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ALFRED THE GREAT figures in history as the founder, in some sense, of the British monarchy. Of that long succession of sovereigns who have held the scepter of that monarchy, and whose government has exerted so vast an influence on the condition and welfare of mankind, he was not, indeed, actually the first.There were several lines of insignificant princes before him, who governed such portions of the kingdom as they individually possessed, more like semi-savage chieftains than English kings. Alfred followed these by the principle of hereditary right, and spent his life in laying broad and deep the foundations on which the enormous superstructure of the British empire has since been reared. If the tales respecting his character and deeds which have come down to us are at all worthy of belief, he was an honest, conscientious, disinterested, and farseeing statesman.If the system of hereditary succession would always furnish such sovereigns for mankind, the principle of loyalty would have held its place much longer in the world than it is now likely to do, and great nations, now republican.

ALEXANDER the Great died when he was quite young. He was but thirty-two years of age when he ended his career, and as he was about twenty when he commenced it, it was only for a period of twelve years that he was actually engaged in performing the work of his life. Napoleon was nearly three times as long on the great field of human action.Notwithstanding the briefness of Alexanders career, he ran through, during that short period, a very brilliant series of exploits, which were so bold, so romantic, and which led him into such adventures in scenes of the greatest magnificence and splendor, that all the world looked on with astonishment then, and mankind have continued to read the story since, from age to age, with the greatest interest and attention.The secret of Alexanders success was his character. He possessed a certain combination of mental and per-sonal attractions, which in every age gives to those who exhibit it a mysterious and almost unbounded ascendency over all within their influence. Alexander was characterized by these qualities in a very remarkable degree. He was finely formed in person, and very prepossessing in his manners. He was active, athletic, and fu

Illustrated by Murat Ukray, Copyright by e-Kitap Projesi..Bob Houston, the youngest agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, stepped out of the Department of Justice Building and turned toward home, his heart beating faster than it had in months. It hardly seemed real but he was now a full-fledged agent in the greatest man hunting division in the Federal Government.Bob paused a moment at the curb. Another man who had emerged from the justice building joined him. It was his uncle, Merritt Hughes, one of the most famous detectives in the department. He put his arm around Bobs shoulders;"Well, Bob, how does it feel to be a real federal agent?" he asked.It was a moment before Bob replied, and when he finally spoke the words came slowly."I hardly know," he confessed, "as yet it doesnt seem real, but there is one thing I do knowIm going to work night and day to make a success of this new job.""Dont worry about making a success," advised his uncle. "Youve got the stuff to make good or you wouldnt have been taken into the department."Illustrated by Murat Ukray,Copyright by e-Kitap Projesi..

Sayaka Kuroki pensava que tinha a vida toda resolvida... até encontrar uma calcinha na cama do noivo. De repente está desempregada, solteira e desesperada. Seis meses para casar é um romance divertido e foi best-seller instantaneo no Japo. Faltando tres meses para o casamento, que esta marcado para seu aniversario de trinta anos, e logo apos pedir demisso para cuidar da cerimonia, Sayaka Kuroki descobre que esta sendo traida e que seu noivo, Kazuya, no quer mais nada com ela.Com os poucos ienes que tem na conta, uma ressaca e um restinho de dignidade, Sayaka vai ate a editora da revista em que trabalhava para pedir seu emprego de volta. Porem o cargo ja esta ocupado, e a unica alternativa e passar para outro departamento, com um chefe autocentrado, que adora se exibir e que exige que ela se case em seis meses enquanto escreve reportagens sobre konkatsu, a arte da busca por um marido.Sem muito poder de escolha, Sayaka embarca nessa misso seguindo os conselhos do chefe, que tira suas teorias mirabolantes das historias de marcas de luxo, como Louis Vuitton e Givenchy. Apesar de ser implicante e apontar suas inseguranças, um chefe desafiador talvez seja exatamente do que ela precisa para seguir em frente nessa nova etapa.Leve e divertido, Seis meses para casar explora as peculiaridades do konkatsu e da vida no Japo enquanto prova que o inesperado, o improvavel, o quase impossivel, tambem pode acontecer.

Estela, advogada bem-sucedida, esposa e mãe, vê sua vida meticulosamente construída desmoronar com a notícia da morte de Ayla, sua filha de vinte e um anos. A jovem estudante de Artes se despede da v

Musa Okwonga a young Black man who grew up in a predominantly working-class town was not your typical Eton College student.The experience moulded and challenged him but also made him wonder why a place that was so good for him also seemed to contribute to the harm being done to the UK. The more he searched, the more evident the connection became between one of Britains most prestigious institutions and the genesis of Brexit.Woven throughout this deeply personal and unflinching memoir of Musas five years at Eton in the 1990s is a present-day narrative which engages with much wider questions: privilege, the distribution of wealth, the rise of the far right, systemic racism, the boys club of government and the power of the few to control the fate of the many.One of Them is both an intimate account and a timely exploration of race and class in modern Britain.

