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É uma obra essencial que transcende as fronteiras da compreensão superficial sobre Direitos Humanos. Esta coletânea desafia o leitor a uma reflexão crítica sobre as fragilidades e as urgências da gar

Uma jornada de fé e transformação. Neste livro, Clélia Freitas Rodrigues compartilha sua experiência de seguir os passos de Cristo, aprendendo a ouvir Sua voz e obedecer à Sua palavra. Com humildade

Lembranças Inesquecíveis de Minha Vida é um compilado de crônicas e memórias escrito por Eustáquio Lins, que nos leva a uma jornada fascinante no mundo da literatura biográfica e cotidiana. A tese pr

This book explores how your nervous system responds to threat and safety in ways that often feel confusing or contradictorythe sudden shutdown when you need to speak up, the hypervigilance that wont turn off, the disconnect between knowing youre safe and feeling unsafe. Drawing on polyvagal theory, it examines these responses not as dysfunction but as intelligent survival strategies: your nervous system constantly assesses danger and safety, shifting between states of connection, mobilization, and shutdown based on cues you might not consciously register.Rather than treating nervous system dysregulation as something to overcome through willpower, the book reframes these patterns as protective mechanisms worth understanding. What does your system interpret as threat? Why does social engagement sometimes feel impossible? What actually signals safety to your body versus what you logically know should feel safe? It examines the gap between cognitive understanding and embodied experiencewhy you cant think your way into feeling calm, and why "just relax" misses the entire point of how regulation actually works.Through compassionate psychological insight, the text explores what helps nervous systems shift toward safety without prescribing rigid techniques or promising transformation. This isnt about mastering your physiology or achieving optimal regulationits about recognizing your nervous systems intelligence, understanding its protective patterns, and discovering what genuinely supports movement toward connection rather than forcing it.

Ancient Egyptian culture appears exotic to modern eyesanimal-headed gods, elaborate mummification, towering templesbut beneath these striking visuals lay a coherent worldview that governed everything from farming schedules to legal disputes. This book explores how the concept of maat (cosmic order, truth, justice) functioned as the organizing principle of Egyptian civilization for three millennia.Through temple records, household artifacts, tomb inscriptions, and legal papyri, the narrative reveals how Egyptians understood their relationship with the divine not as distant worship but as daily maintenance of universal balance. Priests calculated festival dates to align earthly rhythms with celestial movements. Farmers timed planting to the Niles flood cycle, seen as the gods gift requiring human reciprocity. Even criminal punishment aimed to restore maat rather than simply punish wrongdoing.The book examines religious practice across social classesfrom royal mortuary cults requiring hundreds of priests to village shrines where families left offerings for local deities. It traces how beliefs about the afterlife shaped architecture, art, literature, and social obligations, making "religion" inseparable from what we might call economics, politics, or ethics. Death preparation wasnt morbid obsession but logical extension of a worldview where existence continued if proper order was maintained.

This book examines the critical transition from solo operation to initial team formation, exploring the strategic considerations that determine whether hiring accelerates growth or creates unsustainable obligations. It reveals how timing decisions around the first employee shape long-term organizational health, investigating the economic thresholds and operational patterns that signal genuine readiness rather than entrepreneurial impatience.The content addresses the tensions between capacity constraints and financial prudence, showing how premature hiring often stems from process inefficiencies rather than legitimate expansion needs. It explores the concealed costs of employment beyond direct compensationmanagement overhead, training investment, infrastructure requirements, and the cognitive burden of responsibility for another persons livelihood.Through analysis of successful micro-enterprise transitions and common expansion failures, the book investigates alternative pathways to increased capacity: systematization, contractor relationships, strategic partnerships, and technology implementation. It reveals patterns in role definition that distinguish productive hires from expensive experiments, examining how founders can assess whether their business model genuinely supports sustained employment.The framework presented navigates the psychological dimensions of the first hire decision, addressing founder identity shifts, delegation challenges, and the distinction between wanting help and requiring permanent staff. It explores how effective onboarding, clear role boundaries, and performance frameworks protect both business stability and working relationships during this vulnerable transition phase.

