Thalia of Orrin. Upholder of the Queen's Peace. Friend of the Downtrodden. The Breaker of Pirates. Two generations before the End of the Demon Wars, before there was Thalia the Legend, there was a young justice with a wicked sense of humor, a zest for life, and a duty to her people. These are her cases. Dealing with an estate distribution of a local lord turns into a full-blown riot in Nastine. Thalia and a wet-behind-the-ears Light priest must discover what's really causing the locals' madness before someone winds up dead.

Chief Justice Anthea of Orrin is finally coming to terms with all the changes in her life over the last year. But nothing could ever have prepared her for the depths of her birth mother Gerd’s madness, or the lengths Gerd will go to in order to claim her vengeance on those she believes wronged her. Including killing everyone Anthea loves. Magic and mayhem have never been this dire. Or this heartbreaking.

Earth’s resources are depleted, and it’s up to Solar System Services, Inc. to find new supplies, especially water. But not every human faction wants to share. A newly activated AI decides to take matters into her own circuits when her best friend is murdered over water rights on one of Saturn’s moons. Will logic or emotion win?

The interaction of the individual in history and politics has posed major theoretical questions of historical analysis for the past two centuries: is social destiny shaped by forces beyond the power of the individual, or can the future be mastered by collective effort under the outstanding leadership of heroic men and women? In this classic study, a major philosopher and social theorist of the twentieth century offers a searching examination of the conditions under which individuals make choices that significantly alter the course of historical events and presents a scathing critique of various forms of social determinism that deny the individual freedom of action or a decisive role in history.The myth of the hero as the savior of the tribe or nation, as Hook notes, is older than written history. Until the ninteenth century, the hero functioned not merely as a cult figure but as a principle of historical explanation, a key to the rise and fall of countries and even of cultures. The exaggerations and omissions of this point of view produced an equally simplistic reaction with the formulation of determinist historiographies in which physical, racial, social, and economic forces replaced individuals as the dynamic factors in the development of events. Hook singles out orthodox Marxism as the most all-encompassing determinist system and subjects the historical thinking of Engels, Plekhanov, and Trotsky to sharp and meticulous scrutiny. Using the Russian Revolution as a test case, Hook observes that while the February 1917 Revolution was an inevitable development, the October revolution was, according to the best historical evidence, contingent upon the personality and actions of Lenin.In his 1978 reconsideration of the subject of heroism, appearing new to this edition, Hook defines a middle ground between the extremes of voluntarism and determinism that explains why the presence of strong personalities are decisive under certain conditions while under others key actors would appear to be almost interchangeable. He points us toward an understanding of a fascinating problem in history and raises essential questions about the role of "great" men and women in a democracy. The Hero in History will be of interest to intellectual historians, philosophers, political scientists, and sociologists.

TRB’s second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Report S2-L06-RR-1: Institutional Architectures to Improve Systems Operations and Management examines a large number of topics concerning organizational and institutional approaches that might help transportation agencies enhance highway operations and travel time reliability.

Thalia of Orrin. Upholder of the Queen's Peace. Friend of the Downtrodden. The Breaker of Pirates. Two generations before the End of the Demon Wars, before there was Thalia the Legend, there was a young justice with a wicked sense of humor, a zest for life, and a duty to her people. These are her cases. Marriage can be sticky, but how is a justice to rule when three men claim they have contracted to marry the same woman? A woman who claims to know nothing about these three men. And according to truthspells, neither the potential grooms nor the defendant are lying.

THIS IS THE END! A necromancer awakes from his coma. A vampire owes a god of death a favor, and the deity demands his payment. A very dead ancient Egyptian prince finds himself back in the land of the living in another man’s body. And a single mother still blames her sister-in-law for the death of her husband. Sam Ridgeway doesn’t know these four people are her personal Horsemen. The Harbingers of Armageddon. And they are more interested in their own agendas. Because if they can’t control Sam, they will have to kill her. And if Sam dies, so does the world.

It’s been eleven years since supernaturals were revealed to the world during the eruption of Mount Rainier. But small town life in Millersburg, Ohio, hasn’t changed that much. At least, not until an anti-supernatural activist is killed in town, and Kaley and Kirsten’s mom is accused of murder. How do the twins prove their mom’s innocence when the jerk was obviously killed by magick? Suzan Harden, the author of the Bloodlines and the Soccer Moms of the Apocalypse series, brings you this paranormal mystery set in the heart of Ohio Amish country that will chill and thrill you at the same time!

Thalia of Orrin. Upholder of the Queen's Peace. Friend of the Downtrodden. The Breaker of Pirates. Two generations before the End of the Demon Wars, before there was Thalia the Legend, there was a young justice with a wicked sense of humor, a zest for life, and a duty to her people. These are her cases. Long before Thalia becomes a justice, gossip and pranks among her novice class leads to tragedy.