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Este livro enfatiza a aplicação da Matemática Financeira, especialmente voltada ao sistema de capitalização composto e à análise de viabilidade econômica de investimentos, com base nos princípios da

Como correlacionar o conhecimento dos chakras, sendo médico espírita e formado dentro de uma visão determinista, ao paradigma espiritualista oriental, com sua perspectiva transdimensional? Com base n

Produzido pelo VoteLGBT, Cuidado e coragem: a violência política LGBTfóbica no Brasil apresenta dados inéditos, análises interseccionais e testemunhos sobre a violência política de gênero e raça que

O Senhor Jesus, quando esteve aqui na Terra, fez uma promessa aos Seus discípulos de que partiria, mas voltaria para buscá-los (João 14).

Happy Healthy Sober will inspire you to look at your relationship with alcohol and encourage you to ditch the booze to live your best life. Have you woken up at 3 a.m. berating yourself for drinking too much? Have you tried ditching the booze without success?In this book, Janey provides a personal, unique and most importantly fun guide to having a fabulous alcohol free life. She gives you the keys to making sobriety and a healthy lifestyle cool, memorable and tremendously appealing.Happy Healthy Sober is a fantastic resource for an alcohol-free life, Janeys holistic approach allows you to connect to whats important to your mind, heart, body and soul.The first 30 days of sobriety are the most difficult. This book will help you stay on track.

"Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven."In the wake of a failed cosmic rebellion, the fallen archangel Satan awakens on a burning lake of fire. Undefeated in spirit, he rallies his legions of demons to build the palace of Pandemonium and plots a subtle revenge against the Almighty. His target? Gods newest and most beloved creation: Humanity. Miltons masterpiece takes us from the depths of Tartarus to the heights of the Empyrean, and finally to the lush, innocent borders of the Garden of Eden. Here, we witness the tragic temptation of Adam and Eve, a choice that changes the course of human history forever.The Greatest Antagonist in Literature: Miltons Satan is a character of terrifying complexity. He is a charismatic leader, a tormented intellectual, and a "tragic hero" whose pride leads to his inevitable ruin. His journey from a shining angel to a crawling serpent is one of the most powerful character arcs ever written, influencing centuries of "Byronic heroes" and anti-heroes.The Beauty of the Fall: While Satans rebellion provides the spectacle, the emotional heart of the poem lies in Book IX, where Adam and Eve face the serpent. Milton portrays their relationship with profound psychological depth, exploring themes of free will, reason, and the heavy burden of knowledge. The final lines of the poem, as the pair walks hand-in-hand out of Eden into a "subject world," are among the most moving in all of literature.The Power of Blank Verse: Discarding the "bondage of rhyming," Milton used unrhymed iambic pentameter (blank verse) to create a sense of vast, architectural scale. The language is dense, musical, and filled with classical allusions, creating a reading experience that feels truly "epic."Step into the cosmic theater. Purchase "Paradise Lost" today and witness the struggle for the soul of the world.

"I gazed up into the darkness and saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity."James Joyces Dubliners offers an unflinching look at the lives of ordinary citizens in a city caught between a glorious past and an uncertain future. From the innocent longings of a young boy in "Araby" to the devastating domestic realizations in "The Dead," these stories capture moments of profound personal "epiphany"sudden flashes of spiritual or psychological clarity. Joyce meticulously maps the streets, pubs, and parlors of Dublin, revealing the quiet tragedies and hidden desires of its inhabitants as they struggle against the "paralysis" of religion, poverty, and tradition.The Four Stages of Life: Joyce structured the collection to mirror the progression of a human life, moving from the innocence of childhood to the complexities of public life.Childhood: Stories like "The Sisters" and "An Encounter" explore the first brushes with death and mystery.Adolescence: "Araby" and "Eveline" capture the painful transition into adulthood and the weight of family duty.Maturity: "A Little Cloud" and "Counterparts" examine the frustrations of marriage and career.Public Life: "Ivy Day in the Committee Room" and "The Dead" look at politics, social status, and the ghosts of Irish history.The Masterpiece: "The Dead": The collection culminates in "The Dead," widely regarded as one of the finest short stories ever written. As Gabriel Conroy attends a holiday party, a simple song triggers a revelation about his wifes past and his own insignificance. The storys final, haunting image of snow falling "faintly through the universe" remains one of the most celebrated passages in literature.Discover the soul of a city. Purchase "Dubliners" today and experience the birth of modern literature.

