As part of the University of Hawai‘i’s Green Days initiative, University of Hawai‘i Press will be closed Monday, December 19, 2011 through Monday, January 2, 2012, with the exception of our order department and warehouse, which will be open December 19–22. Regular Press hours will resume on Tuesday, January 3, 2012. Mahalo for your support and happy holidays!
Category: Press Events
UH Press Adds 3 New Publishers to Its Distribution Program
UH Press now distributes these fine publishers of Asia books: Seoul Selection, MerwinAsia, and iPRECIATION.
UH Press Upgrades Website
On Thursday, July 7, UH Press launched a new website. We apologize in advance for the inconvenience and hope you will be pleased with the new interface.
Among the major enhancements to the new web storefront are online credit-card authorization, easier navigation by subject categories and publishing partners, and the ability to order books and journals in the same shopping cart.
One major change is that compliance with Payment Card Industry online authorization standards requires that we no longer take orders more than 30 days in advance of shipping a book. This will disappoint some customers until we are able to implement a wishlist feature that allows people to add forthcoming books to wishlists, which will later generate email reminders when the books become available for order.
Also, because of differing encryption standards between our old and new e-commerce packages, all of our current customers will have to create new logins on our new site. Authors and Educational Institutions: To get your discounts applied to your order, please notify uhpbooks@hawaii.edu after creating your new login and before filling your shopping cart.
Another significant disruption is that all links to individual book records on the old site will be broken. We will have a lot of external links to repair. The new short URL formula for linking to individual books on the new website is https://www.uhpress.hawaii.edu/p-9780824809201.aspx, where “p-” indicates a product page, followed by the ISBN without hyphens, and “.aspx” indicates the web application framework (ASP.NET).
2011 Hawaii Book & Music Festival
University of Hawai‘i Press will be among the local publishers participating in this year’s Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival next weekend, May 14–15, 10 am–5pm, at Honolulu Hale. Admission and parking are free to the general public.
Click here for a detailed schedule of events.
“…and then there will be cake.”
UH Press and its major publishing partners exhibited at last month’s joint Association for Asian Studies (AAS)/International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) conference, held at the Hawai‘i Convention Center. Conferees were treated to a reception featuring chocolates by Choco le‘a (the Press’ own Colins Kawai) and all manner of cakes:
Strawberry Custard: Cornell East Asia Series, Cornell University East Asia Program; UH Press
Lemon Custard: KITLV Press
German Chocolate: National University of Singapore (NUS) Press
Banana Custard: Ateneo de Manila University Press
Dobash (a Hawai‘i specialty, chocolate cake with chocolate pudding filling): Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) Press
2011 Ka Palapala Pookela Awards
The annual Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards, presented by the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association, honor Hawai‘i’s best books, authors, and illustrators. This year’s award ceremony will be held on Friday, May 6, 2011, 5:30-9:00 pm, at the Mission Houses Museum (free parking at Kawaiaha‘o Plaza, on the corner of South and Kawaiaha‘o streets).
Tickets are $30 and include entry to the Museum, pupu and cocktails, gourmet chocolates by Choco le’a, and entertainment by Na Leo Pilimehana. Click here to purchase tickets: http://www.hawaiibooks.org/ or stop by the Mission Houses Museum or Native Books. The awards will be hosted by Kimo Kahoano and Carole Kai.
This year’s UH Press nominees are:
Regulating Paradise: Land Use Controls in Hawai‘i, Second Edition, by David L. Callies
(Excellence in Text or Reference, Excellence in Design)
A Photographic Guide to the Birds of Hawai‘i: The Main Islands and Offshore Waters by Jim Denny
(Excellence in Illustrative or Photographic Books, Excellence in Natural Science)
Living on the Shores of Hawai‘i: Natural Hazards, the Environment, and Our Communities by Charles Fletcher, Robynne Boyd, William J. Neal, and Virginia Tice
(Excellence in Natural Science, Excellence in Text or Reference)
Bright Triumphs from Dark Hours: Turning Adversity into Success by David Heenan
(Excellence in Nonfiction, Excellence in Design)
Hart Wood: Architectural Regionalism in Hawaii by Don J. Hibbard, Glenn E. Mason, and Karen J. Weitze
(Excellence in Illustrative or Photographic Books, Excellence in Nonfiction, Excellence in Design)
The Value of Hawai‘i: Knowing the Past, Shaping the Future edited by Craig Howes and Jonathan Kay Kamakawiwo‘ole Osorio
(Excellence in Nonfiction)
Hawaiian Birds of the Sea: Na Manu Kai by Robert J. Shallenberger
(Excellence in Illustrative or Photographic Books, Excellence in Natural Science)
Mauri Ola: Contemporary Polynesian Poems in English edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri, and Robert Sullivan
(Excellence in Literature)
Polynesia: The Mark and Carolyn Blackburn Collection of Polynesian Art by Adrienne Kaeppler (distributed for Mark and Carolyn Blackburn)
(Excellence in Illustrative or Photographic Books, Excellence in Design)
New Catalog Available: Asian Studies 2011
The UH Press Asian Studies 2011 catalog is now available! To view the 2.3M PDF, click on the catalog cover image to the left.
