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[Indent] Whether you're a long-time resident or a visitor, a certified diver or a beginning snorkeller, this guide to 26 of O'ahu's best snorkelling and diving sites will enrich and enhance your underwater adventures. Detailed driving instructions to each location are included as well as helpful maps showing onshore facilities and many offshore features you'll want to explore. You'll learn where it's safest to enter and exit the water, what to look for (coral, shells, fishes, underwater caverns), and what hazards to avoid. The author provides essential information on safety and seasonal wind and surf conditions and useful tips on diving and snorkelling equipment, night diving and spear fishing. Each site, chosen for its ease of access and the interest of its underwater topography, is rated according to degree of difficulty. (For this item please quote stock ID 20695) ISBN: 9780824826468

[Indent] Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Given its small-scale cultivation on family farms, however, it has been especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. A Cup of Aloha is a heartfelt portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners, merchants, and labourers who struggled to keep themselves and their industry alive. The author traces coffee's history in Hawai'i - from its arrival in 1828 to Kona's position in today's highly competitive specialty coffee market. Through the author's use of oral history interviews, readers will experience day-to-day life on a coffee farm and the challenges, natural and man-made, that inspired innovations and adaptations to the agricultural, economic, and social life in the Kona Coffee Belt. (For this item please quote stock ID 20696) ISBN: 9780824826789

[Indent] 'Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits is unique indeed as it retells legends in an entirely new way. Perhaps most noteworthy of all are the 60 woodcuts, some in colour, that are spread throughout the book. This work deserves the attention of Hawaiian collectors who savour the spiritual aspects of life in the islands and the role it still plays in the lives of many' - The Molokai Dispatch, November 2002. 'Caren Loebel-Fried is an artist and writer whose show at the Volcano Art Center in 2000 has now been turned into a book ... The well-made volume consists of nine illustrated re-tellings of Hawaiian mo'olelo (legends) about protective gods, divided into five chapters, one for each of them. Her medium is block prints, very stylised, clean and appealing, and the stories are told in a very readable ... style' - The Honolulu Advertiser, December 2002. Ancient Hawaiians lived in a world where all of nature was alive with the spirits of their ancestors. These `aumakua have lived on through the ages as family guardians and take on many natural forms, thus linking many Hawaiians to the animals, plants, and natural phenomena of their island home. Individuals have a reciprocal relationship with their guardian spirits and offer worship and sacrifice in return for protection, inspiration, and guidance. Hawaiian Legends of the Guardian Spirits is told in words and pictures by award-winning artist Caren Loebel-Fried. The ancient legends are brought to life in 60 beautiful block prints, many vibrantly coloured, and narrated in a lively 'read-aloud' style, just as storytellers of old may have told them hundreds of years ago. Notes are included, reflecting the careful and extensive research done for this volume at the Bishop Museum Library and Archives in Honolulu and at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. A short section on the process of creating the block prints that illustrate the book is also included. The matching poster of A Chance Meeting with the `I`iwi measures 700 x 550mm. [Indent] Caren Loebel-Fried is a storyteller, teacher, and second-generation carver who learned the ancient art of block printing from her mother. Her work has appeared in Parabola, and she regularly illustrates for Tikkun and other publications. She spends her time with her husband and son in Volcano, Hawai'i, and in New Jersey. (For this item please quote stock ID 20697) ISBN: 9780824826468

[Indent] Spanning the period from pre-Western contact to statehood, Finding Paradise examines in text and images the art, the culture (both high and low), and the mystique of the Hawaiian Islands. (For this item please quote stock ID 20701) ISBN: 9780824826574

[Indent] In his most challenging work to date, journalist and author Tom Coffman offers readers a new and much-needed political narrative of 20th-century Hawai'i. The Island Edge of America reinterprets the major events leading up to and following statehood in 1959. (For this item please quote stock ID 20706) ISBN: 9780824826628

{Indent] Anatomia is the only medical textbook written in the Hawaiian language. It is a valuable addition to the growing collection of translations on native health and will be greatly appreciated by linguists, historians, and students of Hawaiian language and culture. (For this item please quote stock ID 20707) ISBN: 9780824825850

[Indent] The fourth and final volume of the Hawaiian National Bibliography, 1780-1900, records the most volatile period in Hawai'i's history. American business interests and the desire for a constitutional monarchy were pitted against the desire of the monarchs, King Kaläkaua and Queen Lili`uokalani, to strengthen the power of the throne. The convulsions of the 1887 and 1889 revolutions were succeeded by the overthrow of the monarchy on January 17, 1893. Documents revealing the struggle over annexation, beginning in 1893, and the counter-revolution of 1895 are an important component of this volume. Annexation in 1898 was followed by a two-year period during which functions of government and laws were altered to conform to those of the United States. After the organic act became effective in 1900, vestiges of monarchical Hawai`i disappeared and the history of the Territory of Hawai`i unfolded. As with the previous volumes, Volume 4 is a record of printed works touching on some aspect of the political, religious, cultural, or social history of the Hawaiian Islands. A valuable component of this series is the inclusion of newspaper and periodical accounts, and single-sheet publications such as broadsides, circulars, playbills, and handbills. Entries are extensively annotated, and also provided for each are exact title, date of publication, size of volume, collation of pages, number and type of plates and maps, references, and location of copies. (For this item please quote stock ID 20708) ISBN: 9780824826369

[Indent] The stories of Kaua'i's ruling chiefs were passed from generation to generation in songs and narratives recited by trained story-tellers either formally at the high chief's court of informally at family gatherings. All known genealogical references to the Kaua'i ali'i nui (paramount chiefs) have been gathered here and placed in chronological order and are interspersed with legends of great voyages, bitter wars, courageous heroes, and passionate romances that together form a rich and invaluable resource. (For this item please quote stock ID 20709) ISBN: 9780824826383

[Indent] This volume takes readers on an ethnographic journey through Hawaii's early contact period. It begins by exploring the translation work done by American Protestant missionaries, who played a central role in bridging cultural differences between Hawaiians and Westerners. Evangelicalism and liberal capitalism set the stage for constructing political images of a 'pagan' society, and the present work follows the subsequent evolution and transformation of these images. (For this item please quote stock ID 20724) ISBN: 9780824814861

[Indent] This volume is the most detailed case study of land tenure in Hawai'i. It explains how Hawaiians of a century ago were divested of thier land - and how the past continues to shape the Island's present as Hawaiians today debate the structure of land-claim settlements. (For this item please quote stock ID 20725) ISBN: 9780824825904

