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The UWI Press continues to enhance its human resources. Staff at all levels are encouraged to participate in developmental workshops and seminars—both professional and personal. Members participated in the Emerging Leaders’ Seminar, hosted by The UWI, Office of Administration, the Vice-Chancellery, and the Director, Christine Randle. Randle leads weekly staff meetings and annual staff engagement gatherings to foster a spirit of camaraderie and collegiality.

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BOOKS AND JOURNALS PUBLISHED

Development and Diplomacy: Resetting Caribbean Policy Analysis in the Aftermath of the COVID-19 Pandemic edited by Winston Dookeran and M. Raymond Izarali

Sun Lust to Sun Plus: Niche Tourism in the Caribbean edited by Acolla Lewis-Cameron and Leslie- Ann Jordan

By Such a Parting Light: A Novel by Barbara Lalla

Sounds of Advocacy, Language and Liberation: Papers in Honour of Hubert Devonish edited by Clive Forrester and Nickesha Dawkins

A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit by Hannah Regis

C. L. R. James and the 21st Century Caribbean by Tennyson S. D. Joseph

Transferring Professional Learning to Schools in a Caribbean Setting: Context and Culture Matter by Freddy James, Susan Herbert and Jennifer Yamin-Ali

Walter Rodney by Rupert Lewis

A Child at a Time: Understanding Temperament by Loraine D. Cook

Journal of Caribbean History, Volume, 57, No. 2

Journal of Caribbean History, Volume 58, No. 1

West Indian Law Journal, Volume 41, Nos. 1–2

Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 69, Nos. 3–4

Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 70, No. 1

Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 70, No. 2

Caribbean Journal of Psychology, Volume 14, No. 2

Caribbean Journal of Psychology, Volume 15, No. 1

Caribbean Journal of Mixed Methods Research, Volume 3

BEST SELLERS

• A History of the Virgin Islands of the United States by Isaac Dookhan
• Britain’s Black Debt by Hilary McD. Beckles
• Transferring Professional Learning to Schools in a Caribbean Setting by Freddy James, Susan Herbert and Jennifer Yamin-Ali NEW
• In Miserable Slavery by Douglas Hall
• How Britain Developed the Caribbean by Hilary McD. Beckles
• The First Black Slave Society by Hilary McD. Beckles
• Far from Mecca by Aliyah Khan
• A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit by Hannah Regis NEW
• Jamaican Food by B. W. Higman
• Obeah, Race and Racism by Eugenia O’Neal

Notwithstanding the publication of new titles, the backlist of previously published works remains vibrant in the marketplace.

COURSE ADOPTION

Selected Texts for Foundation Courses

Semester 1, 2023/2024
Title: The Haunted Tropics edited by Marin Munro Course Code and Title: FOUN1101 Caribbean Civilisation The UWI (all campuses)

Semester 2, 2023/2024
Title: Derek Walcott by Edward Baugh Course Code and Title: FOUN1101 Caribbean Civilisation The UWI (all campuses)

Semesters 1 & 2, 2023/2024
Title: Law, Governance, Economy and Society in the Caribbean (UWI Press eReader) Course Code and Title: FOUN1301 Law, Governance, Economy and Society in the Caribbean The UWI (all campuses)

BOOK REVIEWS

Sun Lust to Sun Plus
Acolla Lewis-Cameron and Leslie-Ann Jordan (eds.)
The Gleaner, August 2024
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/art- leisure/20240818/insight-niche-tourism-markets

Each One Teach One
Saran Stewart, Sharline Cole, and Yewande Lewis-Fokum (eds.)
The Gleaner, August 2024
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/art- leisure/20240811/examining-family-dynamics

Representing Blackness
Donna E. McFarlane, A. Lynn Bolles (ed.)
H-Caribbean, H-Net Reviews, July, 2024
https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=60592

