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Reducere. Hawaii Nei brings together three plays by one of Hawaii's finest playwrights. A compassionate portrait of early nineteenth- century Hawaii, The Con...

Reducere. How many place names are there in the Hawaiian Islands? Even a rough estimate is impossible. Hawaiians named taro patches, rocks, trees, canoe land...

Reducere. A reprint of a 1920 classic surveying the world racial situation after World War I and warning of the coming non-White population explosion. "The w...

Describe a pervasive way of conducting private and public affairs in which state and local office holders throughout Hawaii took their personal fin...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. DescriptionLords of Things offers a fascinating interpretation of modernity in late nineteenth and early twentieth century Siam by focusing on the ...

Reducere. This new edition includes a discussion of theories about traditional methods of navigation developed during recent decades, the story of the renais...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Tatau is a beautifully designed and richly illustrated retelling of the unique and powerful history of Sāmoan tattooing, from 3, 000 years ago to m...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Dōgen DōgenTranslator: Thomas ClearyA remarkable collection of essays, Sh b genz , Treasury of the Eye of True Teaching, wa...

Reducere. The beguiling story of the Minaguchi-ya, an ancient inn on the Tokaido Road, founded on the eve of the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate. Tra...

For the first time, poetry, short stories, critical and creative essays, chants, and excerpts of plays by Indigenous Micronesian authors have been ...

DescriptionKorean Composition is the first book in English for students of Korean language aimed not only at enhancing their writing skills and ove...

This second edition is thoroughly updated with exciting discoveries made by new spacecraft missions and in state-of-the-art terrestrial laboratorie...

Reducere. For nearly three decades Japanese Culture has garnered high praise as an accurate and well-written introduction to Japanese history and culture. Th...

Reducere. Understanding Reality, Paperback

Reducere. "A responsible, poetic, perceptive look at an American problem that will not go away." - James MichenerIn 1967 the Peace Corps sent P.F. Kluge to p...

Reducere. Advaita Vedanta is the most important philosophical system in India. It involves a discipline of spiritual experience as well as a technical philos...

Reducere. Nishida Kitar , Japan's premier modern philosopher, was born in 1870 and grew to intellectual maturity in the final decades of the Meiji period (18...

Reducere. We Are the Ocean is a collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing over the past three decades has consistently challe...

Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deeply controversial figure. Though his writings and l...

Reducere. Between 1609 and 1879, the geographical, political, and ideological status of the Kingdom of Ryukyu (modern Okinawa) was characterized by its ambig...

Reducere. When the storytellers of ancient Hawaii gathered by the light of candlenut torches, they told tales that explained the world around them. These tal...

Reducere. In this study, Rebecca Suter aims to complicate our understanding of world literature by examining the creative and critical deployment of cultural...

Reducere. Nishiyama Matsunosuke is one of the most important historians of Tokugawa (Edo) popular culture, yet until now his work has never been translated i...

Reducere. Jonathan Osorio investigates the effects of Western law on the national identity of Native Hawaiians in this impressive political history of the Ki...

Reducere. The fiction of Mori Ogai, written after the death of Emperor Meiji in 1912, secured his promiment place in modern Japanese literature. This collect...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: James W. HeisigEditor: Thomas P. KasulisEditor: John C. MaraldoWith Japanese Philosophy: A Sourcebook, readers of English c...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Patricia GraceThis compelling novel will resonate for people everywhere who find their livelihood threatened by Dollarmen -...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Takaji AboAuthor: Byron W. BenderAuthor: Alfred CapelleThe Marshallese-English Dictionary contains almost 12, 000 entries g...

Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia (It's Cool to Speak Indonesian) provides beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners with an introduction to the basic...

In Colonizing Madness Jacqueline Leckie tells a forgotten story of silence, suffering, and transgressions in the colonial Pacific. It offers new in...

Asyik Berbahasa Indonesia (It's Cool to Speak Indonesian) provides beginning, intermediate, and advanced learners with an introduction to the basic...

Reducere. Among Marshallese the ri-bwebwenato (storyteller) is well known and respected, a living repository and transmitter of traditional history and cultu...

Reducere. What are the foundational scriptures and major schools for Chinese Buddhists? What divinities do they worship? What festivals do they celebrate? Th...

