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Understanding Marriage: A Hong Kong Case Study
Katherine P. H. Young
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• Author(s): Katherine P. H. Young • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralFrom the Back CoverHarmony has traditionally been upheld as the essential element in a happy ma...
View full detailsVirtual Design Studio
Jerzy Wojtowicz
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• Author(s): Jerzy Wojtowicz • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Design, Drafting, Drawing & PresentationThe Virtual Design Studio establishes a new paradigm for CAD, expanding comp...
View full detailsClinical Social Work
Helen Northen
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• Author(s): Helen Northen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThis revised edition of a classic text provides a comprehensive guide to contemporary clinical social work, and t...
View full detailsAn Anthology of Romanian Women Poets
Adam Sorkin
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• Author(s): Adam Sorkin • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThe selections represent many generations of poets, from Veronica Micle and Matilda Cugler-Poni in the n...
View full detailsWork and Power in Maale, Ethiopia
Donald Donham
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• Author(s): Donald Donham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economic ConditionsThis book is one of the most successful examples in the Africanist literature of placing structures in ti...
View full detailsDynamics of Regional Politics: Four Systems on the Indian Ocean Rim
W. Howard Wriggins
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• Author(s): W. Howard Wriggins • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: World - GeneralFrom the Back CoverDynamics of Regional Politics explores the patterns of international conflict and coo...
View full detailsFolding of Viscous Layers: Mechanical Analysis and Interpretation of Structures in Deformed Rock
Arvid Johnson
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• Author(s): Arvid Johnson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyFor years, structural geologists have sought a coherent methodology for understanding the forms of s...
View full detailsWaiting for the Dawn: A Plan for the Prince
Wm. Theodore De Bary
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• Author(s): Wm. Theodore De Bary • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History & Theory - GeneralThis is an English translation of one of China's greatest works of political literature...
View full detailsCase Studies in Plant Taxonomy: Exercises in Applied Pattern Recognition
Tod F. Stuessy
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• Author(s): Tod F. Stuessy • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BotanyDesigned to help students make better taxonomic judgments, this case book contains exercises and case...
View full detailsThe Logic of Force: The Dilemma of Limited War in American Foreign Policy
Christopher Gacek
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• Author(s): Christopher Gacek • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis study examines the disparities between the two dominant American political-militar...
View full detailsMoral Knowing in a Hindu Sacred City: An Exploration of Mind, Emotion, and Self
Steven Parish
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• Author(s): Steven Parish • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralExplores the interrelationship of mind, self, emotion and the development of moral consciousness in the Nepalese city...
View full detailsThe Empowerment Tradition in American Social Work: A History
Barbara Levy Simon
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• Author(s): Barbara Levy Simon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Social Services & WelfareAn exploration of the social movements, ideas and beliefs that have been m...
View full detailsThe Faces of Power: United States Foreign Policy from Truman to Clinton
Seyom Brown
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• Author(s): Seyom Brown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis exploration of US policy debates and decisions from the end of World War II to the prese...
View full detailsChild Welfare Research Review: Volume 1
Stephen Wesley
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• Author(s): Stephen Wesley • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThis volume culls the most important and provocative research and policy analysis in the child welfare field and...
View full detailsChild Welfare Research Review: Volume 1
Stephen Wesley
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• Author(s): Stephen Wesley • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThis volume culls the most important and provocative research and policy analysis in the child welfare field and...
View full detailsThe Autobiography of Shibusawa Eiichi: From Peasant to Entrepreneur
Eiichi Shibusawa
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• Author(s): Eiichi Shibusawa • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: GeneralShibusawa Eiichi (1840-1931) is known as the great investment banker-entrepreneur of Meiji Japan, credited with cr...
View full detailsRomania's Communist Takeover: The Radescu Government
Dinu Giurescu
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• Author(s): Dinu Giurescu • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralFocusing on the developments which led to the imposition of a Communist-dominated government in Romani...
View full detailsBison: Mating and Conservation in Small Populations
Carol Cunningham
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• Author(s): Carol Cunningham • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Animals - MammalsThis examination of a depopulated species, the North American bison, provides insights into the past and...
View full detailsHills and Streams: An Ecology of Hong Kong
David Dudgeon
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• Author(s): David Dudgeon • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralDespite centuries of human impact and one the highest population densities on Earth, most of Hong Kong is still rur...
