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Principles of Paleoclimatology
Thomas Cronin
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• Author(s): Thomas Cronin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyUsing the geologic records of ocean and lake sediment, ice cores, corals, and ...
View full detailsNasopharyngeal Carcinoma
C. Van Hasselt
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• Author(s): C. Van Hasselt • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: United States - General?This book covers all the necessary aspects of our knowledge on nasopharynge...
View full detailsTown Planning in Hong Kong: A Review of Planning Appeal Decisions
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: GeneralAs Hong Kong town-planning legislation develops, there is an ever-growing demand for a better understandin...
View full detailsBusiness English and Communication
The Management Developme Kong
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• Author(s): The Management Developme Kong • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageThe book begins with the basics of communication and sen...
View full detailsInternational Studies of Educational Achievement: Methodological Issues
T. Neville Postlethwaite
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• Author(s): T. Neville Postlethwaite • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: ComparativeThis book presents in easily-accessible form some of the insights which Professor Postlethwaite has ...
View full detailsFaces in the Crowd: A Journey in Hope
Chris Bale
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• Author(s): Chris Bale • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralA baby girl, a family of sugar workers, a disabled man, a student, a well-meani...
View full detailsThe Marine Biology of the South China Sea III
Brian Morton
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• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyThe first conference on the Marine Biology of the South China Sea was convened in Hong Kong in 1990,...
View full detailsFDI in China: An Asian Perspective
Yasheng Huang
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• Author(s): Yasheng Huang • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Cultural & Ethnic Studies - GeneralChina is the largest recipient of foreign direct investment (...
View full detailsHigh-Rise Society: The First Fifty Years of the Hong Kong Housing Society
Robin Hutcheon
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• Author(s): Robin Hutcheon • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralThe Hong Kong Housing Society celebrates its 50th anniversary in 1998. During the pas...
View full detailsEnvironment Management Technology: A Glossary of Modern Terminology (English-Simplified Chinese / Simplified Chinese-English)
Gottfried Eigenmann
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• Author(s): Gottfried Eigenmann • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Multi-Language DictionariesThis book is written by practitioners and experts with day to day e...
View full detailsWriting Women in Modern China: The Revolutionary Years, 1936-1976
Amy Dooling
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• Author(s): Amy Dooling • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Women AuthorsSpanning the first three decades of this century to the Sino-Japanese War, these twenty-two works of fiction, dra...
View full detailsYoung People and Careers: School Careers Guidance in Shanghai, Edinburgh and Hong Kong
Wei-Yuan Zhang
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• Author(s): Wei-Yuan Zhang • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherThe Comparative Education Research Centre (CERC) was established in the Faculty of Education of ...
View full detailsComparative Higher Education: Knowledge, the University and Development
Philip G. Altbach
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• Author(s): Philip G. Altbach • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Schools - Levels - HigherThis book addresses a domain which is increasingly international. The issues that affect univ...
View full detailsThe Construction of Racial Identities in China and Japan
F Dikotter
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• Author(s): F Dikotter • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis volume shows that the construction of symbolic boundaries between racial categories ...
View full detailsInterzones: Black/White Sex Districts in Chicago and New York in the Early Twentieth Century
Kj Mumford
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• Author(s): Kj Mumford • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Minority StudiesFrom black female prostitution to homosexual brothels, from taxi dance halls to speakeasies, Mumford reconstruc...
View full detailsThe Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern China IV
Brian Morton
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• Author(s): Brian Morton • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralFollowing a three-year cycle, an International Workshop on the Marine Flora and Fauna of Hong Kong and Southern Chin...
View full detailsThe Challenge of Hong Kong's Reintegration with China
Ming K. Chan
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• Author(s): Ming K. Chan • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: GeneralThe seven essays in this volume address some of the critical issues underlining the process of Hong Kongs reintegra...
View full detailsThe Politics of Jerusalem Since 1967
Michael Dumper
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• Author(s): Michael Dumper • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - Israel & PalestineA political, social, cultural, and economic portrait of a city at the centre of the Mid...
View full detailsOne Country, Two International Legal Personalities: The Case of Hong Kong
Roda Mushkat
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• Author(s): Roda Mushkat • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Administrative Law & Regulatory PracticeThis book is to examine the key relevant issues within a single framework, high...
View full detailsResponding to Child Abuse: Procedures and Practice for Child Protection in Hong Kong
Charles O’Brian
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• Author(s): Charles O’Brian • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Social WorkThis book provides a detailed examination of child protection procedures and practice in Hong Kong. It is the...
View full detailsSerbs and Russians: Some Historical Relationships
David Mackenzie
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• Author(s): David Mackenzie • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralMacKenzie deals in general terms with the historical relationship of the two groups and des...
