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O livro Cores do Açaí: Relatos de Experiências em Arte-Educação é um relato inspirado na experiência da professora Elsamar Emerique e seus alunos na criação de uma técnica inovadora de pintura usando

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.

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

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?

O Projeto Hortas Comunitárias em Teresina-PI faz parte de um conjunto de ações de enfrentamento à pobreza, realizadas com o objetivo de garantir meios e capacidade produtiva e de gestão a grupos comu

A obra narra a incrível história da meteorítica em Goiás e no Tocantins, uma história que envolve desde mitos sobre a queda do céu e sobre uma conflagração que incendiou o planeta inteiro; de cometas

Close your eyes and touch your nose. You can do it because of proprioceptionthe bodys internal sense of position. But at age 19, Ian Waterman lost this sense completely due to a rare viral infection. He became a "rag doll," unable to stand, sit, or even hold a cup, despite having healthy muscles. He had lost his body.In the tradition of Oliver Sacks, this book tells the inspiring story of how Ian taught himself to move again by using his eyes to replace his nerves. He has to consciously watch every limb to move it. It is a profound exploration of the "sixth sense" that grounds us in reality, and what happens when the connection between mind and flesh is severed.

Este libro es un llamado urgente a la reflexión y a la transformación para toda la humanidad, y va más allá de las divisiones religiosas.El autor se dirige no solo a los cristianos que ya han aceptado a Jesus, sino tambien a aquellos que practican la fe de manera superficial, asi como a todos los que profesan otras creencias o ninguna.La obra sostiene que la vida solo encuentra su verdadero sentido cuando se vive en el camino recto de Jesucristo, reconociendo que el mundo yace bajo la influencia del maligno y que los placeres mundanos desvian del camino espiritual.Para ayudar al lector en esta travesia, el enfoque se centra en la comprension de las fuerzas espirituales que nos rodean: los angeles, que actuan por orden divina y respetan el libre albedrio, y los demonios, que nos rodean constantemente e interfieren, muchas veces con la permision de Dios, para pulir nuestros espiritus a traves de la incomodidad y las dificultades.

Este estudo concentra-se na Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC), documento normativo para Educação Básica, uma iniciativa do Ministério da Educação, com apoio de outras instituições, especificament

In the winter of 1846, 87 pioneers were trapped by an early blizzard in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Only 48 survived. The story of the Donner Party is infamous for one detail: cannibalism. But focusing on the gruesome end ignores the tragic chain of errors, bad maps, and leadership failures that led them there."The Indifferent Snow" deconstructs the myth of the "monsters" in the mountains. It reveals a story of desperate families, immense courage, and the lethal advice of Lansford Hastings, who promoted a "shortcut" he had never actually traveled. This is a survival analysis of group dynamics under absolute pressure, showing that in the face of nature, character matters more than supplies.

Teachers and students love "blocked practice"studying history for an hour, then math for an hour. It feels organized and efficient. But cognitive science proves it is the wrong way to learn. The brain learns best when information is "interleaved," or mixed up, forcing it to constantly reload and recontextualize skills."The Jumbled Path" translates the science of interleaving into a practical guide. It explains why a tennis player should not hit 50 forehands in a row, but mix forehands, backhands, and volleys randomly. It shows why frustration during study is actually a sign of deep encoding ("desirable difficulty") and how to restructure your learning habits to embrace the chaos that leads to mastery.

The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, first published in 1922 in the United Kingdom. The book introduces the characters of Tommy and Tuppence who feature in three other Christie novels and one collection of short stories; the five Tommy and Tuppence books span Agatha Christies writing career. The Great War is over, and jobs are scarce. Childhood friends Tommy Beresford and Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley meet and agree to start their own business as The Young Adventurers. They are hired for a job that leads them both to many dangerous situations, meeting allies as well, including an American millionaire in search of his cousin.In 1919 London, demobilised soldier Tommy Beresford meets war volunteer Prudence "Tuppence" Cowley. They are both out of work and money. They form "The Young Adventurers, Ltd". Mr Whittington follows Tuppence to offer her work. She uses the alias "Jane Finn", which shocks Whittington. He gives her 50 and then disappears. Curious, they advertise for information regarding Jane Finn.The advertisement yields two replies. The first is from Mr Carter, whom Tommy recognises as a British.

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.

"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?

Mergulhe em uma análise mais importante do ser humano e descubra os aspectos evolutivos do direito da família, como a família biparental, monoparental e outros.Aqui você encontrará uma visão teórica

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

On August 21, 1986, the farmers around Lake Nyos in Cameroon went to sleep in a silent valley. By morning, every living thing1,746 people, 3,500 livestock, even the flieswas dead. There was no fire, no flood, and no violence. The killer was the lake itself.This book investigates the terrifying phenomenon of a limnic eruption, where a lake "burps" a massive cloud of carbon dioxide, displacing oxygen and drowning a valley in invisible gas. It follows the scientific detective story to understand the event, the race to degas the lake before it strikes again, and the geological ticking time bombs hiding in crater lakes around the world. A gripping look at how the earth breathes, and sometimes, holds its breath too long.

You think you know what you like. But do you? In a famous experiment, researchers Petter Johansson and Lars Hall asked people to taste two jams and pick their favorite. Then, using a sleight-of-hand trick, they swapped the jars and asked the subjects to explain why they liked the chosen jam. Shockingly, most people didnt notice they were eating the rejected flavorand happily invented reasons why it was superior.This phenomenon is called "Choice Blindness." This book explores how our brains rationalize decisions after we make them, rather than before. It reveals that we are often strangers to our own preferences, easily manipulated by outcomes we never wanted. A disturbing but necessary look at the illusion of free will in the supermarket and the voting booth.

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.

The Magic Mountain (German: Der Zauberberg) is a novel by Thomas Mann, first published in German in November 1924. It is widely considered to be one of the most influential works of twentieth-century German literature.Mann started writing what was to become The Magic Mountain in 1912. It began as a much shorter narrative which revisited in a comic manner aspects of Death in Venice, a novella that he was preparing for publication. The newer work reflected his experiences and impressions during a period when his wife, who was suffering from a lung complaint, resided at Dr. Friedrich Jessens Waldsanatorium in Davos, Switzerland for several months. In May and June 1912, Mann visited her and became acquainted with the team of doctors and patients in this cosmopolitan institution. According to Mann, in the afterword that was later included in the English translation of his novel, this stay inspired his opening chapter ("Arrival").The outbreak of World War I interrupted his work on the book. The savage conflict and its aftermath led the author to undertake a major re-examination of European bourgeois society. He explored the sources of the destructiveness displayed.