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Special Relationship in the Malay World

Indonesia and Malaysia

By: Ho Ying Chan

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Special Relationship in the Malay World

Indonesia and Malaysia

By: Ho Ying Chan

Ho Ying Chan provides an expert analysis of Malaysia–Indonesia relations. He demystifies the concept of a 'special relationship', rescuing it from woolly, sentimental rhetoric that often emanates from political figures and popular commentators. His well-informed study shows how a state’s will to survive in the amoral world of international relations drives its conduct even in circumstances of common identities and common strategic interests with other states. He evaluates comparative evidence to shed light on how a special relationship leads to the emergence of a pluralistic security community. This is a conclusion of insight and value, not only to the field of Southeast Asian Studies, but also to the wider community of International Relations scholars." — Professor Clinton Fernandes, University of New South Wales, Australia "Empirically rich and theoretically interesting, this book offers an illuminating account of how material and ideational dynamics shape the evolution of Malaysia–Indonesia relations. Focusing on what is arguably the most vital bilateral relationship in Southeast Asia, it addresses the circumstances, conditions and constraints that determine the double-edged effects of the culturally bound 'special relationship'. Ho Ying Chan argues that while their shared serumpun identities and strategic interests do give rise to a considerable closeness between Malaysia and Indonesia, the politics of power (im)balance have prevented the transformation of the special relationship into a 'pluralistic security community', as their egoistic understanding averts the formation of collective self. The book generates useful insights on the interplay of cross-border cultural affinity and political necessity, inviting readers to ponder the politics of identity and survivability at the international level. It is a welcome addition to the growing literature of Southeast Asian international relations." — Dr Kuik Cheng-Chwee, National University of Malaysia (UKM) "Ho Ying Chan’s important study brings home the international and theoretical significance of the interaction between Malaysia and Indonesia, the two major states of Muslim Southeast Asia — products of the territorial division between the British and Dutch colonial empires. This welcome and revealing review of the Malaysia–Indonesia story deepens our understanding of the concept of a 'special relationship' — explaining both the cooperative and competitive dynamics that can be present, and the way such relationships are influenced by state identities and power imbalances." — Anthony Milner, University of Malaya; University of Melbourne

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ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute

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9814818178

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9789814818179

Reconstitution of Social Work

Towards a Moral Conception of Social Work Practice

By: Yuk-Ying Ho,Yuk-ying Ho,Xinbang Ruan

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Reconstitution of Social Work

Towards a Moral Conception of Social Work Practice

By: Yuk-Ying Ho,Yuk-ying Ho,Xinbang Ruan

Ch. 1. Towards a hermeneutic conception of social work practice (1) : the myths of positivism and the strong thesis of value involvement / Sun-pong Yuen -- ch. 2. Towards a hermeneutic conception of social work practice (2) : social work skills and moral practice / Sun-pong Yuen -- ch. 3. A hermeneutic study of the mentally ill "self" / Mary C. K. Fong -- ch. 4. The meaning of cancer from a hermeneutic perspective / Wai-ying Chan -- ch. 5. Critical theory and community development / Yuk-ying Ho and Kun-sun Chan -- ch. 6. The moral basis of social work management / Kun-sun Chan.

