Research Guides: New Books in the Library 2016: Week of November 28

FEATURED BOOKS

A History of American Samoa
Call Number: DU819.A1 H57 2009
The content detailed in the book ranges from the migration, discovery, and inhabitation of the western Pacific and specifically Samoa, today known as a territory just over a hundred years old. It covers the geographical formation, historical inhabitation, and development of American Samoa through legends, geography, and timelines that help span a time period beginning with the earliest signs of human integration to today's modern setting. This text weaves together the historical account of a little known island with its people spread throughout the globe, through local myth, legend, and authentic biographical information in this comprehensive history of American Samoa.

A Harvest of Hawaii Plantation Pidgin by Myra S. Ikeda
Call Number: PM7891.Z9 H35 2015
The plantation experience from the perspective of language, Evolution of the Japanese Language in Hawai'i, Plantation Terms, Plantation Pidgin, Camp Names, Hanabata Days, Jan Ken Po, Nostalgic Illustrations, Foreword by Arnold Hiura Book jacket.

Micronesian Legends by Bo Flood; Beret E. Strong; William Flood
Call Number: GR383 .F56 2002
Legends from the Northern Mariana Islands and Guam, Palau, Yap, Chuuk, Pohnpei, Kosrae, and the Republic of the Marshall Islands are interwoven with historical interludes and beautiful woodcut illustrations.

Significant Moments in Da Life of Oriental Faddah and Son by Lee A. Tonouchi
Call Number: PS3620.O56 S54 2011
Oriental Faddah and Son delivers Da Pidgin Guerrilla's most entertaining yet poignant work to date through a combination of lamenting and humorous poems. As you read, you will journey with author Lee A. Tonouchi through childhood and adolescence into adulthood. You will laugh out loud, sometimes cry, and maybe even discover things about yourself along the way. Award winning author Tonouchi delivers a captivating, semi-autobiographical tale through his mastery of the Pidgin language.

Pearl Harbor: From Infamy to Greatness by Craig Nelson
Call Number: D767.92 .N46 2016
Published in time for the 75th anniversary, a gripping and definitive account of the event that changed twentieth-century America--Pearl Harbor--based on years of research and new information uncovered by a New York Times bestselling author. Backed by a research team's five years of work, which produced nearly a million pages of documents, as well as Nelson's thorough re-examination of the original evidence assembled by federal investigators, this page-turning and definitive work provides a thrilling blow-by-blow account from both the Japanese and American perspectives, and is historical drama on the grandest scale. Nelson delivers all the terror, chaos, violence, tragedy, and heroism of the attack in stunning detail, and offers surprising conclusions about the tragedy’s unforeseen and resonant consequences that linger even today.

Island Environments

Hawai'i Wetland Field Guide
Call Number: QK938.M3 E75 2006
This field guide is for those who love wetlands and recognize that wetlands are an integral and vital part of healthy tropical ecosystems. More than 200 common wetland plants, birds, fishes, and insects are described by three of Hawai'i's leading botanists. Photographs and a glossary of botanical and ecological terms, an index to all scientific and common names, and references for further reading provide additional information.
Tropical Pacific Island Environments
Call Number: QH198.A1 L63 2014
Tropical Pacific Island Environments is the most up-to-date academic text detailing the terrestrial, aquatic, land, and general biological and environmental ecosystems found throughout the Pacific Ocean.
Chapters include: Islands, people and knowledge -- Environmental biology principles. Physical environment ; Habitats ; Diversity of life ; Island populations and communities ; Ecosystems -- Pacific Island ecosystems. Terrestrial ecosystems ; Freshwater ecosystems ; Marine ecosystems -- Change and sustainability. Ecosystem changes ; Climate change ; Ecosystem management and sustainability.

New DVDs

Blue Tarp City [17 min.]
Call Number: DVD #388
Publication Date: 2011
An educational film about Hawaiʻi's houseless, Blue Tarp City takes a look at how the Waiʻanae native Hawaiian houseless community faces disempowerment and serves to recognize their struggle to exist on the edges of society juxtaposed against post-card beaches and palm trees.
Silicon Valley: Where the Future was Born [90 min.]
Call Number: DVD #389
Led by physicist Robert Noyce, Fairchild Semiconductor began as a start-up company whose radical innovations would help make the United States a leader in both space exploration and the personal computer revolution, changing the way the world works, plays, and communicates. Noyce's invention of the microchip ultimately re-shaped the future, launching the world into the Information Age. (PBS)
Perception [28 min.]
Call Number: DVD #390
Explores the physiological, psychological, and cultural forces that influence human perception. Explains the necessity of a balance between subjective perceptions and objective truths.