[Indent] Since the late 1960s Tongans have been leaving their islands in large numbers and settling in many different nations. Tongans Overseas is a timely look at their settlement experiences as they relate to cultural identity, particularly among the younger generations raised outside Tonga. What does being Tongan mean to these young people? Why do some proudly proclaim and cherish their Tongan identities while others remain ambivalent, confused, or indifferent? (For this item please quote stock ID 20731) ISBN: 9780824826543

[Indent] In the first decades after independence in 1980, kastom - indigenous knowledge and practice - became a key marker of ni-Vanuatu identity. However, it was almost entirely concerned with men. Then in 1991 the Vanuatu Cultural Centre initiated a project that focused on women's knowledge and skill in producing plaited pandanus textiles (mats) on the island of Ambae in north Vanuatu. This acknowledgment that 'women have kastom too', widely welcomed by rural ni-Vanuatu, was a significant step in establishing women's kastom. (For this item please quote stock ID 20732) ISBN: 9780824825355

[Indent] Determined to be a U.S. Marine Corps officer, Bruce Yamashita enrolled in Officer Candidate School, where he was the target of persistent racial harassment by officers and staff. After enduring nine weeks of emotional and physical abuse, Yamashita was kicked out of the Marine Corps in April 1989 because of the colour of his skin. Fighting Tradition is Yamashita's own story of his courageous struggle to expose a pattern of racial discrimination against minorities that has existed at various levels of the Corps. With the support of a broad coalition of community and civil rights organisations, the Hawai'i-born law school graduate fought a five-year-long legal, political, and media battle against the military establishment that ended in his commissioning as a captain and the revision of Marine Corps policies and procedures. Fighting Tradition is not only a moving story of personal sacrifice and vision, but contributes also both directly and indirectly to our understanding of the complexities of institutional racism in a politically conservative, demographically shifting society. It is a unique window into the dynamics of race, government, and the law and a stirring reminder of the importance of political mobilisation by the individual to achieve justice. 'A valuable account of one person's fight against racial profiling and the inexcusable damage to civil liberties and self-worth that result from it' - Dennis Ogawa, University of Hawai'i. Bruce Yamashita is a captain in the Marine Corps Reserves. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he practices criminal and immigration law. Yamashita continues to advise those who have been wrongfully discharged from the U.S. military. (For this item please quote stock ID 21161) ISBN: 9780824827458

[Indent] Lei are the very expression of traditional Hawaiian culture and were once an essential part of community and family life. Following in the footsteps of Samuel Kamakau, Abraham Fornander, and others, the authors have collected here a wealth of written and oral information to reveal the significance of making and wearing lei and their role in Hawaiian ritual and dance. This volume covers 85 flowers and plants (and another dozen colour variations) used in traditional lei construction. They are arranged according to their Hawaiian names and accompanied by botanical information and descriptions gleaned from legends and chants that illustrate the cultural uses and special meanings of lei prior to Western contact. Many are introduced by poems written especially for this work by master kumu hula, linguist, and ethnologist Pualani Kanaka`ole Kanahele. The authors present the lei art form in not only words, but also pictures. Lavish colour photographs by Jean Coté showcase each plant and lei (shown by itself or worn), as well as places throughout the Islands associated with specific flowers and plants. An appendix includes a complete list of lei plants, basic instructions for their propagation, and other sources for material. (For this item please quote stock ID 21162) ISBN: 9780824826499

[Indent] Adventure awaits you in Hawai`i! Let Adventuring in Hawai`i show you how and where to find it. Here is a comprehensive, up-to-date guide to the many outdoor activities available year-round in the Islands: hiking, backpacking, cycling, mountain biking, snorkelling, scuba diving, surfing, windsurfing, kayaking, hunting, fishing. Covering all six of the main islands, Adventuring in Hawai`i is also a complete, stand-alone reference, providing brief overviews of geology, geography, climate, flora, and fauna. It furnishes insights into the history and culture of the 50th State and offers current information on public transportation, campgrounds, beach access, and personal safety. A helpful list of Hawaiian words is included, as well as a mini-directory of addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, and websites that will help you plan your adventures. For the not-so-active, 'Adventuring by Car' sections provide directions to lesser-known but fascinating locales accessible by vehicle. So get out of that beach chair - and take this book with you! Richard McMahon has taken hundreds of hikers and backpackers into Hawai`i's wilderness areas and led numerous trips for adventure travel companies such as Mountain Travel, REI, and Terres d'Aventure. A resident of Hawai`i for more than 30 years, McMahon is the author of Camping Hawai`i, Scenic Driving Hawai`i, Camping Southern California, and Camping Northern California. (For this item please quote stock ID 21163) ISBN: 9780824826932

[Indent] Loyal to the Land is a sweeping history of one of the United States' largest working ranches, the Big Island of Hawai'i's Parker Ranch. In this wide-ranging and insightful book, illustrated with more than 250 historical photos, Dr. Bergin first discusses the important Hispanic vaquero roots of ranching in Hawai'i. He then relates the histories of the five foundation families, providing rich and detailed information on key members who contributed to the Ranch's success. The balance of the book examines every aspect of Parker Ranch development: management, labour, improvements and diversification of livestock, veterinary and animal care programs, and the Ranch's role and influence on the Big Island and the state. Dr. Billy Bergin served as the Parker Ranch veterinarian for more than 25 years. (For this item please quote stock ID 21164) ISBN: 9780824826925

[Indent] A comet blazes across the night sky, heralding the birth of a powerful king who will rule the Islands. Then a baby is spirited away to the mountains to escape a jealous chief wary of the prophecy. As dramatic as a Greek myth, the story of Kamehameha the Great, Hawai`i's warrior king, is retold here for readers of all ages. From his childhood in exile to his return to court and the lifting of the great Naha Stone, we follow this brave and ambitious youth as he paves his way to becoming first conqueror and then monarch of a unified Hawaiian kingdom. Recommended for ages 9 and up Susan Morrison is a contributor to Notable Women of Hawai`i and Hawai`i Chronicles. Her writing has appeared in both Hawai`i and national magazines. Karen Kiefer was raised in Hawai`i and currently works as an artist and art educator on the island of O`ahu. (For this item please quote stock ID 21166) ISBN: 9780824827007

[Indent] A wide-ranging survey of both the traditional and contemporary arts of Samoa. (For this item please quote stock ID 21262) ISBN: 9780824826758

[Indent] Includes the biography and writings of one of the most influential European residents in the Hawaiian Islands in the early 1800s. (For this item please quote stock ID 21264) ISBN: 9780945048091

[Indent] These volumes form a series on the history of the North Pacific. Each contains primary source material (official reports, private letters) and extracts from rare books, translated from various languages. (For this item please quote stock ID 21270) ISBN: 9780920201176

