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1949. The Cold War is intensifying and rumours abound that the Russians are close to creating an atomic bomb.Beattie Cavendish, special operative for a covert section of GCHQ is sent to Scotland, to a listening station in the Highlands at Kilbray. Beatties arrival is greeted with suspicion by the stations staff. She faces an uphill battle to turn things around. When Beattie discovers that her uncle Howard, who lives nearby, has gone missing, she becomes convinced his disappearance is more sinister. She learns Howard has been visiting a remote Highland lodge used during the war to hide out of favour special operation executive officers. As she delves deeper, there is no one she feels she can trust except for private detective Patrick Corrigan. But Corrigan has troubles of his own as he needs to get out of London after crossing the Kutsnetsov brothers, a pair of notorious Russian gangsters.As the snow begins to fall hard and fast, Beattie realises the search is putting her life and that of Corrigans in danger, and that the answers she is looking for lie buried in her wartime past.

Um hino à vida – A história real de Gisèle Pelicot, a mulher que denunciou o marido e mais de cinquenta abusadores na França.A impressionante história de Gisèle Pelicot, narrada por ela mesma, que co

Some islands are erased from maps.Others are erased from memory.This story belongs to the latter.!Island of the Damned is not merely a work of speculative fiction. It is an examination of a recurring human impulsethe belief that isolation grants permission, that secrecy absolves responsibility, and that power, when hidden far enough from public sight, can reshape morality itself.Across history, islands have served as laboratories of ambition. Removed from law, distanced from conscience, they become ideal vessels for experimentationnot only on bodies, but on ethics, identity, and the very definition of humanity. In this novel, Aethelburg Island stands as such a place: a sealed ecosystem where science detaches from accountability, where progress is pursued without restraint, and where the human form becomes raw material.Island of the Damned asks a simple but unsettling question:If humanity could be redesigned.Who would be trusted to decide what must be removed?This book does not offer comfort. It offers reflection. It invites the reader to confront the seductive nature of control, the danger of believing oneself exempt from moral limits, unsettling truths

The Old Maid, Originally serialized in The Red Book Magazine in 1922, The Old Maid is an examination of class and society as only Edith Wharton could undertake. The story follows the life of Tina, a young woman caught between the mother who adopted her-the beautiful, upstanding Delia-and her true mother, her plain, unmarried "aunt" Charlotte, who gave Tina up to provide her with a socially acceptable life.The three women live quietly together until Tinas wedding day, when Delias and Charlottes hidden jealousies rush to the surface. Says Roxana Robinson in her Introduction, "Wharton weaves her golden, fine-meshed net about her characters with inexorable precision."

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is a detective novel by British writer Agatha Christie. It was written in the middle of the First World War, in 1916, and in the United States in 1920 and in the United Kingdom in 1921. Styles was Christies first published novel. It introduced Hercule Poirot, Inspector (later, Chief Inspector) Japp, and Arthur Hastings. Poirot, a Belgian refugee of the Great War, is settling in England near the home of Emily Inglethorp, who helped him to his new life. His friend Hastings arrives as a guest at her home. When the woman is killed, Poirot uses his detective skills to solve the mystery.The book includes maps of the house, the murder scene, and a drawing of a fragment of a will. The true first publication of the novel was as a weekly serial in The Times, including the maps of the house and other illustrations included in the book. This novel was one of the first ten books published by Penguin Books when it began in 1935. This first mystery novel by Agatha Christie was well received by reviewers. An analysis in 1990 was positive about the plot, considered the novel one of the few by Christie that is well-anchored in time and place.

This exceptional collection of essays explores the persistence of misogyny: how it is woven into the fabric of our culture, our institutions, and our psyches. Building on her first book, Misogyny in Psychoanalysis, Michaela Chamberlain moves on from a conversation to a demand for action. Drawing on her experiences as a psychotherapist, mother, and researcher, she uses psychoanalytic theory to examine what causes misogyny and how misogyny is internalised, enacted, and justified. Revisiting Freuds case of Dora and Winnicotts concept of the "good enough mother", she explores how these foundational psychoanalytic ideas continue to echo in contemporary expectations placed on women - particularly around sexuality, care, and emotional labour. These essays bridge past and present, theory and lived experience, to ask what has really changed and include a much-needed update to Winnicotts list of reasons why a mother hates her baby. From online discussion forums to classical literature, from consulting room dynamics to cultural narratives, Chamberlain investigates how misogyny hides in plain sight, often disguised as common sense, tradition, or even progressive thinking. Her work questions who benefits from patriarchy, who is harmed, and how all of us - regardless of gender - are shaped by its assumptions. Accessible yet deeply informed, On Resisting Women invites readers into a debate about how we think, how we feel, and how we might begin to loosen misogynys grip - not only on our systems, but on our inner worlds.

