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"Finalista do Women`s Prize for Fiction 2026, do Booker Prize 2025 e semifinalista do National Book Award 2025Certa noite, Louisa e seu pai do um passeio na praia. Seu pai carrega uma lanterna. Ele no sabe nadar. Mais tarde, ela e encontrada quase sem vida, ele desapareceu. Alternando o foco de um membro da familia de Louisa para outro e as perspectivas ao longo do tempo, voltando repetidamente aquela noite a beira-mar, Lanterna acompanha as ondas de choque de uma catastrofe que ninguem compreende. Louisa e filha unica de pais que se afastaram do passado. Serk, coreano criado no Japo, rompeu com a familia e emigrou para os Estados Unidos. Sua esposa americana, Anne, distanciou-se de sua propria familia apos uma aventura sexual imprudente na juventude. E ha tambem Tobias, o filho ilegitimo de Anne, cujo reaparecimento na vida deles tera consequencias surpreendentes para Louisa.O que realmente aconteceu com Serk? Por que ele levou a filha e a esposa para o Japo, pouco antes de desaparecer? Como e possivel amar, ou dar sentido a vida, quando ha tanta coisa que no conseguimos ver? "

Questo ebook inaugura ufficialmente la collana editoriale di Riflessioni Teologiche, il videopodcast di divulgazione teologica di Davide Galliani. Per la prima volta, un intero ciclo di episodi viene rielaborato e trasformato in un percorso organico di lettura: non una semplice trascrizione dei video, ma un approfondimento pensato per il formato ebook. Attraverso le "ferite narcisistiche" delluomo moderno dalla rivoluzione copernicana allevoluzione, dalla psicoanalisi alla crisi ecologica fino allintelligenza artificiale questo volume riflette su una domanda centrale: che cosa cambia per la fede quando lessere umano smette di sentirsi il centro di tutto? Una riflessione teologica contemporanea sulla crisi della centralita umana, tra fede, modernita, scienza e ricerca di senso. Ogni percorso di riflessione dellautore trova il proprio punto di partenza su davidegalliani.it

An important, beautifully written novel about a young mans struggle to come to terms with the actions (and inactions) of his own past. This is one of the best books I have read in a long, long time. Jerry Stahl, author of Nein, Nein, Nein!Nyjah Messado has built a life away from home, but he is haunted not by a ghost, but by a memory: the moment he witnessed a brutal sexual assault and chose silence.Raised within the rigid masculine codes of an elite Jamaican boys school, Nyjah learns early what is expected of him: loyalty to other men, contempt for weakness, and the careful management of guilt. Years later, returning to Montego Bay, he must navigate a city shaped by class divisions, colonial legacies and violence, while confronting the moral cost of what he failed to do.My Own Dear People is a fierce, lyrical coming-of-age novel about masculinity, complicity and self-deception. Unflinching in its treatment of rape culture and homophobia, it asks whether forgiveness, of others, or of oneself, is ever truly possible.

Ce livre raconte lhistoire de Léna, une femme qui consulte pour des douleurs inexpliquées, des insomnies et une fatigue profonde. Très vite, il devient évident que ces souffrances ne sont pas seuleme

Die kleine Maus liebt das Leben. Neugierig erkundet sie die Welt. Eines Tages macht sie sich auf den Weg und erfahrt, was geschieht, wenn der Blick fur das Wesentliche verloren gegangen ist. Doch dann macht sie eine wunderbare Entdeckung. Das liebevoll gestaltete Bilderbuch animiert dazu, genauer hinzuschauen: auf die kleinen Dinge des Alltags, die leicht ubersehen werden. Denn gerade in ihnen steckt oft viel Weisheit. Anhand kleiner, vertrauter Alltagssituationen wird gezeigt, dass selbst unscheinbare Begebenheiten bedeutungsvolle Erkenntnisse enthalten konnen. Das Buch ladt dazu ein, diese Momente bewusst wahrzunehmen, innezuhalten und gemeinsam daruber ins Gesprach zu kommen.Als wiederkehrende Lekture kann das Buch zu einem Ritual werden, das Ruhe, Aufmerksamkeit, gemeinsames Nachdenken und Nahe fordert. Es versteht sich nicht als belehrend, sondern als Einladung zur Beobachtung und zum Dialog und knupft damit an aktuelle padagogische Ansatze zu Achtsamkeit, emotionaler Bildung sowie ganzheitlichem Lernen an.

