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O que há na psicanálise? Uma hipótese de reconstruirmos a nossa própria história. Eis o fio que conduz Vera Iaconelli, escritora e psicanalista, num ensaio pessoal que entrelaça a narrativa familiar e o seu proprio processo psicanalitico.A lembrança dos seis filhos e uma das mais preciosas memorias da minha vida, congelada numa cena em que estamos todos de banho tomado e de pijama, amontoados no sofa da sala, brincando de fazer sombras a luz de velas. [] Tudo e perfeito nessa lembrança, tudo e contagioso e melancolico. As interpretaçes que fiz dela equivalem a decadas de choro e ranger de dentes sobre o div.Numa inusitada troca de lugares, passando a ser escutada em vez de ela mesma escutar, Vera Iaconelli reconstroi neste livro a sua historia privada: o pai violento, a me submissa, a morte dos irmos, os casamentos e divorcios, as filhas, o lugar do desejo e da escrita, a edificaço de uma casa e do futuro. Para esta historia afinal mais coletiva do que intima , a autora convoca as liçes que melhor estudou, as de Freud e Lacan, como que deliberadamente provando do proprio veneno para poder, no final, calibrar a narrativa possivel de si mesma.Atravessando a memoria e sua reconstruço, as duvidas que deixamos sem resposta, as inquietaçes que nos tornam no que somos, Analise Notas do div escrutina os mecanismos do desejo, da culpa e da procura da felicidade, iluminando os grandes enigmas do humano.Os elogios da critica: Uma reflexo sobre confrontar-se com a herança dos pais, implicar-se na propria historia e sustentar o proprio desejo diante do mundo, tendo a psicanalise como ferramenta. [] Vera Iaconelli convoca o leitor a refletir sobre o que se faz com a herança que se recebe.Folha de S.Paulo Entre o ensaio, o tratado de psicanalise e o romance, Iaconelli desenreda suas historias, assim no plural. Uma casa em reforma; a internaço de sua me, de nome identico ao seu; [] os casamentos, as filhas, o divorcio, a propria infancia. E a analise. [] Ao narrar os fatos da propria vida, reafirma a psicanalise como lugar em que a historia se conta e cujo contar tem o potencial de transformar a historia. [] Esse gesto, o de, sem se compadecer, tornar-se o outro sobre quem se pode escrever, e a maneira mais proficua talvez a unica de transformar em literatura a materia da propria vida.Quatro cinco um Numa prosa de carater literario e intimo, Vera Iaconelli evoca a historia de sua familia, a morte de dois irmos, sua relaço com os pais, namorados ou maridos, suas filhas, seus analistas. Assim, atrela memoria, historia social e psicanalise.O Globo Um painel da historia social e intima de um determinado modelo de familia um tanto comum em meados do seculo passado: que vivia a base de sacrificios emocionais para permanecer unida, mesmo que despedaçada por traumas. Enquanto reflete sobre os acontecimentos, as angustias e seus sintomas, Vera Iaconelli traz liçes preciosas de Freud, Lacan e companhia, ao mesmo tempo que consegue, por vezes, se tornar um espelho para o leitor.Veja

