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      • City University of Hong Kong Press

        City University of Hong Kong Press was founded in 1996 as the publishing arm of the City University of Hong Kong. Overseen by the University Press Committee, the continuing mission of the Press is, by way of publishing high quality titles, to promote scholarship;  to enhance knowledge transfer; and to disseminate knowledge and creative works to society at large.The Press publishes mainly three types of publication: academic works, professional books and books of general interest and social concern. These cover a wide range of fields including business, history, cultural studies, education, law, political science, social sciences, sciences and engineering, with a focus on China studies, Hong Kong studies, Asian studies, politics and public policy. The Press endeavours to produce works of social impact, regional and international significance, and lasting value.

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        January 2026

        Rodrigo Ximenez de Rada’s Minor Histories

        by Aymenn Al-Tamimi

        This work provides the first complete English translation of works by Toledan archbishop Rodrigo Ximénez de Rada (1170-1247 CE), whose 'Minor Histories' are sequels to his larger 'Gothic History' and thus round off his grand history of Spain project that he began at the request of King Ferdinand III. The 'Minor Histories' include Rodrigo's 'History of the Arabs' that can be considered the first surviving Western monograph focused on Arab and Islamic history and thus occupies a unique position in the medieval Latin corpus of writings. In addition to the translation, this book provides a thorough and accessible introduction to the life and works of Rodrigo, making sense of the context in which he wrote and his historical method. The translations are thoroughly annotated including cross-references to other Latin and Arabic sources for comparison.

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        December 2023

        Aufzeichnungen aus der Rue de l'Odéon

        Schriften 1917–1953 | Erinnerungen der legendären Pariser Buchhändlerin

        by Adrienne Monnier

        Buchhandlung, literarischer Treffpunkt und Zufluchtsort der Avantgarde des 20. Jahrhunderts – La Maison des Amis des Livres in Paris links der Seine. Gründerin Adrienne Monnier war nicht nur Buchhändlerin, Herausgeberin und Verlegerin, sondern auch Schriftstellerin. Ihre Aufzeichnungen lassen die Welt der Rue de l’Odéon, in der fünf Jahre nach ihr auch Sylvia Beach die ebenfalls legendär gewordene Buchhandlung Shakespeare & Company eröffnet hat, wieder lebendig werden – mit Betrachtungen zum Beruf der Buchhändlerin, Lektürenotizen, essayistischen Reflexionen sowie ihre Erinnerungen an Sylvia Beach, Walter Benjamin, Bryher, Joyce, Colette, Hemingway, Saint-Exupéry, Valéry, Gisèle Freund und anderen, die Adrienne Monnier als große Porträtistin sichtbar werden lassen.

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        Literature & Literary Studies
        February 1984

        La casa de Bernarda Alba

        by Federico García Lorca

        by H. Ramsden

        Completed only two months before the author's execution in Granada at the age of thirty-eight, La casa de Bernarda Alba marks the completion of Lorca's 'trilogia de la tierra española' and is commonly held to be his greatest play. The theme of vitality and repression that runs as a leitmotif through his writings takes on a clearer social dimension in the 'drama de mujeres en los pueblos de España', with the presentation of a household of five unmarried daughters tyrannised by their mother's excessive concern with social class and obscurantist village morality. ;

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        Medicine

        How to Deal With Cutting in Adolescents

        A Guide for Families, Educators, and Adolescents Who Self-harm

        by Dr. Eduardo Aratangy

        This guide provides patients with self-harming behavior as well as their families with information on the possible causes, progression, and treatment options.   The content of this book is clearly structures and outlines different strategies to deal with cutting. Additionally, an informative overview of the complexity of the disorder, written for non-professionals, helps readers gain a better insight into the different characteristics.   Target Group: teens exhibiting self-harming behavior, relatives and laypersons interested in the subject, clinical psychologists, mental health professionals

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        May 2023

        Time and radical politics in France

        From the Dreyfus Affair to the First World War

        by Alexandra Paulin-Booth

        This book investigates how people have thought about and experienced time, and how their ideas about time have shaped their political views and actions. Using French thinkers and activists of the radical left and right between the Dreyfus Affair and the First World War as a case study, it argues that time provides an important means of exploring how concepts such as nationalism, revolution and social change were understood at the turn of the century. Attending to different experiences of time - the speed at which it was perceived to move, the extent to which the future was near and graspable, the ways in which the past was seen to impinge on the present - opens up exciting new possibilities for analysing politics, ideologies and worldviews.

