New Books in the Library 2017: Week of Jan 3 - New Hawaii Pacific

Ocean currents, winds, and rainfall all work together to create a marine oasis around the Hawaiian Islands, providing a home for many species of dolphins and whales normally found in the deep oceans of the world. The Lives of Hawai`i's Dolphins and Whales provides a window into the world of these mysterious creatures with stories and observations from author Robin W. Baird's work with Hawaiian whales and dolphins over the last seventeen years. The book can be used as a field guide, as it includes full-color photographs of each species, life history descriptions, conservation threats, and maps showing sighting locations and movements of tagged individuals among the islands and offshore. Although this work covers the well-known resident spinner dolphins and the visiting humpback whales, it particularly highlights the ten species of lesser-known open-ocean dolphins and whales that are resident to the marine slopes of the islands.

The third edition of A History of Hawaiʻi, considered to be one of the best comprehensive accounts of Hawaiʻi’s history, is now available. The book spans centuries, from 1778 to present day, and is organized by time frame and theme. Governmental, economic, social and land history are explored through primary documents, political cartoons, stories, poems, graphs, maps, timelines and a glossary. The text includes biographies of many cultural practitioners and activists.

Explores how the female Akua, ancestors to modern Hawaiian women, have inspired Hawaiian women, including all of the Mōʻīwahine (female supreme rulers) of various islands, Aliʻiwahine (chiefesses) of Kamehameha's kingdom, and strong female leaders of today.

This book reveals all the major events and personages in the island's saga--Polynesian settlement, pre-contact life, European discovery, whaling, the coming of American missionaries, the development of a sugar plantation economy, and much more.

Nurtured by rain swept in on the tradewinds, the town of Hilo is fertile ground for this heartwarming Big Island memoir. Populated by the colorful characters of small-town Hawaii, here are tales of plantation stores and swimming holes, of childhood pranks and lessons learned. From ghosts in the night to the devastating tsunami of 1946, native son Roy Kodani recalls the joys and sorrows of coming of age in a simpler time.

In 1993, the United States Congress enacted a solemn Apology for the United States invasion of Hawaii, admitting one hundred years later that "the indigenous Hawaiian people never directly relinquished their claims to their inherent sovereignty as a people or over their national lands to the United States". It thereby admitted the illegality of its incorporation of Hawaii into America as its 50th state, opening the door for Hawaiian Independence and the restoration of the Kingdom of Hawaii. This book chronicles the legal battle waged toward that end by international law expert Francis A. Boyle on behalf of his Kanaka Maoli clients and friends that spans almost two and a half decades.

Hawaiʻi's Flower Leis is a colorful, pictorial guide to some of Hawaiʻi's most popular leis. Vivid photographs and descriptions help readers to identify the flowers by common, scientific and Hawaiian names. The lei associated with each island is also introduced along with lei-making methods, needles, and insights on the symbolism of the flowers, and the preservation and storage of leis.

In the early 1970s, a multidisciplinary team of forest biologists began a study of Hawaiian ecosystems under the International Biological Program (IBP). Research focus was on the intact native ecosystems in and around Hawai'i Volcanoes National Park, in particular the 'Ohi'a lehua rainforest.