Esta pesquisa analisa o cyberstalking, uma modalidade criminosa que emergiu com a sociedade da informação e apresenta alta incidência na violência doméstica. O objetivo do trabalho é colocar o tema e

Este livro tem por espelho o carisma que cada mulher carrega dentro de si, ele nasce de experiências vividas, de pensamentos que tatuam a alma e com palavras sensíveis por uma busca de novas conquist

A catequese, como educação da fé, é ação viva e permanente da Igreja e, por isso, toca no mais profundo do seu mistério: viver e anunciar o Cristo ressuscitado. Como caminho pedagógico, de imersão na

In Vernon, New Jersey, there was a theme park with no rules. At Action Park, the wave pool was nicknamed "The Grave Pool," the Alpine Slide tore skin off bone, and the loop-de-loop water slide was tested by employees for $100 (many lost teeth). It was a libertarian paradise of insurance fraud, teenage drunkenness, and engineering negligence.This book is a hilarious and horrifying oral history of "Class Action Park." It explores how Gene Mulvihill built an empire on the philosophy that people should control their own thrills, even if that meant risking death. It captures the chaotic spirit of the 1980s, where safety regulations were merely suggestions and survival was part of the ticket price.

The world was once a place of insurmountable distances until humanity learned to conquer friction. The Wheel Mandate documents the mechanical revolution that laid the foundation for every civilization. From Sumerian potters wheels to the paved roads of Romewe examine how the circular shape exponentially increased human reach. It is the story of logistics as an instrument of power.Learn how the chariot changed warfare and how the heavy cart first made trade in bulk goods possible. We analyze the physical hurdles of land transport and how the wheel fueled the emergence of the first megacities. This book shows that the wheel was not just an invention, but a law of efficiency that reordered the hierarchies of the world. Look behind the heroic battles at the wooden axles that carried empires.A fascinating account of the simplest and at the same time most powerful machine of mankind. Understand the mechanics of transport and how it made our planet shrink. Without the wheel, there would be no stagnation, but also no progress.

"When its done." That was the release date for Duke Nukem Forever. Announced in 1997, it wasnt released until 2011. For fifteen years, the game became a punchline, a myth, and a tragedy. It burned through engines, developers, and millions of dollars, trapped in a cycle of endless restarting driven by the desire to be the best.This book takes you inside the chaotic offices of 3D Realms. It is a lesson in project management gone wrong, illustrating the dangers of feature creepthe compulsion to add every new shiny technology until the project becomes impossible to finish. It captures the rise and fall of the 90s shooter kings and asks the question: At what point does the pursuit of perfection become a refusal to ship?

In 1939, speech pathologist Wendell Johnson believed that stuttering was a learned behavior, not a biological defect. To prove it, he conducted an experiment at an orphanage in Iowa. He took twenty-two children, half of whom spoke perfectly fine, and subjected them to intense negative therapy, telling them they were developing a stutter and must not speak unless they could do so perfectly.Known today as the "Monster Study," this experiment ruined the lives of children who were shamed into silence. This book exposes the dark side of academia, where the pursuit of a hypothesis overrode basic humanity. It tracks the lifelong trauma of the subjects ("The Mary Tudor group") and the decades-long cover-up by a university that knew it had crossed the line.

"A Science-Fiction Novel"The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and the second of Burroughs Barsoom series.The Gods of Mars is a science fantasy novel by American writer Edgar Rice Burroughs and the second of Burroughs Barsoom series. It features the characters of John Carter and Carters wife Dejah Thoris. It was first published in The All-Story as a five-part serial in the issues for January-May 1913. It was later published as a complete novel by A. C. McClurg in September, 1918 and in many editions subsequently.As usual for him, Burroughs begins with a frame story that explains how he (Burroughs) came into possession of the text. At the end of the first book, A Princess of Mars, John Carter was unwillingly transported back to Earth. The story proper begins with his arrival back on Barsoom (Mars) after a ten-year separation with Dejah Thoris, their unborn child, and the Red Martian people of the nation of Helium, whom he has adopted as his own. Unfortunately, Carter materializes in the one place on Barsoom from which nobody is allowed to depart: the Valley Dor, which is the Barsoomian afterlife.

Indeed, the world of Oceania in George Orwells famous novel is routinely described as oppressive, and hopeless, and variously deemed a horror story, an elegy, a threnody, a shriek of terror, a wail of despair, a death cry. Isaac Deutscher, the biographer of both Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin, referred to it in 1955in the wake of the controversial BBC broadcasts and their "fatal" consequencesas the "Black Millennium," when George Orwell turned a segment of time forever into charcoal dust. Literary and cultural critics have described 1984or rather Nineteen Eighty-Four, to use the British title that Orwell himself preferredas the vengeful death wish of a cynic, the tubercular projection of a dying man, the paranoid fantasy of a writer in despair, the Schadenfreude of a neurotic adult schoolboy who sent the entire world to room 101, and a totalitarian tract devised as a desperate invalids futile protest against the specter of totalitarianism, whether in the form of Hitlers on the right or Stalins on the left.Nineteen Eighty-Four is none of these.Rather, it is instead an affirming flame, even an optimistic vision of a hope-filled time just over the horizon.