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World Scientific

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9814280755

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9789814280754

Islam and China's Hong Kong

Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road

By: Wai-Yip Ho

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Islam and China's Hong Kong

Ethnic Identity, Muslim Networks and the New Silk Road

By: Wai-Yip Ho

Hong Kong is a global city-state under the sovereignty of the People’s Republic of China, and is home to around 250,000 Muslims practicing Islam. However existing studies of the Muslim-majority communities in Asia and the Northwest China largely ignore the Muslim community in Hong Kong. Islam and China’s Hong Kong skillfully fills this gap, and investigates how ethnic and Chinese-speaking Muslims negotiate their identities and the increasing public attention to Islam in Hong Kong. Examining a range of issues and challenges facing Muslims in Hong Kong, this book focuses on the three different diasporic Muslim communities and reveals the city-state’s triple Islamic heritage and distinctive Islamic culture. It begins with the transition from the colonial to the post-colonial era, and explores how this has impacted on the experiences of the Muslim diaspora, and the ways this shift has compelled the community to adapt to Chinese nationalism whilst forging greater links with the Gulf. Then with reference to the rise of new media and technology, the book examines the heightened presence of Islam in the Chinese public sphere, alongside the emergence of Chinese Islamic websites which have sought to balance transnational Muslim solidarity and sensitivity towards Chinese government’s concern of external extremism. Finally, it concludes by investigating Hong Kong’s growing awareness of the Muslim minorities’ demands for Islamic religious education, and how this links with the city-state’s aspiration to become the new gateway for Islamic finance. Indeed, Wai Yip Ho posits that Hong Kong is now shifting from its role as the broker that bridged East and West during the Cold War, to that of a new meditator between China and the Middle East. Drawing on extensive ethnographic research, this book thoughtfully charts a new area of inquiry, and as such will be welcomed by students and scholars of Chinese studies, Islamic studies, Asian studies and ethnicity studies.

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Routledge

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1134098146

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9781134098149

Western Medicine for Chinese

How the Hong Kong College of Medicine Achieved a Breakthrough

By: Faith C. S. Ho

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Western Medicine for Chinese

How the Hong Kong College of Medicine Achieved a Breakthrough

By: Faith C. S. Ho

The founders of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (HKCM) had the lofty vision of helping to bring Western science and medicine to China, which, they hoped, would contribute to the larger objective of modernizing the nation. That this latter goal was partly realized through the non-medical efforts of its first and most famous graduate, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, is a well-known story. Faith C. S. Ho’s Western Medicine for Chinese brings the focus back to the primary mission of HKCM by analyzing its role in the transfer of medical knowledge and practices across cultures. It offers a detailed account of how the pioneering staff of the college and the fifty-nine graduates besides Dr. Sun overcame significant obstacles to enable Western medicine to gain wider acceptance among Chinese and to facilitate the establishment of such services by the Hong Kong government. Some of these Chinese doctors went on to practise medicine in China, but arguably the college had made the most lasting impact on Hong Kong. Ho observes that the timing of the founding (1887) and the closing (1915) of the college could not have been more strategic. The late nineteenth-century beginning allowed enough time for HKCM to lay a solid foundation for medical training in the city. Later, the college was ready to play a pivotal role in the establishment of the University of Hong Kong, which had important implications for subsequent social developments in the city. ‘Faith Ho’s concise yet comprehensive study of the Hong Kong College of Medicine examines the people and personalities who created and sustained this remarkable institution. It is as much about medicine as it is about colonialism and Hong Kong itself.’ —John M. Carroll, University of Hong Kong ‘This is a meticulously researched and comprehensive account of the history of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese. Those seeking information of Western medicine in the early years of Hong Kong need look no further for surely there is no better document than this.’ —Sir David Todd, Founding President, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine ‘It is a valuable history of one of Hong Kong’s most important educational institutions. It provides also a commentary on the cultural exchange between Western values and methods and those of the Chinese in that fundamental area of human concern—medicine.’ —W. John Morgan, University of Nottingham and Cardiff University

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Hong Kong University Press

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9888390945

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9789888390946

Beginner's Chinese

By: Yong Ho

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Beginner's Chinese

By: Yong Ho

This popular introduction to Mandarin Chinese is now accompanied by 2 audio CDs covering each of the ten lessons with a special section devoted to the Pinyin dialect. Each lesson uses dialogues to teach the basics of grammar, vocabulary, everyday speech, and the written language. Exercises reinforce the material covered in the dialogues, and each lesson ends with a 'Cultural Insights' section that offers a deeper view into the Chinese people. Their way of thinking and the constants of their daily life.

