Jamaica Blue

Jamaica Blue

Author: Don Bruns

Publisher: Minotaur Books

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 142997138X

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When successful and charming rock journalist Mick Sever goes to Jamaica to see the 'next big thing', a reggae/rap band with a flare for hypnotic beats and violent lyrics, he finds that there's more than just sun, sand and music on the island of Jamaica. Danger, lies, sex and murder abound in the tropical paradise. Led by front man Derrick Lyman, a talented and captivating performer with a radical political message, the band seems set for instant stardom. But then a young girl is savagely murdered at an afterparty celebrating the band's first American concert in Miami. Roland Johnson, the band's security guard is caught, with a knife in his hand at the crime scene. Roland is arrested and charged with murder. For all involved the case is closed - all except Mick Sever. Sever, a relentless and charming sleuth, isn't convinced that the simple guard is the cold-blooded killer everyone thinks he is. Stories of other murders and violence that follow the band lead Sever to believe there is more to the story than meets the eye. Threatened by the band, the police, and dangerous unknown assailants, Sever with the help of his beautiful and intelligent ex-wife Ginny, is determined to learn the truth. In the world of music, with double deals, beautiful women and sexy sounds, nothing is as it seems. Set against the exotic backdrops of Florida and Jamaica, this is an edgy, atmospheric, edge-of-your-seat mystery that will keep you guessing right up to the shocking ending.


Jamaica and Brianna

Jamaica and Brianna

Author: Juanita Havill

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780395779392

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Jamaica hates wearing hand-me-down boots when her friend Brianna has pink fuzzy ones.


The World's Finest

The World's Finest

Author: Norma Benghiat

Publisher: Andersen Press (UK)

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 221

ISBN-13: 9789766371142

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Jamaica Blue Mountain coffee is known the world over as one of the most distinguished and delicious coffees. Brimming with a robust aroma and delicate flavour, this coffee is a globally protected certification mark, so that only coffee certified by the Coffee Industry Board of Jamaica can be labelled Jamaica Blue Mountain®. Named for the region in which it is grown, coffee from Jamaica’s Blue Mountain range, rising to over 7,000 feet above sea level, is the result of the perfect combination of terrain, altitude, soil and rainfall. In The World’s Finest, Norma Benghiat traces the early history of coffee and its journey to the Caribbean. The growing and harvesting techniques are covered as are the plantation houses unique to the island home of Jamaica Blue Mountain® coffee. Filled with lavish images depicting the history of coffee and the coffee process in Jamaica and sumptuous photographs of coffee drinks, desserts and even main courses, you will be inspired to seek out this brew to confirm for yourself that it is indeed the world’s finest.


Jamaica

Jamaica

Author: Tony L. Henthorne

Publisher: Archway Publishing

Published: 2024-05-31

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 1665750189

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JAMAICA: Teal blue waters, sandy beaches, scintillating cuisine, globally renown rum and Blue Mountain coffee. One hundred fifty years under Spanish rule and then three hundred years under English dominion. Early spectacular hotels, then spectacular all-inclusives resorts. Hippies came to Negril and made it the “Capital of Casual.” Bob Marley spread reggae music worldwide and became a major tourism promoter for the island adding to the glitz from the English celebrities of the 1950s who came to the North Coast. Errol Flynn, Ian Fleming, and Noel Coward attracted jet setters to the island as did fictional super spy James Bond, Agent 007. Tourism growth and development, measured and conservative, free-flowing and exuberant – all existing in a dynamic, remarkable and one-of-a-kind setting. Jamaica, a cacophony of sights and delights. Ya mon, come to Jamaica, an island paradise that has it all.


