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A parabola de Quem mexeu no meu queijo? revela verdades profundas sobre mudanças da vida. E a obra acabou se tornando um dos maiores sucessos do mercado editorial brasileiro. Com mais de um milhão e meio de cópias vendidas, esta edição ganha prefácio inédito de Kenneth blanchard PHD, coautor do best-seller O gerente-minuto.

Há séculos, sua figura boêmia destila charme nas mais badaladas noites, de Nova York a Londres, atraindo olhares e encantando fadas, vampiros e, claro, Caçadores de Sombras. Durante sua longa existência de mais de trezentos anos, Magnus Bane acumulou histórias que vão além de corações partidos e desventuras amorosas. Antes de lutar ao lado dos Caçadores de Sombras e de se apaixonar por Alec Lightwood, o feiticeiro conheceu ilustres personalidades e esteve nos mais marcantes acontecimentos da história mundial.

Siga o Irmão Zachariah e veja, no contexto das negociações sombrias do Mercado das Sombras e suas celebrações festivas, o primeiro romance de Anna Lightwood, o grande pecado de Matthew Fairchild e Tessa Gray se envolver em uma guerra mundial. Valentim Morgenstern compra uma alma no Mercado e a alma de um jovem Jace Wayland encontra um porto seguro. No mercado está escondido um herdeiro perdido e um fantasma amado, e ninguém pode te salvar depois que negociarem seu coração. Nem mesmo o Irmão Zachariah.

Siga o Irmão Zachariah e veja, no contexto das negociações sombrias do Mercado das Sombras e suas celebrações festivas, o primeiro romance de Anna Lightwood, o grande pecado de Matthew Fairchild e Tessa Gray se envolver em uma guerra mundial. Valentim Morgenstern compra uma alma no Mercado e a alma de um jovem Jace Wayland encontra um porto seguro. No mercado está escondido um herdeiro perdido e um fantasma amado, e ninguém pode te salvar depois que negociarem seu coração. Nem mesmo o Irmão Zachariah.

Scaling People is a practical and empathetic guide to being an effective leader and manager in a high-growth environment. The tactical information it puts forward—including guidance on crafting foundational documents, strategic and financial planning, hiring and team development, and feedback and performance mechanisms—can be applied to companies of any size, in any industry.

A partir da análise de mil anos de história, aliada ao exame de evidências contemporâneas, Daron Acemoglu e Simon Johnson, professores do Instituto de Tecnologia de Massachusetts (MIT), mostram como o progresso depende das escolhas que fazemos sobre o uso e os avanços da tecnologia.

Gerard Ploilaux, a 17th-century violin enthusiast, makes a rare find in a unique violin, which produces the most incredible sound he has yet experienced. Seeking to replace the strings, he is driven on a quest that takes him to places few have ventured and he meets people he wished he had not. The excursion leaves him wishing he had not ventured from the familiar sanctuary of his life into terror-striken realms he did not know existed.

Steven Johnson traça a história por trás de quase duzentas descobertas e invenções, e nos mostra os sete padrões fundamentais dos processos de inovação desenvolvidos pelo homem e pela natureza. Quais são os espaços que fizeram história ao gerar níveis excepcionais de criatividade e inovação? Que processos estimulam nossa criatividade? O que podemos fazer para recriá-los em nosso cotidiano? Steven Johnson, um dos mais importantes pensadores da internet, investiga como surgem as boas ideias e as características dos ambientes em que elas são mais comuns.

Magic and adventure swirl through this spellbinding romantasy where a young woman reignites the embers of an ancient prophecy, unleashing a storm that could save her realm or doom them all.

In her original and controversial 2005 book Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject Saba Mahmood examines the women's mosque movement in Cairo, Egypt as part of a wider turn to religious fervor integral to the broader Islamic revival of the twenty-first century. Mahmood's research suggests that in choosing to embrace the norms of their faith, these pious Muslim women are not limiting, but rather affirming, themselves.

