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Integrated Korean: Beginning Level 1 Textbook (KLEAR Textbooks in Korean מאת Hyo Sang Lee The Beginning Level texts and workbooks are the first of a four- level series (Beginning 1 and 2, Intermediate 1 and 2, Advanced Intermediate, and Advanced) developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All series volumes have been developed in accordance with...

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Remembering the Kanji, Vol. 1: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters מאת James W. Heisig The aim of this book is to provide the student of Japanese with a simple method for correlating the writing and the meaning of Japanese characters in such a way as to make them both easy to remember. It is intended not only for the beginner, but also for the more advanced student looking for some ...

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Remembering the Kana: A Guide to Reading and Writing the Japanese Syllabaries in 3 Hours Each (Manoa) (Japanese Edition) (part 1) מאת James W. Heisig Following on the phenomenal success of Remembering the Kanji, the author has prepared a companion volume for learning the Hiragana and Katakana syllabaries of modern Japanese. In six short lessons of about twenty minutes, each of the two systems of "kana" writing are introduced in such a wa...

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Remembering Traditional Hanzi: Book 1, How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Chinese Characters מאת James W. Heisig At long last the approach that has helped thousands of learners memorize Japanese kanji has been adapted to help students with Chinese characters. Book 1 of "Remembering Simplified Hanzi" and "Remembering Traditional Hanzi" covers the writing and meaning of the 1,000 most commonly used characters in...

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Remembering the Kanji, Vol. 2: A Systematic Guide to Reading Japanese Characters (Japanese Edition) מאת James W. Heisig Following the first volume of "Remembering the Kanji", the present work takes up the pronunciation of characters and provides students with helpful tools for memorizing them. Behind the notorious inconsistencies in the way the Japanese language has come to pronounce the characters it received from C...

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Teaching English to Students from China מאת Lee Gek Ling There are more than one billion people learning English as a second language around the world, and the majority of these language learners are in China. This book provides teachers of English to Chinese students with relevant information on the linguistic, cultural and pedagogical backgrounds of the...

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Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History מאת William Wayne Farris "Japan to 1600" traces Japanese historical development from the first evidence of human habitation in the archipelago to the consolidation of political power under the Tokugawa shogunate at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Unlike other introductory texts on early Japanese history, it views ...

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Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan: The Tenmu Dynasty, 650-800 מאת Herman Ooms Imperial Politics and Symbolics in Ancient Japan is an ambitious and ground-breaking study that offers a new understanding of a formative stage in the development of the Japanese state. The late seventh and eighth centuries were a time of momentous change in Japan, much of it brought about by...

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The Book of Honu: Enjoying and Learning About Hawaii's Sea Turtles (A Latitude 20 Book) מאת Peter Bennett This is the first guide to finding and observing Hawaiian green turtles, or honu. It describes an exciting journey of discovery undertaken by two avid sports divers, Peter Bennett and Ursula Keuper-Bennett, who encountered their first honu twenty years ago while diving off Honokowai, Maui. The Benne...

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Japan's Medieval Population: Famine, Fertility, and Warfare in a Transformative Age (Choice Outstanding Academic Books) מאת William Wayne Farris This volume charts a course through never-before-surveyed historical territory: Japan’s medieval population, a topic so challenging that neither Japanese nor foreign scholars have investigated it in a comprehensive way. And yet, demography is an invaluable approach to the past because it provides ...

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Ethnoburb: The New Ethnic Community in Urban America מאת Li Wei This innovative work provides a new model for the analysis of ethnic and racial settlement patterns in the United States and Canada. Ethnoburbs - suburban ethnic clusters of residential areas and business districts in large metropolitan areas - are multiracial, multiethnic, multicultural, multilingu...

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Memory Maps: The State and Manchuria in Postwar Japan (The World of East Asia) מאת Mariko Asano Tamanoi Between 1932 and 1945, more than 320,000 Japanese emigrated to Manchuria in northeast China with the dream of becoming land-owning farmers. Following the Soviet invasion of Manchuria and Japan's surrender in August 1945, their dream turned into a nightmare. Since the late 1980s, popular Japanese con...

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Divided by a Common Language: Factional Conflict in Late Northern Song China מאת Ari Daniel Levine Between 1044 and 1104, ideological disputes divided China's sociopolitical elite, who organized into factions battling for control of the imperial government. Advocates and adversaries of state reform forged bureaucratic coalitions to implement their policy agendas and to promote like-minded colleag...

