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History of Magic and Experimental Science: Seventeenth Century, Volume 7
Lynn Thorndike
Hardcover
• Author(s): Lynn Thorndike • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General
History of Magic and Experimental Science: Sixteenth Century, Volume 5
Unknown
Hardcover
• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
History of Magic and Experimental Science: Seventeenth Century, Volume 8
Lynn Thorndike
Hardcover
• Author(s): Lynn Thorndike • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General
History of Magic and Experimental Science: Sixteenth Century, Volume 6
Lynn Thorndike
Hardcover
• Author(s): Lynn Thorndike • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General
A Social and Religious History of the Jews: High Middle Ages: Heirs of Rome and Persia
Salo Wittmayer Baron
Hardcover
• Author(s): Salo Wittmayer Baron • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Judaism - History
Beowulf and Judith
Elliot Van Kirk Dobbie
Hardcover
• Author(s): Elliot Van Kirk Dobbie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General
History of Magic and Experimental Science: Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries, Volume 3
Lynn Thorndike
Hardcover
• Author(s): Lynn Thorndike • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is a new release of the original 1923 edition.
Conservatism, the Right Wing, and the Fa
Archie Henderson
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• Author(s): Archie Henderson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Ideologies - DemocracyThis truly unique collection is the essential guide to archival research on conservatism,...
View full detailsCh'ing Cash
Werner Burger
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• Author(s): Werner Burger • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaCoins are an accurate gauge of a country’s economic health, as the total number of coins released each year dire...
View full detailsUniversity Putonghua
Yan Yan Chan
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• Author(s): Yan Yan Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ChineseUniversity Putonghua is a two-volume textbook specially written for college and university learners. Focusing on stren...
View full detailsWuming - Painting Catalogue 13VST
Aihe Wang
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• Author(s): Aihe Wang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis thirteen-volume catalogue documents the art and history of Wuming, an underground group of artists active in Be...
View full detailsEarly Hong Kong Travel 1880 - 1939 - The H
Benjamin W. Yim
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• Author(s): Benjamin W. Yim • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaAs part of The University of Hong Kongs centennial celebration programme, the University Museum and Art Galle...
View full detailsThe Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong
Brian Morton
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• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyA three volume work of the proceedings of the Second International Marine Biological Workshop on the M...
View full detailsJao Tsung - i - The Amalgamation of Mind a
Tsung-I Jao
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• Author(s): Tsung-I Jao • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Techniques - PaintingJao Tsung-i The Amalgamation of Mind and Universe" is the first large-scale exhibition of Professor Jao's...
View full detailsChina in Revolution - The Road to 1911
Heung Shing Liu
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• Author(s): Heung Shing Liu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe 1911 Revolution ended dynastic rule in China and paved the way for the founding of Asia’s first republic. ...
View full detailsDECORATIVE DESIGNS FROM CHINA DUNHUANG
Shana Chang
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• Author(s): Shana Chang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis collection of more than 300 Dunhuang decorative designs reflects creativity and innovation in Chinese Budd...
View full detailsClassical Chinese Huanghuali Furniture f
Chu-Pak Lau
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• Author(s): Chu-Pak Lau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: FurnitureThe University Museum and Art Gallery at The University of Hong Kong presents Classical Chinese Huanghuali Furniture ...
View full detailsOld Masters Repainted - Wu Zhen (1280 - 13
Joan Stanley-Baker
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• Author(s): Joan Stanley-Baker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralOld Masters Repainted is art history at its most basic, formalist level, and the first in-depth exposi...
View full detailsDoctoral Dissertations on Hong Kong, 190
Frank Joseph Shulman
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• Author(s): Frank Joseph Shulman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Bibliographies & IndexesA descriptively annotated, multidisciplinary, cross-referenced and extensively indexed gu...
View full detailsDrawing New Color Lines - Transnational
Monica Chiu
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• Author(s): Monica Chiu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Comics & Graphic NovelsThe global circulation of comics, manga, and other such visual mediums between North America and As...
View full detailsAmerican Polonia & Poland - A Sequel to
Frank Mocha
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• Author(s): Frank Mocha • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralA sequel to "Poles in America", published 20 years ago, this new work includes essays written...
