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Americans hope to break the bank at Monte Carlo The Diamond League moves to Monaco on Thursday, and with the Jamaican sprinters Usain Bolt and Asafa Powell take a break, it's the Americans who watch more likely to light the National Stadium.
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Wolfgang Puck Coffee, Jamaica Me Crazy, 18-Count Pods (Pack of 3) $14.11 Coconut Infusion – Flavored Light flavored coffee with a hint of coconut and the essence of the islands…. |
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Wolfgang Puck Jamaica Me Crazy Keurig K-Cups,18 Count $12.90 Discover sun-drenched beaches, warm tropical breezes, and a rich culture. Sounds nice doesn’t it? Now to enjoy a little Jamaica in your cup, try Wolfgang Puck’s Jamaica Me Crazy blend, infused with rich coconut and an island twist. You may do a crazy dance for this fantastic “cup of Joe.” The Keurig single-cup brewing system uses a special packaging for coffee, tea and hot cocoa called K-Cup porti… |
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Dr Bird Juicer $30.00 Dr Bird Juicer by Lesley Look Hong The Jamaican hummingbird, nicknamed ‘Dr. Bird’ keeps ecology in-check with his beak that lances from flower to flower, feeding on nectar and pollinating flora as it flutters amidst gorgeous flowers. Let this ‘Dr.’ help you keeping your health in-check everyday as you squeeze citruses…. |
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Jamaica Inn [VHS] $9.99 … |
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Whoopi Goldberg: Live on Broadway [VHS] $14.98 … |
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Life And Debt (Negative Effects Of Globalization Documentary) [VHS] $19.95 Set to a beguiling reggae beat, Life and Debt takes as its subject Jamaica’s economic decline in the 20th century. The story has reverberations in the plight of other third-world nations blindsided by globalization, like Ghana and Haiti. After England granted Jamaica independence in 1962, the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF) stepped in with a series of loans. These loans came wi… |
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Ka-Bar Black Cutlass Machete $42.81 Equipped with a cutlass-style 1085 carbon-steel blade, the Cutlass machete from Ka-Bar is ideal for chopping down weeds, clearing a campsite, or cutting small limbs and tree branches. The machete is comfortable in the hand, with an ergonomically shaped Kraton G thermoplastic elastomer handle that ensures a nonslip grip. Users will also love the leather/Cordura combination sheath, which fits conven… |
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2 Jamaica Jamaican Flag Stickers Decal Bumper Window Laptop Phone Auto Boat Wall $0.99 You get 2 Flag stickers approximately 4″ x 2.0″ each. Great for books, windows, laptops, bumpers, walls. Sticks to almost anything. These stickers are self-adhesive, removable, & re-stickable. Water, Steam, & heat resistant. Stretchable. No residue left when removed. Soft & flexible. Not rigid like paper. Much more durable than paper. Ships 1st Class Mail…. |
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Wallmonkeys Peel and Stick Wall Decals – Flag of Jamaica – Removable Graphic WallMonkeys wall graphics are printed on the highest quality re-positionable, self-adhesive fabric paper. Each order is printed in-house and on-demand. WallMonkeys uses premium materials & state-of-the-art production technologies. Our white fabric material is superior to vinyl decals. You can literally see and feel the difference. Our wall graphics apply in minutes and won’t damage your paint or l… |
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Cool Runnings $5.95 Based on a true story, this is the comedic saga of four Jamaican athletes going to extremes to compete as bobsled racers at the Winter Olympics. With few resources and virtually no clue about winter sports, it’s an uphill course for this troupe from the tropics who are sliding on thin ice as they go for the gold in Calgary, Canada. Refusing to let anything stand in their way, these four Jamaicans … |
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Jamaican Mango, in Flight, Rocklands, Montego Bay, Jamaica $19.99 Rolf Nussbaumer Jamaican Mango, in Flight, Rocklands, Montego Bay, Jamaica – Premium Poster |
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Jamaican Woman, Negril, Jamaica, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America $24.99 Angelo Cavalli Jamaican Woman, Negril, Jamaica, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America – Photographic Print |
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Jamaican Woman on Beach at Sunset, Negril, Jamaica, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America $24.99 Angelo Cavalli Jamaican Woman on Beach at Sunset, Negril, Jamaica, West Indies, Caribbean, Central America – Photographic Print |
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Jamaica Boxer $2940 THE JAMAICAN FLAG SEEN FROM UNDER WATER. Jamaica Boxer comes in Frank Dandy’s classic boxer fit with premium jacquard microfiber waistband. The waistband is black embellished with white logo text. In Jamaicas own colours black, yellow and green. -Double Layered Pouch for Increased Support -­­Flatlock Stitching for Increased Durability -95 % Combed Cotton / 5 % Elastane |
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Story of the Jamaican People : The History of Jamaica and the World $28.23 No Synopsis Available |
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Poverty and Perception in Jamaica: A Comparative Analysis of Jamaican Households $26.33 No Synopsis Available |
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Crime in Jamaic : Jamaican Posse, Human Trafficking in Jamaica, Yardie, Terrorism in Jamaica $7.55 No Synopsis Available |
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adidas Jamaica Originals Zip Hoody $79.99 adidas Jamaica Originals Zip Hoody. Root for the Reggae Boyz with some old-school original style. This full-zip hoody from adidas keeps it strictly roots with “Jamaica” applied to the front and back in felt lettering. The adidas trefoil logo in the design of the Jamaican flag is embroidered on the front.65/30/5 cotton/polyester/organic cotton. Imported |
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Ethnic Groups in Jamaic : Jamaicans of African Ancestry, Indo-Jamaican, Chinese Jamaican, History of the Jews in Jamaica, Lebanese Jamaican $9.29 No Synopsis Available |
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Fully Loaded Jamaica (DVD) $19.75 Human beatbox Doug E. Fresh hosts this music and dance extravaganza celebrating the spirit of summer in Jamaica. From the talents of acclaimed Jamaican DJ Buju Banton, to the feisty attitude of Queen Paula, FULLY LOADED JAMAICA offers a diverse palate of hip-hop and reggae talent. Other artists include Elephant Man, Lex, Cassidy, Bounty Killer, Vybz Kartel, and Wayne Marshall. |
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Jamaica $19.99 Jamaica – Masterprint |
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Jamaican Theatre (Paperback) $56.48 The late Wycliffe Bennett (1922-2009), widely regarded as the godfather of the Jamaican theatre in the second half of the twentieth century, brings all his experience and insight to this last, formidable production. Wycliffe Bennett saw almost every theatrical production of note in this period, directed some productions himself, and, in addition, worked as a manager and trainer in speech, radio and television. His wife, Hazel co-author of this liberally illustrated work, adds her skills as documentalist and witness. Together, the Bennetts have produced the first hook of its kind, a panorama of performance, from the imported touring companies and fledgling local elitist groups of the 1950`s and 1960`s to the birth of the Little Theatre Movement during the war years; from the small, ambitious groups of the 1950`s and 1960`s to the thriving commercial "roots theatre" of the new century.The hook also chronicles the development of drama on radio and television, and Jamaica`s small but important film industry. In extensively documenting and analysing dance, it considers modern foundation groups like Ivy Baxter and the National Dance Theatre Company, as well as their precursors and myriad offspring. A pioneer of the Jamaica Festival movement, Wycliffe Bennett describes it from the inside, culminating with eyewitness accounts of the spectacular Caribbean Festival of the Arts, Carifesta `76 over which he presided. As well, the authors treat music in all its variety, from classical through the Frats Quintet to reggae.There are also sections by experts in their fields: Yvonne Jones Brewster writes (in Theatre 77 and the Barn Theatre; Dr Maria Smith examines Revival; Barbara Requa discusses dance techniques; and Mary Brathwaite Morgan considers the golden age of drama at the University of the West Indies. |
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Jamaica Short Boxer $2940 THE JAMAICAN FLAG SEEN FROM UNDER WATER. Jamaica Short Boxer comes in Frank Dandy’s slightly shorter boxer fit with premium jacquard microfiber waistband. The waistband is black embellished with white logo text. In Jamaicas own colours black, yellow and green. -Double Layered Pouch for Increased Support -­­Flatlock Stitching for Increased Durability -95 % Combed Cotton / 5 % Elastane |
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2007 In Jamaica, including: Jamaican General Election, 2007, Hurricane Dean, 2007-08 National Premier League, Jamaica At The 2007 Pan American Games $11.3 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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A Christmas Collage $7.12 “A Christmas Collage,” features poetry directly from the Biblical account of the birth of Jesus; also in this book, a special tribute is paid to Joseph, Jesus’ earthly father.By writing about aspects of heaven before the Incarnation, or about Jesus’ early life in Nazareth, the Author has incorporated into her poetry, ideas which address some of the unknowns of the Christmas story.It is hoped that these poems will bring inspiration and blessing to all readers at this Christmas Season.Born in Jamaica, the West Indies, Rose Hall is proud of her Jamaican heritage and is especially proud of her British education. This education, which culminated in a certificate from the University of Cambridge, England, strengthened her interest in the classics of English Literature, both prose and poetry. She came to the United States in 1970.Mrs. Hall has written all her life but this book of poems, “A Christmas Collage,” is her first major publication. Most of her writing is in the English language, however, she enjoys expressing herself in patois which is the dialect commonly spoken in Jamaica. She is currently working on a book of short stories in this genre.At home in Lakeland, Florida, Mrs. Hall is involved in the ministry of Victory Assembly of God, (Victory Church) where she has been a member for twenty years. Her participation, in the area of Missions, has taken her on numerous MAPS construction trips to other countries. Locally, she volunteers every year with Circle J camps, an outreach to inner city children. She has three grown sons and six grandchildren. |
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A Fierce Hatred of Injustice $6.45 Claude McKay remains one of the most influential intellectuals of the African diaspora. Best remembered for his extraordinary poetry, his achievement in verse has been widely analyzed and praised. Yet in the welter of discussion about McKay, little has been said about his early writing in Jamaican. Two collections from the period, Songs of Jamaica and Constab Ballads, are more known about than known, and his poems for the Jamaican press, most of which have never been anthologized, are rarely studied.In A Fierce Hatred of Injustice, Winston James elegantly redresses this omission. Through a subtle and detailed consideration of McKay’s formative years on the island, James reviews the themes and politics of poetry which McKay began writing at the age of ten. Above all he focuses on the poet’s pioneering use of Jamaican creole revealing the way in which this laid a foundation for subsequent work by writers such as Louise Bennett, Linton Kwesi Johnson and Michael Smith. The volume concludes with a comprehensive anthology of the early poems together with a comic sketch about Jamaican peasant life by McKay and an autobiographical essay on his experiences in the Kingston police force. |
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A Girl Called Anne $3.99 The book entitled “A Girl Called Anne”, is suitable for all ages. While it sets out to be an inspiration to its readers, it manages to capture the imagination and gives an insight into a real jamaican family life.The story is based on the life of a jamaican girl, living in rural jamaica in the 20th century. This touching story tells how unforeseen circumstances and challenges can adversely affect a child’hs life. As the story unfolds, the reader gets a closer look at family life in rural Jamaica, West Indies, some unfamiliar customs and behaviours that are therefore expliained in the Glossary. The story is told through humour, historical facts, childhood memories, love scenes, and some scenes that may cause one to ponder how all these lead eventually to self actualization. Conversely, it is a clear indication of how strength of character, and determination are enabling factors in overcoming challenges and are contributors to happiness and prosperity in the end. “A Girl Called Anne”, is a fascinating story which ensures the reader is gripped to the finish. The language is simple and, is easily understood. It is a book that a reader will definitely want to own. |
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A Girl Called Anne $16.28 The book entitled “A Girl Called Anne”, is suitable for all ages. While it sets out to be an inspiration to its readers, it manages to capture the imagination and gives an insight into a real jamaican family life.The story is based on the life of a jamaican girl, living in rural jamaica in the 20th century. This touching story tells how unforeseen circumstances and challenges can adversely affect a child’hs life. As the story unfolds, the reader gets a closer look at family life in rural Jamaica, West Indies, some unfamiliar customs and behaviours that are therefore expliained in the Glossary. The story is told through humour, historical facts, childhood memories, love scenes, and some scenes that may cause one to ponder how all these lead eventually to self actualization. Conversely, it is a clear indication of how strength of character, and determination are enabling factors in overcoming challenges and are contributors to happiness and prosperity in the end. “A Girl Called Anne”, is a fascinating story which ensures the reader is gripped to the finish. The language is simple and, is easily understood. It is a book that a reader will definitely want to own. |
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A Season for Mangoes $15 Sareen is attending her first sit-up, a Jamaican tradition that celebrates the life of a loved one who has died. The whole village has come to share memories of Sareen’s Nana. Sareen wants to tell her stories of Nana’s last mango season and their search for the perfect mango, but she’s afraid the words won’t come or that she’ll begin to cry. It’s only when Sareen faces her fear that she realizes it’s not the sadness of Nana’s death that she’ll remember best but the joy of Nana’s life. Set amid the rich culture and lush scenery of Jamaica, this moving book offers the hope of rediscovering joy after a loss and pays tribute to the remarkable power of story: to touch, to connect, and to heal. |
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A Spade Is Still A Spade $5.52 A Spade is Still a Spade: Essays on Crime and The Politics of Jamaica An exposition on the Jamaican crime scene.The author expresses the view that, despite the growing drug culture, this crime scene does not approximate to being, or becoming, narco-terrorism. He says that the drug culture in Jamaica provides economic benefits to the drug dons who control whole communities, but that it is not affiliated to a cause, political or otherwise – a fundemental feature of narco-terrorism.A careful reading of this book is a must for those persons who wish to understand the Jamaican crime scene and what needs to be done to bring it under control. |
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A Spade Is Still a Spade: Essays on Crime and the Politics of Jamaica $8.31 A Spade is Still a Spade: Essays on Crime and The Politics of Jamaica An exposition on the Jamaican crime scene. The author expresses the view that, despite the growing drug culture, this crime scene does not approximate to being, or becoming, narco-terrorism. He says that the drug culture in Jamaica provides economic benefits to the drug dons who control whole communities, but that it is not affiliated to a cause, political or otherwise – a fundemental feature of narco-terrorism. A careful reading of this book is a must for those persons who wish to understand the Jamaican crime scene and what needs to be done to bring it under control. |
