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Special Collections: Accessible Online Resources Via Google-Books

Special Collections is a closed access area which houses all materials with a Bahamian orientation whether about the Bahamas or written by a Bahamian author.

Accessible Online Resources Via Google-Books

These resources can be accessed by typing the title in the google search engine. Should you require assistance contact Special Collections staff.

Archaeology

  • An absence of presence: the voices of marginalized communities in the development and implementation of cultural resource management initiatives in the British West Indies: a case study by Kelley Scudder-Temple (2009)
  • Seventeenth-century foodways of British Puritans at Preacher’s Cave, Eleuthera, Bahamas: zooarchaeological and historical evidence by Rose Gualtieri (2014)Ceramic analysis at Ike’s Cut, Bahamas compared with Ft. Liberte, Haiti and El Mango, Cuba by Melissa Kays (2018)
  • The political work of memory in collaborative Caribbean archeology by Elena M. Sesma (2019)

Education

  • A comparative perspective of black college males on the achievement gap: implications for school counselors by Detra Bethell (2013)
  • Bahamian youth and untapped resource (2005)
  • Examining attrition among Bahamian special education teachers and implications for special education reform by Norissa Newton (2018)
  • School leaders and the implementation of Education Management Information System (EMIS) in The Bahamas: a case study of principals by John Cash (2015)
  • The family and its effects on intergenerational educational attainment in The Bahamas by Marcellus C. Taylor (2013)

Agriculture

  • Landscaping of an island in the Bahamas by Romain Louatron (2019)-in French by Romain Louatron (2019)

Business

  • Follow the leader: the cascading effect of supervisory ethical leadership behavior on employee work outcomes: action research in an academic setting by Glenville Davis (2018)
  • The Bahamas government human resources policies by Shane Gibson and Hyacinth Winder Pratt (2017)

Drama

  • Cinema and cultural memory in The Bahamas in the 1950s by Monique Toppin (2019)

Fine Arts-Architecture

  • Contemporary architecture in the Bahamas viewed through the lens of critical regionalism by Chrisna Smith (2013).

Fisheries

  • Elasmobranch longline capture: ecological application, physiological impacts and alternative techniques by Edward Brooks (2012)

Folklore/Culture

  • “The rapture is really coming”: on tourism and the creation of the Bahamas Junkanoo Carnival by Gabrielle Misiewicz. (2015)

 Tourism

  • Behind the smile: negotiating and transforming the tourism imposed identity of Bahamian women by Dellareese M. Higgs (2008)
  • Board governance of world-class annual Sport Championships: learning from Kentucky to create tourism opportunities in The Bahamas by Elvis V. Burrows (2014)
  • Forecasting tourist arrivals to The Bahamas using error correction models by Jacky Sharon Charles (2010)
  • Servant leadership dimensions of Bahamian hotel industry front-line workers by Stuart Mitchell Bowe (2017)
  • Tourism sector in the English and Dutch speaking Caribbean: an overview and the impact of COVID 19 on growth and employment by Nadimah Mohammed (2020)

History

  • A tumultous upheaval and transformation: the impact of the American Revolution on The Bahama Islands by Ross Nedervelt (2012)
  • An allegory for life: an 18th century African influenced cemetery landscape, Nassau, Bahamas by Grace r. Turner (2013)
  • Bahamian ship grafitti by Grace R. Turner (2004)
  • Get involved: stories of The Caribbean postcolonial black middle class and the development of civil society by Kim n. Williams-Pulfer (2018)
  • Guide to island hopping the Bahamas Out Islands (2019)

  • Solving a sunken mystery: the investigation and identification of a sixteenth-century shipwreck by Corey Malcom (2017)

Medicine

Bush Medicine

  • Bush medicine in the Family Islands: the medical ethnobotany of Cat Island and long island Bahamas by Laurel Richey-Abbey (2012)

 Diseases

  • The relationship among career thoughts, optimism, and spirituality in women diagnosed with breast cancer by Levette S. Dames (2013)

National Health Insurance

  • Analysis of the quality, integration, and cost-effectiveness of primary care, electronic health records, end of life care: lessons from the American healthcare system to inform National Health insurance in The Bahamas by Brittney Jones (2017)
  • NHI Bahamas: A framework for modern, affordable and accessible National Health Insurance (2016)

Nursing

  •  Developing a preceptor training program for registered nurses in a teaching hospital by Persephone Annis Munnings (2019)

 Physician

  • Investigating physicians’ perspective on disclosure of medical errors in The Bahamas by Jamal Archer (2018)

Language

  • Dictionary of Bahamian words

Psychology

  • Critical counseling competencies for the English-Speaking Caribbean by Antonia Forbes (2018)

Political Science

  • Parliamentary Registration Department results of the 2017 General Elections polling divisions data

