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How do you organize security in a world that has fundamentally changed? When plans fall short, resources are under pressure, and uncertainty has become the norm?This book explores security not through the traditional lens of capacity, but through capabilities: the ability to interpret complex situations, adapt when plans no longer work, build legitimacy, and maintain direction in chaos. Drawing on practical experience from international missions and police work, it weaves narrative insights into a solid theoretical framework.Not a policy document, but an invitation to reflection and dialogue on modern security management, leadership in uncertainty, and resilience. Although set in Afghanistan, the questions it raises are universal and highly relevant to todays security professionals.Uncertainty cannot be managed. It must be navigated. Capability is the compass.

Beowulf is the earliest surviving epic poem in Old English literature, composed between the 8th and 11th centuries. Set in Scandinavia, the poem tells the story of the hero Beowulf, a warrior of the Geats who travels to Denmark to help King Hrothgar. Hrothgars great hall, Heorot, has been terrorized by the monstrous Grendel, who attacks the warriors at night. Beowulf confronts Grendel in a fierce battle and defeats him with his bare hands. Soon after, Grendels mother seeks revenge, and Beowulf descends into her underwater lair to slay her as well. Victorious, he returns home and eventually becomes king of the Geats, ruling wisely for fifty years. In his old age, Beowulf faces his final challenge: a dragon enraged by the theft of its treasure. Though he kills the dragon, he is mortally wounded in the struggle. His people mourn him deeply, honoring his courage and leadership. Blending pagan heroism with Christian reflection, Beowulf explores themes of fate, loyalty, honor, and mortality, standing as a foundational work of English literary tradition.

Ela já era mãe. Sabia o peso e a leveza de carregar uma vida nos braços. Sabia o som da risada da filha, o cheiro do cabelo molhado, o jeito como ela dizia "mãe" como se fosse oração.Agora, carregava

Falar sobre finanças é, muitas vezes, como abrir uma gaveta esquecida da alma. Lá dentro, não estão apenas números e contas, mas também medos, crenças, memórias e silêncios. O tema, embora presente e

Em "Acolhida Humanitária – Política Pública que Une Fronteiras e Abraça Vidas", Eduardo Alves de Souza reconstrói, com rigor analítico e sensibilidade normativa, a resposta do Estado brasileiro ao fl

Este estudo comparativo analisa os paralelos entre a eleição presidencial brasileira de 2014 e as perspectivas eleitorais para 2026, investigando se os padrões de instabilidade política, obstrução pa

In the early 1990s, video games were still largely viewed as harmless digital babysitters, dominated by cheerful plumbers and fast blue hedgehogs. Then came Mortal Kombat. With its digitized human actors and spine-ripping fatalities, it shocked parents and politicians alike. But Nintendo, eager to protect its family-friendly image, censored the console release, turning the blood into grey "sweat." Sega, however, made a wildly different, more rebellious choice.They shipped their version of the game censored as wellbut they hid a secret sequence of button presses within the programming: A-B-A-C-A-B-B. When inputted at the title screen, the code unlocked the full, unadulterated arcade gore. The "Blood Code" became the worst-kept secret on school playgrounds across the world. It sparked absolute moral panic, leading directly to high-profile United States Congressional hearings that threatened to ban violent video games altogether.This thrilling history captures the exact moment the video game industry lost its innocence. It chronicles the brutal marketing warfare between Sega and Nintendo, and the intense political showdown that forced a reluctant industry to self-regulate by creating the ESRB rating system.Dive into the controversy that changed gaming forever. Discover how a simple string of seven button presses forced the government to act and secured video games right to mature, adult-oriented expression.

