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The two strangers remained standing by the door, which was closed quietly behind them. They seemed to be waiting for the mild sensation caused by their appearance to subside before advancing into the room. Maskull was a kind of giant, but of broader and more robust physique than most giants. He wore a full beard. His features were thick and heavy, coarsely modelled, like those of a wooden carving; but his eyes, small and black, sparkled with the fires of intelligence and audacity. His hair was short, black, and bristling.Night-spore was of middle height, but so tough-looking that he appeared to be trained out of all human frailties and susceptibilities. His hairless face seemed consumed by an intense spiritual hunger, and his eyes were wild and distant. Both men were dressed in tweeds.Before any words were spoken, a loud and terrible crash of falling masonry caused the assembled party to start up from their chairs in consternation. It sounded as if the entire upper part of the building had collapsed. Faull sprang to the door, and called to the servant to say what was happening. The man had to be questioned twice before he gathered what was required of him.

Beginning with his A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic "science of man" that examined the psychological basis of human nature. In stark opposition to the rationalists who preceded him, most notably Descartes, he concluded that desire rather than reason governed human behaviour, saying:"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions". A prominent figure in the sceptical philosophical tradition and a strong empiricist, he argued against the existence of innate ideas, concluding instead that humans have knowledge only of things they directly experience..NOTHING is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover anything new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them. And indeed were they content with lamenting that ignorance, which we still lie under in the most important questions, that can come before the tribunal of human reason, there are few, who have an acquaintance with the sciences, that would not readily agree with them.

A runaway trolley is barreling down a track. Ahead, five people are tied to the rails. You stand next to a lever. If you pull it, the trolley switches to a side track where only one person is tied. Do you pull the lever? This simple thought experiment, known as the Trolley Problem, has obsessed philosophers for decades. But with the rise of self-driving cars and AI, it has moved from the classroom to the boardroom."Tracks of Morality" dissects the history and implications of this dilemma. It moves beyond the binary choice to explore what our answers reveal about us. Are we Utilitarians, counting lives like currency? Or Deontologists, refusing to actively kill even to save many? The book explores variations of the problemthe "Fat Man," the "Loop"and applies them to modern crises, from triage in pandemics to algorithmic programming. A primer on ethics that feels like a thriller.

"Lord of the Flies" is fiction. The wreck of the Batavia is history, and it is infinitely worse. In 1629, the Dutch East India Company ship Batavia wrecked off the coast of Australia. Over 200 survivors swam to a tiny coral island. Among them was Jeronimus Cornelisz, a bankrupt pharmacist and a heretic with a silver tongue.While the commander went for help in a longboat, Cornelisz established a reign of terror. He didnt just want to survive; he wanted to play God. He convinced his followers to massacre 125 men, women, and children to save resources, turning the island into a slaughterhouse. This is the harrowing story of how quickly civilization crumbles when a psychopath takes charge in a vacuum, and the incredible rescue mission that raced against time to stop the killing.

In February 2014, an anonymous programmer streamed a game of Pokemon Red on Twitch. The twist? The chat controlled the buttons. What followed was "Twitch Plays Pokemon," a descent into absolute madness where over a million people tried to navigate a single character simultaneously. It was supposed to be impossible. Instead, it became a religion.This book analyzes the event not just as gaming history, but as a massive sociological experiment in "Anarchy vs. Democracy." It chronicles the emergence of a complex mythology, the accidental release of beloved characters, and the sheer willpower required to coordinate a million conflicting inputs to beat the game. It is a study of how order emerges from chaos, how digital communities form rapid belief systems (The Helix Fossil), and how collective intelligence can triumph over collective stupidityeventually.

The Voynich Manuscript has defeated the greatest codebreakers of the 20th century, including the team that cracked the Nazi Enigma machine. Resting in the Yale library, this small book, filled with illustrations of non-existent plants, naked nymphs, and astrological diagrams, is written in a flowing, elegant script that belongs to no known human language. Is it a medieval hoax, a lost language, or the notebook of a mad genius?"Unreadable" takes the reader on a journey through six centuries of failure. From the court of Rudolph II in Prague to modern AI laboratories, everyone who has touched this book has been consumed by its riddle. The author explores the radiocarbon dating that places it in the early 15th century and dissects the leading theories: Is it a medical manual from the Aztecs? A Cathar prayer book? Or meaningless gibberish designed to fool an emperor? A gripping history of the worlds most enduring intellectual locked room mystery.

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

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-

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

Neste volume o autor apresenta algumas letras que representam o melhor da discografia do cantor estadunidense Jim Reeves.

A Princess of Mars (1917) is a science fantasy novel by Edgar Rice Burroughs, the first of his Barsoom series. Full of swordplay and daring feats, the novel is considered a classic example of 20th century pulp fiction.It is also a seminal instance of the planetary romance, a sub-genre of science fantasy that became highly popular in the decades following its publication. Its early chapters also contain elements of the Western.The story is set on Mars, imagined as a dying planet with a harsh desert environment. This vision of Mars was based on the work of the astronomer Percival Lowell, whose ideas were widely popularized in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.Chapter I: On the Arizona HillsI am a very old man; how old I do not know. Possibly I am a hundred, possibly more; but I cannot tell because I have never aged as other men, nor do I remember any childhood. So far as I can recollect I have always been a man, a man of about thirty.I appear today as I did forty years and more ago, and yet I feel that I cannot go on living forever; that some day I shall die the real death from which there is no resurrection.

Ce un confine sottile tra cio che siamo e cio che ci permettono di essere. In un mondo che misura lamore e lodio, il corpo e lidentita secondo regole antiche, secondo bandiere e confini, qualcuno decide di attraversare la linea e guardare oltre. Humanus - La via della Pace e la storia di chi non accetta di scegliere tra due estremi, di chi cerca la propria voce nel silenzio imposto, di chi ama al di la del nome che gli e stato dato, del luogo di nascita o delle religioni. Un romanzo che scava nel desiderio e nella vergogna, nella carne e nello spirito, fino a rivelare che la vera rivoluzione non e cambiare il mondo, ma riconoscere se stessi. Perche esiste un luogo, fragile e perfetto, dove maschile e femminile si confondono, dove le diversita culturali si annullano, dove amore e odio si completano: e li, finalmente, si e liberi.

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.