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Author : Marcia Bernice Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)
Download or read book Electricity Comes to Cocoa Botton written by Marcia Bernice Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marcia Douglas
Publisher : Poetry Book Society Recommenda
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Electricity Comes to Cocoa Bottom written by Marcia Douglas and published by Poetry Book Society Recommenda. This book was released on 1999 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marcia Douglas, who was born in England and grew up in Jamaica, presents poems beginning with the image of the voicelessness of the country people who witness the coming of lights to Cocoa Bottom but have no one amongst them to record the event. Each poem has its own poignant individually, but there is also a powerful sense of architecture which runs through the collection.
Author : Marcia Douglas
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Notes from a Writer's Book of Cures and Spells written by Marcia Douglas and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Writing is a cover for necromancy", Carmen Innocencia accuses her creator, Flamingo Tongue, a young Jamaican writer. Carmen is not the only one of Flamingo's creations to confront her author, for her characters and their tragic, heartening story come vividly alive, perhaps too alive, and just to make sure she can control them, Flamingo makes doll figures of them, but even then... There is Alva Donovan, blinded in childhood, with one seeing eye, one dreaming eye, with whom Flamingo exchanges shoes and in whom she begins to fear she will lose herself. There are the other members of the Donovan family: Dahlia, Paul aka Made in China, and their parents Mama Milly and Daddy Clive the bee-keeper whose sudden, violent deaths set up the patterns of separation and eventual reconnection and healing that run through the novel. As Carmen's accusation suggests, this is a novel set at the cross-roads between the living and the dead - and the cemetery literally becomes the refuge of the orphaned children - between the harsh realities of the violence which spills over from an election campaign and a world where dreams, spirit possession and women who become snails are just as real."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Marcia Douglas
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
ISBN 13 : 9781845233327
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (333 download)
Download or read book The Marvellous Equations of the Dread written by Marcia Douglas and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted: 2017 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature Bob Marley is dead. The Emperor Haile Selassie has been brutally murdered. The armed gangs of Kingston are at war and the murder rate soars. The people have lost all trust in self-serving politicians. It is hard to imagine worse times. The Marvellous Equations of the Dread tells the twin stories of Jamaica's nihilistic violence and its wondrously creative humanity and does truthful justice to both. It takes place in the worlds of the living and in the vivid afterlife of the dead, spanning the Kingston ghettoes, the Emperor's palace in Addis Ababa and Zion. There is even a fallen angel. At its heart are the human stories of the deaf Leenah who with her mother and daughter writes a powerful woman version of events; the relationship between Fall-down (the street madman and fallen angel) and Delroy the orphaned street-boy, and the meetings in the clock tower at Half Way Tree between Bob Marley, Marcus Garvey and the island's dead. There is also the enslaved boy who was hung from the silk cotton tree in 1766. The novel sets out to retrieve the word at the tip of his tongue. Not least of the novel's marvellous equations are the dread revenants who encourage the living to take responsibility for the future of the nation.
Author : Erik Buck
Publisher : Pearson Education
ISBN 13 : 0321591208
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (215 download)
Download or read book Cocoa Design Patterns written by Erik Buck and published by Pearson Education. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Next time some kid shows up at my door asking for a code review, this is the book that I am going to throw at him.” –Aaron Hillegass, founder of Big Nerd Ranch, Inc., and author of Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X Unlocking the Secrets of Cocoa and Its Object-Oriented Frameworks Mac and iPhone developers are often overwhelmed by the breadth and sophistication of the Cocoa frameworks. Although Cocoa is indeed huge, once you understand the object-oriented patterns it uses, you’ll find it remarkably elegant, consistent, and simple. Cocoa Design Patterns begins with the mother of all patterns: the Model-View-Controller (MVC) pattern, which is central to all Mac and iPhone development. Encouraged, and in some cases enforced by Apple’s tools, it’s important to have a firm grasp of MVC right from the start. The book’s midsection is a catalog of the essential design patterns you’ll encounter in Cocoa, including Fundamental patterns, such as enumerators, accessors, and two-stage creation Patterns that empower, such as singleton, delegates, and the responder chain Patterns that hide complexity, including bundles, class clusters, proxies and forwarding, and controllers And that’s not all of them! Cocoa Design Patterns painstakingly isolates 28 design patterns, accompanied with real-world examples and sample code you can apply to your applications today. The book wraps up with coverage of Core Data models, AppKit views, and a chapter on Bindings and Controllers. Cocoa Design Patterns clearly defines the problems each pattern solves with a foundation in Objective-C and the Cocoa frameworks and can be used by any Mac or iPhone developer.
