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Aldous Huxley
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• Author(s): Aldous Huxley • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiterarySebastian Barnack, a handsome English schoolboy, goes to Italy for the summer, and there his real education begins. ...
View full detailsThe Cop and the Sociologist
Barbara Thériault
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• Author(s): Barbara Thériault • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralDrawing on the sociology of Max Weber, Barbara Thériault investigates today's relations toward differ...
View full detailsWatching Over Hong Kong - Private Polici
Sheilah E. Hamilton
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• Author(s): Sheilah E. Hamilton • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn this pioneering study, Sheilah Hamilton shows that, from the earliest days of British rule, the colonia...
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Yu Feng
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• Author(s): Yu Feng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ChineseThis bilingual handbook introduces the most important written expressions and classical idiomatic phrases in modern Chinese...
View full detailsChange in Use of Land - A Practical Guid
Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai
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• Author(s): Lawrence Wai-Chung Lai • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - City Planning & Urban DevelopmentThe major difficulties facing professionals in real estate dev...
View full detailsInvestigative Journalism in China - Eigh
David Bandurski
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• Author(s): David Bandurski • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: JournalismDespite persistent pressure from state censors and other tools of political control, investigative journalism ha...
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Federico Italiano
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• Author(s): Federico Italiano • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Communication StudiesAs recent years have revealed, the concept of "translation" has grown increasingly important in a g...
View full detailsCritical Zone 1 - A Forum of Chinese and
Q. S. Tong
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• Author(s): Q. S. Tong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralAmid the globalizing forces, whether economic, political, or cultural, there remain conspicuous differences and divergen...
View full detailsLand Administration and Practice in Hong
Roger Nissim
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• Author(s): Roger Nissim • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Land UseThe purpose of this book is to explain both the historical development and the current practice of land administratio...
View full detailsCzech and Slovak Theatre Abroad - USA, C
Vera Borkovec
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• Author(s): Vera Borkovec • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralContains papers that examine the nature and function of Czech and Slovak theatre abroad since the nineteenth century....
View full detailsNobodaddy's Children
Arno Schmidt
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• Author(s): Arno Schmidt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralNobodaddy's Children is a trilogy of novels that traces life in Germany from the Nazi era through the postwar years an...
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Soojeong Ahn
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• Author(s): Soojeong Ahn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThis book provides a political and cultural exploration of the Pusan International Film Festiva...
View full detailsLegal Issues for the Medical Practitione
David Sau-Yan Wong
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• Author(s): David Sau-Yan Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Medical Law & LegislationThis is a handy resource of common medilegal topics in everyday medical practice. It is su...
View full detailsWorking Papers
Peterson Institue F Economics
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• Author(s): Peterson Institue F Economics • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Economics - GeneralPerhaps the most popular of all Institute products, selected Working Papers are now avail...
View full detailsFoundations of Public Administration - A
Peter Harris
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• Author(s): Peter Harris • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Affairs & AdministrationThis book has been written to explain some of the fundamental issues of public administrat...
View full detailsMay Days in Hong Kong - Riot and Emergen
Robert Bickers
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• Author(s): Robert Bickers • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaIn this study of the anti-colonial riots which erupted in Hong Kong in May 1967, the authors shed new light on ...
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Rob Mcinnes
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• Author(s): Rob Mcinnes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Reference"What an impressive pack! This Teacher's Guide is comprehensive, rigorously underpinned with theoretical persp...
View full detailsWang Kuo - Wei's Jen - chien Tz'u - hua - A St
A. A. Rickett
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• Author(s): A. A. Rickett • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseIn the first decade of the twentieth century while other intellectuals were concerned with translating works ...
View full detailsSpaces of Conflict in Everyday Life
Martin Sökefeld
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• Author(s): Martin Sökefeld • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialFocusing on particularly conflict-prone parts of Asia, the contributors to this book a...
View full detailsFagaras - Patterns of Central and Easter
Sarolta Solcan
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• Author(s): Sarolta Solcan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Europe - GeneralThis volume is a demographic case study of of a mixed population study. It attempts to reconstruct the demo...
