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Biography, vol. 31, no. 1 (2008): Autographics

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EDITORS’ INTRODUCTION

Self-Regarding Art
Gillian Whitlock and Anna Poletti, v

This Introduction to the Biography Special Issue on “Autographics” maps a field of texts and critical practices which are emerging in the rapidly changing visual and textual cultures of autobiography. Beginning with a survey of current thinking about the comics, it argues for autographic criticism as a practice that engages with new modes and media, such as graffiti and online social networking, where autobiographical narrative proliferates through fusions of the visual and the textual.

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Manoa, vol. 20, no. 1 (2008): Gates of Reconciliation

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Gates of Reconciliation: Literature and the Ethical Imagination

Edited by Frank Stewart and Barry Lopez

In this collection of essays, fiction, and poetry set in South America, Europe, Australia, the Middle East, Asia, the United States, and elsewhere, a diverse group of writers explores the role of literature in confronting the most pressing issue of our time: how individuals, communities, and nations can reconcile differences and grievances and forge a future with a renewed sense of dignity and mutual respect.

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E. Alison Kay, 1928-2008

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E. Alison Kay, the longest-serving editor of Pacific Science, was remembered yesterday at a service in the chapel of Punahou School, her alma mater. Two of her books published by UH Press are still in print: Shells of Hawaii (1991, with Olive Schoenberg-Dole) and A Natural History of the Hawaiian Islands: Selected Readings II (1994).

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Pacific Science, vol. 62, no. 3 (2008): Tropical Island Ecosystems and Sustainable Development

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Tropical Island Ecosystems and Sustainable Development Symposium

Tropical Island Ecosystems and Sustainable Development

Biodiversity Research on Coral Reef and Island Ecosystems: Scientific Cooperation in the Pacific Region
Makoto Tsuchiya, René Galzin, and Neil Davies, 299

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Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages (2007)

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Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication No. 1
is now available online

University of Hawai‘i Press
ISBN 978-0-8248-3309-1
2007

Documenting and Revitalizing Austronesian Languages

edited by D. Victoria Rau and Margaret Florey

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Front matter
Table of contents
Contributors

Chapter 1. Introduction: Documenting and revitalizing Austronesian languages
Margaret Florey

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Archives of Asian Art, vol. 57 (2007)

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Archives of Asian Art, vol. 57 (2007)Vol. 57 (2007) of the Archives of Asian Art, now published by the University of Hawai‘i Press for the Asia Society, has finally appeared in print. We apologize for the long delay.

Archives of Asian Art is an annual journal devoted to the arts of South, Southeast, Central, and East Asia. Each issue presents articles by leading scholars and a selection of outstanding works of Asian art acquired by North American museums during the previous year. The editors attempt to maintain a balanced representation of regions and types of art, as well as a variety of scholarly perspectives.

The Table of Contents of volume 57 follows, along with a sample of the art discussed in each article.
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