The Metamorphosis is Franz Kafkas most famous work and a cornerstone of modern existential literature. The story of Gregor Samsas sudden transformation into an insect becomes a powerful metaphor for isolation, guilt, and dehumanization. Stark, surreal, and profoundly unsettling, this novella remains one of the most influential works of the 20th century.

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is one of F. Scott Fitzgeralds most imaginative and philosophical stories. Following a man who ages backward, the tale explores time, mortality, love, and social norms with irony and emotional depth. Elegant and thought-provoking, this story is a classic of American short fiction.

A Raw Youth is one of Dostoyevskys most psychologically intricate novels, exploring the turbulent inner life of a young man consumed by ambition and resentment. Set in the morally unstable world of late19th-century Russia, the novel examines generational conflict, ego, money, and the search for personal meaning. Through intense introspection and philosophical dialogue, Dostoyevsky exposes the dangers of unchecked pride and spiritual emptiness. A powerful and often overlooked masterpiece that bridges his early and later works.

Fiorella ha quindici anni e si sente invisibile. Classica brava bambina, non ha mai creato problemi, e passa inosservata in famiglia e a scuola. Se in passato questo non la infastidiva, ora, al primo anno di liceo, ne e disturbata ma non sa come uscirne. Durante la visita scolastica ad un museo, e folgorata da un quadro bellissimo che ritrae santa Caterina dAlessandria. Tale e lemozione che se ne sente ispirata, pensa che quel dipinto le abbia indicato la strada da seguire per uscire dallanonimato, e si ripromette di emularla intraprendendo un percorso verso la santita. Inizia quindi a mettere in atto rinunce e sacrifici, ma nonostante i suoi sforzi stenta a raggiungere una piu profonda spiritualita e una fervida fede.Quasi per caso scopre di possedere un piccolo talento, e coltivandolo acquista sicurezza, si apre alle altre persone, sperimenta la condivisione gioiosa e finalmente Fiorella fiorisce.

