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Hawaii Garden: Tropical Shrubs
   

Hawaii Garden: Tropical Shrubs (Trade Paperback/Paperback, New edition)

By Clay, Horace F.; Hubbard, James C.; Golt, Rick

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How to identify, select, install and care for shrubs available in modern Hawai'i and other mild-climate areas. Illust. in colour.

ISBN 9780824811280
Published 28 March 2008 by University of Hawai'i Press
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Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood
  

Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Morton, Helen

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A detailed account of growing up in Tonga which focuses on the influence of "anga fakatonga" ("the Tongan Way") on Tongan children. Based on fieldwork and her experiences in Tonga over many years, Morton "traces the Tongan socialization process" in "fascinating detail".

ISBN 9780824817954
Published 31 January 1996 by University of Hawai'i Press
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Houses Far from Home: British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides
   

Houses Far from Home: British Colonial Space in the New Hebrides (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Rodman, Margaret Critchlow

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The houses far from home featured in this book are located in Vanuatu, a chain of islands between Fiji and Australia in the southwest Pacific. Once known as the Anglo-French Condominium of the New Hebrides, the islands were jointly administered by the Bri

ISBN 9780824823948
Published 25 March 2008 by University of Hawai'i Press
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Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific: New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands
   

Reef and Shore Fishes of the South Pacific: New Caledonia to Tahiti and the Pitcairn Islands (Hardback, illustrated edition)

By Randall, John E.

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This title concerns the inshore fish fauna of New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands, Kiribati, Tuvalu, Fiji, the Wallis Islands, Tonga, Samoa, American Samoa, the Tokelau Islands, Phoenix Islands, Cook Islands, Austral Islands, Rapa, the Society Islands, Tuamoto, the Marquesas and t ...

ISBN 9780824826987
Published 31 July 2004 by University of Hawai'i Press
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Trees of Life: A Guide to Trees and Shrubs of The University of the South Pacific
  

Trees of Life: A Guide to Trees and Shrubs of The University of the South Pacific (Paperback)

By Thaman, Randy; Gregory, Michael; Takeda, Shingo

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This book is a beautifully produced treasure chest of everything you need to know about many of the most important traditional and contemporary trees and shrubs of the Pacific Islands, all of which you can see growing right here in Suva. On an individual basis, we struggle to fin ...

ISBN 9789820108851
Published 1 January 2012 by University of the South Pacifi
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Tok Nogut: An Introduction to Maledictio
 

Tok Nogut: An Introduction to Maledictio (Paperback)

By Slone, Thomas

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A journal article written on cursing in Tok Pisin and the etymology of curse words that entered Tok Pisin and changed the meaning.

ISBN 145094
Published 11 November 2009
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Under the Mountain Wall
 

Under the Mountain Wall (Paperback, New title)

By Matthiessen, Peter

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In the Baliem Valley in central New Guinea lived a Stone Age tribe which survived into the twentieth century - the Kurelu. This title offers an account of a lost culture - the Kurelu's timeless rhythms of work and play, of warriorship, feasting and funerals. It illuminates the li ...

ISBN 9780099448655
Published 24 June 2003 by Vintage
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The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Dispersal and Biogeography
 

The Birds of Northern Melanesia: Speciation, Dispersal and Biogeography (Hardback)

By Mayr, Ernst; Diamond, Jared M.

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Ernst Mayr and Jared Diamond decided in 1970 to collaborate on an authoritative monograph presenting their data and interpretations of the evolution of the birds of the Solomon and Bismark Islands. This text is the culmination of their research.

ISBN 9780195141702
Published 10 January 2002 by Oxford University Press
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Arguments and Icons: Divergent Modes of Religiosity

Arguments and Icons: Divergent Modes of Religiosity (Hardback)

By Whitehouse, Harvey

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Through an examination of four Melanesian religious traditions, Whitehouse identifies a set of recurrent interconnections between styles of religious transmission, systems of memory, and patterns of political association. He argues that these interconnections may shed light on ge ...

ISBN 9780198234142
Published 1 June 2000 by Oxford University Press
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Human Population in Papua New Guinea: The Small Cosmos

Human Population in Papua New Guinea: The Small Cosmos (Hardback)

Edited by Attenborough, Robert D.; Alpers, M. P.

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Papua New Guinea provides a small cosmos in which there is great diversity in a relatively small geographical area. This work describes the human biology of the country and presents studies of its geography, history, demography, social anthropology, linguistics and human geneti ...

ISBN 9780198575146
Published 1 August 1992 by Oxford University Press
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Series Research monographs in human population biology
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