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      • Magink Publishing House

        Founded in 2019, Magink Publishing House has gathered an international team of authors and illustrators around their name and with a set of 12 titles in English, most if which are translated to German already and with a total of 20-25 by the end of 2020 we look back to a good start and are looking for agencies on FBM20 to increase our reach. All of our titles tackle the challenges children see themselves confronted with in our day and age. The issues addressed reach from self reliance, creative training, digitalisation are depicted with incandescently playful pictures, a bulk of detail hinting at the structures of the adult world and a philosophical component for yound and old to ponder on together. Et voilá! The magic ink offers a delightful and educative read across our cultural and political borders.

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      • Magic Author

        We are a one-stop platform to read, write, self-publish and sell ebooks in any of the Indian languages. Our mission is to empower the author's community with the digital tools and techniques, and we take care of the online presence of professionals in the publishing landscape, be they authors, publishers, editors, designers, publicists, etc.

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        The Arts
        September 2020

        Science in performance

        Theatre and the politics of engagement

        by Simon Parry

        This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book is about science in theatre and performance. It explores how theatre and performance engage with emerging scientific themes from artificial intelligence to genetics and climate change. The book covers a wide range of performance forms from Broadway musicals to educational theatre, from Somali drama to grime videos. It features work by pioneering companies including Gob Squad, Headlong Theatre and Theatre of Debate as well as offering fresh analysis of global blockbusters such as Wicked and Urinetown. The book offers detailed description and analysis of theatre and performance practices as well as broader commentary on the politics of theatre as public engagement with science. Science in performance is essential reading for researchers, students and practitioners working between science and the arts within fields such as theatre and performance studies, science communication, interdisciplinary arts and health humanities.

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        November 2015

        Great Wisdom

        Zedong Mao at the Crisis Hour of Nation

        by Jianjun YE

        This series of books divided into 4 volumes.In chronological order,this series record Mao’s life in 4 different period of time and different activity places in the form of stories,which embody the fobsimon and the ability to stabilize the nation of the greatman.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        December 2000

        Ways of Knowing

        A new history of science, technology and medicine

        by John V. Pickstone, Martin Hargreaves

        Discusses the historical development of science, technology and medicine in Western Europe and North America from the Renaissance to the present. Identifies four principle ways of knowing within specific periods: natural history in the eighteenth century analysis following the French Revolution experiment in the epoch of modernism the current presence of technoscience. Balances the historical exposition of natural magic and natural theology with a philosophical interpretation of the Scientific Revolution and reflective comments on Foucault and Collingwood. Strikes a balance between theoretical discussion and empirical illustration. Redefines the geography of science, technology and medicine. ;

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2023

        Politics, performance and popular culture

        Theatre and society in nineteenth-century Britain

        by Peter Yeandle, Katherine Newey, Jeffrey Richards

        This collection brings together studies of popular performance and politics across the nineteenth century, offering a fresh perspective from an archivally grounded research base. It works with the concept that politics is performative and performance is political. The book is organised into three parts in dialogue regarding specific approaches to popular performance and politics. Part I offers a series of conceptual studies using popular culture as an analytical category for social and political history. Part II explores the ways that performance represents and constructs contemporary ideologies of race, nation and empire. Part III investigates the performance techniques of specific politicians - including Robert Peel, Keir Hardie and Henry Hyndman - and analyses the performative elements of collective movements.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2024

        Knowing COVID-19

        The pandemic and beyond

        by Des Fitzgerald, Fred Cooper

        Knowing COVID-19 demonstrates how researchers in the humanities shone a light on some of the many hidden problems of COVID-19, in the very depths of the pandemic crisis. Drawing on eight COVID-19 research projects, the volume shows how humanities researchers, alongside colleagues in the clinical and life sciences, addressed some of the major critical unknowns about this new infectious disease - from the effects of racism to the risks of deploying shame; from how to design an effective instructional leaflet to how to communicate effectively to bus passengers. Across eight novel case studies, the book showcases how humanities research during a pandemic is not only about interpreting the crisis when it has safely passed, but how it can play a vital, collaborative and instrumental role as events are still unfolding.

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        Children's & young adult: general non-fiction
        2021

        Anna of Kyiv, the Daughter of Yaroslav the Wise

        by Yevhenia Nazaruk

        The history of Ukraine in the times of the Kyiv Rus' is full of mysteries. One of them is the figure of Anna of Kyiv, the daughter of Yaroslav the Wise. She was famous not only for her beauty, but also for her education. No woman in Europe could match her. And… She also became the Queen of France. However, this book is not about the queen. It is about the girl who passionately loved her homeland, was proud of her parents, her ancestry and was always reading books. It was from books that she drew the wisdom of life and pleasure for her soul. Turning the pages of the book, readers will meet historical figures like a beautiful Princess Lybid or Svyatoslav and Volodymyr, the kings of Kyiv Rus'. There will be some imaginary characters too, for instance, a funny merman who will tell the readers how the Styr River got its name. Olha Medynska, a fine arts teacher and a fabulous artist, illustrated the book. Olha Medynska, a native of Lutsk, has more than 30 illustrated books in her creative portfolio. Olha has loved painting as long as she can remember herself and she learned it from her mother. Olha greates memorable, fun and quirky characters that delight children. The book is suitable for primary school pupils and early teens.