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Constructive Living (Kolowalu Books) מאת David K. Reynolds Constructive Living combines two of the most popular forms of therapy in Japan into one profoundly effective approach that will not only enhance your productivity but bring a flexible, responsive mind – a Zen-like tranquility – to your personal and professional life. Discover the life-changing p...

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Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii מאת Mark Twain "I went to Maui to stay a week and remained five. I had a jolly time. I would not have fooled away any of it writing letters under any consideration whatever." --Mark Twain So Samuel Langhorne Clemens made his excuse for late copy to the Sacramento Union, the newspaper that was underwriting...

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Divorce with Decency: The Complete How-to Handbook and Survivor's Guide to the Legal, Emotional, Economic, and Social Issues (A Latitude 20 Book) מאת Bradley A. Coates This completely revised and updated third edition of the award-winning Divorce with Decency includes the most current research, statistics, and insights on the effects of divorce on spouses, their children, and society overall. Written by a prominent divorce lawyer with more than thirty years of exp...

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All I Asking for Is My Body (Kolowalu Book) מאת Milton Murayama

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Empire of Great Brightness: Visual And Material Cultures of Ming China, 1368-1644 מאת Craig Clunas

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Performing Grief: Bridal Laments in Rural China מאת Anne E. McLaren This is the first in-depth study of Chinese bridal laments, a ritual and performative art practiced by Chinese women in premodern times that gave them a rare opportunity to voice their grievances publicly. Drawing on methodologies from numerous disciplines, including performance arts and folk litera...

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Ethnobotany of Pohnpei: Plants, People, and Island Culture מאת Michael J. Balick "Ethnobotany of Pohnpei" examines the relationship between plants, people, and traditional culture on Pohnpei, one of the four island members of the Federated States of Micronesia. It is the result of a decade of research by a team of local people and international specialists carried out under the ...

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The Chinese Classic of Family Reverence: A Philosophical Translation of the Xiaojing מאת Henry Rosemont Jr. For China, one may go so far as to say that family reverence was a necessary condition for developing any of the other human qualities of excellence. On the basis of the present translation of the "Xiaojing" (Classic of Family Reverence) and supplemental passages found in other early philosophical w...

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Handbook for Constructive Living (Latitude 20 Book) מאת David K. Reynolds Here, in plain language, is the definitive guide for taking control of your life and imbuing it with greater meaning and productivity. Constructive Living is an action-based way of looking at the world that combines good, old-fashioned straight talk and the celebrated Japanese psychotherapies Morita...

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The Shaolin Monastery: History, Religion, and the Chinese Martial Arts מאת Meir Shahar "The Shaolin Monastery" charts, for the first time in any language, the history of the Shaolin Temple and the evolution of its world-renowned martial arts. In this meticulously researched and eminently readable study, Meir Shahar considers the economic, political, and religious factors that led Shao...

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The Arts of Kingship: Hawaiian Art and National Culture of the Kalakaua Era מאת Stacy L. Kamehiro "The Arts of Kingship" offers a sustained and detailed account of Hawaiian public art and architecture during the reign of David Kalakaua, the nativist and cosmopolitan ruler of the Hawaiian Kingdom from 1874 to 1891. Stacy Kamehiro provides visual and historical analysis of four key monuments - Kal...

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The Birth and Death of the Miracle Man: And Other Stories מאת Albert Wendt In these short stories of Samoan society, the author uses patois, and often employs a folk-like structure to convey the distinctiveness and the universality of village life....

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Body Ornaments of Malaita, Solomon Islands (Anthropology) Ben Burt

Body Ornaments of Malaita, Solomon Islands (Anthropology) מאת Ben Burt

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Fundamental Spoken Chinese (Chinese Edition) מאת Robert Sanders "Fundamental Spoken Chinese" introduces most of the basic grammatical patterns of modern spoken Mandarin in a carefully planned, graduated fashion. Every chapter follows the same organizational format and includes: key grammar points, new vocabulary items arranged by part of speech, sentence pattern...

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Floating World מאת James A. Michener

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Vanished Islands And Hidden Continents Of The Pacific (Latitude 20 Books) מאת Patrick D. Nunn Islands--as well as entire continents--are reputed to have disappeared in many parts of the world. Yet there is little information on this subject concerning its largest ocean, the Pacific. Over the years, geologists have amassed data that point to the undeniable fact of islands having disappeared i...