HAWAII PACIFIC COLLECTION

Polynesia in Early Historic Times
Call Number: DU510 .O45 2002
A comprehensive description of all major aspects of Polynesian culture, from the common ancestral culture to unique island adaptations.
Life in Early Hawaiʻi: The Ahupuaʻa
Call Number: DU624.5 .A382 1994
59 pages with illustrations. Part 1. Life in the ahupuaʻa -- Part 2. Plants of importance in Hawaiian life. Also available ONLINE via Ulukau.org
Hawaiians of Old = Nā Kānaka Maoli O Ka Wā Kahiko
Call Number: DU624.65 .D86 2013
Hawaiian history from pre-contact Hawaii through the first arrival of Western contact. It covers the history of the Hawaiian archipelago from multiple perspectives; geographically, scientifically, historically, and through mythology and legend. Includes Hawaiian language glossary and an index.
Hawai'i: The Pacific State
Call Number: DU625 .R38 2012
Key events are presented from both Hawaiian and Western Historical perspectives. The text covers such topics as migrations, pre-contact Hawaiian history, the Hawaiian monarchy, civic life under the territory, statehood, the Hawaiian renaissance, and issues of the twenty-first century.
History of the Hawaiian Kingdom
Call Number: DU627 .P67 2003
Chapters covering unification of the kingdom, contact with westerners, the Mahele, the influence of the sugar industry, and the overthrow of the monarchy, rewritten for easier readability.
Kamehameha V: Lot Kapuāiwa
Call Number: DU627.14 .C66 1996
The story of the fifth sovereign of the kingdom of Hawaii from 1863 to 1872. Also available ONLINE via Ulukau.org
Mapping the Island and Waters of Hawaii
Call Number: GA419.5 .M64 2004
Establishment of the Hawaiian government survey -- The work begins -- Mapping the lands of Hawaiʻi -- Mapping the waters of Hawaiʻi -- Legacy of the Hawaiian government survey.
Still Out of Place
Call Number: PS571.H3 B35 no.109
STILL OUT OF PLACE, poems by Christy Passion, is a powerful collection that explores a life lived in Hawai'i, rich with cultural heritage that few others have really captured. Tough and unflinching, compassionate and beautifully crafted, this is a sharp-eyed, singular portrait of island life.
Kamehameha: The Rise of a King
Call Number: PS3605.Y74 K364 2013
A work of historical fiction based on Hawaiian sources and years of research. The stories shed new light on Kamehameha's upbringing and his lifelong quest to unify the Hawaiian Islands.
Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me: A Novel
Call Number: PS3613.C498 B47 2008
Moana Kawelo, PhD, has a promising career as a museum curator in Los Angeles. The untimely death of her father--and the gravitational pull of Hawaii when she returns home for his funeral--causes Moana to question her motivations and her glamorous life in California. Between the Deep Blue Sea and Me is the story of Moana's struggle to understand her ancestral responsibilities, mend relationships, and find her identity as a Hawaiian in today's world.
Na Mo'olelo Hawai'i O Ka Wa Kahiko = Stories of Old Hawai'i
Call Number: PZ8.1 .A42 Mo 1997
Forty-five tales, stories and legends adapted from various sources about the natural history of Hawaii and the customs, crafts, arts and history of Polynesian Hawaiians.
Surveying the Mahele: Mapping the Hawaiian Land Revolution
Call Number: TA519 .M64 1995
This book places the surveying work of the mahele era into historical context with the mapping of the islands that preceded and followed it.
USS Arizona: Warship, Tomb, Monument
Call Number: VA65.A6 S56 2008
The story of the USS Arizona encompasses far more than the milli-second BOOM! that split her hull and snuffed out the lives of 1177 men aboard her. The huge battleship led a fascinating life before her demise, and--as a poignant symbol of the attack that thrust the United States into World War II--has impacted millions of lives since.