View full detailsA History of the University of Hong Kong
Peter Cunich
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• Author(s): Peter Cunich • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe University of Hong Kong was one of only a handful of fully autonomous colonial universities in the British Em...
View full detailsPain Medicine - A Multidisciplinary Appr
Siu Lun Tsui
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• Author(s): Siu Lun Tsui • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis is designed as a textbook for medical practitioners preparing for higher qualification examinations in pain ...
View full detailsTelecommunications Development in Asia
John Ure
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• Author(s): John Ure • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: TelecommunicationsNo industry has expanded faster than telecommunications, gained so many new users, added so much value, spread ...
View full detailsHong Kong as It Was - Hedda Morrisons Ph
Edward Stokes
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• Author(s): Edward Stokes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - Travel - GeneralIn September 1946, when the photographer Hedda Morrison reached Hong Kong, it remain...
View full detailsChinese Opera - The Actor's Craft
Wang-Ngai Siu
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• Author(s): Wang-Ngai Siu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralChinese opera embraces over 360 different styles of theatre that make one of the richest performance arts in the worl...
View full detailsHKU Memories from the Archives
Stacy Belcher Gould
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• Author(s): Stacy Belcher Gould • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn 2011, the University of Hong Kong celebrated its centenary as the first and for many years, only univer...
View full detailsGrowing with Hong Kong - The University
Unknown
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• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: HigherThe book witnesses and chronicles the 90 years wherein the University of Hong Kong and its graduates were intimately engaged...
View full detailsEdward S.T. Ho - Watercolour Journey
Edward S. T. Ho
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• Author(s): Edward S. T. Ho • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Techniques - Watercolor PaintingThis book is published in conjunction with Edward S. T. Hos first solo exhibition of his ...
View full detailsAn Annotated Bibliography of Chinese Fil
Jim Cheng
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• Author(s): Jim Cheng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - ReferenceThis authoritative reference tool covers monographs, conference proceedings, and theses that relate to film stud...
View full detailsSurviving Nirvana - Death of the Buddha
Sonya S. Lee
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• Author(s): Sonya S. Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - ReligiousThe Buddhas nirvana marks the end of the life of a great spiritual figure and the beginning...
View full detailsHong Kong Taxation - Law and Practice
Ayesha Macpherson Lau
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• Author(s): Ayesha Macpherson Lau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Taxation - GeneralDealing with all changes up to July 2005, this text discusses all of the year's court decisions an...
View full detailsWandering Spirit - Lyrical Landscapes by
Anita Yin-Fong Wong
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• Author(s): Anita Yin-Fong Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralThis is a richly illustrated publication to accompany the exhibition "Wand...
View full detailsCreating Across Cultures
Michelle Vosper
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• Author(s): Michelle Vosper • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralCreating Across Cultures is a collection of stories about visionary Asian women who have journeyed outside ...
View full detailsPicturing Asia
Ian Wedde
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• Author(s): Ian Wedde • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Individual Photographers - GeneralBrian Brake (1927–1988, New Zealand) and Steve McCurry (1950– , U.S.A.) are two eminent photoj...
View full detailsGERMAN PARLIAMENT
Manfred Görtemaker
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• Author(s): Manfred Görtemaker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - GermanyAlongside its historical chapters, the book contains a systematic presentation of the work of today’s P...
View full detailsZhao Mengfu - Calligraphy and Painting
Shane Mccausland
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• Author(s): Shane Mccausland • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Artists, Architects, PhotographersZhao Mengfu has enormous significance for Chinese art history. This work presents a new...
View full detailsThe Heart of Ma Yuan - The Search for a
Richard Edwards
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• Author(s): Richard Edwards • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - Ancient & ClassicalMa Yuan, one of China's best-known artists, was a key figure in the period widely celebra...
View full detailsHong Kong Nature Landscapes
Edward Stokes
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• Author(s): Edward Stokes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHong Kong Nature Landscapes is a retrospective of Edward Stokes finest Hong Kong photographs. Follow him on thi...
View full detailsPictures of Tilling and Weaving - Art, L
Roslyn Lee Hammers
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• Author(s): Roslyn Lee Hammers • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralAround 1145 the Southern Song dynasty official Lou Shu inaugurated a genre known as pictures of tilling ...
