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VACANCY

admin — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:18:30 +0000

IAN RANDLE PUBLISHERS Invites applications from suitably qualified persons to fill the position of PRODUCTION CONTROLLER Working in book production is a career for people who are highly organised, able to negotiate, diplomatic and willing to accept responsibility for the quality of the final product. The Production Controller has overall responsibility for the physical process of transforming the [...]

New in 2011

admin — Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:13:27 +0000

Our first book for 2011 is off press and available: Christine Chivallon’s The Black Diaspora of the Americas: Experiences and Theories out of the Caribbean. Originally published in French, this welcomed addition to cultural studies and diaspora studies is timely in its appearance in English in this UN International Year for the People of African [...]

Tastes Like Home

admin — Wed, 16 Feb 2011 20:06:32 +0000

This feature appeared in the Sunday 30 January 2011 edition of the Nation Newspaper in Barbados By Sherie Holder-Olutayo | Sun, January 30, 2011 – 12:02 AM Some of the best things in life are born out of the memories that we hold dear. Cynthia Nelson can attest to that. As a Guyanese woman living in Barbados trying [...]

Daddy Sharpe

admin — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 17:39:17 +0000

The following article by Daive Dunkley, UWI, Mona, appears in the March-June 2010 edition of Caribbean Quarterly Daddy Sharpe, A Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Samuel Sharpe, A West Indian Slave , Written by Himself, 1832 by Fred W. Kennedy, Kingston and Miami, Ian Randle Publishers, 2008, xii, 41 1 pp., US$24.95 (paper), ISBN 978-976-637-343-6 The [...]

MAN VIBES

admin — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 21:33:08 +0000

The following review appeared in the December 2010 issue of CHOICE : Current Reviews for Academic Libraries, a publication of the Association of College and Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. Humanities Performing Arts Hope, Donna P. Man vibes: Masculinities in the Jamaican Dancehall. Ian Randle, 2010. ISBN 9789766374075 An authority on Jamaican gender issues and [...]

Get Your Christmas Books!

admin — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 14:06:21 +0000

Christmas is just around the corner and with it will come the yearly headache of choosing the right gifts for the right people. Well, why not go for books this year? Books are always popular and it's not as difficult, as you might think, to find books to satisfy all your friends and family. There certainly is no shortage of books to choose from.

On the Future of Books

admin — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:18:50 +0000

The following article by our Publisher, Ian Randle, was carried in theSunday 31 October 2010 edition of the Gleaner Newspaper. Ever since Johannes Gutenberg invented mechanically movable type that ushered in the printing process in the 15th century, the question of the survival of the book has been raised every time there has been a new [...]

Print Books still Rule – Academically

admin — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:33:01 +0000

Taken from Publishersweekly.com Print Books Still BMOC By Judith Rosen Oct 28, 2010 E-books and e-readers may be making headlines off campus, but a new study by OnCampus Research, a division of the National Association of College Stores, reaffirmed last fall’s OnCampus Student Watch study that 74% of college students prefer print. According to the study taken by 627 [...]

The Launch that Was

admin — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 20:38:15 +0000

Last night, along with sponsors Digicel Jamaica and Capital and Credit Financial Group, we celebrated the publication of Usain Bolt’s illustrated biography My Story 9.58: Being the World’s Fastest Man. It was a great affair with suprise guests, entertainers Shaggy and Wyclef Jean. The short programme was steered by Carole Beckford, Bolt’s publicist and included presentations [...]

The Long and the short of it

admin — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 18:00:53 +0000

Sprint sensation Usain Bolt towers over Christine Randle Wray, Managing Director of Ian Randle Publishers when the Caribbean publishers of his illustrated biography My Story – 9.58: Being the World’s Fastest Man, paid him a surprise visit at Spartan Gym last week shortly after he’d finished a session with Coach Glen Mills.