General Adult / Mature Content (Adult 18+)

• 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. ...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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....

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• Author(s): Douglas Kerr • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & Social

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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 ...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• Author(s): Jeremy Tambling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralMadmen and Other Survivors Reading Lu Xun’s Fiction puts the short stories written by this outstanding Chinese writ...

• 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,...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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 ...

• 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: ...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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....

• Author(s): Denise Tse-Shang Tang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LGBT Studies - Lesbian Studies

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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...

• 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?...