Caio cresceu em família religiosa, aprendeu que "Deus sabe o que faz" e seguiu o caminho esperado: universidade, pesquisa, carreira promissora. Lívia vem da ponta do serviço público, acostumada a ver dor em planto, ficha, fila e silencio. Ela tambem aprendeu a frase pronta mas, com o tempo, passou a desconfiar de tudo o que transforma misterio em desculpa.Os dois se encontram em uma unidade de saude de periferia e, quase sem perceber, começam a fazer algo simples e revolucionario: sentar em roda com quem sofre para perguntar, com calma, o que e escolha, o que e abandono, o que e estrutura e o que ninguem sabe explicar.Nas conversas com pacientes, moradoras de abrigo, lideres religiosos, vereadores, profissionais de saude e vizinhos, uma pergunta reaparece como espinho: ate onde vai a responsabilidade de cada pessoa? E a partir de que ponto faz sentido falar em acaso, destino ou Deus?Quando a doença grave de um tio querido, a violencia domestica contra uma usuaria da Casa de Passagem e uma audiencia tensa na Camara Municipal colocam o projeto sob suspeita, Caio e Livia so acusados de estar "provocando Deus": relativizando Sua vontade, bagunçando crenças, incentivando gente comum a questionar demais.Mas o que significa, afinal, provocar Deus?Este romance no entrega respostas prontas nem puxa o leitor pra nenhuma religio. Ele olha pra fe do jeito mais simples possivel: como aquela força teimosa que faz a gente continuar andando mesmo quando nada garante que vai dar certo.Entre jantares de familia, corredores de hospital, rodas de conversa em postos de saude e pequenos gestos quase invisiveis, Provocando DEUS: Livre-Arbitrio acompanha personagens que descobrem, as vezes tarde demais, que fugir da responsabilidade tambem e uma escolha.E sugere, sem prometer milagre: talvez o verdadeiro escandalo no seja questionar o divino, e sim continuar usando Seu nome para escapar do poder e do peso das proprias decises.

Pioneira, esta obra aborda de forma didática e completa, em sua Parte I, os quatro objetos do Direito Financeiro: a despesa pública, a receita pública, o orçamento público e o crédito público.Na parte II, promove o estudo do Direito Tributario e do sistema Tributario Nacional, bem como de materias afins, como processo administrativo e judicial tributarios e crimes tributarios, salientando sempre os aspectos polemicos.Nesta 35ª ediço, o autor analisa a Lei nº 13.988, de 14-4-2020, que aboliu o acesso das micro e pequenas empresas ao CARF, e examina o novo criterio de desempate nos julgamentos perante o referido colegiado administrativo.No mais, comenta as ultimas decises do STF em sede de repercusso geral, bem como acrescenta novos conhecimentos mediante ilustraço nas notas de rodape.

The dominance of the American dollar was never inevitable. It was engineered first in a New Hampshire resort hotel in 1944, where forty-four nations agreed to anchor the postwar monetary order to a single currency, and then again in the early 1970s, when the collapse of gold convertibility threatened that dominance until a series of bilateral agreements with Saudi Arabia quietly replaced one foundation with another.This book traces the full arc of dollar hegemony from the Bretton Woods conference through Nixons 1971 suspension of gold convertibility and into the petrodollar arrangements that restructured global energy trade around American financial infrastructure. Drawing on Treasury Department archives, Federal Reserve records, diplomatic cables, and the memoirs of key architects, it examines the deliberate institutional choices that transformed the dollar from a postwar convenience into the structural spine of the global economy.The analysis moves beyond monetary theory to reveal the geopolitical dimensions of currency power how dollar dominance shaped alliance structures, constrained the sovereignty of debtor nations, and created the conditions under which American foreign policy could operate with a financial latitude unavailable to any other state. It also examines the sustained challenges to that dominance, from the European monetary project to OPEC pricing experiments and the gradual emergence of alternative reserve currencies. For readers seeking to understand how money became an instrument of geopolitical power, this book offers a rigorously sourced account of the systems construction, its contradictions, and its enduring consequences.

In the rugged wilderness between New Hampshire and Quebec, a cartographical error after the American Revolution left a small pocket of land entirely unaccounted for. Both the United States and Great Britain claimed it, yet neither effectively governed it. Frustrated by double taxation and constant threats of arrest from two different countries, the few hundred settlers living there did something extraordinary: they declared absolute independence.From 1832 to 1835, the Republic of Indian Stream operated as a fully sovereign micro-nation. They drafted a constitution, formed a legislature, created their own laws, and even maintained a tiny, makeshift army to fend off trespassing sheriffs from both American and British jurisdictions.This highly entertaining historical account explores the absurdities of life in a country that officially did not exist. It details the smuggling operations, the tense standoffs with heavily armed tax collectors, and the eventual diplomatic crisis that forced military intervention to finally dissolve the rebellious settlement.Dive into this forgotten frontier tale and uncover a fascinating footnote of history where a few stubborn loggers and farmers took on two superpowers to defend a piece of land no one could accurately draw on a map.

