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Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and
humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting
the will of the mighty. Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall
skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could
contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an
entire world. Carissa loves her elevator. Up and Down she goes,
content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits
out, as long as it means she doesn't have to speak to another
living person. But when a mysterious shapeshifter from an ambiguous
world lands on top of her elevator, intent on stopping a plot to
annihilate hundreds of floors, Carissa finds herself stepping out
of her comfort zone. She is forced to flee into the Wild Massive
network of theme parks in the Building, where technology, sorcery,
and elaborate media tie-ins combine to form impossible ride
experiences, where every guest is a VIP, the roller coasters are
frequently safe, and if you don't have a valid day pass, the
automated defense lasers will escort you from being alive. Wild
Massive: The #1 destination for interdimensional war. Rate us on
VacationAdvisor(TM)! "This is a stand-alone novel with material
enough for six...By the halfway point, it had blown my mind
twice... an audacious, genre-bending whirlwind." --The New York
Times on Battle of the Linguist Mages Also Available by Scotto
Moore: Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You Battle of the Linguist
Mages
Isobel is the Queen of the medieval rave-themed VR game Sparkle
Dungeon. Her prowess in the game makes her an ideal candidate to
learn the secrets of "power morphemes" - unnaturally dense units of
meaning that warp perception when skilfully pronounced. But
Isobel's reputation makes her the target of a strange resistance
movement led by spellcasting anarchists, who may be the only thing
stopping the cabal from toppling California over the edge of a
terrible transformation, with forty million lives at stake. Time is
short for Isobel to level up and choose a side - because the cabal
has attracted much bigger and weirder enemies than the anarchist
resistance, emerging from dark and vicious dimensions of reality
and heading straight for planet Earth!
Scotto Moore's Wild Massive is a glorious web of lies, secrets, and
humor in a breakneck, nitrous-boosted saga of the small rejecting
the will of the mighty. Welcome to the Building, an infinitely tall
skyscraper in the center of the multiverse, where any floor could
contain a sprawling desert oasis, a cyanide rain forest, or an
entire world. Carissa loves her elevator. Up and Down she goes,
content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits
out, as long as it means she doesn't have to speak to another
living person. But when a mysterious shapeshifter from an ambiguous
world lands on top of her elevator, intent on stopping a plot to
annihilate hundreds of floors, Carissa finds herself stepping out
of her comfort zone. She is forced to flee into the Wild Massive
network of theme parks in the Building, where technology, sorcery,
and elaborate media tie-ins combine to form impossible ride
experiences, where every guest is a VIP, the roller coasters are
frequently safe, and if you don't have a valid day pass, the
automated defense lasers will escort you from being alive. Wild
Massive: The #1 destination for interdimensional war. Rate us on
VacationAdvisor(TM)! "This is a stand-alone novel with material
enough for six...By the halfway point, it had blown my mind
twice... an audacious, genre-bending whirlwind." --The New York
Times on Battle of the Linguist Mages Also Available by Scotto
Moore: Your Favorite Band Cannot Save You Battle of the Linguist
Mages
Teaching the Empire explores how Habsburg Austria utilized
education to cultivate the patriotism of its people. Public schools
have been a tool for patriotic development in Europe and the United
States since their creation in the nineteenth century. On a basic
level, this civic education taught children about their state while
also articulating the common myths, heroes, and ideas that could
bind society together. For the most part historians have focused on
the development of civic education in nation-states like Germany,
France, and the United Kingdom. There has been an assumption that
the multinational Habsburg Monarchy did not, or could not, use
their public schools for this purpose. Teaching the Empire proves
this was not the case. Through a robust examination of the civic
education curriculum used in the schools of Habsburg from
1867-1914, Moore demonstrates that Austrian authorities attempted
to forge a layered identity rooted in loyalties to an individual's
home province, national group, and the empire itself. Far from
seeing nationalism as a zero-sum game, where increased nationalism
decreased loyalty to the state, officials felt that patriotism
could only be strong if regional and national identities were
equally strong. The hope was that this layered identity would
create a shared sense of belonging among populations that may not
share the same cultural or linguistic background. Austrian civic
education was part of every aspect of school life-from classroom
lessons to school events. This research revises long-standing
historical notions regarding civic education within Habsburg and
exposes the complexity of Austrian identity and civil society,
deservedly integrating the Habsburg Monarchy into the broader
discussion of the role of education in modern society.
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