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The Richard Flores Taitano Micronesian Area Research Center (MARC) has been publishing research-based, evidence-driven academic texts primarily focused on historical and contemporary issues impacting the social, political, economic, and sustainable development of Western Pacific islands and communities for over 30 years.

MARC Publications include a variety of historical texts about Guam and Micronesia dating back to the late 1600s. From Spanish and other European accounts of their travels to the Marianas to the history of baseball in Palau, MARC Publications offers readers an extensive collection to choose from.

MARC Publications also include a series of working papers and other resources available upon email request at uogpress@triton.uog.edu. Please find the full listing of MARC Publications, Working Papers and Resources in our Catalog (provide link to catalog here).

MARC e-publications

In partnership with Guampedia, MARC Publications also has free e-publications available on the Guampedia website.

Available MARC Publications

Children of Chuuk Lagoon

Author(s):

Mary L. Spencer

Year of Publication:

2015

Format:

Hardcover

Price: $12

Children of Chuuk Lagoon examines the everyday lives of school-aged children in the Chuuk Lagoon island of Romonum in the Federated States of Micronesia. The book documents the natural histories, and home and school experiences of 12 case-study children ranging in age from 6 to 14.

The Search for a Cause: An Anthropological Perspective on a Neurological Disease in Guam, Western Pacific

Author(s):

Verena Keck

Year of Publication:

2011

Format:

Hardcover

Price: $40

In this anthropological study of a neurodegenerative disease, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Parkinsonism-Dementia Complex (ALS/PDC) in Guam, Western Pacific, Verena Keck intertwines three separate perspectives of history, medicine, and anthropology.