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        The Arts
        January 2019

        Patrice Leconte

        by Lisa Downing

        Lisa Downing's comprehensive study of the films of Patrice Leconte traces lines of continuity and revision through a body of apparently disparate films whose "messages" often appear both contradictory and controversial. Pursuing a close reading of the recurrent themes, styles, intertexts and techniques which structure Leconte's filmmaking, Downing re-evaluates Leconte's status as an enigmatic artist offering complex and paradoxical commentary on contemporary questions of sexuality, ethics and identity. This book is the first full-length critical work in English on Leconte's cinema. It provides essential reading for both enthusiasts of French cinema and for those fascinated by the relationship between popular culture and theory.

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        January 1995

        La compétence de l'Aréopage en matière de procès publics

        Des origines de la polis athénienne à la conquête romaine de la Grèce (vers 700-146 avant J.-C.)

        by de Bruyn, Odile

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        February 2022

        Psychoanalysis and the family in twentieth-century France

        Françoise Dolto and her legacy

        by Richard Bates, David Hopkin, Maire Cross, Jennifer Sessions

        In the last quarter of the twentieth century, if French people had a parenting problem or dilemma there was one person they consulted above all: Françoise Dolto (1908-88). But who was Dolto? How did she achieve a position of such influence? What ideas did she communicate to the French public? This book connects the story of Dolto's rise to two broader histories: the dramatic growth of psychoanalysis in postwar France and the long-running debate over the family and the proper role of women in society. It shows that Dolto's continued reputation in France as a liberal and enlightened educational thinker is at best only partially deserved and that conservative and anti-feminist ideas often underpinned her prominent public interventions. While Dolto retains the status of a national treasure, her career has had far-reaching and sometimes harmful repercussions for French society, particularly in the treatment of autism.

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        July 2017

        Un chemin de tables (AT)

        by Maylis de Kerangal, Andrea Spingler

        Maylis de Kerangal, geboren 1967, veröffentlichte im Jahre 2000 ihren ersten Roman. Ihre Romane und Erzählungen wurden vielfach ausgezeichnet. Andrea Spingler, geboren 1949 in Stuttgart, ist seit 1980 als freie Übersetzerin tätig. Sie hat unter anderem Werke von Marguerite Duras, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Patrick Modiano, Jean-Paul Sartre, André Gide ins Deutsche übertragen. 2007 wurde sie mit dem Eugen-Helmlé-Preis für herausragende deutsch-französische Übersetzungen ausgezeichnet, 2012 mit dem Prix lémanique de la traduction. Sie lebt in Oldenburg und Südfrankreich.

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        May 2023

        In Schweden stirbt es sich am schönsten

        Kriminalroman

        by de la Motte, Anders Nilsson, Måns

        Aus dem Schwedischen von Marie-Sophie Kasten

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        Humanities & Social Sciences
        March 2017

        Reporting the Raj

        The British Press and India, c.1880–1922

        by Chandrika Kaul

        This book is the first analysis of the dynamics of British press reporting of India and the attempts made by the British Government to manipulate press coverage as part of a strategy of imperial control. The press was an important forum for debate over the future of India and was used by significant groups within the political elite to advance their agendas. Focuses on a period which represented a critical transitional phase in the history of the Raj, witnessing the impact of the First World War, major constitutional reform initiatives, the tragedy of the Amritsar massacre, and the launching of Gandhi's mass movement. Asserts that the War was a watershed in official media manipulation and in the aftermath of the conflict the Government's previously informal and ad hoc attempts to shape press reporting were placed on a more formal basis.

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