In the 1960s, Montreal was a hotbed of radical politics that attracted Black and Caribbean figures such as C.L.R. James, Walter Rodney, Mariam Makeba, Stokely Carmichael, Rocky Jones, and Édouard Glissant. It was also a place where the ideas of Frantz Fanon, Aimé Césaire, and Malcolm X circulated alongside those of Karl Marx, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Simone de Beauvoir. During this period of global upheaval and heightened Canadian and Quebec nationalism, Montreal became a central site of Blac...

In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era.Against a backdrop of widespread racism in the West, and colonialism and imperialism in the “Third World,” this group of activis...

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE COMMONWEALTH WRITERS' PRIZE*From when he was twelve years old Robert Radnor had been in love with the idea of being a sailor. And a sailor he became, at home on the sea as other men were on land. Until the year of 1948, on board the steamship Golden Delta, serving as first officer under Captain Peeke, when Radnor's uncanny intuition about the sea and its ways suddenly deserts him and he finds himself alone with the sea, with his fear a...

Human services management occurs in nonprofit, governmental, and for-profit sectors and involves a wide variety of organizational structures. These diverse conditions shape the effort to produce and project services that directly affect the quality of life of individuals, families, and communities through social welfare, health and mental health, criminal justice, and educational services. David Austin begins with an examination of the historical development and distinctive characteristics...

In 1968, as protests shook France and war raged in Vietnam, the giants of Black radical politics descended on Montreal to discuss the unique challenges and struggles facing their brothers and sisters. For the first time since 1968, David Austin brings alive the speeches and debates of the most important international gathering of Black radicals of the era.Against a backdrop of widespread racism in the West, and colonialism and imperialism in the “Third World,” this group of activis...

Cipières, in the Alpes-Maritimes, is a French upland landscape rich in archaeology and distinctive in its topography. Cipières: Community and Landscape in the Alpes-Maritimes is a unique exploration which brings together a wealth of documentary sources retained in the village with material evidence in the landscape to produce an interdisciplinary and holistic account of the development of one community and its lands. Beginning with a history of the Project, the volume examines the village’...

I am at a lost for words, I didn't think that I would be able to do something like this but here it is, and I would like to thank all of the people who beleived enoough in me to be able to do this with a smile... This is a book that I was stumped at putting together and am happy to say that it has been a real fine time doing so. Please enjoy the love this book has to offer. David X. Austin

The adventures of two Army brats. You are about to take an amazing adventure as you travel with two Army Brats that span from the mid-1960s to the late 1970s, adventures that travel the world. This is a story about two military brats as they travel with their Army father. It tells the story of unusual and exciting experiences form just having fun, to life and death adventures.

Therese’s Dream - Maine to Darfur: A Doctor’s Story chronicles Dr. David Austin’s time with Doctors Without Borders and illustrates the common humanity of peoples around the world.Dr. Austin began his medical practice in the 1980s and in the early 2000s began making missionary trips. He joined Doctors Without Borders/ Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) in 2008. He is a lifelong Unitarian Universalist who has dedicated his life to healing and service.For more information about D...

What is the relationship between poetry and social change?Standing at the forefront of political poetry since the 1970s, Linton Kwesi Johnson has been fighting neo-fascism, police violence and promoting socialism while putting pen to paper to refute W.H. Auden's claim that 'poetry makes nothing happen'. For Johnson, only the second living poet to have been published in the Penguin Modern Classics series, writing has always been 'a political act' and poetry 'a cultural weapon'....

A provocative look at the relationship between the far right and the American conservative movement from the 1930s to the end of the Cold WarSince 2016, many commentators have expressed shock at the so-called rise of the far right in America at the expense of “responsible” and “respectable” conservatism. But is the far right an aberration in conservative politics?As David Austin Walsh shows, the mainstream conservative movement and the far right have been i...

The Salvado Habana Event has devastated the world, leaving only a fraction of mankind left to rebuild society. Mark finds himself trying to make sense of what has happened, fend for his family’s survival, all the while aware that his son, Austin, already had struggles of his own that are seemingly fatal in this new world.Austin maintains his positivity throughout the initial aftermath of this event, and although he is unable to convey his reasoning to his father, he finds himself v...