Outros livros que poderiam interessá-lo

• 

  Alternative History of Britain...

  Timothy Venning

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Continuing his exploration of British history, Timothy Venning examines the turning points of the period from the death of William I to the reign of Edward III and a little beyond. He discusses the crucial junctions at which history could easily have taken a different turn and analyzes the possible results. While speculative, the scenarios are highly plausible and rooted in a firm understanding of actual events and their context. Venning gives listeners a clearer understanding of the factors at play and why things happened the way they did, as well as a tantalizing view of what might so easily have been different. 
   
   
   
  Key scenarios include: 
   
   
   
  ● The civil war of 1136-53, how either Stephen or Matilda might have won quick and the likely consequences. 
   
   
   
  ● What if Richard the Lionheart had not gone on Crusade, leaving the inept John to rule in his place? Could the English (Angevin) Empire in France have been saved? What if that fatal crossbow bolt had missed Richard in 1199, sparing him an early death? 
   
   
   
  ● What if Edward I's riding accident in 1294 had been fatal, leaving Edward II to succeed at ten years of age? 
   
   
   
  ● A whole chapter with scenarios surrounding the Scottish kings.

  Ver livro

• 

  Life is real only then when I am

  G.I. Gurdjieff

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  In "Life is real only then, when I am" Gurdjieff gives answers to the fundamental human questions: how do I really live and what are the requirements to lead a real life? What is reality? What is existence? Has every man a given I or what must he do to acquire a real I? First of all, we have to accept that we are not awake, but asleep. The vast majority of mankind never awakens through its whole life. Only those are given the chance to become awake, who fight for it with their whole hearts and beings.

  Ver livro

• 

  Who Owns This Sentence? - A...

  David Bellos, Alexandre Montagu

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Copyright is everywhere. Your smartphone incorporates thousands of items of intellectual property. Someone owns the reproduction rights to photographs of your dining table. At this very moment, battles are raging over copyright in the output of artificial intelligence programs. Not only books but wallpaper, computer programs, pop songs, cartoon characters, snapshots, and cuddly toys are now deemed to be intellectual properties—making copyright a labyrinthine construction of laws with colorful and often baffling rationales covering almost all products of human creativity. 
   
   
   
  It wasn't always so. Copyright has its roots in eighteenth-century London, where it was first established to limit printers' control of books. But a handful of little-noticed changes in the late twentieth century brought about a new enclosure of the cultural commons, concentrating ownership of immaterial goods in very few hands. Copyright's metastasis can't be understood without knowing its backstory, a long tangle of high ideals, low greed, opportunism, and word-mangling that allowed poems and novels (and now, even ringtones and databases) to be treated as if they were no different from farms and houses. Principled arguments against copyright arose from the start and nearly abolished it in the nineteenth century. Nonetheless, countless revisions have made copyright ever stronger.

  Ver livro

• 

  History of the Jews - A Concise...

  Kelly Mass

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Jewish history is a rich tapestry woven over millennia, shaped by the development of a people, their religion, and their culture as they interacted with various civilizations, faiths, and cultures. The earliest reference to Israel can be found on the Merneptah Stele, dated to between 1213–1203 BCE, marking the first historical mention of the ancient Israelite people. However, the religious and cultural narrative of the Jews stretches far earlier. Jewish tradition traces its origins to at least 1500 BCE, with religious texts such as the Torah recounting the story of the Israelites, beginning with the patriarchs Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. This historical foundation laid the groundwork for the development of Judaism, which began to emerge as a distinct religion during the Hellenistic period, particularly around 323–31 BCE, as Greek scholars began documenting Jewish practices and beliefs. 
  The trajectory of Jewish history has been marked by a series of dispersals and captivities, with the first significant one being the Assyrian exile of the ten northern tribes in 722 BCE. This event set the stage for a larger dispersion that was solidified with the Babylonian captivity in 586 BCE, when the Jewish elite were taken into exile. Following the Babylonian conquest, Jews began to settle throughout the ancient Near East, which would later become a defining characteristic of Jewish existence. The Jewish people continued to spread across the Mediterranean world, particularly within the vast expanse of the Roman Empire, where they maintained distinct cultural and religious practices even as they interacted with surrounding civilizations. This trend persisted throughout Byzantine rule in the eastern Mediterranean, although the influence of Jewish communities diminished in these regions after the Byzantine Empire lost control of the Levant to the Arab Islamic Empire in 638 CE.

  Ver livro

• 

  A Blessing - Women of Color...

  Jacqueline Adams, Bonita C. Stewart

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  A Blessing presents a fresh, bold analysis of African American female leadership. An unapologetic look at our often-overlooked role in America's social, political, psychological and economic history, it is armed with data that should be empowering for today's "unicorns." 
   
   
   
  The book offers a "playbook" to help Black unicorns "team up" and find innovative ways to support one another as they climb, what research shows, are lonely, stressful, jagged yet ultimately rewarding ladders of opportunity.

  Ver livro

• 

  The Modern Parent’s Survival...

  Roshni Anand

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.   
  Screens aren’t the real problem—stress, disconnection, and constant chaos are. 
  The Modern Parent’s Survival Guide: Calm, Connection & Screen-Time Sanity helps you build a peaceful, tech-balanced home without power struggles or guilt. 
  In under ninety minutes, you’ll learn how to: 
  • Create healthy screen-time boundaries your kids actually follow. 
  • Understand the nervous system science behind meltdowns and moods. 
  • Build daily routines that restore calm after school and before bed. 
  • Communicate with empathy instead of yelling or bribing. 
  • Reconnect as a family—even in a digital world. 
  Grounded in real-life psychology and mindful parenting tools, this audiobook gives you practical scripts, routines, and resets that reduce conflict and rebuild cooperation. 
  It’s not about banning screens—it’s about leading with calm confidence.

  Ver livro