Uwi Press: 71 books

Don't Burn Our Bridges: The Case for Caribbean Carriers argues that a tourism-dependent region comprised largely of a group of islands must, in its own best interest, retain ownership of key aspects of its air access in spite of the costs and challenges involved in so doing.

This diverse text looks at the troubling, topical issue of HIV from several angles and provides a significant contribution to the literature on the subject.

The contributors of Environmental Management in the Caribbean covers the themes of national parks and protected areas, freshwater management, pollution and waste management, disaster risk reduction, environmental education and behaviour.

This book presents current theoretical and empirical information on areas of social psychology that have not been fully explored in recent times.

This is a memoir, with a brief prologue and twenty-eight chapters and focuses on daily life in Angel Creek, a center of black Garifuna culture, at two times more than forty years apart. The manuscript will appeal to readers of all ages who seek true stories about shared human values and the search for meaning in unaccustomed settings.

This book provides a description and analysis of folk medicine in Jamaica, outlining and analysing all the constituent parts.

In this collection, eight of Craig's most representative articles have been chosen to demonstrate his understanding of the language situation in the English-official Caribbean and the Breadth of his vision in relation to the spheres of language teaching and language learning in the English-based Creole-speaking...

This book is a comprehensive study of regional child law. All relevant Caribbean statutes and their relationships to current case law are also examined.

This is the first comprehensive documentation of an epidemiological nature about the Anglophone Caribbean. Dr. Hillary made observations about diseases and clear deductions that have stood the test of time.

For decades, gangs have been emerging across the globe, disrupting citizen security, the rule of law, health and education, and local economies. The Caribbean, like many other regions, has a significant gang problem. Gangs in the Caribbean provides sound research conducted by leading Caribbean criminologists...

Guinea's Other Suns is a classic collection of essays on the forced and voluntary migration to Trinidad of West and West-Central Africans during the 1800s, extending through both the slavery and post-emancipation eras. Maureen Warner-Lewis examines African cultural practices and artefacts as recalled...

Uncle Brother is an Indo-Trinidadian family saga made up of interlocking stories that come to us through observations by child characters and through adult memories of childhood. The book addresses a broad and varied audience both within and beyond the Caribbean and is expected to appeal to a wide age range.

An accomplished work of fiction that examines the subject of growing old with sensitive honesty, through the stories of three main characters.

A Poetics of Performance offers fresh readings of fictions by post-1950s writers Earl Lovelace, Merle Collins, Marie-Elena John, Marlon James and Colin Channer alongside calypso, reggae and different modes of Caribbean oral storytelling. Carol Bailey elucidates what may be termed the most consequential...