No seu livro de estreia, Katherine Pangonis apresenta a história da dinastia de mulheres que governou o Médio Oriente.Em 1187, os exércitos de Saladino sitiaram a cidade sagrada de Jerusalém. Atrás das altas muralhas da cidade uma defesa desesperada era liderada por um trio improvavel - incluindo Sibila, rainha de Jerusalem.Embora muitos livros tenham sido escritos sobre as Cruzadas, um aspeto esta visivelmente ausente: as historias das mulheres. Rainhas e princesas tendem a ser apresentadas como transmissoras passivas de terras e sangue real. Na realidade, as mulheres governavam, conduziam negociaçes diplomaticas, tomavam decises militares, forjavam alianças, rebelavam-se e empreendiam projetos arquitetonicos.Este e o relato das mulheres negligenciadas pela Historia, mulheres fortes, poderosas e que deixaram uma marca profunda na politica do Medio Oriente medieval."Uma leitura extremamente interessante que finalmente aborda o papel crucial das mulheres da realeza na historia das cruzadas."All About History"Fascinante, intrigante e emocionante. Eis as governantes dos Estados cruzados apresentadas como politicas astutas, rainhas guerreiras e mes, resistindo bravamente contra senhores da guerra islamicos na arena implacavel do Medio Oriente. Negligenciadas por muito tempo, esta obra vem prestar-lhes o devido reconhecimento."Simon Sebag Montefiore, autor bestseller"Primorosamente construido, inteligente, perspicaz, humano e empatico, este livro transforma as governantes esquecidas de Jerusalem, de meras reprodutoras impotentes, em personagens complexas com poder de aço, engenho e vidas fascinantes."William Dalrymple, autor de A Rota do Ouro"As personagens deste livro importante e inspirador tem sido frequentemente relegadas para notas de rodape da historia. Mas as rainhas de Jerusalem so figuras historicas, transformadoras. Deleite-se com a companhia delas nesta estreia inspiradora e fascinante."Bettany Hughes, historiadora e autora"Estudos recentes transformaram a compreenso do papel das mulheres na Idade Media europeia. Agora, o livro maravilhoso de Katherine Pangonis lança luz sobre o lugar publico, domestico e social das mulheres nobres e da realeza nas circunstancias politicas e dinasticas unicas dos Estados cruzados multiculturais do Levante. Numa mudança revigorante de enfase historica, essas mulheres, sejam protagonistas ou meras figuras decorativas, ganham vida nos seus proprios termos, e as suas experiencias e carreiras, mesmo que moldadas por homens, so vistas a partir de uma perspetiva feminina singular."Christopher Tyerman, Professor de Historia das Cruzadas na Universidade de Oxford

A comprehensive, fully illustrated A-Z guide to the English and Welsh parish church, dating from the post Roman period to the present day.Subjects covered include architecture, fitting an furnishings, traditions and customs, ecclesiastical history, and the role of the church in its community.

A compelling, intimate memoir of grief, heartbreak and what we owe the natural world all learned from the dog who saved her life.Only a teenager when her beloved father was murdered by his political opponents, as an adult Fatima Bhutto longed to build a happy family life. When she met a charismatic, alluring man, she thought she had found something special.This is the story of how Fatima freed herself from the tight coils of the mans manipulative charm and his dangerous, intoxicating hold over her. Its a tale that crosses continents, and travels into myth, literature, astronomy and art. By Fatimas side for the entire journey is Coco: a small, ferociously loyal Jack Russell terrier.In The Hour of the Wolf, Fatima Bhutto weaves wolf ethnography with her own suppressed maternal instinct; and an exploration of coercive attachments with one of humanitys connection to nature. The result is a memoir as intellectually compelling as it is intimate and evocative.

From the pretty villages, rural byways and bustling market towns of Essex come ten of the most dramatic and tragic murder cases in British history. Brutality, passion, jealousy, greed and moments of inexplicable rage have led to violent and horrifying deaths and, sometimes, the killers expiation of the crime on the scaffold.This chilling follow-up to Essex Murders brings together more true cases, dating between 1823 and 1960, that shocked not only the county but also made headline news across the nation. They include the extraordinary events resulting from the obsession of a young farmers daughter with a married man twice her age, the bloody killing of a police sergeant, a murder carried out in the depths of Epping Forest, the Dutch au pair found dead in a ditch, and a case that made criminal history in which the accused said he had strangled the victim while he was asleep. Linda Stratmanns well-illustrated and enthralling text will appeal to everyone interested in true crime and the shadier side of Essexs past.

An anthology of poems and short stories. Based on a true story and includes a variety of fictional characters created by the author.

