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Animal Dreams by David Brooks
$40.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Animal Dreams collects David Brooks' thought-provoking essays about how humans think, dream and write about other species. Brooks examines how animals have featured in Australian literature and culture, from The Man from Snowy River to Phar Lap to contemporary debates about horse-racing, live animal exp ...Show more
Bobos in Paradise by David Brooks
$24.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
It used to be easy to distinguish between the bourgeois world of capitalism and the bohemian counterculture, but now the "bos" are all mixed up and it is impossible to tell an espresso-sipping artist from a cappucino-gulping banker. Read how the "Bobos" define our age.
Fight of the Century - Writers Reflect on 100 Years of Landmark ACLU Cases by Michael Chabon (Editor); Geraldine Brooks; Yaa Gyasi; Sergio De La Pava; Dave Eggers; Timothy Egan; Li Yiyun; Meg Wolitzer; Ann Patchett; Héctor Tobar; Aleksandar Hemon; Elizabeth Strout; Ayelet Waldman (Editor); Rabih Alameddine; Moriel Rothman-Zecher; Jonathan Lethem; Salman Rushdie; Lauren Groff; Jennifer Egan; Scott Turow; Morgan Parker; Victor Lavalle; Michael Cunningham; Dave Cole (Foreword by); Neil Gaiman; Jesmyn Ward; Moses Sumney; George Saunders; Marlon James; William Finnegan; Anthony Doerr; C. J. Anders; Brenda J. Childs; Andrew Sean Greer; Viet Thanh Nguyen; Louise Erdrich; Adrian Nicole LeBlanc; Jacqueline woodson; Brit Bennett; Steven Okazaki; David Handler
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The American Civil Liberties Union partners with award-winning authors Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman in this "forceful, beautifully written" (Associated Press) collection that brings together many of our greatest living writers, each contributing an original piece inspired by a historic ACLU case. O ...Show more
How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
If you are going to care for someone, you must first understand them. If you're going to hire, marry, or befriend someone, you have to be able to see them. If you are going to work closely with someone, you have to be able to make them feel recognized and valued. As David Brooks observes, "The older I g ...Show more
Is Capitalism Broken? by Yanis Varoufakis (Author) , Arthur Brooks (Author) , Katrina vanden Heuvel (Author) , David Brooks (Author
$16.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
'We need to organise politically to defend the weak, empower the many and prepare the ground for reversing the absurdities of capitalism.' - Yanis Varoufakis 'Capitalism over the past twenty-five years has been an incredible moral good.' - David Brooks There is a growing belief that the capitalist syste ...Show more
Napoleon's Roads - Short story collection by David Brooks
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Description: 'What are the crimes of love, anyway, but fragments of passion broken from their moorings, evidence of a kind of shipwreck? (But what kind of ship? Where was it? What was its name?) Or crows, a flock of them, high in the air, fighting against a wind that no-one can see.' David Brooks' mast ...Show more
Open House by Brooks David
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry
A poem is a place where you can bring things together, you don't have to know why. The mad and the bad, the gentle and the dead, tooth-ache and heart-ache and the ache and quandary of history. We are all creatures trembling under the sun of witness (or is it rain?); some of us, for reasons it would be h ...Show more
Second Mountain (The) by David Brooks
$39.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help
Are you on your first or second mountain? Is life about you - or others? About success - or something deeper? The world tells us that we should pursue our self-interest- career wins, high status, nice things. These are the goals of our first mountain. But at some point in our lives we might find that we ...Show more
Southerly 67 - China China by BROOKS David (ed)
$26.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
Southerly 76 - 2: Writing Disability by David Brooks
$26.95 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
This intriguing issue presents essays, memoir and creative work by disabled and non-disabled writers on the subjects of disability and of the interrelation of writing and disability. Blind writer and critic Amanda Tink discusses the impact of Henry Lawson's deafness on his style and created world. Ben S ...Show more
The Best Australian Poetry 2008 by David Brooks
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry | Series: Best Australian Poetry Ser.
"The Best Australian Poetry" celebrates the vibrancy and force of contemporary poetry in Australia.Guest editor David Brooks, a much admired poet in his own right, has put together a rich selection of powerful poems - elegant meditations, rapid sketches, and social commentaries - written by both emergin ...Show more
The Conversation by David Brooks
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"She came about five minutes later and sat at a table opposite him and closer to the wall, her back to the sea. Slim, not particularly tall, auburn hair, close-cropped, rather more studious than beautiful. Strong-featured. Or was it sharp-featured? A blend. In black jeans, a black jacket. Silver bracele ...Show more