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    Olive Senior

    Denise DeCaires Narain

    Denise deCaires Narain discusses Senior’s technique of alerting the reader to the historical narratives of the individuals she writes about, and foregrounds the writer’s work as a distinct and invaluable…

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    Olive Senior

    Denise DeCaires Narain

    The Jamaican writer, Olive Senior, has been writing and publishing since the 1980s. Her oeuvre includes poetry and short stories as well as journalism, and offers portraits of ‘ordinary’ Jamaicans…

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    Hurricane Season

    Artistic resilience in the face of increasing meteorological threats to the Caribbean

    Hurricanes and the devastation they bring have long been a part of life in the Caribbean, but with…

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    Working Miracles: Women’s Lives in the English-speaking Caribbean

    Olive Senior (Author)

    Intended as an introductory sourcebook, Olive Senior provides a background to Caribbean literature, politics and society.

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    Arrival of the Snake-Woman: And Other Stories

    Olive Senior

    The tensions wrought by rapid change and conflicting loyalties are at the heart of these stories, most beautifully evoked in the novella Arrival of the Snake-Woman. Here a young boy…

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    Dancing Lessons

    Olive Senior

    A novel infused with Jamaica yet connecting with anyone who engages with notions of family, love, loss, friendship, and belonging.

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    Pandemic Poems: First Wave

    Olive Senior

    Each of Olive Senior’s pandemic poems is a riff on a word or phrase trending in the first wave. This accessible A to Z captures the zeitgeist of 2020, providing…

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    Hurricane Watch: New and Collected Poems

    Olive Senior

    The latest collection from Olive Senior, Jamaican Poet Laureate, collects her four books of poetry alongside new work written during the pandemic.

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    The Pain Tree

    Olive Senior

    In these ten stories, the great award-winning Olive Senior explores characters whose lives have been shaped, or twisted, by the African diaspora and centuries of colonization.

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    Summer Lightning & Other Stories

    Olive Senior

    The Longman Caribbean Writers Series comprises of many classic novels, short stories and plays by the best known Caribbean authors, together with works of the highest quality from new writers.

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    Dying to Better Themselves: West Indians and the Building of the Panama Canal

    Olive Senior

    The popular West Indian migration narrative often starts with the Windrush Generation in 1950’s England, but in Dying to Better Themselves Olive Senior examines an earlier narrative: that of the…

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    The Pain Tree

    Olive Senior

    Olive Senior’s new collection of stories, The Pain Tree, is wide-ranging in scope, time period, theme, locale, and voice.

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    Boonoonoonous Hair

    Olive Senior

    A little girl learns to love her hair

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    Anna Carries Water

    Olive Senior

    A charming and poetic family story set in Africa about a young girl who struggles to fetch water from the spring each day with her brothers and sisters

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    At the Piano with Faure

    Marguerite Long

    The French pianist, Marguerite Long, was closely associated with the music of Gabriel Faure and became a favourite interpreter of his music. She studied and worked for a decade alongside…

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    New Selves. Issues of Identity in the Caribbean Canadian Poetry of Claire Harris and Olive Senior

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    Seminar paper from the year 2010 in the subject American Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Constance, language: English, abstract: The aim of the following paper is an analysis…

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    New Selves: Issues of Identity in the Caribbean Canadian Poetry of Claire Harris and Olive Senior

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    The aim of the following paper is an analyses of selected poems of Claire Harris and Olive Senior in regard of the theme that connects the poetic work of these…

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    Jamaica’s Forgotten Prime Minister - Donald Sangster

    Hartley Neita

    How can a prime minister have been forgotten? Jamaica has been an independent nation for less than 50 years with only nine prime ministers to date. This begs the question…

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    Euroconstitutionalism and its Discontents

    Oliver Gerstenberg (Senior Lecturer in Law, Senior Lecturer in Law, UCL)

    This monograph examines the question of social constitutionalism, especially with regard to its role in the contemporary European project.