[Indent] These volumes form a series on the history of the North Pacific. Each contains primary source material (official reports, private letters) and extracts from rare books, translated from various languages. (For this item please quote stock ID 21271) ISBN: 9780920201183

[Indent] This volume is a systematic treatment of the native bees of the Hawaiian Islands. Believed to be descendants of a single female that arrived in the ancient archipelago millions of years ago, the native yellow-faced bees are prime examples of extraordinary evolutionary radiation. Despite their evolutionary and ecological importance, no comprehensive work has been published on them until now. A total of 59 species are recognised, including nine new species. Detailed keys for the identification of species are provided for males and, for the first time, females. The history of collections of the bees, their taxonomy, attributes for dispersal, biology, ecology, and relations to flower plants are discussed. Treatments of each species include annotated synonymy and other references; diagnosis of identifying features and general distribution; description of male and female; localities where first collected and recent collections; flower records; and remarks on taxonomic problems and other information. Line drawings of the male head and genitalia are included to facilitate identification, and all recent collection records are provided in an appendix. Howell Daly is professor emeritus of entomology at the University of California, Berkeley. Karl Magnacca is a Ph.D. candidate in entomology at Cornell University. (For this item please quote stock ID 21276) ISBN: 9780824826741

'A significant contribution . . . [This] is the only comprehensive survey of the contemporary Pacific Islands found between two covers today. The volume's flexible format is useful for instructional purposes, and it will be welcomed by readers interested in the Pacific' - Robert Kiste, Director, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai'i Here is an up-to-date introduction to the Pacific Island environment and society. Major sections include the physical environment, history, culture, population issues, and economies. Moshe Rapaport is lecturer in geography at the University of Hawai'i. (For this item please quote stock ID 21392) ISBN: 9781573060424

Tested and compiled by runners for runners, A Runners Guide to O`ahu provides maps and course details for 36 road and trail runs, each chosen for its accessibility and amenities. Richard Varley is running coach and program coordinator for Team Jet Hawaii Running and Triathlon Club. He is director of internships and career development at the College of Business Administration, University of Hawai`i. A Latitude 20 book. (For this item please quote stock ID 22653) ISBN: 9780824827939

[Indent] (For this item please quote stock ID 22654) ISBN: 9780824828622

Provides an intellectual and legal framework for understanding both the past and future of Hawai'i's freshwater resources. (For this item please quote stock ID 22655) ISBN: 9780824828110

The twins Lä`ieikawai and Lä`ielohelohe are separated at birth but remain linked by their great beauty and a series of unscrupulous admirers and fickle husbands. Eventually the sisters are reunited with the help of a colourful cast of characters, including a man-eating lizard, a 'cosmic' spider, and a giant bird, and find happiness at last in each other's company. This timeless ka`ao, or legend, of long ago is lovingly retold and illustrated here by renowned Island artist and storyteller Dietrich Varez. Dietrich Varez is a printmaker living on the island of Hawai`i. He is the author of Pele the Fire Goddess, Mäui the Mischief Maker, and Hina the Goddess and illustrator of `Ölelo No`eau: Hawaiian Proverbs & Poetical Sayings by Mary Kawena Pukui and A Legendary Tradition of Kamapua`a: The Hawaiian Pig God by Lilikala K. Kame`eleihiwa. A Latitude 20 Book (For this item please quote stock ID 22673) ISBN: 9780824828394

The South Pacific has long been in need of a comprehensive guide to reef and shore fishes. This volume covers the inshore fish fauna of New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, the southern Gilbert Islands (Kiribati), Tuvalu, Fiji, the Wallis Islands, Tonga, Samoa, American Samoa, the Tokelau Islands, the Phoenix Islands, the Cook Islands, the Austral Islands, Rapa, the Society Islands, the Tuamoto Archipelago, the Marquesas Islands, and the Pitcairn Islands. It contains accounts of nearly 1,500 species of fishes, illustrated with more than 2,000 colour photographs, taken mostly underwater. (A few drab species are illustrated by only black and white photographs or drawings.) Species accounts are headed by the English common name, the scientific name, the author or authors who described the fish, and the date of the description. This is followed by a concise list of the characteristics needed to identify the species, the total length it attains, its distribution, habitat, and in summary form what may be known of its biology. More than 600 references are given for those seeking more information on individual species. The introduction contains a two-page colour spread of the main external features of fishes. An extensive glossary of scientific terms precedes the index. John Randall has described 555 new fishes - more coral-reef species than anyone else in history. He has authored 635 publications in marine biology, nine of which are regional guides on the fishes of the Caribbean Sea, Hawaiian Islands, Red Sea, Oman, and Great Barrier Reef of Australia. Since 1970 he has been senior ichthyologist at the Bishop Museum, Honolulu. (For this item please quote stock ID 22674) ISBN: 9780824826987

[Indent] The history of the Honolulu Symphony Society is a singular one, and Dale E. Hall presents to us the rich past of its first 100 years. The story begins in 1902 at a time when Hawai`i was so removed from the musical entertainments of the Mainland that its residents had to make their own amusements. In this atmosphere the Society formed - as a men's club which assembled to drink beer and play classical German music. The narrative emerges as a woven cloth, its threads coloured by the many personalities of its various conductors, the music of its powerful performances, and the difficult struggles, financial and political, to keep it alive. The story ends in 2002 with the Honolulu Symphony as a major U.S. orchestra, far from its humble beginnings. Hall has unearthed this grand story through meticulous research, gleaning information from interviews, correspondence, diaries, magazine and newspaper articles. What emerges is a unique story: the history of the Honolulu Symphony Society. Dale Hall has been immersed in the Hawai`i music scene since 1974, when he began teaching musicology and music history at the University of Hawai`i at Manoa. (For this item please quote stock ID 22675) ISBN: 9780966294569

[Indent] This rare collection of more than 100 songs from the end of the 19th century contains the largest number of Hawaiian political and patriotic songs ever printed in one place. Also included in the collection are non-political songs that reflect other personal and political aspects of Hawaiian life of that period. In 1895, Francisco Jose Testa, editor of Ka Makaainana, collected these mele together in one volume to be published as Buke Mele Lahui. Testa refers to these compositions as 'mele aloha aina,' patriotic songs or songs of loyalty. Ke Kupu Hou (Hawaiian Language Reprint Series) (For this item please quote stock ID 22677) ISBN: 9780945048121