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A descriptive study of elite Jamaican male and female athletes from 1980–2005. $49.99 The purpose of the study is to examine performances of Jamaican male and female elite athletes from 1980–2005, during which period 7 Olympic Games and 10 World Championships were held.;The characteristics of an elite athlete and elite performances were also examined with a view to understand the positioning of the Jamaican athlete from a global perspective. A historical perspective of Jamaica’s role in Athletics the achievement level of the Jamaican female athlete was pivotal to this review.;Jamaican female athletes took advantage of the birthing of the new era in track and field for women and established themselves on the international scene. Eight events of the Olympic Games and World Championship from 1980–2005, were chosen to compare performances of the athletes.;There appears to be a marked difference in performance between the female and male Jamaican elite athletes. During the study period, the female consistently gained more medals per event than the males in all but 3 events.;Although performance was defined as medals gained, the recognition of supporting elements, such as time, also contributes to performance. The best Jamaican times in signature events for which they acquired medals within that period, were also identified to compare with world best times. |
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A descriptive study of elite Jamaican male and female athletes from 1980–2005. $49.99 The purpose of the study is to examine performances of Jamaican male and female elite athletes from 1980–2005, during which period 7 Olympic Games and 10 World Championships were held.;The characteristics of an elite athlete and elite performances were also examined with a view to understand the positioning of the Jamaican athlete from a global perspective. A historical perspective of Jamaica’s role in Athletics the achievement level of the Jamaican female athlete was pivotal to this review.;Jamaican female athletes took advantage of the birthing of the new era in track and field for women and established themselves on the international scene. Eight events of the Olympic Games and World Championship from 1980–2005, were chosen to compare performances of the athletes.;There appears to be a marked difference in performance between the female and male Jamaican elite athletes. During the study period, the female consistently gained more medals per event than the males in all but 3 events.;Although performance was defined as medals gained, the recognition of supporting elements, such as time, also contributes to performance. The best Jamaican times in signature events for which they acquired medals within that period, were also identified to compare with world best times. |
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A history of writing instruction for Jamaican university students: A case for moving beyond the rhetoric of transparent disciplinarity at the University of the West Indies, Mona. $108 In this dissertation, I trace academics’ attitudes to writing and its instruction through the six-decade history of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, in Jamaica. I establish that while the institution’s general writing courses facilitate students’ initiation into the academy, these courses reflect assumptions about writing and learning that need to be reassessed to yield versatile writers and disassociate the courses and writing from the alarmist rhetoric that often emerges in the media and in academe. In Jamaica, critics of university students’ writing often promote what Mike Rose calls the “myth of transience” and perpetuate the “the rhetoric of transparent disciplinarity.” According to the myth of transience, if writing is taught correctly at pre-university levels, students will not need writing instruction in the academy. The concept that I call “the rhetoric of transparent disciplinarity” is defined in the work of David Russell, who examines the view that writing is a single, mechanical, generalizable skill that is learned once and for all. Advocates of this view consider writing as a transparent recording of reality or completed thought that can be taught separate from disciplinary knowledge. Based on my analysis of archival materials and data gathered from questionnaires and interviews with past and current writing specialists, this view has been evident at the UWI, Mona, since the institution’s earliest years. Academics there have perpetuated a certain tacit assumption that writing is a natural process. By recalling the country’s history of education, I demonstrate how this assumption parallels colonial administrators’ determination that Jamaican Creole speakers should naturally learn English to advance in society. I argue that if the university wants to widen participation while maintaining excellence, then academics should foster knowledge production (rather than only reproduction) by acknowledging the extent to which disciplines are |
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A history of writing instruction for Jamaican university students: A case for moving beyond the rhetoric of transparent disciplinarity at the University of the West Indies, Mona. $49.99 In this dissertation, I trace academics’ attitudes to writing and its instruction through the six-decade history of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, in Jamaica. I establish that while the institution’s general writing courses facilitate students’ initiation into the academy, these courses reflect assumptions about writing and learning that need to be reassessed to yield versatile writers and disassociate the courses and writing from the alarmist rhetoric that often emerges in the media and in academe. In Jamaica, critics of university students’ writing often promote what Mike Rose calls the “myth of transience” and perpetuate the “the rhetoric of transparent disciplinarity.” According to the myth of transience, if writing is taught correctly at pre-university levels, students will not need writing instruction in the academy. The concept that I call “the rhetoric of transparent disciplinarity” is defined in the work of David Russell, who examines the view that writing is a single, mechanical, generalizable skill that is learned once and for all. Advocates of this view consider writing as a transparent recording of reality or completed thought that can be taught separate from disciplinary knowledge. Based on my analysis of archival materials and data gathered from questionnaires and interviews with past and current writing specialists, this view has been evident at the UWI, Mona, since the institution’s earliest years. Academics there have perpetuated a certain tacit assumption that writing is a natural process. By recalling the country’s history of education, I demonstrate how this assumption parallels colonial administrators’ determination that Jamaican Creole speakers should naturally learn English to advance in society. I argue that if the university wants to widen participation while maintaining excellence, then academics should foster knowledge production (rather than only reproduction) by acknowledging the extent to which disciplines are |
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A history of writing instruction for Jamaican university students: A case for moving beyond the rhetoric of transparent disciplinarity at the University of the West Indies, Mona. $49.99 In this dissertation, I trace academics’ attitudes to writing and its instruction through the six-decade history of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, in Jamaica. I establish that while the institution’s general writing courses facilitate students’ initiation into the academy, these courses reflect assumptions about writing and learning that need to be reassessed to yield versatile writers and disassociate the courses and writing from the alarmist rhetoric that often emerges in the media and in academe. In Jamaica, critics of university students’ writing often promote what Mike Rose calls the “myth of transience” and perpetuate the “the rhetoric of transparent disciplinarity.” According to the myth of transience, if writing is taught correctly at pre-university levels, students will not need writing instruction in the academy. The concept that I call “the rhetoric of transparent disciplinarity” is defined in the work of David Russell, who examines the view that writing is a single, mechanical, generalizable skill that is learned once and for all. Advocates of this view consider writing as a transparent recording of reality or completed thought that can be taught separate from disciplinary knowledge. Based on my analysis of archival materials and data gathered from questionnaires and interviews with past and current writing specialists, this view has been evident at the UWI, Mona, since the institution’s earliest years. Academics there have perpetuated a certain tacit assumption that writing is a natural process. By recalling the country’s history of education, I demonstrate how this assumption parallels colonial administrators’ determination that Jamaican Creole speakers should naturally learn English to advance in society. I argue that if the university wants to widen participation while maintaining excellence, then academics should foster knowledge production (rather than only reproduction) by acknowledging the extent to which disciplines are |
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Accidental Human Deaths in Jamaica: Road Accident Deaths in Jamaica, Lucas Barrett, Jacob Miller, Tenor Saw, Natasja Saad, Winston Anglin $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Road Accident Deaths in Jamaica, Lucas Barrett, Jacob Miller, Tenor Saw, Natasja Saad, Winston Anglin, Peter Cargill, Stephen Malcolm. Excerpt: Jacob Miller (May 4, 1952 March 23, 1980) was a Jamaican reggae artist who first recorded with Clement Dodd. While pursuing a prolific solo career, he became the lead singer for reggae group Inner Circle with whom he recorded until his death. His success was cut short when he was killed in a car accident at the age of 27. Jacob Miller was born in Mandeville, central Jamaica on May 4, 1952 to Joan Ashman and Desmond Elliot. At the age of eight he moved to Kingston, Jamaica where he grew up with his maternal grandparents. In Kingston, Miller began spending time at popular studios including Clement Dodds Studio One. He recorded three songs for Dodd, including Love is a Message in 1968, which the Swaby brothers, (Horace, later called Augustus Pablo, and Garth) played at their Rockers Sound System. While the song did not garner much success nor maintain Dodds attention in Miller, it resulted in Pablos sustained interest in Miller. After the brothers launched their own label in 1972, Pablo recorded a version of Love is a Message named Keep on Knocking in 1974. In the next year and a half Miller recorded five more songs for Pablo, Baby I Love You So, False Rasta, Who Say Jah No Dread, Each One Teach One, and Girl Named Pat, each of which became a Rockers classic with King Tubby dubs on their b-sides. These singles developed Millers reputation and ultimately drew Inner Circle to hire him as a replacement lead singer. Inner Circle was an emerging reggae group made popular playing covers of American Top 40 hits. Band leader Roger Lewis said Jacob Miller was always happy and jovial. He always made jokes. Every… More: |
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American Orthodox Priests: Raphael Morgan $9.34 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Ecumenical Patriarchate:Albanian – Carpatho-RussianBelarusian – Greek – UkrainianPalestinian/Jordanian Very Rev. Raphael Morgan (born Robert Josias Morgan, 186x/187x – 19xx) was a Jamaican-American priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, designated as “Priest-Apostolic” (Greek: ) to America and the West Indies, later the founder and superior of the Order of the Cross of Golgotha, and thought to be the first Black Orthodox clergyman in America. He spoke broken Greek, and therefore served mostly in English. Having recently been discovered, his life has garnered great interest, but much of his life still remains shrouded in mystery. Fr. Raphael is said to have resided all over the world, including: “in Palestine, Syria, Joppa, Greece, Cyprus, Mytilene, Chios, Sicily, Crete, Egypt, Russia, Ottoman Turkey, Austria, Germany, England, France, Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Bermuda, and the United States.” Robert Josias Morgan was born in Chapelton, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica either in the late 1860s or early 1870s to Robert Josias and Mary Ann (née Johnson) Morgan. He was born six months after his father’s death, and named in his honour. Robert was raised in the Anglican tradition and received elementary schooling locally. In his teenage years he travelled to Colón, Panama, then to British Honduras, back to Jamaica, and then to the United States. He became a minister in the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) and left as a missionary to Germany. He then came to England, where he joined the Church of England and was sent to Sierra Leone to the Church Missionary Society Grammar School at Freetown. He studied Greek, Latin, and other higher-level subjects. Being poor, Robert had to work to support himself, and worked as second m… |
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American Women Boxers $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Tonya Harding, Delia Gonzalez, Christy Martin, Laila Ali, Mia St. John, Jackie Frazier-Lyde, Dora and Cora Webber, Yvonne Trevino, Erin Toughill, Stacey Reile, Fredia Gibbs, Elena Reid, Parvati Shallow, Vonda Ward, Maribel Zurita, Bridgett Riley, Stephanie Jaramillo, Sumya Anani, Chevelle Hallback, Andrea Deshong, Ann Wolfe, Karen Bill, Tracy Byrd, Leona Brown, Freeda Foreman, Valerie Mahfood, Para Draine, Leatitia Robinson, Shelby Walker, Brenda Burnside, Alicia Ashley, Eileen Olszewski, Terri Moss, Theresa Arnold, Martha Salazar, Melinda Cooper, Jenifer Alcorn, Dawn George, Suzanne Riccio-Major, Melissa Fiorentino, Jackie Chavez, Sonya Emery, Blanca Luna, Hollie Dunaway, Yvonne Caples, Maureen Shea, Cathy Davis, Hannah Fox, Becky Garcia, Holly Holm, Mary Jo Sanders, Gina Guidi, Unity Young, Crystal Morales. Excerpt: Alicia Ashley (born August 23, 1967) is a women’s boxing participant who is a former world Super Bantamweight champion. Ashley is a Jamaican -American . Born in Jamaica, she moved to the United States at a young age. Ashley began her professional boxing career on January 29, 1999, defeating Lisa Howarth by a six round split decision, at Atlantic City, New Jersey . On her second professional boxing fight, held at Halifax , Canada , she suffered her first defeat, when she was outpointed over six rounds by Doris Hackl on June 20 of that year. Ashley rebounded from that defeat with an eight round decision win over Bonnie Canino June 27 at Tunica, Mississippi . After her first three fights, she took a seven month hiatus from boxing, but on February 11, 2000, she returned, losing by an eight round decision to Mexico ’s Laura Serrano , also in Tunica. After splitting her two next fights, she met “Downtown Leona Brown “: on June 29, she beat Brown on points over |
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Are You Calling Me Black $11.46 A look at the deep rooted differences between the different cultures within the British black community and the possible reasons behind the on-going clashes between the black British of African origin and those of Caribbean origin. The book examines the resulting effect on the current black generation of their various ethnic origins, from the slums of Lagos, Calcutta and Jamaica to the swinging sixties in London and Birmingham. This tale will be told from the point of view of a young British born African who spent the earlier part of his life growing up in the slums of Lagos, Nigeria. He examines the issues with his African, Asian and Jamaican friends of a wholly multicultural British society with the overwhelming myths and preconceptions. |
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Attrition Of University Faculty $66.99 Over the past decade teacher attrition has been a concern of the Jamaican government, school administrators, parents, and students.This problem affects the education system at all levels in both public and private institutions. This book therefore examines several factors that affect faculty attrition at a selected tertiary education institution in Jamaica. Salaries and emoluments were found to be important factors, but they were never indicated as a single most important factor. Even when a faculty was not satisfied with the financial rewards, (s)he was willing to remain in the job if (s)he was satisfied with other working conditions. The demand for job time was a more important factor since it affected the time spent with family as well as the time needed for personal and professional development. The most important factor that was found to influence faculty attrition at the institution was job related stress. The information presented will be useful to policy makers, school administrators, human resource managers, and all managers who have the responsibility employing and retaining a workforce. |
