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ODDNESS

Embark on an interstellar odyssey with Black Hole Echoes: Cosmic Tales of the Unknown, a thrilling anthology penned by Oddness and vividly illustrated by the talented Mike Dubisch. This collection of short stories invites you to journey alongside a universe-hopping entity through the awe-inspiring realms of space and time.Prepare for a heart-racing experience in Battle to the Death, where the age-...

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John Wayne Comunale, ODDNESS

Dive into the abyss of imagination with The Curses Collection, a spine-tingling compendium of 13 twisted tales plucked from the demented psyche of author John Wayne Comunale. In this macabre anthology, he beckons readers to traverse the shadowy realms where cursed objects, sentient cities, and bizarre folklore redefine horror in unprecedented ways.With eerie and evocative illustrations by master artist Mike Dubisch,

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Odd Arne Westad, Chen Jian

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Feodor Chin

THE FIRST THOROUGH ACCOUNT OF A FORMATIVE AND LITTLE UNDERSTOOD CHAPTER IN CHINESE HISTORYOdd Arne Westad and Chen Jian chronicle how an impoverished and terrorized China experienced radical political changes in the long 1970s and how ordinary people broke free from the beliefs that had shaped their lives during Mao’s Cultural Revolution. These changes, and the unprecedented and sustained economic growth that followed, transformed China and the world.In this rigorous accoun...

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Yvie Oddly, Michael Bach

The world’s oddest drag artistThis book is an intimate and in-depth look into the life of Yvie Oddly, winner of season eleven of RuPaul's Drag Race. It begins with their childhood and then tells of their coming out and coming to terms with their sexuality, gender and how those things impact their journey as an artist. It then follows them through their experience on Drag Race (season 11 and All Stars, All Winners), and their rise to super...

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Odd Arne Westad

An essential history of the Cold War, from the author of The Penguin History of the World**.****"[A] big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent stud[y] of the cold war." -**New York Review of BooksWe think of the Cold War as a clash of two superpowers, the United States and the Soviet Union. But in The Cold War, award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad argues that the war must be understood as a glob...

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Odd Arne Westad

An Economist best book of the yearA Foreign Affairs best book of the yearA Foreign Policy most anticipated book of the yearFrom a renowned Yale historian comes a chilling look at the looming threat of the next Great Power war and the urgent interventions necessary to avoid it in the twenty-first century.The vast majority of people al...

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. Democracy is often described in two opposite ways, as either wonderfully resilient or dangerously fragile. Both characterizations can be correct, depending on the context. When Democracy Breaks aims to deepen our understanding of what sep...

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The Cambridge History of the Cold War

This volume examines the origins and early years of the Cold War. In the first comprehensive reexamination of the period, a team of leading scholars shows how the conflict evolved from the geopolitical, ideological, economic and sociopolitical environments of the two world wars and interwar period, and discusses how markets, ideas and cultural interactions affected political discourse, diplomacy and strategy after World War II. The chapters focus not only on the United States and the Sovie...

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The Cambridge History of the Cold War

Volume III of The Cambridge History of the Cold War examines the evolution of the conflict from the Helsinki Conference of 1975 until the Soviet collapse in 1991. A team of leading scholars analyzes the economic, social, cultural, religious, technological and geopolitical factors that ended the Cold War and discusses the personalities and policies of key leaders such as Brezhnev, Reagan, Gorbachev, Thatcher, Kohl and Deng Xiaoping. The authors show how events throughout the world shaped th...

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Spencer Oddly

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The Whorrors

"Breath. Unclench. There's nothing wrong with getting off to unsophisticated things."This is a fantasy of appetite, where carnal desires are a currency and whorish horrors hunt in the night.The interconnected lives of monsters of many species-human, demon, vampire, and all otherwise unsightly to their societies-in the sex work industry from another dimension beyond common decency.Midnight Whorrors is an erotic urban fantasy set in Canada about monster sex workers. D...

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J M Roberts, Odd Arne Westad

This is a completely new and updated edition of J. M. Roberts and Odd Arne Westad's widely acclaimed, landmark bestseller The Penguin History of the World.For generations of readers The Penguin History of the World has been one of the great cultural experiences - the entire story of human endeavour laid out in all its grandeur and folly, drama and pain in a single authoritative book. Now, for the first time, it has been completely overhauled for its 6th edition - ...

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Odd Arne Westad

As the twenty-first century dawns, China stands at a crossroads. The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the world's second biggest economy, China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations. But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world, the contradictions of its development risks pushing it back into an era of insularity and instability -- a regression that...