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The Outline of Parapsychology

The Outline of Parapsychology

Jesse Hong Xiong

British writer Arthur Koestler (1905–1983) donated heritage to create a position of parapsychology professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Edinburgh. An American media tycoon, John Earl Fetzer (1901–1991), set up Fetzer ...
Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

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Hong Kong: Xianggang zhongwen. Huang Zhongming sftMi. 1997. "Zhu Bajie xiafan ji: Gao Xiong de 'jie xian feng jin' xiaoshuo" SAJffiTHSe: HJtM "ftflUS^" 'MH (Zhu Bajie's visit to the mortal world: Gao Xiong's giction of "satiric fantasy").
Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty: His Life, Times, and Legacy

Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty: His Life, Times, and Legacy

Victor Cunrui Xiong

Victor Cunrui Xiong Looking at the life and legacy of Emperor Yang (569–618) of the brief Sui dynasty in a new light, this book presents a compelling case for his importance to Chinese history. Author Victor Cunrui Xiong utilizes traditional ...
The Public Sector in Hong Kong

The Public Sector in Hong Kong

Ian Scott

Sweeting, Anthony, “Hong Kong Education within Historical Processes” in Education and Society in Hong Kong: Toward One Country and Two Systems, ed . GerardA. Postiglione (Hong Kong: Hong Kong University Press, 1992). — A Phoenix ...
Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong ...

Hong Kong Culture and Society in the New Millennium: Hong ...

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Challenges for Hong Kong SAR New Wave cinema”, Journal of Chinese Cinemas 6. 2 (2012): 127. On the minor conceptualised within Hong Kong cinema see Ka-fai Yau, “Cinema 3: Towards A “Minor Hong Kong Cinema”, Cultural Studies ...
China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives

China, Hong Kong, and the Long 1970s: Global Perspectives

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... Kong) (Hong Kong: Wanli Shudian, 2013), 146–151. 2. Chan Lau Kit-Ching, “ The United States and the Question of Hong Kong, 1941–1945,” Journal of the Hong Kong Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society 19 (1979), 1–20; Chi-kwan Mark,  ...
Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson

Jesse: The Life and Pilgrimage of Jesse Jackson

Marshall Frady

A CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE back whentheywere in college recalls, “Even in those earliest years, Jackie wasalwaysapeculiarly strongwoman to operate in the context of a Jesse Jacksonwho already then wason a path toward his own ...
Jesse James in the County of Clay

Jesse James in the County of Clay

Jack "Miles" Ventimiglia

Presents an overview of the outlaw Jesse James, his familyand associates with an emphasis on their lives in ClayCounty, MO. This book also contains an interpretiveguidebook to the artifacts on display at the Jesse JamesFarm Museum in ...
Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto: How Lies, Corruption, ...

Jesse Ventura's Marijuana Manifesto: How Lies, Corruption, ...

Jesse Ventura

In this groundbreaking book – for the first time in paperback and fully-updated with all the latest legal information - outspoken freethinker Jesse Ventura lays out his philosophy.
Jesse and Henry Save the Day

Jesse and Henry Save the Day

Fern A. Hilton

Children have the biggest imaginations of all. Especially a little boy named, Jesse. He can make a paper airplane and just know it is real! Jesse and his paper airplane, Wee, begin their adventures together, so come along for the ride!
Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action ...

Hong Kong Connections: Transnational Imagination in Action ...

Meaghan Morris

Hong Kong Connections brings leading film scholars together to explore the uptake of Hong Kong cinema in Japan, Korea, India, Australia, France and the US as well as its links with Taiwan, Singapore and the Chinese mainland.
Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization

Academic Capitalism in the Age of Globalization

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Postiglione,GerardA.2002.“The Transformation of Academic Autonomy in Hong Kong.” In Crisis and Transformation in China's HongKong,edited by MingKou Chanand Alvin Y.So, 307–21. Hong Kong:Hong KongUniversity Press. ———. 2006.
The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health ...

The Social Construction of SARS: Studies of a health ...

