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      • Crimson Dragon Publishing

        Crimson Dragon Publishing carries books that encourage readers of all ages by sparking the imagination. While we focus on the fantasy and science fiction genres, we also carry illustrated books for young readers that focus on social-emotional skills development and fictionalized non-fiction.

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      • Cosmos Culture, Ltd.

        Cosmos Culture Ltd., established in March 1998, is composed of intellectuals from different professions. The staff is devoted to cultural education and hopes to make a significant contribution to the inheritance and development of world culture by providing knowledge and high quality reference books to our readers. Contributing to the world’s culture is an endless road. Today’s world is a global village. Skill with two or more languages is crucial if an individual wants to play a role in the rapid growth of worldwide human communication and cultural exchanges.

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        Geography & the Environment
        June 2025

        Demystifying informal urban design and planning

        Insights from Asia

        by Mahyar Arefi

        Touting informal settlements or informality in general as illegal, crime-ridden, unsafe, filthy, chaotic, and formal developments as legal, orderly or safe, and so forth has not solved anything and informality as a way of life or an economic reality lingers and grows. Demystifying informal urban design and planning delves deeper into this conundrum and seeks to debunk some common misguided perceptions about it. Borrowing popular philosophical and political analogies from Isaiah Berlin and Gregory Treverton and others, it encourages urban designers and planners to become multitaskers like foxes rather than hedgehogs who can do one thing right. The book ends with some general takeaways on assuming more proactive roles in informal urban design issues and avoiding two potential pitfalls while interacting with them.

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        The Arts
        February 2025

        Tattoos in crime and detective narratives

        Marking and remarking

        by Kate Watson, Katharine Cox

        Tattoos in crime and detective narratives examines representations of the tattoo and tattooing in literature, television and film, from two periods of tattoo renaissance (1851-1914, and c1955 to present). It makes an original contribution to understandings of crime and detective genre and the ways in which tattoos act as a mimetic device that marks and remarks these narratives in complex ways. With a focus on tattooing as a bodily narrative, the book incorporates the critical perspectives of posthumanism, spatiality, postcolonialism, embodiment and gender studies. The grouped essays examine the first tattoo renaissance, the rebirth of the tattoo in contemporary culture through literature, children's literature, film and television. The collection has a broad appeal, and will be of interest to all literature and media scholars, but in particular those with an interest in crime and detective narratives and skin studies.

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        November 2025

        Cute & Cozy Coloring - Spooky

        Malbuch für Erwachsene, Teenager und Kinder - Mit 40 niedlichen Halloween-Motiven zur kreativen Beschäftigung - Zum Wohlfühlen und Entspannen

        by Becky Cas

        Zeit für eine gemütliche MalpauseSchnapp dir deine Stifte, eine Tasse Tee und mach’s dir gemütlich! Dieses Malbuch lädt zum Entspannen, Träumen und Kreativsein ein. Vergiss für einen Moment den Alltagsstress, während du die süßen Motive mit bunten Farben zum Leuchten bringst. 40 cozy Motive für stundenlangen Ausmalspaß Hilft dabei, sich zu entspannen und den Alltag hinter sich zu lassen Einseitig-bedrucktes und dickes Papier, um Durchdrücken zu verhindern Perfektes Geschenk für alle, die gerne malen – egal, welches Alter Praktisches, quadratisches Format

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        November 2025

        Cute & Cozy Coloring - Hygge Moments

        Malbuch für Erwachsene, Teenager und Kinder - Mit 40 niedlichen Motiven zur kreativen Beschäftigung - Zum Wohlfühlen und Entspannen

        by Becky Cas

        Zeit für eine gemütliche Malpause Schnapp dir deine Stifte, eine Tasse Tee und mach’s dir gemütlich! Dieses Malbuch lädt zum Entspannen, Träumen und Kreativsein ein. Vergiss für einen Moment den Alltagsstress, während du die süßen Motive mit bunten Farben zum Leuchten bringst. 40 cozy Motive für stundenlangen Ausmalspaß Hilft dabei, sich zu entspannen und den Alltag hinter sich zu lassen Einseitig-bedrucktes und dickes Papier , um Durchdrücken zu verhindern Perfektes Geschenk für alle, die gerne malen – egal, welches Alter Praktisches , quadratisches Format

