[ STUFFS ]
ISLE PAGES
New releases from Hawaii authors
Reviewed by Burl Burlingame
bburlingame@starbulletin.com"Soul in the Computer -- The Story of a Corporate Revolutionary," by Barbara Waugh (Inner Ocean, $21.95)
It's difficult in these days of American corporate executives behaving like loot-crazy Third World despots to imagine someome embracing corporate life as a tool of social reform, but that's just what Waugh has been up to. As an executive at Hewlett-Packard, Waugh initiated a new way of viewing the world for the corporation -- not as food, but as a long-term partner. This meditation on that process, written with Margot Silk Forrest, ought to be placed alongside Sun Tzu on executive night stands.
"Mahalo e Grandpa," by Kimo Armitage, illustrated by Scott Kaneshiro (Island Heritage, $8.99)
The story of a grandfather's love for his tiny grandson, expressed through what he can teach the lad. Eventually Grandpa "goes away," and the kid grows up to teach his own grandson cool stuff. The parents are conspicuously absent, however, and not referred to. This may be an oblique comment on fractured Hawaiian families.
Click for online
calendars and events.
Send WatDat? questions, stories
or any other story ideas or comments to:
Features, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, P.O. Box 3080,
Honolulu, HI 96802 or send a fax to 523-8509
or E-mail to features@starbulletin.com.
Please include your phone number.
