Oceanien

Celebrates various talented baseball teams and players since the introduction of the sport to Palau in 1925 by a member of the Japanese South Seas government (Nanyo'cho).

Sydney Iaukea’s impeccably researched account of the origins and subsequent development of North Beach West Maui is more that just a scholarly monograph. It is a story that …

Kun kauppias John Wiltshire saapuu Falésan saarelle, hänen elämäänsä saapuu rakkaus yllättävällä tavalla. Wiltshire tutustuu Case-nimiseen kauppiaaseen, joka järjestää Wilthisren …

Tide and Current chronicles ten years in the life of author and artist Carol Araki Wyban, during which she lived with, learned about, and came to love the fishponds of Hawai'i. In …

A revised edition of this highly illustrated account of the day, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared, that would "e;live in infamy"e;.December 7, 1941 was one of the single …

Periods of transition are often symbolically associated with death, making the latter the paradigm of liminality. Yet, many volumes on death in the social sciences and humanities …

This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive. Scottish-born and …

Filled with insight, provocative in its conclusions, A'aisa's Gifts is a groundbreaking ethnography of the Mekeo of Papua New Guinea and a valuable contribution to anthropological …

Through the sharing of food, people feel entitled to inquire into one another's lives and ponder one another's states in relation to their foodways. This in-depth study focuses on …

'The true and fascinating story of Easter Island and its amazing statues' KEN FOLLETT'Revelatory... fascinating... [and] wholly convincing' MAIL ON SUNDAY‘Compelling … a …