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This book provides a comprehensive introduction to school guidance and counselling services in Hong Kong. It draws extensively on current research in the field, with a special emphasis on how guidance

Voice Therapy for Children is a bilingual instructional manual that aims to maximize speech therapy students’ and clinicians’ competence, knowledge, and effectiveness in managing pediatric voice caseloads. This is a unique text that goes beyond general descriptions of therapeutic technique and physiologic principles.Designed to serve Cantonese- and English-speaking children, this manual provides a clear and systematic overview of practical issues and clinical tips, laying out the steps and criteria for therapy programs. With detailed instructions for each voice therapy session, clinicians will find answers to questions such as How can children be kept engaged in voice therapy?How can clinicians facilitate learning and performance of voicing techniques?How can age-appropriate practice stimuli and games be selected?This manual contains detailed instructions for each voice therapy session and ready-to-use clinical materials, including picture cards for eliciting stimulus and record forms

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This is one in a series of books seeking to introduce the reader to the frequently encountered legal rules in Hong Kong. This publication, in particular, focuses on the rules regulating property and c

English-Cantonese Dictionary is a handy, user-friendly dictionary which emphasizes the Cantonese spoken dialect. It is designed to help users find the best word or phrase in Cantonese to express the m

Health is not just the absence of disease.In an era when living to 100 is becoming more common,our concept of ageing must evolve. While Hong Kong people enjoy the world's longest life expectancy, an important question arises: Are we truly achieving healthy ageing? In this book, Professor Jean Woo addresses a diverse array of challenges associated with the elderly population in Hong Kong society, including issues like elderly poverty, unfriendly community designs, unfair stigmatization faced by seniors, and late-life loneliness. Drawing on extensive research and clinical experience, she advocates for self-care, education, and empowerment, encouraging us to move beyond dependence on doctors and medications. Ageing is inevitable, yet we can control how we age. --------------------------------------------------------------By 2046, 36% of Hong Kongers will be ‘older adults’. Take Charge of Your Own Ageing is a timely publication to remind our society about the significan

這部寫於十年前的《橄欖香》是作者三十五篇念憶，是小說，也是真實人生，作者跟筆下的人物有感情，運筆之際倍覺難捨，恨不得多些篇幅寫盡心中牽掛，卻又不忍心寫得太滿，總想着留些私己悄悄藏着。〈團圓〉裏的蕊秋畫廊生意做得興旺，最近很想到大陸開分店推銷歐洲藝術家作品，只怕年紀大了太辛苦。〈望江梅〉的安布羅斯去世了，詹妮至今守着他們的老宅，說是後園一株江南移植的梅樹年年冬天梅花開得燦爛。他最惦念〈竹園〉裏的胭姐，托斯卡納山鄉橄欖園我喜歡，那篇〈橄欖香〉題目讀者都說好，用做書名聊以追念前幾年婦科重病仙逝的姬娜。〈愛晚居〉杏表姐讀了高興，開玩笑說其實還可以把她寫得再濃些。寫〈紫薇園〉那兩個深宵作者無端想起五十年代鄭慧寫的紫薇園的春天和秋天，〈無語〉寫的是方先生心中想的是雲姑，微微染塵的淡彩仕女，一生秀媚，一生孤寂，〈鶴頂紅〉裏的龐荔倒是十月的艷陽了，藏着那枚鶴頂紅扳指藏了龐荔初放的暗香。……寫得簡潔跟寫得好一樣難，難怪毛姆說 “to write simply is as difficult as to be good"。

Dazzled by the twilight of 17th-century painter Aert van der Neer’s Moonlit Landscape with a Road beside a Canal (1645–1650), contemporary Spanish artist Alberto Reguera created twenty three paintings as an homage to the celebrated artist of the Dutch Golden Age.This new series of paintings examines and connects directly to Van der Neer’s masterpiece, and the important painterly achievements of the Dutch painter’s generation.The exhibition and accompanying publication is the second collaboration between the University Museum and Art Gallery (UMAG) and Alberto Reguera. While the first exhibition Blue Expansive Landscape (2015) was notable for the display of the painter’s two- and three-dimensional works, and his innovative ways of painting beyond the canvas, Homage to Aert van der Neer is a similarly complex endeavour that has been achieved through a successful partnership with UMAG, the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza and the artist.當代西班牙藝術家 Alberto Reguera 艾拔圖‧雷古拉 傾慕於十七世紀荷蘭畫家 Aert v

