Archive for the "Nonfiction" Category
August 25th, 2010
This is the first and only book with a complete set of monthly star charts and unique constellation overlays made specifically for Hawai‘i's latitudes. A sky tour accompanies each chart, bringing the stars to life with Hawaiian and Greek myths, interesting binocular objects, astronomical facts, an [...]
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Tags: astronomy, Bishop Museum Press, Hawai‘i skies
Posted in Hawaii Mythology / Folklore, Nonfiction, Scientific | No Comments »
August 23rd, 2010
This book covers intertidal and deep subtidal habitats of the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands and the main Hawaiian Islands. Many new species and records of distribution in the Hawaiian Islands are described, with 61 species of brown algae and 105 species of green algae.
This book provides a comprehen [...]
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Tags: Bishop Museum Press, Dr. Isabella Aiona Abbott, Dr. John M. Huisman, Marine algae
Posted in Hawaii Plant Life / Nature, Nonfiction, Scientific | No Comments »
August 23rd, 2010
Restoring Bishop Museum's Hawaiian Hall: Ho‘i Hou Ka Wena Kaiwi‘ula (Dawn's golden glow returns to Kawai‘ula) gives a sneak peek into the newly renovated Hawaiian Hall at Bishop Museum. It consists of a collection of essays from various people within the community who had a hand in the hall's [...]
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Tags: Bishop Museum, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaiian Hall
Posted in Architecture, Hawaii fantasy, Hawaiian Arts & Crafts | No Comments »
August 20th, 2010
Centuries of evolution have produced Indonesian outrigger canoes that are superbly functional and beautifully crafted. These canoes are fashioned of natural materials and because of their flexible design, can withstand the continual punishment of wind and waves.
This authoritative volume discusses [...]
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Tags: Bishop Museum Press, Indonesia, outrigger canoes
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August 20th, 2010
One of the last surviving authentic traditional Hawaiian dwellings was reconstructed at the turn of the century (1902) and is preserved at Bishop Museum. The posts and rafters are from an abandoned house built before 1800 in Miloli‘i Valley, Kaua‘i. Other materians used in the house are from var [...]
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Tags: Bishop Museum Press, Hawaiian grass houses
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August 20th, 2010
Spanning several centuries and connecting two distant (and very different) island nations, Hokuloa: The British 1874 Transit of Venus Expedition to Hawai‘i provokes political and military maneuvering, confronts death and disappointment, descends into madness, and rises to heroism—all in pursuit [...]
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Tags: astronomy, Bishop Museum Press, Hokuloa, Transit of Venus Expedition
Posted in Hawaii history, Hawaii non-fiction, Nonfiction, Scientific | No Comments »
August 18th, 2010
This Ka Palapala Po‘okela award-winning guidebook increased the general public's awareness of O‘ahu's ancient sites for the first time in the early 1990's. Now an entirely updated, full-color edition of the book includes numerous additional sites and expanded site descriptions.
Although many rem [...]
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Tags: archaeological sites, Bishop Museum Press, O‘ahu, O‘ahu guidebooks, O‘ahu sacred sites
Posted in Award Winners, Guidebooks, Hawaii guidebooks, Hawaii history, Hawaii non-fiction, Hawaiian Traditions, Nonfiction | No Comments »
August 16th, 2010
The Falls of Clyde is an integral part of Hawai‘i maritime history. The 125-year-old vessel is the only surviving full-rigged, four masted ship in the world; the only surviving sail-driven oil tanker; and the only surviving original member of the Matson fleet. Told through the eyes of the sailors [...]
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Tags: Bishop Museum Press, Falls of Clyde, maritime history
Posted in Hawaii history, History, Nonfiction | No Comments »
August 16th, 2010
First published in 1986 by Bishop Museum Press, Pacific Island Names has become an essential reference and the official source for standard rendering of the names of the myriad islands of the oceanic Pacific. This fully revised second edition features new island maps throughout, now in color. The fa [...]
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Tags: Bishop Museum Press, maps, Pacific islands
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August 11th, 2010
Lost Maritime Cultures: China and the Pacific features the extraordinary archaeological discoveries found in southeast China over the past half century. The coastal area of southeast China was home to a multitude of maritime civilizations which flourished from 7000-3000 years ago, but were never re [...]
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Tags: Archaeology, Bishop Museum Press, China
Posted in History, Nonfiction | No Comments »
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