Leonardo da Vinci left behind thousands of manuscript pages filled with anatomical sketches, mechanical designs, mathematical calculations, and observations about light, water, and flightyet he completed relatively few paintings and saw almost none of his engineering projects built. This book examines how Leonardos restless intellect operated across disciplines that Renaissance Europe was only beginning to separate, making him both visionary and perpetually frustrated.Through his surviving notebooks, correspondence, and the testimony of contemporaries, the narrative traces Leonardos working methods: dissecting corpses to understand muscle movement for painting, studying bird flight to design flying machines, analyzing water flow for both canal engineering and background landscapes. His genius lay not in isolated breakthroughs but in seeing connections others missedrecognizing that the branching patterns of trees, rivers, and human blood vessels followed similar principles.The book explores the tension between Leonardos roles as court artist, military engineer, and independent researcher. Patrons wanted finished artworks and functional war machines; Leonardo wanted to understand fundamental principles. His perfectionism and curiosity often meant projects remained unfinished, yet his approach to observationmeticulous, systematic, questioninghelped establish new standards for both artistic representation and scientific inquiry.The narrative also examines Leonardos legacy: how his notebooks circulated among later scientists and artists, which ideas proved prophetic, and how posthumous mythmaking transformed a brilliant but conflicted Renaissance figure into the archetype of universal genius.

"Forgive and forget" is standard advice, but therapist Rachel Sims argues that it can be damaging. In "The Forgiveness Myth," Sims challenges the societal and religious pressure to forgive abusers, toxic parents, or betraying partners. She posits that "forced forgiveness" bypasses the necessary stages of anger and grief, leading to suppressed trauma.Sims introduces the concept of "Acceptance without Forgiveness." You can accept that something happened and move on with your life without absolving the perpetrator or restoring the relationship. The book validates the feelings of victims who are told their healing is incomplete because they still feel anger."The Forgiveness Myth" distinguishes between reconciliation (a two-way street requiring change) and internal peace (a solo job). It empowers readers to set boundaries and prioritize their own safety over the comfort of those who hurt them. A liberating guide for anyone who isnt readyor willingto forgive.

For decades, "Just-in-Time" (JIT) manufacturing was the gold standard of business efficiency. Eliminate inventory, reduce waste, save money. Supply chain expert Simon Gentry argues in "The Fragile Chain" that this obsession with leanness stripped the global economy of its immune system.Gentry traces the history of JIT from the Toyota factory floors to global dominance. He vividly describes the chaos of the 2020sfrom the Suez Canal blockage to the semiconductor shortageas the inevitable result of a system built for perfection in an imperfect world.The book advocates for a shift from "Efficiency" to "Resilience." Gentry explains why we need "Just-in-Case" inventory, redundancy in suppliers, and shorter supply chains. It is a wake-up call for CEOs and consumers alike, revealing that the cheapest price tag often carries the highest hidden risk.

"The Architecture of Attachment" by psychologist Fiona West moves beyond the advice of "does it spark joy?" to answer the deeper question: Why is it so painful to throw things away? West links our physical clutter to our emotional attachment styles (anxious, avoidant, secure).She explains that objects often serve as "transitional objects" for adultssafety blankets that soothe anxiety or physical manifestations of memories we fear losing. The book explores the "endowment effect" (overvaluing what we own) and the fear of scarcity that drives mild hoarding behaviors.West provides a compassionate framework for decluttering that honors the emotional weight of items. She suggests rituals for saying goodbye to sentimental objects and cognitive techniques to separate the memory from the physical item. This book is for anyone who has ever felt guilty about throwing away a birthday card or paralyzed by a garage full of "just in case" items. Its about clearing space in the home to create space in the mind.

The FIRE movement promises that if you save 70% of your income and eat rice and beans for a decade, you can retire at 35. Financial journalist Oliver West takes a critical, nuanced look at this phenomenon in "The FIRE Escape." While acknowledging the benefits of saving, West questions the philosophy of miserable deprivation in your prime years for a hypothetical freedom later.The book analyzes the math flaws: What happens to a 40-year retirement plan when inflation spikes or healthcare costs explode? West interviews early retirees who achieved the dream only to find themselves bored, lonely, and lacking purpose.West proposes a "Slow FIRE" or "Coast FIRE" approachbuilding financial security to take risks and work less now, rather than quitting entirely. "The FIRE Escape" is about designing a life you dont need to retire from, arguing that time is a currency you cant save for later.

It was sold as a revolution in collaboration: tear down the walls, and innovation will flow. Architect and workplace consultant Derek Finch argues in "The Glass Cage" that the open-plan office is a failed experiment that destroyed productivity and privacy.Finch compiles research showing that open offices actually reduce face-to-face interaction (people wear headphones to survive) and increase stress hormones. He explores the "panopticon effect," where the feeling of being constantly watched kills creativity, which requires psychological safety and solitude.The book is not just a critique; it offers a new vision for the "Eudaimonic Office." Finch advocates for "activity-based working," soundproof pods, and the return of the door. He explains how acoustics, lighting, and visual barriers influence cognitive performance. A manifesto for reclaiming our ability to think at work.