View full detailsGoods: Sales and Securities, Third Edition
Judith E. Sihombing
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• Author(s): Judith E. Sihombing • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: SecuritiesThe purpose of this book is to introduce elements of the law concerning dealings with goods in Hong Kong t...
View full detailsForeign Investment in China: The Administrative Legal System
Peter Corne
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• Author(s): Peter Corne • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralChinas legal system is characterized by the gap between law and reality. Focusing on regulatory law, ...
View full detailsThe Inhuman Race: The Racial Grotesque in American Literature and Culture
Leonard Cassuto
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• Author(s): Leonard Cassuto • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Indigenous Peoples in the AmericasIn revealing the source of the ideology of whiteness in the imagination, Cassuto turns t...
View full detailsMeeting of Minds: Intellectual and Religious Interaction in East Asian Traditions of Thought
Irene Bloom
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• Author(s): Irene Bloom • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: EasternIn this collection of original essays, leading scholars of East Asian studies seek to define the deeply religious dimen...
View full detailsKeeping House in Lusaka
Karen Tranberg Hansen
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• Author(s): Karen Tranberg Hansen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanOpens a window on the experiences of urban people living through one of Africa's most dramatic econ...
View full detailsThe Molecular Biology of Gaia
George Ronald Williams
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• Author(s): George Ronald Williams • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - EcologyThe Gaia hypothesis, set forth by British scientist James Lovelock, has widely influenced en...
View full detailsExperiencing HIV: Personal, Family, and Work Relationships
Barry Adam
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• Author(s): Barry Adam • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryThrough the voices of people living with HIV or AIDS, this text explores the ways in which HIV affects pers...
View full detailsMy Son, Yo-Yo
Marina Ma
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• Author(s): Marina Ma • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: MusicYo-Yo Ma is an internationally acclaimed cello virtuoso. This is the story of his early life from t...
View full detailsExperiencing HIV: Personal, Family, and Work Relationships
Barry Adam
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• Author(s): Barry Adam • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Health Care DeliveryFrom the Back CoverThe book presents a kaleidoscopic vision of the lives of people facing HIV and AIDS as w...
View full detailsTextbook of Neonatal Medicine: A Chinese Perspective
Victor Y. H. Yu
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• Author(s): Victor Y. H. Yu • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Perinatology & NeonatologyWith over 90 chapters this is a standard textbook covering all the important aspects of ne...
View full detailsChina's Road to the Korean War: The Making of the Sino-American Confrontation
Jian Chen
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• Author(s): Jian Chen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThrough the use of recently released Chinese documents, conversations with People's Republic of China scholars, and ...
View full detailsThe World of Sofia Velasquez: The Autobiography of a Bolivian Market Vendor
Hans Buechler
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• Author(s): Hans Buechler • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis is an oral history of a second-generation, urban-born woman who struggles to survive in the poor, Andean city of...
View full detailsSampling the Green World: Innovative Concepts of Collection, Preservation, and Storage of Plant Diversity
Tod F. Stuessy
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• Author(s): Tod F. Stuessy • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - BiologyOutlining a plan for mapping phytodiversity in the next half century, this book focuses on the proto...
View full detailsTropical Deforestation: Small Farmers and Land Clearing in the Ecudorian Amazon
Thomas Rudel
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• Author(s): Thomas Rudel • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Environmental Science (see also Chemistry - Environmental)Focusses on the humans who regularly inhabit severely damaged fores...
View full detailsHealth Economics of Japan: Patients, Doctors, and Hospitals Under a Universal Health Insurance Program
Aki Yoshikawa
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• Author(s): Aki Yoshikawa • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: Industries - GeneralComparing the Japanese system with that of the United States, the researchers analyze economic decision ...
View full detailsThe Iranian Constitutional Revolution: Grassroots Democracy, Social Democracy, and the Origins of Feminism
Janet Afary
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• Author(s): Janet Afary • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralFrom the Back CoverThis book explores the decisive roles played by social democratic activist...
View full detailsChina-Yellow
Robin Hutcheon
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• Author(s): Robin Hutcheon • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Ethnic Studies - GeneralTwo great seas - the China and the Yellow - have been the highways that hav...
View full detailsPacific Passage: The Study of American-East Asian Relations on the Eve of the Twenty-First Century
Warren I. Cohen
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• Author(s): Warren I. Cohen • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralA study of relations between America and East Asia on the eve of the twenty-first century.
Friends and Teachers: Hong Kong and Its People 1953-87
James Hayes
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• Author(s): James Hayes • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaFrom the Back CoverPrompted by the Chinese saying, 'When I walk along with two others, I am bound to be able to ...
View full detailsA Guide to Medical, Health and Welfare Libraries and Information Resources in Hong Kong
Unknown
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• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: DirectoriesThis comprehensive guide includes detailed information on the policies, services and facilities of about 80 libraries...
