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First published in 1819, Ivanhoe is Walter Scotts landmark historical novel set in 12th-century England. The story follows Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a noble knight returning from the Crusades, as he navigates love, honor, and conflict amid the tension between Normans and Saxons.Filled with tournaments, daring rescues, and courtly intrigue, the novel explores themes of chivalry, loyalty, social justice, and romance. Characters such as the heroic Ivanhoe, the brave Rebecca, and the iconic Robin Hood enrich the narrative with courage, wit, and moral complexity.Epic, suspenseful, and vividly detailed, Ivanhoe remains a timeless tale of adventure, heroism, and the enduring struggle between personal honor and social pressures.

First published in 1830, The Red and the Black (Le Rouge et le Noir) is Stendhals acclaimed psychological and social novel set in post-Napoleonic France. The story follows Julien Sorel, a young and intelligent man of modest background whose ambition drives him to navigate the rigid structures of class, politics, and religion in pursuit of success.Torn between passion and calculation, Julien becomes entangled in complex romantic relationships while striving to rise above his social standing. Through sharp social commentary and deep psychological insight, Stendhal explores themes of ambition, hypocrisy, love, power, and the tension between individual desire and societal expectation.Bold, realistic, and emotionally intense, The Red and the Black remains a cornerstone of French literature and a timeless study of human ambition and moral conflict.

It lasted less than ten seconds, but it changed gaming forever. Evo 2004. Daigo Umehara vs. Justin Wong. One pixel of health left. A super move unleashed. And then, the impossible happened."The Moment 37" is a deep dive into the most iconic highlight in competitive gaming history: The Daigo Parry. It dissects the mechanics, the psychology, and the sheer audacity required to parry 15 consecutive hits with zero margin for error in front of a screaming crowd.But this book is more than just one clip. It is the story of the grassroots fighting game community (FGC), the rivalry between Japan and the USA, and the moment video games transitioned from a pastime to a spectator sport. It captures the electricity of the arcade era and the spirit of competition that drives players to mastery.

"Im not influenced by commercials. I see right through them. But my neighbors? They believe everything they hear." If you have ever thought this, you have fallen for the Third-Person Effect.This psychological phenomenon explains a massive paradox in our society: We believe mass media has a terrifying power over "the masses," while simultaneously believing we are immune to it. This illusion drives censorship (we must ban this to protect them), fuels polarization (how can they be so brainwashed?), and makes us vulnerable to manipulation because we lower our own guards."The Third-Person Illusion" dissects how this bias shapes internet regulation, political discourse, and marketing. It challenges the reader to accept an uncomfortable truth: You are the masses. You are the target. And the advertising you think is "too stupid to work" is working on you precisely because you think you are too smart for it.

Ao Seu Dispor acompanha a trajetória de um personagem em formação que, ao confrontar suas origens e limites, encontra no conhecimento, na sensibilidade e nos afetos caminhos possíveis de transformaçã

Durante eras incontáveis, os Deuses da Terra observaram em silêncio o avanço da humanidade, seu brilho, sua arrogância, sua queda. Quando a destruição se tornou irreversível, com o planeta consumido

In 1998, Yahoo refused to buy Google for $1 million. In 2002, they refused to buy it for $5 billion. In 2006, they almost bought Facebook for $1 billion but lowered the offer at the last minute, causing Mark Zuckerberg to walk away. Instead, they spent billions on https://www.google.com/search?q=Broadcast.com and Tumblr, assets that became worthless."The Purple Giant" is a tragedy of corporate strategy. It traces how the king of the early internet lost its crown not through bad luck, but through a series of historically bad decisions. It explores the identity crisis of a tech company that thought it was a media company, proving that in Silicon Valley, playing it safe is the riskiest strategy of all.

First published in 1894, The Jungle Book is a beloved collection of adventure stories set in the forests of India. The book follows Mowgli, a boy raised by wolves, as he learns the laws of the jungle under the guidance of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the panther, while facing the threat of the fierce tiger Shere Khan.Blending adventure, moral lessons, and vivid storytelling, Rudyard Kipling explores themes of belonging, courage, identity, and the balance between civilization and the wild. In addition to Mowglis tales, the collection includes other memorable animal stories filled with imagination and wisdom.Exciting, timeless, and rich in atmosphere, The Jungle Book remains a classic of childrens literature that continues to captivate readers of all ages.

A atual crise ambiental e social demanda uma reflexo a respeito do estado vigente do mundo. Nosso atual modelo economico, caracterizado pelo uso indiscriminado de recursos, em um processo constante de extraço, produço, uso e descarte, se mostrou ineficiente, trazendo consequencias diretas a vida no planeta. A sociedade, ao passo que esta interligada a natureza, tem o poder de modifica-la, gerando impactos que podem ser encarados como problemas sociais. Este livro, partindo de uma perspectiva teorica da economia ecologica, buscou discorrer sobre a economia circular, apontando-a como um movimento economico alternativo, que pode contribuir para a reduço dos impactos ambientais e sociais, possibilitando um cenario de mais equidade e bem-estar social.