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This book, written by an internationally acknowledged pioneer in endocrine surgery, is intended as advice for aspiring medical professionals, in particular for young people from around the world who a

本書收錄了十七個與中文相遇的故事。十七位作者皆是北美各領域最傑出的學者與專家，儘管背景、經歷大不相同，但有一點是共通的：學習中文改變了他們的一生。這趟由語言開始的旅程出乎意料地改換了人生路徑，成就了理想和事業，甚至深及對世界和人性的領悟。有意思的是，作者們亦在不同向度親歷中國數十年來的劇烈變化，作為跨文化能力卓越的特殊觀察者，為時代和歷史留下了不可替代的獨家記錄。 ------------------ 中國對世界的影響力日漸增强，對中國文化與價值觀的了解隨之日形重要，而精通中國語言，就是完成這項突破不可或缺的工具。本書匯聚 了十幾位傑出人士的觀點，詳盡地說明了如何達成這項突破，以及其後的重大影響。——傅高義（ Ezra Vogel），哈佛大學亨利．福特二世社會學榮休教授 語言學習有利於心智成長，本書透過苦學中文的一些西方人的佳作宏論，將這一點表現得淋漓盡致。各篇作者回溯種種激勵人心的豐富經歷，幫助未來的學習者踏入別具深義的新世界。——舒衡哲（ Vera Schwarcz），美國維思大學歷史與東亞研究學系榮休教授 本書收錄了與中國有深遠關係的各界人士回憶錄式的一些漫談小品，既是趣聞逸事又有深刻見地。尖銳、挑動、輕鬆、嚴肅各體 兼備，摯愛中國的讀者肯定有豐碩收穫，對樂於在不同語言或文化之間互相溝通的讀者，讀了本書也會大有斬獲。—— 華志堅（Jeffrey Wasserstrom），China in the 21st Century: What Everyone Needs to Know 合著者 這部引人入勝的書集合了著名的記者、學者和商界人士，以精彩的文字講述漢語學習對他們生活造這部引人入勝的書集合了著名的記者、學者和商界人士，以精彩的文字講述漢語學習對他們生活造成的各種變化。最重要的是，這些篇章顯示，具備了扎實的漢語能力，外國人就能跟極度複雜多元成的各種變化。最重要的是，這些篇章顯示，具備了扎實的漢語能力，外國人就能跟極度複雜多元的中國人民做出不經中介且成果驚人的直接接觸。對任何對中國感興趣的的中國人民做出不經中介且成果驚人的直接接觸。對任何對中國感興趣的人來說，這是一本必讀之人來說，這是一本必讀之作。—— 畢克偉（Paul G. Pickowicz），加州大學聖地亞哥分校教授，加州大學聖地亞哥分校教授

As a naval officer with the Austro-Hungarian Navy, Dezső Bozóky first departed Hong Kong for Canton in 1908, before travelling to Fujian, Shanghai and Beijing, where he documented the countryside and

This catalogue is published to coincide with the UMAG exhibition North Korea’s Public Face: 20th-century Propaganda Posters from the Zellweger Collection.For most people outside of the Democratic Peop

INTRODUCTIONThe role of media in any society is vital and is closely related to brands and consumption especially in a vibrant 21st century Asian city. Hong Kong with its free-market economy and urban

Professor William S-Y. Wang is among the most influential contemporary linguists. For several decades, he has been leading the development of Chinese Linguistics to a higher level. Professor Wang esta

More than any other treasure, Shijing 詩經 contains the historical roots of China, from which much of modern culture grew. From a lovelorn young man to an aging woman spurned by her wedded husband, from

Mencius is without doubt second only to Confucius in importance in the Confucian tradition. The Analects of Confucius which forms a unique and reliable source for our knowledge of the thought of Confu

When Marshal Hong breaks the seals which generations of Taoist Masters have placed on the temple doors to hold back 108 incarcerated Demon Princes, powerful forces of disorder are released. One after

Thematic poetry collection with author's biographical introduction. About relationships and, after a mastectomy, rediscovering herself in her altered body, proving to herself her renewed worth as a se

This is one in a series of introductory books providing readers with an overview of the most frequently encountered legal principles. This book presents an introduction to contract principles that app

This Handbook serves as an introduction to the most important written expressions and classical idiomatic phrases in modern Chinese for students of intermediate and advanced Chinese. It has the follow

