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Oceania
Hardcover. Blending global scope with local depth, this book throws new light on important themes. Spanning four centuries and vast space, it combines the history of ideas with particular histories of encounters between European voyagers and Indigenous people in Oceania (Island Southeast Asia, New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands). Series: Palgrave Studies in Pacific History. Num Pages: 384 pages, 11 maps, 41 figures. BIC Classification: 1MK; 3JB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJM; HBTM; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 223 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 576.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137305886
- ISBN
- 9781137305886
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 68.13
€ 68.13
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415738644
- ISBN
- 9780415738644
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.04
€ 27.04
Hardcover. An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters. These mediums convey information, and engage their audiences, in ways that, together, form a powerful advocacy for the benefits of militarism in the islands. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 281 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MKPH; HBJK; HBJM; HBTQ; HBW; JFD. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 21. Weight in Grams: 468. Colonialism, Memory and Resistance. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. 288 pages, 46 black & white illustrations. An examination of how the US military in Hawaii is depicted by museum curators, memorial builders, film makers, and newspaper reporters. These mediums convey information, and engage their audiences, in ways that, together, form a powerful advocacy for the benefits of militarism in the islands. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1MKPH; HBJK; HBJM; HBTQ; HBW; JFD. Dimension: 226 x 143 x 21. Weight: 468.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230227828
- ISBN
- 9780230227828
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.15
€ 67.15
Hardback. Editor(s): Montague, Brendan E. Num Pages: 120 pages. BIC Classification: 1MKC; 1MKCM; JFFS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 154 x 13. Weight in Grams: 316.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781629485898
- ISBN
- 9781629485898
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 190.24€ 130.56
€ 190.24
€ 130.56
Hardback. This book explores the expectations, experiences, and reactions of Allied servicemen and women who served in the wartime Pacific and viewed the South Pacific through the lens of Hollywood's South Seas. Based on extensive archival research, it explores the intersections between military experiences and cultural history. Num Pages: 278 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1MKP; 3JJH; APF; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 222 x 138 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 278
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230116566
- ISBN
- 9780230116566
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.12
€ 67.12
Hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Radius Books United States
- Edition
- Slp
- Number of pages
- 236
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781934435625
- ISBN
- 9781934435625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 63.79
€ 63.79
Hardcover. Num Pages: 154 pages, tables. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; KCM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 250 x 162 x 15. Weight in Grams: 404.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781604565171
- ISBN
- 9781604565171
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 116.52€ 81.20
€ 116.52
€ 81.20
Paperback. The author convinces a tribe in remote New Guinea to allow him to become initiated along with 15 boys due to undergo the rite of passage into manhood. Their totemic god is the crocodile and crocodile marks are carved onto their bodies with sharpened bamboo. Num Pages: 240 pages, 8pp b/w halftones. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 170.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780571206223
- ISBN
- 9780571206223
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.09
€ 17.99
€ 13.09
Hardcover. This is an account of the voyage of a mostly Hawaiian crew, in a reconstructed ancient double canoe, from Hawaii to New Zealand. They did this without the aid of navigational equipment, and with the aim of proving that their ancestors had done just the same thousands of years earlier. Illustrator(s): Rhodes, Richard. Num Pages: 401 pages, 84 figures, 34 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKP; JHM; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 160 x 31. Weight in Grams: 784.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1994
- Publisher
- University of California Press United States
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 401
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520080027
- ISBN
- 9780520080027
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 52.99€ 38.20
€ 52.99
€ 38.20
Paperback. Malaita traces the history and culture of a Pacific island from the 19th to 21st centuries through over 600 images drawn from the archives of the British Museum and public and private photographic collections around the world. Num Pages: 296 pages, 300 colour, 300 black and white. BIC Classification: 1MKLS; HBJM; HDD; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. .
