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By understanding your physiology, you’ll know how best to adapt your lifestyle and build routines to maximize your performance, on and off the sports field. You’ll discover expert guidance on building a rock-solid foundation for fitness and everyday life with tips for determining your high-performance body composition, gaining lean muscle, and nailing your nutrition. Because a women’s physiology changes over time, you’ll also find full chapters devoted to pregnancy and menopause.

Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money - the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction - at work, at school, and at home - is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.

Lições amargas é um livro que transborda de ideias originais, mercadoria escassa no cenário atual dominado pelo debate raso, dissociado dos fatos, prisioneiro dos dogmas. Gustavo Franco, economista renomado e um dos formuladores do Plano Real, mobiliza sua conhecida independência intelectual, domínio dos dados e capacidade analítica para refletir não apenas sobre os problemas do país, mas sobre como a nossa forma de pensar a respeito deles vem se transformando, com profundas e imprevistas consequências.

Taking as its point of departure the broad question of the relationship between UFOs and state sovereignty, this book examines every aspect of the close encounter phenomenon through all of human history. Humanity cannot survive the disclosure of what is detailed in this book. Rather, this profound philosophical analysis of close encounters demonstrates that the true nature of the phenomenon has to do with the cosmic force of evolution challenging us to overcome the limits of what has defined humanity for at least 250 million years - since our civilization on Mars was destroyed.

Parmi les grandes figures du moyen âge, il en est peu dont létude soit plus propre que celle de saint Bernard à dissiper certains préjugés chers à lesprit moderne. Quy a-t-il, en effet, de plus déconcertant pour celui-ci que de voir un pur contemplatif, qui a toujours voulu être et demeurer tel, appelé à jouer un rôle prépondérant dans la conduite des affaires de lÉglise et de lÉtat, et réussissant souvent là où avait échoué toute la prudence des politiques et des diplomates de profession?

Combining cutting-edge research with practical findings, Focus delves into the science of attention in all its varieties, presenting a long overdue discussion of this little-noticed and under-rated mental asset. In an era of unstoppable distractions, Goleman persuasively argues that now more than ever we must learn to sharpen focus if we are to survive in a complex world.

We tend to believe that normality equals health. Yet what is the norm in the Western world? Mental illness is on an unstoppable rise. Some 45 percent of Europeans suffer high blood pressure, and nearly 70 percent of Americans take at least one prescription drug. Illness and trauma are defining how we live. In his new masterpiece, renowned physician, addiction expert and author Gabor Maté dissects the underlying causes of this malaise—physical and emotional, and connects the dots between our personal suffering and the pressures of modern-day living.

By cutting out the noise and providing a clear and proven plan, this road map helps even brand-new entrepreneurs make decisions quickly, get their product up for sale, and launch it to a crowd that is ready and waiting to buy. This one-year plan will guide you through the three stages to your first $1 million: the Grind (months 0-4), the Growth (months 5-8), and the Gold (months 9-12). If your goal is to be a full-time entrepreneur, get ready for one chaotic, stressful, and rewarding year. If you have the guts to complete it, you will be the proud owner of a million-dollar business.

I’m out for revenge. He’s out to rule the world. Kirill and I are as different as day and night. We shouldn’t have been in the same frame or universe. But we meet under the strangest circumstances. He’s my superior in the military and the man who’ll introduce me to carnage.

Duas décadas após uma série de estranhos assassinatos assolar a cidade de Vitoria, no País Basco, os bizarros crimes voltam a acontecer justamente quando Tasio Ortiz de Zárate, antiga celebridade local e o homem preso pelas mortes, está prestes a sair da cadeia. Casais começam a aparecer mortos em locais históricos da cidade, e o especialista em perfis criminais Unai López de Ayala, que vinte anos antes era apenas um jovem obcecado pelos misteriosos homicídios, é chamado para ficar à frente do caso.

Erika Cass has a perfect family and a perfect life. Until the evening when two detectives show up at her front door. A high school girl has vanished from Erika's quiet suburban neighborhood. The police suspect the worst - murder. And Erika's teenage son, Liam, was the last person to see the girl alive. Erika has always sensed something dark and disturbed in her seemingly perfect older child. She wants to believe he's innocent, but as the evidence mounts, she can't deny the truth - Liam may have done the unthinkable.

Aclamado best-seller do The New York Times, F de Falcão é uma autobiografia nada usual sobre superação e autodesenvolvimento. A autora, Helen Macdonald, conta sua história a partir do momento em que viaja até a Escócia para comprar um falcão. A depressão que lhe acometera após a morte do pai criara um abismo entre ela e as demais pessoas e nada mais fazia sentido em sua vida.

The tragicomedy of a young man in New York City, a writer, never named, who works as a fact-checker for a prestigious magazine. He struggles with the reality of his mother's death, alienation, and the seductive pull of drugs and a vibrant nightlife.

In this pioneering, practical book, Daniel J. Siegel, neuropsychiatrist and author of the bestselling Mindsight, and parenting expert Tina Payne Bryson offer a revolutionary approach to child rearing with twelve key strategies that foster healthy brain development, leading to calmer, happier children. The authors explain—and make accessible—the new science of how a child’s brain is wired and how it matures.

Dogs Taught Me Everything I Know About Business provides a unique approach of how to be successful in your business and career by paying attention to our relationships with our four-legged friends. Dogs are constantly communicating with us, but we are not always listening. This book will open your eyes and ears and, ultimately, fill your wallet-courtesy of man’s best friend.

The Bunker follows the harrowing journey of survival, resilience, and human connection in a world left in ruins. After a catastrophic event devastates the Earth, survivors in a bunker must work together to overcome their fears and continue their lives underground. But there is a twisted secret beyond anything anyone could have imagined. Will they someday emerge from the bunker, or will their fates be sealed down there forever?

They say a picture speaks a thousand words. Sometimes… One of those words means someone deserves to die. Alexandra loves her glamorous San Francisco apartment, but nothing is going as she'd dreamed. The lucrative job that provides her cover is in jeopardy. No one is what they seem -- the aloof artist, the neighbors, and the man who is following Alexandra. Will a beautiful portrait destroy the lives of two women close to Alex?

Jamethon Trent, the second son of a low-ranking baron, once again finds himself in the city jail. This is nothing new for Jamethon; after being driven from home by an overbearing father and a bully older brother, he became a thief to survive. Thief he may be, but he only steals from thieves—which, it turns out, is a dangerous profession, as robbed thieves hold a grudge. Jamethon’s life is never the same after a dying cell mate, a thief mage, gifts him a pair of enchanted gloves.

If you read (or listen to) nothing else on strategy, listen to this book. This selection of current and classic Harvard Business Review articles will help you understand the dynamics of competition, find new sources of advantage, and create and capture lasting value.

After an acquaintance asks Tanner for help, he travels to Chicago with Henry and becomes involved in a turf battle between two rival street gangs. Meanwhile, teenage twins, Maurice and Mauricio, carry out a bold plan to lure Tanner to his death. As the sons of the legendary assassin Maurice Scallato, they ache to kill the man who murdered their father. And they won’t stop until Tanner is dead.