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Australian Crawl Songs: Louie Louie, Reckless, Beautiful People, the Boys Light Up, Downhearted, Errol, Oh No Not You Again, Shut Down $10.28 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: “Louie Louie” is an American rock ‘n’ roll song written by Richard Berry in 1955. It has become a standard in pop and rock, with hundreds of versions recorded by different artists. The song is written in the style of a Jamaican ballad; and tells, in simple verse-chorus form, the first-person story of a Jamaican sailor returning to the island to see his lady love. The singer brags of his “fine little girl” to the Louie of the title, presumably a bartender. A recording by The Kingsmen in 1963 is the best-known version. The Kingsmen’s edition was also the subject of an FBI investigation about the supposed but non-existent obscenity of the lyrics, an investigation that ended without prosecution. The song is ranked #55 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. Richard Berry was inspired to write the song in 1955 after listening to and performing the song “El Loco Cha Cha” with Ricky Rillera and the Rhythm Rockers. The tune was written originally as “Amarren Al Loco” (“Tie up the crazy guy”) by Cuban bandleader Rosendo Ruiz Jr. – also known as Rosendo Ruiz Quevedo – but became best known in the arrangement by René Touzet which included a rhythmic ten-note “1-2-3 1-2 1-2-3 1-2″ riff. Touzet performed the tune regularly in Los Angeles clubs in the 1950s. In Berry’s mind, the words “Louie Louie” superimposed themselves over the bass riff. Lyrically, the first person perspective of the song was influenced by “One for My Baby (and One More for the Road)”, which is sung from the perspective of a customer talking to a bartender. Berry cited Chuck Berry’s “Havana Moon” and his exposure to Latin American music for the song’s speech pattern and references to Jamaica. Richard Berry released his version in April 1957 (Flip Re… More: |
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Babylon Burning $14.07 The United States, seeking to prevent another Caribbean island from following Cuba into the Soviet camp, is undermining Jamaica’s socialist government with a bloody campaign of violence, led by a Jamaican-born U.S. military veteran. The economy is collapsing and the inept leaders of the opposition party can do nothing. Enter London-based businessman, Bennett Meyers, and his associates on the island, who use marijuana smuggling to finance their ambitious plans to change the economy and bring hope and prosperity to the island. But a drug deal gone bad puts a vengeful cop on Bennett’s trail and threatens the entire plan. The CIA, impressed by Bennett’s plans and his capitalist ethic, rides to the rescue, and offers him the leadership of the island. But at what price? |
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Bake-Face and Other Guava Stories $19.99 Fiction. African American Studies. BAKEFACE AND OTHER GUAVA STORIES is the fi rst title in Mango Publishing’s new Classic Series, which will bring back into print tried and tested quality fi ction with an international reputation. This established collection is made up of four Jamaican stories: ‘Bake-Face’, ‘Duppy Get Her’, ‘Me Man Angel’ and ‘Widow’s Walk’. Adisa won the 1987 Pushcart Prize award for the short story, ‘Duppy Get Her’. An important thematic thread running through the stories is woman’s relationship with self, woman’s relationships with one another and with men, community, motherhood, hope, emptiness and power. Marginalised by both patriarchal and imperial structures, these women have, in effect, been victimised into a kind of voicelessness which Adisa subverts through her writing. In the stories, Adisa develops a new language to give voice to her women characters. Hers is a voice speaking from within the community, though the narrative is frequently focalised through the protagonist’s consciousness. “Solid, visceral, important stories written with integrity and love”–Alice Walker. Opal Palmer Adisa is a Jamaica-born novelist, poet, essayist, children’s book author, visual artist, storyteller and teacher. Though she has lived in the United States since age 16, Adisa’s work is rooted in Caribbean landscapes. |
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Bangarang at Carnival $4.07 Sex and Scandal climax in the heat of Jamaica’s Carnival. Following his success with Tough Girls Don’t Dance, Osmund James hits us with a novel of fun-filled sex and romance set against the backdrop of Jamaica’s carnival. This captivating book lays bare the morals of a class-filled Jamaican society, where to be a ‘browning’ is the ambition of many females and where sex and drugs are the currency of choice for whole sections of the society. Surprisingly for such an environment, there still remains hope of true love winning through as Dave, the possessor of a ‘well-built golden brown body’, woos and wins Jenny, ‘the ebony black lady of his’. Fighting the social stigma of being born in Jones Town, Jenny escapes the clutches of Harry and Don T to revel in a love of unending ecstasy, amidst a sea of ‘uptown’ envy, greed and religious fervour. A cast of characters whose trails cross in a crescendo of carnival bacchanalia. |
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Beaches of Jamaica: Negril $10.28 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Negril – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Football at sunset on Negril’s famed beach.The name “Negril” is a shortened version of “Negrillo,” as it was originally named by the Spanish in 1494. The name is thought to be a reference to the black cliffs south of the village. Although Negril has a long history, it did not become well known until the second half of the twentieth century. Negril’s development as a resort location began during the late 1950s, though access to the area proved difficult as ferries were required to drop off passengers in Negril Bay, forcing them to wade to shore. Most vacationers would rent rooms inside the homes of Jamaican families, or would pitch tents in their yards. The area’s welcoming and hospitable reputation grew over time and the first of many resorts were constructed in the mid to late 1960s. When the road between Montego Bay and Negril was improved in the early 1970s, it helped to increase Negril’s status as a new resort location. It was a two-lane paved road that ran approximately 100 yards (91 m) inland from two white coral sand beaches, at the southern end of which was a small village. The long paved road from the village ran north to Green Island, home to many of the Jamaican workers in Negril, and was straight enough to double as a runway for small airplanes, which was why there were lengths of railroad track standing on end along the side of the road – to discourage drug smugglers from landing on the road to pick up cheap cargos of marijuana. After Negril’s infrastructure was expanded — anticipating the growth of resorts and an expanding population, a small airport, the Negril Aerodrome, was built in 1976 near Rutland Point, alongside several small hotels mostly catering to the North American winter … More: |
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Benjamin Zephaniah $43.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958, Birmingham, England)is a British Jamaican Rastafarian writer and dub poet. He is a well-known figure in contemporary English literature, and was included in The Times list of Britain’s top 50 post-war writers in 2008. Zephaniah was born and raised in Handsworth district of Birmingham, which he called the “Jamaican capital of Europe”- He is the son of a Barbados postman and a Jamaican nurse. A dyslexic, he attended an approved school but left aged 13 unable to read or write. He writes that his poetry is strongly influenced by the music and poetry of Jamaica and what he calls “street politics”. His first performance was in church when he was ten, and by the age of fifteen, his poetry was already known among Handsworth’s Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities.He received a criminal record with the police as a young man and served a prison sentence for burglary.Tired of the limitations of being a black poet communicating with black people only, he decided to expand his audience, and headed to London at the age of twenty-two. |
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Biota Of Jamaica, including: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Orchard Oriole, Mourning Dove, Western Wood Pewee, Blue-winged Warbler, Pine Warbler, Jamaican Crow, King Rail, White-eyed Vireo, Red-billed Streamertail, Black-billed Amazon, Green-rumped Parrotlet $16.43 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Biota Of Jamaica, including: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Orchard Oriole, Mourning Dove, Western Wood Pewee, Blue-winged Warbler, Pine Warbler, Jamaican Crow, King Rail, White-eyed Vireo, Red-billed Streamertail, Black-billed Amazon, Green-rumped Parrotlet $22.75 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Biota Of Jamaica, including: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Orchard Oriole, Mourning Dove, Western Wood Pewee, Blue-winged Warbler, Pine Warbler, Jamaican Crow, King Rail, White-eyed Vireo, Red-billed Streamertail, Black-billed Amazon, Green-rumped Parrotlet $16.4 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Biota Of Jamaica, including: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Orchard Oriole, Mourning Dove, Western Wood Pewee, Blue-winged Warbler, Pine Warbler, Jamaican Crow, King Rail, White-eyed Vireo, Red-billed Streamertail, Black-billed Amazon, Green-rumped Parrotlet $17.78 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Birds Of Jamaica, including: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Orchard Oriole, Mourning Dove, Western Wood Pewee, Blue-winged Warbler, Pine Warbler, Jamaican Crow, King Rail, White-eyed Vireo, Red-billed Streamertail, Black-billed Amazon, Green-rumped Parrotlet $14.52 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Black Canadian Writers $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cecil Foster, Dionne Brand, Rinaldo Walcott, Malcolm Gladwell, George Elliott Clarke, Dan Hill, Josiah Henson, Justice de Thézier, Frances-Anne Solomon, M. Nourbese Philip, Charles R. Saunders, Nalo Hopkinson, Orville Lloyd Douglas, Mary Ann Shadd, Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, Clement Virgo, Louise Uwacu, Dany Laferrière, Chris Spence, Lawrence Hill, Stephen Williams, Austin Clarke, Annmarie Morais, Nega Mezlekia, Olive Senior, D’bi Young, Trey Anthony, Ahdri Zhina Mandiela, Jane Musoke-Nteyafas, Afua Cooper, Honor Ford-Smith, Wayde Compton, Malcolm Azania, George Boyd, Michele Clarke, Makeda Silvera, André Alexis, Djanet Sears, Mairuth Sarsfield, Angèle Bassolé-Ouédraogo, David Chariandy, Carrie Best, Didier Leclair, Robert Edison Sandiford, Kaie Kellough, Sudz Sutherland, Robert Adetuyi, Royson James. Excerpt: Afua Cooper (born 8 Nov 1957) is a Jamaican -born Canadian historian and dub poet . Born in Westmoreland, Jamaica , Cooper grew up in Kingston, Jamaica and migrated to Toronto in 1980. She holds a Ph.D. in African-Canadian history with specialties in slavery and abolition. Her dissertation, “Doing Battle in Freedom s Cause”, is a biographical study of Henry Bibb , a 19th century African American abolitionist who lived and worked in Ontario . She also has expertise in women’s history and New France studies. Cooper still lives in Toronto , where she currently teaches in the departments of History and Women’s Studies at the University of Toronto . She is a winner of the Harry Jerome Award for professional excellence. She has published four books of poetry, including Memories Have Tongue (1994), one of the finalists in the 1992 Casa de las Americas literary award. She is the co-author of We’re Rooted Here and They Can’t Pull |
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Boney M.: James Gang $9.8 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Boney M., Daddy Cool, Frank Farian. Excerpt: Boney M. is a disco group created by German record producer Frank Farian . Originally based in West Germany , the four original members of the group’s official line-up were Jamaicans Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett , Montserratian Maizie Williams , and Aruban Bobby Farrell . The group was formed in 1975 and achieved popularity during the disco era of the late 1970s.History German singer-songwriter Frank Farian (real name Franz Reuther) recorded the dance track “Baby Do You Wanna Bump ” in December 1974. Farian sang the repeated line “Do you do you wanna bump?” in a deep voice (entirely studio created) as well as performing the high falsetto chorus. When the record was released as a single, it was credited to “Boney M.”, a pseudonym Farian had created for himself after watching the Australian detective show Boney . After a slow start, the song became a hit in the Netherlands and Belgium . It was then that Farian decided to hire performers to ‘front’ the group for TV performances. The Katja Wolfe booking agency found model-turned-singer Maizie Williams (originally from Montserrat ) and her Jamaican singer friend Sheyla Bonnick for him, along with a dancer known only as “Mike” for the first gigs. Also during 1975, a girl named Nathalie joined but was soon replaced by Claudja Barry . Then Bonnick and Mike left, and Maizie Williams brought in Bobby Farrell , an exotic male dancer from Aruba . Singer Marcia Barrett (also from Jamaica ) joined the group, which then went through another change in line-up when Claudja Barry tired of merely lip-synching left in February 1976 to pursue a solo career as a disco singer. Finally Liz Mitchell , former member of the Les Humphries Singers , stepped in. The line-up was finalised with Liz |
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British Jamaican $53.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! British Jamaican is a term that refers to British people who were born in Jamaica or who are of Jamaican descent. The community is well into its fourth generation and consists of around 800,000 individuals, one of the largest Jamaican diasporas on earth. The majority of British people of Jamaican origin were born in the United Kingdom as opposed to Jamaica itself. The Office for National Statistics estimated that in 2009 some 143,000 Jamaican-born people were resident in the UK, with only 47,000 of these retaining Jamaican citizenship. |
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British People of Indo-Trinidadian Descent: V. S. Naipaul, Raj Persaud, Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, Shiva Naipaul, Krishna Maharaj $10.66 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: V. S. Naipaul, Raj Persaud, Waheed Alli, Baron Alli, Shiva Naipaul, Krishna Maharaj, British Indo-Caribbean Community, Vahni Capildeo, Chris Bisson, Lakshmi Persaud, Rik Makarem. Excerpt: Total population The British Indo-Caribbean community consists of residents of the United Kingdom who are of Caribbean origin and whose ancestors were indigenous to India . The UK (along with Canada and the United States ), is a non-Caribbean nation with a significant population of Indo-Caribbean residents. Background Indian people were first introduced to the Caribbean by the British government in the 1800s after the abolition of slavery and when cheap labour was needed. The majority settled in Guyana , Trinidad and Tobago and Jamaica , the Indian communities in these countries have now become extremely well established and currently have a very successful diaspora. With the strong links between the Caribbean and the UK, as well as the large Indian community in the UK , it has proven a popular destination for Indo-Caribbean emigrants. In 1990 between 22,800 and 30,400 Indo-Caribbeans were estimated to be living in the UK, it is unknown how many of the 1.6 million Britons of Indian origin are also linked to the Caribbean. Sub-groups Indo-Guyanese Indo-Guyanese Notable Britons of Indo-Guyanese descent include Waheed Alli, Baron Alli , Shakira Caine , David Dabydeen and Mark Ramprakash . Indo-Jamaican Indo-Jamaican Notable Britons of Indo-Jamaican descent include Omar Lye-Fook . Indo-Trinidadians Indo-Trinidadians Indo-Trinidadian people are thought to number well over 25,000, which is even more than the number of people born in Trinidad and Tobago living in the UK according to the 2001 Census. Notable Britons of Indo-Trinidadian descent include Waheed Alli, Baron Alli , Chris Bisson , |
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Burning Spear $46.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Winston Rodney, OD, also known as Burning Spear, is a Jamaican and a living legend roots reggae singer and musician. Like many famous Jamaican reggae artists, Burning Spear is known for his Rastafari movement messages.Rodney was born in Saint Ann’s Bay, Saint Ann, Jamaica, as were reggae singer Bob Marley and political activist Marcus Garvey who both had a great influence on Rodney’s life: Garvey in his philosophy, which Burning Spear greatly took to, and Marley in directly helping Burning Spear get started in the music industry by introducing him to Clement Dodd |
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Calypso Songs: Day-O, Rum and Coca-Cola, Coconut, Under the Sea, Kiss the Girl, Jamaica Farewell, Calypso Carol, Fdr in Trinidad, Matilda $9.29 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: “Day-O (The Banana Boat Song)” is a traditional Jamaican mento folk song, the best-known version of which was sung by Harry Belafonte. Although it is really Jamaican mento, the song is widely known as an example of calypso music (calypso is Trinidadian). It is a song from the point of view of dock workers working the night shift loading bananas onto ships. Daylight has come, the shift is over and they want their work to be counted up so that they can go home. The song was originally a Jamaican folk song. Its popular version was adapted by Irving Burgie. It was thought to be sung by Jamaican banana workers, with a repeated melody and refrain (call and response), with each set lyric there would be a response from the workers but with many different sets of lyrics, some possibly improvised on the spot. The first recorded version was done by Trinidadian singer Edric Connor and his band “Edric Connor and the Caribbeans” in 1952, on the album Songs From Jamaica; the song was called “Day De Light”. It was also recorded by Jamaican folk singer Louise Bennett in 1954. Bennett’s “Day Dah Light,” as well as six other Jamaican recordings covered and made famous by Belafonte, who was raised in Jamaica by Jamaican parents, can now be heard in their original Jamaican versions on the “Jamaica – Mento 1957-1958″ CD *. In 1956, singer/songwriters Irving Burgie and William Attaway wrote a version of the lyrics that was recorded that same year by Harry Belafonte; this is the version that is by far the best known to listeners today, as it reached number five on the Billboard charts in 1957 and later became Belafonte’s signature song. Side two of Harry Belafonte’s 1956 Calypso album opens with Star O, a song referring to the day shift ending with the first star s… More: |