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Going Against the Grain: When Professionals in Hawai'i Choose Public Schools Instead of Private Schools מאת Ann Shea Bayer This book is about passion, advocacy, and the willingness of parents to 'go against the grain'. It's about Hawai'i professionals choosing public education for their children in a state that adheres to a commonly held belief that 'public schools are failing and private schools are succeeding'. Univer...

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Japanese Culture, 4th Edition (Updated and Expanded) מאת H. Paul Varley For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. This widely used undergraduate text is now available in a new edition. Thoroughly updated, the fourth edition includes expanded sections on numerous topi...

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The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan מאת Lee Yeounsuk Available for the first time in English, "The Ideology of Kokugo: Nationalizing Language in Modern Japan" (1996) is Lee Yeounsuk's award-winning look at the history and ideology behind the construction of kokugo (national language). Prior to the Meiji period (1868-1912), the idea of a single, unifie...

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Tour of Duty: Samurai, Military Service in Edo, and the Culture of Early Modern Japan מאת Constantine Nomikos Vaporis Alternate attendance (sankin kotai) was one of the central institutions of Edo-period (1603-1868) Japan and one of the most unusual examples of a system of enforced elite mobility in world history. It required the daimyo to divide their time between their domains and the city of Edo, where th...

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Chinese Healing Exercises: The Tradition of Daoyin (Latitude 20 Books) מאת Livia Kohn Daoyin, the traditional Chinese practice of guiding the qi and stretching the body is the forerunner of Qigong, the modern form of exercise that has swept through China and is making increasing inroads in the West. Like other Asian body practices, Daoyin focuses on the body as the main vehicle of at...

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Questioning Minds: Short Stories by Modern Korean Women Writers (Hawai'i Studies on Korea) מאת Yung-hee Kim Available for the first time in English, the ten short stories by modern Korean women collected here touch in one way or another on issues related to gender and kinship politics. All of the protagonists are women facing personal crises or defining moments in their lives as gender-marked beings in a ...

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Integrated Korean: Beginning 1, 2nd Edition (Klear Textbooks in Korean Language) מאת Young-Mee Cho This is a thoroughly revised edition of "Integrated Korean: Beginning 1", the first volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All series' volumes have been developed in accordance with performance-based principles and methodolo...

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The Blessings of Bhutan (A Latitude 20 Book) מאת Russ Carpenter This is an account of a complex nation on the cusp of tradition and modernity. Bhutan is distinctive - from its social structures to its development philosophy of Gross National Happiness. The authors blend narrative about the country's history, religon and arts with personal anecdotes....

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Staying Fijian: Vatulele Island Barkcloth and Social Identity (Anthropology) מאת Rod Ewins Barkcloth, or masi, is the traditional art form of the women of Vatulele Island. Its manufacture continues to flourish, even increase, while many other arts are declining, despite the fact that most of its functional roles have been usurped by Western cloth and paper. This book explores this apparen...

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The Role of Contact in the Origins of the Japanese and Korean Languages מאת J. Marshall Unger Despite decades of research on the reconstruction of proto-Korean-Japanese (pKJ), some scholars still reject a genetic relationship. This study addresses their doubts in a new way, interpreting comparative linguistic data within a context of material and cultural evidence, much of which has come to ...

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Hawaiian Birds of the Sea: N Manu Kai (Latitude 20 Books) מאת Robert J., Ph.D. Shallenberger 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. These are na manu kai, the birds of the sea. More than 135 color photographs illustrate this beautiful book showcasing the...

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Why Snails Have Shells: Minority and Han Folktales from China (A Kolowalu Book) מאת Carolyn Han Twenty traditional tales from such ethnic groups in China as Mongol, Tibetan, Yao, Han, and Miao....

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Fundamental Written Chinese: Simplified Character Version (Chinese Edition) מאת Nora Yao "Fundamental Written Chinese" teaches both mastery of individual characters and reading comprehension. It introduces characters gradually, moving from simple independent characters to more complex compound ones. How characters are organized and constructed is taught through the liberal use of charts...

