![]() ![]() In The Habsburg Empire: A New History, Pieter Judson has set a standard for general histories of the empire and produced a framework with which future specialist monographs can productively engage. "Judson's reflections on nations, states and institutions are of broader interest, not least in the current debate on the future of the European Union after Brexit. With this book, Judson offers a corrective. Judson does much to destroy the picture of an ossified regime and state." Judson argues that.the empire was a force for progress and modernity. Judson rejects conventional depictions of the Habsburg empire as a hopelessly dysfunctional assemblage of squabbling nationalities and stresses its achievements in law, administration, science and the arts." "This is an engaging reappraisal of the empire whose legacy, a century after its collapse in 1918, still resonates across the nation-states that replaced it in central Europe. ![]() ![]() Lucid, elegant, full of surprising and illuminating details, it can be warmly recommended to anyone with an interest in modern European history." If his account of Habsburg achievements, especially in the 18th century, is rather starry-eyed, it is a welcome corrective to the black legend usually presented. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo A EuropeNow Editor's PickĪ Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year ![]()
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![]() Bannon’s most famous character was Beebo Brinker, a butch teenager who abandons a repressive Midwest for the unrepressed Greenwich Village of beatniks and gay bars. In The Marriage, she described the dramatic upheavals in the life of a sometime lesbian who weds a man and tries to live as a heterosexual. In topics with titles like I Am a Woman (1959) and Women in the Shadows (1959), Bannon wrote of young lesbians coping with love, sex, and society’s disapproval and disgust. Fawcett published each of her subsequent five novels between 19. Bannon returned to an academic life and continued writing novels. Her husband refused to let her publish it under her own name, and the Ann Bannon nom de plume was assumed. The content of her first novel, Odd Girl Out (1957), she claimed, was based on other girls she had heard about at school. ![]() ![]() Born Ann Weldy in Joliet, Illinois, she went to college, then married and had two children while still in her early twenties. Known as the Queen of Lesbian Pulp, Ann Ban-non wrote paperbacks in the 1950s and 1960s about female homosexuals that were originally marketed as sensationalism and later reclaimed as an important literary record from a time when few other cultural manifestations of lesbianism were permitted in the American mainstream. ![]() ![]() You may want to get the Zenith as well, for Pessoa speaks to insomniacs, being one himself but this edition is a very good book to keep by your side during those encounters with the mundane that can vex the sensitive soul. ![]() This one publishes 259 of the fragments and is much more wieldy a pocket edition rather than a bedside one. (The trunk also contained another 25,000 pieces, 150 of which literary scholars have tacked on for some editions.) The best English-language version is translated by Richard Zenith and published by Penguin, but that comes in at more than 500 pages. ![]() Apart from a few fragments he suffered to be published in his lifetime, Pessoa's greatest work took the form of 350 fragments shoved into an envelope found in a trunk after his death. T here will never be a definitive edition of The Book of Disquiet, however hard anyone tries. ![]() ![]() ![]() It gives us the perspective from Attu, an Aleutian Island in the Northern Pacific Ocean. Juvenile literature set during World War II is plentiful, but Island War tells a story unfamiliar to most kids. I think this will appeal to those who enjoy WWII stories, children surviving without adults and those who enjoy descriptions of island life. ![]() This was a quick read, we thought it could have been longer perhaps. It was good too to see a friendly soldier, we liked this characters actions and hoped he escaped the war safely. We loved the dog character and the childrens loyalty to their friend. The friendship between the two main characters was interesting, it was refreshing to see two people who were very different and disliked each other, thrust together in difficult circumstances. We also knew very little about these islands so the descriptions were very interesting and we enjoyed hearing about the wildlife and weather, it sounds like an amazing place. I think this is a story best read not knowing much about, we came to the story knowing very little which made certain turns of the story much more interesting for us. The story was told by the two main characters, a girl and a boy who had just arrived on the island, the chapters alternated between them. We really enjoyed this fast paced WWII story set in the Aleutian islands. ![]() ![]() ![]() She wrote her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, in 1920, launching a literary career that spanned decades. One of the most successful and beloved writer of mystery stories, Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie was born in 1890 in Torquay, County Devon, England. Yet Hercule Poirot is not convinced, so he stages an eerie reenactment of the journey, complete with the murderer on board.