Author : Emily A. Williams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313077436
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Anglophone Caribbean Poetry, 1970-2001 written by Emily A. Williams and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caribbean poetry written in English has been attracting growing amounts of scholarly attention. The first substantial annotated bibliography of primary and secondary materials related to the topic, this reference chronicles the development of Anglophone Caribbean poetry from 1970 through 2001. Included are nearly 900 entries for anthologies, reference works, conference proceedings, critical studies, interviews, and recorded works. The volume also includes a chronology, an overview of the development and significance of Caribbean poetry in English, and extensive indexes. In 1971 the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies held a conference on West Indian literature at the University of the West Indies. This was the first assembly for the discussion of West Indian literature by West Indian people on West Indian soil. Since then, interest in Caribbean poetry written in English has grown dramatically. Caribbean poetry was influenced by the American Black Power movement during the 1970s, and women poets began to contribute their voices throughout the 1980s. Caribbean poets have, in turn, gained greater access to publishing outlets, resulting in a wider international readership and a corresponding increase in scholarly and critical studies. This book is the first substantial annotated bibliography of primary and secondary materials related to Caribbean poetry written in English. The volume begins with the rise of interest in Anglophone Caribbean poetry in the 1970s and continues through 2001. Included are entries for nearly 900 anthologies, reference works, conference proceedings, critical studies, interviews, and recordings. The entries are grouped in chapters devoted to particular types of works. In addition, the volume includes a chronology, a discussion of the history of Anglophone Caribbean poetry, and extensive indexes.
Author : Ishion Hutchinson
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374604835
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (746 download)
Download or read book Far District written by Ishion Hutchinson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2024-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A marvelous book of generous, giving poems." —Yusef Komunyakaa, author of Everyday Mojo Songs of Earth Far District, the transporting debut by the author of House of Lords and Commons, charts the spiritual path of a poet-speaker caught between two spheres: the culture of bush people and a luminous, dangerous sea of myth. Crafting an impressionistic portrait of his youth in Jamaica, Ishion Hutchinson explores the West Indian distrust of European literature and mythology. The speaker fears the land of myth because he is loyal to the bush people, but he also desires to transcend his physical and intellectual poverty. Little by little, the two cultures come together as the speaker begins grafting childhood memories onto the realm of imagination, shaped by art, music, literature, and new glimpses of the world. Written in both traditional and formless verse, as well as in English and Jamaican patois, Far District is an indelible, urgent collection. As the PEN/Joyce Osterweil Award committee said of its 2011 winner, “Far District is a classic, which is to say a rare and exemplary first book.”
Author : Christina Nichol
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468310445
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)
Download or read book Waiting for the Electricity written by Christina Nichol and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2014-06-26 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the republic of Georgia, the Communists are long gone, replaced by . . . well, by what? Something much more confusing. There are no jobs in the cities. And when there are jobs, employees aren’t compensated. And when they are compensated, it’s because the jobs are . . . not strictly scrupulous. In the village, life goes on much as it always did, but these days, the homemade farmers cheese is giving way to the oil pipeline. And as for romance in this strange, confounding modern age . . . the less said, the better. But there’s one man in Georgia who remains unseduced by corruption, unfazed by nostalgia, and unable to abandon chivalry, no matter how antiquated a notion it may be. This man is Slims Achmed Makashvili, a humble maritime lawyer and the hero of this brilliant novel. When Slims discovers an application for an American small business internship program sponsored by Hillary Clinton, he knows that he has found his calling. In his letters to Senator Clinton, Slims dreams of bringing efficiency, opportunity, and the American dream to his homeland, even as his friends and relatives embrace decadence, lethargy, and a staggering array of unsavory business practices. But when he finally gets to America—specifically to utopian San Francisco, where the streets are paved with quinoa—Slims sees what reform and progress look like up close. And suddenly, his loud, bickering family and his anguished, joyful country no longer seem so grim. A gleeful picaresque, a visionary satire, and a work of extraordinary empathy and imagination, Waiting for the Electricity is a marvelously imaginative debut novel.
Author : Paul Collier
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195374630
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Bottom Billion written by Paul Collier and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2008-10-02 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bottom Billion is an elegant and impassioned synthesis from one of the world's leading experts on Africa and poverty. It was hailed as "the best non-fiction book so far this year" by Nicholas Kristoff of The New York Times.
Author : Duncan Green
Publisher : Oxfam
ISBN 13 : 0855985933
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (559 download)
Download or read book From Poverty to Power written by Duncan Green and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2008 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a look at the causes and effects of poverty and inequality, as well as the possible solutions. This title features research, human stories, statistics, and compelling arguments. It discusses about the world we live in and how we can make it a better place.
