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A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events.The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a former French aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated English barrister who endeavors to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnays wife..

Homer commences his story, not at the beginning, but "in the midst of things;" hence, when one starts out to read the Iliad without having made some special preparation beforehand, he finds it hard to understand, and is tempted, in despair, to stop at the end of the first book. Many people are, therefore, content to admire the great masterpiece of poetry and story-telling simply because others admire it, and not because they have any personal acquaintance with it.Now, it is not my purpose to give you a "simplified version" of the Iliad or the Odyssey. There are already many such versions; but the best way for you, or any one else, to read Homer, is to read Homer. If you do not understand Greek, you can read him in one of the many English translations. You will find much of the spirit of the original in the translations by Bryant, by Lord Derby, and by old George Chapman, as well as in the admirable prose rendering by Butcher and Lang; but you can get none of it in any so-called simplified version.My object in writing this "Story of the Golden Age" has been to pave the way, if I dare say it, to an enjoyable reading of Homer, either in translations or in the original.

The period included in the reigns of Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian, was remarkable for two memorable events in the annals of ecclesiastical history; the first persecution of the Christian Church by the sixth Roman sovereign, and the dissolution of the Jewish polity by Titus.The destruction of Jerusalem was stupendous, not only as an act of divine wrath, but as being the proximate cause of the dispersion of a whole nation, upon which a long series of sorrow, spoliation, and oppression lighted, in consequence of the curse the Jews had invoked, when in reply to the remonstrances of Pilate they had cried out, "His blood be upon us and our children."The church below, represented in Scripture as a type of the heavenly Jerusalem above, and having its seat then in the doomed city, was not to continue there, lest the native Jews composing it should gather round them a people of their own nation, in a place destined to remain desolate till the time when the dispersed of Israel should be converted, and rebuild their city and temple. The city bearing the ancient name of Jerusalem does not indeed occupy the same site, being built round the sacred spot.

It wasnt a game made by a studio. It was a messy, unbalanced map made by a teenager in a level editor. "Defense of the Ancients" (DotA) was a custom map for Warcraft III that stripped away the base building and focused on heroes. Blizzard ignored it. But the players didnt.This book traces the chaotic lineage of the MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) genre. From the anonymous creator Eul to the mysterious IceFrog, from the theft of ideas that led to "League of Legends" to Valves corporate maneuvering to secure "Dota 2". It is a story of how the community built a genre that generates billions today, while the company that owned the engine (Blizzard) watched from the sidelines and missed the biggest opportunity in gaming history.

You are not the same person in sweatpants that you are in a suit. This is not just a matter of vanity or how others perceive you; it is a matter of how your brain processes information. "Enclothed Cognition" is the scientific phenomenon describing how the symbolic meaning of our clothes changes our cognitive performance.This book dives into the fascinating research showing that people pay better attention when wearing a doctors coat, negotiate more aggressively in formal wear, and feel more creative in "artists clothes." It moves beyond the superficial "dress for success" advice and explains the neural feedback loop between texture, style, and mindset. Learn how to hack your own wardrobe to trigger specific mental states on demand, turning your closet into a toolbox for your brain.

In software engineering, the "Bus Factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to disappear (e.g., get hit by a bus) before a project stalls completely. If you are the only person who knows how the legacy code works, you are not an asset; you are a single point of failure. This book challenges the ego-driven desire to be indispensable."Hit by a Bus" argues that true professional mastery is making yourself replaceable. It provides a framework for documentation, knowledge transfer, and mentorship that secures the companys future and frees the individual for promotion. The employee who hoards knowledge to protect their job is building a prison; the employee who shares knowledge is building a legacy. A guide for managers to identify "knowledge silos" and for employees to escape the trap of being the only one who can fix the printer.