View full detailsThe Broken Seals: Part One of the Marshes of Mount Liang
Nai'An Shi
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• Author(s): Nai'An Shi • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralThe story of The Broken Seals branches this way and that, follow...
View full detailsProfessional and Continuing Education in Hong Kong: Issues and Perspectives
Ngok Lee
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• Author(s): Ngok Lee • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Adult & Continuing EducationOne in eight adults in Hong Kong attends part-time education or training programmes of some sor...
View full detailsUp from Communism: Conservative Odysses in American Intellectual Development
John Diggins
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• Author(s): John Diggins • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismThis study explains how the radical experience of a generatio...
View full detailsTracing the History of Eukaryotic Cells: The Enigmatic Smile
Betsey Dexter Dyer
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• Author(s): Betsey Dexter Dyer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Cell BiologyDrawing evidence from molecular biology and the fossil record, this study discusses the evo...
View full detailsQualitative Research in Social Work
Edmund Sherman
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• Author(s): Edmund Sherman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkIn this volume, progressive experts survey recent trends in qualitative study, which relies on small sample grou...
View full detailsWriting News for Broadcast
James Hoyt
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• Author(s): James Hoyt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Radio - GeneralThe authoritative guide to writing for the broadcast medium.
Democracy and Foreign Policy: The Fallacy of Political Realism
Miroslav Nincic
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• Author(s): Miroslav Nincic • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyThis study challenges the belief that liberal democracy is incompatible with an effective ...
View full detailsLaughing Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy
William Paul
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• Author(s): William Paul • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFrom the Back CoverWilliam Paul's exploration of an extremely popular box office genre - the gr...
View full detailsHimalayan Households: Tamang Demography and Domestic Processes
Tom Fricke
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• Author(s): Tom Fricke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialHimalayan Households – Tamang Demography & Domestic Processes [Paperback] Fricke, Tom
The Marine Biology of the South China Sea I & II (2 Vols.)
Brian Morton
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• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Marine BiologyThis is a collection of about 50 papers presented at the First International Conference on th...
View full detailsJapanese Constitutional Law
Percy Luney
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• Author(s): Percy Luney • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralUnder its postwar Constitution, which was promulgated in 1947, Japan adopted the principles of popular s...
View full detailsBetween Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala
David Stoll
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• Author(s): David Stoll • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Latin America - GeneralChallenging the views of human rights activists, Stoll argues that the Ixils who supported Guatemalan r...
View full detailsContentment and Suffering: Culture and Experience in Toraja
Douglas Hollan
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• Author(s): Douglas Hollan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis psychocultural ethnography of the Toraja wet-rice farmers of Indonesia provides a rich portrait of Torajan life...
View full detailsBetween Two Armies in the Ixil Towns of Guatemala
David Stoll
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• Author(s): David Stoll • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralChallenging the views of human rights activists, Stoll argues that the Ixils who supported Guatemal...
View full detailsJapan's Public Sector: How the Government Is Financed
Tokue Shibata
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• Author(s): Tokue Shibata • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: Public Finance
Economic Vulnerability in International Relations: East-West Trade, Investment, and Finance
Beverly Crawford
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• Author(s): Beverly Crawford • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International - GeneralThis study examines claims that vulnerability existed in Western economic relations with the forme...
View full detailsAgricultural Reform in Taiwan: From Here to Modernity?
Irene Bain
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• Author(s): Irene Bain • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - General
Liberals and Communism: The Red Decade Revisted
Frank Warren
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• Author(s): Frank Warren • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismAssesses the nature and extent of communist influence on Amer...
View full detailsIn the Shadow of China: Political Development in Taiwan Since 1949
Steve Tsang
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• Author(s): Steve Tsang • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralFrom a military dictatorship in the early 1950s, Taiwan has evolved into a prosperous, stable and...
View full detailsLiberals and Communism: The Red Decade Revisted
Frank Warren
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• Author(s): Frank Warren • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Communism, Post-Communism & SocialismAssesses the nature and extent of communist influence on Amer...
View full detailsDemocracy and Right-Wing Politics in Eastern Europe in the 1990s
Joseph Held
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• Author(s): Joseph Held • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThis collection of essays traces the roots of right-wing politics in pre-communistic Eastern Europe and ...
