In this subjective text, I’m covering issues that have concerned me a great deal in my fighting career and about my friends who are still fighting. So, for all of you fighting, managing or coaching, as well as any of you contemplating any of the aforementioned, this is for you.

Moro numa casa ao redor do sol conta a história de uma criança que vai à escola e descobre que seu mundo é na verdade muito maior do que pensava. Synopsis I live in a house around the sun tells the story of child who goes to school and finds out that the world is much bigger than he imagined.

A story about Miranda, a girl who was not doing well in school, her academic grades were low and she felt discouraged.Her mother looking for a way for her to improve in her courses and with the help of a magic medal begins to see the results in her daughter.Miranda will experience the magic of believing and improving in a magical way.

This fascinating biography sheds light on the important yet overlooked military leader who thwarted Rome in what is now Spain and Portugal.In the second century BC, as Rome engaged in the conquest of the Iberian Peninsula, they met with determined resistance from the Lusitanian people and their skilled leader, Viriathus. Though renowned in his day Viriathus has been neglected by modern historians, a travesty that Luis Silva puts right in this thoroughly researched a...

Plasma Modeling: Methods and applications presents and discusses the different approaches that can be adopted for plasma modeling, giving details about theoretical and numerical methods. It describes kinetic models used in plasma investigations, develops the theory of fluid equations and hybrid models, and discusses applications and practical problems across a range of fields.This updated second edition contains over 200 pages of new material, including an extensive new pa...

Shaping Rural Areas in Europe. Perceptions and Outcomes on the Present and the Future sets out to investigate the effect of urban perceptions about the rural and consequent demands on rurality on the present and future configurations of rural territories in Europe in the early twenty-first century. This volume presents and discusses a broad range of case studies and theoretical and methodological approaches from different academic fields, mainly Anthropology, Sociology and Geography.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Technologies for Interactive Entertainment, INTETAIN 2017, held in Funchal, Portugal, in June 2017. The 15 full papers were selected from 19 submissions and present developments and insights in art, design, science and engineering regarding novel entertainment-focused devices, paradigms, and reconfiguration of entertainment experiences.

"A very good read . . . and a reminder that the Romans were hardly the only imperialist warmongers of the ancient world." — StrategyPageCarthage was the western Mediterranean's first superpower, long before Rome, and her military history was powerful, eventful, and checkered even before her "Punic Wars" against Rome. Although characterized in the surviving sources and modern studies as a predominantly mercantile state, Carthage fought many wars, both aggre...

The author of 24 Hours in Ancient Athens "tells the powerful story of how Greek history survived the meteor of Alexander and his brief world empire" ( Firetrench).When Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, he left an empire that stretched from the shores of the Adriatic to the mountains of Afghanistan. This empire did not survive Alexander's death, and rapidly broke into several successor states. These states, subst...

A penetrating assessment of Augustus as ancient Rome's military commander-in-chief.The words Pax Augusta—or Pax Romana—evoke a period of uninterrupted peace across the vast Roman Empire. Lindsay Powell exposes this as a fallacy. Almost every year between 31 BC and AD 14 the Roman Army was in action somewhere, either fighting enemies beyond the frontier in punitive raids or for outright conquest; or suppressing banditry or rebellions within the borders.Remar...

"A great book that summarizes pieces of Roman military history that are often not mentioned or difficult to find sources for . . . an entertaining read."— War History OnlineAs Rome grew from a small city state to the mightiest empire of the west, her dominion was contested not only by the civilizations of the Mediterranean, but also by the "barbarians"—the tribal peoples of Europe. The Celtic, the Spanish-Iberian and the Germanic tribes lacked the pomp and...

The epic battle to liberate Spain from Roman rule is a masterclass of ancient guerilla warfare, recounted by the author of Ancient Rome on 5 Denarii a Day.In the year 82 BC, after a brutal civil war, the dictator Sulla took power in Rome. But among those who refused to accept his rule was the young army officer Quintus Sertorius. Sertorius fled, first to Africa and then to Spain, where he made common cause with the native people who had been savagely oppre...