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For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. So here is an audiobook about the modern experience of mortality - about what it's like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn't, where our ideas about death have gone wrong.

Private Detective Cormoran Strike is contacted by a worried father whose son, Will, has gone to join a religious cult in the depths of the Norfolk countryside. The Universal Humanitarian Church is, on the surface, a peaceable organization that campaigns for a better world. Yet Strike discovers that beneath the surface there are deeply sinister undertones, and unexplained deaths.

The CEO of the Walt Disney Company shares the ideas and values he has used to reinvent one of the most beloved companies in the world, and inspire the people who bring the magic to life. In 2005, Robert Iger became CEO of The Walt Disney Company during a difficult time. Morale had deteriorated, competition was more intense, and technology was changing faster than at any time in the company's history. Twelve years later, Disney is the largest, most respected media company in the world counting Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, and 21st Century Fox among its properties.

Mais do que judeu, Eddie Jaku sempre se considerou alemão. Ele sentia orgulho do seu país natal. Mas, em novembro de 1938, tudo mudou: dez nazistas invadiram sua casa e o espancaram quase até a morte. Naquela noite, que ficou conhecida para sempre na história como a Noite dos Cristais, Eddie foi preso e levado a um campo de concentração.

In this collector's companion, you will discover never-before-seen photographs, never-before-told stories, and never-before-revealed secrets spanning all three seasons of the hilariously twisted, critically acclaimed hit series. You will encounter original concept art, annotated script excerpts, and interviews with the creative team and all-star cast, as well as glossaries, recipes, lyric sheets, hidden Easter eggs, shocking backstories, and suspicious pages from the titular tome, unredacted and revealed here for the first time.

The Sales Acceleration Formula provides a scalable, predictable approach to growing revenue and building a winning sales team. Everyone wants to build the next $100 million business, and author Mark Roberge has actually done it using a unique methodology that he shares with his listeners. As an MIT alum with an engineering background, Roberge challenged the conventional methods of scaling sales utilizing the metrics-driven, process-oriented lens through which he was trained to see the world.

After nearly two decades in Britain, Bill Bryson, the acclaimed author of such best sellers as The Mother Tongue and Made in America, decided it was time to move back to the United States for a while. This was partly to let his wife and kids experience life in Bryson's homeland, and partly because he had read that 3.7 million Americans believed that they had been abducted by aliens at one time or another. It was thus clear to him that his people needed him.

Os animais solteiros da floresta estão em polvorosa: foram todos convocados pelo dono das matas, o gigante Mapinguari, que decidiu casar sua filha única. Ninguém nunca viu o rosto de Lua Nova e dizem por aí que ela é tão feia quanto o pai. Mas nenhum bicho é maluco de contrariar um gigante. Tucano, Tamanduá, Bicho Folharal e até Jaraguá vão se candidatar. Qual deles será escolhido por Lua Nova? Quem será capaz de enxergar além do véu que a cobre da cabeça aos pés e tocar seu coração?

Você já viu esse filme: cinco amigos, transbordantes de hormônios, resolvem alugar um casarão no meio de uma floresta, mas não contam com a possibilidade de serem assassinados por psicopatas mascarados. O que você não viu, foi este aqui: trocadilhos à brasileira, um chapéu de cangaceiro, música brega aos montes, poeira, calor, frustração sexual e reviravoltas, ah, muitas reviravoltas. Marcos DeBrito, cineasta, roteirista e romancista, fez um caminho atípico, o de adaptar seu próprio filme das telas ao papel. E o resultado não poderia ser mais feliz – ou aterrorizador.

Fern Brookbanks passou boa parte de sua vida adulta pensando em Will Baxter. Quando tinham 22 anos, Fern e Will passaram 24 horas juntos—um encontro casual que acabou se tornando uma aventura pela cidade de Toronto. O momento não era o certo, porém a conexão entre os dois era inegável: eles compartilharam seus segredos e sonhos e prometeram se reencontrar um ano depois. Fern apareceu. Will, não. Me encontre no lago é uma história sobre encontros e desencontros, sobre os segredos que queremos esconder de nós mesmos, mas, acima de tudo, sobre segundas chances.