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn follows Huck and the enslaved Jim down the Mississippi in a picaresque, first-person narrative whose colloquial idiom reshaped American prose. Through feuds, cons, and Hucks resolve to "go to hell" for Jim, Twain marries satire to realism, exposing antebellum hypocrisy while turning the river into a mobile stage for moral testing. Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens), a Missourian raised in the slaveholding river town of Hannibal, drew on his years as a Mississippi steamboat pilot and on journalistic craft. After Tom Sawyer, he redirected nostalgic play into corrosive inquiry, using dialect and episodic structure to probe race, authority, and the distortions of romantic sentiment. Recommended to readers of American literature and ethics alike, this novel rewards close attention with humor, velocity, and unsettling clarity. Approach it for its lively voice; stay for its searching meditation on freedom, complicity, and conscience. Despite controversies over language, it remains an essential, deeply generative text for classrooms and independent readers.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Beyond Good and Evil condenses Nietzsches mature assault on moral and metaphysical certitudes into taut aphorisms and brief polemics. Unmasking the "prejudices of philosophers," he shows how truth-claims cloak instincts and the will to power, advances perspectivism, and sketches free spirits and future philosophers who think beyond binary morals. Its quick, ironic, diagnosticians style situates the book at the pivot of late nineteenth-century thought, confronting positivism, German idealism, and the legacy of Christian conscience. A former Basel philologist, Nietzsche wrote amid illness, solitude, and itinerant years in the Alps and Italy, conditions that honed his ear for nuance and his suspicion of moral rhetoric. After Thus Spoke Zarathustra (1883-1885) and a break with Wagner, he pursued a cooler, more analytic register to prepare a revaluation of inherited values. Recommended to readers of philosophy, literature, and religious studies, this demanding volume clarifies debates about truth, agency, and morality while unsettling habitual certainties. Read with patience and a pencil: its barbed insights, audacious hypotheses, and exacting portraits of thinkers can reorient a curriculum and a life of thought.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Wuthering Heights (1847) fuses Gothic ferocity with Romantic sublimity in a daring frame-tale. Through Lockwoods and Nelly Deans layered testimonies, Bronte charts the interdependence of Catherine Earnshaw and Heathcliff across two generations at Wuthering Heights and Thrushcross Grange. Temporal loops, unreliable narrators, and vernacular textures entwine grief, revenge, and property, while the Yorkshire moorselemental, indifferentshape fate. Its audacious design and metaphysical intensity challenged Victorian realism, redefining the domestic Gothic of passion, class antagonism, and inheritance. Emily Bronte, the reclusive daughter of the Haworth parsonage, honed a fierce lyric sensibility in juvenilia and poetry before publishing as "Ellis Bell." The isolation of the Pennine moors, family losses, and her self-education yielded an imagination at once inward and elemental. Living amid stringent class and gender codes, she forged a vision that interrogates power, kinship, and possession. Essential for students of Victorian fiction and all readers of psychological Gothic, this novel rewards rereading: its polyphonic testimony unsettles judgment, and its storm-lit cadences linger. Come for the love story; stay for a radical meditation on selfhood, family, property, and place.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Published in 1864, Notes from Underground is a taut two-part novella that assaults the eras rational egoism and utilitarian optimism. In Part One, the unnamed Underground Man delivers a jagged, self-lacerating monologue, wielding paradox against deterministic science and social engineering. Part Two, Apropos of the Wet Snow, stages his ideas as lived humiliation: petty clashes with former schoolmates and a cruel exchange with Liza expose the costs of corrosive self-consciousness. The prose shifts from sardonic wit to feverish confession, perfecting an unreliable, dialectical form that anticipates modernist interiority and existential inquiry. Dostoevsky composed the book amid crisis and polemic: recently returned from Siberian imprisonment and exile, afflicted by epilepsy, and grieving his wife and brother, he confronted the prestige of positivism and the utopian schemes of Chernyshevsky. Experience among convicts supplied psychological depth, while fierce theological debate and Petersburgs bureaucratic labyrinth shaped its moral topography. For readers of philosophy and fiction alike, this brief yet inexhaustible work is indispensable. It rewards close study of freedom, rationality, and selfhood, and serves as a bracing antidote to facile systems as well as a prologue to the authors later masterpieces.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Smolletts The Adventures of Roderick Random is a ferocious picaresque that hurls its Scottish hero through ships decks, gaming rooms, hospitals, and London drawing rooms, exposing the venality of patronage and the precariousness of rank. Episodic and closely observed, the narrative mixes comic brio with clinical detailespecially in its naval and medical scenesand lively blends of cant and colloquial English. Written in the early Georgian moment alongside Richardson and Fielding, it adapts the Spanish picaro to British conditions, trading pastoral sentiment for corrosive social satire. Smollett, a trained surgeon and a Scot by formation, had served as a naval surgeons mate in the Caribbean during the War of Jenkins Ear, experience that furnished the novels vivid sea passages and its rage at bureaucratic cruelty. His years in Grub Street London sharpened his sense of literary marketplace and marginal lives; the tenderness he affords Strap and the poised Narcissa tempers his invective with humane sympathy. Readers seeking a vivid map of eighteenth-century Britainits ships, streets, and shamswill find this novel bracing and wise. Essential for students of the picaresque, maritime history, and the English novel, it offers satire that still cuts.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Ben Jonsons The Devil is an Ass (1616) is a scintillating city comedy in which Pug, a minor devil, descends on Jacobean London only to discover that human projectors, gallants, and gulls outstrip Hell in invention. The action circles the credulous Fitzdottrel, exploited by the patent-monger Meercraft and outmaneuvered by the witty Wittipol, who even cross-dresses as a Spanish lady to test virtue and vanity. Written for the Kings Men at Blackfriars, the play blends Jonsons classical architectonics with bustling urban satire, targeting monopolies, fashion, and courtly imposture. A poet-scholar steeped in Camdens Westminster pedagogy, Jonson married learned design to sharp moral purpose. His service as court masque-maker for James I and his experience of Londons entrepreneurial "projects," as well as brushes with censorship, inform the plays skepticism toward novelty and privilege. Contemporary with his 1616 folio, The Devil is an Ass displays a laureate claiming the city stage while anatomizing the economieslegal and infernalof his age. Readers of early modern drama will relish its ingenious plotting, quicksilver prose, and topical bite. Whether approached for performance or study, this play rewards attention with comic exuberance and acute social diagnosis, showcasing Jonson at once urbane, erudite, and unsparingly exact.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set in the early 1920s, The Enchanted April follows four dispirited English womenLottie Wilkins, Rose Arbuthnot, Mrs. Fisher, and Lady Caroline Desterwho answer a small advertisement and rent a castle above the Ligurian coast. Von Arnim blends luminous nature writing with comedy of manners, using free indirect discourse as wisteria, sun, and sea air reorder memory, desire, and marriage. An interwar pastoral, the novel turns postwar fatigue into an experiment in restorative leisure, where place acts upon character and social hierarchies gently shift. Elizabeth von Arnim, born Mary Annette Beauchamp in 1866, drew on a life of gardens, travel, and complicated marriagesfrom Prussian estates to English salons. Her debut Elizabeth and Her German Garden sharpened her horticultural imagination and ironic poise, while Italian sojourns supplied the contours of San Salvatore. Skeptical of coercive domesticity yet fond of convivial order, she stages change as growth rooted in place rather than manifesto. Recommended for readers who prize supple prose, humane wit, and quietly radical plots; this novel offers replenishment without naivete, ideal for those seeking to rediscover companionship and self through the agency of landscape, and a restorative holiday in literature.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

