General Adult / Mature Content (Adult 18+)

• Author(s): Charles O’Brian • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThis book provides a detailed examination of child protection procedures and practice in Hong Kong. It is the...

• Author(s): Judith E. Sihombing • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: SecuritiesThe purpose of this book is to introduce elements of the law concerning dealings with goods in Hong Kong t...

• Author(s): Peter Corne • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralChina’s legal system is characterized by the gap between law and reality. Focusing on regulatory law, ...

• Author(s): Irene Bloom • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternIn this collection of original essays, leading scholars of East Asian studies seek to define the deeply religious dimen...

• Author(s): George Ronald Williams • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThe Gaia hypothesis, set forth by British scientist James Lovelock, has widely influenced en...

• Author(s): Barry Adam • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryThrough the voices of people living with HIV or AIDS, this text explores the ways in which HIV affects pers...

• Author(s): Marina Ma • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: MusicYo-Yo Ma is an internationally acclaimed cello virtuoso. This is the story of his early life from t...

• Author(s): Barry Adam • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryFrom the Back CoverThe book presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the lives of people facing HIV and AIDS as w...

• Author(s): Victor Y. H. Yu • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Perinatology & NeonatologyWith over 90 chapters this is a standard textbook covering all the important aspects of ne...

• Author(s): Jian Chen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThrough the use of recently released Chinese documents, conversations with People's Republic of China scholars, and ...

• Author(s): Hans Buechler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is an oral history of a second-generation, urban-born woman who struggles to survive in the poor, Andean city of...

• Author(s): Tod F. Stuessy • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyOutlining a plan for mapping phytodiversity in the next half century, this book focuses on the proto...

• Author(s): Thomas Rudel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Focusses on the humans who regularly inhabit severely damaged fores...

• Author(s): Janet Afary • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the decisive roles played by social democratic activist...

• Author(s): Robin Hutcheon • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralTwo great seas - the China and the Yellow - have been the highways that hav...

• Author(s): Warren I. Cohen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralA study of relations between America and East Asia on the eve of the twenty-first century.

• Author(s): James Hayes • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaFrom the Back CoverPrompted by the Chinese saying, 'When I walk along with two others, I am bound to be able to ...

• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: DirectoriesThis comprehensive guide includes detailed information on the policies, services and facilities of about 80 libraries...

• Author(s): Bardwell Smith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - General (see also Philosophy - Buddhist)This collection examines how religion and politics have intersected in S...

• Author(s): Gillian Clezy • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: NeuropsychologyCommunity-based rehabilitation is based on the belief that allied health and education workers in the field...

• Author(s): Kenneth Morgan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Eastern-- Joseph M. Kitagawa, University of Chicago

• Author(s): Makoto Ueda • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseLike haiku, tanka is a short, classical verse form that has attracted considerable attention in this century. ...

• Author(s): D. A. Spellberg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralIn this extraordinary study, D. A. Spellberg examines the life of 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr, Muhammad's m...

• Author(s): Julia L. Y. Chan • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralThe directory records information on 763 libraries in Hong Kong, listing 53 ...

• Author(s): Lau Sing • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Children's StudiesThis volume is a collection of current research on Chinese child development: the conte...

• Author(s): J. David Archibald • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Animals - Dinosaurs & Prehistoric CreaturesThe first book to approach the Cretaceous extinction-the period during w...

• Author(s): David Wilkie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Remote Sensing & Geographic Information SystemsIncludes almost one hundred maps, satellite and aerial photographs, and co...

• Author(s): David Wilkie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Remote Sensing & Geographic Information SystemsIncludes almost one hundred maps, satellite and aerial photographs, and co...

• Author(s): David Watkins • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Multicultural EducationThis is the first book to paint a clear, research based picture of how Chinese students and their t...

• Author(s): Ronald Skeldon • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationThe book centres around a Hong Kong-wide survey of emigration designed ...

• Author(s): Victor Fic • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralImportant in light of the second democratic revolution in Russia, in which United States policie...

• Author(s): Sally Mitchell • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn 1880 the concept of girlhood as a separate stage of existence was barely present. But in ...

• Author(s): Janet Salaff • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsFrom the Back CoverBased on a five-year study of twenty-eight young, unmarried working women ...

• Author(s): Joseph Carrier • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Men's StudiesA detailed description of sexual practices and bonds among Latino males in Guadalajara, Mexico using a combina...

• Author(s): Anskar Leung • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Aesthetics

• Author(s): Victor Turner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HistoryFrom the Back CoverImage and Pilgrimage examines in detail two anthropological important aspects of the practice of p...

• Author(s): Manabu Sasa • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - EntomologyThe non-biting chironomid midges (Family Chironomidae, Order Diptera) include numbers of s...

• Author(s): Richard Ned Lebow • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis controversial set of essays evaluates and extends international relations theory i...

• Author(s): Carlos Wing-Hung Lo • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralAfter decades of nihilistic rule under Mao Zedong, can legal order be restored in China? How s...

• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThe Marine Parks Bill was passed into law by Hong Kong’s Legislative Council on 31 May 1995. This pi...

• Author(s): Geza Zavodszky • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralDescribes how the politics and culture of the American colonies - later the United States - had a cru...

• Author(s): Jonathan Ballou • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralPlaces the converging disciplines of wildlife management and captive ...

• Author(s): Victor Regnier • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkAssisted living is an alternative to the institutional nursing home that uses innovative design, financing and m...

• Author(s): Jonathan Ballou • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Environmental Conservation & Protection - GeneralPlaces the converging disciplines of wildlife management and captive ...

• Author(s): Marius Jansen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - JapanExploring a tumultuous time in Japanese 19th-century history, when the country began to emerge from self-imposed...

• Author(s): Alexander Motyl • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: World - Russian & SovietWith the breakup of the Soviet Union and the subsequent creation of the Commonwealth of Indepe...

• Author(s): Wm. Theodore De Bary • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralDesigned for anyone interested in learning more about the aesthetics, history, philosophy and religion ...

• Author(s): Berry Hsu • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Government - GeneralStudies the extent to which Common Law notions have taken root in Hong Kong, and answers the most fundamen...

• Author(s): Robert Halpern • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThis study charts the history of neighbourhood-based initiatives in the USA to illuminate the enduring dil...

• Author(s): Rey Chow • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralChow situates contemporary Chinese film within the broad context of Chinese history and culture, giving readers a g...

• Author(s): David J. Hess • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Latin America - GeneralProvides a unique picture of everyday life in Brazil viewed from a comparative perspective. Brazilian...

• Author(s): Alfred Low • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - GermanyLow is the first historian to focus on the links between earlier post-war German judgments and those of the 1980s...

• Author(s): William Paul • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAn engrossing examination of a popular box office genre-the gross-out movie-Laughing Screaming ...