In 1958, 27 years after Aldous Huxley wrote "Brave New World", he took another look at his remarkable fable and résumé the development since. His understandings are most alarming in his time already. They are even more alarming almost another half century later and shockingly up-to-date, considering recent developments. His prophetic view proofs once more, how terribly precise and visionary it was.

Living in a year around Christmas town has its drawbacks. The caroling, the decorations, the insanely cheery spirit, it never disappears. It's why I like to hibernate away in my cave - I mean housekeeping a healthy distance from the holly jolly spirits. And all was going according to plan until my nemesis, Storee Taylor, moved in next door to care for her Aunt Cindy. Without blinking, she turned my simple world into a real nightmare-before-Christmas, especially when she decided to enter the town Christmas Kringle contest - which she was determined to win.

An Introduction to Prayer offers a collection of rich yet brief reflections on prayer in the Catholic spiritual tradition from acclaimed author, speaker, and theologian Bishop Robert Barron.

A ideia de Lucy era passar um fim de semana com sua melhor amiga, Bridget, na paradisíaca Ilha do Príncipe Eduardo. Só que Bridget perde o voo e atrasa todos os planos. Então Lucy conhece Felix, o charmoso bartender local, que lhe proporciona excelentes momentos. O único problema: Lucy não sabia que ele era o irmão mais novo de Bridget. A química entre os dois é gigante, mas a lista de motivos para se manterem afastados é maior ainda, e eles prometem que aquela noite eletrizante jamais se repetirá. O que é mais fácil falar do que fazer…

At the heart of Is a River Alive? is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not mere matter for human use, but living beings, who should be recognized as such in both imagination and law. Macfarlane takes the reader on a mind-expanding global journey into the history, futures, people and places of the ancient, urgent concept. Around the world, rivers are dying from pollution, drought and damming. But a powerful movement is also underway to recognize the lives and the rights of rivers, and to re-animate our relationships with these vast, mysterious presences whose landscapes we share.

I have few friends and fewer allies. What I do have on the island of Everland is a lot of people who want me gone. So when the Crocodile and Captain Hook reappear in my life, I am in no mood. And worse, they’re unknowingly endangering themselves by asking for me by a name I long considered dead. Now, not only do I have to save myself, I have to save the two men who I swore I would murder with my bare hands if I ever set eyes on them again considering they abandoned me.

O que sabemos sobre as mulheres pré-históricas? Historiadores, antropólogos, arqueólogos, etnólogos, geneticistas tentam responder a essa questão há décadas, e a descoberta da estatueta Vênus de Renancourt, em 2019, pôs em xeque as mais diversas certezas sobre o tema. Amplamente amparado em evidências científicas, cada capítulo deste livro desconstrói ideias preconcebidas e preconceitos, desenhando um retrato inédito da mulher no período pré-histórico ― uma figura mais próxima de nós e do nosso tempo do que poderíamos imaginar.

Physicians lead. It's an integral part of what they do. They lead patients, they lead healthcare teams, they lead colleagues, departments, and organizations. But most doctors receive very little training in leadership. Leon E. Moores, MD, DSc, FACS is a neurosurgeon and seasoned healthcare leader who literally wrote the book on physician leadership for the U.S. Army. A West Point graduate, Moores became an officer and a surgeon in the Army and recognized how the lack of formal leadership training for doctors impacts physician effectiveness, team performance, and patient outcomes.

Ser mulher não é fácil. Além de sermos cobradas por dar conta da casa, da família, do trabalho e de nós mesmas, ainda temos que fazer malabarismo com os boletos. Então, como organizar nossa vida para que o dinheiro não seja uma preocupação a mais, mas, sim, uma solução? Em Seja dona do seu dinheiro: A vida não é só pagar boletos , de Aline Soaper, você encontra o passo a passo para transformar sua vida financeira em uma fonte de prosperidade, conforto e satisfação.

João do Rio nasceu e morreu no Rio de Janeiro. Durante sua vida utilizou a crônica e a reportagem para registrar as mudanças da cidade e o imaginário popular do povo carioca, bem como a realidade social enfrentada pelos moradores da periferia da cidade. Andando pelas ruas, João faz uso de seu olhar jornalístico para dar voz às minorias.