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Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Avant-Garde: War, Civilization, Modernity
Christine Froula
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• Author(s): Christine Froula • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshTraces the emergence of Woolf's art and thought against Bloomsbury's public thinking about...
View full detailsAnthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation
Lynne Hume
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• Author(s): Lynne Hume • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAn excellent introduction to real-world ethnography, this book covers short- and long-term ...
View full detailsAnthropologists in the Field: Cases in Participant Observation
Lynne Hume
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• Author(s): Lynne Hume • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialAll too often anthropologists and other social scientists go into the field with unrealisti...
View full detailsA Trip Down Memory Lane
Cristian Popisteanu
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• Author(s): Cristian Popisteanu • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThis is a remarkable reconstruction of the idealogical evolution of a once idealistic young Roma...
View full detailsThe Treatment of the Holocaust in Hungary and Romania During the Post-Communist Era
Randolph Braham
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• Author(s): Randolph Braham • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Eastern Europe - GeneralThis book describes the attempt in post-Communist Hungary to distort and denigrate the Holocaust, of...
View full detailsThe Cinema of the Low Countries
Ernest Mathijs
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• Author(s): Ernest Mathijs • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralFilms of the Low Countries have long been regarded as isolated texts. This book points to the interconnectedness between Low Co...
View full detailsEarly Modern Japanese Literature: An Anthology, 1600-1900
Harou Shirane
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• Author(s): Harou Shirane • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis is the first anthology ever devoted to early modern Japanese literature, spanning the period from 1600 t...
View full detailsFilming Margins: Tang Shu Shuen, a Forgotten Hong Kong Woman Director
Ching Yau
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• Author(s): Ching Yau • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThis book studies the work of filmmaker Tang Shu Shuen in Hong Kong in the 1960s and 1970s. I...
View full detailsDeveloping China's West: A Critical Path to Balanced National Development
Yue-Man Yeung
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• Author(s): Yue-Man Yeung • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: International - Economics & TradeFrom macro and micro perspectives, this book provides a panoram...
View full detailsStaging Nation: English Language Theatre in Malaysia and Singapore
Jacqueline Lo
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• Author(s): Jacqueline Lo • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralStaging Nation examines the complex relationship between the theatrical stage and the wider stage of nation...
View full detailsReligion and Chinese Society: Taoism and Local Religion in Modern China
John Lagerwey
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• Author(s): John Lagerwey • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralThese volumes contain a selection of twenty-one essays presented in a conference convened joi...
View full detailsThe Layers of Magazine Editing
Michael Robert Evans
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• Author(s): Michael Robert Evans • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesUnlike the myriad writing manuals that emphasize grammar, sentence structure, and other skills necessary...
View full detailsThe Layers of Magazine Editing
Michael Robert Evans
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• Author(s): Michael Robert Evans • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Media StudiesUnlike the myriad writing manuals that emphasize grammar, sentence structure, and other skills necessary...
View full detailsA History of New York
François Weil
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• Author(s): François Weil • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: North AmericanIn telling the story of how New York has grown from Dutch colonial outpost to the global city, 'the capital of...
View full detailsA History of New York
François Weil
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• Author(s): François Weil • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: North AmericanIn telling the story of how New York has grown from Dutch colonial outpost to the global city, 'the capital of...
View full detailsAstaire and Rogers
Edward Gallafent
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• Author(s): Edward Gallafent • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing ArtsThis is the first book to pay tribute to the genuine cinematic contribution of these m...
View full detailsUptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
Robert O'Meally
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• Author(s): Robert O'Meally • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzJackson Pollock dancing to the music as he painted; Romare Bearden's stage and costume designs f...
View full detailsThe Fall and Rise of a Nation: Czechoslovakia, 1938-1941
Edvard Benes
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• Author(s): Edvard Benes • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - GeneralOffers an account of the last two weeks of September 1938, chronicling Czechoslovakia's approach to the Munich ...
View full detailsUptown Conversation: The New Jazz Studies
Robert O'Meally
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• Author(s): Robert O'Meally • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Genres & Styles - JazzOffers insights in jazz historiography, highlighting the political stakes in telling the story o...
View full detailsIraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny
Reeva Spector Simon
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• Author(s): Reeva Spector Simon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralHow the new Iraqi political elite used the military and school system to create an Iraqi Arab ide...
View full detailsBeing Modern in Iran
Fariba Adelkhah
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• Author(s): Fariba Adelkhah • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Islam - GeneralWhat does it mean to be modern in Iran today? Can one properly speak of modernity in relation to what many ...
