He also argues that Joseph's efforts, known as Josephinism, were the most ambitious of all attempts at Enlightened Absolutism in Europe. He maintains that these new pillars, as well as attempts at readjusting the traditional three, were key elements of Emperor Joseph II's reform movement in the late eighteenth century. Evans convincingly asserts that from the late seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century three new pillars, the army, bureaucracy, and managed economy, were added to strengthen the monarchy. This latest work reflects his interest over the past twenty years on the significance of this foundation for later Habsburg history. In his earlier magisterial work, The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy, 1550-1700 (1979), Evans argued that the Habsburg monarchy rested upon the triadic foundation of dynasty, aristocracy, and the Catholic Church during the sixteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Evans places the essays within the context of the rapid increase of Habsburg control over Hungarian lands following the failed Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683 to the establishment of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1867. Its chronological bookends underscore the important role of Austro-Hungarian relations in shaping the region. This work is a collection of persuasive revisionist essays on central European history from approximately 1683 to 1867 by R. Habsburgs and Hungarians in the Central European Landscape
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Even in hell it is possible to find something to believe in that exalts the human spirit for its nobility amid forces that would debase it. From the seedbed of Kipling’s pessimism, from his despairing sense of life as a place of suffering, emerged in him a powerful conviction: it was possible through understanding and sheer willfulness to avoid the degradation of self-pity and the disgrace of frantic self-protection even when pain, defeat, and annihilation are inevitable. The President believes that the treaty offers the single shot at salvation for an energy-starved, economically devastated nation, but the only two copies plummeted into the watery depths of the Atlantic in twin disasters long ago. Dirk Pitt Adventure 8.9 X 6.1 X 1.1 inches 344 pages "In the midst of an international crisis, Heidi Milligan, a beautiful, brilliant American naval commander, accidentally discovers an obscure reference to the long-buried North American Treaty, a precedent-shattering secret pact between the United States and Great Britain. On the back pastedown is a glossy B&W 5X7 photo of the front cover with the same publication info. This appears to be a promotional copy - glossy B&W 5X7 a blow-up of the photo of Cussler which appears on the back flap is pasted on front pastedown with credit to photographer Gerald Martineau and promoting future publication of the book. A tight solid book, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. Permanent marker over previous owner's name on front free end paper and a line of writing bottom of front pastedown. DJ and boards show shelf wear, with DJ having short tears, moderate chipping and creasing to spine area and bottom rear. Maybe… Okay, really, she’s a word-vomiting, curvy, hot-mess, who hasn’t had a date in who knows how long. See, Ellie totally had her life together. Jokes on them, though, she was now the top special education teacher in her district. Ellie Ryan spent her childhood being judged and bullied because of her learning disabilities. And if that meant moving to a new town, consider the moving truck rented and packed. Right now, making sure Belle was taken care of and getting her the help she needed with her learning disabilities was his only focus. The only good thing that came from his disaster of an ex was his daughter, Annabelle. To Spencer Hurley, women only left pain and destruction in their wake. Throw in an overeating dog and watch what happens next. Learning Curves is a single dad, enemies to lovers, curvy girl rom-com with a teacher that everyone wished they had in school, and a swoon-worthy dad that would do anything for his daughter. You can read this before Learning Curves PDF EPUB full Download at the bottom. Here is a quick description and cover image of book Learning Curves written by Molly O’Hare which was published in. Brief Summary of Book: Learning Curves by Molly O’Hare In a time of spreading darkness, when paranoia and oppression have overtaken the world, can three unlikely allies preserve a small ray of hope for a better, brighter future?īroken is a story about the perils of being different, destiny's heavy burdens, and hope's persistence. Now her family is gone, her life is in ruins, and she's on the run from the law. Monica had a good life with her large family, until two strangers and a baby showed up at her door. Now he needs the help of a homeless ex-superhero to save a baby who may be the key to humanity's freedom. When the moment comes, though, he finds he can't refuse. Michael Forward can see the future, but all he wants is to escape the destiny he has struggled against all his life. But then the world started to fall apart around her, and the mysterious Michael Forward entered her life, dangling the possibility of redemption and rebirth. Can a shattered superhero help save humanity's hope for a better world?īroken figured she was done with heroics when she lost the ability to fly and fled the confinement of the Extrahuman Union. You can tell from page one of Victoria Schwab’s novel, THE ARCHIVED ( Amazon), that she has a deft command for prose and storytelling. Sometimes the violent ones wake up, and have to be returned. When people die, their memories and experiences are archived. But old buildings often have a story to tell, and it doesn’t take her long to discover the murder that occurred in her apartment over fifty years ago. Her parents decide to move to the Coronado, an old hotel converted to apartments, where her mother dreams of re-opening the main floor coffee shop. Mackenzie keeps this part of her life secret from her parents, and she has to be careful how she lies so life goes on normally whether it’s convenient to her or not. She’s spent the years since his death doing just that, finding Histories assigned to her by the Librarians at the Archive and returning them to their rest. But sometimes those memories wake up, the restless and violent kind especially, and someone has to return them.įour years ago, when Mackenzie was twelve, her grandfather introduced her to the Archive, where the people’s Histories are stored, to learn about the job of a Keeper and take his place. When people die their memories and experiences are archived in a special library that few people know about. But why, in the first place, are queer adults forming such intense emotional bonds to children’s media, and what effect does a steady diet of soft-edged pastel art have on the adult mind? That this particular segment of fandom has often turned to intense online harassment when upset over their chosen fiction is a separate issue addressed in part by my piece on online puritanism. In the queer community especially, shows like Rebecca Sugar’s Steven Universe, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko’s Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Noelle Stevenson’s She-Ra and the Princesses of Power have found significant cultural purchase among older teens and adults well into their 30s and 40s. Over the past two decades, “adult who consumes primarily children’s media” has gone from a reviled fringe identity - think Bronies, adult male fans of the My Little Pony revival, monopolizing cons and fanart forums meant for actual children - to a more or less normative way for grown people to relate to art. Image taken from Strange Suspense Stories #60, artist Jack Kirby, pub. I enjoyed Last Night at the Viper Room a lot. 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In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix-a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood royalty who died of a drug overdose in front of West Hollywood’s storied club, the Viper Room, at the age of 23. Even the Lion of Atlanta, and the daughter of Evil (she does not take after her father) have bills to pay. Her former employers the Mercenary Guild are willing, if not happy, to hire them both. Being a mercenary and skilled swords woman, she has mad job skills. Thank goodness his wife's problems are quite interesting. Curan may not have the title of Beast Lord, but it is more than a title it is what he is, and leaving left a hole. So leaving the Pack that he spent years forming and supporting was not a deal breaker to keep both it and Kate safe from a great Evil. The Pack repaid his work by not fully accepting his human wife, (well they kept challenging her to duels to the death for leadership of the Pack while he was in a coma, so that's less than accepting). In the early books we learn that Curan formed the Atlanta pack of different shape shifters because as a youngster his family was torn apart by a band of loupes, shape shifters who have gone crazy. Goodness, many authors can't keep their characters within their original personalities within one book, much less eight. Not only does the story arc keep climbing over all eight books without a stutter, the characters grow and change from book one to book eight, and still remain remain consistent. While waiting for this book I listened to all seven of the early ones from the beginning. I can think of only one other series which develops the overall story without once tripping over earlier plot lines, and this series is flawless. 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