Katharine The Almost Great Set 2

This boxed set contains books 5-7 of the Raise A Glass series. Included titles are Too True To Be Good, Walk Of Fame, and Fake It Till You Break It. Too True To Be Good Zach loved his life. He didn't want anything to change. He had everything he wanted, except the new chef trying to steal his job. Gianna knew all the bad life had to offer. She'd not only lived it, but she saw it every day. Which was why she was determined to find a permanent home for her newest client. The last thing Zach needs is a little girl on his doorstep claiming she's his. The social worker on her heels wasn't any more welcome, but he couldn't turn them away until he knew the full truth. When the truth comes out, they have to decide if it'll keep them together or push them apart. Walk Of Fame Katherine needs to hide, and the best place she can think of is an off the map spot no one would think to look for her. Dillon just wanted a night out. But when his one night stand is waiting on his porch the next day, the fear in her eyes has his welcoming her into his home. Time is not on their side, but something stronger might be. But her secrets might be too much for him. And when she has to return to her real life, it all could come tumbling down. Fake It Till You Break It Kristen needs an escape, and her usual one isn't working. She decides to give up men and have some fun in other ways. Throwing herself into work seems like a good plan. Zane knows getting attached always spells trouble, so he keeps his distance. Especially from a woman who's clearly broken. No matter how amazing he thinks she is. It's all work between them, but work is play and the lines are blurred before either of them realize it. They can handle it. Neither is going to get attached. It's just fun.

Every few months there's a shocking news story about the sustained, and often fatal, abuse of a disabled person. It's easy to write off such cases as bullying that got out of hand, terrible criminal anomalies or regrettable failures of the care system, but in fact they point to a more uncomfortable and fundamental truth about how our society treats its most unequal citizens. In Scapegoat, Katharine Quarmby looks behind the headlines to question and understand our discomfort with disabled people. Combining fascinating examples from history with tenacious investigation and powerful first person interviews, Scapegoat will change the way we think about disability - and about the changes we must make as a society to ensure that disabled people are seen as equal citizens, worthy of respect, not targets for taunting, torture and attack.

The first in-depth study of Catherine the Great's plays and opera libretti, this book provides analysis and critical interpretation of the dramatic works by this eighteenth-century Russian Empress. These works are shown to be remarkable for their diversity, frank satire, topical subject matter, and stylistic innovations. O'Malley reveals comparisons to and influences from European traditions, including Shakespeare and Molière, and sets Catherine in the larger field of Russian literature in the period, further illuminating her relationship to the aesthetic debates of the period. The study investigates how Catherine expressed her social ideas throughout her drama and exploited the stage's power to promote political ideals and ideology. O'Malley sets close textual analysis within an historical framework, analyzing the major plays according to content, style, themes, characters, and relation to Catherine's life and political aims.

One of the most colorful characters in modern history, Catherine II of Russia began her life as a minor German princess, until the childless Empress Elizabeth and Catherine's own scheming mother married her off to the Grand Duke Peter of Russia at age sixteen. By thirty-three, she had overthrown her husband in a bloodless coup and established herself as Empress of the multinational Russian Empire, the largest territorial political unit in modern history. Portrayed both as a political genius who restored to Russia the glory it had known in the days of Peter the Great and as a despotic foreign adventuress who usurped the Russian throne, murdered her rivals, and tyrannized her subjects, she was, by all accounts, an extraordinary woman. Catherine the Great, the first popular biography of the empress based on contemporary scholarship, provides a vivid portrait of Catherine as a mother, a lover, and, above all, an extremely savvy ruler. Concentrating on her long reign (1762-96), John Alexander examines all aspects of Catherine's life and career: the brilliant political strategies by which she won the acceptance of a nationalistic elite; her expansive foreign policy; the domestic reforms with which she revamped the Russian military, political structure, and economy; and, of course, her infamous love life. Beginning with an account of the dramatic palace revolt by which Catherine unseated her husband and a background chapter describing the circumstances of her early childhood and marriage, Alexander then proceeds chronologically through the thirty-four years of her reign. Presenting Catherine in more human terms than previous biographers have, Alexander includes numerous quotations from her reminiscences and notes. We learn, for instance, not only the names and number of her lovers, but her understanding of what many considered a shocking licentiousness. "The trouble is," she wrote, "that my heart would not willingly remain one hour without love." The result of twenty years' research by one of America's leading narrative historians of modern Russia, this truly impressive work offers a much-needed, balanced reappraisal of one of history's most scandal-ridden figures.