This book explores the often-unexamined difference between emotional intelligence and emotional laborthe ways workplace culture reframes the management of others emotions and your own suppression as a professional skill rather than an exhausting requirement. It examines how emotional intelligence advice at work can obscure power dynamics: the expectation that you regulate your reactions to unfair treatment, manage difficult personalities without addressing systemic issues, or perform positivity regardless of circumstances. The text questions whether developing emotional intelligence actually serves you or primarily serves workplace productivity and conflict avoidance.Rather than offering techniques to improve workplace emotional skills, the book reframes emotional intelligence demands as fundamentally about laborunpaid work of managing team morale, absorbing others dysregulation, or suppressing legitimate responses to maintain professional composure. It explores the patterns that make this labor invisible: calling boundary-setting "lack of emotional intelligence," framing emotional suppression as maturity, treating your authentic reactions as problems to manage rather than information about workplace dysfunction.Through psychological insight, the text examines what workplace emotional intelligence actually costsparticularly for those expected to perform more emotional labor based on gender, position, or personality. It explores the difference between genuine emotional awareness and performative emotional management for others comfort. This isnt about developing better workplace emotional skillsits about recognizing when emotional intelligence expectations are really demands for unpaid emotional labor, and understanding what authentic emotional integrity looks like versus what serves organizational comfort.

Em uma manhã que começa como qualquer outra, um sábio brâmane se depara com um tigre preso em uma armadilha e, movido pela compaixão, decide libertá-lo. No entanto, a gratidão do tigre se transforma

A coletânea Discussões interdisciplinares em Ciências Sociais Aplicadas – Volume 9 reúne estudos que dialogam com desafios contemporâneos do Direito, da Administração Pública, da Economia, da Educaçã

Klaas adora queijo mais do que tudo, mas sua gula incontrolável o faz seguir misteriosas luzes mágicas que prometem mais do que ele jamais imaginou! Neste episódio, viajaremos até a Alemanha para desvendar o que acontece quando ele consegue tudo o que sempre quis. Descubra mais sobre o conto organizado por William Elliot Griffis neste episodio incrivel de "Planeta Historia", uma serie de historias para crianças que apresenta contos classicos de diferentes paises recontados sob uma nova perspectiva, em uma viagem ao redor do mundo! Com paisagens sonoras envolventes e efeitos imersivos, criados pela NarraKids especialmente para o publico infantil.

DescriptionOn the night she wins the prestigious Young Artist Award, Selenes triumph is hijacked. The host, Cyrus, unveils a surprisethe biological parents who abandoned her as an infant, now weeping on stage to claim her success. They try to bind her with the chains of filial duty and public shame. But Selene has a secret weapon: she plays by their rules, only better. With the cameras rolling and the world watching, she masterfully turns their emotional manipulation against them. What begins as a tearful plea for reunion spirals into a spectacular showdown of reverse psychological warfare. Selene is determined to protect the only father shes ever knownthe man who rescued her from a snowbankand shell use every tool, including their own toxic guilt, to do it. A sharp, suspenseful tale of justice, family, and the art of fighting fire with fire.

A coletânea Ciências em Sintonia: Explorando Conexões entre Exatas e Naturais – Volume 8 reúne pesquisas que evidenciam o diálogo entre diferentes campos do conhecimento científico, destacando como a

A transação tributária, diante da sua relevância no contexto da Lei nº 13.988/2020, passou a ser instrumento de extrema importância para a modernização da relação entre o fisco e os contribuintes. Ne

What if childhood was the greatest adventure of all?Tom Sawyer Complete Collection brings together Mark Twains beloved stories of mischief, freedom, and growing up along the Mississippi River. Through humor, heart, and sharp observation, Twain captures the joy and danger of boyhoodand the moral lessons learned along the way.Follow Tom Sawyer and his friends through daring escapades, secret caves, painted fences, and moments of courage that shape character. With wit and warmth, Twain blends playful storytelling with deeper reflections on friendship, justice, and conscience.Funny, adventurous, and endlessly readable, these stories remain a rite of passage for readers of all ages.Inside this eBook, youll enjoy:The complete Tom Sawyer stories in one collectionClassic American adventure and coming-of-age storytellingHumor, imagination, and unforgettable charactersA cornerstone of American childrens and young-adult literatureRead in classrooms, shared in families, and loved for generations, Tom Sawyers adventures never grow old.Rediscover the joy of childhood adventure. Buy now and enjoy the complete collection of Tom Sawyer.