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• Author(s): Ruth Ray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befri...

• Author(s): Linda Chisholm • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Comparative This book brings together leading authors in the field of education and development, who draw on decades of r...

• Author(s): Ruth Ray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)In the summer of 1996, Ruth Ray, a gerontologist in her forties, befri...

• Author(s): Amy J. L. Baker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareCovers the methodological challenges and the real-life constraints of researc...

• Author(s): Alexander Horwath • Publisher: Austrian Film Museum • Publisher Imprint: Austrian Film Museum • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn his 1929 Hollywood production The Case of Lena Smith, director Josef von Sternberg vividly brough...

• Author(s): Will Rimmer • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIt is difficult to imagine now the importance of the Bond films of the early 1960s to British ...

• Author(s): Ch'Oe Yun • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralCh'oe Yun is a Korean author known for her breathtaking versatility, subversion of authority, and bold exploratio...

• Author(s): John Pavlik • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralDigital technologies have fundamentally altered the nature and function of media in our society, reinventing age-old pr...

• Author(s): Francesco Casetti • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIs it true that film in the twentieth century experimented with vision more than any other...

• Author(s): John Pavlik • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralExamines digital innovations and their positive and negative implications. This book explains that professional journal...

• Author(s): Rikkie Yeung • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralWith the “merger” of the MTRC and the KCRC in 2007, the history of Hong Kong’s railways turned a new page. The two g...

• Author(s): Haruo Shirane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ResearchThis abridged edition of Haruo Shirane's popular anthology, Early Modern Japanese Literature, retains the essential ...

• Author(s): Haruo Shirane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralIntroduces English-speaking readers to prose fiction genres, including dangibon, kibyoshi (satiric picture bo...

• Author(s): Robert Hullot–Kentor • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionTheodor W. Adorno was a major twentieth-century philosopher and social critic whose writing...

• Author(s): Judith Gunn • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe story of The Usual Suspects has the kind of "rags to riches" back story that makes not onl...

• Author(s): Carlo Levi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralCarlo Levi was a painter, writer, and antifascist Italian from a Jewish family, and his political activism forced him in...

• Author(s): Sandy Irvine • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismGladiator was one of the great commercial successes of the early twenty-first century, a fasc...

• Author(s): Mark Kirwan-Hayhoe • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA surprise hit at the turn of the century, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense was cre...

• Author(s): Andy Murray • Publisher: Liverpool University Press • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismSpecially written for students of Fflm and media studies, Studying The Wicker Man explores the...

• Author(s): Allen Carlson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: AestheticsEnvironmental aesthetics is a field of study that focuses on nature's aesthetic value as well as on its ethical an...

• Author(s): Martin Raymond • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Mind & BodyTraces the development of Western ideas about personal identity and reveals the larger intellectual trends, ...

• Author(s): Jean Baudrillard • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernThe Jean Baudrillard Reader (European Perspectives: A Series in Social Thought and Cultural...

• Author(s): Juniper Ellis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Beauty & Grooming - GeneralA book on tattoo literature and culture. It traces the origins and significance of tattoo in ...

• Author(s): Juniper Ellis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Beauty & Grooming - GeneralA book on tattoo literature and culture. It traces the origins and significance of tattoo in ...

• Author(s): Shu–Ching Shih • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiteraryFrom its beginnings as a pestilent port and colonial backwater, Hong Kong became the "pearl" of a declining British...

• Author(s): William Jankowiak • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Human Sexuality (see also Social Science - Human Sexuality)Examines how different cultures rationalize the expression of...

• Author(s): Shlomo Biderman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternExamines the views, outlooks, and attitudes of two distinct cultures: the West and classical India. The author look...

• Author(s): Zong–Qi Cai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this "guided" anthology, experts lead students through the major genres and eras of Chinese poetry from antiquity to...

• Author(s): Frances Guerin • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Image and the Witness: Trauma, Memory and Visual Culture is a timely interdisciplinary collection of origin...