View full detailsSingapore
Mark Ravinder Frost
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• Author(s): Mark Ravinder Frost • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - Southeast AsiaSingapore: A Biography takes you there to those critical moments in the island's past, as captu...
View full detailsShahzia Sikander
Claire Brandon
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• Author(s): Claire Brandon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Individual Artists - GeneralShahzia Sikander (1969–, Pakistan) is an artist based in the United States who employs a multit...
View full detailsThe Monterey Formation - From Rocks to M
Caroline Isaacs
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• Author(s): Caroline Isaacs • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Geology"The Monterey Formation: From Rocks to Molecules" provides a case study of a classic marine petrol...
View full detailsTropical Asian Streams - Zoobenthos, Eco
David Dudgeon
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• Author(s): David Dudgeon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThis book deals with the ecology of rivers and streams in the Oriental Region, and describes the comp...
View full detailsBethanie & Nazareth - French Secrets fro
Alain Le Pichon
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• Author(s): Alain Le Pichon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - FranceBethanie and Nazareth are two of Hong Kong's best-kept secrets. This work sheds light on the stories of the...
View full detailsHong Kong Culture - Word and Image
Kam Louie
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• Author(s): Kam Louie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHong Kong as a world city draws on a rich variety of foundational texts in film, fiction, architecture and other f...
View full detailsIngenious Iceland - Twentieth - Century Ic
Jóhann Ágúst Hansen
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• Author(s): Jóhann Ágúst Hansen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralThis publication accompanies the University Museums exhibition of more th...
View full detailsAt the Epicentre - Hong Kong and the SAR
Christine Loh
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• Author(s): Christine Loh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EssaysWhat was really happening as Hong Kong struggled with SARS? In At the Epicentre, the story of those extraordinary week...
View full detailsForgotten Souls - A Social History of th
Patricia Lim
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• Author(s): Patricia Lim • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book follows on from the mapping and recording of the about 10,000 graves that make up the Hong Kong Cemeter...
View full detailsMaking of Americans
Gertrude Stein
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• Author(s): Gertrude Stein • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn "The Making of Americans," Gertrude Stein sets out to tell "a history of a family's progress," radically reworkin...
View full detailsRespiratory Medicine - An Asian Perspect
Mary Ip
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• Author(s): Mary Ip • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Pulmonary & Thoracic MedicineThis is the first book to focus on respiratory health and diseases in Asia, where 60% of the worl...
View full detailsMerchants of Canton and Macao - Success
Paul A. Van Dyke
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• Author(s): Paul A. Van Dyke • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis landmark study of Canton and Macao merchants advances our understanding of the rise and development of i...
View full detailsThe Hong Kong Ballet
Wang-Ngai Siu
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• Author(s): Wang-Ngai Siu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Dance - Classical & BalletThis is a book for all who delight in the ballet, and for all who admire outstanding photograp...
View full detailsOfficialdom Unmasked
T. L. Yang
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• Author(s): T. L. Yang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIt has been said that the downfall of the Qing dynasty was due not so much to the 1911 Revolution as to the pervasive co...
View full detailsLeaving Home - Migration Yesterday and T
Diethelm Knauf
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• Author(s): Diethelm Knauf • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Parenting - Parent & Adult ChildThe nineteenth century is often called the century of mass migration. Multiple factors,...
View full detailsEducation in Hong Kong, 1941 to 2001 - V
Anthony Sweeting
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• Author(s): Anthony Sweeting • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis book is a sequel to Education in Hong Kong, Pre-1841 to 1941 Fact and Opinion (Hong Kong University Press, 19...
View full detailsBuilding the Dragon City - History of th
Unknown
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• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis book celebrates 60 years of the founding of the Faculty of Architecture at HKU. The Faculty has grown over the ye...
View full detailsShipping and Logistics Law - Principles
Felix W. Chan
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• Author(s): Felix W. Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Economic PolicyThis textbook provides a general framework for the basic principles of shipping and logistics...
View full detailsMouthfeel
Ole Mouritsen
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• Author(s): Ole Mouritsen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Food ScienceWhy is chocolate melting on the tongue such a decadent sensation? Why do we love crunching on bacon? Why is fizz...
View full detailsLiterary Mind and Carving of Dragons
Vincent Yu-Chung Shih
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• Author(s): Vincent Yu-Chung Shih • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: AestheticsText: English, Chinese (translation)