General Adult / Mature Content (Adult 18+)

• Author(s): Andrew Schroeder • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismHong Kong cinema exploded into world culture during the 1990s, driven by its linkage with H...

• Author(s): Sean Redmond • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismRidley Scott's Blade Runner is now widely recognised as a masterwork of science fiction cinema,...

• Author(s): Elizabeth Wood • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: World - Russian & Former Soviet UnionIn February 2014, Russia initiated a war in Ukraine, its reasons for aggression un...

• Author(s): Hong Hkup • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralAccompanying the complete retrospective on German expressionist film master F.W. Murnau, a brochure carrying the s...

• Author(s): Brian Dunbar • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralComedy Films: A Teacher's Guide offers the ideal introduction for teachers of GCSE and AS/A level Film and Medi...

• Author(s): Jean-Philippe Toussaint • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiteraryA European man arrives in Shanghai, ostensibly on vacation, yet a small task given to him by his Parisian ...

• Author(s): Patrik Ourednik • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralTold in an informal, mesmerizing voice, Ouredn k represents the twentieth century in all its contradictions and gra...

• Author(s): Lindsay Shen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - China‘The Sensuous Realist’ Florence Ayscough—poet, translator, Sinologist, Shanghailander, avid collector, pioneering...

• Author(s): Anne Witchard • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Literary‘London is blacker than lacquer’ Lao She remains revered as one of China’s great modern writers. His life and work h...

• Author(s): Wing-Sze Wong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralNever underestimate the might of a pen, especially one held by a critic. A harsh review puts the reputation...

• Author(s): Wing On Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralEducation in Developing Asia Volume. 4 Equity and Access to Education Themes, Tensions, and Policies This volume is par...

• Author(s): Maria Manzon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Educational Policy & ReformGovernments worldwide are increasingly advocating parental and community partnerships in educa...

• Author(s): Auteur • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsThe second issue of Splice Volume 6 is a 'Sport on film'-themed issue, which will include a major piece ...

• Author(s): Shelly Bryant • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralIn The Classical Gardens of Shanghai, Shelly Bryant looks at five of Shanghai’s remaining classical gardens...

• Author(s): Raymond Huang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ChineseBased on phonetic and contrastive methods, the book is not only useful for the learning and teaching of Mandarin pron...

• Author(s): Yoko Yamato • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWorldwide, international schools have been a neglected focus for research. This is partly because in most countries the...

• Author(s): Mark Bray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralEspecially in less-developed countries, governments face great difficulties in financing education systems. Households co...

• Author(s): Kate Domaille • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis Teacher's Guide offers a clear solution about how the horror film is theorized and taught through a case ...

• Author(s): Evans Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralA trail-blazing political reformer and visionary thinker at the turn of the 20th century, Kang Youwei (1858-19...

• Author(s): Mui-Ngam Chong • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralAward-winning play about three outsiders in an unfamiliar city who slide from friendship into suspicion, jea...

• Author(s): John Atkinson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralVolume 5 issue 2 of Splice discusses the thorny issue of film adaptations, covering the ground from a comparis...

• Author(s): Mark Bray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: FinanceThis volume is part of the series Education in Developing Asia, jointly published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and...

• Author(s): David W. Chapman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ComparativeThis volume is part of the series Education in Developing Asia, jointly published by the Asian Development Ban...

• Author(s): John Atkinson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThe latest issue of Splice, the journal for all those using popular cinema in the classroom...

• Author(s): Don Adams • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ComparativeThis volume is part of the series Education in Developing Asia, jointly published by the Asian Development Bank (ADB)...

• Author(s): Various Contributors • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - GeneralAmerica embodies the dream of a better life like no other country. All told, more than seventy ...

• Author(s): Garret Fay • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralStudying Bollywood introduces the stars, directors, and trends of India's national cinema. Popular Hindi film ha...

• Author(s): Kit Fan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralKit Fan's award-winning first book of poems establishes him as one of the most promising new writers on the Hong Ko...

