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• Author(s): Reeva Spector Simon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralHow the new Iraqi political elite used the military and school system to create an Iraqi Arab ide...

• Author(s): Fariba Adelkhah • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Islam - GeneralWhat does it mean to be modern in Iran today? Can one properly speak of modernity in relation to what many ...

• Author(s): Reeva Spector Simon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralWhy did a group from the Iraqi army seize control of the government and wage a disastrous war aga...

• Author(s): Irving Goldman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe societies of Vaupes region are among the most documented indigenous cultures, in pa...

• Author(s): James Watson • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis book explores the cultural traditions of Cantonese villagers...

• Author(s): S. L. Tang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Engineering (General)This is a textbook for engineering and management/business undergraduates and post...

• Author(s): Irving Goldman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe societies of Vaupes region are among the most documented indigenous cultures, in pa...

• Author(s): Alison Landsberg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialProsthetic Memory reveals the transformative effect that modern mass culture has had ...

• 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): Garry Karner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyThis book explores the current cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in lithospheric rheology and p...

• Author(s): Garry Karner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyThis book explores the current cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in lithospheric rheology and p...

• Author(s): John Cunningham • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralHungarian cinema has often been forced to tread a precarious and difficult path. Through the failed 1919 revolution to the def...

• Author(s): David Mccann • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe only up-to-date representative gathering of Korean poetry from the twentieth century in English, this volu...

• Author(s): David Mccann • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralKorea's modern poetry is filled with many different voices and styles, subjects and views, moves and countermo...

• Author(s): Bruce Gilley • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralAn eminent China expert considers how the Chinese Communist Party will be removed from power and d...

• Author(s): Arianne Gaetano • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - RuralThis book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of...

• Author(s): Melissa Checker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIllustrates how ethnographic research itself can become a tool for activism. This book...

• Author(s): Melissa Checker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIllustrates how ethnographic research itself can become a tool for activism. This book...

• Author(s): Sibyl Schwarzenbach • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionalDivided into three parts-History, Interpretation, and Practice-this provocative volume incorporates law,...

• Author(s): Michael Staub • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Judaism - HistoryThis book explodes the myth of a monolithic, liberal Judaism and tells the story of the many fierce battles...

• Author(s): Joseph Y. S. Cheng • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralThis volume aims to study preparations for China's entry into the World Trade Organizati...

• Author(s): Hong Kong University Gallery • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralFeatures China trade paintings and export art works dating from the late 18th and 19th centu...

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

• Author(s): Gerald Mallon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Parenting - FatherhoodAn in-depth study of gay parenthood draws on case studies and interviews to explore the various factor...

• Author(s): Gerald Mallon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Parenting - FatherhoodGay parenting is a topic on which almost everyone has an opinion but almost nobody has any facts. Here...

• Author(s): Karen Fang • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. This book describe...

• Author(s): Pui–Yin Ho • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyThis book based on valuable historical texts and photographs, describes the cha...

• Author(s): László Somlyódy • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: GeneralSpecialists focus on Hungary's outstanding achievments in various fields, notably technology, literature and the arts...

• Author(s): Ayesha Macpherson Lau • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: MilitaryThis is a professional book on Hong Kong tax system. It explains in detail the taxes...

• Author(s): Aaron Rosen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThe authors of this work advocate the development of readily available, accessible and professionally sanctioned pr...

• Author(s): Aaron Rosen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThis book bridges the gap between social work knowledge and empirically based practice. Although there is a signifi...

• Author(s): Jiande Zheng • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: ChineseThis dictionary includes over 4500 Chinese characters with over 60,000 entries. The entries co...

• Author(s): Robert Madden • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Practical GuidesWhether protecting their own rights or those of their clients, or navigating the juvenile justice, immigrati...

• Author(s): Patricia Kolb • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryDescribes the experiences of African American and Afro-Caribbean, white Jewish, and Latina/o residents a...

• Author(s): Robert Madden • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Practical GuidesWhether protecting their own rights or those of their clients, or navigating the juvenile justice, immigrati...

• Author(s): Patricia Kolb • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkDescribes the experiences of African American and Afro-Caribbean, white Jewish, and Latina/o residents and their ...

• Author(s): Frederic G. Reamer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CriminologySummarizing what he has learned about crime and criminals during his long career, Frederic G. Reamer specula...

• Author(s): Wai Chung Lawrence Lai • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningAs Hong Kong town-planning legislation develops, there is an ever-growing demand for...

• Author(s): Beth Kolko • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social AspectsA collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine how the internet has affected conceptions of community and ...

• Author(s): Beth Kolko • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social AspectsA collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine how the internet has affected conceptions of community and ...

• Author(s): Göran Aijmer • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Customs & TraditionsThis study, which has been conducted in the spirit of a symbologically inclin...

• Author(s): Wimal Dissanayake • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAshes of Time, by the internationally acclaimed director Wong Kar-wai, has been consider...

• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Animals - Marine LifeMalacological, wetland and marine international workshops have been convened in Hong Kong at approxima...

• Author(s): Nuala Rooney • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralHong Kong has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and is one of the most prosperous societies , but...

• Author(s): Nuala Rooney • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralHong Kong has one of the lowest crime rates in the world and is one of the most prosperous societies , but...

• Author(s): Alain Dieckhoff • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - GeneralFor two centuries, according to Alain Dieckhoff, the Jews were remarkable experimenters. Rea...

• Author(s): William Kasdorf • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Publishers & Publishing IndustryThe first comprehensive guide to all aspects of digital publishing, from rights to eBo...

• Author(s): Siu Lam Tang • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Industrial ManagementFrom the Back CoverConstruction / Real Estate

• Author(s): Eleanor Reardon Tolson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThis essential text presents a "task-centered" methodology―a structured, short-term problem-solving appr...

• Author(s): Jane Elliott • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book marks a total departure from previous studies of the Boxer War. It evaluates th...

• Author(s): Roy A. Medvedev • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentRoy Medvedev, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a former consultant to ...

• Author(s): Carrie Rosefsky Wickham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt)The book explains how Islamist groups captured the hearts and minds ...

• Author(s): Carrie Rosefsky Wickham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Egypt (see also Ancient - Egypt)The book explains how Islamist groups captured the hearts and minds ...

• Author(s): Robert Lang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis title considers how Hollywood articulates the eroticism that is intrinsic to identification...

• Author(s): Douglas Amy • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Process - Campaigns & ElectionsDouglas J. Amy argues that plurality rules are unfair, outmoded and undemocratic ...

• Author(s): Qiao Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: SagasSpanning over half a century, this historical novel traces the fortunes of the Peng family, Hakka Chinese pioneers whose stor...

• Author(s): Catherine Driscoll • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Stages - AdolescenceThe Spice Girls, Tank Girl comicbooks, Sailor Moon, Courtney Love, Grrl Power: do such things ...

• Author(s): Catherine Driscoll • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Stages - AdolescenceIs there such a thing as "girl culture"? This text argues that both "girls" and "culture" as i...