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    Oliver Hart and the Rise of Baptist America

    Eric C. Smith (Senior Pastor, Senior Pastor, Sharon Baptist Church, Savannah, Tennessee)

    Baptists in America began the eighteenth century a small, scattered, often harassed sect in a vast sea of religious options. By the early nineteenth century, they were a unified, powerful…

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    Chief Master Sergeants and Senior Officers–Equality in Today’s Air Force? Observations Through the Eyes of Squadron Commanders

    Gina M Oliver

    The role of Chief Master Sergeants has been in transition since the rank was created in 1958. Since its inception, there has been a continual push to increase the responsibilities…

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    The Olive Fairy Book - Illustrated by H. J. Ford

    Andrew Lang (Senior Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics)

    This charming early work, first published in 1907, includes 30 unusual stories from Turkey, India, Denmark, Armenia, and Sudan. The Olive Fairy Book is illustrated with numerous black and white…

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    Pepperpot: Best New Stories from the Caribbean

    Kevin Baldeosingh,Ivory Kelly,Barbara Jenkins (Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada.)

    A pan-Caribbean anthology of original short stories culled from the winner and finalists of the Commonwealth Short Story Prize.

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    The Life of Dr Oliver Goldsmith: Written from Personal Knowledge, Authentic Papers, and Other Indubitable Authorities to Which Are Added, Such Select Observations, from Various Parts of This Writer’s Works, as May Tend to Recreate the Fancy

    Richard Glover

    The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the…

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    Senior-Finance: Marketing- und Vertriebskonzept zur Erschliessung des strategischen Geschaftsfeldes Senioren am Beispiel der Volksbank Bochum Witten eG

    Anja Kleimeyer,Thomas Schroeter,Oliver Kleine

    Inhaltsangabe: Zusammenfassung: UEberalterung der Bevoelkerung , steigende Lebenserwartung , Bevoelkerungsruckgang , Pillenknick , alterungsbedingte Nachfrageverschiebungen - alle diese, zur Zeit haufig eroerterten Begriffe, lassen sich zu einer Aussage verdichten: Fur…

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    The Global Village

    Taking as its theme the global village, this is a collection of short stories from the UK-based Tell-Tales literary collective.

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    Border Ballads. with an Introductory Essay by Andrew Lang, and Twelve Etchings by C. O. Murray.

    Andrew Lang (Senior Lecturer in Law, London School of Economics),Charles Oliver Murray

    Title: Border Ballads. With an introductory essay by Andrew Lang, and twelve etchings by C. O. Murray.Publisher: British Library, Historical Print EditionsThe British Library is the national library of the…

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    Blackstone’s Guide to the Sentencing Code 2020 Digital Pack

    Lucy Corrin (Law Commission),Michael Oliver (Law Commission),Jack Walsh (Senior Associate, Edmonds Marshall McMahon)

    The essential Guide to the Sentencing Code providing expert commentary on the scope, extent, and effects of the Sentencing Act 2020 with practical checklists and tables, ensuring users can track…

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    Functional Anatomy of the Spine

    Alison Middleditch (Senior Physiotherapist, Queen Mary's University Hospital, Roehampton, UK),Jean Oliver (Founder, Back Care Service; Director, Back Care Education Programme, Cambridge, UK)

    Provides therapists with the background knowledge they require before they can safely and accurately treat patients with musculoskeletal disorders of the spine. Illustrated with over 200 diagrams, this book is…

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    Insulin Pumps and Continuous Glucose Monitoring Made Easy

    Syed Sufyan Hussain, MA, MRCP, PhD (Specialist Registrar and Honorary Clinical Lecturer in Diabetes, Endocrinology and Metabolism, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.),Nick Oliver (Honorary Senior Clinical Lecturer, Imperial College London; Consultant in Diabetes and Endocrinology, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, London, UK.)

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    Revision Notes for the FRCEM Intermediate SAQ Paper

    Ashis Banerjee (Consultant and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Emergency Medicine, Barnet Hospital, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, London, UK),Clara Oliver (Specialist Registrar in Emergency Medicine, North East London Higher Training Programme, London, UK)

    The second edition of Revision Notes for the FRCEM Intermediate SAQ paper is an ideal revision guide covering all areas needed to pass the FRCEM Intermediate examination.

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