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Most things in life are "finite games." Football matches have a beginning, an end, and a clear winner. But business, politics, and life itself are "infinite games." There is no such thing as "winning" business; there is only staying in the game as long as possible. Yet, most leaders lead with a finite mindset, obsessed with quarterly earnings, beating the competition, and "winning" the year."The Infinite Player," inspired by the concepts of James P. Carse and Simon Sinek, argues that applying finite rules to an infinite game leads to decline, distrust, and eventual collapse. It contrasts the short-termism of companies like Kodak or Blockbuster, who played to protect their current win, with the infinite mindset of companies that play to advance a cause and survive adaptively.This book teaches you how to shift your perspective from beating a rival to advancing a vision. It explains why "being number one" is a meaningless metric in an infinite game and how to build a resilient organization capable of weathering storms that wipe out the finite players. It is a guide to longevity in a world obsessed with the finish line.

The Courage to Choose YourselfBreaking Free From People-Pleasing and Fear of JudgmentYoure exhausted.Not because youre weak.Not because youre incapable.But because youve been living for everyone else.You say yes when you want to say no.You replay conversations in your head.You worry about being misunderstood.You over-explain.You over-give.You overthink.And somewhere along the way, you lost yourself.In The Courage to Choose Yourself, youll finally understand why people-pleasing isnt a personality trait its a survival pattern. And more importantly, youll learn how to break it without becoming cold, selfish, or disconnected.This book is not about becoming ruthless.Its about becoming aligned.With clarity and conviction, youll discover: Why fear of judgment silently shapes your decisions How you learned to silence your own needs The hidden emotional cost of always being "the reliable one" Why resentment builds even when you love the people around you How to say no without guilt or over-explaining How to handle criticism without defending yourself Why discomfort is the doorway to confidence How to rebuild trust with yourself after years of self-abandonment What real self-respect actually looks like in everyday lifeThis is not surface-level advice.This is a shift in identity.If youve ever felt tired of managing everyones expectationsIf youve ever feared disappointing others more than disappointing yourselfIf youve ever wondered who you would be if you stopped trying to be likedThis book is your turning point.Choosing yourself does not mean losing people.It means losing the fear that has been running your life.You dont need to become louder.You dont need to become harsher.You dont need to become someone else.You need the courage to become fully you.And that begins now.

On the afternoon of April 14, 1935, a wall of black earth, three miles high and hundreds of miles wide, swept across the Great Plains, turning day into instant midnight. They called it "Black Sunday," the terrifying apex of a catastrophe that defined a decade. But the Dust Bowl was not a natural disaster; it was a man-made apocalypse. "The Black Sunday" exposes the combination of agricultural hubris, economic greed, and climatic ignorance that led farmers to strip the protective buffalo grass from millions of acres of prairie, leaving the soil vulnerable to the relentless winds.This book chronicles the harrowing decade of the "dirty thirties," describing the "dust pneumonia" that filled childrens lungs, the static electricity that shorted out cars, and the plagues of jackrabbits and locusts that followed the dust. It follows the desperate exodus of the "Okies," families forced to flee their buried homesteads for a California that did not want them.Through gripping eyewitness accounts and meteorological analysis, James Caldwell paints a vivid picture of what happens when humanity breaks the biological skin of the earth, offering a stark historical warning for our modern environmental challenges. It is a story of resilience in the face of a sky turned black.

A Terra está irreconhecível. Após passar por mais duas guerras mundiais, a Terceira e a Quarta, o mundo foi invadido por uma civilização que acabou dizimando boa parte da população, "recebendo" um pl

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For decades, it was the gaming worlds most famous urban legend: Did Atari really bury millions of unsold cartridges of "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial" in a New Mexico landfill? The answer, unearthed in 2014, was yes. But the story behind the burial is far more fascinating than the plastic in the ground."The Atari Burial" chronicles the meteoric rise and catastrophic fall of Atari in the early 1980s. It details the hubris of a company that spent millions to license the E.T. brand but gave the developer only five weeks to code the game for the Christmas rush. The resulting product was practically unplayable, triggering a collapse in consumer confidence that nearly destroyed the entire video game industry in 1983.This book is a business case study on quality control and a nostalgic trip to the era of the console wars. It explains how a market flooded with low-quality "shovelware" led to a crash that paved the way for Nintendo to save the day. It is the story of the most expensive mistake in pixel history.