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- British Museum Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 296
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780861592012
- ISBN
- 9780861592012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 83.67
€ 83.67
Hardcover. Num Pages: 139 pages. BIC Classification: 1MKLF; KCB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 262 x 182 x 15. Weight in Grams: 494.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781600214646
- ISBN
- 9781600214646
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 205.70€ 140.92
€ 205.70
€ 140.92
Hardcover. Wogeo Island is well known to anthropologists of Papua New Guinea. Based on substantial fieldwork, the author builds on and expands previous research by showing how Wogeos establish and maintain social relationships and identities connected to place and movement in the physical landscape. Series: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific. Num Pages: 324 pages, 3 maps, 26 ills, 1 table. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 156 x 236 x 19. Weight in Grams: 492.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 324
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845457754
- ISBN
- 9781845457754
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.61
€ 162.61
Multiple-component retail product.
- Publisher
- Hal Leonard Europe Limited United Kingdom
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780384276
- ISBN
- 9781780384276
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 25.05
€ 33.99
€ 25.05
Paperback. Tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, this title investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Num Pages: 264 pages, 24 b&w photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1MKLP; 1MKP; JFFK; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 15. Weight in Grams: 424. The Paradox of Keeping-while-giving. 264 pages, 24 b&w photographs, 1 map. Tests anthropology's traditional assumptions about kinship, economics, power, and gender. Focusing on Oceania societies from Polynesia to Papua New Guinea and including Australian Aborigine groups, this title investigates the category of possessions that must not be given or, if they are circulated, must return finally to the giver. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1MBF; 1MKLP; 1MKP; JFFK; JHM. Dimension: 227 x 155 x 15. Weight: 414.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Number of pages
- 264
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520076044
- ISBN
- 9780520076044
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 28.56
€ 38.99
€ 28.56
hardcover. Papua New Guinea has experienced a remarkably rapid transition from scattered primitive societies to a modern unified nation. The dictionary covers major economic, social, political, and cultural developments, basic geographic information and biographies. With maps. Series: Historical Dictionaries of Asia, Oceania and the Middle East. Num Pages: 416 pages, 2 maps, bibliography. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; GBC; HBJM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 221 x 146 x 29. Weight in Grams: 567.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Scarecrow Press United States
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780810839366
- ISBN
- 9780810839366
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 203.64
€ 203.64
Hardcover. This in-depth study focuses on the Bosmun of Daiden, a Ramu River people in an under-represented area in the ethnography of Papua New Guinea, uncovering the conceptual convergence of local notions of relatedness, foodways, and empathy. Series: Person, Space and Memory in the Contemporary Pacific. Num Pages: 332 pages, 25 ills, 4 figs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JFCV; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 332
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857459190
- ISBN
- 9780857459190
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 163.00
€ 163.00
Hardcover. Nearly half the people born on the remote Mbuke Islands become teachers, businessmen, or bureaucrats in urban centers, while those who stay at home ask migrant relatives "What about me?" This detailed ethnography sheds light on remittance motivations and documents how terms like "community" can be useful in places otherwise permeated by kinship. Series: Pacific Perspectives: Studies of the European Society for Oceanists. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. .
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782387817
- ISBN
- 9781782387817
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.32
€ 162.32
Hardback. Leviathans at the Gold Mine is an ethnography about the Ipili, an indigenous group in Papua New Guinea; an enormous gold mine operated by an international conglomerate on Ipili land; and the process through which "the Ipili" and "the mine" brought each other into being as entities. Num Pages: 264 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; GTB; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5830 x 3895 x 18. Weight in Grams: 486.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Duke University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822354949
- ISBN
- 9780822354949
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 111.46
€ 111.46
Hardback. Strategy, Combat, Myths, Deceptions. 288 pages, 16-pg photo section. The attack in December, 1941, has been portrayed by historians as a dazzling success, brilliantly conceived and meticulously plannedA". With most historians concentrating on command errors and the story of participants' experiences, this book presents a detailed evaluation of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on an operational and tactical level. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1MKPH; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ. Dimension: 234 x 157 x 35. Weight: 786.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Casemate Publishers
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612000107
- ISBN
- 9781612000107
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 32.94
€ 35.99
€ 32.94
Hardcover. Studies the specific circumstances of a prison in the Asia Pacific area. Num Pages: Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHMC; JKVP1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 19. Weight in Grams: 393.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781571815811
- ISBN
- 9781571815811
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.89
€ 161.89