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Paperback. Challenging the dominant view of Hawai'i as a "melting pot paradise" - a place of ethnic tolerance and equality - this title examines how ethnic inequality is structured and maintained in island society. It finds that ethnicity, not race or class, signifies difference for Hawai'i's people and therefore structures their social relations. Series: Asian American History and Culture Series. Num Pages: 256 pages, 4 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 151 x 16. Weight in Grams: 386.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Temple University Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781592137565
- ISBN
- 9781592137565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 34.99€ 32.13
€ 34.99
€ 32.13
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822333494
- ISBN
- 9780822333494
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 30.99€ 27.67
€ 30.99
€ 27.67
Paperback. Series: Stackpole Military Photo Series. Num Pages: 208 pages, 300 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1KBB; 1MKPH; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; HBWQ; JWL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 278 x 12. Weight in Grams: 760.
- Publisher
- Stackpole Books
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780811718387
- ISBN
- 9780811718387
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 27.52
€ 27.99
€ 27.52
Paperback. Explores the lived experience of empire in the Pacific, the last region to be contacted and colonized by Europeans following the great voyages of Captain Cook. This title reveals that there was gain as well as loss, survival as well as suffering, and invention as well as exploitation. Num Pages: 356 pages, 50 black-&-white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MK; 3JH; HBJM; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 163 x 231 x 26. Weight in Grams: 522.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Yale University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780300180565
- ISBN
- 9780300180565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 18.00
€ 23.99
€ 18.00
hardcover. Vital Stepping Stone in America's War Against Japan. 264 pages, Illustrated section. The pivotal Battle of Tinian island, later to become the site of the biggest airport in the world and the base from which the the United States launched their atomic bomb attacks on Japan. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1FPJ; 1MKP; 3JJH; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Dimension: 234 x 160 x 21. Weight: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Casemate
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781612000947
- ISBN
- 9781612000947
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 35.99€ 31.02
€ 35.99
€ 31.02
Paperback. Deals with fundamental practices of value creation on Gawa, a small island off the southeast coast of mainland Papua New Guinea, the inhabitants of which participate in the long-distance kula shell exchange ring. Num Pages: 352 pages, 5 line drawings, 16 photographs. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 502.
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822312703
- ISBN
- 9780822312703
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 31.02
€ 31.99
€ 31.02
Hardcover. Since 1998 the world has been preoccupied with the Asia crisis, its contagion and its economic impact. This book contains research and analysis on such issues as poverty, education, health, nutrition and employment for a number of major economies in Asia and Oceania affected by the crisis. Editor(s): Hoa, Professor Tran van. Num Pages: 175 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1FM; 1FP; 1MK; 3JM; GTB; KCL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 17. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 176
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780333792490
- ISBN
- 9780333792490
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.77
€ 126.77
Hardback. Presents the synthesis of the vegetation and landscapes of the islands of the Pacific Ocean. These islands encompass a range of climate, geography and geology. This book is intended for biogeographers, plant ecologists, conservation biologists, and all scientists with an interest in island biology. Series: Ecological Studies. Num Pages: 760 pages, 20 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1MK; PSTS; RGM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 48. Weight in Grams: 1526.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
- Number of pages
- 760
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780387982854
- ISBN
- 9780387982854
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 137.70
€ 137.70
Hardback. In the middle decades of the 20th century, Hawai'i changed rapidly from a conservative oligarchy firmly controlled by a Euro-American elite to arguably the most progressive part of the United States. This study explains how Filipinos, Japanese, Portuguese, and others overcame racial divisions and mobilized a mass working-class movement. Num Pages: 320 pages, 15 illustrations, 9 tables. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; JHBL; JPW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 27. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780231135344
- ISBN
- 9780231135344
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 104.64€ 80.25
€ 104.64
€ 80.25
Paperback. Num Pages: 340 pages, 32 b/w & 6 colour illus. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; ANF; ASDX; HBTB; JFCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 150 x 226 x 19. Weight in Grams: 466.
- Publisher
- Transcript Verlag
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783837636697
- ISBN
- 9783837636697
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 53.50€ 42.56
€ 53.50
€ 42.56
Hardback. Papua New Guinea's village court system was introduced in 1974, partly in an effort to overcome the legal, geographical, and social distance between village societies and the country's formal courts. There are now more than 1100 village courts all over PNG, hearing thousands of cases each week. Num Pages: 312 pages, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 582.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 312
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845455613
- ISBN
- 9781845455613
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 174.76
€ 174.76
Hardcover. The Kakoli of the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea (PNG), the focus of this study, did not traditionally have a concept of mental illness. They classified madness according to social behavior, not mental pathology.. Series: Social Identities. Num Pages: 200 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1MKLP; GTB; PSXM. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 160 x 236 x 15. Weight in Grams: 398.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857450944
- ISBN
- 9780857450944
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 161.96
€ 161.96
* The whole story of one of the deadliest battles of WWII told for the first time * Important contribution to the historical record Twining provides one of the best accounts of the costly campaign that enabled Allied forces to wrest Guadalcanal from the Japanese in World War II's Pacific Theatre. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1MKLS; 3JJH; HBJM; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 174 x 106 x 19. Weight in Grams: 154.
