This book examines Hong Kong foodways in different periods of social development and hopes to advance anthropological inquiries by addressing issues concerning identity, migration, consumerism, globalization, and the invention of local cuisines in the context of Hong Kong as a fast-changing society in East Asia.Sidney C. H. Cheung is a professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

This is a reissue in paperback of the second edition of Professor Allen's highly successful book on the pronunciation of Latin in Rome in the Golden Age. In the second edition the text of the first edition is reprinted virtually unchanged but is followed by a section of supplementary notes that deal with subsequent developments in the subject. The author also added an appendix on the names of the letters of the Latin alphabet and a select bibliography.

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Using her body as well as her wits to climb out of backwater poverty, a beautiful real estate developer amasses international wealth and power with equal success. After she falls in love with a renowned concert pianist, she sets about winning him as she would a prime piece of waterfront property. But her ties to a lawyer with Mafia connections and her shady way of doing business threaten her happiness and her reputation.

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Jayden Fullilove knows what he wants in life: a wife, the white picket fence, and kids. It's everything he's never had and won't if he can't convince a meddling woman to get out of his business. The barrier between him and love is one Amazonian woman with horrible fashion sense and the most contagious laugh he's ever heard. Instead of wining and dining the woman he set his sights on, he's sanding and painting with another. What's worse, he's enjoying it.One...

An "accessible and engaging" biography of the U.S. Supreme Court Justice, weaving together her life and influential work ( School Library Journal).The life and career of the fiercely principled Supreme Court Justice with dramatic accounts of her landmark cases that moved the needle on legal protection of human rights, illustrated with archival photographs.Dramatically narrated case histories from Justice Ginsburg's stellar career are interwoven with ...

Sidney Walsh has spent his life waiting for the one woman meant to be his. He never expected his destined mate would be a fiercely independent deaf woman with a painful past, a grown son to protect, and no intention of trusting any man—dragon or otherwise.Olivia has built a life on her own terms. She survived the unimaginable, raised her son, and carved out a future no one gave her. The last thing she needs is a powerful dragon claiming she belongs at his s...

Retired Navy SEAL Alec Esposito never thought he would see her again. The only woman he's ever loved. But time has changed them and he no longer knows what side the sweet beauty he fell for is on.Vara Price is playing a deadly game of Russian roulette with the mob. Backed into a corner, she finds an unexpected ally in him. The man who shattered her heart and left her without a backward glance.Chemistry isn't everything. Two broken people must learn to trust again if they're...

Nothing good ever happens when the phone rings in the middle of the night.Sidney receives a desperate call from a woman who is in a bad way, claiming that her husband is stalking her.And even though Sidney knows that Arnie Chen will be annoyed with her taking on yet another new case, she takes the woman on as a client anyway.But there's more to this woman's story than first meets the eye, and nothing is quite as it seems.Meanwhile Sidney thi...

One of the most riveting, super-charged, and spectacular novels is upon us. As the author of the novel entitled, Grey Blood Series, Taylor Sidney will once again attempt to enhance the literary world with the presentation of the new novel entitled, Psyche. This is a compelling, romantic, yet suspenseful story of Catherine Deaves. She is a beautiful, young, struggling poet battling the odds of envy, greed, and games of the mind (deception) that also lead to total destruction. The novel also...