Diane F Austin

Australian Sociologies

Urban Life in Kingston, Jamaica

(Mis)managing Migration: Guestworkers' Experiences with North American Labor Markets (Advanced Seminar Series)

Today managed migration is growing in North America. This mirrors the general growth of migration from poorer to richer countries, with more than 200 million people now living outside their natal countries. Faced with this phenomenon, managed migration enables nation-states to regulate those populat...

Green Light Selling: Your Secret Edge to Winning Sales & Avoiding Dead Ends

"Green Light Selling is FANTASTIC. It reduces selling time by 40-60%". If your sales quota is a dot on the distant horizon, you need Green Light Selling. Finally, there is a book designed for both the budding newcomer and the 20-year veteran that tells you the HOW and WHY OF SELLING. After 10 years ...

A Different Inequality: The Politics of Debate About Remote Aboriginal Australia

An exploration of why both the right and left of politics have so failed remote Aboriginal Australians, and why until policymakers and researchers take into account both cultural difference and inequality, we will not come anywhere near closing the gapGreat beauty is juxtaposed with seemingly endles...

Arrernte Present, Arrernte Past: Invasion, Violence, and Imagination in Indigenous Central Australia

The Arrernte people of Central Australia first encountered Europeans in the 1860s as groups of explorers, pastoralists, missionaries, and laborers invaded their land. During that time the Arrernte were the subject of intense curiosity, and the earliest accounts of their lives, beliefs, and tradition...

The Hideout: A Child's Conversations With Jesus

In writing this book, Diane hopes to encourage children to explore a more intimate way of talking to Jesus. Children are generally taught how to pray, but this book will open the reader's eyes to a different way of praying, which is more like a friendship with Jesus. Join Diane as she blends in true...

Jamaica Genesis: Religion and the Politics of Moral Orders

How has Pentecostalism, a decidedly American form of Christian revivalism, managed to achieve such phenomenal religious ascendancy in a former British colony among people of predominately African descent? According to Diane J. Austin-Broos, Pentecostalism has flourished because it successfully media...

The Theory and Practice of Vocal Psychotherapy: Songs of the Self

The voice is the most powerful and widely used instrument in music therapy. This book demonstrates the enormous possibilities for personal change and growth using a new, voice-based model of psychotherapy where the sounds of the voice are expressed, listened to and interpreted in order to access unc...