New Appoinment at the UWI for IRP Author

Hazel Simmons-McDonald, Author of Silk Cotton and Other Trees and co-author of Writing in English: A Coursebook for Caribbean Students, has been appointed Pro Vice Chancellor of the University of the West Indies for Non-Campus Countries and Distance Education from the academic year 2007/2008.

Hazel is a Professor of Applied Linguistics in the Department of Language. Lingusitics and Literature in the Faculty of Humanities and Education at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill, Barbados.

28 New Books in 2007

What a year its been! We're at the end of week 47 and we've produced a total of 28 NEW books this year - that's a new book every 12 days!
Some of this year's highlights include books published to coincide with the commemoration of the Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Transatlantic Trade in Africans. These include Trading Souls: Europe's Transatlantic Trade in Africans to the Caribbean and Saving Souls: The African and British Struggles to End the Transatlantic Trade in African Peoples; African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Beyond the Silence and the Shame and our feature book, Marcus Garvey. We also had our usual fair share of books in the areas of Society & Government; Cultural & Diaspora Studies; Politics & International Relations; Urban Studies and Integration Studies. Look for the new books in all of these areas at www.ianrandlepublishers.com.

IRP Author is new Finance Minister of Trinidad and Tobago

Congratulations to Karen Nunez-Tesheira on her recent appointment as Minister of Finance in Trinidad and Tobago. Karen is an attorney-at-law and former Senior Lecturer at the Hugh Wooding Law School in Trinidad. She is the author of Non-Contentious Probate Practice in the English Speaking Caribbean and The Legal Profession in the English Speaking Caribbean, both of which are used by practitioners and students of the Norman Manley Law School (Jamaica), the Hugh Wooding Law School (Trinidad) and the Eugene Dupuch Law School (the Bahamas).

Above: Karen Nunez-Tesheira

Revisiting Caribbean Labour

Revisiting Caribbean Labour: Essays in Honour of O. Nigel Bolland

The seven contributions in this collection originate from a colloquium organized by the Caribbean Studies Association in 2003 in Belize in honour of O. Nigel Bolland, who wrote an afterword for the volume. The contributions are inspired by Bolland's The Politics of Labour in the British Caribbean. In addition to British territories, Puerto Rico and Cuba are reviwed here. In his brief afterword, Bolland calls attention to the special position of the Caribbean that places labour at the vanguard of global trends. He argues that neoliberalism has brought about a chronic and structural crisis in the region.

Adapted from the International Review of Social History

Vol. 52 (2007), PART 1

O. Nigel Bolland

From the Journal of the Royal Anthrolpological Institute

Jamaican Hands Across the Atlantic
Elaine Bauer and Paul Thompson

This book brings up some of the key issues regarding Caribbean migrants and dispels or at least modifies a number of problematic assumptions that seem to have accrued over time. The focus is on transnational families and the evidence that these should not be regarded simply as separated families, but rather as a new kind of family that manages to retain many of the forms and functions of co-residential family life....Quite apart from the many different facets of migration that receive illumniation or are effectively updated by this book, the particular quality of the volume as a whole comes from its style and form, which are clearly influenced by Thompson's lifelong association with oral history and Bauer's empathy with her Jamaican origins.

Adapted from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 13, 743-783

© Royal Anthropological Institute 2007

Congratulations

Congratulations to IRP Author Rebecca Tortello on her appoinment as Special Adviser/Consultant to the Minister of Education in the areas of Early Childhood and Parenting. Rebecca is the author of bestselling Pieces of the Past: A Stroll Down Jamaica's Memory Lane (2007).

2 New Family Members

IRP welcomes Lisa-Marie Clunis and Kaci Hamilton to the IRP family. Lisa, already in the swing of things joined the Marketing department in July. Contact her at marketing@ianrandlepublishers.com for review and desk copy requests and information on forthcoming books. Kaci is our Assistant Editor and already has her hands full with exciting new projects for 2008. Kaci can be contacted at editorial2@ianrandlepublishers.com.

Above: Lisa

At Right: Kaci

One for the Record Books

In less than 6 months since its release, Rosemarie Stone's No Stone Unturned has sold over 4,000 copies. A first for Ian Randle Publishers, the unprecedented sale of this book is perhaps a first for any book published in the Caribbean. Although most of the sales have been through traditional bookshops and online through http://www.ianrandlepublishers.com/, the last 1,000 copies were bought by the Jamaican National Health Fund (NHF) for donation to the Jamaica Library Service. At the presentation ceremony to hand over the books on Tuesday October 30, 2007, Health Minister Ruddy Spencer praised Rosie for her courage in sharing her story. In 1993, Rosemarie Stone had to deal with the death of her husband well-known Political Scientist Carl Stone and the discovery of her own HIV-positive status. No Stone Unturned is Rosie's story of her fight against the debilitating effects of the virus and against the stigma and discrimination that follows anyone living with the virus. It is a story of love and loss; of courage and resilience and a truly inspirational memoir.

Rosie Stone signs copies of her book

No Stone Unturned at the launch in May 2007.

Letters to the Editor

Taken from the Daily Gleaner Newspaper

Wednesday, October 31, 2007

Bold step for our benefit

The EDITOR, Sir:

The recent publication of the Illustrated Biography of Marcus Garvey is yet another great milestone in Jamaica's history.

This is the country's greatest National hero and his achievements, both local and international, are convincing proof.

Prime Minister Golding is right on target in proposing the introduction of this book into the school curriculum because every Jamaican should be knowledgeable about all its National Heroes, and the school is the best way to start.

I hope this book will be readily available in all public places like hospitals, for all to be educated about our great history and one of the great persons who courageously sacrificed for it.

This book would make a great gift.

I am, etc.,

WINSTON FRASER

winpatt@verizon.net

Rosedale, Queens, N.Y.

Via Go-Jamaica