An Archaeology of Social Space

An Archaeology of Social Space

Author: James A. Delle

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2013-06-29

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 1475791593

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James Delle has solved a number of problems in Caribbean archaeology with An Archaeology of Social Space. He deals with most of the problems by using historical archaeology, and clearly implicates Ameri canist prehistorians. Although this book is about coffee plantations in the Blue Mountains area of Jamaica, it is actually about the whole Caribbean. Just as it is about all archaeology, not only historical archaeology, it is also a book about colonialism and national inde pendence and how these two enormous events happened in the context of eighteenth and nineteenth century capitalism. The first issue raised appears to be an academic topic that has come to be known as landscape archaeology. Landscape archaeology considers the planned spaces around living places. The topic is big, comprehensive, and new within historical archaeology. Its fundamen tal insight is that in the early modern and modern worlds everything within view could be made into money. Seeing occurs in space and from 1450, or a little before, everything that could be seen could, potentially, be measured. The measuring-and the accompanying culture of record ing called a scriptural economy-became a way of controlling people in space, for a profit. Dr. Delle thus explores maps, local philosophies of settlement, town dwelling, housing, and the actual condition of plantations and their buildings now, so as to describe coffee-Jamaica from 1790-1860.


Jamaica's Find

Jamaica's Find

Author: Juanita Havill

Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 9780395393765

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A little girl finds a stuffed dog in the park and decides to take it home.


My Garden (Book)

My Garden (Book)

Author: Jamaica Kincaid

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2001-05-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1466828749

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One of our finest writers on one of her greatest loves. Jamaica Kincaid's first garden in Vermont was a plot in the middle of her front lawn. There, to the consternation of more experienced friends, she planted only seeds of the flowers she liked best. In My Garden (Book) she gathers all she loves about gardening and plants, and examines it generously, passionately, and with sharp, idiosyncratic discrimination. Kincaid's affections are matched in intensity only by her dislikes. She loves spring and summer but cannot bring herself to love winter, for it hides the garden. She adores the rhododendron Jane Grant, and appreciates ordinary Blue Lake string beans, but abhors the Asiatic lily. The sources of her inspiration -- seed catalogues, the gardener Gertrude Jekyll, gardens like Monet's at Giverny -- are subjected to intense scrutiny. She also examines the idea of the garden on Antigua, where she grew up. My Garden (Book) is an intimate, playful, and penetrating book on gardens, the plants that fill them, and the persons who tend them.


Jamaica Tag-Along

Jamaica Tag-Along

Author: Juanita Havill

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2015-02-10

Total Pages: 33

ISBN-13: 0547505256

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Jamaica doesn't want a younger child to play with her, until she remembers how she felt when her older brother excluded her from his games.


Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects

Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects

Author: Olukunle P. Owolabi

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023-04-11

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 0197673058

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An examination of the divergent developmental legacies of forced settlement and colonial occupation on both sides of the Black Atlantic world. The European powers that colonized much of the world over the last few hundred years created a variety of social systems in their various colonies. In Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects, Olukunle P. Owolabi explores the divergent developmental trajectories of Global South nations that were shaped by forced settlement, where European colonists imported African slaves to establish large-scale agricultural plantations, or by colonial occupation, which resulted in the exploitation of indigenous non-white populations. Owolabi shows that most forced settlement colonies emerged from European domination with higher levels of education attainment, greater postcolonial democratization, and favorable human development outcomes relative to Global South countries that emerged from colonial occupation after 1945. To explain this paradox, he examines the distinctive legal-administrative institutions that were used to control indigenous colonial subjects and highlights the impact of liberal reforms that expanded the legal rights and political agency of former slaves following abolition. Spanning three centuries of colonial history and postcolonial development, this is the first book to systematically examine the distinctive patterns of state-building that resulted from forced settlement and colonial occupation in the Black Atlantic world.


Yoga Adventure

Yoga Adventure

Author: Jamaica Stevens

Publisher: Barefoot Books

Published: 2021-09-17

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 1646863488

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Travel to all seven continents and the oceans, too, with an energetic yoga sequence set to an irresistible original song. Sweet illustrations guide children into more than a dozen yoga poses, some mimicking a distinctive animal from each global region, others paired with modes of transportation to connect them all. Written by a children’s yoga expert, the playful story concludes with step-by-step instructions for each yoga pose and a world map with a fun fact about each animal. Includes audio and animation.