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Medicina Ambulatorial” aborda o cuidado de problemas comuns de saúde no âmbito da atenção primária, buscando praticidade e embasamento científico. Esta 4ª edição ampliou o escopo dos assuntos abordados, visando maior resolutividade e maior...

Porque a Mona Lisa é a pintura mais famosa do mundo? Por que o Facebook faz tanto sucesso e outros sites de redes sociais não? Quanto um CEO pode realmente afetar o desempenho de uma empresa? E salários mais altos fazem as pessoas trabalharem mais e...

Duncan Hines (1880--1959) may be best known for the cake mixes, baked goods, and bread products that bear his name, but most people forget that he was a real person and not just a fictitious figure invented for the brand. America'apos;s pioneer...

There are some griefs so deep and overwhelming, that even the best exertions of friendship and sympathy are unequal to the task of soothing or dispelling them. Such was the grief of Ellen Duncan, who was silently weeping in her lone cottage on the...

Have you ever been led by someone who cared for you like family, and dared you to achieve more than you ever thought possible for yourself, your organization, and even society? Award-winning author of Hostage at the Table, George Kohlrieser, along...

A must for every Mason, this volume is a guide for neophytes as well as a reference for the initiated. 100 illustrations accompany simple, accurate explanations of gestures, symbols, and terms.

In 2007/8 world food prices spiked and global economic crisis set in, leaving hundreds of millions of people unable to access adequate food. The international reaction was swift. In a bid for leadership, the 123 member countries of the United...

Immortalized through their exploits at the battle of Thermopylae under the legendary Leonidas, as well as countless other victories throughout the classical period, the Spartans were some of the best-trained, -organized and most-feared warriors of...

This account of the life of a notable woman reveals the extent of her influence in the quest for justice and peace in apartheid South Africa. It is a story that spans the period of some of the worst brutality, the most gracious transitions, the...

Sound is the stand-alone companion to Alexandra Duncan's acclaimed debut novel Salvage, which was praised by internationally bestselling author Stephanie Perkins as "brilliant, feminist science fiction." For fans of Beth Revis, Firefly, and...

Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean...

Many legends have emerged from the shadows of Ironhall, yet surely none can surpass the greatness and glory predestined for Sir Beaumont—possessor of the purest and strongest of hearts, and a mind as quick, keen, and accurate as his sword. But the...

Wide eyed and breathless, he watched as the stone surfaces changed to flowing garments and unfurled to reveal six humanoid creatures of various sizes cloaked in hooded capes. Six pairs of ember eyes glowed yellow at him with the light from his...

'A fast-paced, wild ride that gets going right on page one and then races towards a suitably huge climax.'-Beauty in Ruins Barry had created a little piece of paradise in his southern Arizona backyard-until the javelinas came. His battle to rid his...

Switching seamlessly between the chaos and bloodshed of 1940s India and the multicultural mélange of twenty-first-century Britain, Glen Duncan's sublime new novel finds love in both. Ross Monroe is a boxing railwayman with a weakness for...

It'apos;s 2017 and the End Days are coming, beings that were once human gathering to fight in one last great war for control of the Vellum - the vast realm of eternity on which our world is just a scratch. But to a draft-dodging Irish angel and a...

Bestselling Australian author Susan Duncan is famous for making a sea change from a 25-year career in media, which included being editor of two of Australia'apos;s top women'apos;s magazines, to living in her own patch of paradise in Pittwater. Gone...

My Friend Annie takes the reader back into Janet Sandison'apos;s childhood. It opens as the death of her mother shatters the bliss of her Highland home. Janet migrates with her father to grimy, lowland Cairnton, where she meets the hateful and stupid...

Janet and 'apos;Twice'apos; Alexander break new ground in the island of St. Jago, British West Indies-a setting as far removed from the Highlands of Scotland as a calypso from a lament.But it takes more than a planter'apos;s punch compounded of...

When the problem-child Dee Andrews runs away from her Knightsbridge home to see her father in his City office, she starts a chain of events which involve Janet Sandison in the life and loves of her step-mother Rose. The beautiful tawny-gold Rose; the...

Bursting into Janet Sandison'apos;s life at the moment of her marriage to 'apos;Twice'apos; Alexander comes the mercurial, red-haired Monica who hits post-war Scotland like a tornado.Through Monica, Janet and Twice find the charming row of old...

My Friend Flora is set in the 'apos;Reachfar'apos; country-the Black Isle in Rossshire-where the narrator, Janet Sandison, spent her childhood and which was the setting for the first of Jane Duncan'apos;s enchanting books, My Friends the Miss Boyds....