A fascinating and brilliantly illustrated book, an invaluable guide for future generations of Great War archaeologists. Times Higher Education SupplementWhilst the war raged across Flanders fields, an equally horrifying and sometimes more dangerous battle took place underground.Beneath Flanders Fields tells the story of the tunnellers war, which still remains one of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and mystifying conflicts of the Great War.A wealth of personal testimonies reveal the engineering, technology and science behind how this most intense of battles was fought and won. They speak of how the tunnellers lived a relentless existence in the depths of the battlefield for almost two and a half years, enduring physical and mental stresses that were often more extreme than their infantry counterparts. Their lives were reduced to a complex war of silence, tension and claustrophobia, leading up to the most dramatic mine offensive in history launched on 7 June 1917 at Messines Ridge. Yet, Messines was not the end of their story, which continued with the crafting of a whole underground world of headquarters, cookhouses and hospitals, housing the innumerable troops who passed through this part of the Western Front.Here, this extraordinary, hidden world is revealed and the fragile legacy it has left behind on Flanders fields is brought to light.

For over a century, the Middle East has been riven by conflict driven by Jewish and Arab nationalism. They came about at the same point in history with claims over the same territory. Their encounter has evolved into one of the most enduring and divisive geopolitical issues of the modern era one defined by its complexity and its extremism and unfolding against a backdrop of 24-hour rolling news and social-media outrage. A Forever War: Israel, Palestine and the Struggles for Statehood reflects on the key questions: How did this state of affairs come about? And will it be a forever war?At a time when so much coverage is based on prejudice, fear and ignorance, Colin Shindler, Emeritus Professor of Israel Studies at SOAS, presents an authoritative view of this tragic conflict and dissects the current situation. Tracing the religious, political and historical motivations of both sides throughout many decades of turmoil and upheaval, A Forever War is the concise and non-partisan overview of the conflict that is so sorely needed.

Radicalization rarely announces itself. It arrives incrementally through a recommended video, a closed forum, a community that offers belonging alongside increasingly extreme ideas. The internet did not invent political radicalization, but it industrialized it, creating algorithmic pathways that guide vulnerable individuals from mainstream grievance into fringe ideology with a speed and efficiency no previous recruitment infrastructure could match.This book traces the documented history of online radicalization from the early message boards of the 1990s through the social media ecosystems of the twenty-first century, examining how platform architecture, recommendation algorithms, and decentralized network structures created the conditions for extremist recruitment at scale. Drawing on deradicalization case studies, platform transparency reports, congressional testimony, and investigative journalism, it reconstructs the specific mechanisms through which fringe networks identified, targeted, and retained members across ideological spectrums from jihadist recruitment pipelines to far-right accelerationist communities.The focus throughout remains systemic rather than sensational. This is not a catalogue of extreme content but an analysis of the institutional and technological choices made by platform engineers, regulators, and policymakers that allowed recruitment infrastructure to develop largely unchallenged for decades. It examines what intervention efforts revealed about the limits of content moderation, the role of community belonging in sustaining radicalization, and the historical precedents that help explain why digital environments proved so effective at accelerating processes that once took years.

O ensino da disciplina de história do Paraná na educação básica durante a Primeira República (1889-1930) foi pautado por discursos e representações que tinham em sua essência fomentar um caminho para

The end of the world has never gone out of fashionit has simply been rebranded. From the prophetic scrolls of ancient Mesopotamia to the algorithmic echo chambers of the twenty-first century, the core architecture of collapse mythology has remained strikingly consistent: a corrupted present, an imminent reckoning, and the promise of a cleansed world beyond the ruins. Old Apocalypse, New Brandings traces this long continuity, revealing how ancient fears are repeatedly dressed in the language of each new era.This book examines how millenarian traditions from early Christian eschatology, Islamic fitna narratives, and pre-Columbian cyclical cosmologies were absorbed, stripped of context, and redeployed by modern political movements, wellness cultures, and digital communities. It shows how the vocabulary shiftsfrom divine judgment to global reset, from plague to systemic collapsewhile the underlying emotional grammar remains unchanged.Grounded in archaeology, intellectual history, and media analysis, this is a serious and accessible account of humanitys most persistent obsessionand a timely reminder that understanding where these narratives come from is the first step toward reading them clearly.

