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Um jovem prisioneiro judeu em Auschwitz. Um detetive obstinado. Uma descoberta que revela o lado mais obscuro da humanidade. Em O menino que desenhava as sombras, Oriana Ramunno estreia na literatura com uma obra que vai muito alem dos campos de concentraço nazistas. Auschwitz, 1943. Em meio a neve que cai as vesperas do Natal, Gioele Errera, um menino judeu aprisionado em um campo de concentraço, encontra o corpo do medico da SS Dr. Sigismund Braun em seu consultorio.O detetive Hugo Fischer, enviado para investigar a morte do poderoso nazista, rapidamente descobre que, sob as circunstancias que indicavam uma mera fatalidade, esconde-se algo muito mais perigoso: Dr. Braun foi envenenado, e o culpado esta em um dos blocos.Porem, enquanto percorre a vastido do obscuro campo de concentraço em busca da verdade, Fischer descobre que a morte do oficial nazista no foi o unico crime ocorrido do lado de dentro das cercas de arame farpado. E no e apenas Auschwitz que guarda segredos, Hugo Fischer tambem tem algo a esconder.Junto com o menino Gioele, e com a ajuda de sua memoria precisa dos detalhes da cena do crime, Fischer mergulha em uma rede de segredos e manipulaço que envolve oficiais, funcionarios e prisioneiros, que o levara a confrontar no so as convicçes do Fuhrer, do partido e da naço, como tambem seus medos e seu misterioso passado. O detetive se ve ento frente a frente com o maior dilema de sua vida: escolher a humanidade ou preservar sua carreira?

ALEXANDER the Great died when he was quite young. He was but thirty-two years of age when he ended his career, and as he was about twenty when he commenced it, it was only for a period of twelve years that he was actually engaged in performing the work of his life. Napoleon was nearly three times as long on the great field of human action.Notwithstanding the briefness of Alexanders career, he ran through, during that short period, a very brilliant series of exploits, which were so bold, so romantic, and which led him into such adventures in scenes of the greatest magnificence and splendor, that all the world looked on with astonishment then, and mankind have continued to read the story since, from age to age, with the greatest interest and attention.The secret of Alexanders success was his character. He possessed a certain combination of mental and per-sonal attractions, which in every age gives to those who exhibit it a mysterious and almost unbounded ascendency over all within their influence. Alexander was characterized by these qualities in a very remarkable degree. He was finely formed in person, and very prepossessing in his manners. He was active, athletic, and fu

Embarque com Mei Mei em uma jornada divertida e emocionante sobre culpa, coragem e perdão. Vencedor do Prêmio de Melhor Livro Ilustrado do New York Times de 2025, Pedaços, de X. Fang, é uma história

Em seu novo best-seller, Robin Sharma nos mostra em A riqueza que o dinheiro não compra uma nova definição de sucesso para viver com mais propósito, autenticidade e abundância do que realmente import

ALFRED THE GREAT figures in history as the founder, in some sense, of the British monarchy. Of that long succession of sovereigns who have held the scepter of that monarchy, and whose government has exerted so vast an influence on the condition and welfare of mankind, he was not, indeed, actually the first.There were several lines of insignificant princes before him, who governed such portions of the kingdom as they individually possessed, more like semi-savage chieftains than English kings. Alfred followed these by the principle of hereditary right, and spent his life in laying broad and deep the foundations on which the enormous superstructure of the British empire has since been reared. If the tales respecting his character and deeds which have come down to us are at all worthy of belief, he was an honest, conscientious, disinterested, and farseeing statesman.If the system of hereditary succession would always furnish such sovereigns for mankind, the principle of loyalty would have held its place much longer in the world than it is now likely to do, and great nations, now republican.