Author : S. T. Beckett
Publisher : Royal Society of Chemistry
ISBN 13 : 9780854046003
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Science of Chocolate written by S. T. Beckett and published by Royal Society of Chemistry. This book was released on 2000 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the history, ingredients, and processing techniques used in the manufacture of chocolate.
Author : Charles Blackstone
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292783086
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Art of Friction written by Charles Blackstone and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-06-03 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "We live in an Enquirer, reality television–addled world, a world in which most college students receive their news from the Daily Show and discourse via text message," assert Charles Blackstone and Jill Talbot. "Recently, two nonfiction writers have been criticized for falsifying memoirs. Oprah excoriated James Frey on her show; Nasdijj was impugned by Sherman Alexie in Time. Is our next trend in literature to lock down such boundaries among the literati? Or should we address the fictionalizing of nonfiction, the truth of fiction?" The Art of Friction surveys the borderlands where fiction and nonfiction intersect, commingle, and challenge genre lines. It anthologizes nineteen creative works by contemporary, award-winning writers including Junot Díaz, Jonathan Safran Foer, Thomas Beller, Bernard Cooper, Wendy McClure, and Terry Tempest Williams, who also provide companion pieces in which they comment on their work. These selections, which place short stories and personal essays (and hybrids of the two) side by side, allow readers to examine the similarities and differences between the genres, as well as explore the trends in genre overlap. Functioning as both a reader and a discussion of the craft of writing, The Art of Friction is a timely, essential book for all writers and readers who seek the truthfulness of lived experience through (non)fictions.
Author : Geoffrey Philp
Publisher : Peepal Tree Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Florida Bound written by Geoffrey Philp and published by Peepal Tree Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Geoffrey Philp's poems of exasperation and longing explore a reluctance to leave Jamaica and the 'marl-white roads at Struie' and anger that 'blackman still can't live in him own/black land' where 'gunman crawl like bedbug'. But whilst poems explore the keeness and sorrows of an exile's memory, the new landscape of South Florida landscape fully engages the poet's imagination. The experience of journeying is seen as part of a larger pattern of restless but creative movement in the Americas. Philp joins other Caribbean poets in making use of nation language, but few have pushed the collision between roots language and classical forms to greater effect. "Philp weaves dialect and landscape into his lines with subtle authority. It is easy to get caught up in the content and miss the grace of his technique." Carrol Fleming, The Caribbean Writer. Geoffrey Philp was born in Jamaica. He now lives and works in Miami.
Author : Martin Mordecai
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313089159
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Culture and Customs of Jamaica written by Martin Mordecai and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-11-30 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jamaica is known widely for its beautiful beaches and the reggae music scene, but there is much more to this Caribbean country. Culture and Customs of Jamaica richly surveys the fuller wealth of the Caribbean nation, focusing on its people, history, religion, education, language, social customs, media and cinema, literature, music, and performing and visual arts. Jamaican Creole and the education system, which are not often discussed in volumes aimed at a general audience, are also examined here. Students and other interested readers will witness the unveiling of this complicated and unique country within this volume. Indispensable for the its insights on the making of modern Jamaica. Written by Jamaicans the island receives needed attention in this work. The history of Jamaica is well covered, from pre-Colombian times through slavery, to the impact of social activist Marcus Garvey, and the relatively new state of independence. Rastfarianism to Revivalism are covered as Jamaica's multitude of religious denominations is outlined. Various topics such as geography, demography, climate, cuisine, and the visual and performing arts are detailed. Accompanied by a chronology, this magical country comes to life in this wide-ranging volume. Anyone with an interest in Jamaica and its culture and customs will be indebted to the authors for their timely presentation. Students and general readers will find this volume indispensable.
Author : Marcia Douglas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Madam Fate written by Marcia Douglas and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel whose protagonists are a group of Jamaican women. One is a shapeshifter, another a cleaner in New York, a third is in a lunatic asylum and a fourth is waiting to die. A first novel.
Author : M. J. Fenwick
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sisters of Caliban written by M. J. Fenwick and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Representing the best of contemporary voices, this multilingual anthology speaks of a unified aspiration to defy the colonial and paternalistic tradition and create strong new models which positively promote the black women's perspective
Author : John Monteith
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN 13 : 9780713129311
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (293 download)
Download or read book Principles of Environmental Physics written by John Monteith and published by Butterworth-Heinemann. This book was released on 1990-02-15 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thoroughly revised and up-dated edition of a highly successful textbook.