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        November 2025

        Cute & Cozy Coloring - Merry Christmas

        Malbuch für Erwachsene, Teenager und Kinder - Mit 40 niedlichen Weihnachts-Motiven zur kreativen Beschäftigung - Zum Wohlfühlen und Entspannen

        by Becky Cas

        Zeit für eine gemütliche MalpauseSchnapp dir deine Stifte, eine Tasse Tee und mach’s dir gemütlich! Dieses Malbuch lädt zum Entspannen, Träumen und Kreativsein ein. Vergiss für einen Moment den Alltagsstress, während du die süßen Motive mit bunten Farben zum Leuchten bringst. 40 cozy Motive für stundenlangen Ausmalspaß Hilft dabei, sich zu entspannen und den Alltag hinter sich zu lassen Einseitig-bedrucktes und dickes Papier, um Durchdrücken zu verhindern Perfektes Geschenk für alle, die gerne malen – egal, welches Alter Praktisches, quadratisches Format

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        October 2025

        The Morrisey Mysteries 1. A Body in 3B

        by Eryn Scott, Moon Notes

        A House Full of Secrets – and Ghosts with big Personalities. When Meg Dawson returns to the charming and slightly bonkers Morrisey Building in Seattle after a failed career, all she wants is peace, normalcy―and maybe a chance with Laurie, her sweet next-door neighbour. Instead, she finds a dead body―and has to admit that her home holds more secrets than she ever imagined.Luckily, Meg has a special gift: she can talk to ghosts. Together with her best friend Ripley (who just so happens to be dead), she sets out to solve the mystery―and uncovers more than a few surprises about the eccentric residents of the Morrisey Building... The Morrisey Mysteries 1. Ein Mord in 3B: Cozy Crime and ghosts in the neighbourhood. Cozy suspense: Amateur detective Laurie gets unexpectedly wrapped up in a murder case in her apartment building. She Falls First: In between investigations awaits a sweet romance with lovable characters. Paranormal Mysteries: Perfect for fans of ghost stories and cozy crime novels. Popular on BookTok: With the well-known tropes Friends to Lovers and Found Family.

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        July 2025

        Intimate afterlives of empire

        Memory and decolonisation in autobiography

        by Astrid Rasch

        Through close readings of almost twenty autobiographies written after the break-up of the British Empire, the book examines how individuals engage with the changing narrative landscape brought about by decolonisation. It considers the autobiographies less for what they may teach us about the moment remembered and more as windows on the act of remembering. This adds a crucial dimension to our understanding of the legacies of colonialism and how the ongoing process of decolonisation is reflected on the level of the individual. It argues that autobiographers are at once influenced by and seek to influence the cultural memory of empire and its legacies, and the authors' own position in both. Situated at the intersection of imperial/decolonisation history, memory studies, and life writing studies, the book uncovers this intimate afterlife of empire.

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        Teaching, Language & Reference
        October 2023

        Crafting crime fiction

        by Henry Sutton

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2026

        Migration and social policy in a changing world

        Histories, challenges and dilemmas

        by Bryan Fanning

        Migration and social policy in a changing world bridges the generally separate fields of social policy and migration studies. This book traces social policy responses to migration from the Industrial Revolution to today's era of globalisation and large-scale migration. Through case studies from across the globe, the book explores key themes including rural-urban migration, social citizenship, welfare internationalism and diasporic care systems. It examines how migrants are included in or excluded from social citizenship in host societies, and how they become providers of welfare services such as health and social care. Moving beyond a methodological nationalist focus, the book investigates migrant incorporation into welfare states through family networks, faith communities, and other informal welfare structures. It combines migrants' experiences with host societies' immigration politics, institutional perspectives and policies to present a comprehensive analysis of the migration-welfare relationship. This volume fills a gap in academic literature and offers policymakers, practitioners and scholars a framework for understanding the interplay between migration and social policy in our changing world.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        November 2012

        Gender, crime and empire

        convicts, settlers and the state in early colonial Australia

        by Kirsty Reid, Andrew Thompson, John Mackenzie, Martin Hargreaves

        Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which tend to depict convict women as a peculiarly oppressed group, Gender, crime and empire argues that convict men and women in fact shared much in common. Placing men and women, ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality and the body, in comparative perspective, this book argues that historians must take fuller account of class to understand the relationships between gender and power. The book explores the ways in which ideas about fatherhood and household order initially informed the state's model of order, and the reasons why this foundered. It considers the shifting nature of state policies towards courtship, relationships and attempts at family formation which subsequently became matters of class conflict. It goes on to explore the ways in which ideas about gender and family informed liberal and humanitarian critiques of the colonies from the 1830s and 1840s and colonial demands for abolition and self-government. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Gender, crime and empire

