General Adult / Mature Content (Adult 18+)

• Author(s): Andre Schmid • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralKorea Between Empires chronicles the development of a Korean national consciousness. It focuse...

• Author(s): Michael Staub • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Judaism - HistoryWhen Jewish neoconservatives burst upon the political scene, many people were surprised. Conventional wisdo...

• Author(s): Andre Schmid • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - KoreaTurning from more traditional modes of historical inquiry, Korea Between Empires explores the formative influence...

• Author(s): Haruo Shirane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis unique anthology is the first representative collection of Japanese literature from one of the most crea...

• Author(s): M Gorbachev • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Personal MemoirsThis title invites us to eavesdrop on an intimate conversation between one of the major political figures of t...

• Author(s): Laura Rival • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaThe Huaorani of Ecuador lived as hunters and gatherers in the Amazonian rainforest for hundred of...

• Author(s): Michele Pierson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismMoving from an exploration of 19th century popular science and magic to Hollywood science fi...

• Author(s): Judith Butler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Folklore & MythologyAntigone, the insurgent from Sophocles's Oedipus, has long been a feminist icon of defiance. This bo...

• Author(s): John Hof • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyWhether discussing habitat placement for the northern spotted owl or black-tailed prairie dog or strategie...

• Author(s): John Loomis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Real Estate - General"Integrated Public Lands Management" deals with the management procedures of all the primary public land ...

• Author(s): John Tolan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryMedieval Christian writers distorted the teachings of Islam and caricatured its believers in a variety of...

• Author(s): John Tolan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryIn the first century of Islam, most of the former Christian Roman Empire, from Syria to Spain, was brough...

• Author(s): Gary Cross • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: United States - 21st CenturyThe unqualified victory of consumerism in America was not a foregone conclusion. The United States ...

• Author(s): Harry Harootunian • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - GeneralAcclaimed historian Harry Harootunian calls attention to the boundaries, real and theoret...

• Author(s): Bishop Of Otto Otto • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - MedievalThe 12th-century bishop Otto of Freising was an outstanding historian of his century. "The Two Cities...

• Author(s): Johannes Fabian • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFabian's study is a classic in the field that changed the way anthropologists relate t...

• Author(s): Daphne Joslin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Children's StudiesThis collection covers a variety of issues facing elder caregivers: community health, aging, HIV services,...

• Author(s): Daphne Joslin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryThis collection covers a variety of issues facing elder caregivers: community health, aging, HIV service...

• Author(s): Katharine Venter • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Careers - GeneralWhile there is extensive data on the experiences of women working in managerial positions in Britain, ...

• Author(s): Katharine Venter • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Careers - GeneralWhile there is extensive data on the experiences of women working in managerial positions in Britain, ...

• Author(s): Justin Yifu Lin • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralThis work is a continuation of the authors' earlier publication, ""The Chi...

• Author(s): Jeffrey Cody • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - GeneralCentring on the dynamic period of post-imperial and pre-Co...

• Author(s): Melvin Delgado • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Minority StudiesMany urban residents, especially persons of colour, are or have been involved in the juvenile and/or crimin...

• Author(s): Mária Tuttle • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsProvides a detailed historical account of the evolution of Hungarian politics and governmental structures a...

• Author(s): Mingyuan Gu • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralGu Mingyuan is one of China's most distinguished specialists in the field of comparative education. He is a long-serv...

• Author(s): Kwok-Kan Tam • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralIbsen has often been considered as the most important source, ...

• Author(s): Mark Bray • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Administration - GeneralThis book is the second edition of a volume published in 1997. Substantially revised and expanded, it ...

• Author(s): Larry Siedentop • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyFrom the Inside FlapBEHIND INTERVENTION in Kosovo and corruption in Brussels, behind the b...

• Author(s): Guillaume D`Orange • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: MedievalGuillaume d'Orange is the most extensive epic cycle of the Middle Ages. Set in the ninth century, the poems on ...

• Author(s): Qiao Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: SagasBilled as "a Taiwanese 'Gone With the Wind'", this story spans more than half a century of Taiwan's history, tracing the fort...

• Author(s): Bruce Jansson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralFrom the Inside FlapCHOICES ABOUT NATIONAL priorities are arguably the most important made by ...

• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralFrom 6-25 April 1998, the Tenth International Workshop on the Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and South China wa...

• Author(s): Roy A. Medvedev • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Development - Economic DevelopmentFrom the Inside FlapROY MEDVEDEV, one of the world's best-known Russian scholars and a f...

• Author(s): Ryuichi Abé • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternFrom the Back CoverThe great Buddhist priest Kukai (774-835) introduced and established tantric -- or esoteric -- Buddh...

• Author(s): Zygmunt Bauman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GlobalizationThe word "globalization" is used to convey the hope and determination of order-making on a worldwide scale. It...

• Author(s): Michael Goulding • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyFrom the Back CoverAs the depredation of the planet's greatest storehouse of biodiversity -- the A...

• Author(s): David Cannadine • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - Great Britain - GeneralFrom the Back CoverHas "class" -- once considered the master narrative of British history ...

• Author(s): Thomas Clayton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: HistoryLanguage policies and practices are controversial in many parts of the world, and are an important focus for compa...

• Author(s): Gerald Curtis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comparative PoliticsCurtis surveys the current state of Japanese politics and predicts what events are likely to transpire i...

• Author(s): Thomas Cronin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyUsing the geologic records of ocean and lake sediment, ice cores, corals, and ...

• Author(s): Wai Chung Lawrence Lai • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralAs Hong Kong town-planning legislation develops, there is an ever-growing demand for a better understandin...

• Author(s): The Management Developme Kong • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageThe book begins with the basics of communication and sen...

• Author(s): T. Neville Postlethwaite • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: ComparativeThis book presents in easily-accessible form some of the insights which Professor Postlethwaite has ...

• Author(s): Chris Bale • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralA baby girl, a family of sugar workers, a disabled man, a student, a well-meani...

• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThe first conference on the Marine Biology of the South China Sea was convened in Hong Kong in 1990,...

• Author(s): Yasheng Huang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralChina is the largest recipient of foreign direct investment (...

• Author(s): Robin Hutcheon • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThe Hong Kong Housing Society celebrates its 50th anniversary in 1998. During the pas...

• Author(s): Gottfried Eigenmann • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Multi-Language DictionariesThis book is written by practitioners and experts with day to day e...

• Author(s): Amy Dooling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsSpanning the first three decades of this century to the Sino-Japanese War, these twenty-two works of fiction, dra...

• Author(s): Wei-Yuan Zhang • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherThe Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) was established in the Faculty of Education of ...

• Author(s): Philip G. Altbach • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherThis book addresses a domain which is increasingly international. The issues that affect univ...

• Author(s): F Dikotter • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis volume shows that the construction of symbolic boundaries between racial categories ...

• Author(s): Kj Mumford • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Minority StudiesFrom black female prostitution to homosexual brothels, from taxi dance halls to speakeasies, Mumford reconstruc...

• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralFollowing a three-year cycle, an International Workshop on the Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern Chin...

• Author(s): Ming K. Chan • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe seven essays in this volume address some of the critical issues underlining the process of Hong Kong’s reintegra...

• Author(s): Michael Dumper • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & PalestineA political, social, cultural, and economic portrait of a city at the centre of the Mid...

• Author(s): Roda Mushkat • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThis book is to examine the key relevant issues within a single framework, high...