Science

Astronomy

  • Application of Bayesian statistics in supernovae Ia cosmology by Hikmatali Shariff (2017)
  • Cosmology with velocity dispersion based counts of groups and the effect of AGN feedback on host galaxy morphology by Caroline Caldwell (2016)
  • Probing the large-scale structure of the universe with the Sunuaev-Zel'dovich Effect by Hideki Tanimura (2017)

Biodiversity

  • National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan by Lynn P. Holowesko, Karen Bjorndal, Donald Cooper, John Hammerton, Colin Higgs, Susan Larson, Gerry McCormick-Ray, Melonie McKenzie, Archie Nairn, Tex Turnquest, Philip Weech and Simon Wilson (1999)
  • Nutrient dynamics in coastal ecosystems of the Bahamas by Jacob Allgeier (2013)
  • Participatory planning for recreation management in Abaco National Park, Bahamas by Lisa Catherine Marks (2005)
  • The role of multiple stressors in a mangrove die-off: a case study in The Bahamas by Ryann Rossi (2018)

Botany

  • Conservation genetics and biogeography of the Caribbean pine (Pinus caribaea var. Bahamensis) in the Bahaman archipelago by Michele Sanchez (2012)

 Geology

  • A seismic approach to classify carbonate contourite drifts around active isolated carbonate platforms (Bahamas, Maldives) and its significance for the reconstruction of paleo-currents by Marco Paulat (2019)
  • Architecture et dynamique sedimentaire d’une pente carbonate modern: exmple de la pente nord de little Bahama Bank (LBB), Bahamas by Elsa Tournadour (2015)
  • Bacterial diversity of the octocoral Pseudopterogorgia elisabethae via culture-dependent and culture-independedent methods and screening of selected bacteria for antimicrobial activity by Veronica Robertson (2013)
  • Controls on the generation of secondary porosity in eogenetic karst: examples from San Salvador Island, Bahamas and North- Central Florida, USA by Paul J. Moore (2009)
  • Distribution of encrusting foraminifera at Cat Island, Bahamas: implications for foraminiferal assemblages in the geologic record by Christopher Smith (2015)
  • Ecological, taphonomic, and paleoecological dynamics of an ostracode metacommunity by Andrew Michelson (2012)
  • Evaluation of volume determinations for modern hypogene karst void, San, Salvador island, Bahamas by Kyle Blauvelt (2012)
  • Insights into paleoenvironmental conditions, relative sea-level, and carbonate reservoir quality using ichnology: middle-upper miocene slope deposits, Great Bahama Bank by Ryan Mustacato (2019)
  • Investigating the relationship between tourism and artificial coral reefs in New Providence, Bahamas by Casey Tremper (2017)
  • Investigation of the microbial communities associated with octorals Erythropodium caribaeorum and Antillogorgia elisabethae, and identification of secondary metabolites produced by octoral associated cultivated bacteria by Erin McCauley (2017)
  • Magnesium isotope investigation of stromatolitic knobs in Storr’s Lake, San Salvador Bahamas: implications organomineralization and laminae formation by Zijian Li (2017)
  • Organic matter preserved in modern ooids from Shark Bay and The Bahamas by Aimee Gillespie (2013)
  • Predicting flank margin cave collapse in The Bahamas by Orry Lawrence (2014)
  • Quantitative approaches and applications to the sequence stratigraphy and biodiversity of pleistone-Holcene mollusk communities from the Po plain, Italy and San Salvador island, The Bahamas by Jacalyn Wittmer (2014)
  • Spatial and temporal variability of remotely sensed ocean color parameters in coral reef regions by Daniel Otis (2012)
  • Stratigraphy and sedimentology of quaternary carbonate units around and within Dean’s Blue Hole, Long Island, Bahamas by Lucas Vimpere (2017)
  • The production and preservation of fish-derived carbonates in shallow sub-tropical marine carbonate provinces by Michael Salter (2013)
  • The role of the baryons and neutrinos in the evolution of large-scale structure by Benjamin Mummery (2018)

Mathematics

  • Anisotropic quadrilateral mesh optimization by Joseph Ferguson (2016)
  • Generating functions for K-theoretic Donaldson invariants and their refinements by Runako Williams (2017/18)
  • Smoothness of defining functions and the Diederich-Fornaess index by Felita Humes (2019)

 Natural History

  • Atoll Research Bulletin: bibliography of the natural history of The Bahamas Islands by William T. Gillis, Roger Bryne and Wyman Harrison.

 Weather

  • Assessment of the effects and impact of Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas by International Development Bank (IDB) (2020).
  • Understanding and predicting the regional sun-hurricane count relationship by Robert Hodges (2013)
  • The climate emergency in Latin America and The Caribbean by Alicia Barcena, Joseluis Samaniego, Wilson Peres & Jose Eduardo Alatorre (2020).