View full detailsTeaching TV Quiz Shows
Wendy Helsby
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• Author(s): Wendy Helsby • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismAfter a brief introduction, Teaching TV Quiz Shows is organized in sections beginning with a sh...
View full detailsCity of Broken Promises
Austin Coates
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• Author(s): Austin Coates • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe city is Macao, the Portuguese settlement on the China Coast, as it was more than 200 years ago. The promises are ...
View full detailsCritical Zone 3 - A Forum of Chinese and
Douglas Kerr
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• Author(s): Douglas Kerr • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social
English Exposed
Steve Hart
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• Author(s): Steve Hart • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageHaving analysed the most common English errors made in over 600 academic papers written by Chinese ...
View full detailsIslam in Hong Kong - Muslims and Everyda
Paul O’Connor
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• Author(s): Paul O’Connor • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Islamic Studies"More than a quarter of a million Muslims live and work in Hong Kong. Among them are descendants of families ...
View full detailsAnglo - Chinese Diplomacy, 1906 - 1920 - In
Lau Kit-Ching Chan
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• Author(s): Lau Kit-Ching Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralYüan Shih-k'ai emerged around the turn of the century as the strong man in China with ...
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Gerhard Kümmel
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• Author(s): Gerhard Kümmel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralThis work presents a study on the economic relations between interwar Germany and the Unit...
View full detailsDirections in Self - Access Language Learn
David Gardner
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• Author(s): David Gardner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThis is a collection of articles on the topic of self-access language learning by a variety of experien...
View full detailsDancing Archives -- Archive Dances
Thom Hecht
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• Author(s): Thom Hecht • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Dance - GeneralThis book presents the first in-depth archival exploration of a lost history of dance as an extracurricular acti...
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Gene Mustain
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• Author(s): Gene Mustain • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: JournalismThis book is going to take you to remote regions and crowded cities. It will take you very near Ground Zero in New ...
View full detailsFor Each and Everyone - Catering for Ind
Mun Ling Lo
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• Author(s): Mun Ling Lo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Learning StylesThis book describes a three-year research project which built on students learning experience, and addresses t...
View full detailsDisease, Colonialism, and the State - Ma
Ka-Che Yip
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• Author(s): Ka-Che Yip • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaStudying malaria in modern East Asia in the context of the global history of the disease, this book fills an import...
View full detailsJumping Through Hoops - Autobiographical
Jing Wang
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• Author(s): Jing Wang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: WomenJumping Through Hoops is a collection of nine intense and dramatic stories that sheds new light on the experiences of Chine...
View full detailsThe Myth of Neighbourhood Mutual Help -
Cecilia Lai-Wan Chan
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• Author(s): Cecilia Lai-Wan Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralIt has popularly been accepted that the relationships among neighbours in China are closer than th...
View full detailsAssessment for Learning
Shuk Yin Rita Berry
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• Author(s): Shuk Yin Rita Berry • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Special Education - GeneralAssessment is an important part of effective teaching and learning. It allows achievements ...
View full detailsWalking Between Slums and Skyscrapers -
Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang
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• Author(s): Tsung-Yi Michelle Huang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanThe book is concerned with the effects of globalization on living space (i.e. the space of everyd...
View full detailsCool Istanbul
Derya Özkan
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• Author(s): Derya Özkan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis volume investigates the "cool city" phenomenon with an empirical focus on Istanbul. I...
View full detailsPlacing America
Michael Fuchs
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• Author(s): Michael Fuchs • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Public Policy - Regional PlanningIn Call Me Ishmael, Charles Olson exclaims "SPACE to be the central fact to man born in Ame...
View full detailsMadmen and Other Survivors - Reading Lu
Jeremy Tambling
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• Author(s): Jeremy Tambling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralMadmen and Other Survivors Reading Lu Xuns Fiction puts the short stories written by this outstanding Chinese writ...
View full detailsNeurology in Practice
Yuk Ling Yu
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• Author(s): Yuk Ling Yu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Neurology - GeneralSince it was first published in 1994, Neurology in Practice has been widely used as a textbook by students,...