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Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s Mitsuyo Wada-marciano

Nippon Modern: Japanese Cinema of the 1920s and 1930s מאת Mitsuyo Wada-marciano Nippon Modern is the first intensive study of Japanese cinema in the 1920s and 1930s, a period in which the country's film industry was at its most prolific and a time when cinema played a singular role in shaping Japanese modernity. During the interwar period, the signs of modernity were ubi...

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Painters in Hanoi: An Ethnography of Vietnamese Art מאת Nora Annesley Taylor "Painters in Hanoi" engages with twentieth-century Vietnam through its artists and their works, providing a new angle on a country most often portrayed through the lens of war and politics. Drawing on interviews with artists, cultural officers, curators, art critics, and others in Hanoi, Taylor surv...

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Kings of the Forest: The Cultural Resilience of Himalayan Hunter-Gatherers מאת Jana Fortier In today's world hunter-gatherer societies struggle with seemingly insurmountable problems: deforestation and encroachment, language loss, political domination by surrounding communities. Will they manage to survive? This book is about one such society living in the monsoon rainforests of western Ne...

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Hawaiian Mythology מאת Martha Warren Beckwith "This is Martha Beckwith's monumental study of Hawaiian mythology. Beckwith utilized numerous texts which are today rare or hard to obtain to construct this study. She gives all available variants of each myth or legend, including versions from other Pacific islands including Tahiti, Tonga, Samoa an...

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Cinema, Space and Polylocality in Globalizing China (Critical Interventions) מאת Yinghin Zheng In this milestone work, prominent China film scholar Yingjin Zhang proposes 'polylocality' as a new conceptual framework for investigating the shifting spaces of contemporary Chinese cinema in the age of globalization. Questioning the national cinema paradigm, Zhang calls for comparative studies of ...

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The Material Culture of Death in Medieval Japan מאת Karen M. Gerhart This study is the first in the English language to explore the ways medieval Japanese sought to overcome their sense of powerlessness over death. By attending to both religious practice and ritual objects used in funerals in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, it seeks to provide a new understan...

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The Anxieties of Mobility: Migration and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) מאת Johan A. Lindquist Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Indonesian female migrants dominate the island's economic landsca...

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California Hotel and Casino: Hawai'i's Home Away from Home מאת Dennis M. Ogawa "[This is] the story of how the California Hotel grew from an unattractive property in a run-down section of Las Vegas to become the must-visit destination for Hawai`i gamblers, whose special relationship with the hotel was forged in its first decade of business--1975 to 1985. . . . [It's] told larg...

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Voices in Revolution: Poetry and the Auditory Imagination in Modern China מאת John A. Crespi China's century of revolutionary change has been heard as much as seen, and nowhere is this more evident than in an auditory history of the modern Chinese poem. From Lu Xun's seminal writings on literature to a recitation renaissance in urban centers today, poetics meets politics in the sounding voi...

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Ka Lei Ha'aheo: Beginning Hawaiian מאת Alberta Pualani Hopkins

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Cambodian Buddhism: History and Practice מאת Ian Harris The study of Cambodian religion has long been hampered by a lack of easily accessible scholarship. This impressive new work by Ian Harris thus fills a major gap and offers English-language scholars a book-length, up-to-date treatment of the religious aspects of Cambodian culture. Beginning with a co...

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Japan's Motorcycle Wars: An Industry History מאת Jeffrey W. Alexander Few outside Japan are aware of the scale or duration of Japan's motorcycle industry, which comprised roughly 200 manufacturers in 1955. For decades, a crown jewel of Japan's postwar manufacturing industry, motorcycles remain one of Japan's top exports. "Japan's Motorcycle Wars" examines the historic...

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Children of Marx and Coca-Cola: Chinese Avant-Grade Art and Independent Cinema (Critical Interventions) מאת Xiaoping Lin "Children of Marx and Coca-Cola" affords a deep study of Chinese avant-garde art and independent cinema from the mid-1990s to the beginning of the twenty-first century. Informed by the author's experience in Beijing and New York - global cities with extensive access to an emergent transnational Chin...

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Glamour in the Pacific: Cultural Internationalism and Race Politics in the Women's Pan-Pacific (Perspectives in the Global Past) מאת Fiona Paisley Since its inception in 1928, the Pan-Pacific Women's Association (PPWA) has witnessed and contributed to enormous changes in world and Pacific history. Operating out of Honolulu, this women's network established a series of conferences that promoted social reform and an internationalist outlook thro...

