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UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I PRESS FALL 2016 CONTENTS New Releases 1 New in Paperback 33 Publishing Partners 39 First in Hardback 49 Back in Print: Hardback Editions 51 Journals 55 Index 64 ORDERING ORDERS AND Order online at www.uhpress.hawaii.edu SHIPPING To order by phone, call toll free 1-888-UHPRESS (847-7377), or 1-808-956-8255. BOOKS Fax toll free 1-800-650-7811, or 1-808-988-6052. Toll free in North America only. Orders also accepted via email. Please email your order to [email protected]. Orders must be accompanied by check or money order, or charged to Master Card or VISA. Please order at www.uhpress.hawaii.edu or send your order with check, money order, original purchase or der, or VISA/MasterCard information to: University of Hawai‘i Press Order Department 2840 Kolowalu Street Honolulu, HI 96822-1888 For Booksellers All prices and discounts are subject to change without notice. Books with an “s” following their price are short discount; no “s” indicates trade discount. 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The Lives of Hawaiì’s Dolphins and Whales provides a window into the world of these mysterious creatures with stories and observations from author Robin W. Baird’s work with Hawaiian whales and dolphins over the last seventeen years. The book can be used as a field guide, asit includes full-color photographs of each species, life history descriptions, conservation threats, and maps showing sighting UniversityNOVEMBERNOVEMBER20162016 locations and movements of tagged individuals among the islands of 304 pages, 8 1/2 x 10, 173 color illustrations and offshore. Hawai‘i Paperback 9780824859985 $$24.9924.99 Press Hawai‘iHawai‘i//marinemarinebiologybiology Although this work covers the well-known resident spinner dolphins and the visiting humpback whales, it particularly highlights the ten species of lesser-known open-ocean dolphins RobinRobinW.W.BairdBairdis a research biologist with and whales that are resident to the marine slopes of the islands. Cascadia Research Collective, a nonprofit research These include endangered false killer whales, deep-diving and education organization based in Olympia, Cuvier’s and Blainville’s beaked whales, abundant spotted dolphins, coastal bottlenose dolphins, cryptic dwarf sperm Washington. More information on his research can whales, family units of short-finned pilot whales, and social be found at: melon-headed whales, among others. Also described are thirteen www.cascadiaresearch.org/hawaii.htm. species of dolphins and whales found in offshore waters or that visit the Hawaiian waters seasonally or occasionally, including killer whales, the iconic sperm whale, and even blue whales and North Pacific right whales. More is known about the social organization and natural history of many of the species in Hawaiì than anywhere else in the world; much of the data resulting from studies using genetics and satellite tagging. For all species discussed, Baird presents information obtained from long-term photo-identification studies, with distinctive individuals tracked through time and space. He also provides information on predators and prey, social organization, diving, and night-time behavior, along with suggestions on how to tell some of the more difficult to identify species apart. Baird concludes by exploring conservation issues, both success stories and challenges, and engages readers to consider ways to protect Hawaiì’s unique assemblage of resident dolphins and whales. 1 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I PRESS NEW RELEASES Long Hops Making Sense of Bird Migration MARK DENNY "Long Hops is an engaging and entertaining treatment of the many complex facets of bird migration. It will contribute significantly to the layperson’s knowledge of the subject and to an understanding of the importance of habitat for breeding, wintering, and migratory stopovers, all of which are essential to the survival of migratory birds. Any bird enthusiast with even a passing interest in bird migration and flight will find the book full of clearly explained and well-illustrated details." —SheilaSheilaConantConant, professor emerita, Department of Biology, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa "Congratulations to Mark Denny, who not only explains how birds fly and navigate long journeys, but also manages to communicate the joy of science while doing so. After reading Long Hops, I heartily agree with the author: Birds are enchanting and physics is fun!" —SusanSusan ScottScott, Honolulu Star-Advertiser “Ocean Watch” columnist and