A study on the production, properties and uses, of PVC, Polyvinyl chloride which is the world's third-most widely produced synthetic plastic polymer by the Institute of Materials, London in 1996

This collection of essays examines religion in the American South across three centuries — from the beginning of the eighteenth century to the civil rights movement of the 1960s. The first collection published on the subject in fifteen years, Religion in the American South builds upon a new generation of scholarship to push scholarly conversation about the field to a new level of sophistication by complicating “southern religion” geographically, chronologically, and thematically a...

The story of a black day-laborer called Sam Hose killing his white employer in a workplace dispute ended in a lynching of enormous religious significance. For many deeply-religious communities in the Jim Crow South, killing those like Sam Hose restored balance to a moral cosmos upended by a heinous crime. A religious intensity in the mood and morality of segregation surpassed law, and in times of social crisis could justify illegal white violence - even to the extreme act of lynching. In A...

As civilization fractures under the weight of endless conflict, humanity constructs an intelligence designed not to rule, but to resolve. The machine—later called the God Engine—ends war, stabilizes society, and quiets the chaos of human behavior with frightening precision. But as peace spreads, something else begins to vanish dissent, uncertainty, and the need to question existence itself. Those who remain outside its influence watch as meaning erodes and freedom becomes ineffici...

In the scorched heart of the 1950s Nevada Test Range, beneath radioactive dust and government denials, lies a bunker built to withstand the end of the world. Inside its corroded walls, the last remnants of a military unit wait for orders that will never come, clinging to rationed hope as the world above turns to ash. But something ancient and watching stirs beneath the steel—a presence that never left.Captain Howard Claesson once believed in structure, command, and survival. Now, h...

Shadows of Sweetness by Mathew Alfes is a harrowing psychological thriller blending horror, conspiracy, and surrealism. Protagonist Lena Weiss, a queer journalist haunted by personal scars, infiltrates the abandoned Klinik Thalberg, uncovering its dark history as a Nazi research site turned post-war orphanage. What begins as an exposé spirals into a nightmarish descent involving Willy Wonka as a mythic monster, child experiments with psychotropic candies, and a temple of twisted theology w...

Venus was never meant to welcome life. But something waited. And it called us.In 1967, a Soviet mission makes the impossible descent into the hellish atmosphere of Venus. The world watches with awe and disbelief as contact is lost—forever. The official story ends there.But what wasn't told is that something survived.A decade later, whispers of a signal—unnatural, deliberate—emerge from the deep. A Soviet satellite crashes off the Pacific coast of th...

Beneath the frozen Canadian tundra, buried in black ice and Cold War secrets, lies Radar Station Theta-9—an abandoned military outpost officially erased from existence. But the dead don't care about official records. And the signal they send isn't static.Captain Mark Halvorsen has spent years buried in the snowbound silence of Theta-9, guarding a relic no one remembers. But when an impossible transmission breaks through dead frequencies—calling his name in a voice that shouldn't ex...

Somewhere beneath the ruins of a lost world, something remembers.Buried in a forgotten Cold War bunker, a dwindling military crew clings to routine in the silence that followed the end of the world. The mission was simple: secure and await further instructions. That was years ago.Now, their orders are dust. The radio crackles only with static. And the walls—they knock.Captain Howard Claesson patrols the dark steel corridors with a wooden dowel in ha...