Are you hungry for an encounter with Jesus? Do you want to make an impact on the world? In this power-packed book, Bill Johnson discusses how you can be a person who hosts the Presence of God. Though all believers obviously have the Spirit of God within them, there is more that enables you to be so full that you overflow his Spirit into your world.

Imogen Warner has spent ten years running scared. After a childhood in the spotlight, the clairvoyant left home at fifteen without looking back. In the decade since, she's moved from place to place like a ghost, keeping her head down, her powers hidden, and her name out of the newspapers. Anonymity is no longer an option when she finds herself in Salem, Massachusetts.

As owner of an occult shop in downtown Salem, Massachusetts, she's accustomed to all things odd and otherworldly. But when a bloody animal sacrifice is left as a warning outside her place of business, the police seem to think Gwen might be the target of some truly evil-doers. Suddenly, her sunny existence is riddled with danger in the form of crazed pagans, rogue employees, and nefarious henchmen. There's only one man who can protect her until the storm passes.

For decades The One Minute Manager has helped millions achieve more successful professional and personal lives. While the principles it lays out are timeless, our world has changed drastically since the book's publication. The exponential rise of technology, global flattening of markets, instant communication, and pressures on corporate workforces to do more with less - including resources, funding, and staff - have all revolutionized the world in which we live and work.

Gemma Summers is unlucky in love. She's known it since third grade, when her first crush blew a spitball into her hair, and a decade-long string of bad dates, boring sex, and abysmal morning afters has done nothing to improve her prospects. But when a random radio call-in contest lands her courtside tickets to the hottest playoff game of the season, Gemma's luck may finally be on the upswing, even if it doesn't exactly seem like it when the dreaded Jumbotron kiss cam lands on her and her date.

Throughout history, technological change — whether it takes the form of agricultural improvements in the Middle Ages, the Industrial Revolution, or today’s artificial intelligence — has been viewed as a main driver of prosperity, working in the public interest. The reality, though, is that technology is shaped by what powerful people want and believe, generating riches, social respect, cultural prominence, and further political voice for those already powerful. For most of the rest of us, there is the illusion of progress.

In this memoir, Luke Timothy Johnson draws on his rich experience to invite listeners into the scholar’s life—its aims, commitments, and habits. In addition to sharing his own story from childhood to retirement, Johnson reflects on the nature of scholarship more generally, showing how this vocation has changed over the past half century and where it might be going in the future. He is as candid and unsparing about negative trends in academia as he is hopeful about the possibilities of steadfast, disciplined scholarship.

Uma incrível jornada pela história da inovação ao longo dos séculos por um dos mais influentes pensadores da tecnologia. Refrigeração, relógios, lentes, água potável, gravação de som e luz artificial - elementos fundamentais de nossa vida diária - são esquadrinhados de forma totalmente original, desde sua remota criação por inventores diletantes, amadores e empreendedores visionários, aos efeitos e evoluções que desencadearam.

Do autor de Como chegamos até aqui e De onde vêm as boas ideias, a surpreendente história de como nós humanos ganhamos 20 mil dias a mais em nossas vidas. Buscando respostas para os desafios atuais e do futuro, Longevidade é uma ode ao poder duradouro dos objetivos comuns. Todos os avanços do mundo moderno — o método científico, as descobertas médicas, as instituições de saúde pública — proporcionaram a cada um de nós cerca de cinco décadas a mais de existência. Steven Johnson, um dos mais influentes pensadores da tecnologia, traça aqui os meandros dessa evolução.

Robert A. Johnson, best-selling author of He, She, We and other psychology classics, shares a lifetime of insights and experiences in this easy-to-listen-to explanation of psychological projection - seeing traits in others that are, in fact, our own. He masterfully reveals how each of us gives up our inner gold to those whom we idealize or are attracted to. Each one of us must learn the arduous task of “taking back” this gold as we move through life’s journey.