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Hippocrene Books

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0781810957

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9780781810951

Chinese Mathematical Astrology

Reaching Out to the Stars

By: Ho Peng Yoke

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Chinese Mathematical Astrology

Reaching Out to the Stars

By: Ho Peng Yoke

Though there are a number of well-written works on Chinese divination, there are none that deal with the three sophisticated devices that were employed by the Chinese Astronomical Bureau in the eleventh century and for hundreds of years thereafter. Chinese experts applied the methods associated with these devices to both weather forecasting and to the interpretation of human affairs. Hidden by a veil of secrecy, these methods have always been relatively little known other than by their names. The first work in any language to explore these three methods, known as sanshi (three cosmic boards), this book sheds light on a topic which has been shrouded in mystery for centuries, having been kept secret for many years by the Chinese Astronomical Bureau.

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261

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Routledge

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1134430671

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9781134430673

City on the Edge

Hong Kong under Chinese Rule

By: Ho-fung Hung

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City on the Edge

Hong Kong under Chinese Rule

By: Ho-fung Hung

A timely study of Hong Kong's politics and society since the 1997 handover that explores the city's long history of resistance.

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Cambridge University Press

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1108840337

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9781108840330

Understanding Canton

Rethinking Popular Culture in the Republican Period

By: Virgil K. Y. Ho

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Understanding Canton

Rethinking Popular Culture in the Republican Period

By: Virgil K. Y. Ho

By studying six different aspects of culture in Canton in the period between the two World Wars, this book helps broaden our limited knowledge of the social and cultural lives of the common people in this largest city of South China. The author examines how the Cantonese in this periodindulged in their imagined cultural superiority as "modern" citizens, ushering in a cult of the modern city. During this period, Cantonese opera was also emerging and evolving into a widely accepted form of commercialised mass entertainment. The process of social and cultural change and its impacton the development of this city and its people are revealed throughout the book. This book also aims to redress some major misconceptions of the socio-cultural realities as seen in official rhetoric or academic discourse on the matters of patriotism and anti-foreignism, gambling, prostitution, and opium consumption. Contemporary non-official and folk materials reveal that thecommon people were much more pro-Western than xenophobic in attitude, and the alleged social and political "calamities" of gambling, opium consumption and prostitution were more rhetorical than real. Understanding Canton provides us with, not only a fuller and more comprehensive picture of city lifeand popular mentalities, but also an important clue to understand how and why the social history of this city was distorted and constructed in ways that suited the political ideology and nation-building agenda of the ruling regimes.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0199282714

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9780199282715

Movie Stories

เรื่องราว ภาพยนตร์

By: Nangaen Chearavanont (Tse Yin),Au Ho (歐荷),Ou Chiu Shui (歐臻水)

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Movie Stories

เรื่องราว ภาพยนตร์

By: Nangaen Chearavanont (Tse Yin),Au Ho (歐荷),Ou Chiu Shui (歐臻水)

This book “Movie Stories” focuses on: (A) In addition to produce Siamese films and Teochew opera films, Siam (Thailand) also produced Cantonese romance film "Love Redeemed (湄江情浪)" in 1930s; (B) Singapore has been produced silent comedy film “New Friend (新客)” in 1920s; (C) Mr. Lay Min-wei (黎民偉) and Ms. Au Ho (歐荷) tell you more about the Hong Kong film industry in 1920s; (D) Japanese shot a propaganda film “The Battle of Hong Kong (香港攻略戰)” in 1942, let the author shows you its details; (E) Some anecdotes about sexy actress Ms. Lee Yi-nian (李綺年); (F) The earliest Hong Kong cable TV - Rediffusion Television (RTV, 麗的映聲); (G) Hong Kong earliest amusement parks, such as Yee Yuen (怡園), Yue Yuen (榆園(愉園)), Tai Pak Lau (太白樓), Ming Yuen (名園), Lee Garden (利園)… ; (H) The photograph studio difference between Bangkok and Hong Kong; (I) Both existing Macau and Sham Chun airports are not the original one; (J) Instant noodles is not invented by Japanese; Hong Kong people have been produced and sold "Pak Kut Noodle (百吉麵)" before WWII.

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H.M. Ou

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9881590957

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9789881590954

Explorations in Daoism

Medicine and Alchemy in Literature

By: Ho Peng Yoke

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Explorations in Daoism

Medicine and Alchemy in Literature

By: Ho Peng Yoke

The Daoist canon is the definitive fifteenth century compilation of texts, however many of these texts are undated and anonymous. This book brings together an extraordinary compendium of data on alchemical knowledge in China, describing the methods used for dating important alchemical texts in the Daoist canon.