'apos;From the rail I looked down at Sashie'apos;s upturned face and the brilliant, early tropical sunlight made me think of the lights upon the stage of a theatre long ago . . .'apos;With these thoughts Janet Sandison says goodbye to the West Indian...

Janet Sandison made her bow in My Friends the Miss Boyds, Jane Duncan'apos;s sparkling first novel.Here she is again, now a determined young woman of twenty with a University degree. Taking a job with a cranky Pen-Friend organization, she meets...

“Duncan Jepson magically inhabits the life of a young Chinese woman in 1930s Shanghai….I thoroughly enjoyed this book.”—Janice Y. K. Lee, New York Times bestselling author of The Piano Teacher“Breathtaking….A great work that will move its...

Brimming with warmth and wit, Susan Duncan'apos;s first novel is a delicious tale of friendship and love, and the search for a place to call home...Ettie Brookbank is the heart and soul of Cook'apos;s Basin, a sleepy cluster of dazzling blue bays...

A classic mystery for the festive season: mulled wine, mince pies...and murder.Mordecai Tremaine, former tobacconist and perennial lover of romance novels, has been invited to spend Christmas in the sleepy village of Sherbroome at the country retreat...

'apos;It seems to me,'apos; my father said quietly, 'apos;that one always tries to leave a place better than one found it . . .'apos;From the time when she was small enough to be held high above his head Duncan Sandison was the most important person...

'apos;She was very small with fragile birdlike bones, and although she had slept in the white shirt and shorts she still looked fresh and airy, as if she had just flown in from the open sky . . . 'apos;When Janet Sandison returns to her Caribbean...

'apos;Janet, what do you mean? What has been going on between you and that bloody boy?'apos;When Janet Alexander learns that young Roddy Maclean intends to defy his parents and become a writer, not an engineer, she readily helps him run away from St...

'apos;I think you are forgetting one thing, Twice,'apos; I said. 'apos;You seem to forget that my home is where you are.'apos;Janet is unhappy in St Jago. Although Twice Alexander is now convalescing from his serious illness, the strain of the past...

'apos;Since I lost the baby, you and I have been so close together that we have been almost a single person'apos;Janet Alexander returning by sea to the Caribbean with her husband 'apos;Twice'apos; finds their domestic harmony threatened by the...

It was a long journey from the West Indies to Scotland - but Janet'apos;s holiday turned out to be unforgettable . . .It was a wrench for Janet to leave her husband behind-but Twice'apos;s heart condition did not permit him to leave the West Indies....

Here, seen through the uninhibited eyes of eight-year-old Janet Sandison, is a vanished world-an isolated community living by its own unquestioned code of decency and integrity.Into this remote backwater come the 'apos;Miss Boyds'apos;-a clutch of...

'apos;This Paradise community doesn'apos;t seem to me to be the secure, feudal, friendly affair that everybody likes to think. There'apos;s a change working . . .'apos;As the turbulent island of St. Jago reaches a turning point in its way of life...

After her husband'apos;s death and her own breakdown, from which she has been rescued by her good friend Sashie, Janet Sandison sets sail from her West Indian home to return to Scotland and make a new life for herself as an author. She is beset by...

In a windowless cell, a man hangs from a pair of handcuffs. He is an american. His torturer will stop at nothing to extract the information he requires.He, too, is an american.A Day and a Night and a Day is a Grand Inquisition for the twenty-first...

Twins are supposed to have an unbreakable bond, but Patti and Jamie have serious relationship issues. They haven't spoken since Jamie ruined Patti's upcoming nuptials years ago. When a niece she knows nothing about telephones, Patti must unravel the...

Big-city Lawyer. Country Farmer. In the normal course of events, their lives would never intersect . . . But some accidents aren't meant to be avoided. When attorney Reggie Meyers crashes into Dylan Monroe on the freeway, it makes a bad day even...

The Witness Protection Program claims it can keep anyone safe if only the person follows the rules... so Maria follows the rules. Every rule. She gives up everything'her friends, her family, her past, even her name'to ensure her daughter has a...

Politics is no game when a stalker nears and there's nowhere to hide. A run for the senate is just a step on the road to the White House for Congressman Lucas McMann. But his public profile has put him in the middle of a crazed gunman's twisted game...

FACED WITH ONLY SILENCEHer happily-ever-after is shattered when Maven Morris is left at the altar. Without a word of explanation, her fiancé, has disappeared, leaving Maven and the church filled with their family and friends. Maven refuses to give...