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10,000 Year Explosion: How Civilization Accelerated Human Evolution

Gregory Cochran, Henry Harpending

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Resistance to malaria. Blue eyes. Lactose tolerance. What do all of these traits have in common? Every one of them has emerged in the last 10,000 years.Scientists have lon...

The Appointment

Katharina Volckmer

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In a well-appointed examination in London, a young woman unburdens herself to a certain Dr. Seligman. Though she can barely see above his head, she holds forth about her l...

Cold Hand in Mine

Robert Aickman

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Cold Hand in Mine was first published in the UK in 1975 and in the US in 1977. The story Pages from a Young Girl's Journal won Aickman the World Fantasy Award in 1975. It ...

I Still Dream

Джеймс Смайт

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‘The best fictional treatment of the possibilities and horrors of artificial intelligence that I’ve read’ GuardianIn 1997 Laura Bow invented Organon, a rudimentary artific...

Нелюдим

Джефф Стрэнд

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С самого детства Тоби Флорен хранит в шкафу немало скелетов. Таинственные исчезновения, жестокие убийства и призраки прошлого неотступно преследуют незадачливого художника...

Donkey-loving schoolgirl

Frank Brown

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Denise Chapman found a seat at the rear of the bus, in the very back row. She was thankful that the bus wouldn't be crowded. Only about thirty kids would be making the tri...

The Track of the Cat

Walter Van Tilburg Clark

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Walter Van Tilburg Clark's classic novel -- a tale of four men who fear a marauding mountain lion but swear to conquer it -- is a gripping exploration of the conflict betw...

Hell Hound

Ken Greenhall

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‘What are the possibilities of my strength? That is a thought I have never had before. What if some morning as the old woman stood at the head of the staircase she were su...

Webcam

Jack Kilborn

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Someone is stalking webcam models. He lurks in the untouchable recesses of the black web. He's watching you. Right now. When watching is no longer enough, he come...

The Killer and the Slain: A Strange Story

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Tenebrae

Ernest George Henham

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The narrator of Tenebrae inhabits a decaying, desolate mansion in the remote and wild countryside with his younger brother and their mad old uncle, driven insane by abuse ...

Elizabeth

Ken Greenhall

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“If you were to go into your bedroom tonight – perhaps by candlelight – and sit quietly before the large mirror, you might see what I have seen. Sit patiently, looking nei...

The Leap

Bill Hopkins

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Hopkins's one published novel is a philosophical thriller, The Divine and the Decay (London, MacGibbon and Kee, 1957), also published as The Leap! In this story, the fate ...

Scar: A Deep Sea Thriller

Майкл Р. Коул

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Scar is a killing machine. Born from DNA spliced between the extinct Megalodon and modern day Great White, he has a viciousness that transcends time. His evil is reflected...

Birth

Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin

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Birth, an introduction By Anne BourrelBirth is a collection of texts that Abdelaziz Baraka Sakin and I selected among his short stories, micro-fictions and plays.The texts...

Tom White; The Life Of A Lawman

Verdon R Adams

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THOMAS BRUCE WHITE was his full name, but everyone call him "Tom." He was born in a log house in Texas in 1881 and he died in El Paso in 1971. During his ninety years, he ...

Die Hungrigen und die Satten

Timur Vermes

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Deutschland hat eine Obergrenze für Asylsuchende eingeführt, ganz Europa ist bis weit nach Nordafrika hinein abgeriegelt. Jenseits der Sahara entstehen riesige Lager, in d...

Japanese Ero Gro Pinku Eiga 19561979 (Bizarre Sinema)

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Hitler and the Habsburgs: The Führer's Vendetta Against the Austrian Royals

James Longo

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Five youthful years in Vienna. It was then and there that Adolf Hitler's obsession with the Habsburg Imperial family became the catalyst for his vendetta against a vanishe...

The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History

Филип Боббитт

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For five centuries, the State has evolved according to epoch-making cycles of war and peace. But now our world has changed irrevocably. What faces us in this era of fear a...