• Author(s): Hannah Patterson • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWith 2005's acclaimed and controversial The New World, one of cinema's most enigmatic filmmakers returned to ...

• Author(s): Antoine Sfeir • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ReferenceAntoine Sfeir's Columbia World Dictionary of Islamism is a major resource. Translated for the first time from the o...

• Author(s): James Martel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PhilosophyIn Leviathan, Thomas Hobbes's landmark work on political philosophy, James Martel argues that although Hobbes pays ...

• Author(s): Chee-Beng Tan • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - China?The issue of Chinese diaspora is a fascinating phenomenon in the midst of globalism, an...

• Author(s): John Wang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralDesigned for those who have studied Modern Chinese, but who have had no exposure to Classical Chi...

• Author(s): Jo Gill • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: European - English, Irish, Scottish, WelshFrom the Back CoverEdinburgh Critical Guides to Literature Series Editors: Martin Hall...

• Author(s): Amber Jacobs • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionDespite advances in feminism, the "law of the father" remains the dominant model of Western psychol...

• Author(s): Dave Saunders • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismDirect Cinema is the first comprehensive study of the "direct cinema" movement of 1960s America. Through the inq...

• Author(s): Konstancija Brazeniene • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralContains the letters of Konstancija Bra eniene written in Lithuania, East Germany, and Siberi...

• Author(s): Dave Saunders • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismDirect Cinema is the first comprehensive study of the "direct cinema" movement of 1960s America. Through the inq...

• Author(s): András Gero • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Austria & HungaryFeatures five essays on why public debate about Hungary's Jewish population has been confined to t...

• Author(s): Gönül Dönmez-Colin • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East contains twenty-four essays, each concerning an individual f...

• Author(s): Gönül Dönmez-Colin • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Cinema of North Africa and the Middle East contains twenty-four essays, each concerning an individual f...

• Author(s): Antonio Gramsci • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - RadicalismAntonio Gramsci (1891-1937) is widely celebrated as the most original political thinker i...

• Author(s): Stelian Tanase • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralFeaturing excerpts from the author's diary recounting the surveillance of his activities during the l...

• Author(s): Graeme Harper • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismLeading critics from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, Canada, and Japan offer fresh, provocativ...

• Author(s): David Ellis • Publisher: Ibidem Press • Publisher Imprint: Ibidem Press • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralWhen the SS Empire Windrush berthed at Tilbury docks in 1948 with 492 ex-servicemen from the Caribbean, it marked the beginning ...

• Author(s): Geoff Mayer • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom The Story of the Kelly Gang in 1906 to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Australia and New Zealand have made a u...

• Author(s): Geoff Mayer • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom The Story of the Kelly Gang in 1906 to the Lord of the Rings trilogy, Australia and New Zealand have made a u...

• Author(s): Birgit Beumers • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis volume explores the cinema of the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russia, ranging from the pre-Revolu...

• Author(s): Birgit Beumers • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis volume explores the cinema of the former Soviet Union and contemporary Russia, ranging from the pre-Revolu...

• Author(s): Arthur C. Danto • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Movements - DeconstructionNow in its third edition, Narration and Knowledge is a classic work exploring the nature of hist...

• Author(s): Philip Yuen-Sang Leung • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: World - GeneralA collection of seven case studies which treat different aspects of politica...

• Author(s): Michael Share • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralDeals with the past relationship between Russia and the Chinese Eastern Periphery (Hon...

• Author(s): Cora Kaplan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshReflects on the obsession with Victorian culture. This book explores issues of class, gender, e...

• Author(s): Cora Kaplan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn Victoriana, leading feminist cultural critic Cora Kaplan reflects on our modern obsession wi...

• Author(s): Christine Froula • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralTraces the emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about Europe's fut...

• Author(s): James Morrison • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismTodd Haynes has emerged from the trenches of independent American film in the 1990s to become one of the twenty...