In 1993, a small team of misfits in Mesquite, Texas, unleashed a piece of software that changed the world. It was violent, it was fast, and it was technically impossible. It was called Doom. "The Shareware Demon" tells the adrenaline-fueled story of Id Software, focusing on the volatile partnership between the coding genius John Carmack and the design rockstar John Romero.The book explores the revolutionary business model of "Shareware"giving away the first episode for free to get players hookedwhich led to Doom being installed on more computers than Windows 95. It details the technical wizardry of the Doom engine, which brought 3D graphics to the masses, and the cultural panic it incited among parents and politicians who feared it was a "murder simulator."From the deathmatch parties that crashed university networks to the Ferrari-driving excess of the founders, this is the definitive history of the First Person Shooter. It is a story of brilliance, ego, and the chainsaw that carved a path for the entire video game industry.

In 1979, a young Steve Jobs visited the Xerox PARC research center in Palo Alto. He was given a tour of their latest projects and saw something that made him jump around the room shouting, "Why arent you doing anything with this? This is the greatest thing. This is revolutionary!" What he saw was the Graphical User Interface (GUI) and the mouse."The Xerox Raid" is the tragic business case study of Xerox, a company that invented the personal computer, the laser printer, Ethernet, and the mouse, but failed to monetize any of it because their leadership was obsessed with selling more photocopiers. They literally gave away the keys to the digital kingdom to Apple and Microsoft for pennies.This book explores the "fumble of the future." It analyzes how corporate bureaucracy stifles innovation and why being the first to invent something is useless if you dont have the vision to sell it. It is a warning to all market leaders: the thing that will kill you is probably already in your R&D lab, gathering dust.

Uma peça de teatro.Um ingresso encontrado ao acaso.Uma plateia silenciosa diante de algo grandioso.E uma montanha… que só pode ser escalada com coragem, energia e consciência.Em O Segredo da Montanha

The decipherment of ancient writing systems represents intellectual breakthroughs that transformed archaeological finds into historical testimony, giving voice to civilizations silent for millennia. This exploration examines major decipherment achievementsfrom Egyptian hieroglyphs to Linear B, from Maya glyphs to cuneiformusing scholarly correspondence, breakthrough discoveries, and methodological analyses to reconstruct how patient research unlocked languages no living person could read.Through the Rosetta Stones trilingual key, Jean-François Champollion cracked Egyptian hieroglyphs after decades of false starts by predecessors. Michael Ventris revealed Linear B as Greek centuries before scholars expected alphabetic writing in the Aegean. Yuri Knorozov demonstrated Maya glyphs were phonetic despite entrenched scholarly resistance. Henry Rawlinsons copying of the Behistun inscription enabled cuneiform decipherment that opened Mesopotamian history.Documentary evidencedecipherment notebooks, scholarly debates, incremental publications, verification processesreveals the painstaking detective work behind breakthroughs often misrepresented as sudden inspiration. Each decipherment required identifying script types, finding bilingual texts, recognizing phonetic versus logographic elements, and systematic testing of hypotheses against expanding textual corpora.Each case study examines specific challenges and breakthrough methodologies. Understand how different script types demanded different approaches, how scholarly preconceptions hindered progress, how collaboration and competition both accelerated research, and how decipherment transformed static archaeological artifacts into dynamic historical sources that continue yielding new insights as scholars refine translation techniques.

For over a decade in the 1990s and early 2000s, the McDonalds Monopoly promotion was a cultural phenomenon. Millions of people bought fries and sodas hoping to peel off a "Park Place" or "Boardwalk" game piece and win a million dollars. But what nobody knew was that there were no legitimate winners. The game was rigged from the very beginning. "The Golden Ticket" tells the incredible true story of Jerome "Uncle Jerry" Jacobson, an ex-police officer turned security auditor who was entrusted with transporting the high-value game pieces.Instead of delivering them, he built a massive criminal conspiracy, funneling the winning tickets to a network of mobsters, psychics, strip club owners, and distant relatives in exchange for a cut of the prize money. This book details the intricate mechanics of the fraud and the nail-biting FBI investigation, Operation "Final Answer," which involved undercover agents posing as a television crew to catch the scammers.It is a story of greed, flawed security, and how one man controlled the luck of an entire nation, stealing over $24 million before the house of cards finally collapsed. It exposes the dark side of the worlds most famous marketing promotion.