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Hong Kong's multiple constructions of SARS John H. Powers and Gwendolyn Gong A hero story without heroes: The Hong Kong government's narratives on SARS Xiaosui Xiao “SARS” versus “atypical pneumonia”: Inconsistencies in Hong ...
Hong Kong and Bollywood: Globalization of Asian Cinemas

Hong Kong and Bollywood: Globalization of Asian Cinemas

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According to Chi-Kwan Mark, postwar Hong Kong was “decolonized in substance ” in the early 1950s (Mark 2004: 10). In order to maintain its prestigious status as a global player and to justify its legitimate rule over Hong Kong par excellence, ...
Hong Kong and the Cold War:Anglo-American Relations ...

Hong Kong and the Cold War:Anglo-American Relations ...

Chi-kwan Mark

It culminated in the little known '1957 Question', a year when the British position in Hong Kong appeared more uncertain than any time since 1949.This is the first scholarly study that places Hong Kong at the heart of the Anglo-American ...
韓流重襲!韓劇、K-POP、男神、女子天團用娛樂征服全球的軟實力:

韓流重襲!韓劇、K-POP、男神、女子天團用娛樂征服全球的軟實力:

洪又妮(Euny Hong)

Copyright©2014by Euny Hong Complex Chinese translation copyright©2015by My House Publication Inc.,a division ofCite ... 韓劇、K-POP、男神、女子天團用娛樂 征服全球的軟實力作者/洪又妮(Euny Hong)譯者/吳郁芸責任編輯/陳詠瑜美術編輯/ ...
Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II: Tang ...

Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Women, Volume II: Tang ...

Lily Xiao Hong Lee

Lily Xiao Hong LEE was born in China and educated in Hong Kong, Singapore, and the United States. After completing a Ph.D., she taught at the School of Asian Studies (now the School of Languages and Cultures) of the University of Sydney  ...
Economy: A Documentary History of Hong Kong

Economy: A Documentary History of Hong Kong

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A Documentary History of Hong Kong David Faure, Pui-tak Lee. CHAPTER FIVE. INDUSTRIAL. REVIVAL. IN. THE. 19508. AND. 19608. The revival of industry in Hong Kong in the 19505 and 19605 was marked by bold investment in a limited ...
Database Reengineering and Interoperability

Database Reengineering and Interoperability

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PROGRAMME COMMITTEE N. V. Balasubramanian C. Bloor City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong University of Sunderland, United Kingdom S. Chakravarty University of Florida, United States T.Y. Cheung City University of Hong Kong, ...
Jesse and the Magic Boots

Jesse and the Magic Boots

Janina Ward

Jesse finishes the school year and travels to his grandfather’s ranch for what he thought was going to be his routine summer vacation.
The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids ...

The Game Believes in You: How Digital Play Can Make Our Kids ...

Greg Toppo

Mother Jones, September 23, 2011. Jesse Schell, Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses, 443. Ibid. Jesse Schell, Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain (DICE ) Summit, Las Vegas, 2010. Jesse Schell, interview with author, July 23, 2013.
U.S. Department of Defense Contract Spending and the ...

U.S. Department of Defense Contract Spending and the ...

Jesse Ellman

Jesse Ellman, Gregory Sanders, Rhys McCormick ... competition in DoD contracting has remained near 50 percent in most years. Unlabeled, which accounted for as much as 7. 18 | Jesse Ellman, Gregory Sanders, and Rhys McCormick.
Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss

Jesse: A Mother's Story of Grief, Grace, and Everyday Bliss

Marianne Leone

Jesse Cooper was an honor-roll student who loved to windsurf and write poetry.
Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice

Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice

David G. Smith

Hong Kong Taxation: Law and Practice 2006-07 covers the Hong Kong tax system.
Jesse: A Supernatural Thriller

Jesse: A Supernatural Thriller

Jim Feazell

During the populist and progressive eras, was when Jesse became a symbol as America’s Robin Hood, standing up against corporate syndicates in defense of the small farmer.
Building Enclosure in Hong Kong: Environmental Considerations

Building Enclosure in Hong Kong: Environmental Considerations

Wah Sang Wong

This book examines in detail the external walls of buildings in Hong Kong.
Jesse James

Jesse James

T J Stiles

At sixteen, Jesse James began his fighting career by killing Unionist neighbours on their doorsteps.

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