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• Author(s): Gary Soo • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ContractsConstruction Contract Essentials in Hong Kong is written with construction professionals in mind. By incorporating infor...

• Author(s): P. J. B. Scott • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Life Sciences - Zoology - GeneralThe world economy is facing unprecedented challenges brought by the still unfolding global...

• Author(s): Aidan Higgins • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiteraryAn eminently poetic book, Langrishe, Go Down (Higgins's first novel) traces the fall of the Langrishes--a once wealt...

• Author(s): Steven Cahn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PhilosophyIn the views of most believers and critics, religion is essentially connected to the existence of a supernatural dei...

• Author(s): Barbara Korte • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: JournalismWar correspondents are prominent actors in the media world. They took hold in the cultural imaginary soon after th...

• Author(s): Kenneth Nicolson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaHong Kong’s oldest Western cemetery garden is located in Happy Valley. This history and tour highlights the n...

• Author(s): Leo F. Goodstadt • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Sociology - UrbanHong Kong is among the richest cities in the world. Yet over the past 15 years, living conditions for th...

• Author(s): Eddie Tay • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThis book explores colonial and postcolonial literatures of Singapore and Malaysia. It traces in them a history o...

• Author(s): Harold Traver • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Criminal Law - GeneralThis book contains nine essays written by distinguished scholars from North America. Europe, and Asia,...

• Author(s): Maria N. Ng • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThese rich and lucidly composed personal essays on the author’s early life journeys in Portuguese Macau and Britis...

• Author(s): Henrique De Senna Fernandes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiteraryThe novel is a fascinating look into the inner world of the Eurasian inhabitants of the city, and thei...

• Author(s): Lynne Hibberd • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & Criticism"This guide scores well on all points―well-prepared and helpful."―In the PictureA British cine...

• Author(s): Sarah Perks • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralAuteur's Alternatives to Hollywood: A Teacher's Guide is aimed explicitly at those requiring a short, sharp expo...

• Author(s): Bart Penders • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Diet & Nutrition - NutritionComplex problems and ambitious goals are often thought to become easier by enlarging and dive...

• Author(s): Paul A. Bové • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralPoetry against Torture sets out the clear conflict between two competing conceptions of society and civilizati...

• Author(s): Henry Green • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWritten almost completely in dialogue, Henry Green's final novel is a biting comedy of manners that exposes the decepti...

• Author(s): C. S. David Li • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Linguistics - GeneralThe main objective of Chinese-English Contrastive Grammar An Introduction is to familiarize the reader...

• Author(s): Unknown • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Special Interest - Hikes & WalksExtending from the city limits to Victoria Peak, Lung Fu Shan Country Park is one of Hong Kong...

• Author(s): Edward Zhou • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - GeneralThis catalogue is published to coincide with the UMAG exhibition Mexican Modernity...

• Author(s): Terri Murray • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis book is aimed at helping media and film studies teachers introduce the basics of feminist film theory, a c...

• Author(s): Isaac Yue • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - ChineseThe culture of food and drink occupies a central role in the development of Chinese civilization, and the languag...

• Author(s): Stephen Mau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - ChinaThis is one in a series of books providing readers with an overview of the more frequently encountered legal princ...

• Author(s): Christine Bischoff • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIllegalised immigration is a highly iconic topic. The public perception of the current regime for mobility is pr...

• Author(s): Neil Coombs • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismPan's Labyrinth, Stranger Than Fiction, The Science of Sleep ... Surreal and fantastic cinema is...

• Author(s): Yan Yan Chan • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ChineseUniversity Putonghua is a two-volume textbook specially written for college and university learners. Focusing on stren...

• Author(s): Paul S. F. Yip • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralOver one million people worldwide commit suicide every year, and more than 60% of suicide deaths occur in Asia. Howe...

• Author(s): Yan Yu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General2011 New Plays Selection 2011, commissioned by the Hong Kong Arts Festival Pretense -- Yan Yu An older man from Hong Kong be...

• Author(s): Peter Falvey • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: English as a Second LanguageThis useful sourcebook contains 12 chapters written by experienced classroom practitioners in Hon...

• Author(s): Viktor Shklovsky • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralWhile living in exile in Berlin, the formidable literary critic Viktor Shklovsky fell in love with Elsa Triolet. H...

• Author(s): Richard Rottenburg • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural & SocialThis book is about the making and unmaking of socio-cultural differences, seen from...