View full detailsReligion and Legitimation of Power in Sri Lanka
Bardwell Smith
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• Author(s): Bardwell Smith • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Buddhism - General (see also Philosophy - Buddhist)This collection examines how religion and politics have intersected in S...
View full detailsCommunication Disorders: An Introduction for Community-Based Rehabilitation Workers
Gillian Clezy
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• Author(s): Gillian Clezy • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: NeuropsychologyCommunity-based rehabilitation is based on the belief that allied health and education workers in the field...
View full detailsReaching for the Moon
Kenneth Morgan
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• Author(s): Kenneth Morgan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Eastern-- Joseph M. Kitagawa, University of Chicago
Modern Japanese Tanka: An Anthology
Makoto Ueda
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• Author(s): Makoto Ueda • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - JapaneseLike haiku, tanka is a short, classical verse form that has attracted considerable attention in this century. ...
View full detailsPolitics, Gender, and the Islamic Past: The Legacy of 'A'isha Bint ABI Bakr
D. A. Spellberg
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• Author(s): D. A. Spellberg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Middle East - GeneralIn this extraordinary study, D. A. Spellberg examines the life of 'A'isha bint Abi Bakr, Muhammad's m...
View full detailsLibraries and Information Centres in Hong Kong
Julia L. Y. Chan
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• Author(s): Julia L. Y. Chan • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Library & Information Science - GeneralThe directory records information on 763 libraries in Hong Kong, listing 53 ...
View full detailsGrowing Up the Chinese Way: Chinese Child and Adolescent Development
Lau Sing
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• Author(s): Lau Sing • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Children's StudiesThis volume is a collection of current research on Chinese child development: the conte...
View full detailsA Legend of the Wars of Montrose
Walter Scott
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• Author(s): Walter Scott • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: European - GeneralFrom the Back Cover"I think this fellow Dalgetty is one of those horse-leeches, whose appetite for blood be...
View full detailsDinosaur Extinction and the End of an Era: What the Fossils Say
J. David Archibald
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• Author(s): J. David Archibald • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Animals - Dinosaurs & Prehistoric CreaturesThe first book to approach the Cretaceous extinction-the period during w...
View full detailsRemote Sensing Imagery for Natural Resource Monitoring: A Guide for First-Time Users
David Wilkie
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• Author(s): David Wilkie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Remote Sensing & Geographic Information SystemsIncludes almost one hundred maps, satellite and aerial photographs, and co...
View full detailsRemote Sensing Imagery for Natural Resource Monitoring: A Guide for First-Time Users
David Wilkie
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• Author(s): David Wilkie • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Remote Sensing & Geographic Information SystemsIncludes almost one hundred maps, satellite and aerial photographs, and co...
View full detailsThe Chinese Learner: Cultural, Psychological and Contextual Influences
David Watkins
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• Author(s): David Watkins • Publisher: Hong Kong University Press • Publisher Imprint: Hong Kong University Press • BISAC: Multicultural EducationThis is the first book to paint a clear, research based picture of how Chinese students and their t...
View full detailsEmigration from Hong Kong: Tendencies and Impacts
Ronald Skeldon
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• Author(s): Ronald Skeldon • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Emigration & ImmigrationThe book centres around a Hong Kong-wide survey of emigration designed ...
View full detailsThe Collapse of American Policy in Russia and Siberia, 1918
Victor Fic
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• Author(s): Victor Fic • Publisher: East European Monographs • Publisher Imprint: East European Monographs • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralImportant in light of the second democratic revolution in Russia, in which United States policie...
View full detailsThe New Girl: Girls' Culture in England 1880-1915
Sally Mitchell
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• Author(s): Sally Mitchell • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English, Irish, Scottish, WelshIn 1880 the concept of girlhood as a separate stage of existence was barely present. But in ...
View full detailsWorking Daughters of Hong Kong: Filial Piety or Power in the Family?
Janet Salaff
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• Author(s): Janet Salaff • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Labor & Industrial RelationsFrom the Back CoverBased on a five-year study of twenty-eight young, unmarried working women ...
View full detailsThe Political Economy of Japan Money
Shigeo Nakao
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• Author(s): Shigeo Nakao • Publisher: University of Tokyo Press • Publisher Imprint: University of Tokyo Press • BISAC: Asia - GeneralAn economist dissects Japanese money, asking where it came from and examines how it was used. Part I analyzes J...
View full detailsde Los Otros: Intimacy and Homosexuality Among Mexican Men
Joseph Carrier
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• Author(s): Joseph Carrier • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Men's StudiesA detailed description of sexual practices and bonds among Latino males in Guadalajara, Mexico using a combina...
View full detailsThe Epididymis as a Chloride-Secreting Organ
Anskar Leung
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• Author(s): Anskar Leung • Publisher: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • Publisher Imprint: Chinese University of Hong Kong Press • BISAC: Aesthetics