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250

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Routledge

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1134137451

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9781134137459

Mister Jiu's in Chinatown

Recipes and Stories from the Birthplace of Chinese American Food [A Cookbook]

By: Brandon Jew,Tienlon Ho

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Mister Jiu's in Chinatown

Recipes and Stories from the Birthplace of Chinese American Food [A Cookbook]

By: Brandon Jew,Tienlon Ho

JAMES BEARD AWARD WINNER • The acclaimed chef behind the Michelin-starred Mister Jiu’s restaurant shares the past, present, and future of Chinese cooking in America through 90 mouthwatering recipes. ONE OF THE TEN BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, San Francisco Chronicle • ONE OF THE BEST COOKBOOKS OF THE YEAR: Glamour • “Brandon Jew’s affection for San Francisco’s Chinatown and his own Chinese heritage is palpable in this cookbook, which is both a recipe collection and a portrait of a district rich in history.”—Fuchsia Dunlop, James Beard Award-winning author of The Food of Sichuan Brandon Jew trained in the kitchens of California cuisine pioneers and Michelin-starred Italian institutions before finding his way back to Chinatown and the food of his childhood. Through deeply personal recipes and stories about the neighborhood that often inspires them, this groundbreaking cookbook is an intimate account of how Chinese food became American food and the making of a Chinese American chef. Jew takes inspiration from classic Chinatown recipes to create innovative spins like Sizzling Rice Soup, Squid Ink Wontons, Orange Chicken Wings, Liberty Roast Duck, Mushroom Mu Shu, and Banana Black Sesame Pie. From the fundamentals of Chinese cooking to master class recipes, he interweaves recipes and techniques with stories about their origins in Chinatown and in his own family history. And he connects his classical training and American roots to Chinese traditions in chapters celebrating dim sum, dumplings, and banquet-style parties. With more than a hundred photographs of finished dishes as well as moving and evocative atmospheric shots of Chinatown, this book is also an intimate portrait—a look down the alleyways, above the tourist shops, and into the kitchens—of the neighborhood that changed the flavor of America.

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Ten Speed Press

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1984856502

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9781984856500

Legal Translation and Bilingual Law Drafting in Hong Kong

Challenges and Interactions in Chinese Regions

By: Clara Ho-yan Chan

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Legal Translation and Bilingual Law Drafting in Hong Kong

Challenges and Interactions in Chinese Regions

By: Clara Ho-yan Chan

Legal Translation and Bilingual Law Drafting in Hong Kong presents a systematic account from a cross-disciplinary perspective of the activities of legal translation and bilingual law drafting in the bilingual international city of Hong Kong and its interaction with Mainland China and Taiwan in the use of legal terminology. The study mainly examines the challenges posed to English-Chinese translation in the past three decades by elaborate drafting and terminological equivalence, and offers educational and research solutions. Its primary goals are to create legal Chinese that naturally accommodates common law concepts and statutes from the English legal system and to reconcile Chinese legal terms from the different legal systems adopted by Hong Kong, Mainland China and Taiwan. The new directions in legal translation and bilingual law drafting in Hong Kong will have implications for other Chinese regions and for the world. The book is intended for scholars, researchers, teachers and students of legal translation and legal linguistics, legal translators, lawyers and legal practitioners who are engaged in translation, as well as all persons who are interested in legal language and legal translation.

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Routledge

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0429812167

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9780429812163

Citizens in Motion

Emigration, Immigration, and Re-migration Across China's Borders

By: Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho

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Citizens in Motion

Emigration, Immigration, and Re-migration Across China's Borders

By: Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho

More than 35 million Chinese people live outside China, but this population is far from homogenous, and its multifaceted national affiliations require careful theorization. This book unravels the multiple, shifting paths of global migration in Chinese society today, challenging a unilinear view of migration by presenting emigration, immigration, and re-migration trajectories that are occurring continually and simultaneously. Drawing on interviews and ethnographic observations conducted in China, Canada, Singapore, and the China–Myanmar border, Elaine Lynn-Ee Ho takes the geographical space of China as the starting point from which to consider complex patterns of migration that shape nation-building and citizenship, both in origin and destination countries. She uniquely brings together various migration experiences and national contexts under the same analytical framework to create a rich portrait of the diversity of contemporary Chinese migration processes. By examining the convergence of multiple migration pathways across one geographical region over time, Ho offers alternative approaches to studying migration, migrant experience, and citizenship, thus setting the stage for future scholarship.