Il principe Mykin torna in Russia dopo anni in un sanatorio svizzero. Fedor Dostoevskij lo costruisce come una figura di innocente: un uomo incapace di menzogna, che dice cio che pensa e vede cio che altri nascondono. Nella societa pietroburghese un ambiente di passioni violente, denaro, orgoglio ferito questa trasparenza genera attrazione e catastrofe. Due donne si contendono il principe: Nastasja Filippovna, segnata dal passato, e Aglaja, giovane e impulsiva. Mykin vorrebbe aiutarle entrambe, ma la sua bonta non salva nel mondo di Dostoevskij ogni purezza ha un prezzo. Pubblicato tra il 1868 e il 1869, il romanzo procede per scene di intensita crescente, in cui ogni personaggio si rivela oltre le proprie intenzioni. Questa nuova traduzione de Lidiota rende accessibile il romanzo di Dostoevskij che mostra cosa succede quando un uomo buono entra in un mondo che non lo e e quanto costa restare puri.

Olivias Welt ist in Aufruhr: Nach mehr als 15 Jahren sucht sie ihr Elternhaus auf, in dem sie einst eine traumatische Erfahrung gemacht hat. Sie stolpert uber ihre alte Spielkonsole und macht dann eine mystische Erfahrung mit ihrem Lieblings-Videospiel. Als sie wieder zuhause ist, sucht sie nach einem Zugang zur virtuellen Welt ihres Avatars Olli, was ihr mit Hilfe ihres Verehrers Torben gelingt. Von nun an verbringt Olivia jede freie Minute mit Olli auf seiner einsamen Insel. Zwischen den beiden entsteht eine tiefe Freundschaft, und Olli eroffnet ihr neue Perspektiven auf ihre Welt und das Leben. Doch ein tragischer Vorfall schlagt eine tiefgehende Kerbe zwischen ihren beiden Welten und fordert Olivia heraus, ihre Beziehung zu Olli und letztlich ihr gesamtes Weltbild grundlegend zu hinterfragen.Olivias Kerbe ist ein klassischer Beziehungsroman mit der Besonderheit, dass analoge und virtuelle Welten zu einem Handlungsstrang verwoben werden. Fur mich ist die Geschichte jedoch noch mehr: Als glaubiger Christ, der sich kritisch mit seiner Spiritualitat und seiner Gotteserfahrung auseinandersetzt, lese ich sie auch als eine moderne Parabel uber die personliche Beziehung zwischen einem Menschen und seinem Gott.

Schlaf beeinflusst Gesundheit, Energie und Lebensqualitat mehr, als viele denken. Dieses Buch zeigt, wie guter Schlaf mit verstandlichem Wissen, konkreten Strategien und alltagstauglichen Manahmen nachhaltig verbessert werden kann. Von Schlafzyklen und Schlafstorungen uber Hormone, Traume und Gehirnwellen bis hin zu Schlafhygiene, Ernahrung, Nahrungserganzung und modernen Technologien bietet es einen umfassenden und praxisnahen Zugang zu erholsamem Schlaf. Es richtet sich an alle, die ruhiger schlafen, besser aufwachen und ihre Nachte spurbar verandern mochten.

Through the Gates of Death is a book by British occultist Dion Fortune, first published in 1932. In this work, the author writes about how the esoteric tradition views life after death, offering a clear and concise guide explaining the stages through which a soul passes, from this world to the next, about to die. Fortune describes the necessary states of mind and actions that those closest to the dying person should cultivate to hasten and facilitate the passing.