• Author(s): Auteur • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Guides & ReviewsSplice bridges the gap between contemporary cinema and intelligent discourse. Facilitating the study of ...

• Author(s): Stephanie Muir • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA leading example of a resurgent Latin American cinema – 'la buena onda' – in the early twent...

• Author(s): Peter Swirski • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAll Roads Lead to the American City provides an original view of the urban culture in Am...

• Author(s): Anita M. C. Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Perinatology & NeonatologyA well-known Chinese idiom states ‘seeing once is better than hearing a hundred times’. Certa...

• Author(s): Sean Redmond • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismRidley Scott's Blade Runner is now widely recognised as a masterwork of science fiction cinema,...

• Author(s): David W. Chapman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Administration - Facility ManagementThis volume is part of the series Education in Developing Asia, jointly published by ...

• Author(s): Mark Bray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe Gansu Basic Education Project (GBEP) was launched in 1999 with the goal of helping one of the poorest parts of China ...

• Author(s): Ching Yau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaDrawing from the fields of ethnographic and sociological studies, cultural activism, public health and film studies,...

• Author(s): Yan Yu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Techniques - Watercolor PaintingXiao Hong (1911-1942) was a contemporary of Eileen Chang and perhaps the most celebrated Chinese wo...

• Author(s): University Of P Faculty • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialContemporary Chinese Societies is a valuable resource for researchers, student...

• Author(s): Janis Berzinš • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: World - EuropeanCurrently, the EU is at the crossroads of its existence as a political union: The war in and around Syria, t...

• Author(s): Anthony G. O. Yeh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaCities and regions in Asia are facing problems that cannot be adequately managed by traditional urban planni...

• Author(s): Rosemary Roberts • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThe Making and Remaking of China’s “Red Classics” is the first full-length work to bring together research on...

• Author(s): Francois J. Bonnet • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Urbanomic • BISAC: AestheticsThis study of the subtlety, complexity, and variety of modes of hearing maps out a "sonorous archipelago"--a heterogeneous set of shiftin...

• Author(s): Valerie Knoll • Publisher: The MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: Sternberg Press • BISAC: Museum StudiesThe New York gallery American Fine Arts, Co.—whose name today is largely synonymous with that of its gallerist, Colin de Land (1955–...

• Author(s): George Philip Krapp • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshThe Exeter Book (1936) contains the texts of the Exeter Book, the largest of the great miscellanies of Anglo...

• Author(s): Linda Skrla • Publisher: Taylor & Francis • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: Administration - GeneralThis book makes a distinction between the "principal" - the man or woman who occupies the position - and the "principal shi...

• Author(s): Claus Offe • Publisher: Polity Press • Publisher Imprint: Polity Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralIn recent years the countries of eastern Europe have been undergoing a process of rapid social and political transformation. T...

• Author(s): Friedrich Mehrhoff • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Human Resources & Personnel ManagementUnfälle und Krankheiten verändern oft das Leben von Menschen! Auf dem Weg zurück in den Be...

• Author(s): Jochen Abr Frowein • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: PublicKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Zur verfassungsrechtlichen Lage der Privatschulen" verfügbar.

• Author(s): Nicolai Hartmann • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: MetaphysicsKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Zur Grundlegung der Ontologie" verfügbar.

• Author(s): Hans Lietzmann • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Christian Theology - EcclesiologyKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Zeitrechnung der römischen Kaiserzeit, des Mittelalters und der Neuzeit für die Jah...

• Author(s): Dieter Simon • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: MetaphysicsThe contributors reflect on the concept of time and time horizons in the sciences. From a philosophical position, they demand that the actioning...

• Author(s): Eva-Maria Engelen • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: EpistemologyKeine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Zeit, Zahl und Bild" verfügbar.

• Author(s): Robert P. Scharlemann • Publisher: de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: de Gruyter • BISAC: Christian Theology - History

• Author(s): Erdmann Sturm • Publisher: Walter de Gruyter • Publisher Imprint: Walter de Gruyter • BISAC: Christian Theology - History