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• Author(s): Richard Lyman Bushman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Written by an eminent historian, this book reflects on h...

• Author(s): Jiang Yang • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: LiteraryThe characters in this vivid, witty, and engrossing novel, set in a Beijing literary institute right after the revolu...

• Author(s): Josiane Paccaud-Huguet • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: GeneralIn this collection, French intellectuals and scholars comment on the relationship between British novelist Jos...

• Author(s): M Elizabeth Vonk • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkIntended for students and practitioners of social work, this work presents research concepts and skills. It re...

• Author(s): Tamara Falicov • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Cinematic Tango explores the cultural politics of over sixty years of filmmaking in Argentina. From the 194...

• Author(s): Tamara Falicov • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Cinematic Tango explores the cultural politics of over sixty years of filmmaking in Argentina. From the 194...

• Author(s): Ernest Mathijs • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: GeneralMuch more than a successful film trilogy, Lord of the Rings has become an unparalleled media phenomenon. Through its impact on regiona...

• Author(s): Rebecca Copeland • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralBrings the imagination of women's writing from the Meiji period to English-language readers. Along with tr...

• Author(s): John Wiens • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyLandscape ecology integrates humans with natural ecosystems and brings a spatial perspective to such fie...

• Author(s): William Galush • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyPresents a study that offers a historical overview of humble individuals who wished for independe...

• Author(s): David Johns • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralThe impact of physical activity and urban living in childhood are stretched into adulthood - th...

• Author(s): George Kourvetaris • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFeatures twenty fives articles that address topics important to Greek society, culture, and politics, ...

• Author(s): Ewout Van Der Knaap • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismNuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog, 1956) by Alain Resnais carried the impact of the Holocaust to the cinem...

• Author(s): John Orr • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismRoman Polanski is a great maverick figure of world cinema who has lived a controversial and tragic life. Yet his noto...

• Author(s): Ewout Van Der Knaap • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismNuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog, 1956) by Alain Resnais carried the impact of the Holocaust to the cinem...

• Author(s): Guy Westwell • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Media Tie-InAn introduction to and overview of the Hollywood war movie, a linchpin in American cultural imagination. The book considers the his...

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

• Author(s): Anthony Cheung • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralPublic service reform, or public sector reform, has been a hot topic among political ...

• Author(s): Paul Clark • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: ClassicsA pioneering study of the startlingly original films by Chinese filmmakers of the 1980s, such a...

• Author(s): Maria N. Ng • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialReading Chinese Transnationalisms responds to the growing interest in transnational cult...

• Author(s): Guiyou Huang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralPresenting an historical overview of major developments, this is a comprehensive A-to-Z guide to major Asian A...

• Author(s): Dean Kostantaras • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - Greece (see also Ancient - Greece)Historians have long speculated on the role played by the Enlightenment in the r...

• Author(s): Jack Lightstone • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Judaism - HistoryOffers perspectives on the practices and beliefs of Greco-Roman Jews who lived outside of Palestine and b...

• Author(s): Geoffrey Leech • Publisher: Edinburgh University Press • Publisher Imprint: Edinburgh University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis glossary presents a wide range of terms used to describe the way the English language is structured. Grammati...

• Author(s): Ain Wong • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralIssued also in Chinese under title: Xian dai wan sui: Guang yi de du shi feng hua.

• Author(s): Hong Xiao • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: ChineseTalk Mandarin Today is a practical guide for learning and getting by in Mandarin Chinese for adul...

• Author(s): Shiqiu Liang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThe articles are written in elegant and highly polished style. It is enjoyable to read...

• Author(s): Christopher Berry • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismIn China on Screen, Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar, leaders in the field of Chinese film st...

• Author(s): Kara Chan • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Marketing - GeneralAdvertising and Hong Kong Society probes into the role of advertising as a form of so...

• Author(s): Janet Gyatso • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women's StudiesFilling a gap in the literature, this volume explores the struggles and accomplishments of women from both pas...

• Author(s): Charlie Q. L. Xue • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralSince China’s modernization began in 1980, the country has witnessed exponential growth in construction activit...

• Author(s): Stacy Gillis • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Media Tie-InThe Matrix Trilogy: Cyberpunk Reloaded is a collection of critical essays on the massive phenomenon that is the three Matrix films,...

• Author(s): Michael Dummett • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EpistemologyMichael Dummett's three John Dewey Lectures-"The Concept of Truth," "Statements About the Past," and "The Meta...

• Author(s): Milly Williamson • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer explores the...

• Author(s): Milly Williamson • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Lure of the Vampire: Gender, Fiction and Fandom from Bram Stoker to Buffy the Vampire Slayer explores the...

• Author(s): Toby Haggith • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - HolocaustBased on an event held at the Imperial War Museum in London, this book is a unique blend of voices and perspec...

• Author(s): Chi-Fai Chau • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BotanyThis work lists comprehensively over 20,000 terms commonly used in food science...

• Author(s): Jacob Neiiendam • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralA new volume in the "Twenty-Four Frames" series that focuses on twenty-four key films from Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden, Norw...

• Author(s): A Cheng • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralThe Chess Master is a story of escape and salvation, and the clue for both is chess. The protagonis...

• Author(s): Nam-Fung Chang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThis is a study of the author's Chinese translation of ""Yes Prime Minister"". It co...

• Author(s): Jacob Neiiendam • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralA new volume in the "Twenty-Four Frames" series that focuses on twenty-four key films from Scandinavia - Denmark, Sweden, Norw...

• Author(s): Leo Enticknap • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis text provides a thorough introduction into the history and theory of moving image film, video, sound recording and allied t...

• Author(s): Susan Smith • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis study explores one of the most popular and successful of genres, yet one that has not fully enjoyed critical ...

• Author(s): Brian Mcfarlane • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralA fresh, concise, but wide-ranging introduction and overview to British and Irish cinema, this volume contains 24 essays, each...

• Author(s): Lisa Anderson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThe conditions that shaped the rise and expansion of American social science are rapidly ch...

• Author(s): James Watson • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralConstituting an ethnographic record of a cultural system teetering on the threshold of ...

• Author(s): Göran Aijmer • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsThis study explores one of the major manifestations of Chinese popular tradit...

• Author(s): Amy Dooling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsIncludes various literary, personal, and journalistic responses to the events in the mid-twentieth-century Chines...

• Author(s): Amy Dooling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsIncludes various literary, personal, and journalistic responses to the events in the mid-twentieth-century Chines...

• Author(s): Jisen Ma • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralA factual account of the course of the ten-year Cultural Revolution in the Foreign Ministry, based...

• Author(s): Shiqiu Liang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe articles are written in elegant and highly polished style. It is enjoyable to read...