Gavan Daws' remarkable achievement is to free Hawaiian history from the dust of antiquity. Based ...

The Excremental Imagination takes the reader on a journey into uncharted territory, tracking the ...

From the tenth to the thirteenth centuries, Japanese aristocrats attributed their afflictions to ...

The Arts of Governance offers a global history of the creation, uses, and adaptations of the poli...

Simply keeping the mind clear and calm was, for many post-Tang Daoists, the path to eternal life ...

Speak American explores how language tied together race, power, and citizenship in Territorial Ha...

Between the late seventh and early ninth centuries, Japan changed from a land largely without Bud...

Incisive and fun, The Gods Make You Giggle draws readers into the world of Japanese picturebooks,...

Around the first century BCE, Buddhist monks formed monasteries and established relationships wit...

Koryŏsa: The History of Koryŏ, Books III and IV continue the groundbreaking English translation o...

How do humans invest nonhuman entities with agency, personhood, and feelings? Responding to calls...

How do humans invest nonhuman entities with agency, personhood, and feelings? Responding to calls...

Dome of Heaven enters the long-standing debate in architectural history on the origins and signif...

With Our Eyes Advise Us: Marshall Islanders Confronting Disease, Climate, and Colonial Violence i...

Subempire’s Embrace is the first monograph to examine South Korea’s refugee policy and discourse ...

Planes of Existence

What do Buddhists mean by enlightenment?Does enlightenment unfold gradually or is it revealed...

'These kūpuna sought to pass forward what they had been given. We receive these makana with care ...

Unsettling Museums is a revolutionary exploration of the collaborations between contemporary Paci...

Written in the same accessible style and format as the highly successful The Hikers Guide to O'ah...

Half a century after his shocking samurai-style suicide, Yukio Mishima (1925-1970) remains a deep...

Here is a classic story that has charmed Japanese children for generations. Enchanting illustrati...

Examines the reasons and rationalizations behind the violence occurring in Myanmar, especially th...

This time the many times told tragedy of the violent end of Captain Cook at the hands of the nati...

A collection of essays that address a wide range of topics central to modern Hawai'i - education,...

For thirty years starting in the mid-1970s, the byline of Jim Dooley appeared on riveting investi...

When the storytellers of ancient Hawaii gathered by the light of candlenut torches, they told tal...

For some, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are idyllic tropical islands with a French ...

Jessie MacKinnon Hartzell arrived in Northern Thailand in 1912, the young wife of a recently orda...

Upon entering a Japanese Buddhist temple in Hawai‘i, most people - whether first-time visitors or...

Freedom without Justice is a compelling story of one man’s wrongful incarceration and the actions...

Completely revised and updated with enhanced readability, James A. Bier's

In coastal areas, fishermen and swimmers also look to Jizo, one of the Buddhist deities in Japan ...

In anticipation of the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair in October--where Indonesian literature will be s...

A small, attractive book, a kind of field guide to the stars...the test takes up astronomy old an...

This text documents the many contributions the University of Hawaii has made to the culture and e...

Tsunayoshi (1646–1709), the fifth Tokugawa shogun, is one of the most notorious figures in Japane...

Traces the life and work of Hart Wood (1880-1957), from his beginnings in architectural offices i...

Features of the sixth edition of this full-color, topographic map of the Friendly Isle include de...

This brief but factual sketch of Hawaiian begins by uncovering the fascinating and often controve...

These are thoroughly revised editions of Integrated Korean: Beginning 1 and Beginning 2, the firs...

Retells the little known legend of Kawelo, set on the island of Kaua'i and O'ahu.

In this evocative memoir, Kim Lefévre recounts her childhood and adolescence growing up in coloni...

“You can’t be happy all the time. You can’t feel comfortable all the time. You can’t have the fee...

'Big Happiness is extremely important to our community. Mark Panek's biography of Percy Kipapa sp...

The aim of this volume is to understand the forces and processes in local and rural society in Ch...

Most studies of Southeast Asian economic change focus on the phenomenal growth experienced by a f...

New Chamoru Literature