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        Children's & YA
        April 2024

        Smart Pickings

        2nd Edition

        by Lynne Bianchi

        Smart Pickings (2nd Edition) further engages young readers with the world of science. It promotes talk between children, their classmates, teachers, parents, family and friends. The book introduces a range of diverse and inspirational scientists who have or are making a difference through their innovations and research. A book to encouraging us all to wonder, ask questions and ask 'Who are they?', 'How might I be like them?'

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Air empire

        British imperial civil aviation, 1919–39

        by Gordon Pirie, Andrew Thompson, John M. MacKenzie

        Air empire is a fresh study of civil aviation as a tool of late British imperialism. The first pioneering flights across the British empire in 1919-20 were flag-waving adventures that recreated an era of plucky British maritime exploration and conquest. Britain's development of international air routes and services was approved, organised and celebrated largely in London; there was some resistance in and beyond the subordinate colonies and dominions. Negotiating the financing and geopolitics of regular commercial air service delayed its inception until the 1930s. Technological, managerial and logistical problems also meant that Britain was slow into the air and slow in the air. Propaganda concealed underperformance and criticism. The study uses archival sources, biographies, industry magazines and newspapers to chronicle the disputed progress toward air empire. The rhetoric behind imperial air service offers a glimpse of late imperial hopes, fears, attitudes and style. Empire air service had emotional appeal and symbolic value, but disappointed in practice.

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        Health & Personal Development

        The Tender Path of Grief & Loss

        by Robert Jackman

        This title, written by board certified psychotherapist and Reiki masterRobert Jackman, offers wise advice for the healing journey throughoutour life, loves and losses. In The Tender Path of Grief & Loss, if you're seeking expert guidanceon healing losses you feel deep inside, this book is for you. RobertJackman invites you to acknowledge and honor your grief instead ofpushing it away. Accessible and relatable, this book offers practicalwisdom to guide you on your journey through pain and into hope. Itshares heartfelt, encouraging stories of those who discovered their innerstrength in times of overwhelming loss, offering practical advice to helpyou move forward.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        June 2015

        Men, ideas and tanks

        British military thought and armoured forces, 1903?39

        by J. P. Harris

        Men, ideas and tanks reviews the development of British military ideas on armoured forces from 1903 to 1939. Great Britain was the nation which first developed the tank, first used it in action and first gained dramatic results by employment. The British continued to be world leaders in the field of mechanised warfare until the early 1930s. J. P. Harris offers strikingly new interpretations of the early history of British armoured forces and explains why Great Britain had lost the lead by the outbreak of the Second World War. Available in paperback once more, this work will be of interest to all those concerned with British military history in the first half of the twentieth century, with the history of mechanised warfare and with the history of military thought. ;

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        History of art & design styles: c 1600 to c 1800
        October 2014

        Material goods, moving hands

        Perceiving production in England, 1700–1830

        by Kate Smith

        In eighteenth-century Britain, greater numbers of people entered the marketplace and bought objects in ever-greater quantities. As consumers rather than producers, how did their understandings of manufacturing processes and the material world change? Material goods and moving hands combines material culture and visual culture approaches to explore the different ways in which manufacturers and retailers presented production to consumers during the eighteenth century. It shows how new relationships with production processes encouraged consumers, retailers, designers, manufacturers and workers to develop conflicting understandings of production. Objects then were not just markers of fashion and taste, they acted as important conduits through which people living in Georgian Britain could examine and discuss their material world and the processes and knowledge that rendered it.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2009

        Men in political theory

        by Terrell Carver

        Men in political theory builds on feminist re-readings of the traditional canon of male writers in Political Philosophy by turning the 'gender lens' on to the representation of men in widely studies texts. It explains the distinction between 'man' as an apparently de-gendered 'individual' or 'citizen', and 'man' as an overtly gendered being in human society. Both these representations of 'man' are crucial to a clearer understanding of the operation of gender. Newly available in paperback, the book is the first to use the 'men's studies' and 'masculinities' literatures in re-thinking the political problems that students and specialists in the social sciences and humanities must encounter: consent, obligation, patriarchy, gender, sexuality, life-cycle, and discriminatory disadvantage related to sex, age, class, race/ethnicity and disability. It does this by re-examining the historical materials from which present-day concepts of citizenship, individuality, identity, subjectivity, normativity and legitimacy arise. The ten chapters on Plato, Aristotle, Jesus, Augustine, Machiavelli, Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, Marx and Engels show the operation of the 'gender lens' in different ways, depending on how the philosopher deploys concepts of men and masculinity to pose and solve classic problems. They can all be read independently and are as suitable for those just making the acquaintance of these classic writers as for those with specialist knowledge and interests. ;

