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In an era when humanity is losing its dignity, how can we preserve our self-respect?We need a new guiding principle to help us face up to the planetary crisis. The old model of continuous economic growth, driven by greed, envy, and the pursuit of dominance, is leading us into global catastrophe. There are many reasons why, but the most obvious is the close correlation between economic growth and carbon dioxide emissions.We need to be honest with ourselvesRealistically, our options are already limited to damage control and intelligent disaster management. Intellectual integrity, compassion, and a particular kind of inner awareness are urgently needed to cultivate mental and political resilience. The concept of a "culture of consciousness" is the starting point for a new debate. We need more compassion and radical self-respectFor more than thirty years, we have been failing with our eyes wide open. In addition to our lack of self-respect and our lack of compassion for future generations, a lack of cultural creativity has been one of the main causes of the looming climate crisis: we have been unable to leave the old values behind and create alternative ways of living.But replacing old values with new ways of life is precisely what is needed to create a cultural context that will let us exit the growth model. We need a culture of consciousness that works at both the individual and the societal levels. This book offers a path towards it. We need a radical new culture of consciousness"Many of us have little compassion and no respect for the people and other sentient beings who will inhabit this planet after us. As a result, we will soon no longer be able to take ourselves seriously as rational beings, because for decades we have deliberately ignored empirical facts and organised our own self-deception at the political level. The climate catastrophe will therefore also lead us to recognise ourselves as a failing species, and the loss of our dignity will result in a historically unprecedented kind of suffering. We need a radical new Bewusstseinskultur." Thomas Metzinger

On a wind-stilled bay in Roslagen, Sweden, the Omheten care home rests where sea meets pine-scented air. After a residents death, Tore Lindahl, a former policeman, suspects foul play, but his concerns are dismissed as the ramblings of an old man.Lindhahl turns to Veronika Wiklund, a young journalist stuck tracing small-town stories for the local paper. Together, the unlikely duo begins asking questions that unsettle their entire community.As Veronika searches for answers, the care home reveals itself as the battleground for power, and the hunting ground for a killer tangled in dark legacies of World War II.Gripping and moving, Cecilia Sjogrens The Things We Leave Behind is a story of memory, grief, and guilt that echoes across decades. As the past collides with the present, it asks: what do we owe the dead, and at what cost do we unearth what they left behind?Fans of The God of the Woods by Liz Moore will love this atmospheric Swedish crime novel.

TELENOVELA explores the secret lives of a family swept up in the final days of Pinochets dictatorship in Chile. There is Lucho: bullied by fellow soldiers for his love of poetry, thwarted in his ambitions to become a writer. He seems like a loving father. He seems loveable. And maybe he is. But as TELENOVELA unfolds, other things come to light about Lucho that are less easy to indulge or forgive. There is Ramona, Luchos wife: tormented by anxiety, overwhelmed by body image problems. Ramona once hoped to become a telenovela star; she secretly daydreams that she might still get her big break. She seems like an innocent. But is she? Then there is Pablo, their son: dreamy, gentle, eager to form his own band and write some worthwhile songs. Desperate to be cool... And increasingly, just desperate. These people are deeply human - but Telenovela makes us understand how inhumane they can also be. How easy it is to be complicit in authoritarian regimes - and how personal stories can take on universal significance..

Scotlands Stone of Destiny is the most famous symbol of both Scottish nationhood and the British monarchy. Nick Aitchison has produced a fully updated, researched and illustrated study of its history, mythology and cultural significance.Having first traced the origin, evolution and function of myths surrounding the Stone and the ancient prophecy that gives the Stone its name, Aitchison examines the Stone itself its appearance, geology and source and reveals the Stones original function and the origins of its symbolic sanctity. Scotlands Stone of Destiny discusses the much-disputed issue of authenticity, and finally places it in a wider context with reference to the Stones significance to the creation of the Scottish parliament and the destiny of the Scots.