A dense, architectonic treatise, Leviathan offers an anatomy of the commonwealth, opening with an account of human psychologyendeavors and aversions, power, passionswithin a mechanistic philosophy; from this Hobbes derives the state of nature as war of every man against every man and the rational laws of nature culminating in the social contract and submission to an undivided sovereign, by institution or acquisition. Combining geometrical definitions with polemical eloquence and scriptural exegesis, Leviathan (1651) emerges from the intellectual ferment of the Scientific Revolution and the confessional strife of the English Civil War. Hobbes (15881679), educated at Oxford and long associated with the Cavendish household, absorbed the new mechanics via Galileo and corresponded amid the Parisian philosophical milieu. Witness to civil tumult and exile, he feared the corrosions of sectarian zeal and scholastic obscurity; these experiences, alongside his materialist psychology, drove his bid to secure peace through absolute sovereignty. This work rewards readers in political theory, law, history, and theology. Whether one seeks foundations for state authority, a sharp account of liberty as non-impediment, or a cautionary meditation on disorder, Leviathan remains indispensableprovocative, lucid, and unsettling in its insistence that security precedes all other goods.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Peter Pan, first staged in 1904 and novelized in 1911 as Peter and Wendy, follows the Darling children into Neverland, where Peter, Tinker Bell, and Captain Hook enact adventures shot through with peril and sweetness. Barries prose weds whimsy to quiet dread; an ironic, intrusive narrator measures the price of refusing to grow up. The episodic, theatrical design betrays its stage origins, while its Edwardian context converses with Carroll and Stevenson, setting fantasy against the encroaching shadows of time and loss. Scottish playwright and novelist J. M. Barrie drew on personal history: his brothers childhood death fostered a fixation on stasis and grief, and his friendship with the Llewelyn Davies boys seeded Neverlands textures. London theatre sharpened his dramaturgs instinct for spectacle and direct address, shaping a narrative that slips between nursery and deck, sentiment and irony. Essential for readers of childrens literature, theatre history, and Edwardian studies, Peter Pan rewards both scholarly scrutiny and bedtime recital. It delights in flights and swordplay while posing lasting questions about memory, motherhood, and the ethics of perpetual youth. Return for enchantment tempered by insightand for a myth still shaping childhood.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.