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Advaita Vedanta : A Philosophical Reconstruction מאת Eliot Deutsch An introduction to the several systems of classical Indian thought such as Professor Deutsch provides....

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Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands מאת Gavan Daws Gavan Daws' remarkable achievement is to free Hawaiian history from the dust of antiquity. Based on years of work in the documentary sources, Shoal of Time emerges as the most readable of all Hawaiian histories. Starting with the Western discovery of the islands in 1778--on through the day...

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The Three-Inch Golden Lotus: A Novel on Foot Binding (Fiction from Modern China) מאת Feng Jicai

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The Four Great Temples: Buddhist Archaeology, Architecture, and Icons of Seventh-Century Japan מאת Donald F. McCallum Few periods in Japanese history are more fascinating than the seventh century. This was the period when Buddhism experienced its initial flowering in the country and the time when Asukadera, Kudara Odera, Kawaradera, and Yakushiji (the "Four Great Temples" as they were called in ancient texts) were ...

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Violence and Belonging: Land, Love, and Lethal Conflict in the North-West Frontier Province in Pakistan (Nias - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) מאת Are Knudsen Most studies of violence in the Middle East and South Asia come from the perspective of honour or political violence. By contrast, this important study offers a new perspective on its causes in Pakistan's unruly North-West Frontier Province, challenging stereotyped images of a region and people misc...

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Beijing Opera Costumes: The Visual Communication of Character and Culture מאת Alexandra B. Bonds "Beijing Opera Costumes" is the first in-depth English-language book focused exclusively on the costumes of Jingju, the highest form of stage arts in China. This comprehensive volume provides both theory and analysis of the costumes and the method of their selection for the roles as well as technica...

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A Japanese Robinson Crusoe (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies) מאת Jenichiro Oyabe First published in 1898 and long out of print, Jenichiro Oyabe's "A Japanese Robinson Crusoe" is a pioneering work of Asian American literature. It recounts Oyabe's (1867-1941) early life in Japan, his journey west, and his education at two historically Black colleges, detailing in the process his g...

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Hawaii Is a Rainbow (A Kolowalu Book) מאת Stephanie Feeney Explores the natural wonders, people, and customs of Hawaii, in photographs grouped by color. A section in the back of the book provides additional information....

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Asia's Maritime Bead Trade: 300 B.C. to the Present מאת Peter Francis This fascinating study is the first detailed description of the ancient and enduring trade in beads that spans more than two millennia and once stretched from the Middle East to East Asia and affected areas as far apart as West Africa and the American Pacific coast. Beads are universal and among the...

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Dancing from the Heart: Movement, Gender, and Cook Islands Globalization מאת Kalissa Alexeyeff "Dancing from the Heart" is the first study of gender, globalization, and expressive culture in the Cook Islands. It demonstrates how dance in particular plays a key role in articulating the overlapping local, regional, and transnational agendas of Cook Islanders. Kalissa Alexeyeff reconfigures conv...

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ABC Dictionary of Chinese Proverbs (ABC Chinese Dictionary Series) מאת John S. Rohsenow This Chinese-English dictionary of proverbs (yanyu) consists of approximately 4,000 Chinese proverbs alphabetically arranged by the first word(s) (ci) of the proverb according to the Hanyu Pinyin transcription and Chinese characters (standard simplified), followed by a literal (and...

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Weaving and Binding: Immigrant Gods and Female Immortals in Ancient Japan מאת Michael Como Among the most exciting developments in the study of Japanese religion over the past two decades has been the discovery of tens of thousands of ritual vessels, implements, and scape-goat dolls (hitogata) from the Nara (710-784) and early Heian (794-1185) periods. Because inscriptions on many of the ...

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Natives and Exotics: World War II and Environment in the Southern Pacific מאת Judith A. Bennett Ambitious in its scope and scale, this environmental history of World War II ranges over rear bases and operational fronts from Bora Bora to New Guinea, providing a lucid analysis of resource exploitation, entangled wartime politics, and human perceptions of the vast Oceanic environment. Although th...

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Making a Moral Society: Ethics and the State in Meiji Japan מאת Richard M. Reitan This innovative study of ethics in Meiji Japan (1868-1912) explores the intense struggle to define a common morality for the emerging nation-state. In the Social Darwinist atmosphere of the time, the Japanese state sought to quell uprisings and overcome social disruptions so as to produce national u...