You enter the office and feel tired. Your eyes itch. Your head throbs. You leave at 5 PM, and you feel fine. You are not lazy; your building is attacking you. "Sick Building Syndrome" (SBS) is a medical reality caused by the energy-efficient architecture of the 1970s, which sealed buildings so tight they stopped breathing.This book investigates the cocktail of VOCs (volatile organic compounds), mold spores, high CO2 levels, and flickering LED lights that define modern workspaces. It explains how bad air quality reduces cognitive function by up to 50% and why "open windows" are the enemy of corporate HVAC systems. A guide for employees to identify the symptoms and for architects to build spaces that dont poison the people inside.

This daily journal was written primarily because I well knew that time would force the swiftly passing incidents and impressions to blur each other in my memory.Then want of leisure tempted me to send the journal home to friends in place of letters, and the two or three for whom I originally intended it widened the circle by handing it on to many others, until it has, in a way, become public property.Several of those who have read it have asked me to publish it in book form, and although I vowed that I would not add to the al-ready excessive number of books written on Japan, I have decided to publish this just because it was not written with a view to publication. It is this which gives it any claim to attention, and guarantees its veracity. To preserve its character I have stayed my hand where it has often been tempted to change or revise statements which may sometimes seem too hard in the softening light of distance.Days about which there is no entry were filled with work on my fossils at the University. Many evenings were spent with friends at dinners or dances.

Auta de Souza (1876-1901) habitou a fronteira entre o plano terreno e o mistério absoluto. Órfã de pais e de destino, a poetisa potiguar converteu a fragilidade do corpo em uma das mais potentes arqu

We is a dystopian novel by Russian writer Yevgeny Zamyatin, written 1920-1921. The novel was first published as an English translation by Gregory Zilboorg in 1924 in New York. The novel describes a world of harmony and conformity within a united totalitarian state. George Orwell claimed that Aldous Huxleys 1931 Brave New World must be partly derived from We, but Huxley denied it.A few hundred years after the One States conquest of the entire world, the spaceship Integral is being built in order to invade and conquer extraterrestrial planets. Meanwhile, the projects chief engineer, D-503, begins a journal that he intends to be carried upon the completed spaceship.Like all other citizens of One State, D-503 lives in a glass apartment building and is carefully watched by the secret police, or Bureau of Guardians. D-503s lover, O-90, has been assigned by One State to visit him on certain nights. She is considered too short to bear children and is deeply grieved by her state in life. O-90s other lover and D-503s best friend is R-13, a State poet who reads his verse at public executions.

A BOOK OF DISCOVERY"The History of the Worlds Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole"A LITTLE OLD WORLDNo story is complete unless it begins at the very beginning. But where is the beginning? Where is the dawn of geographya"the knowledge of our earth? What was it like before the first explorers made their way into distant lands? Every day that passes we are gaining fresh knowledge of the dim and silent past.Every day men are patiently digging in the old heaps that were once the sites of busy cities, and, as a result of their unwearying toil, they are revealing to us the life-stories of those who dwelt therein; they are disclosing secrets writ on weather-worn stones and tablets, bricks and cylinders, never before even guessed at.Thus we read the wondrous story of ancient days, and breathlessly wonder what marvellous discovery will thrill us next.For the earliest account of the old world -a world made up apparently of a little land and a little water -we turn to an old papyrus, the oldest in existence, which tells us in familiar words, unsurpassed for their exquisite poetry and wondrous simplicity..

On the second day of July in the year 1863 the Civil War in America was at its height. Late in the preceding month Lee had turned his face northward, and, with an army of a hundred thousand Confederate soldiers at his back, had marched up into Pennsylvania.There was little to hinder his advance. Refraining, by reason of strict orders, from wanton destruction of property, his soldiers nevertheless lived on the rich country through which they passed. York and Carlisle were in their grasp. Harrisburg was but a days march away, and now, on this second day of July, flushed with fresh victories, they had turned and were giving desperate battle, through the streets and on the hills of Gettysburg, to the Union armies that had followed them.The old commonwealth was stirred as she had not been stirred before since the fall of Sumter. Every town and village in the state responded quickly to the governors call for emergency troops to defend the capital city. Mount Hermon, already depleted by generous early enlistments, and by the draft of 1862, gathered to-gether the bulk of the able-bodied men left in the village and its surroundings, and sent them forth in defense of the common-

