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Neste manifesto inovador, Attia revela como a sua jornada pessoal o fez repensar a abordagem da medicina com a qual ele e tantos outros colegas e pacientes estavam acostumados. Afinal, apesar de todos os seus sucessos, a medicina tradicional parece ter falhado no que diz respeito às doenças relacionadas ao envelhecimento.

Esta coletânea de discursos proferidos por Charlie Munger se tornou referência para toda uma geração de investidores e empreendedores interessados na sagacidade e sabedoria de suas ideias.

Para Peter Thiel, cofundador do PayPal e investidor em diversas startups, como o Facebook, o próximo Bill Gates não criará um sistema operacional. O próximo Larry Page ou Sergey Brin não desenvolverá um mecanismo de busca. E o próximo Mark Zuckerberg não criará uma rede social. Se você está copiando essas pessoas, não está aprendendo com elas. É mais fácil copiar um modelo que criar algo novo.

What can you learn from a CIA spy who spent his career artfully manipulating regular people to steal high-value secrets? Plenty! In this explosive book, former intelligence officer Peter Warmka unveils detailed methodologies that he and other threat actors use to breach the security of their targets, whether they’re high-profile individuals or entire organizations.

Life for Roz and the animals on their island is perfect. But when mysterious, dangerous waters surround the island, the animals are forced inland to fight over dwindling resources. Roz calms and organizes the animals, but the poison tide takes a terrible toll on the island. So the wild robot sets out across the ocean, determined to stop the poison tide. During her journey, Roz encounters amazing geological formations and incredible creatures, and she sees the devastation caused by the toxic waters. Can the wild robot save the ocean and her island and everything she loves?

Shipwrecked on a remote, wild island, Robot Roz learned from the unwelcoming animal inhabitants and adapted to her surroundings—but can she survive the challenges of the civilized world and find her way home to Brightbill and the island? From bestselling and award-winning author and illustrator Peter Brown comes a heartwarming and action-packed sequel to his New York Times bestselling The Wild Robot, about what happens when nature and technology collide.

Pattern Breakers had its roots in the time when Mike Maples, a seasoned venture capitalist, was stumped, unable to get a grip on why some businesses he funded—Twitter, Twitch, and Okta, for example—took off, while others, some deemed “most likely to succeed,” shut their doors despite doing everything right. Was it dumb luck that separated gold from dross?

Peter Brown sempre foi fascinado por robôs e pela natureza, e depois de anos imaginando, escrevendo e desenhando, ele deu vida a Roz, uma robô que, ao abrir os olhos pela primeira vez, se vê sozinha numa ilha. Ela não tem a menor ideia de como foi parar ali, mas foi programada para sobreviver. Depois de suportar uma tempestade intensa e escapar de ursos furiosos, ela se dá conta de que sua única esperança é se adaptar ao ambiente, e vai ter que aprender isso com os nada simpáticos animais que habitam a ilha.

In business, performance is key. In performance, how you organize can be the key to growth. In the past five years, the business world has seen the birth of a new breed of company - the Exponential Organization - that has revolutionized how a company can accelerate its growth by using technology.

Considerado pelo Financial Times um dos cinco maiores livros de negócios de todos os tempos, este audiolivro apresenta técnicas imprescindíveis para uma organização empresarial de sucesso.

Nos últimos anos a ciência tem comprovado que as árvores e o homem têm muito mais em comum do que poderíamos imaginar. Assim como nós, elas se comunicam, mantêm relacionamentos, formam famílias, cuidam dos doentes e dos filhos, têm memória, defendem-se de agressores e competem ferozmente com outras espécies. Em A vida secreta das árvores, o engenheiro florestal alemão Peter Wohlleben alia seus 20 anos de experiência às últimas descobertas científicas para examinar o dia a dia desses seres fantásticos.

Near the end of the Second World War, the United States made a bold strategic gambit that rewired the international system. Empires were abolished and replaced by a global arrangement enforced by the U.S. Navy. With all the world's oceans safe for the first time in history, markets and resources were made available for everyone. Enemies became partners. We think of this system as normal—it is not. We live in an artificial world on borrowed time.

An eminent scientist and pioneer in the discovery of retroviruses challenges the widely accepted belief that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Duesberg argues that HIV is merely a harmless passenger virus that does not cause AIDS. Sure to spark intense debate, this provocative book offers an original and incisive critique of the rise and fall of HIV.

Nelson Mandela is known the world over. The essential story of his remarkable life is not. Peter Hain chronicles a life and legacy of courage, sacrifice, values, and leadership in an insightful and accessible biography. Everyone should know Mandela's extraordinary story. Now they can.

For generations, everything has been getting faster, better, and cheaper. Finally, we reached the point that almost anything you could ever want could be sent to your home within days - even hours - of when you decided you wanted it. America made that happen, but now America has lost interest in keeping it going.

For all its successes, mainstream medicine has failed to make much progress against the diseases of ageing that kill most people: heart disease, cancer, Alzheimer's disease, and type 2 diabetes. Too often, it intervenes with treatments too late, prolonging lifespan at the expense of quality of life. Dr Peter Attia, the world's top longevity expert who is featured on Chris Hemsworth's National Geographic documentary Limitless, believes we must replace this outdated framework with a personalised, proactive strategy for longevity.

Gracie wrote Comfort in Darkness after being diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease, a terminal sentence which he views as the greatest fight of his life, one he knows he will eventually lose. This is Gracie’s defining life statement about his spiritual and technical practice. For the first time, he reveals his time-tested theories and techniques of invisible Jiu Jitsu, a combat system anyone can use to awaken their power and apply it to their everyday lives. An indispensable tool for any fighter or seeker, Comfort in Darkness teaches how to balance and align the mind, body, and spirit.

Inspirado no caso real do exorcismo de um adolescente, o escritor William Peter Blatty publicou em 1971 a perturbadora história de Chris MacNeil, uma atriz que sofre com inesperadas mudanças no comportamento da filha de 11 anos, Regan. Quando todos os esforços da ciência para descobrir o que há de errado com a menina falham e uma personalidade demoníaca parece vir à tona, Chris busca a ajuda da Igreja para tentar livrar a filha do que parece ser um raro caso de possessão. Cabe a Damien Karras, um padre da Universidade de Georgetown, salvar a alma de Regan.

In How the World Ran Out of Everything, award-winning journalist Peter S. Goodman reveals the fascinating innerworkings of our supply chain and the factors that have led to its constant, dangerous vulnerability. His reporting takes listeners deep into the elaborate system, showcasing the triumphs and struggles of the human players who operate it—from factories in Asia and an almond grower in Northern California, to a group of striking railroad workers in Texas, to a truck driver who Goodman accompanies across hundreds of miles of the Great Plains.

How to learn effectively when you have to be both the teacher and student. Work smarter and save yourself countless hours. Self-learning is not just about performing better in the classroom or the office. It’s about being able to aim your life in whatever direction you choose and conquering the obstacles in front of you.