Our relationship with home includes many psychosomatic realms: perception, imagination, fantasy, projection, separateness, boundaries, smells, and sounds. Our very first home is our mothers womb; our very last, an urn or coffin. In between, we have our childhood home, deeply incorporated into our psyche, which persists, throughout life, as (hopefully) a fond prototype, an object of nostalgia, and a source of ego-replenishment, college dorms, shared housing, apartments, marital and family homes, downsized residences of late middle age, retirement homes, nursing homes, and hospices. Far apart from a world of linear progression are traumatizing homes, foster homes, and orphanages where searingly painful as well as defiantly triumphant scenarios of growth and development may unfold. Also, monasteries, which embody the human desire for detachment, silence, and contemplation, away from earthly relations to seek spirituality and transcendence. The contributions from Aisha Abbasi, Salman Akhtar, Rajiv Gulati, M. Nasir Ilahi, Gurmeet S. Kanwal, Murad Khan, Milan Patel, Sarita Singh, and Nidhi Tewari seek to demonstrate that at each step in the life span, our dwellings both impact upon and reflect our intrapsychic goings-on. As well as examinations of the kinds of home mentioned above, the abstract nature of home is also explored, looking at its function, the search for a sense of home, homesickness, absence, nostalgia, and the development of a stable internalized home. Theres no place like home and Attics and Basements shows us why.

Our relationship with home includes many psychosomatic realms: perception, imagination, fantasy, projection, separateness, boundaries, smells, and sounds. Our very first home is our mothers womb; our very last, an urn or coffin. In between, we have our childhood home, deeply incorporated into our psyche, which persists, throughout life, as (hopefully) a fond prototype, an object of nostalgia, and a source of ego-replenishment, college dorms, shared housing, apartments, marital and family homes, downsized residences of late middle age, retirement homes, nursing homes, and hospices. Far apart from a world of linear progression are traumatizing homes, foster homes, and orphanages where searingly painful as well as defiantly triumphant scenarios of growth and development may unfold. Also, monasteries, which embody the human desire for detachment, silence, and contemplation, away from earthly relations to seek spirituality and transcendence. The contributions from Aisha Abbasi, Salman Akhtar, Rajiv Gulati, M. Nasir Ilahi, Gurmeet S. Kanwal, Murad Khan, Milan Patel, Sarita Singh, and Nidhi Tewari seek to demonstrate that at each step in the life span, our dwellings both impact upon and reflect our intrapsychic goings-on. As well as examinations of the kinds of home mentioned above, the abstract nature of home is also explored, looking at its function, the search for a sense of home, homesickness, absence, nostalgia, and the development of a stable internalized home. Theres no place like home and Attics and Basements shows us why.

Um dos aspectos emblemáticos abordados neste livro diz respeito ao debate curricular acerca da inserção de um novo processo de seleção e organização do conhecimento escolar. Historicamente, os curric

Published posthumously in 1817, Northanger Abbey is Jane Austens delightful satire of Gothic fiction and youthful imagination. The novel follows Catherine Morland, a naive and enthusiastic young woman who loves sensational Gothic novels and dreams of mystery and romance.Invited to stay at the grand estate of Northanger Abbey, Catherines imagination begins to blur the line between fiction and reality as she suspects hidden secrets and dramatic conspiracies. Through gentle humor and sharp social observation, Austen explores themes of love, friendship, self-discovery, and the dangers of allowing fantasy to overshadow reason.Lighthearted yet insightful, Northanger Abbey combines romance and wit, offering readers a charming coming-of-age story wrapped in Austens signature elegance and irony.

O menor e mais singular dos nossos cromossomos guarda o segredo da nossa origem?Em uma investigaço to ousada quanto rigorosa, Cromossomo Y: O Cromossomo de Deus no se contenta com as narrativas habituais. Em vez de opor ciencia e fe, o autor Jose Silvino de Carvalho empreende uma jornada unica de convergencia contemplativa, buscando padres de sentido onde a genetica, a filosofia e a teologia se encontram.Partindo da biologia unica do cromossomo Y e de seu eco no nome divino, o livro avança para o coraço do misterio cristo: a Encarnaço. A pergunta radical pela origem do cromossomo Y de Jesus Cristo conduz a uma hipotese profunda e poetica: a de que este fragmento de DNA pode ser visto como o sinal material da paternidade de Deus, uma ponte encarnada entre o humano e o divino.Mais do que uma tese, esta obra e um convite. Um convite a uma nova sintonia intelectual, capaz de integrar a narrativa da materia, da historia e do espirito em uma viso harmoniosa e bela da realidade. Prepare-se para uma leitura que desafia fronteiras e ilumina, com profundidade e serenidade, a pergunta definitiva: De quem somos, afinal, filhos?