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Microphone in the Mud by Gary Robinson 9780985621131
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985621131Author Gary RobinsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint University of Hawai'i... -
The Rising Tide of Color against White World-Supremacy by T. Lothrop Stoddard 9781410208163
RRP: £14.50Booksplease Price: £12.99Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781410208163Author T. Lothrop StoddardFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint University of Hawai'i... -
Queer Transfigurations: Boys Love Media in Asia by James Welker
Booksplease Price: £88.69The boys love (BL) genre was created for girls and women by young female manga (comic) artists in early 1970s Japan to challenge oppressive gender and sexual norms. Over the years, BL has seen almost... -
Hawaiian Myths of Earth, Sea and Sky by Vivian L. Thompson 9780824811716
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42When the storytellers of ancient Hawaii gathered by the light of candlenut torches, they told tales that explained the world around them. These tales described how the gods created the earth and its... -
Power and Prowess: The Origins of Brooke Kingship in Sarawak by J H Walker 9780824825003
RRP: £130.00Booksplease Price: £105.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824825003Author JH WalkerFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint University of Hawai'i PressPublisher... -
Tagalog Structures by Teresita V. Ramos 9780870226779
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £12.81This text approaches the grammar of Tagalog through an examination of word formation, sentence construction, and sentence types. There is also a discussion of the phonology. Tagalog Structures is to... -
Enduring Identities: The Guise of Shinto in Contemporary Japan by 9780824822590
Booksplease Price: £21.15Enduring Identities is an attempt to understand the continuing relevance of Shinto to the cultural identity of contemporary Japanese. The enduring significance of this ancient yet innovative religion... -
Integrated Korean: High Intermediate 2 by Sumi Chang 9780824882761
Booksplease Price: £30.86Developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of Korean, High Intermediate replaces Advanced Intermediate as the third-year textbook in the popular Korean language-learning... -
Pathway of the Birds: The Voyaging Achievements of Maori and their Polynesian Ancestors by Andrew Crowe 9780824878658
RRP: £36.95Booksplease Price: £36.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824878658Author Andrew CroweFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint University of Hawai'i... -
Contexts and Dialogue: Yogacara Buddhism and Modern Psychology on the Subliminal Mind by Tao Jiang 9780824831066
Booksplease Price: £17.08Are there Buddhist conceptions of the unconscious? If so, are they more Freudian, Jungian, or something else? If not, can Buddhist conceptions be reconciled with the Freudian, Jungian, or other... -
Women and Children First by Judith Dean 9780824816216
Booksplease Price: £17.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824816216Author Judith DeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint University of Hawai'i... -
Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea by Michael French Smith 9780824825218
Booksplease Price: £63.50Kragur village lies on the rugged north shore of Kairiru, a steep volcanic island just off the north coast of Papua New Guinea. In 1998 the village looked much as it had some twenty-two years earlier... -
The Culture of Sex in Ancient China by Paul R. Goldin 9780824824051
Booksplease Price: £63.50The subject of sex was central to early Chinese thought. Discussed openly and seriously as a fundamental topic of human speculation, it was an important source of imagery and terminology that... -
First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960-1985 by Laura Zimmer-Tamakoshi
Booksplease Price: £67.40First Fieldwork: Pacific Anthropology, 1960-1985 explores what a generation of anthropologists experienced during their first visits to the field at a time of momentous political changes in Pacific... -
Goddess on the Rise: Pilgrimage and Popular Religion in Vietnam by Philip Taylor 9780824828011
Booksplease Price: £21.98Since the early 1990s, the shrine of Ba Chua Xu, the Lady of the Realm, has become the most visited religious site in southern Vietnam, receiving more than a million visitors annually. Mother,... -
Soldiers Alive by Ishikawa Tatsuzo 9780824826963
Booksplease Price: £63.50When the editors of Chûô kôron, Japan's leading liberal magazine, sent the prizewinning young novelist Ishikawa Tatsuzô to war-ravaged China in early 1938, they knew the independent-minded writer... -
The Logic of Nothingness: A Study of Nishida Kitaro by Robert J.J. Wargo 9780824829308
Booksplease Price: £63.50The writings of Nishida Kitaro, whose name has become almost synonymous with Japanese philosophy, continue to attract attention around the world. Yet studies of his thought in Western languages have... -
Target: Pearl Harbor by Michael Slackman 9780824811235
Booksplease Price: £75.21Nearly 50 years after Japan's attack, this text takes a fresh look at the air raid that plunged America into World War II. Michael Slackman scrutinizes the decisions and attitudes that prompted the... -
Reading a Japanese Film: Cinema in Context Keiko McDonald 9780824829391
Booksplease Price: £80.84Reading a Japanese Film, written by a pioneer of Japanese film studies in the United States, provides viewers new to Japanese cinema with the necessary tools to construct a deeper understanding of... -
Buddhist Tales of India, China, and Japan: China Section by Yoshiko Dykstra 9780917880070
Booksplease Price: £24.88The Buddhist Tales of India, China, and Japan: Chinese Section contains translations of one hundred and seventy-four stories in the section of China from Konjaku monogatarish?, the largest story... -