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        January 2023

        Wise Dinosaur

        by Mu Ling

        This is an animal novel with science fiction and adventure. Middle-school student Cornick is smart, mischievous, and loves adventure. He assists a scientist from the city who takes his tamed monkey, Gecko, to a deserted island surrounded by swamps. They carry out a series of incredible and daring experiments to figure out how to reproduce dinosaurs. The roar of the dinosaurs appeared on the island. Later, even dinosaurs with extraordinary intelligence appear... With victory in sight, the two researchers find themselves in a truly dangerous misadventure...

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        Personal & social issues
        2022

        Let's Hold Hands, Sister

        by Oksana Lushchevska (Author), Anna Surgan (Illustrator)

        Ten-year-old sisters Vita and Zlata share their dreams with each other: they would like to go to the forest, swim in the river, lie in the grass, and look at the clouds. They also want to learn some spells so that peace reigns on Earth, but magic exists only in fairy tales... This kind and gentle story tells that there is something more powerful in life than spells: being close to your loved ones and holding hands with them. And imagine being  friends with a funny poodle like Buka, that shows to everyone how to laugh and love! This book is a bright and honest reflection of children's confusion during one of life's harshest experiences: war. This warm play was written in the form of a dialogue to be recited. Thus the text can be read or acted out with children at home, in classes, in school theaters or theater groups. Readers can even stage a play online for relatives and friends who are not nearby!   From 9 to 12 years, 590 words Rightsholders: Nargis Gafurova and Anna Tiurina, crocus.publishers@gmail.com

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        Children's & YA

        Searching for Little Green Men

        by Jin Bo

        The first installment of the ‘Little Green Men’ series --- a new full-length fairytale by famous children’s book author Jin Bo. The book centerson the cute fairytale image of ‘little green men’. It depicts a pair of good friends who hope to encounter mysterious little green men, their accidental discovery of them in the suburbs, and, finally, the adventures that occur after they invite the little green men to come to the human world. The book preserves Jin Bo’s beautiful and lyrical style, extols on the value of childlike innocence, and is a classic original fairytale.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        June 2018

        Temperament of Public Opinion

        by Zhao Qiang

        What is public opinion? What does public opinion do with you? Does public opinion have a temper? The author joined hands with "public opinion" for more than two decades, and integrated many years of observation experience into the hotspots of public opinion, and wrote "How much is a catty for" false public opinion "," Who sacrificed for public opinion "," You liar "," Wu Hezhong ", etc. Twenty notes, using smooth texts to tell people: Public opinion is everywhere, no one can hide. These twenty notes are both academic and readable, and strive to be targeted and systematic. They will comment on public opinion events, popular science phenomena, analyze public opinion strategies, and discuss public opinion safety in as easy-to-understand manner as possible. These 20 notes, from shallow to deep, from the surface to the inside, can be ordinary readers to understand the phenomenon of public opinion, can also be used by public opinion workers to take stock of public opinion work, or experts and scholars to discuss the safety of public information.

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        Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900
        May 2017

        Inventing the cave man

        From Darwin to the Flintstones

        by Andrew Horrall. Series edited by Jeffrey Richards

        Fred Flintstone lived in a sunny Stone Age American suburb, but his ancestors were respectable, middle-class Victorians. They were very amused to think that prehistory was an archaic version of their own world because it suggested that British ideals were eternal. In the 1850s, our prehistoric ancestors were portrayed in satirical cartoons, songs, sketches and plays as ape-like, reflecting the threat posed by evolutionary ideas. By the end of the century, recognisably human cave men inhabited a Stone Age version of late-imperial Britain, sending-up its ideals and institutions. Cave men appeared constantly in parades, civic pageants and costume parties. In the early 1900s American cartoonists and early Hollywood stars like Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton adopted and reimagined this very British character, cementing it in global popular culture. Cave men are an appealing way to explore and understand Victorian and Edwardian Britain.

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        Political ideologies
        May 2017

        Neoliberal power and public management reforms

        by Professor Peter Triantafillou. Series edited by Mark Haugaard

        This book examines the links between major contemporary public sector reforms and neoliberal thinking. The key contribution of the book is to enhance our understanding of contemporary neoliberalism as it plays out in the public administration and to provide a critical analysis of generally overlooked aspects of administrative power. The book examines the quest for accountability, credibility and evidence in the public sector. It asks whether this quest may be understood in terms of neoliberal thinking and, if so, how? The book makes the argument that while current administrative reforms are informed by several distinct political rationalities, they evolve above all around a particular form of neoliberalism: constructivist neoliberalism. The book analyses the dangers of the kinds of administrative power seeking to invoke the self-steering capacities of society and administration itself.

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