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  • av Patrick D. Nunn
    496,-

    Provides an account of the subject of vanished islands and hidden continents in the Pacific. This book addresses the persistent myths of a ""sunken continent"" in the Pacific, which became widespread after European arrival and were subsequently incorporated into new age and pseudoscience explanations of our planet and its inhabitants.

  • - A Hawai'i Mystery
    av Victoria Nalani Kneubuhl
    253,-

    On New Year's Eve, while Honolulu celebrates with champagne and fireworks, someone is making away with the Bishop Museum's portrait of King Kalakaua and its curator. A series of brutal murders follows, and a newspaper reporter and visiting playwright, find themselves investigating a twisted trail of clues in an attempt to recover the painting.

  • - Chinese Martial Arts and Traditional Medicine
    av Anthony L. Schmieg
    432,-

    How can the art of healing ally itself with the art of killing? ""Watching Your Back"" applies Daoist notions of wellness and survival to reconcile these apparent paradoxes and unveil the origins and rationale of the unexplored symbiosis of Chinese medicine and the martial arts.

  • - Ruling Chiefs of Kaua'i
    av Frederick Wichman
    337,-

    The stories of Kaua'i's ruling chiefs were passed from generation to generation in songs and narratives recited by trained storytellers. Genealogical references to the chiefs are interspersed with legends of sea voyages, wars, heroes and romances in this resource book.

  • av Walter C. Dudley & Min Lee
    432 - 1 291,-

    This is a complete examination of the tsunami phenomenon in Hawaii. It includes eyewitness accounts of the 1946 and 1960 tsunamis, our scientific understanding of tsunamis, the tsunami warning system and other major tsunamis from Japan to the Caribbean.

  • - The Kona Coffee Epic
    av Gerald Kinro
    337,-

    Kona is one of the world's premium coffees. Its small-scale cultivation on family farms means that it is especially susceptible to price swings and market gluts. This text offers a portrait of the farmers, millers, landowners and labourers who struggled to keep themselves and their industry alive.

  • av Cedric Yamanaka
    275,-

    In Good Company is a celebration of life in Hawai'i, beyond Waikiki and Diamond Head. Its characters work 16-hour-shifts at airport drive-ins, play pool with cursed hitmen and wrestle their high school sweethearts in Chinatown bars.

  • - Successful Strategies for Intercultural Communication
    av Kazuo Nishiyama
    432 - 1 082,-

    Despite Japan's Westernization, the country has remained ""uniquely"" Japanese. This text offers insight into Japan and its people to facilitate Western business dealings in the country. It ranges from interpersonal communication to decision-making styles, negotiating tactics and business contacts.

  • av Stuart M. Ball
    424,-

    An illustrated guide to 44 day-hikes on the Big Island, Kaua'i, Maui and O'ahu. For each trip, there are detailed directions, a feature-by-feature description of the route, a topographic map, and comments on common plants and animals, geological formations and historical sites.

  • - Personal Accounts of Hawaii's Korean War Veterans
     
    410,-

    This is a powerful and moving oral history of the Korean War. Here are highly personal accounts of the war from the rank and file of the infantry - told in the distinctive voices of Hawaii's soldiers.

  • - Enjoying and Learning About Hawai'i's Sea Turtles
    av Peter Bennett
    381,-

    Explains how to find and watch honu from shore and while snorkeling, kayaking, and especially diving. This guide features photographs, which introduce readers to honu not only as a species, but also as individual animals whose histories they have closely followed and recorded.

  • av David K. Reynolds
    337 - 1 291,-

    This is a guide for taking control of your life and imbuing it with greater meaning and productivity. It is an action-based way of looking at the world that combines good, old-fashioned straight talk and the celebrated Japanese psychotherapies Morita and Naikan.

  • - Making Sense of Bird Migration
    av Mark Denny
    422 - 1 002,-

    Explains the science of bird migration in accessible language - from the aeronautics of bird flight to the newly unravelled mysteries of their magnetic compasses. The author provides a sideways look, from the perspective of an experienced physicist, at the amazing long-distance migration journeys of many bird species.

  • - Primer on New Zealand Literature and Culture
    av William J. Schafer
    352,-

    This text presents the American author's attempts to focus his impressions of New Zealand's literary culture and relate its mental and moral landscape to that of the USA. To do this he explores a selection of contemporary New Zealand authors and film directors.

  • - Turning Adversity into Success
    av David Heenan
    424,-

    Examines the lives of ten extraordinary people who overcame great adversity in their personal or professional lives by applying winning strategies that guided them out of the darkness of near-defeat and into the light of success.

  • - Na Manu Kai
    av Robert J. Shallenberger
    282,-

    More than 300 species of seabirds range across the world's oceans. In excess of 14 million birds, representing nearly two dozen species, make their home in the Hawaiian islands. This book displays the seabirds of Hawai'i - from the far eastern tip of the Big Island to the Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument.

  • - The Tradition of Daoyin
    av Livia Kohn
    959,-

    Explores the different forms of Daoyin in historical sequence, beginning with the early medical manuscripts of the Han dynasty, then moving into its religious adaptation in Highest Clarity Daoism. This work outlines late imperial forms and describes the transformation of the practice in the modern world.

  • av Milton Murayama
    424,-

    After her husband sinks them deep in debt, strong-willed and pragmatic Sawa takes charge of the family. The war ends and her children leave the plantation camp for Honolulu and the Mainland, but Sawa has little time for loneliness or regret.

  • - Jizo in Hawai'i
    av John R. K. Clark
    381,-

    In coastal areas, fishermen and swimmers also look to Jizo, one of the Buddhist deities in Japan for protection. In response to numerous drownings, Jizo statues were erected near dangerous fishing and swimming sites. This book tells the story of a group of men who raised these statues as a service to their communities.

  • - Guam's Quest for Democracy
    av Dolores Coulter Cogan
    785,-

    A recollection of Guam's struggle to liberate itself from the absolutist rule of the US Navy. This book looks at the events surrounding Guam's elevation from possession to territory.

  • - The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion
    av Israel A. S. Yost
    453,-

    In June 1944, twenty-seven-year-old combat infantry chaplain Israel Yost arrived in Italy with the 100th Battalion, a little-known National Guard unit of mostly Japanese Americans from Hawai'i. This book presents this memoir intact with the addition of photographs and subsequent letters and speeches by Yost and other veterans.

  • - 'Ope'ape'a
    av Marion Coste
    253,-

    Fascinating details about the Hawaiian hoary bat, Hawaii's only native land mammal, and bats in general can be found in this book. For example, did you know that: The phrase ""blind as a bat"" is inaccurate because bats have very good eyesight.

  • - The Treasured Lei
    av Paul R. Weissich
    872,-

    The authors have collected written and oral information to reveal the significance of making and wearing lei - the expression of traditional Hawaiian culture and once an essential part of community and family life. This volume covers 85 flowers and plants used in traditional lei construction.

  • - Learning About Killer Waves with Walter Dudley
    av Anthony D. Fredericks
    253,-

    In ""Tsunami Man"" young readers are given an inside look at the life of a working scientist who uses his knowledge for the common good and serves as a role model for future scientists. Filled with dramatic accounts of tsunami survivors, the book also addresses the ""how"" and ""why"" of tsunamis.

  • av Toyoko Yamasaki
    612,-

    Kenji, must grapple with what it means to belong to two nations at war with one another and to face betrayal by both. Tadashi, in school in Japan when war breaks out, is drafted into the Japanese army and renounces his US citizenship. This novel tells the story of three brothers during the years surrounding World War II.

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