Branca de Neve não é uma princesa.Ela vive numa fazenda com seus pais, que vieram de muito longe para começar uma vida nova no Brasil, com uma pequena plantação cheia de sonhos.Quando sete agricultor

Ao esvaziar o apartamento da mãe morta em plena pandemia, Ana acredita que está apenas se livrando de tralhas — mas o que encontra é um museu de afetos que a obriga a revisitar toda a própria históri

Verity Taumas tem certeza de que nada pode ser pior do que a tormenta que sua família viveu no passado… até ela descobrir que alguns fantasmas nos perseguem pela vida inteira. Casa de raízes e ruínas

There are rivers that carry water.And there are rivers that carry memory.The River Where Night Learned to Flow is a gentle, continuous journey along moonlit waters where stillness takes shape and the quiet parts of the self are invited to rest. As night deepens, the river becomes a guidelistening, remembering, and offering release to those who walk beside it.Through drifting lanterns, whispering bridges, nameless dreams, and currents warm enough to carry sorrow away, this book unfolds not as a plot-driven story, but as a calm passage through reflection, recognition, and emotional softening. Each chapter is designed to be read slowly, allowing the mind to loosen its grip and follow the steady rhythm of water and breath.This is a book for nighttime reading, for moments of pause, and for readers seeking gentle, poetic storytelling that soothes rather than excites.A companion for sleep, rest, and quiet inner journeys.

Rose Bretéchers memoir on her long struggle with OCD. Adapted for the 2019 Channel 4 series.Rose has OCD, but not as you know it. Pure is the brave account of her ten-year struggle with Pure O, a little-known form of the condition, which causes her to experience intrusive sexual thoughts of shocking intensity. Undermined at every turn by her obsessions and enduring years of misdiagnosis and failed therapies, eventually the love of family and friends and her own courage prevailed, inspiring this beautiful and often hilarious memoir of a woman who refused to give up.At its core is a lesson for all of us: when it comes to being happy with who we are, there are no neat conclusions.

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.

The excellence of the following Treatise is so well known to all in any tolerable degree conversant with the Art of Painting, that it would be almost superfluous to say any thing respecting it, were it not that it here appears under the form of a new translation, of which fome account may be expected.Of the original Work, which is in reality a selection from the voluminous manuscript collections of the Author, both in Solio and Quarto, of all such passages as related to Painting, no edition appeared in print till 1651.Though its Author died so long before as the year 1519; and it is owing to the circumstance of a manuscript copy of these extracts in the original Italian, having fallen into the hands of "Raphael" that in the former of these years it was published at Paris in a thin folio volume in that language, accompanied with a set of cuts from the drawings of Niccolo Pouissin, and Alberti, the former having designed and defined the human figures, the latter the geometrical and other representations..

The Ford Edsel was supposed to be the ultimate car. Ford spent ten years and $250 million (billions today) on market research. They polled thousands of people. They analyzed every demographic. They used the best science of the 1950s. And then they launched a car that nobody wanted, with a grille that people said looked like a toilet seat."The Grill of Disaster" is the definitive autopsy of the biggest product launch failure in corporate history. It dissects why asking customers what they want often leads to disaster, the dangers of design-by-committee, and the hubris of thinking you can engineer desire. It is a timeless lesson for modern startups: Data can tell you everything about the past, but it cannot predict whether people will laugh at your product.

On the night of February 24, 1942, three months after Pearl Harbor, the air raid sirens screamed across Los Angeles. Searchlights swept the sky. Anti-aircraft guns fired over 1,400 shells into the darkness. Millions of people watched as explosives detonated in the air. The next morning, five civilians were dead from heart attacks and car accidents. But there was not a single enemy plane.Was it a Japanese submarine launching a plane? A weather balloon? A UFO? Or was it the deadliest case of "War Nerves" in history? This book dissects the "Battle of Los Angeles," showing how fear can make an entire city see phantoms. It explores the power of collective hallucination and how inexperienced gunners shooting at smoke created a feedback loop of destruction.

This booklet entitled "Love Songs in the Shadow of the Quran" is the upcoming metamorphosis of the poetry book "Love in the Shadow of the Quran".... For the beloved woman, devotion is the cornerstone of conjugal union, experienced in the shadow of the Quran. This union occurs after the loving man in this fairy tale imbued with Quranic symbols moves into the lake of conjugal union with the personified devotion that had broken into his garden..... For the beloved woman, poetry is not dead, but alive. However, poetry has gone through a metamorphosis since the beloved man has started to believe in the death of poetry. However, the beloved woman does not give up. With her rational thinking, on which her entire philosophy of love in the shadow of the Quran is based, she analyses the views of the beloved man and notices that he is silent and sees the images of their future love. And the beloved man enjoys these pictures.The beloved woman also wants to see these pictures. But she cant draw. So, she decides to look for inspiring photos. Some of the images and symbols of the book come from the Quran, in particular from the Surat ar-rahman, while others are images from nature, as is the case, for example, with the lake of the conjugal union. The last symbols of the collection, such as for example the butterfly, come from the "West-Eastern Divan" by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, who was inspired by the Persian poet Hafiz, according to the motto "If Islam means submission to Allah, then in Islam we all live and in Islam we all die"..... The song symbolizes the acoustic essence of Quranic love.... An important conclusion of the book is also the clear opposition to any kind of narcissistic love in the name of a deep spiritual and mystical love of two soul-mates who learn to love and love each other intimately in the shadow of the Quran.... in the last poem, the heart of the loving woman remains open to a new, growing love in the shadow of Allahs wisdom.

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