Caribbean Books

An engrossing exploration of legal reform to address the problem
of domestic violence. Professor Lazarus-Black details domestic violence as impeded by everyday practices of law and courts. I found the individual case studies of battered women seeking legal protection most absorbing, especially in light of the pointed discussion of cultural and political change.

This is an excellent collection of tunes from the "Otis Redding of Jamaica." We are so lucky that this soulful singer was born in Jamaica and has pure reggae sensibility. I believe that this music can never be made again. It is a collection of early rocksteady tunes which are interesting, but do not add anything spectacular to the genre. Where Ken Boothe shines is in the cover versions of soul music. The difference is that he takes songs that are excellent in their own right ("Everything I Own," "Love Don't Love Nobody," "That's the Way Nature Planned It") and lays them down in smooth reggae style. He is not derivative and trying hard to twist the song to fit into his style. He is simply interpreting the songs in his own way, straight from the heart. And the production is excellent, from instrumentation to perfectly mixed harmonizing backing vocals.
Any fan of soul music or 70's reggae needs to hear this album.

Covers film history in the French, Dutch, French, English, and Spanish speaking Caribbean. Very informative. A must for academic study of post colonial films in the Caribbean.

I like to use Periplus Maps when i'm traveling around Asia... and i can confirm that this kind of maps is very usefull... complete...
The best choice for prepare my adventure trips... Just next to the map u will find the Lonely Planet Guide... With boths of them i spent months and months around the world...

I wanted to buy this book in last year but Amazon could not send it to me. After weeks they said 'they are not able to send it'. Anyway, last week I bought it. If I could see the recipes before, I would not wait for so long; all recipes are wonderful, easy to prepare. If you like fruits in your cakes, you should buy it immediately...

The recipes and serving suggestions in this book are delicious and gorgeous, and consequently sometimes very difficult to make. Some ingridients that are listed are either not available in the US or substitutes are not adequately displayed. The recipes can sometimes lack vital explanation for a beginner, and a recipe may reference a basic recipe (the appendix contains recipes for basic components of desserts), without listing the additional ingridients needed for the recipe. The difficulty ratings can be deceiving. Nonetheless, I give this book 5 stars because the end product after hours of trying, restarting and wasting lots of egg yolks, is always fantastic.

This is the most extraordinary book of poems I have read in the past decade... Aridjis is the most visionary poet in Latin America, no doubt about it... since I read his first poems in Exaltation of Light I embarked on a search for more translations into English. And now, this incredible anthology has finally been published, including translations from many important American and British poets...

Poststructural readings such as these have a lot to offer academia. The play of words, irony, and humor is a welcome addition to the literature of international relations scholarship, a much better influence than the sterility offered by empirical, positivist social science.

All of Franqui's books are very goog. It is history from the "horses mouth".

This is one of the best collections of short stories i've ever read. It contains all kinds of stories. Funny, sad, historical, etc. One thing applies to them all. They are all very good. I've been to Bolivia, talked to a lot of people there, but nobody told me about their terrific writers. Strange! Buy this book. Especialy if you like South American litrature. Thank you Rosario Santos for collecting!