Between now and then, I will offer you A fist full of rock cress fresh from the bank The valley tips of garlic red with dew Cooler than shallots, a breath you can swankIn the village when you come. At noon-day I will offer you a choice bowl of cawl Served with a lovers spoon and a chopped spray Of leeks or savori fach, not used now,In the old way youll understand. The din Of children singing through the eyelet sheds Ringing smith hoops, chasing the butt of hensLynette Roberts is one of the most astonishing and brilliant poets of the twentieth century. Though published by T.S. Eliot and Faber in the 1940s and 50s her work unjustly fell off the radar for many years until the groundbreaking edition of her collected poems published by Carcanet in 2005. Twenty years on, this new edition contains an additional sixty-five previously uncollected and unpublished poems by Roberts, and a new epilogue highlighting her growing importance to our understanding of twentieth-century poetry.

Answerlands is the place children go in their minds when looking for a correct answer without really thinking. It is also a fairy-tale world of quest, resolution and dissolution, glimpsed in a teachers dream. And it is nightmare country, disfigured by fear and systemic violence.Joe Mindens second collection, Answerlands, explores the curiosity-destroying, harmful potential of school even as it celebrates the erring minds of teacher and student, which make encounter possible.

Este livro busca discutir como se constituem as trajetórias de sucesso escolar de jovens negros do ensino médio, em um Colégio público estadual da cidade de Petrópolis. Ao longo da pesquisa realizada, a autora buscou compreender o que e sucesso para este grupo, suas familias e para os integrantes do Colegio, considerando ainda os efeitos do racismo nas trajetorias destes estudantes. O racismo estrutural permeia toda a sociedade, no sendo diferente no espaço escolar. Dessa forma, a pesquisa apresentada nesta obra busca alcançar como os possiveis atos racistas se manifestam e afetam as trajetorias escolares de jovens negros. Ate o inicio da decada de 1990, o ensino medio era cursado por poucos privilegiados, e havia um ingresso pio de jovens negros nessa etapa da escolarizaço, fazendo com que ingressar e permanecer no colegio, fosse percebido como sucesso. No entanto, mesmo transcorridas decadas e o acesso dos jovens negros tenha sido ampliado, o que e esperado dos estudantes negros, em todos os niveis educacionais e o fracasso escolar. Diante dos fatos apresentados, foi empreendida uma analise a luz das questes raciais e de teorias sociologicas, que levaram a caminhos surpreendentes sobre o sucesso alcançado por estes jovens.

Every day, we are exposed to evidence of hundreds of war crimes: residential buildings bombed and burning in Ukraine, merciless shootings in Gaza despite a so-called ceasefire, civilians beaten and starved by armies in Sudan and a mounting number of aid workers and journalists murdered by soldiers. The evidence proves guilt beyond reasonable doubt, but we know there will be few, if any, prosecutions.In this powerful book, distinguished human rights lawyer Geoffrey Robertson exposes the fraud that is international humanitarian law. Drawing on his experience as a UN war crimes judge, he considers some of the most pressing legal issues of our time, including torture, nuclear weapons, drone warfare and the fallacy of anticipatory self-defence. In the face of such threats, and with an impotent Security Council neutered by the worlds most powerful aggressors, modern democracies are increasingly vulnerable to conflict and invasion.Most importantly in an age of amoral warlords like Vladimir Putin, Benjamin Netanyahu and Donald Trump, the book warns that we are losing sight of Nurembergs legacy: that there can be no peace without justice. This authoritative and deeply humane work is both a rallying defence of moral law and a resounding condemnation of those who defy it.

O que significa deixar tudo o que nos é familiar para recomeçar em um lugar onde nunca havíamos imaginado viver?Em Outro lugar de mim, Fabiano F. revisita seu passado na tentativa de compreender os caminhos que o levaram a sair do Brasil e reconstruir a vida em outro pais.Da infancia marcada por traumas e privaçes a conquista de uma vida mais estavel, ele nos conduz sem disfarces por suas crises, que o impulsionaram a buscar um novo lugar no mundo.No ano em que completa uma decada nos Estados Unidos, o autor relembra experiencias marcantes dessas "duas vidas" que se entrelaçam, levando-o a repensar crenças, comportamentos e valores. No se trata de um livro para exaltar conquistas; pelo contrario, Fabiano compartilha seus erros e o que restou deles.Este relato tocara profundamente todos que ja quiseram (ou ainda querem) mudar o rumo da propria historia. As vezes, recomeçar e a unica forma de continuar.