View full detailsThe Origins of Democratization in Poland: Workers, Intellectuals, and Oppositional Politics, 1976-1980
Michael H. Bernhard
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• Author(s): Michael H. Bernhard • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyUsing sources from the Polish underground press of the late 1970s, this is a detailed ...
View full detailsA History of Brazil
E. Bradford Burns
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• Author(s): E. Bradford Burns • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Latin America - South AmericaComplete in breadth and chronological span, A History of Brazil is a panoramic interpretati...
View full detailsConrad: Eastern and Western Perspectives: Contexts for Conrad
Keith Carabine
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• Author(s): Keith Carabine • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: GeneralThe second of a three-volume collection of studies focusing on Joseph Conrad's Polish roots and his contributions as a...
View full detailsHong Kong Public Law Reports, Vol. 1 (1991)
Andrew Byrnes
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• Author(s): Andrew Byrnes • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionalThe Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance came into force in June 1991, ushering in an important new stage of d...
View full detailsHarnessing Information Power
Robert Ian Tricker
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• Author(s): Robert Ian Tricker • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Management - GeneralInformation technology offers the potential for quite different ways of organization and manageme...
View full detailsTropical Deforestation: Small Farmers and Land Clearing in the Ecudorian Amazon
Thomas Rudel
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• Author(s): Thomas Rudel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Using a case study of tropical deforestation in the upper reaches o...
View full detailsPolitical Organization and the Interwar Crisis in Europe
Lauri Karvonen
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• Author(s): Lauri Karvonen • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThe breakdown of democracy in large parts of interwar Europe has often been attributed to the fragmen...
View full detailsFifty Patterns of Modern Chinese
Dezhi Han
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• Author(s): Dezhi Han • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralThis book includes fifty most widely used Chinese sentence patterns and is speci...
View full detailsThe Fragrant Chinese
Anthony Lawrence
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• Author(s): Anthony Lawrence • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - China
Tropical Deforestation: Small Farmers and Land Clearing in the Ecudorian Amazon
Thomas Rudel
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• Author(s): Thomas Rudel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Addressing decades of rain forest destruction, concerned scientists...
View full detailsGeorge Sand and Idealism
Naomi Schor
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• Author(s): Naomi Schor • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralA reanalysis of Sand's major writing, ranging from her early short stories to her later fiction, which ident...
View full detailsFarm to Factory: Women's Letters, 1830-1860
Thomas Dublin
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• Author(s): Thomas Dublin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Careers - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis volume contains a chronological table of Chinese history beginning with 2852 B.C. u...
View full detailsMultilateralism Matters: The Theory and Praxis of an Institutional Form
John Gerard Ruggie
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• Author(s): John Gerard Ruggie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - General
A History of Chinese Calligraphy
Yuho Tseng
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• Author(s): Yuho Tseng • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralChinese calligraphy has been an independent visual art form for ...
View full detailsSourcebook of Korean Civilization: From Early Times to the Sixteenth Century
Peter Lee
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• Author(s): Peter Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - KoreaThis anthology is the most ambitious, comprehensive, and authoritative English-language sourcebook of Korean civiliz...
View full detailsA Social and Religious History of the Jews: Index to Volumes 9-18
Salo Wittmayer Baron
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• Author(s): Salo Wittmayer Baron • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Jewish - GeneralDesigned to accompany the 18-volume reference work, this index contains the names, events and dates t...
View full detailsPostmodernism: A Reader
Thomas Docherty
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• Author(s): Thomas Docherty • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Semiotics & TheoryThe arguments over postmodernism are among the most important intellectual debates of our time. Goin...
View full detailsThe Logic of Anarchy: Neorealism to Structural Realism
Barry Buzan
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• Author(s): Barry Buzan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - General-- James Der Derian, University of Massachusetts
Regicide and Revolution: Speeches at the Trial of Louis XVI
Michael Walzer
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• Author(s): Michael Walzer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceWalzer defends the trial and execution of Louis XVI as necessary, since it not only tried to destroy mystiqu...
View full detailsZaibatsu: The Rise and Fall of Family Enterprise Groups in Japan
Hidemasa Morikawa
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• Author(s): Hidemasa Morikawa • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralZaibatsu are central to the economic history of modern Japan. These family-owned business groups, so...
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