The maps were redrawn. The empires were gone. But the peoples, grievances, and ambitions that had built them remained. Europe After Empires Fell examines the long and turbulent aftermath of imperial collapsetracing how the dissolution of the Habsburg, Ottoman, Russian, and German empires between 1918 and 1945 unleashed forces that would reshape European identity, borders, and political culture for generations.This book moves beyond the familiar narratives of victors and treaties to examine what collapse actually meant at the human level: the displacement of millions, the violent negotiation of new national identities, the rise of successor states struggling to govern ethnically mixed populations with borrowed institutions, and the ideological vacuums that authoritarian movements rushed to fill. It then follows these threads through the Cold War settlement, showing how the unresolved tensions of imperial dissolution continued to haunt European politics well into the 1970s.Drawing on diplomatic archives, personal testimony, and regional historiography from across the continent, this is a panoramic yet intimate account of how modern Europe was assembled from the ruins of the world it destroyedand how much of that assembly work remains, to this day, unfinished.

There is a particular kind of discomfort that arrives not from failure, but from success. You followed the plan, made the choices, built the lifeand then one day, often quietly and without warning, it stopped feeling like yours. Not broken. Just no longer true.This book explores the inner experience of identity disruption in early adulthood: the disorientation of outgrowing a self that once felt certain, the guilt of wanting something different from what you worked so hard to build, and the confusion of not knowing who you are when the roles and achievements you relied on no longer feel like enough of an answer.At the center of this exploration is a reframe that many people in their late twenties and thirties find unexpectedly relieving: an identity crisis is not evidence that you chose wrong. It is evidence that you have grown beyond the version of yourself who made those choices. That is not a failure of direction. It is a signal of depth.This book offers insight into the psychological dynamics of identity reconstruction, how the pressure to have everything figured out by a certain age shapes and distorts the process of genuine self-discovery, and what it means to sit with not-knowing long enough to hear something honest. It does not promise a clearer sense of purpose or a new direction. It invites a more compassionate understanding of what it feels like to be in the middle of becoming someone you have not yet met.

You sit in a crowded meeting room or an energy-efficient office for an hour, and an undeniable brain fog begins to set in. You blame it on the boring topic, a lack of coffee, or a poor nights sleep. In reality, you are likely suffering from mild asphyxiation. The silent killer of productivity isnt a lack of motivationit is the hidden accumulation of carbon dioxide in modern, sealed buildings.How does a gas we exhale normally become a cognitive poison? Human evolution never prepared us for spending 90% of our lives inside heavily insulated, airtight boxes. Once indoor CO2 levels exceed 1,000 parts per milliona threshold easily breached in a standard office or bedroomour blood chemistry shifts. The result is a measurable, dramatic drop in decision-making ability, strategic thinking, and overall energy levels. We are suffocating our own intellect.This eye-opening investigation blends environmental science with neurology to expose the design flaws of modern architecture. It dissects the "Sick Building Syndrome" and explains how the relentless push for energy efficiency in HVAC systems has sacrificed human cognitive health.Professionals and health-conscious individuals will learn how to measure and manage this invisible threat. Discover how proper ventilation and CO2 monitoring can instantly cure chronic fatigue, unlock focus, and drastically improve the neurological performance of entire organizations.

When Herman Melville published Moby-Dick, readers were thrilled by the terrifying concept of a vengeful, giant sperm whale attacking a ship. Few realized that the climax of the novel was not fiction, but a horrific historical reality. In 1820, the Nantucket whaleship Essex was rammed and shattered by an impossibly large, enraged sperm whale, leaving twenty men stranded in tiny lifeboats thousands of miles from land.What followed the sinking was a nightmare of survival that shocked the 19th-century world. The crew faced a brutal 90-day voyage across the unforgiving Pacific Ocean. Dehydrated, starving, and driven mad by the equatorial sun, the men were forced to make unimaginable choices. As their numbers dwindled, the survivors resorted to the darkest taboo of human existence: drawing lots to decide who would be killed and eaten so the others might live.This gripping historical narrative reconstructs the disastrous final voyage of the Essex. It explores the brutal economics of the Nantucket whaling industry, the complex psychology of extreme starvation, and the heavy moral burden carried by the few men who miraculously returned home.Venture into the darkest depths of the human will to survive. This is the harrowing true story of nature striking back, and the terrible price paid by the men who dared to hunt the oceans greatest titans.