Every generation produces its own version of the end. From millenarian movements in medieval Europe to twentieth-century fears of nuclear annihilation, the idea that civilization stands on the edge of collapse has proven remarkably durableand remarkably contagious. The Collapse Narrative examines why stories of systemic breakdown spread faster than facts, and how they become organizing myths for communities seeking meaning in uncertain times.Drawing on historical case studies across cultures and centuries, this book traces the recurring patterns behind reset narratives: the scapegoating of institutions, the longing for a purified world, and the deep human need to impose order on chaos. It explores how ancient apocalyptic traditions migrated into modern political movements, digital communities, and mainstream media cyclesgaining new velocity with each technological leap.Neither dismissive nor credulous, this is a rigorous cultural and intellectual history of collapse thinkingone that takes seriously both the anxieties driving these narratives and the historical record they routinely distort.

The dominance of the American dollar was never inevitable. It was engineered first in a New Hampshire resort hotel in 1944, where forty-four nations agreed to anchor the postwar monetary order to a single currency, and then again in the early 1970s, when the collapse of gold convertibility threatened that dominance until a series of bilateral agreements with Saudi Arabia quietly replaced one foundation with another.This book traces the full arc of dollar hegemony from the Bretton Woods conference through Nixons 1971 suspension of gold convertibility and into the petrodollar arrangements that restructured global energy trade around American financial infrastructure. Drawing on Treasury Department archives, Federal Reserve records, diplomatic cables, and the memoirs of key architects, it examines the deliberate institutional choices that transformed the dollar from a postwar convenience into the structural spine of the global economy.The analysis moves beyond monetary theory to reveal the geopolitical dimensions of currency power how dollar dominance shaped alliance structures, constrained the sovereignty of debtor nations, and created the conditions under which American foreign policy could operate with a financial latitude unavailable to any other state. It also examines the sustained challenges to that dominance, from the European monetary project to OPEC pricing experiments and the gradual emergence of alternative reserve currencies. For readers seeking to understand how money became an instrument of geopolitical power, this book offers a rigorously sourced account of the systems construction, its contradictions, and its enduring consequences.

In the rugged wilderness between New Hampshire and Quebec, a cartographical error after the American Revolution left a small pocket of land entirely unaccounted for. Both the United States and Great Britain claimed it, yet neither effectively governed it. Frustrated by double taxation and constant threats of arrest from two different countries, the few hundred settlers living there did something extraordinary: they declared absolute independence.From 1832 to 1835, the Republic of Indian Stream operated as a fully sovereign micro-nation. They drafted a constitution, formed a legislature, created their own laws, and even maintained a tiny, makeshift army to fend off trespassing sheriffs from both American and British jurisdictions.This highly entertaining historical account explores the absurdities of life in a country that officially did not exist. It details the smuggling operations, the tense standoffs with heavily armed tax collectors, and the eventual diplomatic crisis that forced military intervention to finally dissolve the rebellious settlement.Dive into this forgotten frontier tale and uncover a fascinating footnote of history where a few stubborn loggers and farmers took on two superpowers to defend a piece of land no one could accurately draw on a map.

When Herman Melville published Moby-Dick, readers were thrilled by the terrifying concept of a vengeful, giant sperm whale attacking a ship. Few realized that the climax of the novel was not fiction, but a horrific historical reality. In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed and shattered by an impossibly large, enraged sperm whale, leaving twenty men stranded in tiny lifeboats thousands of miles from land.What followed the sinking was a nightmare of survival that shocked the 19th-century world. The crew faced a brutal 90-day voyage across the unforgiving Pacific Ocean. Dehydrated, starving, and driven mad by the equatorial sun, the men were forced to make unimaginable choices. As their numbers dwindled, the survivors resorted to the darkest taboo of human existence: drawing lots to decide who would be killed and eaten so the others might live.This gripping historical narrative reconstructs the disastrous final voyage of the Essex. It explores the brutal economics of the Nantucket whaling industry, the complex psychology of extreme starvation, and the heavy moral burden carried by the few men who miraculously returned home.Venture into the darkest depths of the human will to survive. This is the harrowing true story of nature striking back, and the terrible price paid by the men who dared to hunt the oceans greatest titans.