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Cancer Deaths in Jamaica: Michael Manley, Byron Lee, Johnny Moore, Perry Henzell, Christopher Gonz lez, Lawrence Aloysius Burke $8.69 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Michael Norman Manley ON OCC (December 10, 1924 March 6, 1997) was the fourth Prime Minister of Jamaica (1972 1980, 1989 1992). Michael Manley was a democratic socialist. The second son of Jamaica’s Premier Norman Manley and Jamaican artist Edna Manley, Michael Manley was a charismatic figure who became the leader of the Jamaican People’s National Party a few months before his father’s death in 1969. He attended Jamaica College and served with the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War II. In 1945, he enrolled at the London School of Economics. In 1949, he graduated, and returned to Jamaica to serve as an editor and columnist for the newspaper Public Opinion. At around the same time, he became involved in the trade union movement, and became a negotiator for the National Workers Union. In August, 1953, he became a full-time official of that union. When his father was elected chief minister of Jamaica in 1955, Michael resisted the idea of entering politics, not wanting to be seen as capitalizing on his family name. He eventually relented, however, and accepted an appointment to the Senate of the Parliament of Jamaica in 1962. He later won a very close election to the Jamaican House of Representatives in 1967. After his father’s retirement, he became the leader of the People’s National Party in 1969. In that capacity, he served as leader of the Opposition until his party won in the general elections of 1972. Manley soundly beat the unpopular incumbent Prime Minister Hugh Shearer (his cousin) in the election of 1972 after running on a platform of “better must come,” giving “power to the people” and leading “a government of truth.” Manley instituted a series of socio-economic reforms that yielded mixed success. Though he was a biracial Jamaica… More: |
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Caribbean Elections $26.9 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Grenadian General Election, 2008, Elections in Guadeloupe, Elections in Martinique, Saint Kitts and Nevis General Election, 2010, Republicanism in Barbados, Haitian General Election, 1990-1991, Cuban Presidential Election, 2008, Belizean Constitutional Referendum, 2008, Cuban Legislative Election, 2008, Elections in Jamaica, Dominican Republic Presidential Election, 2008, Trinidad and Tobago Presidential Election, 2008, Elections in Puerto Rico, Puerto Rican Unicameralism Referendum, 2005, United States Virgin Islands Constitutional Convention Election, 2007, Bahamian General Election, 2007, Cuban Local Elections, 2007, Elections in Dominica, Elections in the Dominican Republic, Barbadian General Election, 2008, Elections in the British Virgin Islands, Elections in the Cayman Islands, Elections in Antigua and Barbuda, Trinidad and Tobago General Election, 1956, Antigua and Barbuda General Election, 2009, Elections in Saint Lucia, Elections in Barbados, Antigua and Barbuda General Election, 1984, Elections in Saint Kitts and Nevis, Elections in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Elections in the Netherlands Antilles, Elections in Grenada, British Virgin Islands General Election, 1999, Elections in Bermuda, Jamaican General Election, 2007, Elections in Haiti, Elections in Montserrat, Elections in Aruba, Turks and Caicos Islands General Election, 2007, Antigua and Barbuda General Election, 1989, Antigua and Barbuda General Election, 1994, Montserratian General Election, 2009, Curaçao Status Referendum, 2009, Antigua and Barbuda General Election, 1999, Jamaican General Election, 2002, Jamaican General Election, 1972, Saint Barthélemy Territorial Council Election, 2007, Caymanian General Election, 2009, Saint Martin Territorial Council Election, 2007, Jamaican General |
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Catch A Fire (Deluxe Edition) (Bonus Tracks) $18.1 Bob Marley and the Wailer’s Catch A Fire, reggae’s landmark album, reissued in 2-CD deluxe edition including the album’s original Jamaican versionThis unique 2-CD set features the original UK remixed and overdubbed album — the album released to the public — plus the original previously unreleased, version of the album recorded in Jamaica in 1972, including two songs not heard on the other CD — High Tide Or Low Tide and All Day All Night. Both discs have been newly remastered; the new Jamaican version have been newly remixed by legendary engineer Errol Brown. The package features new essay, complete credits, new photos and lyrics. |
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Caterpillars Don’t Become Butterflies $9.99 The book is about the disappearance of a young teenage girl from a rural district in Clarendon, Jamaica in the summer of 1985. The story is told by a cousin who developed a special friendship with her and recounts the events of that summer and gives a profile of the community and the family and the events that led to his discovery of the reasons for her disappearance twenty three years later. The book is essentially a mild mystery, heavy on symbolism, extremely Jamaican and reliant on strong language and frank expressions. |
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Characteristics of music education programs in public schools of Jamaica. $69 The purpose of this study was to assess the characteristics of music education in Jamaican public schools and to investigate possible inequalities in access to music education programs based on school level, school locale, and school enrollment. A questionnaire, gathering information on a broad range of educational factors related to the music programs and music teachers was sent to the 977 public schools in the country. Of the 320 schools that replied, 105 offered music programs. Follow-up interviews were conducted with 25 selected music teachers from schools with music programs. Schools were classified as elementary or secondary, rural or urban, and small or large.;Music programs existed in approximately a third of public schools in Jamaica, mainly in secondary, urban, and large schools. Teachers in these groups were predominantly male and music specialists, while teachers in elementary, rural, and small schools were mainly classroom teachers, female, and had been teaching for significantly longer than their counterparts. Approximately 10% of teachers providing music instruction reported not having any formal training in music.;Secondary, urban, and large schools had more choral programs and entered a higher number of pieces in competitions than their counterparts. Music examinations of the Caribbean Examination Council were done in only a few secondary schools and most students were successful. Respondents generally considered resources and facilities for music programs inadequate, and viewed colleagues, administration and parents as being supportive of music programs, but considered the national government to be unsupportive. Most teachers had not encountered students with disabilities in their music classes.;This study is timely within the context of current initiatives in education in the country such as the Reform of Secondary Education program and the report by the Task Force on Educational Reform in Education. It is hoped that deficiencies will be |
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Characteristics of music education programs in public schools of Jamaica. $49.99 The purpose of this study was to assess the characteristics of music education in Jamaican public schools and to investigate possible inequalities in access to music education programs based on school level, school locale, and school enrollment. A questionnaire, gathering information on a broad range of educational factors related to the music programs and music teachers was sent to the 977 public schools in the country. Of the 320 schools that replied, 105 offered music programs. Follow-up interviews were conducted with 25 selected music teachers from schools with music programs. Schools were classified as elementary or secondary, rural or urban, and small or large.;Music programs existed in approximately a third of public schools in Jamaica, mainly in secondary, urban, and large schools. Teachers in these groups were predominantly male and music specialists, while teachers in elementary, rural, and small schools were mainly classroom teachers, female, and had been teaching for significantly longer than their counterparts. Approximately 10% of teachers providing music instruction reported not having any formal training in music.;Secondary, urban, and large schools had more choral programs and entered a higher number of pieces in competitions than their counterparts. Music examinations of the Caribbean Examination Council were done in only a few secondary schools and most students were successful. Respondents generally considered resources and facilities for music programs inadequate, and viewed colleagues, administration and parents as being supportive of music programs, but considered the national government to be unsupportive. Most teachers had not encountered students with disabilities in their music classes.;This study is timely within the context of current initiatives in education in the country such as the Reform of Secondary Education program and the report by the Task Force on Educational Reform in Education. It is hoped that deficiencies will be |
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Characteristics of music education programs in public schools of Jamaica. $49.99 The purpose of this study was to assess the characteristics of music education in Jamaican public schools and to investigate possible inequalities in access to music education programs based on school level, school locale, and school enrollment. A questionnaire, gathering information on a broad range of educational factors related to the music programs and music teachers was sent to the 977 public schools in the country. Of the 320 schools that replied, 105 offered music programs. Follow-up interviews were conducted with 25 selected music teachers from schools with music programs. Schools were classified as elementary or secondary, rural or urban, and small or large.;Music programs existed in approximately a third of public schools in Jamaica, mainly in secondary, urban, and large schools. Teachers in these groups were predominantly male and music specialists, while teachers in elementary, rural, and small schools were mainly classroom teachers, female, and had been teaching for significantly longer than their counterparts. Approximately 10% of teachers providing music instruction reported not having any formal training in music.;Secondary, urban, and large schools had more choral programs and entered a higher number of pieces in competitions than their counterparts. Music examinations of the Caribbean Examination Council were done in only a few secondary schools and most students were successful. Respondents generally considered resources and facilities for music programs inadequate, and viewed colleagues, administration and parents as being supportive of music programs, but considered the national government to be unsupportive. Most teachers had not encountered students with disabilities in their music classes.;This study is timely within the context of current initiatives in education in the country such as the Reform of Secondary Education program and the report by the Task Force on Educational Reform in Education. It is hoped that deficiencies will be |
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Cinema Of Jamaica, including: Madge Sinclair, Evan Parke, Paul Campbell (jamaican Actor), Peter Williams (actor), Audrey Reid, Yanna Mcintosh, Awake Zion, The Harder They Come, Rockers (film), Shottas, Dancehall Queen, Third World Cop, Countryman (film) $13.87 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Cinema Of Jamaica, including: Madge Sinclair, Evan Parke, Paul Campbell (jamaican Actor), Peter Williams (actor), Audrey Reid, Yanna Mcintosh, Awake Zion, The Harder They Come, Rockers (film), Shottas, Dancehall Queen, Third World Cop, Countryman (film) $17.75 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Coaches of the Pakistan National Cricket Team: Bob Woolmer $9.25 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Robert Andrew Woolmer (14 May 1948 18 March 2007) was an international cricketer, professional cricket coach and also a professional commentator. He played in 19 Test matches and 6 One Day Internationals for England and later coached South Africa, Warwickshire and Pakistan. On 18 March 2007, Woolmer died suddenly in Jamaica, just a few hours after the Pakistan team’s unexpected elimination at the hands of Ireland in the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Shortly afterwards, Jamaican police announced that they were opening a murder investigation into Woolmer’s death. However, three months later they announced that Woolmer had died of natural causes. Woolmer was born in the hospital across the road from the cricket ground in Kanpur, Union of India. His father was the cricketer Clarence Woolmer, who represented United Provinces (now Uttar Pradesh) in the Ranji Trophy. Woolmer went to school in Kent, first at Yardley Court in Tonbridge and then The Skinners’ School in Tunbridge Wells. At the age of 15, Colin Page the coach and captain of the Kent second XI converted him from an off-spinner to a medium pace bowler. Woolmer’s first job was as a sales representative for ICI and his first senior cricket was with the Tunbridge Wells club and with Kent’s second XI. In 1967 he broke the Kentish Leagues’ Bat and Trap record for most consecutive strikes between the white posts – 13 in one game. Then in 1968, at the age of 20, he joined the Kent cricket staff and made his championship debut against Essex. His ability to move the ball about at medium-pace was ideally suited to one-day cricket at which he became a specialist. He won his county cap in 1969. Woolmer began his coaching career in South Africa in 1970-71 at the age of 22 and by 1975, when he made his Test … More: |
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Commonwealth Games Bronze Medallists For Jamaica $8.78 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Christopher Williams, Simone Forbes, Delloreen Ennis-London, Novlene Williams-Mills, Keith Gardner, Jermaine Gonzales, Maurice Wignall, Kemel Thompson, Lansford Spence, Bernard Prendergast. Excerpt: Christopher Williams (born 15 March 1972 in Mandeville, Manchester) is a Jamaican sprinter. Williams is best known for winning the silver medal in the 200m at the 2001 World Championships. In 2001 he was named Jamaica Sportsman of the Year. Williams has competed in the Olympic Games three times, in 2000, 2004 and 2008, reaching the semi-finals of the 200m on all occasions. He was on the bronze medal-winning 4 x 400 metre relay team at the 2000 Olympics. He finished seventh in the 200m final at the 2007 World Championships. Williams represented Jamaica at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He competed at the 200 metres and placed third in his first round heat after Brian Dzingai and Christian Malcolm in a time of 20.53 seconds. He improved his time in the second round to 20.28 seconds and placed third again, this time after Dzingai and Walter Dix. He ran his semi final race in 20.45 seconds and placed sixth, which was not enough to make it to the Olympic final. … More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3527046 |
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Companies Listed On The Bolsa Mexicana De Valores $14.13 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Cemex, Kimberly-Clark, Televisa, Tv Azteca, Claro, Telmex, Grupo Bimbo, Femsa, Grupo Modelo, Tracfone Wireless, América Móvil, Gruma, List of Companies Traded on the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, Soriana, Liverpool, Axtel, Mexican Stock Exchange, Grupo Continental, Walmex, Iusacell, Grupo Elektra, Grupo Sanborns, Grupo Cie, Urbi, Minera Autlan, List of Brokerage Firms of the Bolsa Mexicana de Valores, Indice de Precios Y Cotizaciones, Comcel Colombia, Movil@ccess, Grupo Gigante, Grupo Corvi. Excerpt: América Móvil (BMV :AMX / NYSE : AMX / NASDAQ : AMOV / BMAD : AMXL) is a holding company forming the fourth largest mobile network operator in terms of equity subscribers , one of the largest corporations in Latin America , and the world. America Movil is a Fortune 500 company. A venture of Carlos Slim Helú , América Móvil provides services to over 201 million wireless subscribers in the Americas , primarily in Latin America and the Caribbean . Company information The company’s world headquarters are located in Mexico City , Mexico . Its Mexican subsidiary Telcel is the largest mobile operator in Mexico , commanding a market share in excess of 70 percent. In the United States , it operates under the trademarks TracFone and StraightTalk, and is the leading national pre-paid wireless service. It operates in many countries in The Caribbean and Latin America such as Jamaica , the Dominican Republic , El Salvador , Guatemala , Honduras , Nicaragua , Peru , Argentina , Uruguay , Chile , Paraguay , Puerto Rico ; Comcel Colombia in Colombia ; and Porta in Ecuador . In Brazil it operates the trademark Claro . América Móvil acquired 100 percent of Jamaican mobile operator Oceanic Digital, under the brand name |