[Indent] Places matter. We are shaped by them, and in turn we shape them physically and imaginatively. They connect us to time and locality, perhaps even to life and death itself. This is a book about places and how our engagement with them - complex, changing, and varied - forms and transforms our understanding of them, of ourselves, of the human condition itself. Pacific Places, Pacific History brings together leading Pacific Islands studies scholars and invites them to talk about the places they have inhabited and to contemplate the meaning of that experience. The result is a veritable collage of reflections, distinct and different from each other but moving in their collective impact. Our engagement with places becomes daily more complicated with the transnational movement of peoples, ideas, technologies, and cultures. Global capitalism relentlessly alters established ethnographic assumptions about the meaning and importance of where we are and have been. The essays presented here are about letting go, learning and un-learning, transgressing physical, emotional, and intellectual boundaries. They are about personal quests, narrated in distinctive voices, raising particular concerns. Together they contribute significantly to our understanding of how small islands in a vast ocean enable us to see ourselves and the world around us. Brij Lal is professor of history and head of Pacific and Asian history, The Australian National University. Contributors: Ben Finney, Stewart Firth, David Hanlon, Francis Hezel, Kerry Howe, Brij Lal, Mac Marshall, Clive Moore, Mark Mosko, Hank Nelson, Eugene Ogan, Karen Peacock, Joakim Jojo Peter, Mike Rynkiewich, Teresia Teaiwa, R. Gerard Ward, Terence Wesley-Smith. (For this item please quote stock ID 22682) ISBN: 9780824827489

[Indent] These volumes form a series on the history of the North Pacific. Each contains primary source material (official reports, private letters) and extracts from rare books, translated from various languages. Volume 19 contains 14 documents from 1818, plus extracts from four books about the Freycinet Expedition of 1819, with 50 illustrations. The French scientific expedition led by Captain Freycinet was the most thorough to visit Micronesia ever. Its 12-volume official report includes information about life there up to 1819: history, anthropology, sociology, native customs, industry, commerce, flora and fauna, linguistics, etc. Captain Freycinet's narrative is given in full; it includes special reports by many of his officers, notably Lamarche, Berard, Doctors Quoy and Gaimard. Also included are letters of his wife, who was part of the crew, and the letters of Jacques Arago, the artist. Arago's book is also reproduced; it is a poetic rendering that reads like a historical novel. (For this item please quote stock ID 22684) ISBN: 9780920201190

[Indent] These volumes form a series on the history of the North Pacific. Each contains primary source material (official reports, private letters) and extracts from rare books, translated from various languages. This final volume in the series contains an annotated bibliography of printed works about Micronesia arranged in chronological order; a list of ships that visited the islands from Magellan's time to the modern era; and a cumulative index to volumes 1-19. (For this item please quote stock ID 22685) ISBN: 9780920201206

[Indent] War & Succession in Mangaia is a political history of an island in the southern Cook Islands, from its social foundations until the advent of Christianity in the 1820s, as described by the 19th-century tribal historian Mamae. Mamae?s original manuscripts are reproduced, along with translations, and a commentary discussing events surrounding chiefly battles for supreme power. (For this item please quote stock ID 22687) ISBN: 9780908940042

[Indent] Through her detailed description of a particular place (Kuzaki-cho) at a particular moment in time (the 1980s), D. P. Martinez addresses a variety of issues currently at the fore in the anthropology of Japan: the construction of identity, both for a place and its people; the importance of ritual in a country that describes itself as non-religious; and the relationship between men and women in a society where gender divisions are still very much in place. Kuzaki is, for the anthropologist, both a microcosm of modernity and an attempt to bring the past into the present. But it must also be understood as a place all of its own. In the 1980s it was one of the few villages where female divers (ama) still collected abalone and other shellfish and where some of its inhabitants continued to make a living as fishermen. Kuzaki was also a kambe, or sacred guild, of Ise Shrine, the most important Shinto shrine in modern Japan - home to Amaterasu, the sun goddess. Kuzaki's rituals affirmed a national identity in an era when attitudes to modernity and Japaneseness were being challenged by globalisation. Martinez enhances her fascinating ethnographic description of a single diving village with a critique of the way in which the anthropology of Japan has developed. The result is a sophisticated investigation by a senior scholar of Japanese studies that, while firmly grounded in empirical data, calls on anthropological theory to construct another means of understanding Japan - both as a society in which the collective is important and as a place where individual ambitions and desires can be expressed. D. P. Martinez teaches at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and has published on tourism, the mass media, Japanese divers, women and religion, and ethnicity. (For this item please quote stock ID 22693) ISBN: 9780824828172

The nature of hierarchy in Polynesian societies has been the subject of lively discussion in recent years, and new interpretations have paid special attention to the historical transformations of these societies. This present work analyses the political system of the Ngâpûtoru group (Âtiu, Ma?uke, and Miti?âro) in the Southern Cook Islands. Beginning with local notions about the origin and population of these islands, the book connects the structure emerging from these narratives to later historical events, giving a picture of the historical development of Ngâpûtoru polity. Special attention is paid to the way in which the initial positions in the system emerge as genealogical positions, even though the history of the islands reveals flexibility in the basic structure. On the basis of this history, an image of the practice of political power is formed. Jukka Siikala, senior fellow of the Academy of Finland, is the author of Cult & Conflict in Tropical Polynesia and editor of Culture & History in the Pacific. (For this item please quote stock ID 22698) ISBN: 9780473011338

~A Latitude 20 Book.

~Now completely revised and updated, this edition of Beaches of O`ahu offers sixty new colour photographs of the island's spectacular beaches and coastline by photographer Mike Waggoner, a water safety section, and 22 newly drawn maps locating more than 130 beaches and shoreline parks. The beach descriptions and maps include many of the island's popular surfing sites. All beaches, known and relatively unknown, are listed with their physical characteristics, recreational uses, historic and cultural significance, and any dangers that beach-goers may encounter. Each beach is identified by its official and unofficial, or popular, name (if any) used by residents. When available, the author has added brief histories of beaches as handed down through the native Hawaiian oral tradition and related Hawaiian chants and verses.

