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The Falklands War: Britains Unexpected Battle for a Remote Island ChainWhy did two countries end up fighting over a group of islands barely anyone had heard of?In 1982, Argentina invaded the Falkland Islands, kicking off a short but intense war with Britain that caught the world off guard. On the surface, it looked like a small territorial dispute, but behind it were years of colonial history, clashing national identities, and rising political pressure on both sides.This book looks closely at how it all happened: what led to the invasion, how Britain responded so quickly, and why the Falklands became such a symbolic flashpoint for both nations. Its a detailed, balanced look at a war that wasnt supposed to happen, and how it changed the people and countries involved. Inside, youll learn about: The long and complicated backstory of who really "owned" the Falklands. What pushed Argentinas military leaders to launch an attack? How the British response helped shape the countrys modern identity. What the islanders themselves thought, and why their voices mattered. The political and military fallout that lasted long after the shooting stopped. And much, much more! This isnt just a timeline of events, its a deeper look at what the war meant and why it still matters today.Click Add to Cart now to explore one of the most unexpected and revealing conflicts of the late 20th century.

This gentle collection gathers three of Christopher T. Winters most beloved dream journeys into one uninterrupted volume of calm, reflection, and quiet wonder.Across mist-filled valleys, whispering paths, and gardens where horizons soften, these stories invite the reader to slow down and step into spaces shaped by stillness rather than urgency. Each chapter unfolds like a lantern-lit walk through the nightguided by memory, breath, and the quiet language of dreams.Dreams That Wander Through the Silent Valleys is designed as a companion for rest: a place to ease the mind, soften the edges of thought, and drift gently toward sleep. There is no conflict to solve, no tension to resolveonly atmosphere, warmth, and a steady sense of quiet belonging.This volume includes: The Dream Collector of Silent Valleys The Whispering Path of Dreams The Garden Where Soft Horizons SleepIdeal for nighttime reading, relaxation, and readers seeking calm, poetic storytelling that lingers softly long after the final page.

«A quietude não é um estado em que nada acontece. É antes a capacidade de permanecer imperturbável diante das tempestades que assolam o coração, perante o medo e a preocupação, e perante a confusão.»

«O olho da rua fixa-nos. Sabe que o nosso rabo será dele muito em breve. E, como o único sector que está a expandir é o do gardanho, sentimo-nos cada vez mais próximas do roubo à mão armada. É a evol

Um dos maiores sucessos da atual literatura sul-americana, As Meninas do Laranjal reconta, com lirismo e irreverência, a história da basca Catalina de Erauso, a «freira alferes».National Book Award p

O novo livro de Pedro Vieira, onde se conta a história real de sete mulheres que, cada uma a seu tempo, mudaram o curso da história. Despir as mulheres para as expor em público é um costume antigo- e no estamos apenas a falar de roupa.Ha seculos que a existencia das mulheres e terreno aberto para todo o genero de delirios e desaforos dos homens. As suas vidas - terrenas ou espirituais - foram e so instrumentalizadas ao sabor das novas ordens e dos sistemas de poder que frequentemente contrariam a nossa natureza, com particular prejuizo para a metade feminina da humanidade.Atraves de uma narrativa hibrida, entre reconstituiço historica ficcionada e investigaço, Pedro Vieira escreve sobre sete mulheres que so todas as mulheres, sujeitas ao poder deles, cujas existencias foram contadas e adulteradas para servir uma narrativa ardilosa que bloqueia com eficacia qualquer tentativa de emancipaço coletiva.Venus em chamas recupera as historias reais de Maria, me de Jesus, Maria Madalena, imperatriz Teodora, Fillide Melandroni, Joana dArc, Harriet Tubman e irm Lucia, para refletir sobre a forma como a Historia e a Arte as apresentaram, representaram e imolaram, tantas vezes despindo-as de qualquer agencia ou autoridade sobre si mesmas.