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Companies of El Salvador by Industry: Airlines of El Salvador, Mobile Phone Companies of El Salvador, Restaurants in El Salvador, Digicel $9.05 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Airlines of El Salvador, Mobile Phone Companies of El Salvador, Restaurants in El Salvador, Digicel, Taca Airlines, Movistar, Tigo El Salvador, Celeste Imperio, Claro El Salvador. Excerpt: Digicel – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Digicel, first established April, 2001 in Jamaica grew to 100,000 customers in approximately 100 days. In the 7 years since the initial launch, Digicel’s Jamaican customer base has grown to 1.9 million users (March 2008). In Haiti, where they launched operations in May 2006, the company reached 6.5 million subscribers by May 2007 and now has more than two million customers making Haiti Digicel’s largest customer base to date. Digicel is 100% owned by Irish entrepreneur Denis O’Brien. The company has a marketshare of roughly 70% in Jamaica.(Digicel makes cellphone connection in Jamaica) The majority of Digicel networks start up in countries where the telecommunications market has been newly liberalised. As a result there have been numerous rows between Digicel executives and former state incumbent operators over interconnect agreements. This has led to Digicel taking some incumbent operators to court. In 2006 Digicel expanded into the South American mainland as well as the Pacific. On September 2006 Digicel acquired an unrelated mobile phone provider Digicel Holdings in El Salvador, rebranding it as El Nuevo Digicel. Digicel El Salvador has now overtaken Claro as number 2 Operator in the country. The group has also won a mobile telecommunications license in Guatemala. In December 2007 Digicel won a highly competitive bid for a mobile license in Honduras and Digicel won a licence to operate in Panama in May 2008. Digicel launched in Honduras and the British Virgin Islands in November 2008 and in Panama in December 2… More: |
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Companies of Jamaica: Red Stripe, Lasco Jamaica, Columbus Communications, Grace Kennedy and Company Limited, Miphone, Gleaner Company $9.34 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Red Stripe, Lasco Jamaica, Columbus Communications, Grace Kennedy and Company Limited, Miphone, Gleaner Company, Sangster’s, List of Companies of Jamaica, Jamaica Stock Exchange. Excerpt: Red Stripe is a Jamaican lager beer whose logo is a bold, diagonal red stripe. It is brewed by Desnoes |
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Cool Runnings and Beyond $42.33 Fire on ice. There is no better way to describe the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team. The team started with a spectacular crash and burn at the 1988 Calgary Olympics and grew into triumphant, shining lights in world bobsleigh competition. No longer is the team a novelty–largely comedic–as portrayed in the movie Cool Runnings. Now the Jamaican Bobsleigh Team is a phenomenon, a true marvel in the sporting world. Journalists, sports historians, and fans all hail its indomitable spirit and crowd-pleasing character. Cool Runnings and Beyond: The Story of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team gives you a front-row seat to this incredible world, thanks to author Nelson Chris Stokes. His account shows how, once kindled, the flame of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Team refused to sputter. Instead, it flared like its Olympic counterpart. Despite jeers and sneers, these tropical islanders proved they had the fire within them to become medal contenders. Now serving as president of the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation, Chris Stokes speaks from his experience as an Olympian and as a member of the world bobsleighing community. He details the personalities of the teammates, the grinding training regimens, and the raw hopes and fears, disasters and determination found behind the familiar media images. Drawing from the dynamic demands of marketing Jamaica Bobsleigh, Chris also provides lessons for fund raising, building a vibrant and visionary business, and seeking personal growth through teamwork. |
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Countryman $9.18 After nearly a decade of gestation, Willie Nelson’s long-lost, and first, reggae set is at last complete. The seed of this project took root in late 1995, sprung from the mind of famed producer Don Was. Nelson and his manager Mark Rothbaum flew to Jamaica to meet with Island Records president and founder Chris Blackwell. Don had been speaking with both Blackwell and Nelson about the prospect of creating a reggae-infused country album and both men were intrigued. Blackwell was the ideal collaborator. Not only was he the person who introduced rock audiences to the world of reggae but likewise introduced them to Bob Marley. As a versatile, well-connected music aficionado, he could realize this marriage of country and reggae the way few others could. In fact, the two genres are compatible in many ways, and not as distant stylistically as one might initially imagine. Toots Hibbert proved it with his triumphant version of Country Roads and the renown reggae group the Melodians were the first to turn the gospel/bluegrass classic Rivers of Babylon, (also previously covered by Willie) into a full-on reggae classic. Perhaps it s not a coincidence that reggae is sometimes referred to as Jamaica s country music, being that both forms have drawn similar lyrical content from everyday matters and share a foundation in spiritual and gospel music. Countryman is Willie s impassioned tribute to the upstroke sound of Jamaica, an irie voyage to the land of dub and dreadlocks. Willie takes a handful of his own classics and filters them through a reggae prism, peppering them with his nylon acoustic guitar, pedal steel, dobro, harmonica and the familiar comforts of country, while bringing drums and bass to the forefront, yard style. So, after a journey lasting over a decade, Willie s Jamaican vision at last sees the bright light of day. While it s just one in a long line of hyphenated hybrid projects the versatile genius has created over the years, this Co |
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Coxsone Dodd $52.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Clement Seymour “Sir Coxsone” Dodd, CD was a Jamaican record producer who was influential in the development of ska and reggae in the 1950s, 1960s and beyond. He received his nickname “Coxsone” at school: because of his teenage talent as a cricketer, his friends compared him to Alec Coxon, a member of the 1940s Yorkshire County Cricket Club team. Dodd used to play records to the customers in his parents’ shop. During a spell in the South of the United States he became familiar with the rhythm and blues music popular there at the time. In 1954, back in Jamaica, he set up the Downbeat Sound System, being the owner of an amplifier, a turntable, and some US records, which he would import from New Orleans and Miami |
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Cricket in Jamaica: Cricket grounds in Jamaica, Jamaica in international cricket, Jamaican cricketers, George Headley $21.16 Source: Source: Wikipedia,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by General Books LLC |
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Crime in Jamaica: Jamaican posse, Human trafficking in Jamaica, Yardie, Terrorism in Jamaica, $11.43 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jamaican posses, often referred to simply as posses, are a loose coalition of gangs, based predominantly in the New York City area and Toronto, Canada, first being involved in drugs and gun-running in the early 1980s. It is widely claimed that the Jamaican posses are affiliated with Jamaican political parties, such as the Jamaica Labour Party and the People’s National Party. The JLP posses dominate the west and south of Kingston and other smaller towns and the PNP posses are mainly found in the eastern and central side and there are a few that state they are not allied to either Political party. These are often in the Northern slums of downtown Kingston. In the United Kingdom, these Jamaican gangsters would be referred to as Yardies in reference to people who lived in “government yards” in the aftermath of Hurricane Charlie which hit Jamaica in 1951. They are strongly populated in London and are specifically known to have occupied and operate in their infamous grounds of Brixton, Harlesden, Queen’s Crescent and Hackney. Jamaican Posse members are known for gun battles with the police and drive-by shootings in disputes with rival gangs over drug turf. Posse members are known for ritualized killings of members who “rip off” profits on drugs. The killing ritual usually involves the shooting of the individual five times; four to the chest and one to the head. Other ritual violent acts have included the use of laundry irons, chainsaws, hammer and nails, vacuum cleaners, and butcher’s knives. Posse members have little regard for public safety or human life. As part of their code, extreme violence is directed at anyone they feel has disrespected them or is in their way. Once in prison, however, their violence is savage but not regular. The alleged … More: |
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Cutty Ranks $46.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Philip Thomas, better known as Cutty Ranks is a Jamaican reggae and dancehall artist. Thomas was born in Kingston, Jamaica in 1965. He began his career as a reggae artist at the age of 14 with the Gemini sound system, before moving on to work with Tony Rebel’s Rebel Tone and Papa Roots, and later working with Stereo Mars, Arrows and Metro Media. He joined Killamanjaro where he worked alongside Early B, Super Cat, Puddy Roots, and Little Twitch, and then Sturmars where he worked with Josey Wales, Nicodemus, Super Cat, U Brown, and Yami Bolo. His first job on leaving school was as a butcher. |
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DanceHall: From Slave Ship to Ghetto $14.99 DanceHall combines cultural geography, performance studies and cultural studies to examine performance culture across the Black Atlantic. Taking Jamaican dancehall music as its prime example, DanceHall reveals a complex web of cultural practices, politics, rituals, philosophies, and survival strategies that link Caribbean, African and African diasporic performance.Combining the rhythms of reggae, digital sounds and rapid-fire DJ lyrics, dancehall music was popularized in Jamaica during the later part of the last century by artists such as Shabba Ranks, Shaggy, Beenie Man and Buju Banton. Even as its popularity grows around the world, a detailed understanding of dancehall performance space, lifestyle and meanings is missing. Author Sonjah Stanley Niaah relates how dancehall emerged from the marginalized youth culture of Kingston’s ghettos and how it remains inextricably linked to the ghetto, giving its performance culture and spaces a distinct identity. She reveals how dancehall’s migratory networks, embodied practice, institutional frameworks, and ritual practices link it to other musical styles, such as American blues, South African kwaito, and Latin American reggaetòn. She shows that dancehall is part of a legacy that reaches from the dance shrubs of West Indian plantations and the early negro churches, to the taxi-dance halls of Chicago and the ballrooms of Manhattan. Indeed, DanceHall stretches across the whole of the Black Atlantic’s geography and history to produce its detailed portrait of dancehall in its local, regional, and transnational performance spaces. |
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Dear Jamaica: Expressions of Indigenous Knowledge $11.69 In this book, Jamaican born educator and scholar Dr. Jennifer Keane-Dawes, author of the popular letters Dear Jamaica, shares her experiences living and working as a single parent in the United States. |
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Deaths From Pneumothorax $9.8 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Dennis Emmanuel Brown (February 1, 1957 July 1, 1999) was a Jamaican reggae singer. During his prolific career, which began in the late 1960s when he was aged eleven, he recorded more than 75 albums and was one of the major stars of lovers rock, a sub-genre of reggae. Bob Marley cited Brown as his favourite singer, dubbing him “The Crown Prince of Reggae”, and Brown would prove hugely influential on future generations of reggae singers. Dennis Brown was born on 1 February 1957 at Jubilee Hospital in Kingston, Jamaica. His father Arthur was a scriptwriter, actor, and journalist, and he grew up in a large tenement yard between North Street and King Street in Kingston with his parents, three elder brothers and a sister, although his mother died in the 1960s. He attended Central Branch Primary School and later St. Stephens College. He began his singing career at the age of nine, while still at junior school, with an end-of-term concert the first time he performed in public, although he had been keen on music from an even earlier age, and as a youngster was a keen fan of American balladeers such as Brook Benton, Sam Cooke, Frank Sinatra, and Dean Martin. He cited Nat King Cole as one of his greatest early influences. He regularly hung around JJ’s record store on Orange Street in the rocksteady era and his relatives and neighbours would often throw Brown pennies to hear him sing in their yard. Brown’s first professional appearance came at the age of eleven, when he visited a local club where his brother Basil was performing a comedy routine, and where he made a guest appearance with the club’s resident group, the Fabulous Falcons (a group which included Cynthia Richards, David “Scotty” Scott, and Noel Brown). On the strength of this performance he… More: |
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Delicious Jamaica $14.95 Here is a wonderful array of tempting dishes as lively as the people of Jamaica themselves. Sample famous, spicy Jamaican-style soups and stews with an African beat, English dishes with mango and tamarind, island influences in Asian dishes, and many more delicious, traditional Jamaican treats. |
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Democracy After Slavery $35 Mimi Sheller’s ground-breaking comparative study analyzes the struggle for freedom and democracy in two Caribbean societies in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery. Pairing the revolutionary Republic of Haiti with the British colony of Jamaica, the author shows how peasants in the 19th-century Caribbean developed a radical critique of elite liberalism and constructed an alternative Pan-Caribbean African identity. Comparing two major peasant rebellions and the relation between them, she describes how Haitian and Jamaican survivors of slavery contributed to the making of democracy in the West. |
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Democracy After Slavery $55 Mimi Sheller’s ground-breaking comparative study analyzes the struggle for freedom and democracy in two Caribbean societies in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery. Pairing the revolutionary Republic of Haiti with the British colony of Jamaica, the author shows how peasants in the 19th-century Caribbean developed a radical critique of elite liberalism and constructed an alternative Pan-Caribbean African identity. Comparing two major peasant rebellions and the relation between them, she describes how Haitian and Jamaican survivors of slavery contributed to the making of democracy in the West. |
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Democracy After Slavery: Black Publics and Peasant Radicalism in Haiti and Jamaica $24.95 Mimi Sheller’s ground-breaking comparative study analyzes the struggle for freedom and democracy in two Caribbean societies in the aftermath of the abolition of slavery. Pairing the revolutionary Republic of Haiti with the British colony of Jamaica, the author shows how peasants in the 19th-century Caribbean developed a radical critique of elite liberalism and constructed an alternative Pan-Caribbean African identity. Comparing two major peasant rebellions and the relation between them, she describes how Haitian and Jamaican survivors of slavery contributed to the making of democracy in the West. |
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Dido’s Prize $7.5 Dido, a slave on a Jamaican sugar plantation, runs away to join Henry Morgan’s privateer fleet and find the treasure that will allow her to buy her family’s freedom. What she doesn’t bargain on is falling in love with El Negro, a pirate captain with no particular yen for a long-lasting relationship. As Morgan sails the Spanish Main, sacking first, El Puerto del Principe in Cuba, and then the great city of Porto Bello in Panama, Dido becomes a valued member of El Negro’s crew. After the ships return to Jamaica, Dido thinks she will never see the pirate captain again, but he comes to her rescue when she is in peril. They flee deep into the Blue Mountains, but El Negro knows he will never be safe on the island. Together, Dido and her pirate, head back out to sea to find a place where they can live and love in freedom. |