• Author(s): Ann Quin • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: General"A man called Berg, who changed his name to Greb, came to a seaside town intending to kill his father...."So begins Ann Qu...

• Author(s): Lisa Odham Stokes • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralThis comedy confronts social stereotypes of masculine females, male anxieties about homosexuality and the limits ...

• Author(s): Steven Cahn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Careers - GeneralSteven M. Cahn's advice on the professorial life covers an extensive range of critical issues: how to plan, c...

• Author(s): Rongjun Yu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Theater - GeneralInspired by Gustave Le Bon's prophetic 1894 study of crowd psychology The Crowd: A Study of Popular Mind and H...

• Author(s): Danny Powell • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismA groundbreaking piece of cinema? A cult classic? An over-hyped teen movie? Opinions on Donnie ...

• Author(s): Ishmael Reed • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: PoliticalWith offbeat humor and on-target social criticism, Ishmael Reed presents in The Terrible Threes a vision of America ...

• Author(s): Manuel Puig • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralFinally back in print, Manuel Puig's celebrated first novel is a startling anatomy of a small town in thrall to its own...

• Author(s): Ishmael Reed • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Political"The Terrible Twos" is a wickedly funny, sharp-edged fictional assault on all those sulky, spoiled naysayers needing...

• Author(s): Wendy Helsby • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralDistinct from "magazines," children's comics are a discreet and fascinating medium, superficially familiar to us all, ...

• Author(s): Kenneth Nicolson • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: History - GeneralHong Kong’s approach to heritage conservation has focused mainly on saving an old building here and ther...

• Author(s): Ishmael Reed • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - GeneralWhen Papa LaBas (private eye, noonday HooDoo, and hero of Reed's Mumbo Jumbo) comes to Berke...

• Author(s): Eleanor Rehahn • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralIn Narrative in Film and TV: A Teacher's Guide, Eleanor Rehahn explores the variations in narrative structure...

• Author(s): Eileen Chang • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asian - GeneralThe Book of Change was written in English, like its prequel, The Fall of the Pagoda, depicting Chang’s childho...

• Author(s): Mette Hjort • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismCenter Stage is widely recognized as a classic of the New Hong Kong cinema. The film’s status ha...

• Author(s): Diana Yeh • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Literary“Try Something Different. Something Really Chinese” The Happy Hsiungs recovers the lost histories of Shih-I and Dymia Hs...

• Author(s): Sasha Vojkovic • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionYuen Woo Ping's kung fu comedy based on the legendary female character Wing Chun is a land...

• Author(s): Stacilee Ford • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - GeneralThis study of An Autumn’s Tale argues that Hong Kong films are a window into understanding the shared pasts an...

• 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): Xi Xu • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralAn unusual book of quirky essays, some deeply personal. Xu Xi writes from within, of Hong Kong’s vanishing culture and sensib...

• Author(s): Alicia M. Kershaw • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Asia - SoutheastAbove the City Hiking Hong Kong Island is a unique comprehensive guide to walks and hikes on Hong Kong I...

• Author(s): Keith Mcdonald • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismFilm and TV Textual Analysis provides the film, media studies and English teacher with a comp...

• Author(s): Francis Wing-Lin Lee • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Social WorkAccording to the statistics from the Hong Kong Police, around 6000 juveniles (aged 7 to 15) were arrested ...

• Author(s): Michael Fisher • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: ContractsThis book presents an introduction to contract principles. Contracts affect everyone, from simple daily activities...

• Author(s): Deborah Levy • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: GeneralIn this brilliant, inventive, tragic farce, Deborah Levy creates the ultimate dysfunctional kids, Billy and his sister...

• Author(s): Donald Barthelme • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Fantasy - HistoricalIn The King, a retelling of Le Morte D'Arthur, Donald Barthelme moves the chivalrous Knights of the R...

• 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): Raymond Queneau • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: LiteraryPierrot Mon Ami, considered by many to be one of Raymond Queneau’s finest achievements, is a quirky coming-of-age ...

• Author(s): Audrey Yue • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - Direction & ProductionThis book examines "Song of the Exile" as diasporic cinema. As text, its practices of diaspori...

• Author(s): Carolin Overhoff Ferreira • Publisher: Columbia University Press • Publisher Imprint: Columbia University Press • BISAC: Film - History & CriticismOn December 8, 2008, the Portuguese filmmaker Manoel de Oliveira will celebrate hi...