Obake Files
Author: Glen Grant
Publisher: Mutual Publishing
Published: 1999-02
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9781566472241
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Glen Grant's Chicken Skin Tales
Author: Glen Grant
Publisher: Mutual Publishing
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781566472289
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on first-hand encounters with spirits, strange beings, poltergeists, fireballs and other "things that go bump in the night."
Legendary Hawai'i and the Politics of Place
Author: Cristina Bacchilega
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2011-06-03
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 0812201175
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHawaiian legends figure greatly in the image of tropical paradise that has come to represent Hawai'i in popular imagination. But what are we buying into when we read these stories as texts in English-language translations? Cristina Bacchilega poses this question in her examination of the way these stories have been adapted to produce a legendary Hawai'i primarily for non-Hawaiian readers or other audiences. With an understanding of tradition that foregrounds history and change, Bacchilega examines how, following the 1898 annexation of Hawai'i by the United States, the publication of Hawaiian legends in English delegitimized indigenous narratives and traditions and at the same time constructed them as representative of Hawaiian culture. Hawaiian mo'olelo were translated in popular and scholarly English-language publications to market a new cultural product: a space constructed primarily for Euro-Americans as something simultaneously exotic and primitive and beautiful and welcoming. To analyze this representation of Hawaiian traditions, place, and genre, Bacchilega focuses on translation across languages, cultures, and media; on photography, as the technology that contributed to the visual formation of a westernized image of Hawai'i; and on tourism as determining postannexation economic and ideological machinery. In a book with interdisciplinary appeal, Bacchilega demonstrates both how the myth of legendary Hawai'i emerged and how this vision can be unmade and reimagined.
Supernatural Hawaii
Author: Judi Thompson
Publisher: Schiffer Publishing
Published: 2008-12
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780764331862
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAncient Hawaiian warriors march in the night, mysterious blue lights hover and zip, tiny people disappear, and invisible spirits attack: These are just some of the stories that Hawaii's supernatural side has to offer. Islanders tell of their true experiences beyond the veil with Madam Pele, goddess of the volcano; akuas, guardian protector spirits of sharks or white owls; and phantoms who glide in the night. Read the ghostly memories from Island kaimaaina (long-time residents) luminaries Inez Ashdown of Maui and Auntie Harriet Ne of Molokai, kahunas (Hawaiian Shaman) Charles Kenn, Emma "Nana" Veary, and Mary Kawena Pukui, author Julius S. Rodman, and members of the Hawaii State Fire Department. Shiver as you delve into a unique and spirited slice of Hawaii never before shared.
Mysteries of Honolulu
Author: Robert Lopaka Kapanui
Publisher:
Published: 2020-11-23
Total Pages: 114
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA collection of native Hawaiian tales of mysterious happenings in the city of Honolulu. Beyond the cool waters and trade winds of our idealistic paradise is the thin veil which separates our world from the place where shadows talk back.
Folding Paper
Author: Meher McArthur
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Published: 2013-08-06
Total Pages: 96
ISBN-13: 9780804843386
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis beautiful origami art book is a collection of the best contemporary pieces from some of the worlds most renowned papercraft artists. Thanks to pioneering masters such as Dr. Robert J. Lang, origami has transcended its humble roots as a traditional Japanese papercraft to take its place among the global fine arts. In Folding Paper: The Infinite Possibilities of Origami, Dr. Lang and Asian art curator Meher McArthur chronicle origami's remarkable evolution and showcases the widespread applications of paper folding solutions in the fields of contemporary mathematics, engineering, design, and the international peace movement. Based around a groundbreaking museum show by the same name, Folding Paper features the work of more than forty leading origami artists from around the world. It traces the development of paper folding in both the East and the West, recognizing the global influences on this international art form. Now in the early twenty-first century, origami is a sophisticated fine art form consisting of many different styles, from representational to geometric, abstract, and even conceptual. It has become a symbol of peace, an inspiration for engineers, and a conduit for scientific advancement. Featured origami artists include: Brian Chan Erik Joisel Erik and Martin Demaine Tomoko Fuse Daniel Kwan Michael LaFosse Jeannine Moseley Akira Yoshizawa Combining Dr. Lang's and McArthur's illuminating narrative history with lavish color photographs of more than sixty breathtaking works—from Joel Cooper's haunting Cyrus mask to Linda Tomoko Mihara's delicate Crane Cube to Eric Joisel's lifelike Pangolin model—Folding Paper is an enthralling introduction to the contemporary art of paper folding.
