No seu Natureza e imanência: o Sistema da Natureza de Holbach, Fábio Rodrigues de Ávila apresenta ao público brasileiro, com muita personalidade e pedagogia, o pensamento materialista e ateu do filósofo iluminista Paul-Henri Thiry, o barão de Holbach (1723-1789), cujo núcleo doutrinário foi expresso de forma sistemática e definitiva no seu O Sistema da Natureza, de 1770. Trata-se, salvo engano, da primeira dissertação de mestrado inteiramente dedicada à filosofia de Holbach no país. Pioneiro, portanto, este livro contém todas as qualidades que se esperam de uma pesquisa dessa natureza, o que não é pouco, uma vez que com a massificação …

Narina Kenwin is the only daughter of the Bishop of St. Albans and is used to a quiet comfortable life in her father’s country diocese. Intelligent, loyal, and stunningly beautiful, Narina is happy with her lot, although she does sometimes daydream about the far off places that she would love to see with someone special by her side. It seems her wish to travel is about to come true when Narina receives an invitation from her school friend, Louise, who is married to Prince Rudolf, the ruler of the small Principality of Alexanderburg in the Balkans. She has greatly missed …

London, 2012. A deadly virus is released on a late night tube. In seconds 23 innocent commuters die a horrible death. Chief inspector Moore of New Scotland Yard’s terror unit is assigned the case. However, before he can begin the investigation, another attack occurs in a Camden pub and London is now a terrorized city. Bio Defence Inc., a shadowy government organization, is enlisted to work with the terror unit to determine what appears to be an international terror attack on British soil. But is it? Moore suspects that these bio terrorism attacks are somehow connected and go all the …

In 1980, President Carter’s chances of reelection are destroyed by the failure of the mission to rescue the hostages held in Iran. In the aftermath, the Iranians claimed to have discovered nine U.S. bodies at the desert location where the mission disintegrated into panic and explosion, while the U.S. authorities claimed that only eight men were missing. Years later, an English monk, once an intelligence officer in Northern Ireland whose life was torn apart by a disastrous undercover operation that led to his parents’ murder, receives a U.S. tycoon’s deathbed confession that he was part of a sinister and successful …

After the death of the kindly old Earl of Yardecombe, Oscar, the brash and pleasure-seeking new earl seems to care little for the people of the parish, let alone for the plight of young Dorina Stanfield, her widowed father, and their impoverished family at the rundown vicarage. Dorina’s opinion of this raffish gentleman is lower still when she hears of lewd goings-on with his flamboyant friends at the manor. Confronting his lordship, Dorina is stunned to find him chastened by her accusations. Everything changes when Dorina overhears the earl’s wicked heir’s satanic incantations, summoning the devil to murder his lordship.

Vivimos tiempos de inquietud y de zozobra, de tensiones y ansiedades. Hay prisa para todo, los nervios están a flor de piel. Cada día sufrimos la insoportable presión de las colas y los atascos del tráfico. Las impaciencias se disparan más aún cuando aparece la enfermedad o el dolor, o los apuros económicos no permiten llegar a fin de mes. ¿Qué puedo hacer -se preguntan algunos- para desacelerar y rebajar tanta tensión? ¿Dónde conseguiré la paz y el sosiego que necesito? En Vencer la impaciencia se dan respuestas a estos interrogantes. En tono ameno y sencillo, ilustrado con ejemplos y …