Illustrated by Murat Ukray, Copyright by e-Kitap Projesi..Bob Houston, the youngest agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, stepped out of the Department of Justice Building and turned toward home, his heart beating faster than it had in months. It hardly seemed real but he was now a full-fledged agent in the greatest man hunting division in the Federal Government.Bob paused a moment at the curb. Another man who had emerged from the justice building joined him. It was his uncle, Merritt Hughes, one of the most famous detectives in the department. He put his arm around Bobs shoulders;"Well, Bob, how does it feel to be a real federal agent?" he asked.It was a moment before Bob replied, and when he finally spoke the words came slowly."I hardly know," he confessed, "as yet it doesnt seem real, but there is one thing I do knowIm going to work night and day to make a success of this new job.""Dont worry about making a success," advised his uncle. "Youve got the stuff to make good or you wouldnt have been taken into the department."Illustrated by Murat Ukray,Copyright by e-Kitap Projesi..

Sayaka Kuroki pensava que tinha a vida toda resolvida... até encontrar uma calcinha na cama do noivo. De repente está desempregada, solteira e desesperada. Seis meses para casar é um romance divertido e foi best-seller instantaneo no Japo. Faltando tres meses para o casamento, que esta marcado para seu aniversario de trinta anos, e logo apos pedir demisso para cuidar da cerimonia, Sayaka Kuroki descobre que esta sendo traida e que seu noivo, Kazuya, no quer mais nada com ela.Com os poucos ienes que tem na conta, uma ressaca e um restinho de dignidade, Sayaka vai ate a editora da revista em que trabalhava para pedir seu emprego de volta. Porem o cargo ja esta ocupado, e a unica alternativa e passar para outro departamento, com um chefe autocentrado, que adora se exibir e que exige que ela se case em seis meses enquanto escreve reportagens sobre konkatsu, a arte da busca por um marido.Sem muito poder de escolha, Sayaka embarca nessa misso seguindo os conselhos do chefe, que tira suas teorias mirabolantes das historias de marcas de luxo, como Louis Vuitton e Givenchy. Apesar de ser implicante e apontar suas inseguranças, um chefe desafiador talvez seja exatamente do que ela precisa para seguir em frente nessa nova etapa.Leve e divertido, Seis meses para casar explora as peculiaridades do konkatsu e da vida no Japo enquanto prova que o inesperado, o improvavel, o quase impossivel, tambem pode acontecer.

The period included in the reigns of Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian, was remarkable for two memorable events in the annals of ecclesiastical history; the first persecution of the Christian Church by the sixth Roman sovereign, and the dissolution of the Jewish polity by Titus.The destruction of Jerusalem was stupendous, not only as an act of divine wrath, but as being the proximate cause of the dispersion of a whole nation, upon which a long series of sorrow, spoliation, and oppression lighted, in consequence of the curse the Jews had invoked, when in reply to the remonstrances of Pilate they had cried out, "His blood be upon us and our children."The church below, represented in Scripture as a type of the heavenly Jerusalem above, and having its seat then in the doomed city, was not to continue there, lest the native Jews composing it should gather round them a people of their own nation, in a place destined to remain desolate till the time when the dispersed of Israel should be converted, and rebuild their city and temple. The city bearing the ancient name of Jerusalem does not indeed occupy the same site, being built round the sacred spot.

The excellence of the following Treatise is so well known to all in any tolerable degree conversant with the Art of Painting, that it would be almost superfluous to say any thing respecting it, were it not that it here appears under the form of a new translation, of which fome account may be expected.Of the original Work, which is in reality a selection from the voluminous manuscript collections of the Author, both in Solio and Quarto, of all such passages as related to Painting, no edition appeared in print till 1651.Though its Author died so long before as the year 1519; and it is owing to the circumstance of a manuscript copy of these extracts in the original Italian, having fallen into the hands of "Raphael" that in the former of these years it was published at Paris in a thin folio volume in that language, accompanied with a set of cuts from the drawings of Niccolo Pouissin, and Alberti, the former having designed and defined the human figures, the latter the geometrical and other representations..

