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Com abordagem inovadora e provocativa, este guia prático ensina como aproveitar ao máximo o dinheiro em prol de experiências significativas. Imagine se, no momento da sua morte, você se desse conta de que sempre seguiu o senso comum: trabalhou duro e economizou bastante dinheiro, esperando ansiosamente pela sonhada liberdade financeira da aposentadoria.

Welcome to The Personality Test, the panel show in which a brand new host takes the chair for every episode to present a quiz entirely themed around themselves. Each gets to run the show by their own rules, devising topics and queries based on their life, whims, fancies and past glories. Among the showbiz celebrities in the hot seat are Gyles Brandreth, Jennie Bond, Antony Worrall Thompson, Esther Rantzen, Janet Street-Porter and Edwina Currie, while the rounds include Love It Or Hate It, True or False, That Special Day and Life's a Pitch.

Presented in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer and the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, she is forbidden from working, but encouraged to eat well and get plenty of exercise and air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a temporary nervous depression - a slight hysterical tendency, a diagnosis common to women in that period.

First published in 1892, The Yellow Wallpaper is a classic short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It's an early work of feminist literature focused on a female protagonist and her relationship with husband John. A great work for studying and casual listening. This version of The Yellow Wallpaper has excellent narration and the highest quality of audio. All audio is engineered with careful attention to detail for your enjoyment of the story.

In What Diantha Did, Charlotte Perkins Gilman invites us to explore a pivotal moment in history, shedding light on the tireless efforts of women to improve their circumstances in the early 20th century. Diantha Bell is an ordinary young woman with aspirations for marriage and a cozy home, yet she also yearns for a groundbreaking career in a new frontier that raises eyebrows and stirs gossip. Her mission to elevate housework and cooking into a regulated and even scientific enterprise aims to ease the burdens of homemakers, reflecting the late 19th-century movement towards Domestic Science, or ...

This story is primarily crafted for young women, followed by young men, and ultimately for anyone who seeks to understand its message. Those who question its facts and figures are encouraged to consult Social Diseases and Marriage by Dr. Prince Morrow or Hygiene and Morality by Miss Lavinia Dock, a seasoned nurse with extensive experience. While some may argue that the challenging truths revealed are unsuitable for young girls, it is precisely these young women who must be informed to safeguard themselves and future generations. Awareness of danger is vital before it becomes too late to act. ...

“A thrilling survival story about two teens just trying to make it to daybreak with their friendship—and their lives, too, as a horror beyond their wildest dreams lurks in the forest.” —Booklist Bears aren’t the only predators in these woods. Best friends Neena and Josie spent high...

In the thrilling conclusion of the feminist trilogy that began with Moving the Mountain and Herland, we delve deeper into the captivating world created by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. Originally published serially in her periodical, The Forerunner, this story picks up as Vandyck Jennings and his wife, Ellador, return to America after their eye-opening experiences in the all-female utopia of Herland. In this new chapter, we explore the challenges and revelations they face as they reintegrate into a society that starkly contrasts with the harmonious world they left behind. Join us as we witness ...

In her best-known work, The Yellow Wallpaper, Gilman writes about different kinds of oppression that women were exposed to at the time. Herland is a utopian novel from 1915, in which an isolated society composed entirely of women exists. The result is an ideal social order: free of war, conflict, and domination. The Crux tells the story of a group of New England women who move west to start a boardinghouse for men in Colorado. It is an important early feminist work that brings forward complicated issues of gender, citizenship, eugenics, and frontier nationalism.

Canterbury Cathedral, 1170. Four knights break sanctuary to brutally murder Archbishop Thomas Becket for their king, Henry II. Running from their crime, the four knights - Hugh de Morville, William de Tracy, Reginald FitzUrse, and Richard le Brett - flee north to Knaresborough Castle, where Morville is overlord. Initially celebrating ridding their king of the pest that Becket had become, they find themselves increasingly isolated as the church and public opinion turn against them.

Reese "Gypsy" Shackelford has had a hard life, supporting herself and two daughters on a Waffle House salary. Never mind that her sister, Taylor, is living the good life with her family in an upscale neighborhood across town and sees Gypsy as a liability and the victim of her own misfortune. However, Gypsy and Taylor aren’t prepared for the global pandemic of 2020 that would not only change their lives forever but also the lives of everyone in the city of Fayetteville, the state of North Carolina, the United States, and the entire world.

The Modern Age is one of information overload. Bombarded, surrounded, and battered by facts, figures, opinions and seemingly whatever else comes out of anyone’s head from all directions at all hours of the day and night. It’s exhausting. In the pens of such luminaries as Henry James, E M Delafield, C E Montague, Charlotte Perkins Gilman and many others we connect with old fashioned media from publishing and advertising to telegrams and radio and everything in between in ways that are surprising, enlightening but always entertaining.

The diary is that most intimate of journals, of records. Within its pages the writer records and gives expression to their thoughts, their feelings, their emotional state on all the things that make up and surround them in this world. With authors of the calibre of Bulgakov, Woolf, Tolstoy, Twain and many others this volume explores characters whose lives seem dominated by these diaries, and the events that unfold are both compelling and literary journeys into the very personal and intimate side of their characters’ lives.

As a former “Walk Thru The Bible” instructor, Gerald knows how to condense scriptural teaching into easy-to-remember pieces. And what better book to have a complete understanding of than the foundational book of Genesis! Regardless of your spiritual age, this will impact how you organize the Bible in your mind.

Some 80 percent of Christians believe that the church is now the recipient of God's original promise to Israel. But is that in Scripture? Dave Succinctly dismantles this absurd doctrine while showing the awful ramifications of its tentacles.

The Puritan William Perkins was the first to articulate prayer and preaching in his treatise on hermeneutics and homiletics titled The Art of Prophesying (1592). Perkins considered the pastor to be in the great succession of biblical prophets and apostles. Perkins’ method of preaching consists of interpretation, analysis, and application.

This collection brings together 12 of the finest short stories of prominent American feminist author Charlotte Perkins Gilman. "The Yellow Wallpaper", Gilman's best-known work, was first published in 1892 and represents an important examination of 19th-century attitudes toward women's physical and mental health.

Ten great chapters from our women speakers from our various Steeling the Mind Conferences!

The story's protagonist and narrator is an unnamed woman whose husband, a doctor named John, makes her spend the summer in the country for her health. The woman, her baby, John, John's sister and some servants stay in a large rented house. John chooses a bedroom for himself and his wife which is large and airy but otherwise quite unpleasant. The narrator takes an immediate dislike to the room's yellow wallpaper. She soon starts to see grotesque images in its pattern. After some time, the narrator becomes convinced that the wallpaper depicts a woman trapped behind a cage.

Embarking in a solo parenting journey is brave and it is not easy. Have you heard all the good intentioned advice but think they apply to more "traditional" families? Have you wondered how to juggle parenting, work, and a social life with a little one in tow, making sure they are thriving as happy kids? Look no more. This audiobook won't teach you all the baby basics, but will be tailored to solo parent life, in a positive way. We deep dive on how to cover the main, basic needs of your baby when you are on your own.