Dion Fortune is acknowledged as one of the most knowledgeable and level-headed writers on Esoteric matters. In Sane Occultism she is adamant that magic and occult studies, though often dealing with unseen forces, must still be grounded in Reason, and she explains how claims of psychic ability and past lives can, and should, be verified. The book covers a vast swathe of topics, from meditation and psychism, through numerology and astrology, to such black Occult practices as psychic vampirism, blood sacrifice and other aspects of the Left-Hand Path. The need, or otherwise, for vegetarianism, strict obedience to a master, and secrecy, are also covered in detail. Sane Occultism is a refreshing, no-nonsense look at esotericism, being at the same time an excellent introduction to the subject and a book that will give even the experienced practitioner much to think about. Dion Fortune was a British occultist, ceremonial magician, novelist and author. She was a co-founder of the Fraternity of the Inner Light, an occult organization that promoted philosophies which she claimed had been taught to her by spiritual entities known as the Ascended Masters.

This book examines how the United States and multiple collaborating governments constructed a transnational detention architecture designed to operate in the gaps between legal systems, not as an emergency improvisation, but as a deliberate institutional strategy to place interrogation practices beyond the reach of enforceable domestic or international law.Three systemic mechanisms define the programs structural logic. First, the geographic distribution of black sites across countries including Afghanistan, Lithuania, Morocco, Poland, Romania, and Thailand reveals a deliberate form of sovereignty arbitrage: the outsourcing of coercive interrogation to jurisdictions where accountability structures were weak, absent, or politically subordinated to security cooperation with Washington. The network subjected detainees to practices such as waterboarding, walling, forced nudity, and prolonged sleep deprivation, while internal bureaucratic language reframed these methods as "enhanced interrogation techniques," embedding legal insulation directly into operational terminology.Second, the involvement of contracted psychologists in designing and implementing interrogation procedures demonstrates how states can externalize moral and legal liability through privatization, creating additional layers of separation between policymakers and operational conduct.Third, investigations by the European Parliament concluded that several European governments cooperated with CIA rendition operations, including the hosting of black sites in Poland and Romania. These findings revealed that the system of juridical evasion depended not only on American intelligence structures, but also on broader international complicity that weakened the credibility of democratic oversight and rule-of-law institutions.

This book examines how veiled strategies in foreign intervention unfold when classified planning meets harsh reality, using the Bay of Pigs operation to reveal the consequences of secrecy breakdown in covert missions. The operation aimed to overthrow Castro but collapsed, exposing limits of deniability and prompting reassessment of covert action.The intelligence flow relied on exile networks and paramilitary training, creating a channel that presumed secrecy. This dependence introduced friction as logistical support and intelligence sharing proved inconsistent, undermining the assumption that covert actions could remain isolated. Decisionmaking hierarchy concentrated authority in a small executive circle that accepted risk assessments without broad scrutiny, enabling rapid approval despite internal doubts about feasibility. Such centralization meant that lowerlevel officers executed orders even when field reports indicated low chances of success, showing how topdown directives can override operational caution. Incentive structures rewarded decisive action against communism, offering career advancement for those who delivered results while penalizing hesitation, which encouraged optimism over realistic appraisal of enemy strenngth. When the intervention failed, the resulting scrutiny revealed how these mechanisms had prioritized political deniability over effective coordination, prompting a reevaluation of how secret operations are authorized and supervised.

This book investigates how silent pacts shape postwar borders when secret agreements are made among Allied leaders without the participation of affected nations. The Yalta Conference produced private arrangements that altered territorial expectations and influenced the subsequent division of Europe and Asia, raising questions about legitimacy and lasting stability.The flow of sensitive information remained confined to a small inner circle of leaders and advisors, limiting broader scrutiny while enabling swift agreement on confidential points. This compartmentalization meant that military diplomats and foreign offices operated without knowledge of the secret protocols, creating a gap between public negotiations and private commitments.Leaders exercised top-down authority to approve clandestine arrangements, binding their administrations to outcomes that had not undergone open parliamentary or cabinet debate. Once ratified at the highest level, lower-level officials implemented the territorial shifts even when they conflicted with prior understandings or public statements.Each participant pursued distinct strategic gains: the United States sought Soviet entry into the Pacific war to offset anticipated casualties, the Soviet Union secured territorial concessions and a sphere of influence in East Asia, and the United Kingdom aimed to preserve its postwar influence despite being excluded from the Pacific negotiation.

