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El Filibusterismo: Subversion: A Sequel to Noli Me Tangere Best Price: $24.98	The Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora Best Price: $47.34	Fundamental Spoken Chinese (Chinese Edition) Best Price: $28.52 The companion volumes Fundamental Spoken Chinese and Fundamental Written Chinese together are...	Guardian of the Sea: Jizo in Hawai'i (Latitude 20 Books) Best Price: $12.00 Jizo, one of the most beloved Buddhist deities in Japan, is known primarily as the guardian of...	Buddhism and Taoism Face to Face: Scripture, Ritual, and Iconographic Exchange in Medieval China Best Price: $200.24 Very good scholarly work on the re-examination of ancient traditions One comment: Some...



American Aloha: Cultural Tourism and the Negotiation of Tradition Best Price: $47.00	Chinese Modernity and Global Biopolitics: Studies in Literature and Visual Culture Best Price: $25.51 This ambitious work is a multimedia, interdisciplinary study of Chinese modernity in the...	Awekotuku: Mau Moko: The World of	The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu (Pacific Islands Monograph Series) Best Price: $35.54 The Other Side is the first major ethnographic and historical study of the Sia Raga people of...	Enduring War: Stories of What We've Learned (Manoa 20:2) Best Price: $6.37



STUPA and SWASTIKA: HIstorical Urban Planning Principles in Nepal's Katmandu Valley Best Price: $29.05	Stupa and Swastika: Historical Urban Planning Principles in Nepal's Kathmandu Valley Best Price: $44.41	A History of Singapore, 1819-2005	On Asian Streets and Public Space: Selected Essays from Great Asian Streets and Symposiums (Gass) 1 & 2 Best Price: $15.58	The Great State of White and High: Buddhism and State Formation in Eleventh-Century Xia

Conversational Tagalog: A functional-situational approach	Ambassadors in Arms: The Story of Hawaii's 100th Battalion	Zen Action/Zen Person	The Mandukya Upanisad and the Agama Sastra: An Investigation Into the Meaning of the Vedanta (Monographs of the Society for Asian and Comparative Philosophy, No. 8) 240 pages.	Allegorrical Architecture: Living Myth and Architronics in Southern China

A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Hawai'i: The Main Islands and Offshore Waters (Latitude 20 Books) Best Price: $12.68 Basics: softcover; 179 good color photos of 165 species; includes 25 endemics and 53 alien...	In Buddha's Company: Thai Soldiers in the Vietnam War (Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory) Best Price: $57.92	Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga Best Price: $39.52	Powers of Exclusion: Land Dilemmas in Southeast Asia (Challenges of the Agrarian Transition in Sougheast Asia (Chatsea)) Best Price: $25.32	Ilokano reference grammar (PALI language texts: Philippines)

Ancient O'Ahu: Stories from Fornander & Thrum Best Price: $8.95	Building a Nation in Papua New Guinea: Views of the Post-Independence Generation	Chinese Adaptation and Diversity: Essays on Society and Literature in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore The essays in this book originate from a joint project between the National University of...	Sampling Biodiversity in Coastal Communities: NaGISA Protocols for Seagrass and Macroalgal Habitats: A NaGISA Handbook (Ridge Books) Best Price: $22.34	Golden Peninsula: Culture and Adaptation in Mainland Southeast Asia (Shaps Library of Asian Studies) Best Price: $15.00 I've never read such a dry, uninteresting account of research before. I suppose this is...

Haiga: Takebe Socho and the Haiku-Painting Tradition	The Past and the Punishments: Eight Stories (Fiction from Modern China) Best Price: $10.95 To travel through these stories is to cross a landscape of stunning beauty and terrific...	Tourism, Ethnicity, and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies After "The Tourist", by Dean MacCannell and Valene Smith's edited book titled...	Ghost Fleet: The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll In July 1946 a fleet of 242 ships, among them some of the most famous of World War II, assembled...	Be a Woman: Hayashi Fumiko and Modern Japanese Women's Literature Best Price: $19.00 A magnificent survey and original interpretation of the concept of "women's...

Pacific Languages: An Introduction Best Price: $27.00 As a person long fascinated by the world of languages, "Pacific Languages: An...	Feathered Gods and Fishhooks Best Price: $22.26	Visions of Virtue in Tokugawa Japan: The Kaitokudo Merchant Academy of Osaka Best Price: $22.27 This book is a well-researched and finely written scholarly work that really jars our standard...	The Art of Tivaevae: Traditional Cook Islands Quilting Best Price: $21.32 I purchased this book because I was fascinated by the design and color of tivaevae. But what...	Village on the Edge: Changing Times in Papua New Guinea Kragur village lies on the rugged north shore of Kairiru, a steep volcanic island just off the...

Adventuring in Hawai'i, Revised Edition Best Price: $22.00 Adventure awaits you in Hawai'i! Let Adventuring in Hawai'i show you how and where to...	Quest for Origins: Who First Discovered and Settled the Pacific Islands? Best Price: $16.30 Ever since the time of Captain Cook, Europeans have been fascinated with Polynesian origins....	Currents and Countercurrents: Korean Influences on the East Asian Buddhist Traditions Soon after the inception of Buddhism in the sixth or fifth century B.C.E., the Buddha ordered...	Selling Happiness Best Price: $49.57 I am very satisfied with this book. It is as interesting as the title. It arrived on time and in...	Mamaka Kaiao: Modern Hawaiian Vocabulary Best Price: $21.93 "Mamaka Kaiao" is a good dictionary and an important contribution by the...