O jornalismo tem como solidificação de sua base as premissas da neutralidade, da imparcialidade e do compromisso com o público (no sentido de pessoas enquanto cidadãos). Será que o ser humano, seja p

The Wreck of the Titan is a haunting maritime tale that blends adventure, fatalism, and prophetic unease. The novel follows John Rowland, a disillusioned former naval officer whose life has unraveled. Fate places him aboard the Titan, the largest and most technologically advanced ship ever builtcelebrated as "unsinkable," a symbol of human arrogance, and a floating empire of luxury for the elite.What begins as a routine voyage becomes an existential descent when the Titan strikes an iceberg in the North Atlantic, plunging passengers and crew into chaos. Amid the catastrophe, Rowland confronts both the physical terror of the sinking and the moral wreckage of his own past. His desperate rescue of a young girl becomes a fragile thread of redemption woven through the icy darkness.Published fourteen years before the Titanic disaster, Robertsons novel is steeped in eerie parallels that continue to fascinate readers. More than a prediction, it is a meditation on hubris, power, and the thin boundary between human brilliance and human downfall. Atmospheric, philosophical, and deeply suspenseful, The Wreck of the Titan remains a cornerstone of speculative maritime fiction.

A obra "Regularização Fundiária Urbana em Áreas com Financiamento Internacional: Estudo de caso do Município de Parauapebas-PA" investiga como projetos de infraestrutura financiados pelo Banco Intera

In 1839, the United States and Great Britain almost went to war over trees. The border between Maine and New Brunswick was undefined, and valuable timberland lay in the disputed zone. When Canadian lumberjacks started chopping down "American" pines, the Governor of Maine sent in the militia.This is the story of the Aroostook War, affectionately known as the "Pork and Beans War" due to the soldiers diet. It involved angry lumberjacks, a massive deployment of troops, and a lot of posturing, but miraculously, zero combat deaths. The only casualties were two soldiers who froze to death and a cow that was shot by mistake."The Pork and Beans War" is a humorous yet fascinating look at how close two allies came to bloodshed over resources. It highlights the power of diplomacy (and a convenient map fraud) in resolving the conflict, ultimately defining the peculiar northeastern border of the USA.

Uma aventura através do tempo!Centrado na história de duasirmãs, Zenzele, a mais velha, eAziza, a mais nova, o livro trazacontecimentos surpreendentesque só poderiam serexplicados pela força da fé– e

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

"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.

Glenn Killbourne and his fiancee Carley Burch find a strange test of their love in the mountains and canyons of Arizona.What subtle strange message had come to her out of the West? Carley Burch laid the letter in her lap and gazed dreamily through the window.It was a day typical of early April in New York, rather cold and gray, with steely sunlight. Spring breathed in the air, but the women passing along Fifty-seventh Street wore furs and wraps. She heard the distant clatter of an L train and then the hum of a motor car. A hurdy-gurdy jarred into the interval of quiet."Glenn has been gone over a year," she mused, "three months over a year-and of all his strange letters this seems the strangest yet."She lived again, for the thousandth time, the last moments she had spent with him. It had been on New-Years Eve, 1918. They had called upon friends who were staying at the McAlpin, in a suite on the twenty-first floor overlooking Broadway. And when the last quarter hour of that eventful and tragic year began slowly to pass with the low swell of whistles and bells, Carleys friends had discreetly left her alone with her lover, at the open window.

This gentle volume gathers three winter-touched dream journeys by Christopher T. Winters into one continuous collection of calm, stillness, and quiet reflection.Across moonlit snowfields, sleeping gardens, and forests where light itself learns to dream, these stories invite the reader to slow down and rest within carefully crafted atmospheres of silence and warmth. Each narrative unfolds without urgency, allowing the mind to soften and the imagination to drift naturally toward sleep.Winters Quiet Stories Volume I is designed as a companion for nighttime readinga place where thoughts can loosen their grip, breath can deepen, and the world can feel gentle again. There is no conflict to resolve, no tension to overcome. Only presence, memory, and the soft reassurance of quiet landscapes shaped by moonlight.This collection includes: The Moon Wrote Its Quiet Secrets in Snow The Moons Quiet Garden The Forest Where Moonbeams Learned to DreamIdeal for readers seeking calming fiction, bedtime reading for adults, and poetic stories that linger softly at the edge of sleep.

The Boxcar Children is a childrens book series originally created and written by the American first-grade school teacher Gertrude Chandler Warner. The Boxcar Children tells the story of four orphaned children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny. They create a home for themselves in an abandoned boxcar in the forest. They eventually meet their grandfather, who is a wealthy and kind man (although the children had believed him to be cruel). The children decide to live with the grandfather, who moves the beloved boxcar to his backyard so the children can use it as a playhouse.When a baker and his wife learn that the children are orphans, they make plans the children dont like. They plan to send the children, who live in a house next door to the bakery, to live with their grandfather, but the children have been brought up to fear their grandfather, whom they have never met, because he did not like their parents marriage. The baker and his wife plan to take the three elder children, who are old enough to be helpful in the bakery, but to send the youngest, Benny to an orphanage.Finding an abandoned boxcar, the children start a new life of work.

Elara, however, had been raised on whispers and forbidden texts by her grandmother, a descendant of a hidden lineage. She wasnt interested in turning lead into gold; she was interested in the essence of things, their vibrational frequency, how they interacted not just on a molecular level, but on a well, a soul level. Her laboratory, powered by scavenged solar cells and hidden beneath a sprawling hydroponics farm, was a haven of bubbling beakers, glowing crucibles, and the pungent aroma of rare earth elements.Above the earth, the Techno-City rose like a monument to precisionglass towers, perfect algorithms, emotions regulated into compliance. Below it, buried beneath living roots and whispered knowledge, alchemy never truly died.Fire still remembered.Matter still listened.And frequency still told the truth.Elara was never interested in turning lead into gold.Gold was inert. Predictable. Dead.Elara, standing at the edge of her hydroponics farm, watched the city bloom with newfound life. She had saved them, not by replacing science, but by complementing it. The age of alchemy had returned, not as a mystical art, but as a vital, missing piece of a complex puzzle