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Differentiation and self-aspects among Jamaican men and women. $49.99 Cultural competence is a key element in the delivery of mental health services in this diversified United States of America. As a result, information on cultural practices of immigrants has been proven useful. This study explored differentiation and self-aspects among Jamaican men and women, who were presumed to be collectivist and highly relational in nature. There were 135 participants with 58 men and 77 women between the ages of 25 and 66 years. Place of dwelling, as in urban or rural Jamaica, was also used as an independent variable. Differentiation was measured using The Differentiation of Self Inventory – Revised (Skowron & Friedlander, 1998) and self-aspects was measured using The Relational, Individual, and Collective Self-aspects scale (Kashima & Hardie, 2000). The hypotheses were not supported; however exploratory predictions were in expected and surprising directions. Jamaicans were found to be significantly lower in individual self-aspects than the normative sample of Australians (who are traditionally considered highly individualistic) as was anticipated. Additionally, Jamaicans reported a significantly higher level of collective self aspects than the normative sample. Contrary to assumptions Jamaicans scored lower on relational self-aspects than the normative population. Significant gender differences were also identified in the research. Men reported significant levels such as emotional reactivity, fusion with others, and individuality. Whereas, the Jamaican women reported significant correlations between individual self-aspects and comfort with taking the "I" Position. In conclusion, the research revealed an outdated system of classification of dwelling—urban/rural—which is thought to have impacted results of the study. |
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Differentiation and self-aspects among Jamaican men and women. $49.99 Cultural competence is a key element in the delivery of mental health services in this diversified United States of America. As a result, information on cultural practices of immigrants has been proven useful. This study explored differentiation and self-aspects among Jamaican men and women, who were presumed to be collectivist and highly relational in nature. There were 135 participants with 58 men and 77 women between the ages of 25 and 66 years. Place of dwelling, as in urban or rural Jamaica, was also used as an independent variable. Differentiation was measured using The Differentiation of Self Inventory – Revised (Skowron & Friedlander, 1998) and self-aspects was measured using The Relational, Individual, and Collective Self-aspects scale (Kashima & Hardie, 2000). The hypotheses were not supported; however exploratory predictions were in expected and surprising directions. Jamaicans were found to be significantly lower in individual self-aspects than the normative sample of Australians (who are traditionally considered highly individualistic) as was anticipated. Additionally, Jamaicans reported a significantly higher level of collective self aspects than the normative sample. Contrary to assumptions Jamaicans scored lower on relational self-aspects than the normative population. Significant gender differences were also identified in the research. Men reported significant levels such as emotional reactivity, fusion with others, and individuality. Whereas, the Jamaican women reported significant correlations between individual self-aspects and comfort with taking the "I" Position. In conclusion, the research revealed an outdated system of classification of dwelling—urban/rural—which is thought to have impacted results of the study. |
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Double Miracles In Discovery Bay, Hong Kong $1.99 “Double miracles in any place, and in Discovery Bay, Hong Kong in particular, are marvelous events and incredible happenings.” In her story, Marlegrecy takes us on a journey that is enriched by her personal encounter with our living God. It is a personal account of someone whose faith has been severely tested and how she persevered and held onto the precious and sure promises of God.Through her near-death experience and survival from ruptured brain aneurysms, she introduces us to a God, who is good, faithful, and almighty. Her story offers hope and inspiration to all who are going through “the valley of the shadow of death.”Linus S. Lau,Senior PastorChinese Baptist Church of Coral Springs, FloridaEnjoy! Be blessed!Marlegrecy N’Ovec, formerly Tmay Green-Linton-Dorsey, was born in Mandeville, Jamaica. She is a mother of three and Nana for Jordan, Miles and Micah. As a Doctor of Family and Community Education, an international Christian worker, seminarist, and writer, she has lived and worked in Jamaica, China, Hong Kong, Thailand and other countries. She currently serves in the Junior Church of the Chinese Baptist Church of Coral Springs, Florida, USA.Her writings include: Adult-Daughter-Mother Relationships, Aspects of Special Education in Early Childhood Education in Jamaica; articles on Sudden Infant Death (SIDS); What is Kwanzaa? Who are our Children?Unpublished and future titles: DOUBLE MIRACLES IN DISCOVERY BAY… Book 2: For My JourneyChildren’s Books: Math Tables Made Easy, Chicken Pox Tree; Double Talking Pebble; Adventures of Tilly The Toiler: A Jamaican Girl; My Baby Had Meningitis; TwiceGiven, Twice Blessed, Helper Adult Books: Divine Power of Attorney; Portraits of Excellence; Bound Yet Free; “A Great While Before Dawn”; “You Again?”; Dead, Married and Alive; The Moon and Me; A Dream Shared; ELTOR (Excellent Life To Resume); Parents and children as Joint |
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Drum Atlas: Jamaica – Bk+CD $16.95 Alfred Music Publishing is the world s largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational #44; reference #44; pop #44; and performance materials for teachers #44; students #44; professionals #44; and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument #44; style #44; and difficulty level. Jamaican music is loved throughout the world for its laid-back feel as well as its intense #44; lively rhythms. Its influence is apparent across many musical styles #44; from the reggae rhythms in the music of popular bands like The Police #44; to ska beats in the music of groups such as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Toasters. Even rap music evolved from the Jamaican vocal style called quot;toasting #44; quot; and the influence of Bob Marley is evident throughout the world of music and pop culture.Drum Atlas: Jamaica teaches you many of the enjoyable and challenging grooves and fills that make Jamaican music so unique #44; covering early styles such as nyabinghi (sacred drumming that accompanies vocal chanting and singing) to modern styles like ragga (played entirely on digital and electronic equipment). Study techniques like the three-drop #44; the steppers beat #44; and the skank #44; and discover forces behind the musiculike the spiritual influence of the Rastafarian religion. You apos;ll also learn how to translate rhythms from traditional instruments #44; such as the rumba box and timbales #44; to the drumset. With its wealth of ideas for modern drummers #44;Drum Atlas: Jamaica will inspire you to improve your technique #44; increase your knowledge #44; and make you a more well-rounded musician.The included CD demonstrates all the examples and compositions featured in the book #44; performed with a full Jamaican-style band. |
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Dub in Babylon: The Emergence and Influence of Dub Reggae in Jamaica and Britain in the 1970s $90 Dub reggae and the techniques associated with it have, since the late-1980s, been used widely by producers of dance and ambient music. However, the term was originally applied to a remixing technique pioneered in Jamaica as far back as 1967. Recording engineers produced reggae tracks on which the efforts of the producer were often more evident than those of the musicians these heavily engineered tracks were termed versions. The techniques used to produce versions quickly evolved into what is now known as dub. The term, in this sense, arrived in 1972 and was largely the result of experiments by the recording engineer Osbourne Ruddock/King Tubby. Over the decades, not only has dub evolved, but it has done so especially in the UK. Indeed, much contemporary music, from hip hop to trance and from ambient soundscapes to experimental electronica and drum ‘n bass is indebted to the remix culture principally informed by dub techniques. However, while obviously an important genre, its significance is rarely understood or acknowledged. Part One of the book examines the Jamaican background, necessary for understanding the cultural significance of dub, and Part Two analyses its musical, cultural and political importance for both African-Caribbean and, particularly, white communities in the United Kingdom during the late-1970s and early 1980s. Particular attention is given to the subcultures surrounding the genre, especially its relationship with Rastafarian culture the history and central beliefs of which are related to reggae and examined. There is also analysis of its cultural and musicological influence on punk and post-punk, the principal political music in late-1970s Britain. Finally, moving into the period of the decline of post-punk and, indeed, British dub in the early 1980s, there will be an examination of what can be understood as the postmodern turn in dub. In summary, the book is a confluence of several lines of thought. Firstly, it provides a cultural and |
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Duppy Stories $8.29 This delightful book is written by the Englishman, married to a Jamaican woman who exposed him to the stories of duppies and supernatural happenings in her hometown, Porus, Manchester and different parts of Jamaica. The range of stories encompasses tales from Porus and Redberry, and Old Harbour in St. Catherine, and recalls the aftermath of the Kendall Train crash ( Jamaica’s worst rail diaster). The book is a potpourri of authentic stories, some true, some ugly and sinister,some amusing.The book brings back all the childhood years of ghosts, gremlins and rolling calves, and brings to life the underbelly of a country devoutly religious , but yet open to the world of the ‘bush doctor’, replete with spirits and duppies. |
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Economy of Jamaica: Jamaican Pound, Bank of Jamaica, Life and Debt, Harvey V. Facey, Banana Support Programme, Jamaica Stock Exchange $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jamaica has natural resources, primarily bauxite, and an ideal climate conducive to agriculture and tourism. The discovery of bauxite in the 1940s and the subsequent establishment of the bauxite-alumina industry shifted Jamaica’s economy from sugar and bananas. By the 1970s, Jamaica had emerged as a world leader in export of these minerals as foreign investment increased. The country faces some serious problems but has the potential for growth and modernization. The Jamaican economy suffered its fourth consecutive year of negative growth (0.4%) in 1999. All sectors excepting bauxite/alumina, energy, and tourism shrank in 1998 and 1999. In 2000, Jamaica experienced its first year of positive growth since 1995. Nominal economic growth has continued to the upside approximately in line with US growth since. This is the result of the government’s continued tight macroeconomic policies, which have been largely successful. Inflation fell from 25% in 1995 to single digits in 2000, reaching a multidecade low of 4.3% in 2004. Through periodic intervention in the market, the central bank also has prevented any abrupt drop in the exchange rate. However, the Jamaican dollar has been slipping, despite intervention, resulting in an average exchange rate of J$73.40 per US$1.00 and J107.64 per 1.00 (May 2008). In addition, inflation has been trending upward since 2004 and is projected to once again reach a double digit rate of 12-13% through the year 2008 due to a combination of unfavorable weather damaging crops and increasing agricultural imports and high energy prices. Weakness in the financial sector, speculation, and lower levels of investment erode confidence in the productive sector. The government continues its efforts to raise new sovereign debt in lo… More: |
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Endless Visions $13.39 ENDLESS VISIONS is a modern-day book of poetry, focused on different aspects of life. The author has written poems which she hope will be motivational to readers, a source of encouragement to those experiencing personal tragedies in their lives, and to share personal feelings of the author. The poems are based on simple everday situations faced by many of us in the society.Poetry is an art, an expression of built-up emotions, sometimes hard to express in a regular conversation with others. This gives us the opportunity to acknowledge and face the issues that confront us in our daily lives.ENDLESS VISIONS also included several poems written about famous Jamaican cultural tourist destinations. It also included poems about Jamaicans who were considered legends in their own right, and who were very influential in promoting Jamaica worldwide. |
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English Rastafarians: Jack Tafari, Benjamin Zephaniah, Steel Pulse, Maxi Priest, H.r., Starkey Banton, Prince Malachi, Julian Marley $10.55 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jack Tafari, Benjamin Zephaniah, Steel Pulse, Maxi Priest, H.r., Starkey Banton, Prince Malachi, Julian Marley, Brinsley Forde, Misty in Roots. Excerpt: Benjamin Zephaniah Benjamin Obadiah Iqbal Zephaniah (born 15 April 1958, Birmingham , England) is a British Jamaican Rastafarian writer and dub poet . He is a well-known figure in contemporary English literature , and was included in The Times list of Britain’s top 50 post-war writers in 2008. Zephaniah has said that his mission is to fight the dead image of poetry in academia, and to “take everywhere” to people who do not read books. Early life Zephaniah was born and raised in Handsworth district of Birmingham, which he called the “Jamaican capital of Europe”, the son of a Barbados postman and a Jamaican nurse. A dyslexic , he attended an approved school but left aged 13 unable to read or write. He writes that his poetry emerged from the rhythms for Jamaica and “street politics”. His first performance was in church when he was ten, and by the age of fifteen, his poetry was already known among Handsworth’s Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities. He received a criminal record with the police as a young man and served a prison sentence for burglary. Tired of preaching only to black people about their own lives, he decided to expand his audience, and headed to London at the age of twenty-two. Views In November 2003, Zephaniah wrote in The Guardian that he had turned down an OBE from the Queen because it reminded him of “how my foremothers were raped and my forefathers brutalised.” He is an honorary patron of The Vegan Society , Viva! (Vegetarians International Voice for Animals), the anti-racism Newham Monitoring Project , and Tower Hamlets Summer University . Zephaniah is an animal rights advocate, and in 2004 he wrote the |
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Environment of the Cayman Islands: Birds of the Cayman Islands, Conservation in the Cayman Islands, Fauna of the Cayman Islands $28.48 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Birds of the Cayman Islands, Conservation in the Cayman Islands, Fauna of the Cayman Islands, Flora of the Cayman Islands, Ramsar Sites in the Cayman Islands, Trees of the Cayman Islands, Monk Parakeet, Blue Iguana, Ficus Aurea, List of Birds of the Cayman Islands, Mourning Dove, Roystonea Regia, Orchard Oriole, Cyclura Nubila Caymanensis, Swainson’s Warbler, Blue-Winged Warbler, Northern Flicker, Bursera Simaruba, Manchineel Tree, Cuban Amazon, White-Winged Dove, Zamia Integrifolia, White-Eyed Vireo, Acadian Flycatcher, Cedrela Odorata, Little Cayman, Western Wood Pewee, Drosophila Endobranchia, Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher, Sandbox Tree, Saffron Finch, Grand Cayman Thrush, Florida Torpedo, West Indian Woodpecker, Greater Antillean Grackle, Cuban Bullfinch, Crescentia Cujete, Plumeria Obtusa, Caribbean Dove, National Trust for the Cayman Islands, Sideroxylon Foetidissimum, Loggerhead Kingbird, Jamaican Oriole, Vitelline Warbler, Jamaica Walnut, Terminalia Eriostachya, Buffy Flower Bat, Cerion Nanus. Excerpt: Acadian Flycatcher The Acadian Flycatcher , Empidonax virescens , is a small insect -eating bird of the tyrant flycatcher family.Adults have olive upperparts, darker on the wings and tail, with whitish underparts; they have a white eye ring, white wing bars and a wide bill. The breast is washed with olive. The upper part of the bill is dark; the lower part is yellowish.Their breeding habitat is deciduous forests, often near water, across the eastern United States and southwestern Ontario . They make a loose cup nest in a horizontal fork in a tree or shrub.These birds migrate through eastern Mexico and the Caribbean to southern Central America and the very northwest of South America in Colombia , western Venezuela , and Ecuador .They wait on a perch in the middle of a tree |