View full detailsIraq Between the Two World Wars: The Militarist Origins of Tyranny
Reeva Spector Simon
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• Author(s): Reeva Spector Simon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralWhy did a group from the Iraqi army seize control of the government and wage a disastrous war aga...
View full detailsCubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought: Metaphysics of a Northwestern Amazonian People
Irving Goldman
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• Author(s): Irving Goldman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe societies of Vaupes region are among the most documented indigenous cultures, in pa...
View full detailsVillage Life in Hong Kong: Politics, Gender, and Ritual in the New Territories
James Watson
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• Author(s): James Watson • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis book explores the cultural traditions of Cantonese villagers...
View full detailsEconomic Feasibility of Projects: Managerial and Engineering Practice
S. L. Tang
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• Author(s): S. L. Tang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Engineering (General)This is a textbook for engineering and management/business undergraduates and post...
View full detailsCubeo Hehénewa Religious Thought: Metaphysics of a Northwestern Amazonian People
Irving Goldman
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• Author(s): Irving Goldman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThe societies of Vaupes region are among the most documented indigenous cultures, in pa...
View full detailsProsthetic Memory: The Transformation of American Remembrance in the Age of Mass Culture
Alison Landsberg
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• Author(s): Alison Landsberg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialProsthetic Memory reveals the transformative effect that modern mass culture has had ...
View full detailsBelieving History: Latter-Day Saint Essays
Richard Lyman Bushman
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• Author(s): Richard Lyman Bushman • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Christianity - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Written by an eminent historian, this book reflects on h...
View full detailsRheology and Deformation of the Lithosphere at Continental Margins
Garry Karner
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• Author(s): Garry Karner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyThis book explores the current cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in lithospheric rheology and p...
View full detailsRheology and Deformation of the Lithosphere at Continental Margins
Garry Karner
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• Author(s): Garry Karner • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - GeologyThis book explores the current cutting-edge interdisciplinary research in lithospheric rheology and p...
View full detailsHungarian Cinema: From Coffee House to Multiplex
John Cunningham
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• Author(s): John Cunningham • Publisher: Wallflower Press • Publisher Imprint: Wallflower Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralHungarian cinema has often been forced to tread a precarious and difficult path. Through the failed 1919 revolution to the def...
View full detailsThe Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry
David Mccann
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• Author(s): David Mccann • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe only up-to-date representative gathering of Korean poetry from the twentieth century in English, this volu...
View full detailsThe Columbia Anthology of Modern Korean Poetry
David Mccann
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• Author(s): David Mccann • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralKorea's modern poetry is filled with many different voices and styles, subjects and views, moves and countermo...
View full detailsChina's Democratic Future: How It Will Happen and Where It Will Lead
Bruce Gilley
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• Author(s): Bruce Gilley • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralAn eminent China expert considers how the Chinese Communist Party will be removed from power and d...
View full detailsOn the Move: Women and Rural-To-Urban Migration in Contemporary China
Arianne Gaetano
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• Author(s): Arianne Gaetano • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - RuralThis book explores the impact of migration on the identities, values, worldviews, and social positions of...
View full detailsLocal Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America
Melissa Checker
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• Author(s): Melissa Checker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIllustrates how ethnographic research itself can become a tool for activism. This book...
View full detailsLocal Actions: Cultural Activism, Power, and Public Life in America
Melissa Checker
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• Author(s): Melissa Checker • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialIllustrates how ethnographic research itself can become a tool for activism. This book...
View full detailsWomen and the U.S. Constitution: History, Interpretation, and Practice
Sibyl Schwarzenbach
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• Author(s): Sibyl Schwarzenbach • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ConstitutionalDivided into three parts-History, Interpretation, and Practice-this provocative volume incorporates law,...
View full detailsTorn at the Roots: The Crisis of Jewish Liberalism in Postwar America
Michael Staub
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• Author(s): Michael Staub • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Judaism - HistoryThis book explodes the myth of a monolithic, liberal Judaism and tells the story of the many fierce battles...
View full detailsGuangdong: Preparing for the Wto Challenge
Joseph Y. S. Cheng
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• Author(s): Joseph Y. S. Cheng • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: GeneralThis volume aims to study preparations for China's entry into the World Trade Organizati...
View full detailsPicturing Cathay: Maritime and Cultural Images of the China Trade
Hong Kong University Gallery
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• Author(s): Hong Kong University Gallery • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralFeatures China trade paintings and export art works dating from the late 18th and 19th centu...
