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Daniel Brito, é um jovem simples, como qualquer um de nós. Um dia por acidente ele descobre uma tecnologia alienígena e a partir dai tudo muda em sua vida e na de seus melhores amigos e familiares. O despertar desta tecnologia totalmente robotizada, pois seus criadores estão mortos á milênios, vai ser de suma importância ao desenvolvimento de todo o nosso conceito de vida. Daniel não é egoísta, põe á disposição da humanidade tudo o que...
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Get the Summary of Thomas Piketty's “A Brief History of Equality” in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It is easy to be pessimistic about inequality. We know it has increased dramatically in many parts of the world over the past two generations. No one has done more to reveal the problem than Thomas Piketty. Now, in this surprising and powerful new work, Piketty reminds us that the...
3) Liberación, Un Balance Histórico Bajo El Influjo De Aparecida Y Laudato Si'. El Aporte Latinoamerica
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Liberación, un balance histórico bajo el influjo de Aparecida y Laudato si'. El aporte latinoamericano de Francisco, constituye un esfuerzo por acompañar la trayectoria de la liberación latinoamericana –desde la mitad del siglo pasado hasta sus últimos desdoblamientos en las primeras décadas del nuevo milenio–, y para ello se escudriñan diferentes aspectos referidos al caminar de la Iglesia de los pobres y la(s) teología(s) de la liberación....
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Get the Summary of Hua Hsu's Stay True in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Stay True" by Hua Hsu is a memoir that intertwines Hsu's college experiences, his friendship with Ken, and the immigrant narrative. Hsu reminisces about his college days at Berkeley, filled with late-night drives, music, and the search for identity. He reflects on the paradox of time, the significance of photographs, and the bond with his...
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Neste primeiro volume do livro: "EUREKA REVERSA - Um Mundo de Hipocrisia e Estupidez - As Grandes Ilusões da Vida, e a Romantização da Ignorância, no Atual Cenário Ocidental", o autor exorta e expõe a inflação das desgraças sociais, não apenas como um decaimento moral, mas também, como uma geração de inúteis imbecilizados, que carecem inatamente de valores básicos de sobrevivência, contudo, aparentemente sobrepujam os que de fato,...
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A poignant exploration of what it means to be Jewish today, from a leading voice in American Judaism, Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove of Park Avenue Synagogue.
For Jews today, the attack by Hamas on Israel on October 7-a vicious assault that killed more Jews in one day than any time since the Holocaust-has drawn a clear and irreversible demarcation in time.
The Jewish community woke to an unrecognizable new reality on the 7th, witnessing first the horror...
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Livro muito útil, sobre as marcas conversacionais do povo de paraense. O repertório deste vocabulário é algo muito sério, a despeito do riso que possa ocasionar. Trata-se da identidade de um povo, de uma cultura, sem discriminação. Expressões encontradas na fala "parauara" são peculiares ao tagarelar do caboclo. Obra dedicada a estudiosos, formandos em fase de TCC e a todos os que queiram aprender sobre as marcas linguísticas do paraense....
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Todos merecem uma segunda chance, um erro do passado não pode definir quem você é, existe um limite para se pagar uma pena, e este individuo terá que voltar a sociedade, porém resta saber de que forma ele será inserido e como vai ser recebido. Se você é um estudante de direito ou advogado criminalista, sabe o quanto é importante entender o sistema de justiça criminal e a remissão da pena. É por isso que estamos entusiasmados em apresentar...
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Get the Summary of Jared Kushner's Breaking History in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: Now, Kushner finally tells his story-a fast-paced and surprisingly candid account of how an earnest businessman with no political ambitions found himself pulled into a presidency that no one saw coming.
Breaking History takes readers inside debates in the Oval Office, double-crosses at the United...
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DIÁLOGOS EDUCACIONAIS: Gestão, Avaliação, Evasão e Currículo é um trabalho coletivo pensado, discutido e executado em um contexto de distanciamento social devido à pandemia que ceifou centenas de milhares de vidas em 2020. No entanto, muitos problemas da Educação não se devem as restrições causadas pelo vírus. Eles já existiam! O cenário atual evidentemente agravou e desnudou aspectos pouco perceptíveis ou até então abertamente...
12) Amaznia
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No Século XV mundo curvava-se a duas superpotências militares e comerciais: Portugal e Espanha. Ambicionavam conquistar o mundo com a intermediação da Igreja Católica. Os espanhóis se anteciparam aos portugueses na conquista da Amaznia, por direito, com as viagens de Francisco Orellana, que descobriu o Amazonas. Mas, em 1637 uma expedição com cerca de 2 mil pessoas, tendo no comando o Capitão Pedro Teixeira, lançou-se ao leito do Rio Amazonas,...
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#1 It's a book-length essay about Reagan's novels, which Byrne describes as insightful, thoughtful, and a valuable contribution to the literature of the American Dream. According to Byrne, these books were the first to argue that government should never intrude on the lives of Americans. They were also among the first to feature an African American family in a positive...
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#1 I lived in Jerusalem for several months in the early 1990s, doing research in the private libraries of some of the city's oldest families. I found a worldly man with a broad education who was deeply interested in comparative religion.
#2 Yusuf Diya was an Ottoman government official who spent much of his career training to be a diplomat. He was also elected as the...
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Get the Summary of Jack Weatherford's Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World in the World in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book.
Original book introduction: The Mongol army led by Genghis Khan subjugated more lands and people in twenty-five years than the Romans did in four hundred. In nearly every country the Mongols conquered, they brought an unprecedented rise in cultural communication, expanded trade,...
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#1 The Mandela Effect is a collective delusion in which large swaths of the populace misremember a catalog of indiscriminate memories. The most unhinged explanation involves quantum mechanics and the possibility of alternative realities.
#2 The soft differences between life in the 2020s and life in the 1990s are difficult to explain to people who did not experience both...
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#1 I have bad dreams about not having my parents with me. I'm the only one in first grade who doesn't have both parents with him. I tell my friends that one day, I'm taking a trip like a real-real game of hide-and-seek.
#2 I miss my friends and family back in La USA. I love my grandparents, but I miss my mom and dad. I want to be with them on Mother's and Father's Day,...
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#1 Your life is made up of many lifetimes, lived consecutively. You experience cruelty and kindness from both sides. The modern era is rare, because it is the only time in your life when you experience such dramatic population growth.
#2 The idea of longtermism is that positively influencing the longterm future is a key moral priority of our time. It is about taking...
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Get the Summary of Kara Swisher's Burn Book in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Burn Book" by Kara Swisher is a personal narrative that delves into the author's extensive career in tech journalism, covering the lives and businesses of industry giants like Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, and Steve Jobs. Swisher shares her journey from a young girl in Roslyn Harbor to a prominent journalist at the forefront of the digital...
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