also find a stage here. Erni S. Holzer, a "moderately talented golf enthusiast," shares his insights in "Ich golfe, also bin ich" (I golf, therefore I am). And so the reader not only accompanies the author on his now 20-year journey through the world of golf, with all the ups and downs of the sport, but also gets to know less athletic contemporaries on the green. Naturally, this is a pleasure for die-hard golfers, but even non-golfers will acquire a taste for it in these humorous stories... and perhaps even end up on the golf course!

RELACIONAR-SE BEM É UMA ARTE, ALÉM DE SER UMA DAS MAIORES CHAVES DO SUCESSO. Inspirado no best-seller de Dale Carnegie, este livro reúne 52 reflexões práticas para aprimorar a empatia, ouvir com aten

Quando a bolinha favorita do Peter desaparece, Mamãe Lúcia revela aos filhos um segredo mágico: o pêndulo pode ajudar a encontrar o que está escondido — mas é o amor que realmente mostra o caminho.In

"The Glowing Jaw The deadly price of the first instant fire" tells the horrific story of the Victorian matchstick industry. In the 19th century, the invention of the "lucifer" match brought instant fire to the masses. But the active ingredient, white phosphorus, was a slow-acting poison. The women and girls who dipped the matches in factories developed "Phossy Jaw"a condition where the jawbone would rot, glow green in the dark, and eventually kill them.Historian Emily Strike chronicles the suffering of these workers and the historic Matchgirls Strike of 1888. Led by teenage girls, this strike challenged the powerful Bryant & May corporation and eventually forced the banning of white phosphorus."The Glowing Jaw" is a micro-history of labor and chemistry. It reveals the gruesome human cost of a household convenience we take for granted and the courage of the women who fought for the right not to be poisoned at work.

"The Invisible Hand Designing the environment to make the right choice easy" is a practical guide to "Choice Architecture." Based on the Nobel-winning work of Thaler and Sunstein, it argues that there is no neutral design. Every way we present options influences the decision. If you put fruit at eye level in the cafeteria, people eat more fruit. If you paint a fly in the urinal, men aim better.Behavioral designer Lydia Choice explains how to use "Nudges" to improve personal productivity and business results without restricting freedom. The book covers defaults, framing, and friction."The Invisible Hand" teaches readers to be the architects of their own lives. Instead of relying on willpower (which fails), it shows how to design an environment where the best choice is the path of least resistance.

O livro reúne lições sobre os sistemas alimentares urbanos e seus desafios, propondo caminhos para tornar a alimentação mais justa, sustentável e inclusiva, em diálogo entre academia, gestão pública

Medieval Europe is often imagined as uniformly pious, with the Church dictating every aspect of life. The reality was far more complex. Religious authority faced constant negotiation: bishops clashed with kings over jurisdiction, monasteries competed for pilgrims and relics, parish priests struggled against folk traditions they could not erase, and lay people practiced Christianity in ways Rome never approved.This book traces the lived experience of religion across a thousand years. It examines monastic reform movements that promised spiritual renewal yet accumulated enormous wealth. It follows pilgrimage routes linking distant villages to Jerusalem, Santiago, and Canterbury, revealing religion as commerce, adventure, and penance intertwined. It enters cathedral construction sites, listening to masons, merchants, and bishops argue over sacred geometry and urban prestige. It uncovers popular heresiesCathars, Waldensians, Lollardschallenging institutional orthodoxy from below.Drawing on parish records, miracle accounts, inquisition trials, and archaeological evidence of shrines and burial practices, this narrative reveals medieval Christianity as negotiation between official doctrine and local custom. It examines the Crusades as religious violence and economic expansion, the cult of saints as communal identity and political leverage, and the rise of universities as theology became intellectual debate rather than received truth.From rural chapels to papal courts, from mystical visions to liturgical spectacle, this is the story of how religion ordered medieval society yet never fully tamed the messiness of human belief. Medieval Europe offers insight into the persistence of popular religion despite institutional control, the political uses of sacred authority, and the tension between universal claims and local practice.

"The Peak of Ignorance Why stupid people think they are geniuses" dives into the Dunning-Kruger Effect. In 1999, psychologists David Dunning and Justin Kruger published a paper inspired by a bank robber who covered his face in lemon juice, believing it would make him invisible to cameras. They discovered that incompetent people lack the very skills needed to recognize their own incompetence.Author Sarah Smart explains the "Mount Stupid" curve: Beginners often feel high confidence, while experts act with caution. The book applies this to internet arguments, office politics, and voting behavior. It argues that we are all idiots in some domain, but only the wise admit it."The Peak of Ignorance" is a guide to intellectual humility. It teaches readers how to spot their own blind spots and why "I dont know" is the most intelligent sentence a human being can speak.

"The Theft of Noon How the railroads forced the world to synchronize clocks" explores the moment humanity surrendered natural time to mechanical time. Until the late 19th century, every town kept its own local time based on the sun. When it was noon in Boston, it was 11:48 AM in New York. This was fine for farmers, but a nightmare for the new railroads, leading to deadly collisions and impossible schedules.Historian Samuel Track details the "Day of Two Noons" in 1883, when North American railroads unilaterally imposed four standard time zones, ignoring local sun time. The book describes the public outrage, with preachers claiming that changing time was an affront to Gods order."The Theft of Noon" is a story of how corporate logistics reshaped our perception of reality. It shows how the need to catch a train on time obliterated the ancient connection between the community and the position of the sun.

"The Tetris Mind How repetitive tasks rewire your perception of reality" explores the "Tetris Effect." People who play the game for hours begin to see falling blocks in their sleep and visualize fitting buildings together on the street. This book argues that this is not just about video games; it is a fundamental feature of how the brain learns and filters reality.Psychologist Leonard Salt explains that whatever we dedicate our attention towhether it is coding, complaining, or gratitudecreates a "cognitive afterimage." If you look for problems all day at work, you will scan for problems in your marriage. The brain becomes a pattern-matching machine for whatever you feed it."The Tetris Mind" teaches readers to harness this neuroplasticity. It offers strategies to "play different games" with your attention, effectively reprogramming your subconscious to spot opportunities instead of obstacles.