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Aclamado por importantes economistas,traduzido para mais de 10 idiomas e com mais de um milhão de cópias vendidas, este audiolivro é a maneira mais curta e segura de entender a economia básica. Esta nova edição conta com o prefácio de Ubiratan Jorge Iorio.

How important is luck in economic success? No question more reliably divides conservatives from liberals. As conservatives correctly observe, people who amass great fortunes are almost always talented and hardworking. But liberals are also correct to note that countless others have those same qualities yet never earn much. In recent years, social scientists have discovered that chance plays a much larger role in important life outcomes than most people imagine.

One of the greatest figures of wisdom and knowledge in the Indian history is Chanakya. Chanakya is regarded as a great thinker and diplomat in India who is traditionally identified as Kautilya or Vishnu Gupta. Originally a professor of economics and political science at the ancient Takshashila...

Bloomsbury presents Unaccountable by Marty Makary, MD, read by Ian Porter New York Times Bestseller “Every once in a while a book comes along that rocks the foundations of an established order that's seriously in need of being shaken. The modern American hospital is that establishment and...

The first–ever, comprehensive guide for organ transplant recipients, living donors, and caregivers from Mayo Clinic, a global leader in transplant surgery and research. With decades of experience and over 30,000 life–saving organ transplants performed, Mayo Clinic has one of the largest and...

The healthcare system doesn't work for a lot of people. When it doesn't work, for some people, that may be the difference between life and death. This book is the story of the first four years of All Brains Belong VTa working, replicable model of neuroinclusive care built on the radical premise...

Guaranteeing Fair Banking for All Americans is an eye-opening government report from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), examining political discrimination, religious discrimination, financial censorship, and unfair banking practices within America's largest financial...

The biggest breakthroughs come from rediscovering what we've forgotten. Despite remarkable advances in diagnosis, treatment, and medical technology, one essential part of healthcare has quietly been left behind: ensuring every patient leaves with a clear written care plan. In The Illusion of...

I’m gonna make you a heteronormative offer you can’t refuse… It turns out when Cultural Marxists lift up their skirts, there are seventy-two genders under there! Bestselling author A.J. Rice returns with his clever and hilariously unfiltered energy in a new volume that skewers modern...

I næsten 20 år arbejdede Kim Knudsen som fængselsbetjent i det hårdeste hjørne af Kriminalforsorgen. På Politigårdens Fængsler tog han og kollegerne imod de indsatte, de andre fængsler ikke kunne håndtere. Her herskede et regime så hårdt, at reglerne næsten var umulige at overholde...

Ce qui se produit sous nos yeux n'est pas une simple accélération du progrès des sciences et des techniques comme nous en avons connue dans le passé mais d'une tout autre nature. La métamorphose à l'œuvre, que nous ne pouvons ni empêcher ni ralentir mais que nous pourrions encore orienter si l'on parvient à en saisir vraiment la singularité, déterminera la place de l'homme dans l'univers et l'avenir de l'espèce humaine.

Audio recording of the critically acclaimed play “Don’t Harm the Animals” written and performed by Joanna Pickering, following its Global Stage showcase and programming at Hay Festival 2026. Written & Performed by Joanna Pickering Engineered by Scott Hollingsworth Critical Acclaim...

How sabotage and disorder threaten the fragile network of undersea cables and pipelines that makes modern life possible—and how it may already be drawing the world into an all-out underwater war. The world depends on a tangle of underwater tubes on the ocean floor. Every day undersea cables...

An inspiring account of how the US government built a start-up development program to fight AIDS called PEPFAR, which saved more than twenty-six million lives and created a new blueprint for results-oriented American foreign aid. In 2002, more than two million Africans died of AIDS. Militaries...

Part political exposé, part psychological thriller, and part spiritual reckoning, In Trudeau’s Kitchen is a shocking illustration of how an ordinary citizen can become the target of not only the political world—but of a hidden empire of covert systems, governmental agencies, and even the corporations we depend on daily. It is both a warning and a call to action—a deeply researched, first-hand revelation of the new frontiers of political influence in the digital age.

New technologies are offering companies, politicians, and others unprecedented opportunity to manipulate us. Sometimes we are given the illusion of power—of freedom—through choice, yet the game is rigged, pushing us in specific directions that lead to less wealth, worse health, and weaker democracy.

Hackers have a bad reputation, as shady deployers of bots and destroyers of infrastructure. In Coding Democracy, Maureen Webb offers another view. Hackers, she argues, can be vital disruptors. Hacking is becoming a practice, an ethos, and a metaphor for a new wave of activism in which ordinary citizens are inventing new forms of distributed, decentralized democracy for a digital era. Confronted with concentrations of power, mass surveillance, and authoritarianism enabled by new technology, the hacking movement is trying to "build out" democracy into cyberspace.

A James Beard Award-winner and the author of What to Eat and Soda Politics, leading nutritionist Marion Nestle exposes how the food industry corrupts scientific research for profit. Is chocolate heart-healthy? Does yogurt prevent type 2 diabetes? Do pomegranates help cheat death? News accounts...

From the Washington Post's two-time Pulitzer-winning senior Pentagon reporter, the definitive military chronicle of the Iraq War-and a searing judgment of its gross strategic blindness-drawing on the accounts of senior military officers giving voice to their anger for the first time. Unabridged...

Despite being immensely popular - and immensely lucrative - education is grossly overrated. In this explosive book, Bryan Caplan argues that the primary function of education is not to enhance students' skill but to certify their intelligence, work ethic, and conformity - in other words, to signal the qualities of a good employee.