O livro Desenvolvendo o potencial de crianças superdotadas: guia prático para famílias apresenta conhecimento atualizado, fundamentado em evidências científicas, com conceitos teóricos atrelados a es

Miles burrows, the master of humorous, oddly profound poetic sketches and dramas, returns with a new book of what he calls incidental verse, written in England and abroad, concerned with sickness and ageing as drama, where clinical situations are reflected in a series of vignettes staged between reality and dream.The poems characteristically mordant observations alight on subjects from a childs death to a shaman performing a ritual ceremony for the journey between Heaven and Earth, or the image of wheelchairs pushed under a tree by the Thai carers in a poem which dwells on how ageing people pass the day in different countries.Burrows knows that these reminiscences are in danger of falling back on their own materials natural comedy, like a spider continually struggling to get out of an empty bathtub as one poems title has it. In another poem, a moorland pony stuck fast in a bog, sinking, is rescued by a team with a jeep who attach a belt round him and lug him out.These poems are second thoughts, cartoons, esprits de lescalier, sybils leaves, poems at a tangent, unspoken repartees. Like sketches done in a cafe by a person absently rubbing his thumb into some spilt coffee...

The gripping sequel to HELL HATH NO FURYMike McCleary is offered a fantastic new job. With his beautiful new girlfriend by his side, he can move back to England and be closer to his loving and supportive parents.Newly-promoted Detective Inspector Steve Denton is basking in the spotlight after stopping a serial killers nationwide campaign, and feels hes finally getting some deserved recognition.The Broker continues to evade the long arm of the law and is about to invest in a new criminal venture, with the opportunity to earn billions.But not all dreams come true, and some can turn into nightmares.

Laurence Catlow is considered one of the finest classical flyfishing writers of our times and here he explores the themes close to an anglers heart:* why catching two trout each time matters so much to him * the experience of fishing in contrast to a days shooting * the melancholy appeal of autumn fishing * the difference between holiday fishing and home fishing * the secrets of a flytyer * starting the season on the river * big trout or little trout: why he prefers the latter * why fishing is a lifelong joy * fishing the mayflyThe best flyfishing book to cross my desk this year, without a doubt. Catlows writing is easily accessible, simple English fused into passages that flow like a chalkstream glide, littered with lines that sit in the memory long after their page has turned. Trout Fisherman, Jeffrey Prest, 4 January

This book, Mindfulness - A Different Platform by Eleanor Gibson, is a motivational guide centred on mindfulness, compassion, and gratitude to help readers overcome lifes challenges and live fulfilling lives. It emphasises how mindfulness can provide clarity, resilience, and a renewed sense of purpose, especially when dealing with difficult interpersonal relationships and personal hardships.The book opens with a poetic metaphor of transformation from a butterfly to a caterpillar to a butterfly, illustrating how life events can alter our way of being in the world. Eleanor Gibson shares her realisation that mindfulness allows one to choose a new path in life, akin to boarding a different train at a different platform, leading to new and inspiring journeys through personal growth and mindfulness.The author reflects on the nature of the mind, describing memories as random and mood-congruent, meaning that our current mood influences the type of memories we recall. Mindfulness helps in recognising and managing these moods, promoting happiness through awareness of what truly brings joy.The book explores the impact of destructive relationships, which can severely damage mental and physical health. It highlights the importance of recognising unhealthy dynamics and maintaining ones values and individuality despite others harmful actions.The book addresses overcoming ruts and fears by taking small steps toward meaningful goals and rediscovering passions. The author shares personal experiences of facing fears and finding renewed purpose through mindfulness study and practise. Readers are encouraged to reflect on values, interests, talents, and desires to identify themes that guide their purpose.Mindfulness teaches appreciation for the present and helps overcome ego-driven dissatisfaction. The metaphor of the lotus flower illustrates flourishing despite adversity. Cultivating gratitude and positivity leads to greater happiness and resilience.Authenticity is emphasised as vital. Mindfulness helps individuals overcome past conditioning, embrace uniqueness, and resist pretending to be others. The author shares anecdotes illustrating the importance of conscience and integrity.The final chapter reiterates the central theme that mindfulness offers a new platform from which to view life, make wiser choices, rebuild after adversity, and flourish authentically. The author encourages readers to embrace mindfulness to live joyfully and freely.This comprehensive guide includes practical mindfulness exercises (RAIN, Training the Mind to Focus, Compassionate Image, A Safe Place) detailed in the appendices, designed to support readers in applying mindfulness daily.In essence, Mindfulness - A Different Platform is a motivational and practical resource encouraging readers to cultivate mindfulness as a means to overcome adversity, nurture self-compassion, build resilience, and live purposefully with gratitude and authenticity.Learn from the past, set vivid goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.(Denis Waitley)

