General Adult / Mature Content (Adult 18+)

• Author(s): Paul Clark • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis is a pioneering study of the genesis and films of the fifth-generation of Chinese film...

• Author(s): Shou-He Tian • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralA Guide to Proper Usage of Spoken Chinese is a companion reference work to Chinese tex...

• Author(s): Alberto Mira • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralAn overview of Spanish and Portuguese cinema, this volume contains 24 essays, each on a separate seminal film from the region. Fi...

• Author(s): Peter Hames • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThe Czechoslovak New Wave was originally published in 1985 and was quickly established as the world's leading authoritative Englis...

• Author(s): Graeme Harper • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralSigns of Life explores the representation of doctors, nurses, patients, diseases, and disabilities in films such asApocalypse No...

• Author(s): Graeme Harper • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralSigns of Life explores the representation of doctors, nurses, patients, diseases, and disabilities in films such asApocalypse No...

• Author(s): Anita Biressi • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis book analyses new and hybrid genres of television including observational documentaries, talk shows, game shows, docu-soaps...

• Author(s): Andrew Klevan • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismPerformers make a crucial contribution to the achievement of narrative films. By moving through exemplary sequen...

• Author(s): John Chi-Kin Lee • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralThe book is broadly divided into two parts. Part One focuses on university-school partners...

• Author(s): J. Thomas Rimer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseCollects works of fiction, poetry, drama, and essay-writing from a pivotal time in Japanese history. This ...

• Author(s): Anthony Cheung • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThese essays deal with various selected reform issues confronted by the four develope...

• Author(s): Donald Munro • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: History & Surveys - ModernA link between evolutionary biology and Chinese ethics runs through the...

• Author(s): Leopold Haimson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Russia - Generalhe eminent historian Leopold Haimson examines the nature of political power in Russia during the years lea...

• Author(s): Nancy B Tucker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralFeatures essays by scholars and practitioners in the arena of US-Taiwan-Chinese relations....

• Author(s): Akira Yamaguchi • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralYoung painter Akira Yamaguchi has taken Japan's art world by storm. His work combines the techniques of cla...

• Author(s): Stuart Kirk • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkSocial workers provide more mental health services than any other profession, yet recent biomedical trends in psych...

• Author(s): Alison Knowles Frazier • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - ItalyThe lives of saints were among the most reproduced and widely distributed literatures of medieval and...

• Author(s): Stuart Kirk • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkSocial workers provide more mental health services than any other profession, yet recent biomedical trends in psych...

• Author(s): Paul Ephross • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkSocial workers, planners, health professionals, and human-service administrators spend much of their time in meeti...

• Author(s): Paul Ephross • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkSocial workers, planners, health professionals, and human-service administrators spend much of their time in meeti...

• Author(s): Christina Ching Tsao • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: HistoricalThis is an autobiography of a woman of unusual strength and determination who grew up in 1930s’ Shanghai....

• Author(s): Yoshimi Takeuchi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanThis book explores Japanese modernity, literature, and nationalism as well as Chinese intellectual history, a...

• Author(s): Yoshimi Takeuchi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanRegarded as one of the foremost thinkers in postwar Japan, Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) questioned traditiona...

• Author(s): Gregory Brown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Western Europe - GeneralThis study of eighteenth-century French playwriting and playwrights reviews individual authorial str...

• Author(s): Nishan Parlakian • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: American - GeneralA valuable anthology of eight plays best representing the Armenian American drama of the last thirty ye...

• Author(s): Phil Powrie • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralA collection of original essays focusing on masculinity and film, particularly the representation of European masculinity. Spilt i...

• Author(s): Eric Ramirez-Ferrero • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Men's StudiesIn Oklahoma in the 1980s and 1990s, suicide-not accident as previously assumed-was the leading cause of ...

• Author(s): Ruth Barton • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralA series of essays considering the nature and direction of Irish film and television. Films discussed includeOdd Man Out, The Boxe...

• Author(s): David Celani • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Parenting - Parent & Adult ChildThe human personality, Fairbairn argued, is not the result of inherited (and thus immutab...

• Author(s): Valentina Glajar • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Women's StudiesThis collection traces some of the major patterns of representation of East European women in Western art an...

• Author(s): Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: MedievalLanzelet, one of the first known versions of the Lancelot story, is a critical work in medieval literature....

• Author(s): Ulrich Von Zatzikhoven • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: MedievalLanzelet, one of the first known versions of the Lancelot story, is a critical work in medieval literature....

• Author(s): Kwok-Kan Tam • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Study & TeachingAddresses the political, cultural and pedagogical issues of English in the age of...

• Author(s): Jiande Zheng • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: ChineseFirst published in 1999, the Concise Chinese-English Dictionary reflects the changes and growt...

• Author(s): Ho-Yee Ng • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Social WorkThe story of a group of men who called themselves ""heroin-coffin"", a story of ascension fro...

• Author(s): Anna Ottani Cavina • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralBased on little-known or hitherto unpublished material, and enhanced by a wealth of rarely seen illust...

• Author(s): Valerie Sweeney Prince • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & BlHome is a powerful metaphor guiding the literat...

• Author(s): Alan Sinfield • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBTQ+ Studies - Gay StudiesIt is widely supposed that the most suitable partner will be someone very much like oneself; gay...

• Author(s): Christine Froula • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshTraces the emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about...

• Author(s): Lynne Hume • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAn excellent introduction to real-world ethnography, this book covers short- and long-term ...

• Author(s): Lynne Hume • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAll too often anthropologists and other social scientists go into the field with unrealisti...

• Author(s): Randolph Braham • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThis book describes the attempt in post-Communist Hungary to distort and denigrate the Holocaust, of...

• Author(s): Ernest Mathijs • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralFilms of the Low Countries have long been regarded as isolated texts. This book points to the interconnectedness between Low Co...

• Author(s): Harou Shirane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 t...

• Author(s): Ching Yau • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThis book studies the work of filmmaker Tang Shu Shuen in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s. I...

• Author(s): Yue-Man Yeung • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeFrom macro and micro perspectives, this book provides a panoram...

• Author(s): Jacqueline Lo • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralStaging Nation examines the complex relationship between the theatrical stage and the wider stage of nation...

• Author(s): John Lagerwey • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralThese volumes contain a selection of twenty-one essays presented in a conference convened joi...

• Author(s): Michael Robert Evans • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesUnlike the myriad writing manuals that emphasize grammar, sentence structure, and other skills necessary...

• Author(s): Michael Robert Evans • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesUnlike the myriad writing manuals that emphasize grammar, sentence structure, and other skills necessary...

• Author(s): François Weil • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: North AmericanIn telling the story of how New York has grown from Dutch colonial outpost to the global city, 'the capital of...

• Author(s): François Weil • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: North AmericanIn telling the story of how New York has grown from Dutch colonial outpost to the global city, 'the capital of...

• Author(s): Edward Gallafent • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsThis is the first book to pay tribute to the genuine cinematic contribution of these m...

• Author(s): Robert O'Meally • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzJackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs f...

• Author(s): Edvard Benes • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - GeneralOffers an account of the last two weeks of September 1938, chronicling Czechoslovakia's approach to the Munich ...

• Author(s): Robert O'Meally • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzOffers insights in jazz historiography, highlighting the political stakes in telling the story o...