 | Culture Shock! Hawaii: A Survival Guide to Customs and Etiquette (Culture Shock! Guides) by Brent Massey
Buy new: $11.96 / Used from: $8.99 For the traveler or newcomer to Hawaii, more than just a travel guide, it's a Culture Shock! book for loving, hating, understanding, living in, working in, moving to, and traveling through Hawaii.
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 | Hawaiian Dictionary: Hawaiian-English, English-Hawaiian by Mary Kawena Pukui
Buy new: $20.35 / Used from: $12.00 Excellent reference for the Hawaiian language.
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 | The Price of Paradise : Lucky We Live Hawaii?
Buy used from: $0.06 Out of date (1992) but has insight into Hawaii.
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 | Mark Twain's Letters from Hawaii by Mark Twain
Buy new: $13.95 / Used from: $0.47 A must read for anyone interested in Hawaii. Twain is an entertaining writer!
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 | Shoal of Time: A History of the Hawaiian Islands by Gavan Daws
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $0.26 An enlightening history of Hawaii by an Australia writer.
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 | Picture Bride
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $9.01 A great movie on the plantation history of Hawaii and the women brought over from Asia during that period.
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 | Beyond Paradise: Encounters in Hawaii Where the Tour Bus Never Runs by Peter S. Adler
Buy new: $20.00 / Used from: $3.50 Engaging writer depicts scenes of his everyday life in Hawaii. The writer lived in Hawaii for many years and now lives in Colorado.
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| Ku Kanaka Stand Tall: A Search for Hawaiian Values (Kolowalu Books) by George Hu'Eu Sanford Kanahele
Buy new: $29.00 / Used from: $14.24 Understand the Hawaiian people in depth.
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| Hawaii Data Book: A Statistical Reference to Hawaii's Social, Economic and Political Trends
Buy used from: $1.49 Every statistic you would ever want to know about Hawaii.
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 | People and Cultures of Hawaii: A Psychocultural Profile by John, F. McDermott
Buy used from: $1.52 Originally written for cross-cultural therapy but is helpful in understanding the values and beliefs of the ethnic groups in Hawaii.
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 | Yesterday in Hawai'i: A Voyage Through Time by Scott C. S Stone
Buy new: $15.95 / Used from: $0.01 A vivid pictorial history of Hawaii.
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 | Atlas of Hawaii by Sonia P. Juvik
Buy new: $35.54 / Used from: $28.99 Sort of a geographical book but has interesting information about the formation of the islands, demographics, etc.
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| The Mainland Haole by Elvi Whittaker
Buy new: $79.00 / Used from: $16.19 Academic research (1986) on racism and stereotypes aimed at and coming from Caucasians in Hawaii.
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 | Lonely Planet Hawaii by Kim Grant
Buy used from: $0.99 Popular travel book for Hawaii. Lonely Planet is a great series of travel books.
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 | Hawaii: A Novel by James A. Michener
Buy new: $10.85 / Used from: $3.95 A popular novel about Hawaii history.
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 | Pidgin to da Max by Douglas Simonson
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $0.09 Amusing list of Pidgin English phrases used by the locals in Hawaii.
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 | So You Want to Live in Hawaii: The Guide to Settling and Succeeding in the Islands (Second Edition) by Toni Polancy
Buy new: $17.05 / Used from: $5.61 Good companion to Culture Shock! Hawaii.
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| Fairly Lucky You Live Hawaii!: Cultural Pluralism in the Fiftieth State by Richard L. Rapson
An older book (1980) but has some interesting insight into Hawaii's culture.
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 | The Art of Crossing Cultures by Craig Storti
Buy used from: $0.97 Understand culture shock in depth.
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 | Third Culture Kids: The Experience of Growing Up Among Worlds (Second Revised Edition) by David C. Pollock
Buy used from: $5.73 If you have kids, they will become a mixture of Hawaii's culture and the culture you came from.
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 | Hotel Honolulu: A Novel by Paul Theroux
Buy new: $11.20 / Used from: $0.01 Theroux lives part of the year in Hawaii on the North Shore. He has a his own style of fictional travel essays. This one has a look into one side of life in Honolulu.
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