        Convicts, settlers and the state in early colonial Australia

        by Kirsty Reid, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie, Martin Hargreaves

        Between 1803 and 1853, some 80,000 convicts were transported to Van Diemen's Land. Revising established models of the colonies, which tend to depict convict women as a peculiarly oppressed group, Gender, crime and empire argues that convict men and women in fact shared much in common. Placing men and women, ideas about masculinity, femininity, sexuality and the body, in comparative perspective, this book argues that historians must take fuller account of class to understand the relationships between gender and power. The book explores the ways in which ideas about fatherhood and household order initially informed the state's model of order, and the reasons why this foundered. It considers the shifting nature of state policies towards courtship, relationships and attempts at family formation which subsequently became matters of class conflict. It goes on to explore the ways in which ideas about gender and family informed liberal and humanitarian critiques of the colonies from the 1830s and 1840s and colonial demands for abolition and self-government.

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        Lifestyle, Sport & Leisure
        June 2024

        Round our way

        Sam Hanna's visual legacy

        by Heather Nicholson

        Sam Hanna (1903-96), a pioneering filmmaker from Burnley, Lancashire, was dubbed the 'Lowry of filmmaking' by BBC broadcaster Brian Redhead in the 1980s. The well-meant label stuck, even though it misses the variety of Hanna's remarkable output. Hanna's intimate glimpses into the lives of strangers enable us to imagine the possible stories that lie behind the images. Away from mid-century exponents of documentary filmmaking and photography, Hanna shows us humanity and a microcosm of a world in change, where his subjects are caught up in issues far beyond their grasp that we, as onlookers years later, encounter and see afresh. Written and curated by historian Heather Norris Nicholson, Round our way combines stills, essays and archive photography to document Hanna's unique visual record on film, particularly in northern England, but also further afield, during decades of profound change.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2025

        Criminality, political power and conflict

        Critical perspectives

        by José Antonio Gutiérrez Danton, Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín

        In the aftermath of the greed vs. grievance debate and the new wars paradigm, the focus of conflict studies shifted decisively to understanding "predatory" behaviours as the raison d'etre of contemporary conflict. Conflict was viewed as a continuum in which the more you engage in criminal behaviour, the less political you are.This approach has been robustly criticised over the past 15 years; however, in the process, we have been left with unsuitable concepts to handle the complex interactions between civil war, political power and criminality. The departure point here is the understanding of politics and criminality as two historically differentiated domains of human activity. Different, but interrelated, often co-constitutive and overlapping. Here, we empirically and theoretically explore their interactions, connections, and convergences, not focusing solely on irregular actors, thus bringing back the State and elites into this debate.

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        October 2022

        From Dream to Trauma: Mental abuse in partnerships

        by Caroline Wenzel

        The level of domestic abuse has been increasing for years, but often only cases of physical abuse hit the headlines. Hardly anyone talks about the mental, or psychological, abuse that usually precedes a physical or sexual assault. Those affected do not usually recognise the destructive dynamic in their relationship until far too late. In this book, three case histories illustrate the typical forms of mental abuse in relationships. In addition, experts explain the topic from psychological, therapeutic, political and legal perspectives, and the head of a counselling centre for male victims of mental abuse also has his say. An important and startling book.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        July 2021

        The bonds of family

        Slavery, commerce and culture in the British Atlantic world

        by Katie Donington

        Moving between Britain and Jamaica The bonds of family reconstructs the world of commerce, consumption and cultivation sustained through an extended engagement with the business of slavery. Transatlantic slavery was both shaping of and shaped by the dynamic networks of family that established Britain's Caribbean empire. Tracing the activities of a single extended family - the Hibberts - this book explores how slavery impacted on the social, cultural, economic and political landscape of Britain. It is a history of trade, colonisation, enrichment and the tangled web of relations that gave meaning to the transatlantic world. The Hibberts's trans-generational story imbricates the personal and the political, the private and the public, the local and the global. It is both the intimate narrative of a family and an analytical frame through which to explore Britain's history and legacies of slavery.

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