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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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ANNA TAMBOUR, ODDNESS

When Death Takes A Holiday, You're Coming Along (like it or not).What's it really like in Dog Heaven? Why do angels cheat at golf? If charity begins at home, where does it end? And what-and why-are barnacle geese? The unbelievable answers to these and other maddening enigmas lie within Death Goes To The Dogs, a collection so recklessly overstuffed with rabid imagination we refuse all liability in the event that it bursts in your hands.When Aurealis Award-wi...

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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 - ...

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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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...

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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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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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Rhys Hughes, MIKE DUBISCH, ODDNESS

Embark on a cerebral odyssey into the realms of the infinite with: ADVENTURES WITH IMMORTALITY - Short Tales of LongevityIn this thought-provoking collection, Rhys Hughes unveils eleven mesmerizing narratives that delve deep into the recesses of eternal life, unraveling the enigmatic threads of the immortal psyche.Every story is a riveting exploration, from the intricate dance of living countless lives to the elusive pursuit of nirvana's enlightenment and even the gravity-...

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CHAD STROUP, ODDNESS

Teeth Where They Shouldn't Be by Chad Stroup immerses readers in 15 strange and haunting stories set within the twisted landscape of post-apocalyptic suburbia and beyond.Instead of bringing destruction, the apocalypse has given rise to a society veiled in perversity, revealed through the exploration of eerie residential neighborhoods, a haunted beach, and unsettling new eating habits. Stroup's evocative prose takes readers on a visceral journey, confronting dark secrets, unraveling...

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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...

Concrete technology for a sustainable development in the 21st century focuses on the problems and challenges for the concrete industry today and in the future with particular emphasis on environmental consiousness. Primary topics include: the improvement of concretes service life to ease technical and economical problems and the waste of natural re

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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...