The European Union is most often discussed in the language of summits, treaties, and institutional architecture. But its most profound effects were felt not in Brussels conference rooms but in grocery stores, hospitals, university dormitories, border crossings, and kitchen tables across a continent. How the EU Changed Everyday Life shifts the lens from politics to peopletracing how five decades of integration quietly transformed the textures of ordinary European existence.This book examines the lived experience of integration through six thematic threads: the freedom of movement that allowed a generation to study, work, and love across borders; the harmonization of consumer standards that reshaped markets and habits; the agricultural policies that restructured rural landscapes and farming communities; the regional development funds that rebuilt peripheral economies; the expansion eastward that brought post-communist societies into a new legal and cultural orbit; and the slow emergence of a European identity layered overbut never replacingnational belonging.Drawing on oral histories, regional archives, and social surveys from across member states, this is a ground-level history of the worlds most ambitious political experimenttold not through its architects, but through the people who lived it.

Before armies crossed borders, currencies did. For more than a century, the most decisive battles in world history were fought not on battlefields but in central banks, treasury departments, and trading floors. Currency Wars and Silent Sanctions traces the hidden architecture of economic coercionfrom the gold standard rivalries that fractured European alliances before 1914, to the dollars quiet ascent as the postwar worlds enforcer of last resort.This book examines how nations weaponized money: freezing assets, manipulating exchange rates, and cutting rivals off from the global financial systemall without firing a single shot. Drawing on declassified diplomatic cables, central bank records, and firsthand testimony from policymakers, it reveals how financial sanctions shaped colonial hierarchies, accelerated imperial decline, and rewired the political map of the twentieth century.Accessible yet rigorously sourced, this is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how power truly operates in the modern worldnot through force alone, but through the invisible grip of money.

The tools have changed beyond recognition. The intent has not. From Posters to Personalized Feeds traces the unbroken line connecting the lithographed war posters of 1914 to the algorithmically curated content streams of the twenty-first centuryrevealing how each new medium inherited, refined, and amplified the persuasion techniques of its predecessor.This book examines propaganda not as an aberration of authoritarian regimes but as a structural feature of modern mass communication. It follows the evolution of influence across six transformative moments: the print mobilization of the First World War, the radio empires of the interwar period, the cinematic machinery of fascist and Soviet states, the television age of the Cold War, the cable news fragmentation of the 1990s, and the micro-targeted digital ecosystems of today. At each stage, the same core mechanisms reappearemotional priming, in-group identity, enemy construction, and the suppression of ambiguity.Drawing on archival propaganda materials, declassified government communication strategies, and media scholarship, this is an authoritative and accessible history of how mass belief is madeand what it costs when the engineering goes unexamined.

In August 1976, two American officers entered the heavily guarded Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between North and South Korea to prune a massive poplar tree that was blocking the view between two allied checkpoints. Minutes later, they were brutally hacked to death with axes by North Korean guards. The unprovoked murders brought the entire Korean peninsula to the absolute brink of nuclear war.The United States had to retaliate to project strength, but a military strike would likely trigger World War III with the Soviet Union and China. The solution was "Operation Paul Bunyan"the most overwhelmingly armed, hyper-aggressive logging mission the world has ever seen. The US sent in a convoy of engineers with chainsaws to cut down the tree, backed by a massive armada of B-52 bombers, fighter jets, attack helicopters, and thousands of heavily armed troops waiting just out of sight.This gripping military history reconstructs the terrifying tension of those tense summer days. It delves into the strategy of overwhelming intimidation and the delicate psychological warfare of the Cold War, where a single misstep could have annihilated millions.Experience the pulse-pounding true story of a geopolitical standoff unlike any other. Discover how the fate of the world briefly rested on a convoy of engineers determined to cut down a single tree under the crosshairs of an entire army.