The two strangers remained standing by the door, which was closed quietly behind them. They seemed to be waiting for the mild sensation caused by their appearance to subside before advancing into the room. Maskull was a kind of giant, but of broader and more robust physique than most giants. He wore a full beard. His features were thick and heavy, coarsely modelled, like those of a wooden carving; but his eyes, small and black, sparkled with the fires of intelligence and audacity. His hair was short, black, and bristling.Night-spore was of middle height, but so tough-looking that he appeared to be trained out of all human frailties and susceptibilities. His hairless face seemed consumed by an intense spiritual hunger, and his eyes were wild and distant. Both men were dressed in tweeds.Before any words were spoken, a loud and terrible crash of falling masonry caused the assembled party to start up from their chairs in consternation. It sounded as if the entire upper part of the building had collapsed. Faull sprang to the door, and called to the servant to say what was happening. The man had to be questioned twice before he gathered what was required of him.

Beginning with his A Treatise of Human Nature (1739), Hume strove to create a total naturalistic "science of man" that examined the psychological basis of human nature. In stark opposition to the rationalists who preceded him, most notably Descartes, he concluded that desire rather than reason governed human behaviour, saying:"Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions". A prominent figure in the sceptical philosophical tradition and a strong empiricist, he argued against the existence of innate ideas, concluding instead that humans have knowledge only of things they directly experience..NOTHING is more usual and more natural for those, who pretend to discover anything new to the world in philosophy and the sciences, than to insinuate the praises of their own systems, by decrying all those, which have been advanced before them. And indeed were they content with lamenting that ignorance, which we still lie under in the most important questions, that can come before the tribunal of human reason, there are few, who have an acquaintance with the sciences, that would not readily agree with them.

This fantastically precise misconception was based upon a too literal interpretation of the Hebrew Bible, and upon rather arbitrary theological assumptions connected therewith. Such ideas have long since been abandoned by religious teachers, and it is universally recognized that the universe in which we live has to all appearances existed for an enormous period of time and possibly for endless time. Of course there may be deception in these appearances, as a room may be made to seem endless by putting mirrors facing each other at either end.But that the universe in which we live has existed only for six or seven thousand years may be regarded as an altogether exploded idea.The earth, as everybody knows nowadays, is a spheroid, a sphere slightly compressed, orange fashion, with a diameter of nearly 8,000 miles. Its spherical shape has been known at least to a limited number of intelligent people for nearly 2,500 years, but before that time it was supposed to be flat, and various ideas which now seem fantastic were entertained about its relations to the sky and the stars and planets.

This new edition contains quotations from the literature of the periods covered, from the Apocrypha, Philo, Josephus and the Mishna. Three chapters have been added, two on "Stories and Sayings of the Sages of the Talmud" and one on "Rabbi Judah and his times."Other chapters have been placed in more logical sequence. Both the Chronological Tables and the Notes are fuller. A new feature has been introduced in a "theme for discussion" at the close of each chapter that may be found helpful to study circles and Chautauqua societies. This has also been introduced in the recently issued "Modern Jewish History."The author expresses his grateful indebtedness to Dr. David de Sola Pool for a most careful reading of the manuscript and for many corrections and suggestions; also to Mr. Philip Cowen for the aid rendered in collecting the illustrations. The author has availed himself of writings that have appeared on this epoch since the edition of 1904. He hopes he has succeeded in producing a more readable book.

Homer commences his story, not at the beginning, but "in the midst of things;" hence, when one starts out to read the Iliad without having made some special preparation beforehand, he finds it hard to understand, and is tempted, in despair, to stop at the end of the first book. Many people are, therefore, content to admire the great masterpiece of poetry and story-telling simply because others admire it, and not because they have any personal acquaintance with it.Now, it is not my purpose to give you a "simplified version" of the Iliad or the Odyssey. There are already many such versions; but the best way for you, or any one else, to read Homer, is to read Homer. If you do not understand Greek, you can read him in one of the many English translations. You will find much of the spirit of the original in the translations by Bryant, by Lord Derby, and by old George Chapman, as well as in the admirable prose rendering by Butcher and Lang; but you can get none of it in any so-called simplified version.My object in writing this "Story of the Golden Age" has been to pave the way, if I dare say it, to an enjoyable reading of Homer, either in translations or in the original.

