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Darrell Lum's signature pidgin narratives dominate this nine-story collection, which also includes standard English stories and comic strip illustrations. Endearing and insightful, Lum's characters tell stories of initiation, family, wonder and community. In PASS ON, NO PASS BACK!, "community is not defined by delineating boundaries, but by moving the center outwards to include what has traditionally been defined as marginal. Lum's is a vision...

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Why would anyone feel the need to polish a dragon? Well, you might, if you were making a 360-degree film about China and insisted that every shot of every location look its very best! Polishing the Dragons is filmmaker Jeff Blyth's detailed first-person account of the making of Disney's Circle-Vision film Wonders of China for the grand opening of EPCOT Center, a production fraught with technical, political, and environmental difficulties. Cont...

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KONA WINDS is a hard-boiled noir murder mystery set in Honolulu in 1953, when Hawai'i was changing from a racially stratified, near-feudal plantation colony to the multi-ethnic 50th State. This debut novel by Japanese American author Scott Kikkawa was written with the firm belief that Hawai'i is more than just a pretty backdrop for the mischief of tourists. It can be, and was, a terrifying, sodden place whose social realities were ugly not so ...

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Head of Security. Husband. Father. Hero.Charlie Walker is back in Nick Pobursky's electrifying sequel to his bestselling Hollow World!It's been three years since Charlie thwarted a terrorist attack on Space Mountain and kicked evil mastermind Spencer Holloway off the top floor of Bay Lake Tower. And aside from occasional annoyances from his frenemy Habst, things have been relatively quiet for the ex-detective. That is until one of his staff is...

In 21st century, the contradiction between resources environment and economic and social development has become an important bottleneck for China's comprehensive construction of a well-off society and the realization of sustainable development. As a result, China's economic and development relations have entered an important period of strategic transformation. Taking the scientific concept of development as the guide, building a harmonious soc...

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Poetry. "Albert Saijo has the great vision most poets and painters never had"-Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

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Fiction. Based on historical events, ANSHU is a tale of passion and human triumph in the face of extraordinary adversity, spanning the cane fields of Hawai'i and the devastation in Hiroshima. A pregnant and unmarried Hilo teenager, Himiko Aoki, finds her Hawai'i Japanese American identity clashing with Japan's cultural norms when she is sent to live with relatives in Tokyo in 1941 and becomes trapped there with the outbreak of war. When Americ...

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Poetry. Fiction. Pacific Island Studies. The anthology is the product of the combined vision of three organizations dedicated to the enhancement of education in Hawaii: Bamboo Ridge Press, Curriculum Research and Development Group, and Hawaii Education Association.

A work of fiction during which the characters interact in the form of poetic novellas. Yamanaka's poems have appeared in such journals as Bamboo Ridge: The Hawaii Writer's Quarterly, Michigan Quarterly Review, PARNASSUS, Puerto del Sol and Zyzzyva.