~John Clark is deputy fire chief for the City and County of Honolulu. He is the author of The Beaches of Maui County, Beaches of the Big Island, Beaches of Kaua`i & Ni`ihau, Hawai`i's Best Beaches, and Hawai`i Place Names: Shores, Beaches, & Surf Sites (all published by the University of Hawai`i Press). (For this item please quote stock ID 23275) ISBN: 9780824828929

~A Latitude 20 Book

~The inhabitants of sleepy old Kanewai town are rudely awakened when these and other disturbing messages begin showing up on the wall of the abandoned movie theatre. No one knows who's behind the mischief, but everyone is speculating as frantic attempts are made to cover up the graffiti and repair the damage done to the reputations of friends, family, and the 'victims' themselves. Is it the ghost of Casey Akana, the theatre's original owner, come back to slander the people of Kanewai - in particular Hiram Ching, whose father had bankrupted him in the good old days after the war? Threats, armed vigilantes - nothing can stop the offensive remarks from appearing. After Ching mysteriously drops dead of a heart attack, even the town priest is baffled and gives into pleas for an exorcism. But when Father Fonseca falls to his death from the theatre's roof, the townspeople lose their only saviour - or so they think until more ugly secrets are revealed and further hypocrisy is exposed.

~Author of the award-winning The Watcher of Waipuna & Other Stories and A Ricepaper Airplane, Gary Pak is on the creative writing faculty at the University of Hawai`i. (For this item please quote stock ID 23278) ISBN: 9780824828363

~Distributed for the Kauai Historical Society~This is a lively firsthand account of life on Kauai when sugar plantations were at the centre of island life in Hawaii.~Mike Ashman was an announcer at the first commercial radio station to broadcast from Kauai. He lives in Princeville, Kauai, and in eastern Washington. (For this item please quote stock ID 23279) ISBN: 9780824829049

~Distributed for the Kauai Historical Society

~This is a lively firsthand account of life on Kauai when sugar plantations were at the centre of island life in Hawaii.

~Mike Ashman was an announcer at the first commercial radio station to broadcast from Kauai. He lives in Princeville, Kauai, and in eastern Washington. (For this item please quote stock ID 23280) ISBN: 9780824817664

~Distributed for the Hawaiian Historical Society

~The Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation was founded in 1894, making it one of the oldest charitable organisations in the United States. Closely identified with Progressive Era reform, the foundation has affected over its long history of grantmaking activity virtually every aspect of cultural, educational, and social life in Hawai`i. The foundation's earliest grants favoured educational innovation; in more recent decades, it has made large capital grants to cultural organisations and early childhood education.

~This revised edition analyses the foundation?s development in the 1990s and the early years of the twenty-first century. Special attention is paid to changing trends in national philanthropy and the foundation's strong support for and advocacy of child education and healthcare in Hawai`i. In 2004 - its 110th year - the Castle Foundation continues its commitment to nonprofit organisations, cross-sector partnerships, community building, outcome assessment, and consortial funding.

~Alfred Castle has served as executive director and treasurer of the Samuel N. and Mary Castle Foundation since 1998. (For this item please quote stock ID 23282) ISBN: 9780824828738

Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 19, Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawaii. A variety of cross-cultural collisions and collusions - sometimes amusing, sometimes tragic, but always complex - resulted from the U.S. Navy's introduction of Western health and sanitation practices to Guam's native population. In Colonial Dis-Ease, Anne Perez Hattori examines early twentieth-century U.S. military colonialism through the lens of Western medicine and its cultural impact on the Chamorro people. In four case studies, Hattori considers the histories of Chamorro leprosy patients exiled to Culion Leper Colony in the Philippines, hookworm programs for children, the regulation of native midwives and nurses, and the creation and operation of the Susana Hospital for women and children. Changes to Guam's traditional systems of health and hygiene placed demands not only on Chamorro bodies, but also on their cultural values, social relationships, political controls, and economic expectations. Hattori effectively demonstrates that the new health projects signified more than a benevolent interest in hygiene and the philanthropic sharing of medical knowledge. Rather the navy's health care regime in Guam was an important vehicle through which U.S. colonial power and moral authority over Chamorros was introduced and entrenched. Medical experts, navy doctors, and health care workers asserted their scientific knowledge as well as their administrative might and in the process became active participants in the colonisation of Guam. Anne Perez Hattori is professor of Pacific history at the University of Guam. (For this item please quote stock ID 23330) ISBN: 9780824828080

'[The essays in this volume] draw on a wealth of primary and secondary writings in an extraordinary array of languages, offering an utterly original feast of ideas both as a guide to better understanding the era under study and for future scholarship' - Joshua Fogel, from the Series Editor's Preface. Time is basic to human consciousness and action, yet paradoxically historians rarely ask how it is understood, manipulated, recorded, or lived. Cataclysmic events in particular disrupt and realign the dynamics of temporality among people. For historians, the temporal effects of such events on large polities such as empires - the power projections of which always involve the dictation of time - are especially significant. This important and intriguing volume is an investigation of precisely such temporal effects, focusing on the northern and eastern regions of the Asian subcontinent in the 17th century, when the polity at the core of East Asian civilization, Ming dynasty China, collapsed and was replaced by the Manchu-ruled Qing dynasty. Contributors: Mark Elliott, Roger Des Forges, JaHyun Kim Haboush, Johan Elverskog, Eugenio Menegon, Zhao Shiyu. Lynn A. Struve is professor in the departments of History and of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington. (For this item please quote stock ID 24205) ISBN: 9780824828288

'Archaeology has assumed the role of combining all the evidence on Polynesian prehistory into a coherent pattern. Patrick Kirch has done this for Hawaii with distinction. His book is clearly written, carefully organized, abundantly illustrated, and handsomely produced volume ...A timely and much needed contribution' - Hawaiian Journal of History 'With the publishing of this well-written, profusely illustrated book, Kirch has made a valuable contribution to Hawaiian and Pacific archaeological studies ... A necessary book for all Pacific scholars' - Journal of Polynesian Studies (For this item please quote stock ID 25098) ISBN: 9780824819385

Texts & Contexts is concerned with the development of Pacific Islands history as a specialisation in its own right. Specifically, this volume examines the foundational texts that pioneered and consolidated the new subdiscipline and served as the building blocks and stepping stone for further developments in the field. Thirty-five texts, all of which represent defining points in the development of Pacific Islands historiography, are examined. Much more than retrospective appraisals of the foundational texts, the individual chapters consider a text or complimentary texts within the context of the time of writing and gauge what ongoing influence they exerted. In some cases they suggest how a particular text has been superseded by subsequent work that breaks new conceptual ground in the ongoing process of revisionism. Contributors: Chris Ballard on Gavin Souter; Ivan Brady on Greg Dening; I. C. Campbell on Norma McArthur; Bronwen Douglas and Doug Munro on H. E. Maude and Dorothy Shineberg; Michael Goldsmith on Marshall Sahlins; David Hanlon on Francis X. Hezel; K. R. Howe on Andrew Sharp and David Lewis; Brij V.Lal on K. L. Gillion and Peter Corris; Hugh Laracy on Niel Gunson and Ta?unga; Lamont Lindstrom on Peter Worsley and Peter Lawrence; Doug Munro on Douglas Oliver, R. P. Gilson, J. W. Davidson, and K. R. Howe; Vincent O?Malley on Keith Sinclair and Alan Ward; Jon Osorio on Ralph Kuykendall and Gavan Daws; Tom Ryan on Bernard Smith; Jane Samson on W. P. Morrell and Deryck Scarr; Francis West on Francis West and Gavan Daws; Glyndwr Williams on O. H. K. Spate. Doug Munro is a Wellington-based consultant historian and author. Brij V. Lal is professor of Pacific and Asian history in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. (For this item please quote stock ID 25203) ISBN: 9780824829421