This volume examines a category of Japanese divinities that centered on the concept of "world renewal" (yonaoshi). In the latter half of the Tokuga...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Michael J. BalickEthnobotany of Pohnpei examines the relationship between plants, people, and traditional culture on Pohnpe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Epeli Hau'ofaIn this lively satire of contemporary South Pacific life, we meet a familiar cast of characters: multinational...

Reducere. This book is a highly readable introduction to Korean pronunciation for students at all levels of proficiency. Beginners will find the information ...

Reducere. Edogawa Ranpo (1894-1965) was a great admirer of Edgar Allan Poe and like Poe drew on his penchant for the grotesque and the bizarre to explore the...

Reducere. This book tells of one of the most expansive and rapid phases of human migration in prehistory, a period during which Polynesians reached and settl...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Thomas P. KasulisPhilosophy challenges our assumptions--especially when it comes to us from another culture. In exploring J...

Reducere. Making Sense of Japanese Grammar explains in a lively and highly informative manner basic principles that underlie a wide range of phenomena in Jap...

Reducere. Although Before the Dawn is the story of the author's family and of the Meiji restoration, it is much more than that; the aftermath of the events t...

At the start of the twenty-first century challenges to the global hegemony of U.S. culture are more apparent than ever. Two of the contenders vying...

Reducere. When author Gail Okawa was in high school in Honolulu, a neighbor mentioned that her maternal grandfather had been imprisoned in a World War II con...

Reducere. Audio files for this volume may be downloaded on the web in MP3 format at http: //www.kleartextbook.com. A CD is also available for purchase.The Ad...

Reducere. Entry Into the Inconceivable is an introduction to the philosophy of the Hua-yen school of Buddhism, one of the cornerstones of East Asian Buddhist...

Korean is the seventh most commonly spoken language in the United States, and Korean heritage students―those with some proficiency in or a cultural...

Reducere. Are the works of contemporary Japanese novelists, as Nobel Prize winner Oe Kenzaburo has observed, mere reflections of the vast consumer culture of...

Hawaiian Language: Past, Present, Future presents aspects of Hawaiian and its history that are rarely treated in language classes. The major charac...

The Advanced Level texts are the seventh and eighth in a five-level series developed collaboratively by leading classroom teachers and linguists of...

Reducere. Tea in China explores the contours of religious and cultural transformation in traditional China from the point of view of an everyday commodity an...

Reducere. Now in paperback This outstanding and original book, presented here with a new preface, examines the history of material culture in early modern Ch...

Reducere. Japan's monastic warriors have fared poorly in comparison to the samurai, both in terms of historical reputation and representations in popular cul...

Reducere. Vocabulary learning is the single most important component of second-language acquisition. In cases where the second language is unrelated to the l...

Reducere. Japan is one of the most media-saturated societies in the world. The circulations of its big five national newspapers dwarf those of any major Amer...

Reducere. This study involves a fourteen-hundred-kilometer-long pilgrimage around Japan's fourth largest island, Shikoku. In traveling the circuit of the eig...

Reducere. Intended as a companion to the popular KLEAR Textbooks in Korean Language series and designed and edited by a leading Korean linguist, this is the ...

Reducere. This is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Intermediate 2, the fourth volume of the best-selling series developed collaboratively b...

Reducere. This novel, written in dialect, reveals the everyday elements and dimensions of life in Hawaii.

Reducere. In Everything Ancient Was Once New, Emalani Case explores Indigenous persistence through the concept of Kahiki, a term that is at once both an ance...

Reducere. This books offers a comprehensive sampling of the major genres of poetry and prose written from about A.D. 600 to the end of the nineteenth century...

Reducere. 'O si Manu a Ali'i is the first comprehensive guide for teachers of Samoan oratory and the Samoan language of respect. It is also an authoritative ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Galumalemana Afeleti HunkinGagana Samoa is a modern Samoan language resource. Designed for both classroom and personal use,...

How can I know something? How can I convince someone of the rightness of my position? How does reality function? What is artistic creativity? What ...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mee-Jeong ParkAuthor: Joowon SuhAuthor: Mary Shin KimThis workbook accompanies the thoroughly revised edition of Integrated...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Mee-Jeong ParkAuthor: Sang-Suk OhAuthor: Joowon SuhThis workbook accompanies the thoroughly revised edition of Integrated K...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Young-Mee Yu ChoAuthor: Hyo Sang LeeAuthor: Carol SchulzThis is a thoroughly revised edition of Integrated Korean: Intermed...