author UniversitySEPTEMBER 20162016 of Call Me Captain: A Memoir of a Woman at Sea of 296 pages, 6 x 9, 15 color, 61 b&w illustrations Hawai‘i Paperback 9780824866303 $$29.9929.99 Press In Long Hops, physicist Mark Denny explains, in a clear, Hardback 9780824866877 $$65.0065.00s conversational style, the science of bird migration—from the A Latitude 20 book intricacies of bird aeronautics to the newly unraveled mysteries of BirdBirdmigrationmigration their magnetic compasses. While providing wherever possible examples of indigenous Hawaiian species, the book surveys the migration phenomenon as a whole, showing that birds are MarkMarkDennyDennyis a theoretical physicist who has breathtaking works of engineering with spectacular capabilities worked in academia (Edinburgh University and for long-distance flights. Each year thousands of these hardy Oxford University) and industry, having spent migrants fly 2,500 miles nonstop from Alaska to Hawai‘i. How do twenty years as a radar systems engineer with they endure such marathon journeys, and how on earth do they several multinational aerospace companies. Born know which direction to travel over featureless ocean? In fact, in Yorkshire, England, he is now retired and lives in many migratory journeys, in all parts of the world and performed by birds as small as warblers and as large as swans, cover much British Columbia. He is the author of ten popular longer distances. science books and numerous articles and journal After answering the “who, why, where, when” questions, papers on many aspects of science and Denny focuses on the questions of how: how researchers study engineering, including bird flight and navigation. bird migration; how they gather data from old-fashioned bird banding, high-tech satellite tracking, and other techniques; and—above all—how the birds do it. Throughout the book, concepts such as the physics of bird flight and the role of physical geography on navigation are explained in a relatively math-free way. Denny also examines past adaptations migrating birds have made to changing environments and the challenges they face in the future, as the world beneath them faces rapid climate change exacerbated by human activity. 2 UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I PRESS NEW RELEASES Hawai‘i's Kōlea The Amazing Transpacific Life of the Pacific Golden-Plover OSCAR W. JOHNSON AND SUSAN SCOTT Oscar “Wally” Johnson, the undisputed world expert on Pacific Golden-Plovers, and Susan Scott, a popular-science writer, have combined their knowledge and enthusiasm to create a book for everyone who admires the exceptional birds known as Kōlea in Hawaiian. With easy-to-understand, yet scientifically accurate, text and outstanding color photographs, Hawai‘i's Kōlea: The Amazing Transpacific Life of the Pacific Golden-Plover is a handy, reliable source of information for both general readers and ornithology specialists. Although the Pacific Golden-Plover is a member of the shorebird group, Kōlea spend most of their time inland, favoring open space with short vegetation. This makes Hawai‘i’s cemeteries, golf courses, and backyard lawns prime real estate for these migratory birds, which have adapted remarkably well to life among humans. Each year Kōlea fly thousands of miles nonstop NOVEMBERNOVEMBER20162016 from Alaska and return to the same spot in the Islands, whether a 80 pages, 5 x 8, 54 color illustrations condominium courtyard, a busy beach park, or strip of grass in Paperback 9780824866969 $$16.9916.99 downtown Honolulu. As a result, many Hawai‘i residents get to know individual birds, calling them “my Kōlea.” In turn, urban A Latitude 20 book plovers often grow tame around people, an endearing trait Hawai‘iHawai‘i//BirdsBirds uncommon in other birds. Their human admirers see city Kōlea as charming, alert, and personable—qualities that, together with their grace and beauty, have made them arguably Hawai‘i’s OscarOscarW.W.JohnsonJohnsonis the world expert on Pacific favorite bird. Golden-Plovers. An affiliate research scientist in Observing the birds gives rise to countless questions: “When the Department of Ecology at Montana State do the birds leave Hawai‘i? When do they return? Do they have University, he became fascinated with plovers chicks in the Islands? How long does it take them to fly to while working in the Marshall Islands and has Alaska?” To answer these and other questions, the authors have studied them since 1979. Johnson conducts his gathered together just about every detail researchers know about research throughout the Pacific and in Alaska.

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