Embracing the Firebird: Yosano Akiko and the Birth of the Female Voice in Modern Japanese Poetry by Janine Beichman 9780824822088
Booksplease Price: £75.51How did a girl from the provinces, meant to do nothing more than run the family store, become a bold and daring poet whose life and work helped change the idea of love in modern Japan? Embracing the... -
An Ocean in Mind by Will Kyselka 9780824858940
Booksplease Price: £51.11"This stimulating account of an attempt to build an intellectual bridge between the ancient navigators of the Pacific Ocean and present-day practitioners of the art and science of navigation..... -
Forest Recollections: Wandering Monks in Twentieth-century Thailand by Kamala Tiyavanich 9780824817688
Booksplease Price: £87.22I stayed [in the forest] for two nights. The first night, nothing happened. The second night, at about one or two in the morning, a tiger came--which meant that I didn't get any sleep the whole night... -
Hawaiian Tales of Heroes and Champions by Vivian L. Thompson 9780824858919
Booksplease Price: £54.58Once in Old Hawaii, in the days when anything was possible, supernatural kupua roamed the islands, challenging kings and chiefs, tricking men, women, and boys. The Hawaiian people would tell and... -
Pruning the Boddhi Tree: The Storm Over Critical Buddhism by Jamie Hubbard 9780824819491
Booksplease Price: £22.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824819491Author Jamie HubbardFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint University of Hawai'i... -
A Primer of Soto Zen: A Translation of Dogen's Shobogenzo Zuimonki by Dogen 9780824800949
Booksplease Price: £51.11Zen was popularized in the West largely through the writings of Dr. D.T. Suzuki, who followed the school of Rinzai Zen. Although it remains relatively unknown in the West, Soto Zen eventually... -
Sikhism by Doris R. Jakobsh 9780824835330
Booksplease Price: £41.35This volume offers a comprehensive overview of Sikhism, which originated in India's Punjab region five hundred years ago. As the numbers of Sikhs settling outside of India continues to grow, it is... -
Zen Action/Zen Person by Thomas P. Kasulis 9780824807023
Booksplease Price: £51.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824807023Author Thomas P. KasulisFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint University of Hawai'i... -
Capturing Contemporary Japan: Differentiation and Uncertainty by Satsuki Kawano 9780824838683
Booksplease Price: £47.21What are people's life experiences in present-day Japan? This timely volume addresses fundamental questions vital to under- standing Japan in the first decade of the twenty-first century. Its... -
Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social Status in Early Modern China by Craig Clunas 9780824859015
Booksplease Price: £63.80This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern China. Craig Clunas analyzes "superfluous things"-the paintings,... -
Travels in Hawaii by Robert Louis Stevenson 9780824802578
Booksplease Price: £63.80In 1899 a chartered yacht, the Casco, brought to Honolulu Robert Louis Stevenson and his family. The writer was then already at the height of his popularity in Europe and the United States. He spent... -
Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudo Merchant Academy of Osaka by Tetsuo Najita 9780824859145
Booksplease Price: £75.51"This is one of the most important books ever published in the West on Japanese culture."" - Times Literary Supplement ""In both scope and sophistication of argument... -
The Life and Hard Times of a Korean Shaman: Of Tales and Telling Tales by Laurel Kendall 9780824811365
Booksplease Price: £51.11Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780824811365Author Laurel KendallFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint University of Hawai'i... -
Business Basics in Hawaii: Secrets of Starting Your Own Business in Our State by Dennis K. Kondo 9780824811938
Booksplease Price: £21.98Written in easy-to-understand language, Business Basics in Hawaii introduces the lay person to some of the basic principles of business. Readers benefit from lessons learned by other business people... -
Doing Business with Japan: Successful Strategies for Intercultural Communication by Kazuo Nishiyama 9780824858988
Booksplease Price: £63.80In Japan, evidence of the country's Westernization abounds, yet despite appearances, it has remained ""uniquely"" Japanese. For this reason, the uninformed Westerner doing... -
My Samoan Chief by Fay G. Calkins 9780824858971
Booksplease Price: £63.80This is an engaging autobiographical account of a young American woman's life in her Samoan husband's native home. Fay Calkins, a descendant of Puritan settlers, met Vai Ala'ilima, a descendant of... -
The Emptiness of Emptiness: An Introduction to Early Indian Madhyamika by C. W. Huntington 9780824811655
Booksplease Price: £75.51The Emptiness of Emptiness presents the first English translation of the complete text of the Madhyamakavatara (Entry into the Middle Way) a sixth century Sanskrit Buddhist composition that was... -
Ma'i Lepera: A History of Leprosy in Nineteenth-Century Hawaii by Kerri A. Inglis 9780824834845
Booksplease Price: £53.06Ma`i Lepera attempts to recover Hawaiian voices at a significant moment in Hawai`i's history. It takes an unprecedented look at the Hansen's disease outbreak (1865-1900) almost exclusively from the... -
Pouliuli by Albert Wendt 9780824858933
Booksplease Price: £51.11"Few novelists of the Pacific islands could be less derivative in terms of the real vision into the life and character of non-Western society.... Even fewer novels, Western or Third World, can... -
The Most Offending Soul Alive: Tom Harrisson and His Remarkable Life by Judith M. Heimann 9780824821494
Booksplease Price: £87.22An English eccentric and adventurer, Tom Harrisson (1911-1976) sought knowledge and renown in a dizzying number of fields, while breaking most of the rules of civilized society. He was a precursor in...