View full detailsLebanese in Motion
Anja Peleikis
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• Author(s): Anja Peleikis • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Gender StudiesThis study is based on the observation that unidirectional movements are becoming less and less characteristic...
View full detailsTort Law in Hong Kong
Stephen D. Mau
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• Author(s): Stephen D. Mau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThis is one in a series of introductory books providing readers with an overvie...
View full detailsTrick Is to Keep Breathing
Janice Galloway
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• Author(s): Janice Galloway • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralJanice Galloway's inventive first novel is about the breakdown of a 27-year-old drama teacher named Joy Stone. The ...
View full detailsUrban Hacking
Günther Friesinger
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• Author(s): Günther Friesinger • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanUrban spaces became battlefields, signifiers have been invaded, new structures have been established: ...
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Michael Keane
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• Author(s): Michael Keane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesChallenging assumptions that have underpinned critiques of globalisation and combining cultural theory with med...
View full detailsMind and Matter
Günther Friesinger
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• Author(s): Günther Friesinger • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Electronics - DigitalThe terms "mind" and "matter" appear to signify two concepts irreplaceable and permanent in nature...
View full detailsThe Chinese Exotic - Modern Diasporic Fe
Olivia Khoo
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• Author(s): Olivia Khoo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe Chinese Exotic examines new representations of diasporic Chinese femininity emerging f...
View full detailsAsian Diasporas - Cultures, Indentity, R
Robbie B. H. Goh
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• Author(s): Robbie B. H. Goh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - Central AsiaAsian diasporas are all too often seen in terms of settlement problems in a host nation, where the foc...
View full detailsDiscourse as Cultural Struggle
Xu Shi
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• Author(s): Xu Shi • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesDiscourse as Cultural Struggle challenges the cultural imbalance in current research traditions, and argues for a cult...
View full detailsAction/Adventure Films - Classroom Resou
Rob Mcinnes
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• Author(s): Rob Mcinnes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismThe Action/Adventure Films Classroom Resources features a combination of teacher's notes, classr...
View full detailsLocal Knowledge and Gender in Ghana
Christine Müller
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• Author(s): Christine Müller • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - GeneralThe emergence of global knowledge societies is recently questioning the meaning and relevance of local...
View full detailsThe Image and the Figure Our Lady of Czestochowa in Polish Culture and Popular Religion
Anna Niedzwiedz
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• Author(s): Anna Niedzwiedz • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralThe image of Our Lady of Czestochowa is the most famous and the most venerated holy image in Poland....
View full detailsConditional Spaces - Hong Kong Lesbian D
Denise Tse-Shang Tang
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• Author(s): Denise Tse-Shang Tang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBT Studies - Lesbian Studies
Contract Law in Hong Kong
Stephen D. Mau
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• Author(s): Stephen D. Mau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ContractsThis is one in a series of introductory books providing readers with an overview of the most frequently encountere...
View full detailsNot Berlin and Not Shanghai
Mona Schieren
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• Author(s): Mona Schieren • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criticism & TheoryThis volume presents different viewpoints on the periphery/center dichotomy with their connotations of...
View full detailsWong Kar - wai's Happy Together
Jeremy Tambling
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• Author(s): Jeremy Tambling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismWong Kar-wai’s controversial film, Happy Together, was released in Hong Kong just before the...
View full detailsOn Screenwriting
Freddie Gaffney
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• Author(s): Freddie Gaffney • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - ScreenwritingWriters have been publishing screenwriting books for over half a century now, full of "inside tips" on...
View full detailsProperty Law in Hong Kong - An Introduct
Stephen D. Mau
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• Author(s): Stephen D. Mau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PropertyThis book focuses on the rules regulating property and conveyancing which apply in the territory and is intended fo...
View full detailsClassroom Management - Creating a Positi
Ming-Tak Hue
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• Author(s): Ming-Tak Hue • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Special Education - GeneralThis book is about management of student conduct in the classroom, which is the number one area of...
View full detailsMoment to Monument
Andrea Ochsner
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• Author(s): Andrea Ochsner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWhy do certain works of art make it into the canon while others just enjoy a brief moment of recognition, if at all?...
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