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The definitive, personal account of the deadliest season in the history of Everest by the acclaimed journalist and author of Into the Wild. Read by the author. Also, hear a Fresh Air interview with Krakauer conducted shortly after his ordeal.

Rita Marley se casou com Bob Marley quando eles tinham vinte e poucos anos e esteve ao lado do astro da música jamaicana durante sua meteórica ascensão à fama. No Woman No Cry é um relato sem meias palavras sobre a vida de uma mulher incrível, casada com um dos músicos mais conhecidos e amados de todos os tempos.

Quando este livro foi lançado em 1994, ninguém poderia imaginar que um título sobre atenção plena (mindfulness) entraria nas listas de mais vendidos e alcançaria a marca de um milhão de exemplares. Mais de 25 anos depois, ele continua a transformar a vida de meditadores iniciantes e experientes com suas valiosas dicas, seus conceitos e exercícios. Contando envolventes histórias sobre os benefícios da meditação e as descobertas e os desafios no caminho do autoconhecimento, este livro é perfeito para quem deseja uma vida com mais calma, significado e propósito.

Former tennis prodigy Scottie Sinclair is a cheat. Or at least, that’s what the world thinks. After all, who would believe she was secretly drugged by her own father before winning the women’s singles title at Wimbledon? The tabloids have called “Game, Set, Match” on Scottie’s career—but an offer at redemption, and more importantly revenge, may give her the chance at a clean serve.

Everyday life is so frantic and full of troubles that we have largely forgotten how to live a joyful existence. We try so hard to be happy that we often end up missing the most important parts of our lives. In Mindfulness, Oxford professor Mark Williams and award-winning journalist Danny Penman reveal the secrets to living a happier and less anxious, stressful, and exhausting life.

Code performance versus simplicity. Delivery speed versus duplication. Flexibility versus maintainability—every decision you make in software engineering involves balancing tradeoffs. In Software Mistakes and Tradeoffs, you’ll learn from costly mistakes that Tomasz Lelek and Jon Skeet have encountered over their impressive careers. You’ll explore real-world scenarios where poor understanding of tradeoffs leads to major problems down the road, so you can preempt your own mistakes with a more thoughtful approach to decision-making.

Pensar demais é um desperdício de tempo, de criatividade e de vida, um obstáculo à realização de objetivos que atrapalha quase todo mundo. A boa notícia é que é possível transformar o excesso de pensamentos em um superpoder, em vez de um superproblema. O primeiro passo é compreender que os pensamentos são como uma trilha sonora das nossas mentes e, quando não os controlamos, eles nos controlam.

Alien Abduction: Some 2,740 US citizens claim to have been abducted by aliens each day. That's an incredible 2% of a population of 300 million. Surely statistically some of these cases must bear truths? Area 51: It is rumoured that Area 51 houses the UFO disc found at Roswell, as well as other crashed alien spaceships. What is the truth? The Babylonian Brotherhood: Twelve-foot lizards from the planet Draco have colonized Earth and seek world domination.

Estudos no Sermão do Monte, Lloyd Jones toca o coração do leitor da mesma forma que um cirurgião cardíaco faz: dramática e precisamente. Sua análise penetrante do texto bíblico e ricas aplicações, permitem-nos refletir com seriedade acerca das elevadas demandas da vida cristã. Na ocasião do lançamento deste livro, foi comentado a seu respeito tratar-se de a mais profunda sondagem do coração de todas as exposições do Sermão do Monte já publicadas no século XX.

With Tonal Influence™, you will find a path to self-mastery through control of the world's most powerful instrument—your voice.

Often the decision between a customer choosing you over someone like you is your ability to know exactly what to say, when to say it, and how to make it count. Phil M. Jones has trained more than two million people across five continents and over 50 countries in the lost art of spoken communication. In Exactly What to Say, he delivers the tactics you need to get more of what you want.

Freddie Mercury dispensa apresentações. Mas o que há por trás desse mito do rock? Como ele era nos bastidores? Como foi sua infância e por que ele a escondeu tão bem? Freddie era uma figura pouco convencional no meio do showbiz. Carente, inseguro, com uma forte personalidade, fã de ópera, mitologia e astrologia, Farrokh Bulsara, também conhecido como Freddie Mercury, é uma figura que merece ser conhecida de perto. Freddie Mercury: A biografia definitiva é uma ótima oportunidade para isso.

What separates the world's top traders from the vast majority of unsuccessful investors? In this iconic financial classic, Jack Schwager sets out to answer this question in his interviews with superstar money-makers including Bruce Kovner, Richard Dennis, Paul Tudor Jones, Michel Steinhardt, Ed Seykota, Marty Schwartz, Tom Baldwin, and more in this audiobook.

Neste breve romance em que a atmosfera onírica se mescla à transcendência, um homem começa a dirigir sem rumo e, desconhecendo as próprias motivações, conduz seu carro até uma floresta. Logo escurece e começa a nevar. Obedecendo à lógica trágica e misteriosa que opera nos pesadelos — ou no encontro inescapável com o destino —, em vez de procurar ajuda, ele decide se aventurar pela mata escura, onde se depara com um ser de brancura reluzente.

Este audiolivro pretende contar a história de como eram os templários, não como as lendas os adornaram desde então.

Far to the south in the Land of Ingary lives a young carpet merchant called Abdullah. In his dreams, he is the long-lost son of a great prince. This dream is a complete castle in the air...or is it? Abdullah’s day-dreams suddenly start to come true when he meets the exquisite Flower-in-the-Night, daughter of the ferocious Sultan of Zanzib. Fate has destined them for each other, but a bad-tempered genie, a hideous djinn and various villainous bandits have their own ideas. When Flower-in-the-Night is carried off, Abdullah is determined to rescue her—if he can find her.

Where can you find joy? Gain strength? How should we face our fears? Deal with the death of a loved one? And what about those reoccurring depressing thoughts? While traditional schooling doesn’t address such questions, it’s exactly what ancient schools of philosophy were all about: They taught you how to live. Even though these schools don’t exist anymore, you and I and most people are in as much need of a philosophy that guides us through life as we ever were. This compelling, highly actionable guide shows you how to deal more effectively with whatever life throws at you.

In the land of Ingary, where seven league boots and cloaks of invisibility do exist, Sophie Hatter catches the unwelcome attention of the Witch of the Waste and is put under a spell. Deciding she has nothing more to lose, she makes her way to the moving castle that hovers on the hills above Market Chipping. But the castle belongs to the dreaded Wizard Howl, whose appetite, they say, is satisfied only by the souls of young girls....

The first audiobook in the spellbinding, epic adventure series from 'the Godmother of Fantasy', Diana Wynne Jones. For centuries Dalemark has been a land divided by the warring earldoms of the North and South. Now, with the help of the mysterious gods of Dalemark, four extraordinary young people must join forces to reunify their beloved home. When 12-year-old Moril's father is murdered by soldiers, Moril inherits his ancient cwidder - a musical instrument with a mysterious past.

Everyone knows that orphanages are horrible places. But Earwig has a surprising amount of power over everyone else at St Morwald’s Home for Children, and loves it there. So the last thing she wants is to be sent to live with the very strange Bella Yaga….