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Across global queer activism and literature from the social sciences and humanities, the impact of empires on the regulation of sexuality and gender is an emergent theme. While there has been a considerable focus on British colonial criminal law, there is a need to investigate and compare the diverse forms of power and control adopted across the histories of European empires. In Colonialisms and Queer Politics, Sonia Corr獪, Gustavo Gomes da Costa, and Matthew Waites provide a groundbreaking comparative analysis of empires and colonialities with respect to sexuality and gender diversity. Including contributions from an international team of authors, chapters focus on eleven empires: Portuguese, Spanish, British, French, Dutch, Ottoman, Russian, Belgian, German, Italian, and United States. Starting from the fifteenth century, authors explore how colonial racial hierarchies, gender norms, and heteronormativity structured relations between colonizing and colonized societies. The chapters r

Two months, six countries, one chance to fall in love . . . travel the world in this swoony enemies-to-lovers romance for fans of Love and Gelato, The Summer of Broken Rules and The Summer I Turned Pretty.Margot is That Girl – she's built her online audience from scratch and though her life looks perfect on screen, her influencing supports her family’s dying B&B. Theo is seen as a nepo baby – but photography is his ticket to escaping his billionaire father’s control, and the damage he has done to the local community – including Margot’s family. When they are both chosen to represent a luxury hotel chain on a global tour, they instantly clash. But as they travel together – from the markets of Hong Kong to the Austrian slopes – they realise that their online personas might be just that. Who is the real person behind the screen? And what would happen if they switch off and just lived in the moment?Turn on aeroplane mode and dive into this swoony summer romance – expect to read:*Enemie

A heartwarming, confidence-building starting-school story about Long Long, a Chinese dragon who can't breathe fire.At the bottom of Emerald Depths, there lived a family of dragons.Their names were Baba, Mama, Ge Ge and Long Long, and they had just arrived from China...Long Long can't wait to meet the other dragons at his new school, until he notices the differences between them. He doesn't have wings and he can't breathe fire! But he can control the weather... and when a fireball threatens to burn down the school, Long Long discovers how incredible it is to be a Chinese dragon.This heartwarming story from Roger Lam, illustrated by Zhi Ling Lee, is a celebration of everyone's differences, and encourages young children to learn about and embrace their heritage.

如果有一天，一艘載滿搞怪外星科學家的太空船降落地球，而他們最感興趣的……居然是「恐龍」？！由英國廣播電視學會（BAFTA）得獎編劇、知名動畫《海綿寶寶》遊戲編劇 Myles McLeod 親自執筆，聯合頂級視覺科普大廠 DK 出版社，聯手打造出這本結合「瘋狂幽默 X 嚴謹科學 X 圖像小說」的太空級恐龍指南！Hop aboard a spaceship and join a quirky crew of alien scientists as they visit and study the most fascinating place in the Universe – Planet Earth!And what could make Earth even more exciting to our intergalactic explorers? Dinosaurs, of course! Hit the time-travel button on the spaceship's control panel and step back to the Mesozoic Era, meeting all of your favourite prehistoric creatures. What did the Earth look like 240 million years ago? Who would win in a race between Compsognathus and Allosaurus? And which dinosaur had armour over its eyelids? Alongside these fascinating facts, our alien tour guides are cracking jokes and performing poetry, covering all things prehistoric on our planet.Offering a unique blend of humour, education, and adventure, this is not just another a guide book – it’s an extraterrestrial experience!