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Imperial-Way Zen: Ichikawa Hakugen's Critique and Lingering Questions for Buddhist Ethics מאת Christopher Ives During the first half of the twentieth century, Zen Buddhist leaders contributed actively to Japanese imperialism, giving rise to what has been termed 'Imperial-Way Zen' (Kodo Zen). Its foremost critic was priest, professor, and activist Ichikawa Hakugen (1902-1986), who spent the decades following ...

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The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania Paul D'Arcy

The People of the Sea: Environment, Identity, and History in Oceania מאת Paul D'Arcy Oceania is characterized by thousands of islands and archipelagoes amidst the vast expanse of the Pacific. Although it is one of the few truly oceanic habitats occupied permanently by humankind, surprisingly little research has been done on the maritime dimension of Pacific history. "The People of t...

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Japan to 1600: A Social and Economic History מאת William Wayne Farris "Japan to 1600" traces Japanese historical development from the first evidence of human habitation in the archipelago to the consolidation of political power under the Tokugawa shogunate at the beginning of the seventeenth century. Unlike other introductory texts on early Japanese history, it views ...

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Sharks of Hawaii: Their Biology and Cultural Significance מאת Leighton R. Taylor

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Reference Map of Oceania: The Pacific Islands of Micronesia, Polynesia, Melanesia מאת James A. Bier Completely revised and updated with enhanced readability, James A. Bier's "Reference Map of Oceania" is the most comprehensive Pacific map in existence. Its main map and 52 inset maps of all major parts of the region provide a wealth of information in one source. Principal cities, towns, and village...

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The New Sun (Intersections: Asian and Pacific American Transcultural Studies) מאת Taro Yashima In 1939 the painter Iwamatsu Jun (1908-1994) and his artist wife, Tomoe, arrived in the U.S. as political refugees. During World War II, Iwamatsu used his artistic talents for the U.S. war effort, and he adopted a pseudonym, Taro Yashima, to protect his young son, whom he left behind in Japan. Th...

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Japanese Patterns of Behavior (East West Center Book) מאת Takie Sugiyama Lebra

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Challenging the Secular State: The Islamization of Law in Modern Indonesia מאת Arskal Salim Challenging the Secular State examines Muslim efforts to incorporate shari'a (religious law) into modern Indonesia's legal system from the time of independence in 1945 to the present. The author argues that attempts to formally implement shari'a in Indonesia, the world's most po...

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Diary of a Madman (Paper) מאת Lu Xun

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Making Sense of Japanese Grammar (Paper) מאת Zelijko Cipris Making Sense of Japanese Grammar explains in a lively and highly informative manner basic principles that underlie a wide range of phenomena in Japanese. Students - irrespective of proficiency level and linguistic training - will find clarification on matters of grammar that often seem idiosyncratic...

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The City in Southeast Asia: Patterns, Process and Policy מאת Peter J. Rimmer The City in Southeast Asia explores ways of moving beyond outmoded paradigms of the Third World City. It does this by examining urban patterns: the global cities of Singapore, Hong Kong, and Kuala Lumpur; the national cities of Bangkok, Jakarta, and Manila; and the second cities of Chiang Mai...

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Singapore: An Atlas of Perpetual Territorial Transformation מאת Rodolphe De Konick Since 1965, when it became a fully independent city-state, Singapore has been an effervescent laboratory of economic, social and environmental transformation and innovation. The island of Singapore is small (currently about 720 sq km), and the government has thoroughly transformed and extended the l...

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Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian מאת Mary Kawena Pukui For many years Hawaiian Dictionary has been the definitive and authoritative work on the Hawaiian language. Now this indispensable reference volume has been enlarged and completely revised. More than 3,000 new entries have been added to the Hawaiian-English section bringing the total number of entri...

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Modern Tagalog: Grammatical Explanations and Exercises for Non-Native Speakers מאת Teresita V. Ramos Modern Tagalog expands on the descriptions and lessons in Tagalog Structures and is illustrated with numerous new examples. It provides further practice on points ranging from phonology to syntax....

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Legacies of the Sword: The Kashima-Shinryu and Samurai Martial Culture מאת Karl F. Friday Western scholars and educators are generally far less familiar with the samurai in his original--and, ostensibly, primary--role as warrior and master of arms than in his other functions as landowner, feudal lord, literateur, or philosopher. Yet any attempt to comprehend fully the samurai without con...

