Red Odyssey is a travel book written by Marat Akchurin for those who have a passion for reading good adventure and historical fiction. Through a kaleidoscope of individual perspectives, the author explores and describes the collective historical experience of a multi-ethnic and multi-confessional nation living in a crumbling totalitarian state. Red Odyssey is not a political treatise, sociological analysis, or history book about Central Asia during the former Soviet Union. It is rather a tale of adventures of a time traveler trying to survive in a surrealistic society permeated with hypocrisy. The ruling regime is captive to its own lies. So it falsifies the past, it falsifies the present, and it falsifies the future. Imperial propaganda transforms reality into fiction. The goal of Red Odyssey is to reverse the fabricated verisimilitude of their false utopia into the harsh truth of reality. Akchurin's keen, perceptive eye, his taste for adventure, and his intimate knowledge of this fractured superpower—its history, cultures, legends, folklores, politics, and ethnicities—leave no stone unturned in his relentless exploration of places long ignored and misunderstood by the West.

Odyssey Works infiltrates the life of one person at a time to create a customtailored, life-altering performance. It may last for one day or a few months and consists of experiences that blur the boundaries of life and art—is that subway mariachi band, used book of poetry, or meal with a new friend real or a part of the performance? Central to this book is their 2013 performance for Rick Moody, author of The Ice Storm. His Odyssey lasted four months and included a fake children's book, introducing the themes of his performance, and a cello concert in a Saskatchewan prairie (which Moody almost missed after being stopped at customs with, suspiciously, no idea why he was traveling to Canada). The book includes Moody's interviews with Odyssey Works, an original short story by Amy Hempel, and six proposals for a new theory of making art.

Theres a fine line between good and evil . . . and on that line is where mercenaries reside. Red Trebbon, a gunslinging nutcase, and Shadow, a young ninja with extraordinary abilities, are two individuals who sell their skills to the highest bidders in a world of heroes and villains. Friends from an early age, they are reunited when a mob boss enlists their help in rescuing his daughter from a rival crime lord. The two will have their work cut out for them. Not only will they have to go up against a maniac, his organization, and the vast amount of resources he possesses, but Shadow and Red must also survive each other. Their different views and ways of handling situations will put them at odds, but both must learn to overcome their differences if they are to survive and complete their mission.

The charming and joyful follow-up book from ‘the nation’s taster in chief,’ Felicity Cloake.

Over 1 million sold in series! In this Imagination Station adventure, Patrick and Beth find themselves as guests in a beautiful castle in 15th-century England. Through a series of events, the steward of Lord Darkthorn’s castle finds the cousins with three artifacts collected in their previous adventures: the stone, the cup, and the golden tablet. They are accused of being thieves and locked in jail. Beth escapes and discovers the identity of the real thief, leading to a jousting contest with a surprising outcome. Set during the War of the Roses in England, Revenge of the Red Knight will teach readers about the Crusades, the integrity of knights and the vows they took, and why men would choose to risk their lives to fight for Christianity.

Having started out as a potential magazine/blog article, Red Odyssey is a thirty-six year project in the making, charting the author's relationship with Germany's biggest and most well-known football team, FC Bayern M�nchen. Having fallen in love with FC Bayern in 1981 as a nine year old, the author charts the events season by season. During the 1980s, FC Bayern were flying high in Germany but victim of painful European Cup final defeats in 1982 and 1987. Meanwhile the author, one of the few supporters of the Bavarian club in the United Kingdom, was performing late-night television-watching escapades at boarding school in order to catch five minutes of potted highlights. Being an FC Bayern fan in the late 1980s and early 1990s was far from a glory hunt, and all of the pain as well as the glory is covered in equal depth with no emotions spared. The solid 1980s were followed by the painful nadir of the early 1990s, with names like Norwich City, BK 1903 Copenhagen and SpVgg Vestenbergsgreuth appearing like ghosts from a dark and horrible past. Then would come the agonising Champions League defeat against Manchester United in 1999. As fans of the club will already know and readers less familiar with the subject will discover, FC Bayern have almost made a habit of fighting back to overcome the pain. Two years after that last-gasp defeat in Barcelona, they would exact the perfect revenge on both United and their other old rivals Real Madrid before claiming that title in a dramatic penalty shootout against Valencia in Milan's San Siro. It was the final chapter in a dramatic season that had also seen them clinch the Bundesliga title in dramatic circumstances, leaving fans of rivals Schalke 04 shedding blue and bitter tears. As FC Bayern developed as a growing international brand and the German game became more popular outside its homeland following the massive development of satellite television, it became a lot easier to watch FC Bayern play. The dark days of scratching for brief highlights were all but forgotten, with almost every match available live. The Champions League triumph in 2001 was not to be the beginning of a new era of continental dominance for FC Bayern, and the club and its supporters would have to wait over a decade for its next victory in Europe's premier club competition - but when it came, it was a moment of history as the club claimed their first-ever treble. By now FC Bayern were being lauded as the best football team in the world, a team up there with the likes of Real Madrid and Barcelona in the battle for continental dominance. Red Odyssey has been written by an FC Bayern fan for FC Bayern fans, but there is plenty for everybody else who has a love for German football.

"Rhymes Of A Red Cross Man" is an incredible collection of poems based on the experiences of Robert W. Service as he drove a Red Cross ambulance during World War I in France. The writer wonderfully put forward his thoughts in verses and explained the hardships of that tumultuous period.

This 2002 study examines the process of the disintegration of the Soviet state.