Leper Priest of Moloka'i traces the life of Father Damien from his boyhood in rural Belgium to his death at the leper settlement after sixteen years of remarkable accomplishments. Damien overcame major obstacles to become a Catholic priest and serve as a missionary in Hawai'i. To his spiritual ministry he added the practice of medicine and the skill of a master builder of chapels, churches, and houses, both professions that he taught himself. He decried human suffering, and in his medical practice he emulated the example of his patron saint, Saint Damien the physician, who led many to Christianity by the example of the Good Samaritan. This biography presents and analyses much new information about Damien and his years in Hawai'i. The correspondence between Damien, his colleagues in the Catholic church, his Protestant supporters, and agents of the Hawaiian Board of Health gives a fuller understanding of the extent of Damien's work at the settlement and the tensions underlying his relations with Church bureaucrats, who were both impressed by his energy and zeal and irritated by his willfullness and independence. But even his detractors could not deny that he was almost singlehandedly responsible for tremendous improvements to Kalaupapa in the face of overwhelming odds. This is the story of one humble man with faith in God and in himself, who faced gargantuan challenges and triumphed. Richard Stewart is a semi-retired professor of The Medical College of Wisconsin who continues as an active teacher. His interest in the influence of medicine and disease in the lives of famous people led him to a fifteen-year investigation into the life and career of Father Damien De Veuster. Hawaii/Molokai/Biography/History/Religion [Indent] Series: A Latitude 20 Book (For this item please quote stock ID 16905) ISBN: 9780824822323

Enter the world of the honu, Hawai?i?s beloved green sea turtle. Revered by Hawaiians since ancient times, and playing an important role in their culture, these turtles were reduced to dangerously low numbers by commercial fishing before gaining protection as a threatened species under U.S. federal law. Born and raised in Hawai?i, author Patrick Ching has long admired these turtles that ?fly through the sea?. As a ranger for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ching studied the honu closely, living within the turtles? nesting grounds on the remote north-western Hawaiian Islands. This book, written for readers of all ages, includes fascinating information on the natural history of the sea turtle species that occur in Hawaiian waters. It is generously illustrated with excellent photographs and Ching?s own illustrations. The author?s primary focus is on life history, breeding biology, and conservation of the honu, Hawai?i?s most prominent sea turtle. Patrick Ching has devoted much of his life to educating people about Hawai'i's unique and endangered flora and fauna. He is best known for his beautiful artwork depicting Hawaiian wildlife and is the author of several books on natural history, including The Hawaiian Monk Seal. (For this item please quote stock ID 17079) ISBN: 9780824824341

[Indent] In his latest book, John Clark, author of the highly regarded ?Beaches of Hawai?i? series, gives us the many captivating stories behind the hundreds of Hawai?i place names associated with the ocean - the names of shores, beaches, and other sites where people fish, swim, dive, surf, and paddle. Significant features and landmarks on or near shores, such as fishponds, monuments, shrines, reefs, and small islands, are also included. The names of surfing sites are the most numerous and among the most colourful: from the purely descriptive (Black Rock, Blue Hole) to the humorous (No Can Tell, Pray for Sex). Clark began gathering information for the ?Beaches? series in 1972, and during the years that followed interviewed hundreds of informants, many of them native Hawaiians, and consulted dozens of Hawaiian reference books, newspapers, and maps. A significant amount of the oral history he collected was unrecorded and remained only in his notebooks and memory. Hawai?i Place Names: Shores, Beaches, and Surf Sites is the final result of those years of research, and like its popular predecessors, it benefits substantially from Clark?s having spent a lifetime surfing and swimming Hawai?i?s beaches. Presented in the same convenient format as Pukui, Elbert, and Mookini?s Place Names of Hawaii, this rich compendium of information on Hawai?i?s surf, shore, and beach sites will satisfy visitors and residents alike. John R. Kukeakalani Clark, a former lifeguard, is deputy fire chief of the Honolulu Fire Department and a private consultant on ocean recreation and water safety. (For this item please quote stock ID 17080) ISBN: 9780824824518

[Indent] Millions of people visit aquariums each year. These showplaces are invaluable educational tools and, more importantly, provide a window into a mysterious world that few of us will ever experience firsthand. But that world is increasingly threatened by human misuse ? by pollution, over-fishing, global warming. Accompanying the waste and devastation is a global trend toward building bigger, more fantastic aquariums. Marvels of architecture and engineering, these artificial oceans seem to be our way of preserving the sea even as we destroy it. The stunning black and white duotones presented in Other Oceans are the result of visits to fourteen aquaria in the United States and Japan and diving trips off the coasts of California (including Santa Barbara Island), Hawai?i, and Midway Atoll. In his work, award-winning photographer Wayne Levin seeks to understand and depict not only our complex relationship with captive marine life, but our love affair with technology, our desire for contact with other species, our impulse to educate, our capacity to dominate. Together with text by Thomas Farber and essays by Bruce A. Carlson, director of the Waikiki Aquarium, and nature writer and poet Frank Stewart, the captivating images gathered here will forever change the way we view these ?other oceans.? Wayne A. Levin's photographs have appeared in magazines and books, including Kalaupapa: A Portrait and Kaho'olawe: Nâ Leo o Kanaloa. His most recent book, Through a Liquid Mirror, done in collaboration with Thomas Farber, was voted 1998 Book of the Year by the Hawai'i Book Publishers Association. Thomas Farber is the author of numerous works of fiction and creative nonfiction, including The Lover's Question, The Face of the Deep, and On Water. 'An absolutely knockout book of photos, supported by excellent, thought-provoking writing.' - Gavan Daws (For this item please quote stock ID 17081) ISBN: 9780824825102