In the old economy, your earning power and your cost of living were tied to the same location. If you wanted a high salary, you had to pay high rent in New York or London. The remote work revolution has broken this link, creating a powerful financial opportunity known as "Geo-Arbitrage.""The Geographic Dividend" is a strategic guide to leveraging global economic inequality for your personal wealth. The concept is simple but revolutionary: earn in a strong currency (like the Dollar, Euro, or Pound) while living in an economy where that currency has three to four times the purchasing power.This isnt just about cheap travel; it is a wealth acceleration strategy. Mark Halloway explains how to navigate the logistics of tax residency, visas, and banking to legally optimize your finances. By decoupling your income from your location, you can increase your savings rate from 10% to 70% without sacrificing your quality of life.Whether you are a bootstrapper needing a long runway for your startup or an investor looking to reach financial independence decades early, this book shows you how to use the map as your most powerful investment tool. Stop budgeting for coffee and start budgeting for continents.

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Ame-se para Ser Amada partiu de uma indignação. A indignação de ver todos os dias mulheres solapando a própria autoestima em comparações infindáveis. A indignação de ver tantas mulheres se diminuindo

Before the 1920s, "halitosis" was an obscure medical term that nobody cared about, and Listerine was a pungent liquid used to clean hospital floors and treat Gonorrhea. "The Bad Breath Empire" tells the audacious story of Gerard Lambert, the marketing genius who didnt just sell a producthe sold a new anxiety.This book deconstructs one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history. Lambert took a general-purpose antiseptic and rebranded it as the cure for "chronic halitosis," positioning bad breath not as a hygiene issue but as a social death sentence that would prevent you from getting married or hired. Through aggressive "whisper copy" advertisements featuring sad bridesmaids ("Always a bridesmaid, never a bride"), he shamed an entire nation into rinsing their mouths with floor cleaner.It is a masterclass in "constructive discontent"the art of making consumers feel inadequate so you can sell them the solution. This book challenges entrepreneurs to look at their products differently: Are you selling a liquid, or are you selling social insurance?

SOBRE A OBRAÉ com grande satisfação que a Editora Foco apresenta ao mercado jurídico brasileiro o Volume 3 da obra "Franchising: Aspectos Jurídicos", coordenada pelos renomados juristas Sidnei Amendo

Em Desvendando a Mente Humana: Uma Jornada pela Bipolaridade, Essy Sena conduz o leitor por uma imersão profunda na mente de quem convive com o Transtorno Afetivo Bipolar (TAB). Com um olhar sensível

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King Solomon was famous for his wisdom. People traveled from all over the ancient world to seek his judgment on their most difficult problems. Yet, his own life was a disaster of uncontrolled spending, hundreds of wives, and poor parenting that eventually tore his kingdom apart. This phenomenonbeing wise for others but a fool for oneselfis known by psychologists as "The Solomon Paradox."This book explores the cognitive science behind why our brains are excellent at solving other peoples problems but terrible at solving our own. When we look at a friends situation, we see the big picture; when we look at our own, we are blinded by microscopic emotions.Crucially, the book offers a solution: "Self-Distancing." You will learn techniques to trick your brain into treating your own life as a third-party case study. By talking to yourself in the third person or journaling as an observer, you can access the wisdom you already possess but usually reserve for your friends. Stop being the smart friend with the messy life.

In a world of Facebook friends and Instagram followers, we feel more connected than ever. Yet, loneliness is at an all-time high. The British anthropologist Robin Dunbar proposed a biological explanation for this paradox: the human brain has a hard cognitive limit on the number of stable social relationships it can maintain. That number is approximately 150."The Village in Your Brain" explains the science behind "Dunbars Number." It traces our social evolution from primate grooming circles to hunter-gatherer tribes, showing that our neocortex was designed for village life, not global connectivity. When we try to maintain thousands of weak ties online, we exhaust our emotional bandwidth and neglect the deep, supportive bonds we actually need for survival.This book is a call to declutter your social life. It categorizes relationships into layersfrom the "support clique" of 5 people to the "sympathy group" of 15and provides a framework for aligning your digital habits with your biological reality. It challenges the quantity-over-quality mindset of the social media age.