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Beryl McBurnie

Judy Raymond

• Paperback | Engels | Caribbean Biography
• Determined, imperious, flighty, charming, Beryl McBurnie was born in Trinidad and went to New York in the early 1940s to study dance and drama. She al... Lees meer

Re-Visioning Change

Zellynne Jennings

• Paperback | Engels
• The change process is immensely complex. It is a journey, not a blueprint. How we make that journey in the present should be informed by our experienc... Lees meer

Scientific Principles of Stress

James Mills

• Paperback | Engels
• This book discusses the concept of stress based on accumulated scientific evidence so that the physiology and biochemistry of the stress response cycl... Lees meer

Border Crossings

• Paperback | Engels, Frans, Spaans
• Literature has no geographical border and can so easily relocate and migrate into our literary imagination. The only real difficulty facing such cross... Lees meer

Public Sector Economics for Developing Countries Second Edition

Michael McGregor Howard, Althea La Foucade, Ewan Ewan Scott

• Paperback | Engels
• Public Sector Economics for Developing Countries discusses the impact of the public sector in economic development. This comprehensive work analyses p... Lees meer

Proslavery Priest

B W Higman

• Hardcover | Engels
• Child of the Church of Scotland and product of the Scottish Enlightenment, John Lindsay was an ordained minister of the Church of England, serving chu... Lees meer

Modern Political Culture in the Caribbean

• Paperback | Engels
• This contribution to the study and analysis of Caribbean politics explores the political culture of the Caribbean in order to understand the regional ... Lees meer

Women in Jamaica

Leona Bobb-Semple

• Paperback | Engels
• "The first detailed bibliography of books, unpublished reports, theses and articles written on women in Jamaica up to 1994. "There is no limitation in... Lees meer

The Terror and the Time

Paula Morgan

• Paperback | Engels
• The Terror and the Time contributes to the ongoing project of mapping the myriad ways in which contemporary individual and social scenarios and suffer... Lees meer

Due Respect

• Paperback | Engels
• Professor Robert Le Page was a pioneer in the field of English and Creole linguistics in the Caribbean. This collection of papers in honour of Le Page... Lees meer

Persistent Poverty

George L Beckford

• Paperback | Engels
• This is a revised edition of a seminal work on the nature of underdevelopment. It includes a new foreword and appendixes on the significance of planta... Lees meer

Citizenship Under Pressure

Rachel L Mordecai

• Paperback | Engels
• Citizenship Under Pressure: The 1970s in Jamaican Literature and Culture is the first book-length study of the interaction of culture, politics and so... Lees meer

Mediatized Political Campaigns

Indrani Bachan-Persad

• Paperback | Engels
• This book examines five elections in Trinidad and Tobago over a ten-year period from 2000 to 2010 and, on the basis of this, works through some critic... Lees meer

Shabine and Other Stories

Hazel Simmons-McDonald

• Paperback | Engels
• In this impressive first collection of short stories, Hazel Simmons-McDonald presents a deft exploration of class, of how values are shaped by religio... Lees meer

Selected Writings of Alfred H. Mendes

Alfred H Mendes

• Paperback | Engels
• Alfred Hubert Mendes (1897-1991) was a member of the influential Beacon group of artists, writers and intellectuals in Trinidad in the 1930s. In commo... Lees meer

Education Issues in Creole and Creole-Influenced Vernacular Contexts

Ian E. Robertson, Hazel Simmons-McDonald

• Paperback | Engels
• This publication brings together the ideas, experiences of the majority of scholars in linguistics who have benefitted from the vast contribution of P... Lees meer

Port of Spain

Stephen Stuempfle

• Paperback | Engels
• In this wide-ranging study, Stephen Stuempfle explores the transformation of the landscape (material environment) of Port of Spain from the cocoa boom... Lees meer

Abolition and Plantation Management in Jamaica, 1807-1838

Dave St Aubyn Gosse

• Paperback | Engels
• The British Parliament's decision to abolish the slave trade in 1807 had disastrous implications for plantation societies, such as Jamaica, in regards... Lees meer

Natural Hazards Atlas of Jamaica

Parris Lyew-Ayee Jr, Rafi Ahmad

• Hardcover | Engels
• The authors have creatively and persuasively designed an atlas of Jamaica focusing on the four principal natural hazards of earthquakes, hurricanes, f... Lees meer

Becoming Belize

Mavis C Campbell

• Paperback | Engels
• Belize, formerly British Honduras, had a different beginning from most other British Caribbean colonies and was not dependent on sugar production but ... Lees meer

My Political Journey

P J Patterson

• Paperback | Engels
• My Political Journey: Jamaica's Sixth Prime Minister is P.J. Patterson's account of his time as an active and successful participant in the political ... Lees meer

Caribbean Language Issues Old & New

• Paperback | Engels
• Caribbean Language Issues Old and New was conceived as a tribute to Professor Mervyn Alleyne--who is widely acknowledged as a pioneer in the field of ... Lees meer

From Nation to Diaspora

Curdella Forbes

• Paperback | Engels
• This book is a discussion of gender in West Indian culture. It undertakes the discussion through a revisionary reading of gender in selected novels wr... Lees meer

Bindi

• Paperback | Engels
• In contemporary times, the bindi (red dot between the eyebrows) is decorative as well as religious, and is worn by women of any marital status, Hindu ... Lees meer