Zoology

  • An appetite for invasion: invasive lionfish have lower costs of digestion at high temperatures and feeding physiology that may drive their impact by Shane Steell (2018)
  • Assessment of Queen Conch, Lobatus gigas, density, midden and permitting requirements, in South Eleuthera, Bahamas by Erin Cash (2013)
  • Behavioral and physiological ecology of coastal marine fish: basic and applied perspectives by Jacob Brownscombe (2016)
  • Biology and conservation of the endangered Bahama Swallow by Maya Wilson (2019)
  • Changing perspectives on citizen science using ebird data on Grand Bahama Island, The Bahamas by Ancilleno Davis (2018)
  • Does size really matter? How synchrony and size affect the dynamic of agression between two sympatric species of dolphin in The Bahamas (2012)
  • Evolution and development of skull morphological diversity in closely related species by Ezra Lencer (2018)
  • Foraging ecology and diet selection of juvenile green turtles in the western Bahamas: insights from stable isotope analysis and prey mapping by Anthony Gillis (2018)
  • Genetic, demographic and ecological factors contributing to the evolution of anolis lizard populations by Johanna Wegener (2017)
  • Maternal and alloparental discipline in Atlantic spotted dolphins in The Bahamas by Meghan Weinpress (2013)
  • Nassau Grouper Biological report
  • Reestablishment of a Queen Conch, Lobatus gigas, breeding population in a marine protected area in The Bahamas by Laura Norton (2020)
  • Site fidelity assessment of Atlantic bottlenose dolphins following large-scale emigration of sympatric Atlantic spotted dolphins in the Bahamas by Sommer Kuhn (2017)
  • Succulent and spiny: The Bahamas’ quest for sustainable lobster fishery by Jennifer Rood (2014)
  • The impact of marine reserves on exploited species with complex life histories: a modeling study using the Caribbean spiny lobster in Exuma Sound, Bahamas by William Stockhausen (2001)
  • Thermal biology and swimming energetics of bonefish in Eleuthera, The Bahamas by Liane Nowell (2014)

Social Science

Crime

  • Commissioners policing plan (2019)
  • Crime and violence in the Bahamas: IDB series by Heather Sutton (2018)
  • "Smile for me, sweetie!”: an analysis of contemporary gender based violence and discrimination in The Bahamas by Jennifer Munnings (2020)

 Economic History and Conditions

  • Country program evaluation: Bahamas 2010-2017 by International Development Bank (IDB)
  • Four essays on monetary regimes: inflation targeting and a fixed exchange rate system in emerging market economies by Noura Abu Asab (2015)
  • The Bahamas: voluntary national review on the sustainable development goals to the high-level political forum of the United Nations Economic and Social Council by Government of The Bahamas (July 2018)
  • Toward improving export diversification and economic growth in Small Island Developing States by Marlo B. Murphy Braynen (2018)
  • What is the relationship between civil society and the State in small island states? An examination of Social Origins Theory and The Bahamas by Yvette Pintard-Newry (2018)

 Emigration and Immigration

  • “It’s better in The Bahamas” the stigma of being Haitian, citizenship and identity choices among second-generation Haitians in the Bahamas by Charmaine Perry (2017)
  • 2010 Census Migration Report vol I international migration (2014)
  • Black flight: tracing black refugees throughout the Revolutionary Atlantic World 1775 – 1812 by Jennifer K. Snyder (2013)
  • Migration in the Caribbean: current trends, opportunities and challenges by International Organization for Migration (2017)
  • Today Haitians, tomorrow Bahamians: reassessing the integration of Haitian immigrants in the Bahamas by Ermitte St. Jacques (2001)

 Employability

 

Family Life

  • Parent involvement factors from the perspectives of academically successful black male students by Vernon Leo Stanley Smith (2017)
  • Parent perceptions of family quality of life raising a child with Autism Spectrum Disorder in The Bahamas by Sharlene Monique Smith (2018)

 Food Practices

  • A poetics of food in The Bahamas: intentional journeys through food, consciousness, and the, aesthetics of everyday life by Hilary Booker (2017)

Race Relations

  • Black Bahamas: political construction of Bahamian national identity by Maria A. Lee (2012)
  • “I’se a Man”: The 1492 riot as an attack on Bay Street, discrimination and injustice in The Bahamas by Nona Patara Martin (2012)

 Slavery

  • “I bear witness”: an African’s quest for faith and community in the Atlantic World by Joseph Beatty (2014)
  • Migration, freedom and enslavement in the revolutionary Atlantic: The Bahamas, 1783-c. 1800 by Paul Shirley (2011)

 Telecommunications

  • Regulatory independence and the development of the telecommunications sector in the English-Speaking Caribbean by Delreo A. Newton (2019)

 Technology-Environment

  • Water resources assessment of The Bahamas (2004)