Classic Poems to Read Aloud
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Classic Poems to Read Aloud by James Berry Sir
This is a historical document of the origin and progress of clinical medicine research at the AUB School of Medicine from 1920?1974 and a synopsis of the founding of the Syrian Protestant College by Presbyterian missionaries. Later on the college became known the American University of Beirut in Beirut, Lebanon (1920). Throughout the manuscript, the author attempts to comment on certain important clinical research as well as his journey into clinical research both in Lebanon and in the United States.
An interesting section of the book includes the discovery of the pulmonary circulation by Ibn an-Nafis.
James Berry (1924-2017) was born and brought up in a tiny seaside village in Jamaica. He learnt to read before he was four years old, mostly from the Bible, which he often read aloud to his mother's friends. When he was 17, he went to work in America, but hated the way black people were treated there, and returned to Jamaica after four years. In 1948, he made his way to Britain, and took a job working for British Telecom. One of the first black writers in Britain to achieve wider recognition, Berry rose to prominence in 1981 when he won the National Poetry Competition. His numerous books include two seminal anthologies of Caribbean poetry, Bluefoot Traveller (1976) and News for Babylon (Chatto, 1984). His retrospective, A Story I Am In: Selected Poems (Bloodaxe Books, 2011), draws on five collections of poetry, including Fractured Circles (1979) and Lucy's Letters and Loving (1982) from New Beacon Books, Chain of Days (Oxford University Press, 1985), and Hot Earth Cold Earth (1995) and Windrush Songs (2007) from Bloodaxe. Windrush Songs was published to mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. He also published several books of poetry and short stories for children (from Hamish Hamilton, Puffin and Walker Books), and won many literary prizes, including the Smarties Prize (1987), the Signal Poetry Award (1989) and a Cholmondeley Award (1991). He was awarded the OBE in 1990.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780753456880 |
| ISBN 10 | 0753456885 |
| Title | Classic Poems to Read Aloud |
| Author | James Berry Sir |
| Series | Classic Collections |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Kingfisher |
| Year published | 2003-10-31 |
| Number of pages | 256 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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