[Indent] In 1975, after three centuries of colonial rule, the people of the Northern Marianas exercised their right of self-determination to become U.S. citizens in a self-governing commonwealth under U.S. sovereignty. An Honorable Accord is the remarkable account of their tenacious efforts to shape a political future separate from other Micronesian peoples, of the negotiations that produced the Covenant defining the commonwealth relationship, and its eventual approval by the Northern Marianas people and the U.S. Congress. Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 18 Published in association with the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai?i (For this item please quote stock ID 17296) ISBN: 9780824823900

[Indent] While focusing on the relationship of public policy to global and transnational political economic processes, this volume introduces a novel approach to globalisation. The theme is discussed in a variety of ways. Analyses on the macro level explores globalisation?s impact on the state. Resistance to globalisation is also considered as local communities strive to gain a modicum of control over their lives. Social Process in Hawai?i, Vol. 40 Distributed for Social Process in Hawai?i (For this item please quote stock ID 17297) ISBN: 9780824824921

'Everyone learns a lesson in each of these ten brief fables with characters from tropical ocean waters.' - ForeWord Magazine Children of all ages will delight in this captivating collection of fables featuring creatures found in Hawai'i's waters and tropical oceans worldwide. In its depths and on its shores, you'll meet many of the sea's inhabitants - from manta rays to moray eels, from colourful cowries to fish of every size and colour in the rainbow. Like its companion, Fables from the Garden, this book offers valuable lessons at the end of each story. A tiny shrimp remembers an act of kindness, a seabird learns to respect the property of others, a young hermit crab understands the importance of being polite, a family of limpets perseveres in the face of stormy seas. Illustrated with splendid watercolors, here are ten stories to share and enjoy with family and friends. Recommended for ages 4 and up Leslie Ann Hayashi serves as a district court judge in Honolulu, where she lives with her husband and two sons. Kathleen Wong Bishop resides in Phoenix, Arizona, with her husband and three children. She is an education coordinator at Shepherd of the Hills Church. A Kolowalu Book (For this item please quote stock ID 7850) ISBN: 9780824822248

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The vast geographic expanse of the Pacific - with its elaborate geological history, the mysteries surrounding its settlement, the diversity of its cultures, its long and varied colonial histories - has been the subject of countless booksand articles, but few attempts have been made to produce a comprehensive compendium of this remarkable region in all its variety and complexity. The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia brings together in one place for the first time information on major aspects of Pacific island life (the physical environment, peoples, history, politics, economy, society, and culture) compiled by some of the world's leading scholars from the Pacific, the United States, Canada, Europe, and Japan. Unlike conventional encyclopedias, which present objective, uncontroversial facts, this work acknowledges the complex dialectics between the past and the present and the politics of representing other people and cultures and reflects these new intellectual developments, particularly in the longer essays. In addition, The Pacific Islands is organized according to broad subject areas to avoid the fragmentation that arises from an alphabetical arrangement and to furnish readers with more richly contextualised information. The CD-ROM version of the encyclopedia will allow readers to exploit the search and navigation potentials of the medium. It contains hyperlinks between cross-referenced section titles and sections, a library of all the maps reproduced in the encyclopedia, and a photo library. Brij V. Lal is professor and director, Centre for the Contemporary Pacific, Australian National University. Kate Fortune is executive editor and research associate, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Australian National University. Fully indexed entries cover these topics and many more: >agriculture & rural development >archaeology & anthropology >art & crafts >biographies >dance & music >economic development >education >exploration >food & fisheries >geography & climate >geological history >history >languages & literature >legal & judicial systems >migration & settlement >minerals & mining >natural disasters >nuclear testing >physical environment >peoples >plants & animals >politics & government >religion >social issues >sport >telecommunications >tourism >tropical diseases & health >urbanisation >World War II Countries profiled: American Samoa, Cook Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, French Polynesia, Guam, Hawai'i, Irian Jaya, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Nauru, New Caledonia, Niue, Northern Marianas, Palau (Belau), Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tokelau, Tuvalu, Vanuatu, Wallis and Futuna 'At last, a single-volume reference book on the Pacific islands, filling a tremendous need. Readable and informative, this useful book will be welcomed by students and teachers, by those living in the Pacific region as well as visitors and tourists, by specialists and also the wider non-specialist reading public.' - Kerry Howe, Massey University (For this item please quote stock ID 15360) ISBN: 9780824822651

[Indent] Custodians of the Sacred Mountains is the first comprehensive ethnography of the Bali Aga, a large ethnic minority that occupies the island's central highlands. The Bali Aga are popularly viewed as the indigenous counterparts to other Balinese who trace their origin to invaders from the Javanese kingdom of Majapait, who have ruled Bali from the fourteenth century A.D. Although Bali remains one of the most intensely researched localities in the world, the Bali Aga have long been overshadowed by the more exotic courtly culture of the south. A closer analysis of the changing position of the Bali Aga within Balinese society provides a key to understanding the politics and social process of cultural representation in Bali and beyond. The process is marked by a blend of representational competition and cooperation among the Bali Aga themselves, among the Bali Aga and southern Balinese, and later among the island's aristocratic elites and foreign colonizers or scholars, and state authorities. The study of this process raises important issues about the establishment and maintenance of status and power structures at regional, national, and global levels. Custodians of the Sacred Mountains explores the marginalisation of the Bali Aga in light of a critical theory of cultural representation and calls for a morally engaged approach to ethnographic research. It proposes an intersubjective and communicative model of human interaction as the foundation for understanding the relative significance of cooperation and competition in the cultural production of knowledge. Thomas A. Reuter is a Queen Elizabeth II Research Fellow of the Australian Research Council, located at the School of Anthropology, Geography, and Environmental Studies, University of Melbourne. (For this item please quote stock ID 18079) ISBN: 9780824824501

[Indent] A collection that explores birthing in the Pacific against the background of debates about tradition and modernity. A wide-ranging introduction and conclusion, together with case studies from Papua New Guinea, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, Fiji, and Tonga, show how simple contrasts between traditional and modern practices, technocratic and organic models of childbirth, indigenous and foreign approaches, and notions of ?before? and ?after? can be potent but problematic. The difficulties entailed confront public health programs concerned with practical issues of infant and maternal survival in developing countries as well as scholarly analyses of birthing in cross-cultural contexts. The introduction analyses central concepts and themes: questions of survival, safety, and well-being; the significance of postures, practices, and sites; the role of midwives, traditional birth attendants, and nurses; and the role of men in birthing and reproduction. Contributors - four anthropologists, a historian, and a community health worker - offer insights into the ways mothers, midwives, and nurses relate the traditional and the modern, and how ideas of tradition and modernity have shaped representations of Pacific childbirth. The conclusion provides researchers with a guide to relevant literature from several disciplines. As a whole the collection warns against either a celebration of emancipation through biomedicine or a recuperative romance about women?s past powers in reproduction. Vicki Lukere is visiting fellow at the Gender Relations Centre, The Australian National University. Margaret Jolly is professor and head of the Gender Relations Centre, The Australian National University. Contributors: Ruta Fiti-Sinclair, Margaret Jolly, Vicki Lukere, Shelley Mallett, Helen Morton, Christine Salomon. (For this item please quote stock ID 17100) ISBN: 9780824824846