Kaufmann: Korewori Best Price: $21.60 The area of the Korewori River in Papua New Guinea is the source of fascinating sculptures:...	Christianity in Korea Best Price: $48.95 Throughout most of East Asia, Christianity has remained largely on the periphery of religious...	Writings of Nichiren Shonin; Nin: Doctrine 3 Best Price: $23.00	DR. JUDD Hawaii's Friend	Chinese Theater From Its Origins to the Present Day

Linguistics and Language Teaching: Proceedings of the Sixth Joint Lsh-Hatesl Con	Irian Jaya Under the Gun: Indonesian Economic Development Versus West Papuan Nat	Molokai Best Price: $14.61 Pubished in 1963 by the University Press of Hawaii, Molokai (one of the beautiful Hawaiian...	Philippine Insects	On the Na Pali Coast: A Guide for Hikers and Boaters (Kolowalu Books) Best Price: $12.94 This is a good book overall, but I was not expecting it to focus on flora so much. It contains a...

Sand to Sea: Marine Life of Hawaii (Kolowalu Books) Best Price: $3.99 This book, published in 1989, is a wonderful introduction to the life of creatures living on the...	Tantric Art and Meditation Best Price: $17.99 The tantric teachings of Buddhism have little to do with the 'enlightenment-by-sex'...	Black Islanders: A Personal Perspective of a Bougainville 1937-1991 Best Price: $12.00 There are few books available to gain an understanding of modern (prior to 1989) Bougainvillian...	The Tree and the Canoe: History and Ethnogeography of Tanna (South Sea Book) Best Price: $26.00	Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence, and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima Best Price: $6.00 The last analysis of Yukio Mishima's novels that I read was Marguerite Yourcenar's...

Ferns of Hawai'i Best Price: $29.99	Japan, a View from the Bath Best Price: $15.60 Often books about Japanese culture speak as much about the cultural biases and beliefs out of...	A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands: Selected Readings II Best Price: $27.58 This book brings together primary source materials on major theme in Hawaiian natural history:...	Entry Into the Inconceivable: An Introduction to Hua-Yen Buddhism Best Price: $23.00 Unlike the previous reviewer, I don't think that this is the best translation of Hua-Yen...	Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue, Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought Best Price: $3.95

Japanese Gothic Tales Best Price: $13.40 "Japanese Gothic Tales" might be a slightly misleading title for this...	Black Islanders: A Personal Perspective of a Bougainville 1937-1991 Best Price: $12.00 There are few books available to gain an understanding of modern (prior to 1989) Bougainvillian...	The Tree and the Canoe: History and Ethnogeography of Tanna (South Sea Book) Best Price: $26.00	Deadly Dialectics: Sex, Violence, and Nihilism in the World of Yukio Mishima Best Price: $6.00 The last analysis of Yukio Mishima's novels that I read was Marguerite Yourcenar's...	Ferns of Hawai'i Best Price: $29.99

Japan, a View from the Bath Best Price: $15.60 Often books about Japanese culture speak as much about the cultural biases and beliefs out of...	A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands: Selected Readings II Best Price: $27.58 This book brings together primary source materials on major theme in Hawaiian natural history:...	Entry Into the Inconceivable: An Introduction to Hua-Yen Buddhism Best Price: $23.00 Unlike the previous reviewer, I don't think that this is the best translation of Hua-Yen...	Buddhism and Interfaith Dialogue, Part One of a Two-Volume Sequel to Zen and Western Thought Best Price: $3.95	Japanese Gothic Tales Best Price: $13.40 "Japanese Gothic Tales" might be a slightly misleading title for this...

Remaking Micronesia Best Price: $26.94 There's some interesting history in this book, and even a little bit of decent analysis. ...	Kaempfer: Kaempfer's Japan Paper Best Price: $23.56 An excellent book and a first class and lively description of an important period in Japan's...	Cousins (Talanoa) Best Price: $15.99 Dame Patricia Grace is, without a doubt, one of our most gifted living writers. In my view her...	Sex and the Floating World: Erotic Images in Japan, 1700-1820 Best Price: $79.99 Vast numbers of people are already familiar with "shunga," the Edo-period...	Ryogen and Mount Hie!: Japanese Tendai in the Tenth Century (Studies in East Asian Buddhism) Ryogen and Mount Hiei focuses on the transformation of the Tendai School from a small and...

Craig: Art & Performance Oceania Best Price: $7.95 The text is excellent for anyone desiring to research the various arts and performances...	Light Waves: Fine Tuning the Mind (Latitude 20 Books) Best Price: $5.29 David K Reynolds is our foremost author on the subject of "Constructive...	History of Malaysia Best Price: $21.99 Alot of information that you may not care for if you really want to know about the people of...	Tsunami Man: Learning about Killer Waves with Walter Dudley (A Latitude 20 Book) Best Price: $8.94 I feel very fortunate to have this book in my possession. If you have seen recent news reports...

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