Research Guides: Botany: Find Books

OneSearch Manoa

OneSearch Manoa is the library's integrated search tool. It will search the library's catalog for material in the library, including books, articles, conference papers, maps, government documents, DVDs, archives & manuscripts, and more. Also will search ebooks and SOME databases.

OneSearch Manoa
Web-scale discovery tool for finding millions of articles, books, media and more using a single search. Includes the UH Voyager Catalog plus a huge index of academic journals on most topics. Also includes conference papers, maps, government documents, music scores, DVDs, archives & manuscripts, and more.

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Finding Dissertations and Theses

Dissertations & Theses @ University of Hawaii
This database provides access to complete full text of University of Hawaiʻi theses and dissertations from 1996 to present.
(For citations, abstracts, and full text of work from other institutions, use Dissertations & Theses Global.)

ScholarSpace
An increasing number of UH Mānoa dissertations and theses are available through our open access institutional repository, ScholarSpace. Open access; no login required.

New Books in Botany

Plant Behaviour and Intelligence by Anthony Trewavas This book provides a convincing argument for the view that whole cells and whole plants growing in competitive wild conditions show aspects of plant behaviour that can be accurately described as 'intelligent'. Trewavas argues that behaviour, like intelligence, must be assessed within the constraints of the anatomical and physiological framework of the organism in question. The fact that plants do not have centralized nervous systems for example, does not exclude intelligent behaviour. Outside the human dimension, culture is thought largely absent and fitness is the biological property of value. Thus, solving environmental problems that threaten to reduce fitness is another way of viewing intelligent behaviour and has a similar meaning to adaptively variable behaviour. The capacity to solve these problems might be considered to vary in different organisms, but variation does not mean absence. By extending these ideas into a book that allows a critical and amplified discussion, the author hopes to raise an awareness of the concept of purposive behaviour in plants.
Hawaiian Plant Life : vegetation and flora by Robert Gustafson, et al.
E-book available through ebrary with UH login.

Reference Books

A tropical garden flora : plants cultivated in the Hawaiian Islands and other tropical places by George W. Staples and Derral R. Herbst
Manual of the Flowering Plants of Hawaii by Warren L. Wagner; Derral R. Herbst; S. H. Sohmer; Yevonn Wilson-Ramsey (Illustrator) This revised edition text includes extensive addendum providing information on newly described species, nomenclatural changes, and new island records, together with a bibliography of taxonomic references published since the first edition.
Traditional trees of Pacific Islands : their culture, environment, and use by Craig R. Elevitch
Also available via World Wide Web.
Hawai'i's Ferns and Fern Allies by Daniel D. Palmer "The major reference work for ferns and fern allies in these islands for a long time to come."
Plants in Hawaiian Culture by Beatrice H. Krauss This introduction to the ethnobotany of the Hawaiian culture before contact with foreigners describes the plants themselves, preparation and uses of plant materials, and how the plants and artifacts made from them were used as food, canoes, houses, wearing apparel, musical instruments, medicine, etc.
Lāʻau Hawaiʻi : traditional Hawaiian uses of plants by Isabella A. Abbott This classic, award-winning book provides the first comprehensive description of Hawaiian traditions of plant use. Topics include not only food, but clothing, cordage, shelter, canoes, tools, housewares, medicines, religious objects, weaponry, personal adornment, and recreation.