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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Upon her death in 1884, Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop entrusted her property - known as Bishop Estate - to five trustees. Then in August 1997 the unthinkable happened: four revered kupuna and a professor of trust-law charged Bishop Estate trustees with massive trust abuse. This book, together with historical background, focuses on these events.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.