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Stanford University Press

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1503607461

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9781503607460

Globalizing China – Social and Governance Reforms

By: Ka Ho Mok

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Globalizing China – Social and Governance Reforms

By: Ka Ho Mok

Unlike most books which consider China’s transformation and globalization over the last four decades by focusing on China’s economic growth, this book examines how the Chinese regime has handled the increasingly complex sociopolitical and socio-economic challenges generated as a result of the country’s economic growth and transformation, challenges arising both from within the country and also from the external political environment. Based on extensive original research, the book outlines how China’s economic development has generated social and governance pressures, discusses the government’s social, educational, and governance reforms, and highlights how China’s development experiences, which differ from the Western economies with democratic political regimes, have drawn increasing attention from other countries in the developing world as an example to follow.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000822915

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9781000822915

Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar

Science, Humanities, and Joseph Needham

By: Peng Yoke Ho

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Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar

Science, Humanities, and Joseph Needham

By: Peng Yoke Ho

This fascinating book presents the unusual career of a scientist of Chinese Malaysian origin, Ho Peng Yoke, who became a humanist and rendered his services to both Eastern and Western intellectual worlds. It describes how Ho adapted to working under changing social and academic environments in Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Hong Kong and England. His activities also covered East Asia, Europe and North America.Ho Peng Yoke worked in collaboration with Joseph Needham of Cambridge over different periods spanning half a century in the monumental series Science and Civilization in China. Ho subsequently succeeded Needham as Director of the Needham Research Institute, where he held the post for 12 years. In the introduction to the final volume of that series, the Oxford scholar Mark Elvin remarked that Ho ?had long piloted the ship through difficult times.? This book tells the story and more.

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World Scientific

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9812565884

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9789812565884

Academic Freedom in Hong Kong

By: Jan Currie,Carole Petersen,Ka-Ho Mok

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Academic Freedom in Hong Kong

By: Jan Currie,Carole Petersen,Ka-Ho Mok

The Dudek Diet Plan exposes the mortal misconception that a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet is "heart healthy." In truth, a low-fat, high carbohydrate diet will make you overweight/obese and increase your risk for atherosclerosis. Next, the Dudek Diet Plan explains in easy-to-understand terms what the correct healthy diet really is and gives you an easy-to-follow 8 week eating plan. Finally, the Dudek Diet Plan teaches you how to send your body the message "I want you to get thin" and watch your body magically respond by burning fat. If you want to learn how to be lean and trim the rest of your life, then you need to learn the Language of Metabolism, you need to read the Dudek Diet Plan.

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Lexington Books

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0739110810

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Book's by Ho Ying Chan

Special Relationship in the Malay World

Special Relationship in the Malay World

Reconstitution of Social Work

Reconstitution of Social Work

Islam and China's Hong Kong

Islam and China's Hong Kong

Western Medicine for Chinese

Western Medicine for Chinese

Beginner's Chinese

Beginner's Chinese

Chinese Mathematical Astrology

Chinese Mathematical Astrology

City on the Edge

City on the Edge

Understanding Canton

Understanding Canton

Movie Stories

Movie Stories

Explorations in Daoism

Explorations in Daoism

Mister Jiu's in Chinatown

Mister Jiu's in Chinatown

Legal Translation and Bilingual Law Drafting in Hong Kong

Legal Translation and Bilingual Law Drafting in Hong Kong

Citizens in Motion

Citizens in Motion

Globalizing China – Social and Governance Reforms

Globalizing China – Social and Governance Reforms

Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar

Reminiscence of a Roving Scholar

Academic Freedom in Hong Kong

Academic Freedom in Hong Kong

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