Os Larápios são uma orgulhosa família de vilões, que remonta a três gerações.O Tomé adora a sua família, mas não se encaixa nela…AVISO IMPORTANTE!Confirma que tens o recibo deste livro. Se o pediste

At work one night, photography archivist Charlie Sze-Toh receives a misdirected letter from Wang Tian Wei, a 1920s colonial era Chinese photographer. Through a mysterious digital folder and photographic plates, a conversation is sparked, leading to a romance that spans lifetimes.In his time, Tian Wei scours a turbulent Singapore for his missing friend Aiko, leading him to the perfumed chambers of a Japanese brothel. Meanwhile, in the modern day, Charlie struggles against a family dynamic dominated by her stepmother, a manipulative matriarch who uses family secrets as bargaining chips.Communication starts to become difficult and Tian Weis letters are tinged by the increasing threat of Japanese Occupation. Will one last fate-defying letter from Charlie allow Tian Wei to keep their love alive?

Só um louco iria de livre vontade à Floresta Devoradora, o sítio onde os pecadores entram para morrer.Primeiro livro da série The Eating Woods, da mesma autora de Nocticadia.Encontrada abandonada na

A partir de um luto inominável, a ficcionista Yiyun Li compõe um livro de memórias sublime, nem trágico, nem elegíaco: transformador.FINALISTA: National Book Award | Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excelle

"A dor que transforma apresenta o relato de profissionais que foram atravessados pela dor — física, emocional, espiritual e financeira — e decidiram escutar o que ela tinha a dizer. Eles assumiram re

Cecília sempre sonhou em ser detetive, exatamente como o avô. Já adulta, ela finalmente consegue seu primeiro caso: investigar um incêndio suspeito em Itaipaema, uma cidadezinha pacata onde supostame

Damos-te as boas-vindas à Academia Bloodwing. Entra num mundo de magia, competição e sangue.Uma fada numa escola de vampiros? É a receita para o desastre.Sou a Medra Pendragon, a última cavaleira de

For Caitlin Bailey the past has been far from easy. Living in the shadows of her mothers mental illness, she has been brought up in Dublin by her Aunt Milla. Now aged 22 and with her mother back home, Caitlin is escaping to London with her artist boyfriend Fitz to live life on her own terms. What does she want? Who can she be?The emerging art scene of early 90s London brings a job as a gallery assistant and exciting new friends but intrusive memories of her childhood haunt Caitlins nights. And then Fitz leaves to work in Rye its temporary but feels like another abandonment. What follows will change everything.A love story in which past and present reverberate, Three Flowers asks what we need to hold and what we need to let go in order to love and live well.

For nearly four centuries, the transatlantic slave trade and plantation slavery created a system of racialized bondage that commodified human beings, generated immense wealth for European and American economies, and inflicted incalculable suffering on millions of enslaved Africans and their descendants. This history examines slaverys brutal mechanisms, the resistance enslaved people mounted against their bondage, and the protracted struggles that ultimately achieved legal abolition.Drawing on slave narratives, plantation records, legislative debates, abolitionist publications, and court documents, the narrative traces slaverys evolution from Portuguese Atlantic expeditions through Caribbean sugar economies, North American cotton kingdoms, and Brazilian coffee plantations. The Middle Passage transported approximately twelve million Africans across the Atlantic under horrific conditions. Survivors faced forced labor, family separation, violence, and legal status as property without human rights.The book explores slaverys economic foundations and ideological justifications. Plantation agriculture generated profits sustaining European industrialization and American expansion. Pseudo-scientific racism provided moral rationalization for exploitation. Legal codes denied enslaved people basic protections while criminalizing resistance. Yet enslaved communities maintained cultural traditions, created kinship networks, and preserved dignity despite systematic dehumanization.