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The Growth Idea: Purpose and Prosperity in Postwar Japan (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute) מאת Scott O'Bryan Our narratives of postwar Japan have long been cast in terms almost synonymous with the story of rapid economic growth. Scott O'Bryan reinterprets this seemingly familiar history through an innovative exploration, not of the anatomy of growth itself, but of the history of growth as a set of discours...

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Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945 (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) Penny Edwards

Cambodge: The Cultivation of a Nation, 1860-1945 (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) מאת Penny Edwards This strikingly original study of Cambodian nationalism brings to life eight turbulent decades of cultural change and sheds new light on the colonial ancestry of Pol Pot’s murderous dystopia. Penny Edwards recreates the intellectual milieux and cultural traffic linking Europe and empire, interweav...

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Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai מאת Gavan Daws

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Plants for Tropical Landscapes: A Gardener's Guide מאת Fred D. Rauch Plants for Tropical Landscapes will help you select and group plants to create a successful tropical garden tailored to your needs and tastes. Gardeners and landscapers will find this treasury of more than 500 common plants easy to use and one of the most comprehensive guides available today.

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A Handbook of 'Phags-pa Chinese (ABC Chinese Dictionary Series) מאת W. South Coblin ‘Phags-pa Chinese is the earliest form of the Chinese language to be written in a systematically devised alphabetic script. It is named after its creator, a brilliant thirteenth-century Tibetan scholar-monk who also served as political adviser to Kublai Khan. ‘Phags-pa’s invention of an alphab...

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Bright Triumphs from Dark Hours: Turning Adversity into Success (A Latitude 20 Book) מאת David Heenan "Bright Triumphs from Dark Hours" 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. From New York City school chancellor...

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Ho'Oponopono: Contemporary Uses of a Hawaiian Problem Solving Process מאת E. Victoria Shook

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New Pocket Hawaiian Dictionary: With a Concise Grammar and Given Names in Hawaiian מאת Mary Kawena Pukui The Hawaiian Dictionary, by Mary Kawena Pukui and Samuel Elbert, has for many years been the standard work of reference for the Hawaiian language. Based on frequency of usage and cultural importance, 10,800 entries, from the 41,500 in the revised and enlarged edition of 1986, have been selected for ...

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Potiki (Talanoa : Contemporary Pacific Literature) מאת Patricia Grace Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Fiction Award This compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by "Dollarmen" -- property speculators advocating golf courses, high rises, shopping malls, and tourist attractions. In Potiki, one community's response t...

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Integrated Korean: Beginning Level 1 Workbook (KLEAR Textbooks in Korean מאת Carol Schulz The Beginning Level texts and workbooks are the first of a four- level series (Beginning 1 and 2, Intermediate 1 and 2, Advanced Intermediate, and Advanced) developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean. All series volumes have been developed in accordance with...

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Traditional Micronesian Societies: Adaptation, Integration, and Political Organization מאת Glenn Petersen "Traditional Micronesian Societies" explores the extraordinary successes of the ancient voyaging peoples who first settled the Central Pacific islands some two thousand years ago. They and their descendants devised social and cultural adaptations that have enabled them to survive-and thrive-under th...

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Koreo-Japonica: A Re-evaluation of a Common Genetic Origin (Hawai'i Studies on Korea) מאת Alexander Vovin The Japonic (Japanese and Ryukyuan) portmanteau language family and the Korean language have long been considered isolates on the fringe of northeast Asia. Although in the last fifty years many specialists in Japonic and Korean historical linguistics have voiced their support for a genetic relations...

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Small Trees for the Tropical Landscape: A Gardener's Guide מאת Fred D. Rauch Over the past several decades, the U.S. cityscape has changed radically. Large areas have been cleared of natural vegetation to accommodate new development. The 'urban forest', which consists of all city trees, natural and planted, has been severely and negatively impacted. A 2003 study indicates th...

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The Anxieties of Mobility: Migration and Tourism in the Indonesian Borderlands (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) מאת Johan A. Lindquist Since the late 1960s the Indonesian island of Batam has been transformed from a sleepy fishing village to a booming frontier town, where foreign investment, mostly from neighboring Singapore, converges with inexpensive land and labor. Export processing zones such as Batam are both celebrated and vil...

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Reference Maps of the Islands of Hawaii: Maui, The Valley Isle מאת James A. Beir