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A collection of vampire tales from some of horrors best.

The Wireless World sets out a new research agenda for the history of international broadcasting, and for radio history more generally. It examines global and transnational histories of long-distance wireless broadcasting, combining perspectives from international history, media and cultural history, the history of technology, and sound studies. Bringing together their knowledge of a wide range of different countries, languages, and archives, the coauthors show how broadcasters and states deployed international broadcasting as a tool of international communication and persuasion.

An eminent British writer returns to the resort hotel in the Japanese mountains where he once spent a beautiful, snowed-in winter. It was there he fell in love and wrote his best-selling novel, The Waterwheel, accusing America of being in denial about the horrific aftermath of the Tokyo firebombings and the nuclear destruction at Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

H Is for Hell is the eighth book in an epic series of 26 horror anthologies. In this book, you will find a collection of 13 horrific tales from some of the most talented independent horror writers on the scene today. Each tale brings to life a different vision of Hell, each unlike anything you have heard before. H Is for Hell will take you to the depths of the Underworld, and you may not return unscathed.

The problem with Alex Nicholas is he won't stay dead. Death Never Sleeps is a unique crime thriller featuring artificial intelligence; a story of two very different brothers, Michael Nicholas, a corporate CEO, and Alex Nicholas, a major NYC illegal gambling figure. When Alex is murdered, the deeper mystery unfolds as Michael struggles to close down his brother's business, instead becoming enmeshed in it. As he becomes the target of his brother's killers, he discovers that Alex left a duplicate of himself on a hidden laptop computer.

Marcus Slater decides to forgo the cold, wet, wintry weather of England to join a walking party in the sunny climes of Morocco. There, against a backdrop of the curious, ancient towns of southern Morocco he meets the enigmatic Sylvia and finds himself embroiled in a game he cannot possibly afford to lose.

Grab your partner and join the spirits on the dance floor. Scare Street’s latest collection of supernatural horror is a grand ball of fear and nightmares. This sinister collection is bursting with 14 tales of terror - more than enough to keep you dancing with demons all night long.

Scare Street is proud to present 14 diabolical new tales in this bone-chilling collection. Each ghastly short story unleashes a new nightmare, ripped from the depths of your psyche. It’s almost as if this book has a mind of its own; a monstrous, disturbed mind, a mind full of dark dreams, and twisted nightmares.

A commercial airliner departing Moscow is missing over France. Two days later, with world tensions at an all-time high, that same plane is headed for the White House. Soon after, following a mysterious breach of the launch codes, US nuclear missiles aimed at Russia are poised for attack. A reciprocal attack is readied by Russia's president, Vladimir Putin. The world is on the edge of a nuclear apocalypse.

It’s two years since crime boss Alex Nicholas was murdered, and his brother Michael is still on the trail of the killers. From the streets of New York to the sidewalks of Paris and ultimately the sanctity of The Vatican, Michael’s search uncovers more than he expected. Memories and secrets from World War II which were meant to be hidden from the world resurface as Michael, Sindy Steele, and Alex discover that what was stolen cannot be kept from the world any longer.

The Practical Stoic is a podcast by Australian poet, musician, philosopher and founder Simon J. E. Drew. Originally started in 2017, The Practical Stoic Podcast became widely known as a valuable resource for those who were interested in finding practical, down-to-earth wisdom and easily-appliable explanations of the writings of ancient Stoics like Seneca the Younger, Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus. In 2021, Simon changed the podcast name to "The Walled Garden" in order to make way for the founding of The Walled Garden Philosophical Society - a global community of philosophers and students ...

A fascinating, comprehensive, accessible account of conodont fossils—one of paleontology's greatest mysteries. Simon J. Knell takes the listener on a journey through 150 years of scientific thinking, imagining, and arguing. Slowly the animal begins to reveal traces of itself: its lifestyle, its remarkable evolution, its witnessing of great catastrophes, its movements over the surface of the planet, and finally its anatomy. Today the conodont animal remains perhaps the most disputed creature in the zoological world.

Hawk and Fisher, famous for their years of keeping the peace in Haven, are really quite happy being legends. They gave up the hero business when they decided they’d grown too old for it. Now they run the Hero Academy, training young hopefuls to be heroes. Legends never die, but it seems they cannot retire, either. Hawk and Fisher’s adult children, Jack and Gillian, have been kidnapped. They were taken by the Demon Prince, an old enemy from the Forest Kingdom who challenges the couple to one final battle for their lives.

Gefürchteter Krieger und erbittertster Feind Roms: Die Lebensgeschichte des britannischen Königssohns Caratacus. Als im Jahr 43 römische Schiffe in Britannien anlanden, rechnen die Befehlshaber mit einem raschen Sieg: Das Imperium wird sich die Insel einverleiben wie viele andere Territorien zuvor. Doch trotz ihrer Disziplin und der überlegenen Waffentechnik gelingt es den Legionen nicht, die über die Insel verstreut lebenden Clans im Handstreich zu unterwerfen. Stattdessen formiert sich heftiger Widerstand gegen die Invasoren.

In this volume our classic authors conjure up all sorts of damnations and destructions in literary assaults testing our will to survive and our ingenuity to overcome situations where the outlook is bleak at best and the total extinction of us at worse.

It’s been almost a year since crime boss Alex Nicholas was killed on his home turf in Queens, and his straight-arrow brother Michael inherited the elder Nicholas’ loan sharking and betting business. Unfortunately for Michael, he also inherited Alex’s enemies—and there seem to be a lot of them. As Michael learns to navigate a world he once shunned and feared, he’s both helped and hindered by his friends, his wife Samantha, his bodyguard Sindy Steele, who’s every bit as lethal as she is stunning, and his brother Alex, who may not be as dead as everyone thinks.…

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Vous ne vous êtes jamais demandé d’où venons-nous ? Où allons-nous ? Les démons créateurs sont à l’origine de tout, et Keira, notre héroïne devra faire face à une menace sans précédents dans toute l’histoire de l’humanité.  Y parviendra-t-elle ? Le monde peut-il être sauvé ?Une œuvre de Simon Nicaud.Merci à Max J.R. Berry pour le montage et la réalisation.Merci à Clément Préault pour le mixage son et l’assemblage des bruitages. Merci à Marion Boulay pour la composition musicale complète de l’oeuvre. Merci à Erwan Alissant pour les illustrations ...

Any business that allows their customers credit terms will invariably run into late or non-payments. This affects cash flow and business viability. However, as the authors show, customers that are solvent will pay some suppliers every month, even if they don't pay everyone. So how do you ensure you are "first in line" to get paid?

Enjoy this collection of stories about children exploring the world around them. The collection begins with "Nature's Treasures", a poem featuring a young girl who learns about the wonders of the natural world. After this poem, enjoy eight short stories of children looking closer at nature: "Hidden Wonders", "The Building Season", "Weeds and Worms and Things that Squirm"," "A Pond for Maddie", "Flowers that Fly", "The Wasp's Picnic", "Firefly Tag", and "While Alena Was Sleeping".