By Such a Parting Light
Barbara Lalla
The Gleaner, June 2024
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/art- leisure/20240623/heart-warming-and-sobering-story

Traditional and Western Medicine
Caryl James Bateman
Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 70, Issue 1, 2024
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0008649 5.2024.2323391

Caribbean Integration
Patsy Lewis, Terri-Ann Gilbert Roberts, and Jessica Byron (eds.)
Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 70, Issue 1, 2024
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0008649 5.2024.2323392

The Pen and the Pan
Robyn Cope
New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 98 (2024): Issue 1–2 (Apr 2024)
https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/98/1-2/ article-p224_50.xml

New Political Culture in the Caribbean
Holger Henke and Fred Reno (eds.)
New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 98 (2024): Issue 1–2 (Apr 2024)
https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/98/1-2/ article-p212_44.xml

The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man
Brinsley Samaroo (ed.)
New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 98 (2024): Issue 1–2 (Apr 2024)
https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/98/1-2/ article-p208_42.xml

George Padmore’s Black Internationalism
Rodney Worrell
New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 98 (2024): Issue 1–2 (Apr 2024)
https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/98/1-2/ article-p205_41.xml

A Return to Roots: “CuBajans” in Barbados
Sharon Milagro Marshall
New West Indian Guide/Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 98 (2024): Issue 1–2 (Apr 2024)
https://brill.com/view/journals/nwig/98/1-2/ article-p199_38.xml

Academic Integrity in the Caribbean
Ruth Baker-Gardner
Caribbean Journal of Education, Volume 45, No. 1 (2023)
https://www.mona.uwi.edu/soe/publications/cje/ article/1675

Education for Sustainable Development in the Caribbean
Lorna Down and Therese Ferguson
Caribbean Journal of Education, Volume 45, No. 1 (2023)
https://www.mona.uwi.edu/soe/publications/cje/ article/1624

Gods of Bruising
Dara Wilkinson Bobb
Big Drum Nation, 2023

Each One Teach One
Saran Stewart, Sharline Cole and Yewande Lewis-Fokum (eds.)
New Books Network
https://newbooksnetwork.com/each-one-teach-one

Revivalism
by Maria A. Robinson-Smith
Jamaica Gleaner
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/news/20240211/ alexander-bedward-complex-folk-hero

Traditional and Western Medicine: Voices from Jamaican Psychiatric Patients
Caryl James Bateman
Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 70, Issue 1 (2024)

Caribbean Integration
Patsy Lewis, Terri-Ann Gilbert Roberts, and Jessica Byron (eds.)
Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 70, Issue 1 (2024)

Alexander Bedward, the Prophet of August Town
Dave St. Aubyn Gosse
Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 69, Issue 3–4 (2023)

Lucille Mathurin Mair
Verene Shepherd
Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 69, Issue 2 (2023)

Errol Walton Barrow and the Postwar Transformation of Barbados
Hilbourne A. Watson
Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 69, Issue 2 (2023)

New Political Culture in the Caribbean
Holger Henke and Fred Reno, eds.
Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 69, Issue 2 (2023)

The West Indian Presence and Heritage in Cuba
Paulette A. Ramsay, ed.
Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 69, Issue 2 (2023)

The Blackest Thing in Slavery Was Not the Black Man
Brinsley Samaroo (ed.)
Caribbean Quarterly, Volume 69, Issue 1 (2023)

Gods of Bruising
Dara Wilkinson Bobb
An intriguing tale set in the Caribbean
The Gleaner
https://jamaica-gleaner.com/article/art- leisure/20240310/intriguing-tale-set-caribbean

A Caribbean Poetics of Spirit
Hannah Regis
CNC3 Television
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t27MGYKCXc0/p>

By Such a Parting Light: A Novel
Barbara Lalla
Women writers rule on final day of Bocas 2024
https://www.guardian.co.tt/article/women- writers-rule-on-final-day-of-bocas-2024- 6.2.1987358.13b8e8cf49#google_vignette