In this newly-translated excerpt from his five-volume "Course", Kliuchevsky (1841-1911) provides a colourful description of Russian court life in the 18th century, a dramatic narrative of the coup d'etat that brought Catherine II to power, a portrait of the empress herself, and an analysis of her foreign conquests and her major internal initiatives. While Kliuchevsky is critical of Catherine, he draws upon her memoirs and other writings and the accounts of her contemporaries to achieve a well-rounded and deeply human analysis of her character and personality. It is an extraordinary act of historical re-creation of the sort that brought Kliuchevsky such renown in his own time, and it remains so lifelike that it fairly leaps off the page. Kliuchevsky's examination of Western influence in Catherine's reign leads him to questions that were of urgent significance for Russia's development in his own day, and have remained so ever since: how to use Western ideas and practices to improve and enrich Russian life, without turning them into idle fashions or political bludgeons, and where to find the social leadership capable of performing such a delicate task.

Catherine the Great (1729-1796) wrote over two dozen plays and operettas, but not until this edition has a complete translation of any of them been available to an English- speaking readership. Oh, These Times (1772) is a satirical attack on many vices Catherine wished to root out from her society: religious hypocrisy, superstition and slander. The main character, Mrs. Pious, is a superficially religious old woman who resembles Moliere's Tartuffe. Catherine again sets her sights on superstition in The Siberian Shaman (1786), this time by satirizing shamanism as a deceitful profession which preys on the gullible. This play was part of a group of three plays usually known as Catherine's "anti-masonic" trilogy, written as a warning against the growing influence of the freemasons. In a comprehensive introduction, Lurana Donnels O'Malley relates the plays to Catherine's status and philosophy.

First comprehensive modern biography of Catherine the Great to explore her both as a woman and empress.

THE ANNE CATHERINE EMMERICH COLLECTION [10 BOOKS] CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING — 10 Books: 7 By the Author. 3 About the Author — Over 1.5 Million Words. Over 500 Active Linked Footnotes — Includes Linked Headings, Index and Table of Contents for 10 Books — Includes Life and Biography of Anne Catherine Emmerich — Includes 24 Original Religious Woodcut Figure Illustrations — Includes Illustrations by Gustave Dore Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich was a Roman Catholic Augustinian Canoness Regular of Windesheim, mystic, Marian visionary, ecstatic and stigmatist. Emmerich is notable for her visions on the life and passion of Jesus Christ, reputed to be revealed to her by the Blessed Virgin Mary under religious ecstasy. From 1819 until Emmerich’s death in 1824, Brentano filled many notebooks with accounts of her visions involving scenes from the New Testament and the life of the Virgin Mary. Emmerich was beatified on 3 October 2004, by Pope John Paul II. BOOKS BY AUTHOR The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations: Volume 1 The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations: Volume 2 The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations: Volume 3 The Life of Jesus Christ and Biblical Revelations: Volume 4 The Life of the Blessed Virgin Mary The Dolorous Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ The Nativity of Our Lord Jesus Christ BOOKS ABOUT AUTHOR The Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich: Volume 1 by Reverend Carl E. Schmoger The Life and Revelations of Anne Catherine Emmerich: Volume 2 by Reverend Carl E. Schmoger The Life of Anne Catharine Emmerich by Helen Ram ARTICLES Anne Catherine Emmerich - Encyclopedia Anne Catherine Emmerich - Biography PUBLISHER: CATHOLIC WAY PUBLISHING

To the extent that she is popularly known, Katherine Parr (1512–48) is the woman who survived King Henry VIII as his sixth and last wife. She merits far greater recognition, however, on several other fronts. Fluent in French, Italian, and Latin, Parr also began, out of necessity, to learn Spanish when she ascended to the throne in 1543. As Henry’s wife and queen of England, she was a noted patron of the arts and music and took a personal interest in the education of her stepchildren, Princesses Mary and Elizabeth and Prince Edward. Above all, Parr commands interest for her literary labors: she was the first woman to publish under her own name in English in England. For this new edition, Janel Mueller has assembled the four publications attributed to Parr—Psalms or Prayers, Prayers or Meditations, The Lamentation of a Sinner, and a compilation of prayers and Biblical excerpts written in her hand—as well as her extensive correspondence, which is collected here for the first time. Mueller brings to this volume a wealth of knowledge of sixteenth-century English culture. She marshals the impeccable skills of a textual scholar in rendering Parr’s sixteenth-century English for modern readers and provides useful background on the circumstances of and references in Parr’s letters and compositions. Given its scope and ambition, Katherine Parr: Complete Works and Correspondence will be an event for the English publishing world and will make an immediate contribution to the fields of sixteenth-century literature, reformation studies, women’s writing, and Tudor politics.