Category: Press Events

Remember, Remember, the First of September

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The University of Hawai‘i Press 63rd Anniversary Sale is just around the corner! 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. 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.

Coming Soon! The University of Hawai‘i Press 63rd Anniversary Sale

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Join us in celebrating 63 years of publishing with our 40% anniversary sale! 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. 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.

Global Oriental Change of Distribution Agreement

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Effective July 1, 2010, University of Hawai‘i Press will no longer distribute Global Oriental Publishers Ltd. University of Hawai‘i Press will fulfill all orders through June 30, 2010. The last date to place orders for in-stock Global Oriental books through University of Hawai‘i Press is June 15, 2010. University of Hawai‘i Press will continue to accept returns until July 31, 2010. The new distributor noted below will solicit and take orders and accept returns as of July 1, 2010.

Effective July 1, 2010, Brill will be distributing Global Oriental titles in North America. Orders and returns should be directed to:
BRILL
c/o Books International
P.O. Box 605
Herndon, VA 20172-0605
USA
1-800-337-9255 (toll free in US & Canada only); 1-703-661-1585
Fax: 1-703-661-1501
Email: brillmail@presswarehouse.com
Web: www.brill.nl

Talking Hawaii’s Story at HB&M Festival

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Narratives from Talking Hawai‘i’s Story: Oral Histories of an Island People will be paired with readings from Bamboo Ridge Press titles at this year’s Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival, on Sunday, May 16, 11 am. The event will be taped live for Hawai‘i Public Radio’s “Aloha Shorts” at the Mission Memorial Auditorium, and the public is invited to attend.

Talking Hawai‘i’s Story editors Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Warren S. Nishimoto, and Cynthia A. Oshiro will be at the UH Press booth later that afternoon from 1:15 to 1:45.

2010 Hawaii Book & Music Festival

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University of Hawai‘i Press will be among the local publishers participating in the Hawai‘i Book and Music Festival next weekend, May 15–16, 10 am–5pm, at Honolulu Hale. Admission and parking are free to the general public.

Several UH Press authors will be attending the festival as panelists or speakers. David Heenan, author of Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours: Turning Adversity into Success, will be at the UH Press booth on Sunday, May 16, 2–2:30 pm, for a book signing.

Click here for a detailed schedule of events.

2010 Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards

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This year’s Ka Palapala Po‘okela Awards Ceremony was held on April 30 at the Bishop Museum. The awards are presented by the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association to recognize the finest books published during the previous year.

Two UH Press titles received the Honorable Mention in their respective categories: Ethnobotany of Pohnpei: Plants, People, and Island Culture, edited by Michael J. Balick, earned the award for Excellence in Text and Reference Books, and Talking Hawai‘i’s Story: Oral Histories of an Island People, edited by Michi Kodama-Nishimoto, Warren S. Nishimoto, and Cynthia A. Oshiro, for Excellence in Nonfiction.

Three books distributed by UH Press also garnered honorable mentions: the National Tropical Botanical Garden’s Plants of the Canoe People: An Ethnobotanical Voyage through Polynesia, by W. Arthur Whistler, for the Natural Science category, Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook’s Third Voyage (2nd ed.), by Eleanor C. Nordyke, for Illustrative or Photographic Books, and Copley Square Press’ Ben Norris: American Modernist, 1910–2006 for the “Aloha from beyond Hawai‘i” category, which is for entries from publishers based outside Hawai‘i.

A complete list of winners is available here.

UH Press Exhibits at the Association for Asian Studies 2010 Annual Meeting

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In late March UH Press exhibited at the 2010 Association for Asian Studies annual meeting in Philadelphia. In addition to its own new and recently published titles, the Press showcased books published by the many Asia publishers it distributes: Ateneo de Manila University Press, the Cornell University East Asia Program, Equinox Publishing (Indonesia) Global Oriental (UK), KITLV Press (Netherlands), NIAS (Nordic Institute of Asian Studies) Press (Denmark), NUS (National University of Singapore) Press, and University of the Philippines Press. View photos taken at the event here.

Next year’s annual meeting will be held in Honolulu.

UH Press Distributing the Cornell East Asia Series and KITLV Press

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University of Hawai‘i Press is pleased to announce it is now a distributor for the Cornell East Asia Series (excluding North America) and KITLV Press (North America only).

The Cornell East Asia Series is produced by the Cornell University East Asia Program and publishes a wide range of genres on subjects relative to the cultures of China, Japan, and Korea. For the complete list of titles distributed by UH Press, click here.

KITLV Press is the publishing department of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies and is the publisher of the longest-running anthropological and linguistic journal in the world (since 1851), Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (BKI) / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia and Oceania. For the complete list of titles distributed by UH Press, click here.

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