American Regional Folklore
Author: Terry Ann Mood-Leopold
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2004-09-24
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1576076210
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn easy-to-use guide to American regional folklore with advice on conducting research, regional essays, and a selective annotated bibliography. American Regional Folklore begins with a chapter on library research, including how to locate a library suitable for folklore research, how to understand a library's resources, and how to construct a research strategy. Mood also gives excellent advice on researching beyond the library: locating and using community resources like historical societies, museums, fairs and festivals, storytelling groups, local colleges, newspapers and magazines, and individuals with knowledge of the field. The rest of the book is divided into eight sections, each one highlighting a separate region (the Northeast, the South and Southern Highlands, the Midwest, the Southwest, the West, the Northwest, Alaska, and Hawaii). Each regional section contains a useful overview essay, written by an expert on the folklore of that particular region, followed by a selective, annotated bibliography of books and a directory of related resources.
At Play in the Killing Fields
Author: Joseph DeMarco
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2007-02-22
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 1463461925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJOE KAYE (1976-2031) - The False Prophet of Fennimore Place Joe Kaye was an American poet, philosopher, schoolteacher, and author of 11 books. Born in New York City, Joe taught in New York, Hawaii, and Michigan. In Hawaii, he started writing and by the age of 25 he published his first manuscript. He later moved to Michigan and then to Wisconsin, where he developed a tumor which began to give him delusions. His delusions led him to construct a giant labyrinth on a tropical island. He also had an obsession with looking for a message he believed he had left for himself in a past life, in the form of a poem, song, or story. He went insane with paranoia and believed the karma police were coming to take him away. He also became obsessed with cheating death, practicing a religion called Voodoo Botany, believing it would make him a god. On a late night talk show, he made a prophecy about the extinction of the human race. He was sent to rest at Fennimore Place Institute. The maze was never finished. He died broke and penniless.
My Search for Ramanujan
Author: Ken Ono
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2016-04-20
Total Pages: 235
ISBN-13: 3319255681
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The son of a prominent Japanese mathematician who came to the United States after World War II, Ken Ono was raised on a diet of high expectations and little praise. Rebelling against his pressure-cooker of a life, Ken determined to drop out of high school to follow his own path. To obtain his father’s approval, he invoked the biography of the famous Indian mathematical prodigy Srinivasa Ramanujan, whom his father revered, who had twice flunked out of college because of his single-minded devotion to mathematics. Ono describes his rocky path through college and graduate school, interweaving Ramanujan’s story with his own and telling how at key moments, he was inspired by Ramanujan and guided by mentors who encouraged him to pursue his interest in exploring Ramanujan’s mathematical legacy. Picking up where others left off, beginning with the great English mathematician G.H. Hardy, who brought Ramanujan to Cambridge in 1914, Ono has devoted his mathematical career to understanding how in his short life, Ramanujan was able to discover so many deep mathematical truths, which Ramanujan believed had been sent to him as visions from a Hindu goddess. And it was Ramanujan who was ultimately the source of reconciliation between Ono and his parents. Ono’s search for Ramanujan ranges over three continents and crosses paths with mathematicians whose lives span the globe and the entire twentieth century and beyond. Along the way, Ken made many fascinating discoveries. The most important and surprising one of all was his own humanity."
Pandemonium and Parade
Author: Michael Dylan Foster
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13: 0520253620
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMonsters known as yōkai have long haunted the Japanese cultural landscape. This history of the strange and mysterious in Japan seeks out these creatures in folklore, encyclopedias, literature, art, science, games, manga, magazines and movies, exploring their meanings in the Japanese imagination over three centuries.