Há momentos na vida em que tudo parece nos definir pelo passado, pelas falhas, pelas limitações. Mas e se o que nos torna improváveis for exatamente o que Deus quer usar para nos tornar inesquecíveis

Ao longo da história, as coleções de arte foram muito mais do que simples acervos de objetos preciosos. No Renascimento, colecionar era uma forma de poder, prestígio e, para algumas mulheres, um raro

Set amid the vast wheat fields of the Columbia Basin during World War I, the novel follows Kurt Dorn, a young farmer torn between loyalty to his German-born father and devotion to his country. As war hysteria, labor unrest, debt, and romantic longing close in, Kurt faces violence and betrayal. His struggle for honor, love, and identity unfolds against a land as harsh as the times.

Ninety days sounds like enough time to change everything. And in a sense, it isnot because transformation is guaranteed at the end of it, but because ninety consecutive days of showing up honestly will inevitably reveal something true about who you are, what stops you, and what youre actually willing to do when the initial motivation has long since faded and the only thing left is the quiet, unglamorous decision to continue.This book explores what ruthless consistency actually demands from the inside. Not the version that looks good in a progress postbut the real experience of day seventeen when nothing feels different, day thirty-four when life intervenes and the streak breaks, and day fifty-one when the question of whether any of this matters arrives with uncomfortable force. It examines the emotional patterns that make sustained commitment so difficult: the perfectionism that treats a missed day as total failure, the self-sabotage that surfaces precisely when progress becomes undeniable, and the complicated identity shifts that happen when a person begins to outgrow the version of themselves they started with.Ninety Days of Ruthless Consistency offers a compassionate look at what it means to commit to something long enough to meet yourself honestly. It explores how consistency is rarely about discipline in the conventional senseit is about learning to show up for yourself even when the feeling that started the journey has completely disappeared, and discovering what remains when it does.This is not a habit tracker or a ninety-day challenge formula. It is a thoughtful exploration of the emotional and psychological texture of sustained commitmentfor anyone who has started over enough times to suspect that the problem was never the plan.

Theres a particular kind of personal change that doesnt announce itself. No dramatic reveal, no public milestone, no moment where everyone suddenly notices. Just a quiet, gradual shift in how you carry yourselfin what you tolerate, what you choose, and how you feel on an ordinary morning when no one is watching.This book explores the inner experience of changing in silence. It examines the patterns that make growth feel incomplete without external validationthe habit of measuring progress through other peoples reactions, the restlessness that comes when effort goes unnoticed, and the subtle but powerful difference between changing to be seen and changing to feel more like yourself.Silent Glow Up No One Expects offers a compassionate look at what happens when personal transformation becomes genuinely private. It explores how the absence of an audience can feel uncomfortable at firsteven lonelyfor anyone whose sense of progress has long been shaped by the responses of others. And it examines how that discomfort, when understood rather than avoided, often marks the beginning of the most honest change a person can make.This is not a visibility strategy or a reinvention formula. It is a thoughtful exploration of the emotional texture of growing quietlyfor anyone who has begun to suspect that the most meaningful version of change happens in the spaces no one else can see.

The narrative follows Buffalo Jones, a determined frontiersman devoted to capturing and preserving American bison as civilization encroaches. Set against the harsh, expansive landscapes of the West, the story chronicles his daring expeditions, encounters with wildlife and Native Americans, and the rugged challenges of survival, highlighting the bond between man and nature and the spirit of exploration in a transforming frontier.

Prosperidade Financeira Segundo a Bíblia , de Marcelo Braga, revela os princípios eternos de gestão financeira e prosperidade contidos nas Escrituras Sagradas. Em um mundo onde o dinheiro muitas veze

Um Resumo Enciclopédico da Filosofia Simbólica Maçônica, Hermética, Cabalística e Rosacruz Obra fundamental para todos estudiosos . Assim o célebre autor Manly P. Hall define sua obra. O livro Os Ens