Resistance to Nazi occupation took countless forms beyond armed combatfrom forging documents to hiding refugees, from sabotaging production to circulating forbidden newspapers. This exploration examines how ordinary people organized clandestine networks under conditions of constant surveillance and lethal reprisal, using resistance archives, Gestapo records, and survivor testimony to reconstruct the organizational structures and daily operations that sustained underground movements across occupied Europe.From French maquis to Polish Home Army, from Dutch rescue networks to Norwegian civil disobedience, discover how disparate groups coordinated actions despite communication difficulties and penetration risks. Examine the ethical dilemmas resistance members facedweighing individual survival against collective action, balancing sabotage effectiveness against reprisal consequences, negotiating cooperation between ideologically opposed factions united only by opposition to occupation.Documentary evidencecoded messages, forged papers, underground newspapers, post-liberation interrogationsreveals operational methods and security procedures developed through trial and fatal error. Survivor accounts provide testimony to the psychological burden of maintaining double lives, the constant fear of betrayal, and the bonds formed under shared danger.Each chapter explores specific networks and their contexts, analyzing factors that determined success or failure. Understand how geography influenced resistance tactics, how pre-war social networks became organizational foundations, how class and political divisions complicated unity, and how Allied support both enabled and constrained underground operations.

"The Visual Learner Lie Why catering to your style actually hurts your learning" debunks the most persistent myth in education: Learning Styles (VARK). For decades, teachers and students have believed that some people are "visual learners," others "auditory," and others "kinesthetic," and that teaching must match the style.Education researcher David Class reveals the scientific consensus: There is zero evidence for this. We all learn best when the method matches the content (e.g., you learn geometry visually and languages auditorily), not the person."The Visual Learner Lie" explains why this myth is dangerous. It gives students an excuse to fail ("I cant learn this, Im a visual learner") and wastes teacher resources. The book offers evidence-based study techniques like dual coding and retrieval practice that actually work for everyone.

"The Billion Dollar Ring The hardware failure that almost killed Xbox" tells the story of the "Red Ring of Death" (RROD). When Microsoft launched the Xbox 360, it was a hit. But soon, consoles started dying. Three red lights flashed on the front, signaling general hardware failure caused by overheating and brittle solder.Tech journalist David Cooper reveals the internal panic. Failure rates hit 30%. Microsoft faced a choice: Deny the problem and kill the brand, or pay up. executive Peter Moore asked Steve Ballmer for $1.15 billion to extend warranties and fix every console.This book is a case study in crisis management. It shows how owning up to a massive mistake saved the Xbox division, allowing them to survive and eventually thrive, despite shipping a broken product.

"Outsourcing Memory Why we cant remember anything we look up" explores the "Google Effect" (also known as Digital Amnesia). Research by Betsy Sparrow at Columbia University shows that when people know they can find information online later, they are less likely to commit it to memory.Psychologist David Leroy explains the concept of "Transactive Memory." Historically, we shared memory with our tribe ("Ask Bob about farming"). Now, we treat the internet as our external hard drive. The problem is not that we are getting stupider, but that our brain is optimizing for search rather than storage.This book discusses the risks of this dependency. What happens to critical thinking when we dont have facts in our heads to connect? It is a guide to keeping your mind sharp in an age where the answer is always one click away.

Dynasties that once commanded absolute authority over vast territories have been erased from historical consciousness, their palaces excavated as archaeological puzzles rather than remembered as centers of power. This exploration traces royal lineages that shaped regions for generations before conquest, succession crises, or gradual decline ended their rule and consigned them to scholarly footnotes.Through documentary evidence and archaeological remains, discover how the Ghaznavid sultans built an empire spanning Persia to India before fragmenting into warring factions. Follow the Zagwe dynasty of Ethiopia, whose rock-hewn churches survive while their political achievements remain obscure. Witness the Ayyubid familys transformation from Saladins prestige to rapid dissolution across multiple successor states. Understand how the Ghurid rulers controlled Central Asian trade routes before vanishing so completely that historians debate their ethnic origins.Each dynasty reveals patterns in royal powers fragilitysuccession disputes that fractured kingdoms, military defeats that shattered legitimacy, cultural assimilation that dissolved distinct identities, geographic isolation that prevented recovery. Court chronicles and administrative documents show how these families perceived their permanence, while material evidence marks the physical traces of their authority.These were not minor players during their erathey commanded armies, administered justice, patronized culture, and shaped the political landscape. Their disappearance demonstrates that historical memory depends on factors beyond contemporary significance.