A Tale of Two Cities (1859) is a novel by Charles Dickens, set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution. With well, it ranks among the most famous works in the history of fictional literature.The novel depicts the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution, the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period. It follows the lives of several protagonists through these events.The most notable are Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton. Darnay is a former French aristocrat who falls victim to the indiscriminate wrath of the revolution despite his virtuous nature, and Carton is a dissipated English barrister who endeavors to redeem his ill-spent life out of his unrequited love for Darnays wife..

It wasnt a game made by a studio. It was a messy, unbalanced map made by a teenager in a level editor. "Defense of the Ancients" (DotA) was a custom map for Warcraft III that stripped away the base building and focused on heroes. Blizzard ignored it. But the players didnt.This book traces the chaotic lineage of the MOBA (Multiplayer Online Battle Arena) genre. From the anonymous creator Eul to the mysterious IceFrog, from the theft of ideas that led to "League of Legends" to Valves corporate maneuvering to secure "Dota 2". It is a story of how the community built a genre that generates billions today, while the company that owned the engine (Blizzard) watched from the sidelines and missed the biggest opportunity in gaming history.

You are not the same person in sweatpants that you are in a suit. This is not just a matter of vanity or how others perceive you; it is a matter of how your brain processes information. "Enclothed Cognition" is the scientific phenomenon describing how the symbolic meaning of our clothes changes our cognitive performance.This book dives into the fascinating research showing that people pay better attention when wearing a doctors coat, negotiate more aggressively in formal wear, and feel more creative in "artists clothes." It moves beyond the superficial "dress for success" advice and explains the neural feedback loop between texture, style, and mindset. Learn how to hack your own wardrobe to trigger specific mental states on demand, turning your closet into a toolbox for your brain.

In software engineering, the "Bus Factor" is the minimum number of team members that have to disappear (e.g., get hit by a bus) before a project stalls completely. If you are the only person who knows how the legacy code works, you are not an asset; you are a single point of failure. This book challenges the ego-driven desire to be indispensable."Hit by a Bus" argues that true professional mastery is making yourself replaceable. It provides a framework for documentation, knowledge transfer, and mentorship that secures the companys future and frees the individual for promotion. The employee who hoards knowledge to protect their job is building a prison; the employee who shares knowledge is building a legacy. A guide for managers to identify "knowledge silos" and for employees to escape the trap of being the only one who can fix the printer.

You enter the office and feel tired. Your eyes itch. Your head throbs. You leave at 5 PM, and you feel fine. You are not lazy; your building is attacking you. "Sick Building Syndrome" (SBS) is a medical reality caused by the energy-efficient architecture of the 1970s, which sealed buildings so tight they stopped breathing.This book investigates the cocktail of VOCs (volatile organic compounds), mold spores, high CO2 levels, and flickering LED lights that define modern workspaces. It explains how bad air quality reduces cognitive function by up to 50% and why "open windows" are the enemy of corporate HVAC systems. A guide for employees to identify the symptoms and for architects to build spaces that dont poison the people inside.

The Ford Edsel was supposed to be the ultimate car. Ford spent ten years and $250 million (billions today) on market research. They polled thousands of people. They analyzed every demographic. They used the best science of the 1950s. And then they launched a car that nobody wanted, with a grille that people said looked like a toilet seat."The Grill of Disaster" is the definitive autopsy of the biggest product launch failure in corporate history. It dissects why asking customers what they want often leads to disaster, the dangers of design-by-committee, and the hubris of thinking you can engineer desire. It is a timeless lesson for modern startups: Data can tell you everything about the past, but it cannot predict whether people will laugh at your product.