David Culver, figure clé tant du milieu des affaires que du milieu culturel canadien, raconte son enfance à Montréal, ses études aux universités McGill et Harvard et son service militaire pendant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale. Il décrit surtout sa spectaculaire ascension au sein d’Alcan, jusqu’à accéder au poste de président-directeur général, devenant du coup le chef d’une des plus grandes sociétés multinationales du Canada, dont le siège social était à Montréal.Ces mémoires lèvent ...

Expect Miracles is the personal and professional story of a leader in the worlds of business and culture. David Culver narrates his journey from his upbringing in Montreal's Golden Square Mile, through his studies at McGill and Harvard, his army service during the Second World War, to his impressive rise at Alcan to become chairman and chief executive officer of one of Canada's leading multinational corporations. The memoir provides an inside look into the management of a global company wi...

SEWAGE & SILVERThe Engineered Collapse of America's Frontier BoomtownsBy David Malcolm LlewellynThey weren't built to last.Behind the saloon doors and cinematic sunsets, America's frontier boomtowns were engineered extraction camps-designed to pull wealth from the earth and discard everything else.In Sewage & Silver, David Malcolm Llewellyn dismantles the myth of the rugged, romantic mining town and expose...

The North Carolina barrier islands, a 325-mile-long string of narrow sand islands that forms the coast of North Carolina, are one of the most beloved areas to live and visit in the United States. However, extensive barrier island segments and their associated wetlands are in jeopardy. In The Battle for North Carolina’s Coast, four experts on coastal dynamics examine issues that threaten this national treasure.According to the authors, the North Carolina barrier islands are...

THE BLACK MUD EPIDEMICLice, Rot, and the Biological Collapse of the Lost GenerationThe First World War trench was not just a battlefield.It was an ecosystem.A place where stagnant water never drained... where lice nested in the seams of wool uniforms... where feet softened, blackened, and died inside soaked boots... where scratching in the darkness became as constant as artillery in the distance.For decades, the yo...

RED LIGHT GIRLSFrontier Brothels and the Disposable Women of the American WestBy David Malcolm LlewellynThe Wild West was never as glamorous as we were told.Behind the piano music and velvet curtains stood a harsher reality - one built on gender imbalance, debt contracts, disease, political hypocrisy, and the relentless economics of exploitation.In Red Light Girls, David Malcolm Llewellyn dismantl...

The Longhorn CollapseStampedes, Disease, and Death Behind the Cattle DrivesBy David Malcolm LlewellynThe cattle drive was not a sunset.It was a supply chain.In The Longhorn Collapse, David Malcolm Llewellyn dismantles the romantic mythology of the American cattle drive and reconstructs it as it functioned in reality: a volatile industrial corridor that consumed livestock, labor, and land in pursuit of nort...

BLUNDERS OF WORLD WAR I AVIATIONRotary Engines, Broken Wings, and the Myth of the Noble AceBy David Malcolm LlewellynWorld War I fighter pilots are often remembered as the "knights of the sky"-romantic heroes dueling above the trenches in elegant machines. Newspapers praised them. Governments celebrated them. Posters turned them into legends.But the truth was far less glamorous.Behind the my...

Evangelical or "born-again" Christians have come under intense criticism in recent years, largely given the high percentage of Evangelicals who voted for President Donald Trump. Many see support for Trump's policies and political agenda as inconsistent with Christianity. Yet, the heightened attention given to Evangelicals hasn't necessarily raised awareness of what they believe, or of how being born-again transforms them, or how it has shaped their worldviews. This book answers these quest...

MUD & BONEGrave-Robbing, Surgical Hypocrisy, and the Black Market of the DeadBy David Malcolm LlewellynBefore the law intervened, London ran on bodies.In the early nineteenth century, medical schools demanded cadavers faster than executions could supply them. The result was an underground economy that thrived in churchyard mud and gaslit lecture halls. Graves were opened at the head. Coffins were split in silence. Ropes ...

GASLIGHT GIRLSThe Brutal Economics of Sex and Survival in Victorian LondonBy David Malcolm LlewellynBehind the romance of fog and gaslight lay an industrial survival economy few dare to examine.Victorian London's underworld has been painted in soft focus for over a century - tragic heroines, poetic ruin, and moral redemption beneath flickering lamps. But the archive tells a harsher story.In Gaslight Girls,...

Silk Hats & Filthy HandsThe Gentleman Thief Myth and the Rot Beneath Victorian LondonThe Victorian "Gentleman Thief" is one of history's most seductive myths.He moves through gaslit drawing rooms in a silk top hat. He steals with wit and precision. He bows to ladies and outsmarts dull policemen before disappearing into the fog.But he never existed.Behind the legend lay something far harsher: a dense urban ecosystem...