The European Union is most often discussed in the language of summits, treaties, and institutional architecture. But its most profound effects were felt not in Brussels conference rooms but in grocery stores, hospitals, university dormitories, border crossings, and kitchen tables across a continent. How the EU Changed Everyday Life shifts the lens from politics to peopletracing how five decades of integration quietly transformed the textures of ordinary European existence.This book examines the lived experience of integration through six thematic threads: the freedom of movement that allowed a generation to study, work, and love across borders; the harmonization of consumer standards that reshaped markets and habits; the agricultural policies that restructured rural landscapes and farming communities; the regional development funds that rebuilt peripheral economies; the expansion eastward that brought post-communist societies into a new legal and cultural orbit; and the slow emergence of a European identity layered overbut never replacingnational belonging.Drawing on oral histories, regional archives, and social surveys from across member states, this is a ground-level history of the worlds most ambitious political experimenttold not through its architects, but through the people who lived it.

The Age of Innocence, written by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Edith Wharton, is a classic love story set in late 19th century New York City. It tells the story of Newland Archer, a young lawyer, and his struggle between his arranged marriage to a beautiful but conventional woman and his passionate love for her cousin, the scandalous Countess Ellen Olenska.This novel explores the complexities of life in a society bound by rigid rules and expectations. Through the eyes of Newland Archer, readers gain insight into the hypocrisy, snobbery, and pretense of the Gilded Age. The Age of Innocence is a timeless classic that provides an honest, humorous, and often painful look at the human condition."The Age of Innocence" by Edith Wharton is a novel published in 1920. Set in 1870s upper-class New York society, it follows Newland Archer, a gentleman lawyer preparing to marry the beautiful but sheltered May Welland. His secure world shifts when Mays unconventional cousin, Countess Ellen Olenska, arrives from Europe, fleeing a scandalous marriage. As Newland grows fascinated by Ellens bold defiance of social rules, he faces an agonizing choice between duty and desire..!

Muitos perguntam:Bispo, o que falta acontecer para Cristo arrebatar a sua igreja?Resposta: Nada, coisa nenhuma, o ladrão não dá aviso-prévio.Lucas 12.39 – Disse Jesus: "Sabei, porém, isto: se o dono

A mentoria é um processo de aprendizagem que dá apoio e suporte ao desenvolvimento pessoal ou coletivo para um determinado grupo de pessoas.Levando o seu mentoreado a sempre focar em: Objetivo/Alvo, Direço, Motivaço, Aconselhamento e Treinamento.O mentor e uma pessoa de estima elevada e mais experiente, onde ele canaliza o seu tempo e seus conhecimentos, dando suporte e apoio ao crescimento pessoal do mentoreado. O mentor fornece orientaço na pratica e lança desafios para o mentoreado desenvolver o seu potencial pessoal em seu cotidiano diario, pois, cada pessoa tem dentro de si, uma grande expectativa da vida espiritual, desejando elevar seu conhecimento mais profundo, ao um nivel, a qual deseja alcançar, no somente no espiritual, mas sim, em todas as areas de sua vida, mas infelizmente muitas pessoas esto se deparando com grandes dificuldades de continuar em busca de um excelente aprendizado em varios ambitos, seja nas denominaçes ou em outro ambito de convivencia que se torna cada dia dificil de se manter, pois, o ser humano faz com que as pessoas sintam-se excluidas devido as suas atitudes de comportamentos, afastando-se e muitas vezes demonstrando desprezo.O Distanciamento das pessoas tem afetado a sociedade de uma forma geral, tanto no emocional como espiritual, assim sendo, surgiu esse momento especial de elaborar, com a ajuda do Espirito Santo, esse projeto que Deus ministrou ao meu coraço, dando uma direço a tomar.

Dando continuidade à obra intitulada Direito Constitucional Transcendental (em que no volume I foi apresentado o caminho, o manual, por cuja observância se constitui o ser humano, a família, a socied