Category: Press News
Five Dollar Friday Sale is April 12 / Five Books for $5 Each
Check out our next Five Dollar Friday Sale this week Friday, April 12. From 8am to 4pm (HST), these titles will be available for $5 each at our website, while supplies last:
Spring Break 2013 Schedule
As part of the University of Hawai‘i’s Green Days initiative, University of Hawai‘i Press will be closed March 25-29, 2013. The Press will reopen Monday, April 1. Mahalo for your support!
UH Press at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, March 21-24, San Diego
University of Hawai‘i Press will be exhibiting at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, March 21-24, at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego.
Editors Patricia Crosby and Pamela Kelley will be attending, together with marketing director Colins Kawai and Asia studies product manager Steve Hirashima. Please visit us at booths 307, 309, and 311, where we will be offering a 20% discount and free shipping in the U.S. (Free shipping applies only to orders received or placed at the conference.)
Our publishing partners will be exhibiting nearby: Ateneo de Manila University Press/University of the Philippines Press (booth 313), Cornell University East Asia Program (booth 308), MerwinAsia/Seoul Selection/Shanghai Press and Publishing Development (booth 314), NIAS Press-Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (booth 312), and NUS Press-Singapore (booth 310). See you in San Diego!
(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
New Catalog Available: Asian Studies 2013
The UH Press Asian Studies 2013 catalog is now available! The catalog has been redesigned to showcase our new and forthcoming Asian studies titles. (All books published prior to late 2012 and currently in print can be found at our website.) To view the PDF, click on the catalog cover image to the left.
Highlights include:
* An illustrated anthology of well-known masterpieces and unusual writing from 18th-century Edo’s counterculture — An Edo Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Mega-City, 1750–1850
*Four new titles in the Spatial Habitus series — The Hermit’s Hut: Asceticism and Architecutre in India, China’s Contested Capital: Architecture, Ritual, and Response in Nanjing, Architecture and Urbanism in Modern Korea, and Original Copies: Architectural Mimicry in Contemporary China
* Short fiction from Japan’s foremost Marxist writer, Kobayashi Takiji, including a new translation of an anticapitalist classic that became a runaway bestseller in Japan in 2008, nearly eight decades after its publication — The Crab Cannery Ship and Other Novels of Struggle
* A timely collection of essays exploring Japan’s role in global environmental transformation and how Japanese ideas have shaped bodies and landscapes over the centuries — Japan at Nature’s Edge: The Environmental Context of a Global Power
* An expansive new study on the varied roles Southeast Asia’s monumental remains (Angkor, Pagan, Borobudur, and Ayutthaya, among others) have played in the histories of its modern nations — A Heritage of Ruins: The Ancient Sites of Southeast Asia and Their Conservation
* Close description and analysis of the history, geographical whereabouts, and doctrinal positions of early schools of Buddhism by André Bareau, one of the foremost scholars of Buddhism of his generation — The Buddhist Schools of the Small Vehicle
* Two volumes in the new series Korean Classics Library — Salvation through Dissent: Tonghak Heterodoxy and Early Modern Korea and Imperatives of Culture: Selected Essays on Korean History, Literature, and Society
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
Press Director William Hamilton to Retire
Our director of twenty-five years, William Hamilton, will be retiring at the end of December. Bill came to UH Press in 1987 from Addison-Wesley in Boston, with twenty years of experience in educational publishing. He is the longest-serving and only the third director the Press has had during its sixty-five years of existence. In 2011, Bill received the John Dominis Holt Award for Excellence in Publishing, which recognized his contribution to publishing in Hawai‘i.
Under Bill’s direction, the Press’ title output and sales saw dramatic increases, and it has truly established itself as the premier publisher on Pacific subjects and one of the most respected presses of East Asian and Southeast Asian studies in the world. Bill’s commitment to publishing significant works on Hawai‘i also resulted in some of the Press’ best-selling books, including Plants in Hawaiian Culture, Ka Lei Ha‘aheo: Beginning Hawaiian, Na Lei Makamae: The Treasured Lei, and Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement, and Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust.
We thank Bill for his years of leadership and guidance and wish him (and his beloved Red Sox!) all the best.
Green Days/Holiday Schedule 2012
As part of the University of Hawai‘i’s Green Days initiative, University of Hawai‘i Press will be closed Monday, December 17, 2012, through Tuesday, January 1, 2013, with the exception of our order department and warehouse, which will be open December 17–21. (Orders for Hawai‘i customers should be received no later than noon, December 20; all other orders should be received no later than noon, December 21.) Regular Press hours will resume on Wednesday, January 2, 2013. Mahalo for your support and happy holidays!
UH Press at HBPA Holiday Events
As a member of the Hawai‘i Book Publishers Association (HBPA), University of Hawai‘i Press will participate in two Honolulu events hosted by fellow publishers this month.
Saturday, December 8, 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Holiday Warehouse Sale
Local book publishers will feature their new releases, bestsellers, and holiday-themed titles at special prices. UH Press will focus on a selection of our most recent books on Hawai‘i. Come join the fun at the Bess Press Warehouse, 3565 Harding Avenue, in Kaimuki (park at the municipal lot across the street). Other participating publishers include host Bess Press, Bamboo Ridge Press, Bishop Museum Press, Calabash Books/Belknap Publishing, Kamehameha Publishing, and Watermark Publishing.
Wednesday, December 12, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Downtown Holiday Book Fair
This brief but power-packed event will be an opportunity for busy downtown workers to check off their holiday gift-giving lists! As above, we’ll bring our latest Hawai‘i titles, plus a few surprises. Look for the pop-up fair at the Cades Schutte Building lanai, in front of 24-Fitness and Territorial Savings, 1000 Bishop Street (‘ewa-mauka corner of King and Bishop Streets). Other participating publishers include host Watermark Publishing, Bamboo Ridge Press, Bess Press, Calabash Books/Belknap Publishing, Island Paradise Publishing, Kamehameha Publishing, and Slate Ridge Press.
For more information, email Carol Abe in the UH Press marketing department.
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.
University Press Week Blog Tour – Day 5
The University Press Week Blog Tour comes to an end with New York University Press, Columbia University Press, University of North Carolina Press, University of Alabama Press, University of Virginia Press, and Oregon State University Press.
University of Hawai‘i Press’ entry, “Why University Presses Matter,” contributed by Barbara Watson Andaya, was featured on Tour Day 2: http://wp.me/p3HTB-1lu.
For more information on University Press Week, visit www.universitypressweek.org.