Highlights include:
* A richly illustrated work that examines the coalescing of Chinese traditional architecture and the Beaux-Arts school (Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts)
* The first sustained effort in English to discuss Japan’s post-Meiji visual revolution (Since Meiji: Perspectives on the Japanese Visual Arts, 1868-2000)
* A look at the shojo manga (girls’ comics) industry as a site of cultural storytelling (Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shojo Manga)
* A new edition of a popular textbook on learning kanji (Remembering the Kanji 1: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese Characters, Sixth Edition)
* New titles in the series Dimensions of Asian Spirituality (Karma); (Sikhism); (Neo-Confucian Self-Cultivation)
* A nuanced study and English translation of the first written transcription of Ainu oral narratives by an ethnic Ainu (Ainu Spirits Singing: The Living World of Chiri Yukie’s Ainu Shin’yoshu)
* A compelling, firsthand account by a Japanese fisherman of the Bikini nuclear test and its aftermath (The Day the Sun Rose in the West: Bikini, the Lucky Dragon, and I)
* New titles in the series Southeast Asia: Politics, Meaning, and Memory (Refiguring Women, Colonialism, and Modernity in Burma); (Luc Xi: Prostitution and Venereal Disease in Colonial Hanoi)
Spring Break 2011 Schedule
As part of the University of Hawai‘i’s Green Days initiative, University of Hawai‘i Press will be closed March 21-25, 2011. The Press will reopen on Monday, March 28, 2011. Mahalo for your support!
UH Press Now a Worldwide Distributor of Cornell East Asia Series
Beginning March 1, 2011, UH Press will distribute worldwide the Cornell East Asia Series (CEAS), published by the Cornell University East Asia Program. To view all of the CEAS titles the Press currently distributes, please click here.
35% Off Holiday Web Sale: December 13-17, 2010
For one week only, December 13-17, 2010, take 35% off our entire web site: www.uhpress.hawaii.edu
Only prepaid orders taken at the UH Press web site will receive the 35% discount. All sales are final; no returns except for defective stock. Quantities are limited to stock on hand. No other discounts or sale offers apply. Bookstores, wholesalers, libraries, and other institutions may participate in this sale. Orders are shipped from Hawai`i, Pennsylvania, Canada, and the U.K. If you have any questions, please contact our order department at 888-847-7377 or at uhpbooks@hawaii.edu.
Happy Holidays!
Green Days/Holiday Schedule
As part of the University of Hawai‘i’s Green Days initiative, University of Hawai‘i Press will be closed December 20–31, 2010, with the exception of our order department and warehouse, which will be open December 20–23. Regular Press hours will resume on Monday, January 3, 2011. Mahalo for your support and happy holidays!
UH Press Anniversary Sale On Now
From September 1–7 (Hawai‘i Dateline), take 40% off EVERYTHING at our web site: www.uhpress.hawaii.edu.
Only prepaid orders taken at the UH Press web site will receive the 40% discount, which appears at checkout. All sales are final; no returns except for defective stock. Quantities are limited to stock on hand. No other discounts or sale offers apply. Bookstores, wholesalers, libraries, and other institutions may participate in this sale. Orders are shipped from Hawai‘i, Pennsylvania, Canada, and the U.K. If you have any questions, please contact our order department at 888-847-7377 or at uhpbooks@hawaii.edu.