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Ester Anderson $45.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Esther Anderson is a Jamaican filmmaker, photographer, and actress. Esther Anderson was born in the lush parish of St Mary on the north coast of Jamaica. Her father Randolph Anderson was an architect and planter. Of particular architectural interest, he built a house for Sir Harold Paton Mitchell, overlooking the sea in the colonial style of Jamaican great houses. Her mother Ivy Mae Mahon belonged to a well established Indian community in St Mary. Esther grew up in a magical environment where the indomitable power of nature was constantly challenged by the remarkable characters that tried a hand in controlling it. She studied at Highgate High School and at the Quaker Finishing School, where she joined the St John’s Ambulance Brigade. |
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Ethnic Groups In Jamaica, including: Super Cat, Lisa Hanna, Omar Lye-fook, Kamala-jean Gopie, Sabrina Colie, Indo-jamaican, Yendi Phillipps, Rajiv Maragh, Chinese Jamaican, History Of The Jews In Jamaica, Lebanese Jamaican, Jamaicans Of African Ancestry $13.87 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Ethnic Groups in Jamaica: Jamaicans of African Ancestry $10.66 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jamaicans of African Ancestry, Indo-Jamaican, Chinese Jamaican, History of the Jews in Jamaica, Lebanese Jamaican, Shaare Shalom Synagogue, Scottish Jamaican, Germans in Jamaica, Irish People in Jamaica. Excerpt: Jamaican English , Jamaican Patois item Religion item Christianity , Rastafari , Buddhism item Related ethnic groups item Jamaican British , Jamaican Americans , Jamaican Canadian , Chinese Brazilian , Indo-Jamaicans , Afro-Jamaican end{sloppypar Chinese Jamaicans are the descendants of migrants and immigrants from China , who are citizens of Jamaica , or descendants of Jamaicans. Over the years, many Jamaicans of Chinese descent have emigrated abroad.Migration history Most Chinese Jamaicans are Hakka and can trace their origin to the Chinese labourers that came to Jamaica in the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. The two earliest ships of Chinese migrant workers to Jamaica arrived in 1854, the first directly from China, the second composed of onward migrants from Panama ; they were contracted for plantation work. A further 200 would arrive in the years up until 1870, mostly from other Caribbean islands. Later, in 1884, a third wave of 680 Chinese migrants would arrive; with the exception of a few from Sze Yup , most of these were Hakka people from Dongguan , Huiyang , and Bao’an . This third wave of migrants would go on to bring more of their relatives over from China. Since the 1970s, there have been a significant emigration of Chinese Jamaicans from the island, primarily to the United States , United Kingdom and Canada . Since 2005, there have been an estimated 7,000 further migrants from the People’s Republic of China to Jamaica, mostly moving into areas such as Kingston, Montego Bay and Mandeville.Community organisations In comparison to Overseas Chinese |
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Extinct Animals Of Jamaica $8.59 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Jamaican Monkey (Xenothrix mcgregori) is an extinct species of monkey first uncovered at Long Mile Cave in Jamaica by Harold Anthony in 1919. Anthony is responsible for many species descriptions of Caribbean taxa during this period and his field notes record the discovery of the monkey material: January 17 Spent all day digging in the long mile cave and secured some good bones. The most important find was the lower jaw and femur of a small monkey, found in the yellow limestone detritus. It was not associated with the human remains but not so far from them that the animal must not be strongly suspected as an introduced species. It was deeper than any of the human bones by at least 10 to 1 (reproduced in Williams and Koopman, 1952) The eventual species description was not completed until 1952 when two graduate students, Ernest Williams and Karl Koopman, found the associated femur and mandibular fragment forgotten in a drawer at the American Museum of Natural History. They remained circumspect in placing this primate taxonomically as it had shared characteristics with a number of platyrrhine taxa. The small mandible has a dental formula of 2 incisors, 1 canine, 3 premolars and 2 molars a departure from the vast majority of living platyrrhines, with the notable exception of the callitrichines. It is significantly larger than the living callitrichines, and work by Rosenberger has largely eliminated the possibility that these taxa share a close phylogenetic relationship. Rosenberger suggested that the absence of the third molar in Xenothrix was not homologous with this character state in callitrichines. He based his assessment on the length of the molars relative to the molar row, and the inferred retention of hypocones on M1… More: |
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F E D S $9.97 The producers of the raw and uncensored Def Comedy Jam and the Tony Award-winning Def Poetry Jam, in association with F.E.D.S. magazine, now take millions of hip-hop fans to the birthplace of the multi-billion dollar rap industry…The Streets. Bringing to life the stories chronicled in each issue of the unofficial street bible, new Def Filmmaker Kwame Amouku is given a pass to the neighborhoods, sets and underground spots that street bosses would never allow TV cameras to enter. Original and present day sets of South Central and Compton Bloods and Crips with OGs T. Rodgers and Michael Concepcion as our tour guides. F.E.D.S. features: The underground breeding, training, fighting and execution dens of the street’s and hip-hop’s official mascot, the pit bull; The home and hustle spots of one of the only Harlem hustlers to ever get out of the game and live to tell about it. Told directly from the mouth of the legendary gentleman hustler himself, PeeWee Kirkland; The site of the attempted murder of F.E.D.S. founder Antoine Clark and the story of the magazine’s unlikely rise to become the street’s first publishing dynasty; A sneak preview of the home of legendary and present day bosses of the most notorious Jamaican Shottas, live and direct from Tivoli Gardens, Jamaica; The censors are off, the cameras are rolling and the streets are talking! Songs include: Being Lonely (Field Mob), Fly (213), Off the Wall (Skillz), Get By (Talib Kewli), Do Sumpthin? (Comp), B-More Anthem (Comp), Pushaman (Joe Budden), Safe (Scarface), In Cold Blood (Scarface), Uh Huh (Method Man), Hood Money (CNN) |
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Fauna $11.36 A satisfying and original work, this collection of poems offers moving personal insights as it reconstructs a Jamaican childhood from memory. Using striking metaphors drawn from the fauna and flora of Jamaica as well as images of painting as overarching devices, this volume explores the dichotomies of plentitude and emptiness, presence and absence, and nourishment and poison. Never allowing her longing for the island to become sentimental, the poet meticulously recreates her world in these heartfelt poems. |
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Fauna Of Jamaica, including: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Orchard Oriole, Mourning Dove, Western Wood Pewee, Blue-winged Warbler, Pine Warbler, Jamaican Crow, King Rail, White-eyed Vireo, Red-billed Streamertail, Black-billed Amazon, Green-rumped Parrotlet $16.39 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Fauna Of Jamaica, including: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Orchard Oriole, Mourning Dove, Western Wood Pewee, Blue-winged Warbler, Pine Warbler, Jamaican Crow, King Rail, White-eyed Vireo, Red-billed Streamertail, Black-billed Amazon, Green-rumped Parrotlet $17.78 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Fauna Of Jamaica, including: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Orchard Oriole, Mourning Dove, Western Wood Pewee, Blue-winged Warbler, Pine Warbler, Jamaican Crow, King Rail, White-eyed Vireo, Red-billed Streamertail, Black-billed Amazon, Green-rumped Parrotlet $17.78 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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Fauna Of Jamaica, including: Sharp-shinned Hawk, Orchard Oriole, Mourning Dove, Western Wood Pewee, Blue-winged Warbler, Pine Warbler, Jamaican Crow, King Rail, White-eyed Vireo, Red-billed Streamertail, Black-billed Amazon, Green-rumped Parrotlet $17.78 Hephaestus Books,Paperback, English-language edition,Pub by Hephaestus Books |
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First-Wave Ska Groups: Desmond Dekker $9.53 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Desmond Dekker (July 16, 1941 May 25, 2006 ) was a Jamaican ska, rocksteady and reggae singer-songwriter and musician. Together with his backing group, The Aces (consisting of Wilson James and Easton Barrington Howard), he had one of the first international Jamaican hits with “Israelites”. Other hits include “007 (Shanty Town)” (1967) and “It Miek” (1969). Before the ascent of Bob Marley, Dekker was one of the most popular musicians within Jamaica, and one of the best-known musicians outside it. He was born Desmond Adolphus Dacres in St. Andrew, Jamaica and grew up in Kingston, where he attended the Alpha Boys’ School. After his mother took ill and died, his father moved him to St. Mary, and then to St. Thomas, where he apprenticed as a tailor before returning to Kingston and taking a job as a welder, singing around his workplace while his co-workers encouraged him. In 1961 he auditioned for Coxsone Dodd (Studio One) and Duke Reid (Treasure Isle). Neither was impressed by his talents, and the young man moved on to Leslie Kong’s Beverley’s record label, where he auditioned before Derrick Morgan, then the label’s biggest star. With Morgan’s support, Dekker was signed but did not record until 1963 because Kong wanted to wait for the perfect song, which “Honour Your Mother and Father” was felt to be. “Honour Your Mother and Father” was a hit and was followed by “Sinners Come Home” and “Labour for Learning”, and at this time Desmond Dacres became Desmond Dekker. His fourth hit made him into one of the island’s biggest stars. It was “King of Ska”, a rowdy and jubilant song on which Dekker was backed by The Cherrypies (also known as The Maytals). Dekker then recruited four brothers, Carl, Patrick, Clive and Barry who became his backing band, The Fou… More: |
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Folk Dances of Jamaica $17.68 Folk Dances of Jamaica is a detailed practical and theoretical discussion of five Jamaican folk dances – the Kumina, Dinkie Minie, Quadrille, Bruckin’s, and Revival. The book’s strength and appeal lies in the care taken to introduce, describe and illuminate in detail these dances. The book is invaluable for the student of dance, providing as it does practical information on both technique and performance, and is illustrated with bold drawings by “H” Patten.The author herself trained as a dancer and her book was researched in traditional settings in Jamaica and at the Jamaica School of Dance, where she studied after graduating in Performing Arts from Leicester Polytechnic.She has maintained a strong interest in dance, becoming Dance and Mime Officer for East Midlands Arts in the late 1980s and then General Manager for Adzido Dance Ensemble. As Arts Council England’s Director of Dance from 1994 – 2003, Hilary championed the policy, development and promotion of all forms of dance nationally and internationally, before widening her expertise through leadership roles in the arts and broader cultural and creative industries. |
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Football Competitions in Jamaica: National Premier League, 2008-09 National Premier League, 2007-08 National Premier League, Jff Champions Cup $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: National Premier League, 2008-09 National Premier League, 2007-08 National Premier League, Jff Champions Cup, Western Confederation Super League, South Central Confederation Super League, Eastern Confederation Super League, Ksafa Super League, Ksafa Syd Bartlett League, Ksafa Major League. Excerpt: The National Premier League, also known as the Jamaican National Premier League and, for sponsorship purposes, the Digicel Premier League, is the first division football league in the nation of Jamaica. Twelve teams currently compete in the league. The competition is divided in three stages in which every team plays another once; after the third stage (i.e. after 33 games) the top six teams will be placed in one group and the bottom six in another. The top six teams will play against each other in the fourth round, with the top team being crowned champions. The bottom six teams will also only play against each other with no chance of winning the title. The bottom 2 are then relegated and 2 teams from a play-off of the 4 regional league winners are promoted. The top two teams from the league qualify for the CFU Club Championship, and the bottom two are relegated at the end of the season. To date, the NPL has produced three Caribbean championships by Portmore United F.C. (2005) and Harbour View F.C. (2004 |
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Football In Jamaica $9.34 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Jamaica National Football Team, Association Football in Jamaica, Jamaica Football Federation, Jamaica Women’s National Football Team. Excerpt: Football is the most popular sport in Jamaica . It was introduced to Jamaica by the British and quickly took hold. Other important sports in Jamaica include cricket , track and field , netball (for women), and the game of dominoes .History Roots of the game The most reliable records available indicate that football was introduced in Jamaica towards the end of the 19th century and 1893 is listed as the year Jamaica formed its first football club. It immediately found itself in competition with Cricket which had established earlier popular roots in the island. This may have been partly due to the climate, which suited cricket better.The Jamaica Football Federation Main article: Jamaica Football Federation The Jamaica Football Federation (JFF ) is the governing body of football in Jamaica . It was formed in 1910. It organises the men’s and women’s national teams and the Jamaican National Premier League . The current president of the JFF is Captain Horace Burrell, the General Secretary is Horace Reid and the treasurer is Garfield Sinclair.The JFF joined FIFA and CONCACAF in 1962.One of the major successes of the JFF came when the Jamaica national football team qualified for the 1998 FIFA World Cup in France . They did not progress beyond the first round, but managed to win their final group match against Japan, winning 2-1. They have also won the Caribbean Cup on three occasions.League system The Jamaican National Premier League is the highest level in Jamaican football.Below this, the clubs are separated on geographical grounds. Dependent on which parish a club is located in, it is a member of a specific confederation.Each of |
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Football Venues in Jamaica: Sabina Park, Independence Park, Greenfield Stadium, Prison Oval, Emmett Park, Elleston Wakeland Stadium $9.16 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Sabina Park, Independence Park, Greenfield Stadium, Prison Oval, Emmett Park, Elleston Wakeland Stadium, Railway Oval, Harbour View Stadium, Jarrett Park, Ferdi Neita Sports Complex, Frome Sports Club. Excerpt: Sabina Park is the home of the Kingston Cricket Club, and is the only Test cricket ground in Kingston, Jamaica and is often referred to as “The Holiday Home of Cricket”. Sabina Park became a Test cricket ground in 1930 when it hosted the visiting MCC team for the second Test in the West Indies’ first home series. This picturesque ground is perhaps one of the most significant in Test cricket history recording the first triple century in the game with England’s Andy Sandham’s 325 versus the West Indies in the 1930 game. The 365 not out by Sir Garfield Sobers which stood as a Test record for over 36 years is more regaled, as was Lawrence Rowe’s world record on debut 214 and 100 not out against the visiting New Zealanders in 1972. The George Headley stand which dominates the south end is currently the only stand in the ground named after anyone, and has a capacity of just over 6,000. The Eastern Stands has given way to a “Party Stand” replacing the popular “Mound” stand. The general capacity of Jamaicans for excess is aptly demonstrated in the construction of the huge five-level concrete stand which hosts the outside broadcast facilities, players facilities as well as a fleet of upscale private boxes. The members pavilion lies square of the wicket on the west side. The Blue Mountains form a backdrop to the north, facing the George Headley Stand, with Kingston Harbour to the south. This view is currently blocked by the Northern Stand, built as part of the ground’s redevelopment for the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Jamaican artist Richard H.Bla… More: |