[Indent] The story of the people from the New Hebrides (Vanuatu) and the Solomon Islands who left their homes to work in the French colony of New Caledonia has long remained a missing piece of Pacific Islands history. Now Dorothy Shineberg has brought these laboreres to life by painstakingly assembling fragments from a wide variety of scattered records and documents. She tells the story of their recruitment, then sketches the workers' lives in New Caledonia, describing the contractual arrangements, the kinds of work they did, their living conditions, how they spent their free time, the large numbers who sickened and died, and the choice at the end of the contract to remain in the colony as free workers or to return home. Throughout the book she throws light on the controversy about the recruiting of the Islanders: were they kidnapped? Or did they choose to leave home? If so, what motivated them? Evidently the Islanders' cheap labor contributed to the development of the French colony, but how did the episode affect them and their homeland? The People Trade offers readers a revealing new picture of a long neglected side of the Pacific Islands labor trade. 'Perhaps the most detailed study in this literature ... both deep and broad' - Choice, January 2000 'A long-awaited labour of love and learning that deserves an extended afterlife.' - The International History Review, December 2001 'The People Trade is a useful contribution to the literature on the labour trade because it tackles French colonial policy, looks deep into the New Caledonian labour market, and because it tackles aspects of the labourer's experience only partially acknowledged by other historians in the field.' - Journal of the Polynesian Society, December 2000 '[Shineberg] offers a gentle but cogent critique of the simplistic kidnapping/voluntary recruitment dichotomy ... [and] her innovative research method has produced a huge data base of information on individual recruits, a wonderful legacy for future indigenous scholars. This long-awaited book is a pleasure to read.' - PHA Newsletter No. 39 'Shineberg's analysis of the role of women and children ... adds new dimensions to that pivotal issue in the historiography of the labour trade- volunteerism versus kidnapping.' - The Australian Journal of Anthropology 12 (2001) 'An informative contribution to our understanding of indentured labor in a part of the world often overlooked by labor and other historians.' - The Historian 63 'Thorough and comprehensive, ... researched over many years by a careful and restrained scholar.' - Australian Journal of Politics and History 46 (2000) 'A very revealing and disturbing study of colonialism 'in action.' - Journal of Pacific History 35 (2000) Series: Pacific Islands Monograph Series, No. 16 Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai`i Dorothy Shineberg holds a BA and PhD from Melbourne University and an MA from Smith College in Massachusetts, where she was a Teaching Fellow for two years. She is the author of They Came for Sandalwood (1967; the French edition appeared in 1973 as Ils étaient venus chercher du santal). She edited The Trading Voyages of Andrew Cheyne (1971) and has published numerous scholarly articles. She is presently a Visiting Fellow in the Division of Pacific and Asian History at the Australian National University. (For this item please quote stock ID 17431) ISBN: 9780824821777

The years since World War II have brought unprecedented social change to Micronesia. Now, drawing on more than four decades of experience living and working in the region, Francis Hezel assesses the most striking changes to have swept over the islands in the past 50 years. His careful and comprehensive reading of Micronesian anthropology and history allows him to present insights into patterns of change touching the lives of not only Micronesians but people in other parts of the Pacific as well. The broad range of topics covered include family structure, land, gender roles, cultural treatment of life events (birth, marriage, death), sexuality, political authority, and demography and migration. Hezel argues that the primary engine of social change in Micronesia has been the dramatic shift from subsistence fishing and gardening to salaried employment in a cash economy. He makes the case that this fundamental change has fragmented the extended family, changed the way land is viewed, revolutionised gender roles, and paved the way for an ethics of individualism. (For this item please quote stock ID 26710) ISBN: 9780824823931

This volume features more than 100 striking plants, grown for their colourful or exotic flowers and foliage. All of these exotics have proved successful for the amateur gardener in Hawaii, including several unusual new varieties and cultivars, only recently made available commercially. Among these are the Hawaiian butterfly anthurium, the jewel of Burma ginger, ice-blue calathea, and a rare ginger from Tahiti. (For this item please quote stock ID 24275) ISBN: 9780824811273

Wide ranging and cross-disciplinary in its approach, Foreign Flowers focuses on the process of policy transfer in the Pacific and the use of power to achieve it. Many governing institutions in the region have been borrowed, transplanted, or imposed by colonial rule or military intervention from outside. The book attempts to answer several key questions: Where do the governing institutions originate and why are so many of them based on Western models? Why have some transfers succeeded while others have not? What are the effects of transfers? What has been the fate of a particular institution, 'the state?' How does 'culture' affect the transfer of (and resistance to) institutions? Early chapters identify institutional transfer as a persistent theme in the study of the Pacific, reflected in ideas like cargo cults, homegrown constitutions, invented traditions, and weak states. The author analyses about forty cases of institutional transfer, beginning with Tonga's borrowing of foreign institutions in the nineteenth century and ending with current attempts to induce island states to regulate their offshore financial centers. He goes on to distinguish factors that determine whether transfer took place, including timing, social conditions, and sympathy with local values. Larmour looks at the kinds of power and coercion being deployed in transfer and at how transfers have been evaluated by their sponsors: domestic reformers, aid donors, international financial institutions, and their consultants and academic advisers. Peter Larmour is a political scientist at the Australian National University who has also been a consultant on governance issues in the Pacific region. (For this item please quote stock ID 25050) ISBN: 9780824829339

[Indent] Created as a gift to honour King Kaläkaua, this is the only book of Hawaiian poetic compositions published during the Hawaiian Monarchy period. It represents, in a modern form, the ancient practice of composing and performing chants specifically to honour the ruling chief. This privately published collection of 48 chants was a commemorative gift to the king at the elaborate two-week celebration held to mark his 50th birthday in 1886. Only seven copies of the original are known to exist today, including one copy at the Hawaiian Historical Society Library. Ke Kupu Hou (Hawaiian Language Reprint Series) (For this item please quote stock ID 22676) ISBN: 9780945048053

This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during the past two decades, the story of the renaissance of star navigation throughout the Pacific, and material about navigation systems in Indonesia, Siberia, and the Indian Ocean. (For this item please quote stock ID 16077) ISBN: 9780824815820