Category: book sale
Five Dollar Friday Sale is April 5 / Five Books for $5 Each
The next Five Dollar Friday Sale is this week Friday, April 5. From 8am to 4pm (HST), these Pacific titles will be available for $5 each at our website, while supplies last:
Plant & Gardening Book Sale: March 12-19, 40% Off Select Titles
Mark your calendars and get ready to get planting! UH Press will be offering more than 30 plant and gardening titles at 40% off: online only, March 12-19 (starts and ends noon, HST), while supplies last (sale prices in red):
A Native Hawaiian Garden: How to Grow and Care for Island Plants – $26.99/$16.19
Breeding Anthuriums in Hawaii – $31.00/$18.60
Breeding Dendrobium Orchids in Hawaii – $31.00/$18.60
Ethnic Culinary Herbs: A Guide to Identification and Cultivation in Hawai‘i – $26.99/$16.19
Flowers of the Pacific Island Seashore: A Guide to the Littoral Plants of Hawai‘i, Tahiti, Samoa, Tonga, Cook Islands, Fiji, and Micronesia – $19.00/$11.40
A to Z of South East Asian Orchid Species – $39.00/$23.40
Hawaiian Heritage Plants: Revised Edition – $31.99/$19.19
Hawai‘i’s Ferns and Fern Allies – $25.00/$15.00
Landscape Planning in Singapore – $40.00/$24.00
Loulu: The Hawaiian Palm – $48.00/$28.80
Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii, Revised Edition – $97.00/$58.20
Orders and Families of Malayan Seed Plants – $22.00/$13.20
Plants for Tropical Landscapes: A Gardener’s Guide – $41.99/$25.19
Plants in Hawaiian Culture – $31.99/$19.19
Plants and Flowers of Hawai‘i – $26.99/$16.19
Poisonous Plants of Paradise: First Aid and Medical Treatment of Injuries from Hawai‘i’s Plants – $21.99/$13.19
Polynesian Herbal Medicine – $27.00/$16.20
Rainforest Trees of Samoa: A Guide to the Common Lowland and Foothill Forest Trees of the Samoan Archipelago – $27.00/$16.20
Samoan Herbal Medicine: ‘O La‘au ma Vai Fofo o Samoa – $13.00/$7.80
Small Trees for the Tropical Landscape – $41.99/$25.19
Specialty Crops for Pacific Islands – $75.00/$45.00
The Classical Gardens of Suzhou – $20.95/$12.57
The Essential Guide to Creating a Chinese-Style Garden – $29.95/$17.97
The Ornamental Edible Garden – $24.99/$14.99
The Small Food Garden: Growing Organic Fruit and Vegetables at Home – $19.99/$11.99
The World of Bananas in Hawai‘i: Then and Now – $80.00/$48.00
Tongan Herbal Medicine – $13.00/$7.80
Trees of Hawai‘i – $14.99/$8.99
Trees of Our Garden City: A Guide to the Common Trees of Singapore – $42.00/$25.20
Tropical Exotics – $36.99/$22.19
Tropical Shrubs – $36.99/$22.19
Useful Plants of Guam: A Facsimile Edition Reprint of the Original Book Published in 1905 – $60.00/$36.00
(The Second) Five Dollar Friday Sale is March 8 / Five Books for $5 Each
Another Five Dollar Friday Sale! We can’t promise there will be a sale every Friday, but we will be announcing them regularly in the coming months via Twitter, Facebook, our blog, and our website. Here are the Five Dollar Five for Friday, March 8, 8am to 4pm (HST), while supplies last:
Japan: Why It Works, Why It Doesn’t
Light Waves: Fine Tuning the Mind
Crisis in North Korea: The Failure of De-Stalinization, 1956
Sihanouk: Prince of Light, Prince of Darkness
The State in Myanmar
Five Dollar Friday Sale is March 1 / Five Books for $5 Each
UH Press’ very first Five Dollar Friday Sale is this week Friday, March 1. From 8am to 4pm (HST), these oldie-but-goodie titles will be available for $5 each at our website, while supplies last:
- In Deeper Waters: Photographic Studies of Hawaiian Deep-Sea Habitats and Life-Forms
- Tsunami Man: Learning about Killer Waves with Walter Dudley
- Ho‘opilipili ‘Olelo II: Hawaiian Language Crossword Puzzles, Word Search Puzzles, Change-a-Letter Puzzles, and Crossword Dictionary
- Death and Taxes: Questions and Answers on Wills, Trusts, and Probate
- Artists/Hawaii
Year of the Snake Sale Starts Noon Tomorrow: 40% Off Select China Titles
Our Year of the Snake Sale is just a day away! Click on the banner to view a complete, searchable list of sale books—including the just-published new edition of Mary Sia’s Classic Chinese Cookbook and all of John DeFrancis’ popular dictionaries (ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary, ABC Chinese-English Dictionary: Desk Reference Edition, ABC English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary)—and visit www.uhpress.hawaii.edu from Friday, February 8 (noon, HST) to Wednesday, February 13 (noon, HST). (Discount prices will not appear online until the sale begins.)
It’s the Year of the Snake Web Sale! 40% Off Select China Titles
Kung Hee Fat Choy! The Year of the Black Snake officially begins on Sunday, February 10, but you don‘t have to wait until then to save 40% on select China titles, both published and distributed by UH Press.
Click on the banner to view a complete, searchable list of sale books—including the just-published new edition of Mary Sia’s Classic Chinese Cookbook and all of John DeFrancis’ popular dictionaries (ABC Chinese-English Comprehensive Dictionary, ABC Chinese-English Dictionary: Desk Reference Edition, ABC English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary)—and visit www.uhpress.hawaii.edu from Friday, February 8 (noon, HST) to Wednesday, February 13 (noon, HST). (Discount prices will not appear online until the sale begins.)
Mahalo!
Mahalo to everyone who made our Cyber Monday Sale a huge success! We even got on TV! The Press’ Steve Hirashima was interviewed by KHON’s Taizo Braden about the importance of Cyber Monday sales to local businesses.
Cyber Monday Sale: 40% Off Every Title Online
Get a head start on your holiday shopping and save during our final sale of the year! For 24 hours (12 am to midnight, HST) on Monday, November 26, 2012, order online and receive 40% off every title currently available and in stock at our website.
Veterans Day Weekend Sale Ends Tomorrow at Noon – 40% Off Select Titles
From Thursday, November 8, noon, to Tuesday, November 13, noon (HST), save 40% on these titles at our website:*
- The Visitable Past: A Wartime Memoir, by Leon Edel
- Fighting Tradition: A Marine’s Journey to Justice, by Captain Bruce I. Yamashita, USMCR
- Combat Chaplain: The Personal Story of the WWII Chaplain of the Japanese American 100th Battalion, by Israel A. S. Yost
- A Foxhole View: Personal Accounts of Hawaii’s Korean War Veterans, edited by Louis Baldovi
- Unlikely Liberators: The Men of the 100th and 442nd, by Masayo Umezawa Duus
- Life Behind Barbed Wire: The World War II Internment Memoirs of a Hawaii Issei, by Yasutaro Soga
- Hawaii Under the Rising Sun: Japan’s Plans for Conquest After Pearl Harbor, by John J. Stephan
- Hawaii Chronicles III: World War Two in Hawaii from the Pages of Paradise of the Pacific, edited by Bob Dye
- Our House Divided: Seven Japanese American Families in World War II, by Tomi Kaizawa Knaefler
- Family Torn Apart: The Internment Story of the Otokichi Muin Ozaki Family, edited by Gail Honda
*Discounted prices will be visible at website during the sale.