View full detailsTalk Mandarin Today (Book Only)
Hong Xiao
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• Author(s): Hong Xiao • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Chinese"Talk Mandarin Today" is a practical guide for learning and getting by in Mandarin Chinese for ad...
View full detailsGay Men Choosing Parenthood
Gerald Mallon
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• Author(s): Gerald Mallon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Parenting - FatherhoodAn in-depth study of gay parenthood draws on case studies and interviews to explore the various factor...
View full detailsGay Men Choosing Parenthood
Gerald Mallon
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• Author(s): Gerald Mallon • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Parenting - FatherhoodGay parenting is a topic on which almost everyone has an opinion but almost nobody has any facts. Here...
View full detailsJohn Woo's a Better Tomorrow
Karen Fang
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• Author(s): Karen Fang • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA Better Tomorrow has always been hailed as a milestone in Hong Kong cinema. This book describe...
View full detailsWeathering the Storm: Hong Kong Observatory and Social Development
Pui–Yin Ho
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• Author(s): Pui–Yin Ho • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyThis book based on valuable historical texts and photographs, describes the cha...
View full detailsHungarian Arts and Sciences 1848-2000
László Somlyódy
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• Author(s): László Somlyódy • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: GeneralSpecialists focus on Hungary's outstanding achievments in various fields, notably technology, literature and the arts...
View full detailsHong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice
Ayesha Macpherson Lau
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• Author(s): Ayesha Macpherson Lau • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: MilitaryThis is a professional book on Hong Kong tax system. It explains in detail the taxes...
View full detailsDeveloping Practice Guidelines for Social Work Intervention: Issues, Methods, and Research Agenda
Aaron Rosen
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• Author(s): Aaron Rosen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThe authors of this work advocate the development of readily available, accessible and professionally sanctioned pr...
View full detailsA History of Eastern Europe Since the Middle Ages
Emil Niederhauser
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• Author(s): Emil Niederhauser • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: Europe - GeneralA survey of 500 years of change in Eastern Europe, this title looks at the structural elements in the earl...
View full detailsDeveloping Practice Guidelines for Social Work Intervention: Issues, Methods, and Research Agenda
Aaron Rosen
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• Author(s): Aaron Rosen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThis book bridges the gap between social work knowledge and empirically based practice. Although there is a signifi...
View full detailsZhongda Chinese-English Dictionary
Jiande Zheng
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• Author(s): Jiande Zheng • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: ChineseThis dictionary includes over 4500 Chinese characters with over 60,000 entries. The entries co...
View full detailsEssential Law for Social Workers
Robert Madden
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• Author(s): Robert Madden • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Practical GuidesWhether protecting their own rights or those of their clients, or navigating the juvenile justice, immigrati...
View full detailsCaring for Our Elders: Multicultural Experiences with Nursing Home Placement
Patricia Kolb
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• Author(s): Patricia Kolb • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryDescribes the experiences of African American and Afro-Caribbean, white Jewish, and Latina/o residents a...
View full detailsEssential Law for Social Workers
Robert Madden
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• Author(s): Robert Madden • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Practical GuidesWhether protecting their own rights or those of their clients, or navigating the juvenile justice, immigrati...
View full detailsCaring for Our Elders: Multicultural Experiences with Nursing Home Placement
Patricia Kolb
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• Author(s): Patricia Kolb • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkDescribes the experiences of African American and Afro-Caribbean, white Jewish, and Latina/o residents and their ...
View full detailsCriminal Lessons: Case Studies and Commentary on Crime and Justice
Frederic G. Reamer
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• Author(s): Frederic G. Reamer • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: CriminologySummarizing what he has learned about crime and criminals during his long career, Frederic G. Reamer specula...
View full detailsTown Planning in Hong Kong: A Review of Planning Appeal Decisions, 1997-2001
Wai Chung Lawrence Lai
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• Author(s): Wai Chung Lawrence Lai • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Urban & Land Use PlanningAs Hong Kong town-planning legislation develops, there is an ever-growing demand for...
View full detailsVirtual Publics: Policy and Community in an Electronic Age
Beth Kolko
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• Author(s): Beth Kolko • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social AspectsA collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine how the internet has affected conceptions of community and ...
View full detailsVirtual Publics: Policy and Community in an Electronic Age
Beth Kolko
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• Author(s): Beth Kolko • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social AspectsA collection of interdisciplinary essays that examine how the internet has affected conceptions of community and ...
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