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-...

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...

Recounts the extaordinary adventures of Odd Bjerke as he fled Nazi-occupied Norway.When the Germans invaded Norway in 1940, teenager Odd Bjerke bid his family farewell and confidently made his way to Sweden alone, on skis, with the intention of traveling to Britain to fight for his country. His wartime odyssey began when he joined the Norwegian Free Army in Scotland in 1940. He trained troops in skiing and winter warfare in Iceland; then was selected to go to the r...

A “big, serious, and thoroughly intelligent” (New York Review of Books) history of the Cold WarWe 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 global confrontation, with roots in the Industrial Revolution and ongoing repercussions around the world. The Cold War may have begun on the perimeters of ...

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...

With a crinkle cover you'll want to touch and explore again and again! From Eric Carle's Brown Bear and Friends comes an exciting new novelty crinkle board book exploring the perennial favorite—the alphabet!In the forest, looking for a treat! What will Brown Bear find to eat? Apple, Berries, Cherries, Deee-licious!Exploring everything there is to see, taste, and discover in the forest, Brown Bear delights in each letter from A to Z in this charming...

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...

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 - ...

"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...

From Eric Carle's Brown Bear and Friends comes an exciting new novelty crinkle board book original exploring the perennial favorite: colors!In Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?, the original Brown Bear explored colors, encountering a green frog, a blue horse, and other iconic representations of color. In this new board book original, Brown Bear delights in colors with a fresh take!Warm reds and oranges and yellows, cool blues and greens and purples—a...

What happens when an American, with deep ties to England’s proud cricketing heritage, becomes captivated by the complexities of a game most in his homeland dismiss as arcane? In The American Guide to the Laws of Cricket, the great-grandson of Montagu Odd—a renowned cricket bat manufacturer—explores the history, traditions, and evolution of cricket from an outsider’s perspective. Part memoir, part cultural study, this book unravels cricket’s deep roots in British history and the Empire’s ex...

This multi-disciplinary book conceptualizes, maps, and analyses ongoing standardization processes of risk issues across various sectors, processes, and practices.Standards are not only technical specifications and guidelines to support efficient risk governance, but also contain social, political, economic, and organizational aspects. This book presents a variety of standardization processes and applications of standards that may influence our judgements of risk, the organizing of ...