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Frank Farian Artists: Boney M., Meat Loaf, Stevie Wonder, Milli Vanilli, Ralph Ruppert, Terence Trent D’arby, La Bouche, John Parr, Eruption $23.93 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Boney M., Meat Loaf, Stevie Wonder, Milli Vanilli, Ralph Ruppert, Terence Trent D’arby, La Bouche, John Parr, Eruption, Precious Wilson, Daddy Cool, Frank Farian, Gilla, La Mama, No Mercy, Far Corporation, Peter Hofmann, le Click, Force Majeure. Excerpt: Boney M. is a disco group created by German record producer Frank Farian. Originally based in West Germany, the four original members of the group’s official line-up were Jamaicans Liz Mitchell and Marcia Barrett, Montserratian Maizie Williams, and Aruban Bobby Farrell. The group was formed in 1975 and achieved popularity during the disco era of the late 1970s. German singer-songwriter Frank Farian (real name Franz Reuther) recorded the dance track “Baby Do You Wanna Bump” in December 1974. Farian sang the repeated line “Do you do you wanna bump?” in a deep voice (entirely studio created) as well as performing the high falsetto chorus. When the record was released as a single, it was credited to “Boney M.”, a pseudonym Farian had created for himself after watching the Australian detective show Boney. After a slow start, the song became a hit in the Netherlands and Belgium. It was then that Farian decided to hire performers to ‘front’ the group for TV performances. The Katja Wolfe booking agency found model-turned-singer Maizie Williams (originally from Montserrat) and her Jamaican singer friend Sheyla Bonnick for him, along with a dancer known only as “Mike” for the first gigs. Also during 1975, a girl named Nathalie joined but was soon replaced by Claudja Barry. Then Bonnick and Mike left, and Maizie Williams brought in Bobby Farrell, an exotic male dancer from Aruba. Singer Marcia Barrett (also from Jamaica) joined the group, which then went through another change in line-up when Claudja Bar… More: |
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Frank Worrell $42.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sir Frank Mortimer Maglinne Worrell (1 August 1924, Bank Hall, St Michael, Barbados – 13 March 1967, Kingston, Jamaica) is sometimes referred to by his nickname of Tae and was a West Indies cricketer and Jamaican senator. A stylish right-handed batsman and useful left-arm seam bowler, he became famous in the 1950s as the first black captain of the West Indies cricket team, and is the only batsman to have been involved in two 500-run partnerships in first-class cricket. |
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From private ownership to public ownership: A qualitative study of two Jamaican transitioned family firms. $49.99 Financial institutions in developing countries such as Jamaica impose many restrictions on small private firms seeking access to capital so these firms transition into public firms. However, to my knowledge, little or no in-depth research has been undertaken to understand the effects of transition and the implications for prospective firms in transition and investors wishing to make more informed investment decisions. This study sought to create more understanding of how family/privately-owned firms successfully make the transition from private ownership and full control to partial ownership and partial control. Narrative inquiry through interviews with eight experienced company directors and stockholders were tape-recorded, theme analyzed, and verified using raw archival yearly data from the firms’ archives for the last 12 years. The qualitative modes of data analysis provided the basis for interpreting meaningful patterns or themes. The data was analyzed and synthesized from two angles: narrative and textual analysis. As such, patterns and common themes emerged in responses to the research questions and led to patterns that summarized the firms’ overall experiences. These patterns suggest results that indicate technical competence and liquidity as the main drivers for building a solid capital base and successful transitioning; benchmarking, technology, and employees’ stockownership plans to counter government policies and financial crises. The overall social change implication of this study is that for firms to transition successfully they should consider technical competence as key to management and board compositions, and use liquidity as the social change indicator to overcome obstacles that impede their firms’ growth. |
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From private ownership to public ownership: A qualitative study of two Jamaican transitioned family firms. $49.99 Financial institutions in developing countries such as Jamaica impose many restrictions on small private firms seeking access to capital so these firms transition into public firms. However, to my knowledge, little or no in-depth research has been undertaken to understand the effects of transition and the implications for prospective firms in transition and investors wishing to make more informed investment decisions. This study sought to create more understanding of how family/privately-owned firms successfully make the transition from private ownership and full control to partial ownership and partial control. Narrative inquiry through interviews with eight experienced company directors and stockholders were tape-recorded, theme analyzed, and verified using raw archival yearly data from the firms’ archives for the last 12 years. The qualitative modes of data analysis provided the basis for interpreting meaningful patterns or themes. The data was analyzed and synthesized from two angles: narrative and textual analysis. As such, patterns and common themes emerged in responses to the research questions and led to patterns that summarized the firms’ overall experiences. These patterns suggest results that indicate technical competence and liquidity as the main drivers for building a solid capital base and successful transitioning; benchmarking, technology, and employees’ stockownership plans to counter government policies and financial crises. The overall social change implication of this study is that for firms to transition successfully they should consider technical competence as key to management and board compositions, and use liquidity as the social change indicator to overcome obstacles that impede their firms’ growth. |
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From private ownership to public ownership: A qualitative study of two Jamaican transitioned family firms. $108 Financial institutions in developing countries such as Jamaica impose many restrictions on small private firms seeking access to capital so these firms transition into public firms. However, to my knowledge, little or no in-depth research has been undertaken to understand the effects of transition and the implications for prospective firms in transition and investors wishing to make more informed investment decisions. This study sought to create more understanding of how family/privately-owned firms successfully make the transition from private ownership and full control to partial ownership and partial control. Narrative inquiry through interviews with eight experienced company directors and stockholders were tape-recorded, theme analyzed, and verified using raw archival yearly data from the firms’ archives for the last 12 years. The qualitative modes of data analysis provided the basis for interpreting meaningful patterns or themes. The data was analyzed and synthesized from two angles: narrative and textual analysis. As such, patterns and common themes emerged in responses to the research questions and led to patterns that summarized the firms’ overall experiences. These patterns suggest results that indicate technical competence and liquidity as the main drivers for building a solid capital base and successful transitioning; benchmarking, technology, and employees’ stockownership plans to counter government policies and financial crises. The overall social change implication of this study is that for firms to transition successfully they should consider technical competence as key to management and board compositions, and use liquidity as the social change indicator to overcome obstacles that impede their firms’ growth. |
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Generating Genius: Black Boys in Search of Love, Ritual and Schooling $22.1 This empowering book looks beyond the notion that institutional racism is responsible for low attainment at school. Instead it explores the complexities surrounding masculinity and the need to transform them into a positive force. The book shows the ways in which this can be done—by providing boys with a framework of love, ritual and schooling. Generating Genius is the culmination of Tony Sewell’s ambitious project—which he and participating boys describe here— in which groups of British and Jamaican boys attended summer schools at universities. The project was underpinned by research from schools in Jamaica and—uniquely—Samoa, and its methods and results can be applied anywhere. Dr. Sewell relates how the concerted and consistent interventions made in the sample schools have turned around the lives of their pupils. One strategy is intellectual rigor—the 12 year-olds in the project worked at a level demanded of 18 year-olds. Another is that such rigorous demands are accompanied by caring and reliable support and exciting physical and cultural pursuits. Ultimately, the project is about teaching Black boys how to succeed in a system that seems to work against them. Sewell doesn’t quite let teachers off the hook, nor does he deny the reality of racism and its impact on boys’ lives. What makes this book indispensable for all who work or are preparing to work in education is the key strategies he outlines for schools and teachers to cultivate the genius within their students and help Black boys to grow a skin not of resistance but of resilience. |
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George William Gordon $44.59 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! George William Gordon (1820*-1865) was a Jamaican businessman and politician. On the centenary of his death, he was proclaimed a National Hero of Jamaica. Gordon was the 2nd of 7 children born to a white planter, Joseph Gordon (Abt. 1790-1867) and a mullato slave, Ann Rattray (Abt 1792-before 1865) in April 1815 although many accounts give his birth as 1820. Gordon became a businessman and a landowner in the parish of St Thomas-in-the-East.[1] His other siblings are Mary Ann Gordon (abt 1813), Margaret Gordon (abt 1819), Janet Isabella Gordon (Abt 1824), John Gordon (Abt 1825), Jane Gordon (Abt 1826) and Ann Gordon (Abt 1828) all born on the Cherry Gardens Estate. |
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German Reggae Musicians: Gentleman, Seeed, Peter Fox, Jan Delay, Patrice Bart-Williams, Dr. Ring-Ding, D-Flame $8.96 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Tilmann Otto (April 19, 1975 in Osnabrück, Germany), better known by his stage name Gentleman, is a German Reggae musician. Gentleman resides in Cologne, but sometimes names Jamaica as his home away from home. He is the son of a Lutheran pastor. He is the father of two children named Samuel and Tamica, and married to Tamika, a background singer of the Far East Band, which has been supporting him since his first concert tour of Germany in 2002. He has been traveling to Jamaica regularly since he was 16 years old. Legend has it that he became hooked on his brother’s Reggae records and thus wanted to get to know Jamaica first-hand. The island has become a second home for him. In the meantime, Gentleman is also regarded as a popular reggae artist in Jamaica as well, which he regards as an honor, being a European. His career began with the collaboration of the band Freundeskreis which produced the song “Tabula Rasa.” After beginning his career as a Deejay, his music oriented itself on the classic form of the reggae genre, like that of Bob Marley. He sings mainly in English or rather Patois (Jamaican-Creole). With songs like “Send A Prayer,” Gentleman expresses his deep belief in God, without referring to a particular religion. His album, Confidence, climbed to number 1 on the German album charts in 2004. After ten years of making music under the label Four Music he moved to Universal in 2010. … More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3009332 |
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Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery $49.99 High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Golden Krust Caribbean Bakery & Grill is a Jamaican, West Indian and Caribbean cuisine fast food chain based in the Bronx, New York. The parent company is owned by immigrants from Jamaica, and the stores are franchised. There are 120 Golden Krust restaurants in almost a dozen states including Florida, Maryland, North Carolina, and Massachusetts. The company also distributes food products to retailers, and is the largest producer of Caribbean style baked products in the U.S. and considered the foremost Jamaican business in the U.S. It is also “the only company that makes and distributes nine varieties of Jamaican-style patties.” |
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Greek Monks: Greek Christian Monks, Theodore the Studite, Gregory Palamas, John Iv Laskaris, Raphael Morgan, Papaflessas, Evagrius Ponticus $21.42 Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher’s book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Greek Christian Monks, Theodore the Studite, Gregory Palamas, John Iv Laskaris, Raphael Morgan, Papaflessas, Evagrius Ponticus, Athanasios Diakos, Joannicius the Great, Joseph the Hymnographer, George Hamartolus, Cyriacus the Anchorite, Dionysius the Philosopher, Isaac of Dalmatia, Maximos Planoudes, Theophanes the Branded, Vissarion Korkoliacos, Sergius of Valaam, Saint Regulus, Cosmas of Aetolia, Athanasius the Athonite, Theophanes the Cretan, Dionysius of Fourna, Caloyers, Prochorus Cydones, Michael Maleinos, John the Silent, Matthew Blastares. Excerpt: Ecumenical Patriarchate:Albanian – Carpatho-RussianBelarusian – Greek – UkrainianPalestinian/Jordanian Very Rev. Raphael Morgan (born Robert Josias Morgan, 186x/187x – 19xx) was a Jamaican-American priest of the Ecumenical Patriarchate, designated as “Priest-Apostolic” (Greek: ) to America and the West Indies, later the founder and superior of the Order of the Cross of Golgotha, and thought to be the first Black Orthodox clergyman in America. He spoke broken Greek, and therefore served mostly in English. Having recently been discovered, his life has garnered great interest, but much of his life still remains shrouded in mystery. Fr. Raphael is said to have resided all over the world, including: “in Palestine, Syria, Joppa, Greece, Cyprus, Mytilene, Chios, Sicily, Crete, Egypt, Russia, Ottoman Turkey, Austria, Germany, England, France, Scandinavia, Belgium, Holland, Italy, Switzerland, Bermuda, and the United States.” Robert Josias Morgan was born in Chapelton, Clarendon Parish, Jamaica either in the late 1860s or early 1870s to Robert Josias and Mary Ann (née Johnson) Morgan. He was born six months after his father’s death, and named in his honour. Robert was raised in the Anglican tradi… |
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Greenwichtown $20.94 Jamaican writer Joyce Palmer is a first-time novelist who writes with raw talent and true freshness, in a voice that’s uncontrived, unselfconscious, and immediate. Her narrator, Fay, sees the world with endearing simplicity and innocence, bearing her trials and mistakes with hope and honesty. Set in Jamaica, Greenwichtown is the story of Fay Myrtle, a young, innocent, eight-year-old girl who lives in a shack outside a Jamaican plantation. An older sister takes her from the village to live in the inner-city ghettos of Greenwichtown, where she lives as her sister’s daughter. There she has the chance to go to school and attend church, and her inner life thrives despite abuse by her sister and the squalor and poverty surrounding her. But as she struggles to come of age, searching for love, she gets caught up in a web of betrayal and is devastated by the death of the only man who ever loved her. |
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Guitar Atlas: Jamaica – Bk+CD $14.95 Alfred Music Publishing is the world s largest educational music publisher. Alfred produces educational #44; reference #44; pop #44; and performance materials for teachers #44; students #44; professionals #44; and hobbyists spanning every musical instrument #44; style #44; and difficulty level. Jamaican music is loved throughout the world for its laid-back feel as well as its intense #44; lively rhythms. Its influence is apparent across many musical styles #44; from reggae rhythms in the songs of popular bands like The Police #44; to ska beats in the music of groups such as The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and The Toasters. Even rap music evolved from the Jamaican vocal style called otoasting #44;o and the influence of Bob Marley is evident throughout the world of music and pop culture.Guitar Atlas: Jamaica teaches many of the styles that make Jamaican music so unique #44; from early movements like mento (the calypso-inspired style popular in the 1950s) to modern styles like dub (an electronic form of reggae). You ll learn about the spiritual influence of the Rastafarian religion and explore the work of numerous Jamaican musicians #44; including Lord Flea #44; Count Lasher #44; The Maytals #44; The Skatalites #44; Lynn Taitt #44; Bob Marley #44; Black Uhuru #44; Ernest Ranglin #44; and many others. With a wealth of chordal and melodic ideas for the guitar #44; this book will improve your technique #44; increase your knowledge #44; and make you a more well-rounded musician.The CD demonstrates all the examples and compositions featured in the book. |