In order that the circumstances may be clearly understood, I must revert for a moment to the period before the assault, and to the stories current in our camp of the treasure in jewels and gold stored up in the Palace of Seringapatam.IIOne of the wildest of these stories related to a Yellow Diamonda famous gem in the native annals of India.The earliest known traditions describe the stone as having been set in the forehead of the four-handed Indian god who typifies the Moon. Partly from its peculiar colour, partly from a superstition which represented it as feeling the influence of the deity whom it adorned, and growing and lessening in lustre with the waxing and waning of the moon, it first gained the name by which it continues to be known in India to this daythe name of THE MOONSTONE.A similar superstition was once prevalent, as I have heard, in ancient Greece and Rome; not applying, however (as in India), to a diamond devoted to the service of a god, but to a semi-transparent stone of the inferior order of gems, supposed to be affected by the lunar influencesthe moon, in this latter case also, giving the name by which the stone is still known to collectors.

A powerful political pamphlet that helped inspire the American Revolution.In clear and persuasive language, Thomas Paine argues for independence from British rule and the creation of a free and self-governing nation. His ideas on liberty, equality, and democracy energized public opinion during a critical moment in history.Bold, influential, and historically significant, the work remains a landmark of political writing.Written by Thomas Paine.Read the revolutionary work that helped change historydownload your copy today.

Reputation arrives on foot and leaves on horseback.Do you have a strong reputation? If you do, it hopefully protects you against attacks on your credibility, on your reputation. Its like a path that must be maintained. And when things go wrong, what do you do to restore your reputation?Behave in an exemplary manner and communicate about this consistently and transparently. We cannot repeat this enough, because mistakes are often made here. Stakeholders judge you on your behavior and performance, not your nice words. A sustainable and strong reputation makes your organization, also you as an individual, successful in the long term.

A legendary collection of myths, songs, and heroic tales from Finnish folklore.Filled with magical adventures, ancient wisdom, and unforgettable heroes, The Kalevala brings together traditional stories that shaped Finlands cultural identity. The epic explores creation, heroism, love, and the power of myth.Rich in poetic beauty and folklore, the work remains one of the worlds great national epics.Compiled by Elias Lonnrot.Discover the magic and legend of Finnish mythologydownload your copy today.

LE FAMIGLIE NUOVECosa significa "fare famiglia" oggi? In unepoca segnata da unioni liquide e nuove solitudini, il diritto familiare contemporaneo si trova a dover rispondere a domande radicali e desideri di tutela che superano i confini della tradizione.In questo saggio, lavvocata Paola Ripa esplora con sguardo esperto e umano le frontiere della genitorialita e degli affetti: Le tutele per le unioni omosessuali e la complessa realta dei figli da unioni omogenitoriali. Il dibattito su maternita surrogata, adozione single e laspirazione al matrimonio egualitario. Le sfide concrete del quotidiano: dalle procedure di divorzio breve alla gestione stragiudiziale dei conflitti. Non si tratta solo di codici e tribunali. Il libro va oltre la norma giuridica per approdare a una visione innovativa: la nascita di comunita responsabili. Un invito a superare la solitudine individuale attraverso nuovi modelli di mutuo soccorso e cura, dove lassistenza diventa un atto politico e un diritto fondamentale.Una guida essenziale per orientarsi tra i nuovi legami del XXI secolo e costruire spazi di convivenza autenticamente inclusivi, generativi e gratuiti.

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Poemas da Terra de Ninguém é uma obra que traz reflexões e visões diferentes sobre a realidade em que vivemos em forma de poemas. Vai do delírio cativante do abstracionismo até o amor que rola debaix