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Presidio Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780891418269
- ISBN
- 9780891418269
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 9.87
€ 9.87
Hardcover. The phrase Christian politics points in two directions: political relations between denominations in one direction, and ways that Christian churches contribute to debates about how society should be governed in the other. Editor(s): Tomlinson, Matt; McDougall, Debra L. Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology. Num Pages: 260 pages, 9 ills, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1MK; HRAM2; HRC; JHMC. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 161 x 259 x 17. Weight in Grams: 466. Series: ASAO Studies in Pacific Anthropology. 260 pages, 9 ills, 3 maps. Editor(s): Tomlinson, Matt; McDougall, Debra L. The phrase Christian politics points in two directions: political relations between denominations in one direction, and ways that Christian churches contribute to debates about how society should be governed in the other. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: 1MK; HRAM2; HRC; JHMC. Dimension: 236 x 156 x 17. Weight: 470.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Number of pages
- 260
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780857457462
- ISBN
- 9780857457462
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 162.64
€ 162.64
Paperback. In early 1920 in Hawaii, Japanese sugar cane workers, faced with spiraling living expenses, defiantly struck for a wage increase to $1.25 per day. The event shook the traditional power structure in Hawaii. This book demonstrates that the event had consequences reaching all the way up to the eve of World War II. Editor(s): Duus, Peter. Translator(s): Cary, Beth. Num Pages: 386 pages, 6 b/w photographs, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MKPH; 3JJG; 3JJH; HBJK; HBLW; JFSL; KNXB1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 481. 386pp. Keywords: "Labour, Industrial Relations, Japan, Inter-war Period 1919-1938, General, Origins, Lawyers & Criminals, Immigration & Emigration, Multicultural Studies, Search Inside!"
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KHS0070444
- ISBN
- 9780520204850
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
paperback. Num Pages: 248 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1MKLF; HBJM; JHM; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 436.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1995
- Publisher
- Duke University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780822315933
- ISBN
- 9780822315933
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 26.56
€ 27.99
€ 26.56
Paperback. The battle for Guadalcanal that lasted from August 1942 to February 1943 was the first major American counter offensive against the Japanese in the Pacific. This title details the fortunes experienced over the intense course of naval battles around the island throughout the second half of 1942 that did so much to turn the tide in the Pacific. Illustrator(s): Gerrard, Howard. Series: Campaign. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1MKLS; 3JJH; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 186 x 248 x 7. Weight in Grams: 306.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Campaign
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780961545
- ISBN
- 9781780961545
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 21.99€ 16.91
€ 21.99
€ 16.91
Paperback. In less than one day, the might of the Imperial Japanese Navy was destroyed and four of her great aircraft carriers sank burning into the dark depths of the Pacific. Utilizing the research and combat maps, this book tells the dramatic story of the Japanese assault on Midway Island and the American ambush that changed the face of the Pacific war. Illustrator(s): Gerrard, Howard. Series: Campaign. Num Pages: 96 pages, Illustrations (some col.). BIC Classification: 1MKPH; 3JJH; HBJM; HBLW; HBWQ; JWLF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 248 x 182 x 8. Weight in Grams: 308.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- Revised edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781846035012
- ISBN
- 9781846035012
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.41
€ 23.99
€ 16.41
Hardcover. Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Theology focuses on what postcolonial theologies look like in colonial contexts, particularly in dialogue with the First Nations Peoples in Australia and the Asia-Pacific. The contributors have roots in the Asia-Pacific, but the struggles, theologies and concerns they address are shared across the seas. Editor(s): Brett, Mark G.; Havea, Jione. Series: Postcolonialism and Religions. Num Pages: 283 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1F; 1MBF; 1MK; HRLB; HRLM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 144 x 217 x 19. Weight in Grams: 464.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781137475466
- ISBN
- 9781137475466
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 66.82
€ 66.82
Hardback. Num Pages: 224 pages, 250 photos. BIC Classification: 1MKP; AFY. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 314 x 237 x 23. Weight in Grams: 1570.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Schiffer Publishing Ltd United States
- Edition
- Limited Edition, Signed by Author
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780764309410
- ISBN
- 9780764309410
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 76.09€ 54.12
€ 76.09
€ 54.12