After working as a botanist and natural historian for more than 25 years, walking the countryside had almost imperceptibly turned into a disheartening endeavour for Pete Stroh. He found himself resting at viewpoints and contemplating how much better it would be if a pasture had not been drenched with herbicide, if a woodland had not been planted up with regimented lines of conifer crops, if an arable field could every so often not be ploughed right up to the bloody roots of the hedgerowSo he decided that in writing this book, he would wander within the boundaries of the parish where he lives, record weekly what he actually saw, and restrict grumblings to a minimum, to observe rather than judge. This, he writes, took a bit of getting used to but proved ultimately to be a liberating and unexpected experience.The result is this uplifting and positive book showing the surprising abundance of nature, given half a chance.

"Freud explica!" é o que muitos dizem. E eu não duvido, mas penso que a questão seja outra: você se sente pronto para fazer as justas perguntas? Aquelas que de fato interessam e cujas respostas você

Em um tempo marcado por desafios espirituais, econômicos e éticos, a prática dos dízimos e das ofertas continua sendo uma expressão viva da fé e da confiança no Deus provedor. "Dízimos e Ofertas no N

A poética da dor: narrativas trágicas no cinema de Pedro Costa analisa as possibilidades do trágico no cinema contemporâneo, repensando as fronteiras entre a tragédia e o trágico, que, embora em algu

They built the system to control leaders.He was the one variable they couldnt predict.When Jason Noble is hired to investigate a simple case of corporate fraud, he uncovers something far more dangerous a global infrastructure of influence that doesnt just forecast elections it decides them.From the shadows of European logistics to the neural networks of Washington D.C., Noble becomes the ghost in a machine designed to rewrite democracy. With every truth he uncovers, the system recalculates. Every resistance he mounts only strengthens its grip.But when the algorithm selects him as its next perfect leader, Jason faces the ultimate question:Will he dismantle the future or rule it?The Noble Protocol is a gripping, globe-spanning thriller where surveillance becomes prophecy, obedience becomes currency, and one man holds the key to ending a silent empire no one voted for.

Ever wondered what Santa and his elves do to get ready for his big flight on Christmas Eve. From making the lists to wrapping all the presents. Making candy canes that taste like chill and gingerbread houses, baking cookies and feeding the reindeer.Each bedtime story gives you a small glimpse into the hectic world of the North Pole each day of December. Each day another task and each day a bit more Christmas Fun. They even have time for a festive pool party like they are at the beach.The elves get into all sorts of Mafuddles that Santa and Mrs Claus have to help them out of.Just so you know a Mafuddle is a mess and a muddle and a flap all rolled into one, the elves get into many of them.The reindeer are too lazy to get out of bed and the sticky tape goes missing. Mrs Claus makes lots and lots of cookies and hot cocoa for everyone warm and keep their tummies happy.But best of all Santa and Mrs Claus choose that one special child, from all the children of all the world to become Santas Little Helper for this year, I wonder who it will be?