Battle of the Artisans tells the story of Tangtun, a conflicted, artistic twelve-year-old in 5th-century BCE China, who sets out to save his father from a killer. He crosses wits with his macho father and a vengeful king, armed thieves, and disgruntled villagers, and in the process, discovers new powers that rock his Bronze-Age world. In the end, what matters most is not Tangtun’s artistic abilities or his father’s muscles and might but that they realize the strength of acting together.This novel portrays the making of the very real Bells of Marquis Yi, a 2500-year-old National Treasure of China. No one knows exactly why these bells were made, but Bennett provides a well-researched and persuasive solution to the mystery through her story of Tangtun and his village on the Yangtze River.Every historical novel is an imagined introduction to a topic and a time. Battle of the Artisans invites readers to explore further the world and the science of the bells of Marquis Yi, to learn more abou

Form a Korean barber shop to the ruins of Machu Picchu, from an elaborate Kisaeng ceremony to a Budapest street party, Chua Lam, Hong Kong film producer ane writer of more than two hundred best seller

In this second edition, a number of chapters and sections have been revised and consolidated to help comprehension. In response to the latest developments in the law, discussions on new case law and s

Feng Shui is a Chinese wisdom in knowledge and experience related to the built environment, which has accumulated over more than three thousand years. This book as a primer to a scientific study of th

This is the first English-language book to focus on the electric rice cooker and the impact it has had on the lives of Asian people. This account of the rice cooker’s globalization aims to move away f

The city is Macao, the Portuguese settlement on the China Coast, as it was more than 200 years ago. The promises are those made by Englishmen to marry their Macao mistresses, only to leave them abando

Anthropometric measurements of growth parameters form an integral and vital part of paediatric practice and research. It is important to know the norms of vital parameters in order to recognize abnorm

All Roads Lead to the American City provides an original view of the urban culture in America seen through its irrevocable ties with the cities and roads. Examining the history, cinema, literature, cu

How Assessment Supports Learning: Learning-oriented Assessment in Action invites teachers in higher education to rethink the purposes of assessment and to revise their assessment practices in the inte

Keys to Chinese Character Writing is designed to show beginners how to write Chinese characters properly. The book introduces the principles that govern the construction of Chinese characters, the bas

In this era of globalization and the world-wide web, the ability to communicate accurately and effectively using English idioms is more important than ever. As such, daily American idiomatic expressio

This book is written by practitioners and experts with day to day experience to support the work of managers, engineers and administrators in the protection of the environment. The current terminology

The work touches on the religious, intellectual, scientific and artistic aspects of the China-Europe encounter during the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries, and shows that there had been significant i

How do we situate ourselves when we navigate the city of Hong Kong—physically, and in our minds? Against a backdrop of bustling density and movement, the difficulties of making space have shaped our days. From the challenges of limited living space and the quest for personal space, to the everyday negotiations of our identities in the social space, we are constantly confronted with the question: How do we redefine the distance between the city, others, and ourselves, and between the selves within us? This collection features prose, poetry and artwork from writers and artists in or from Hong Kong, as well as those who have had a close connection with the city, that explore the (im)possibility of making space. How do we remake space in our lives and our creative practices? What does this (im)possibility mean in (or in relation to) Hong Kong today?

Entanglements: Physics, Love, and Wilderness Dreams, Jack Mayer’s second poetry collection, is a poetic mélange about relationships, from sub-atomic particles to our human family; the ties that bind. Mayer, a pediatrician, poet, and hiker, explores the metaphysics of cosmology and that particularly intense entanglement, love. At the macroscopic level, Mayer’s doctor poems, inspired by his pediatric practice in rural Northern Vermont, take the reader into the heart and soul of a healer inspired to find meaning in his patients’ often difficult lives. Unique connections are unearthed. As a wilderness hiker and canoeist, Mayer has experienced the healing power of wilderness; the mystery of belonging to wilderness, of independence and interdependence. His wilderness poems carry us into his beloved Green Mountains on Vermont’s Long Trail. On solo hikes he composes poems, then copies his first draft into the nearest shelter’s logbook under his trail name, “Mountain Poet.” A durable thread con

Amidst the reshaping of Hong Kong’s social, cultural, political and ideological landscape, how do we reenvisage a city that exists in our memories? For those who have left their hometown―or the place they once called home―the question, “What does it mean to be a Hongkonger?” marks a constant shift between conflicting realities, identities and perceptions. Beyond the act of remembering, how do we reimagine our relationship with Hong Kong in the present and the future? In this collection of prose, poetry and photography by eighteen writers and artists, we see a gathering of reflections on the profound changes and subtle transitions that have transpired in Hong Kong, both in recent times and over the past decades.