ġ online resource (6 audio files) : digital ![]() The prime suspect is Ruth's estranged husband, Derek. What is more, her precious rubies are missing. But she will never wake again - for a heavy blow has killed her, disfiguring her features almost beyond recognition. When the luxurious Blue Train arrives at Nice, a guard attempts to wake serene Ruth Kettering from her slumbers. Robbery and brutal murder aboard a luxury transport ensnares the ever-attentive Hercule Poirot in The Mystery of the Blue Train, from Queen of Mystery Agatha Christie. ![]() ![]() So when Colleen Houck introduced Kishan in Curse, I was a little scared, but, in Quest, Colleen totally solves this for me by making Kelsey travel with Kishan, and we learn that beneath all of his cockyness and down-right rudeness, is someone who lives every-day with the pain of his decisions that he made hundreds of years ago, and that he truly cares, unlike most bad boys who are either totally evil or we never get the total character-fleshing that we got in Quest. Most bad-boys in novels always stay aloof, and I know that they are supposed to be irritating like that, but most YA novels have crossed the line, heck, practically leaped over it, and have annoyed me soo much that I've just wanted to put down the book. ![]() ![]() ![]() This one was sooo much better than the first (and the first was amazing), and if I had any questions or doubts or misgivings about this series, they were completely destroyed by Quest.įirst off, Kishan. Oh, oh, oh! I just have one thing to say about this novel, wow. ![]() ![]() What she’s not terrified of is the large blue alien male, Aehako, who seems to favor her. I’m not sure how the females got away, but the other aliens are looking for them, and Kira is terrified she will be found and returned to them so they can sell her into slavery. Kira was chosen to get an implant into her ear canal that translates any language so that she can be a translator-but for some reason she was not molested. The first aliens caught her and many other women, freezing some of them and abusing others during their flight away from Earth. Kira is a human woman who has been kidnapped twice by aliens. BARBARIAN LOVER is Book 3 in a series of twenty-one books! After reading this one, I won’t be seeking out the others. ![]() ![]() Usually when you read a book that’s in a series, you’ll have some kind of explanation during the course of the story, so you get caught up. ![]() ![]() ![]() Demons are trustworthy like that.Īdam might be too shy to ask Harriet out, but if they’re to defeat the demons, they’ll have to work together. ![]() And when she got here, she would be sure to reward the demon who pulled it off, wouldn’t she? Of course she would. That would give them a tool, someone they could use to summon one of their ancestors back from Hell. Suppose a human could be tricked, tempted or overpowered. The demons, though, have a secret of their own. There is power, and the pleasure of misusing it. There is far more than seduction on offer, for people who want it. Demons never ask for your immortal soul, because who would enter into such a bargain?Īdam isn’t the only one hearing tempting whispers, and some people aren’t very good at resisting temptation. ![]() More to the point, one particular girl will find him irresistibly attractive, and the price is very reasonable. Girls will find him irresistibly attractive. A mysterious book whispers temptation into Adam’s mind. ![]() ![]() Yet the tornado is not the only storm to strike this community, as an emotional storm shakes apart two families, one black and one white. From that point on, the reader is yanked into the terror of this historic 1936 storm in Tupelo, Mississippi. Gwin gives the reader little chance to breathe as an F5 tornado takes Dovey, a local laundress, and sends her flying in chapter one. “I hated putting this book down because it meant leaving characters who were in dire straits. Serena Wycoff, Copperfish Books, Punta Gorda, FL Summer 2019 Reading Group Indie Next List ![]() With all the fires, hurricanes, and floods we've had around the country recently, along with continuing racial tensions, this story, though set in 1936, speaks loudly to us today.” In the midst of it all, I could also feel the strength and determination of Dovey and Jo and experience their humanity, honesty, obstinance, and kindness. ![]() ![]() I felt like I was trapped in Gwin's tornado, wandering through the devastated streets and blown-apart buildings, feeling the chaos and brokenness. ![]() ![]() That might not have mattered – except that black holes are real physical objects. ![]() It would deprive us of the ability to predict anything about the future of a black hole. However, this kind of uncertainty seemed to be completely unacceptable in that it resulted in many of the laws of physics appearing to break down. What Hawking discovered was that in black hole physics, there seemed to be even greater uncertainty than in quantum mechanics. In the case of a ball being thrown, one would not know its precise trajectory, but only the probability that it would be in some particular place given its initial conditions. In quantum mechanics, instead of describing precise outcomes, one finds that one can only calculate the probabilities for various things to happen. That kind of reasoning is fine for what we call classical physics but for small things, like atoms and electrons, the rules need some modifications, as described by quantum mechanics. For example, if you throw a ball, once you know its initial position and velocity, then you can figure out where it will be in the future. ![]() ![]() Physics is really about being able to predict the future given how things are now. ![]() |