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The Best Australian Poetry 2008 by David Brooks
Category: Gift | 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
Category: Fiction
A young woman and an older man meet by accident - a gust of wind - at a restaurant in Trieste and find themselves dining together. They embark upon a conversation of the kind that can perhaps only happen between total strangers - risky, philosophical, full of the most intimate stories and confessions. S ...Show more
The Conversation by David Brooks
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
The Fern Tattoo by David Brooks
Category: Fiction
The Fern Tattoo is a beguiling novel about the certainty of fate and the randomness of love that announces David Brooks' return as one of Australia's most distinctive literary novelists.
The Grass Library by David Brooks
Category: Biography | Series: About his 4 sheep
philosophical and poetic journey recounting the author's relationship with his four sheep and other animals in his home in the Blue Mountains. Both memoir and eloquent testament to animal rights. 'One of the most beautifully written books about animals I have ever read. I know of nothing else like it pu ...Show more
The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems by David Brooks
Category: Poetry & Plays
A stunning new work of poetry combined with a selection of the best of David Brooks' award-winning career A bottle of Romanee Conti sells for $785,000, while bodies are dug by hand from earthquake rubble in Indonesia because the local government couldn't afford the earth-moving equipment to do so while ...Show more
The Road to Character by David Brooks (Crown Cork & Seal Corporate Technologies, Oxford, UK)
Category: Self-Help
#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it. David Brooks With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his "Ne ...Show more
The Road to Character by David Brooks
Category: Self-Help
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * David Brooks challenges us to rebalance the scales between the focus on external success--"résumé virtues"--and our core principles. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE ECONOMIST With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of ...Show more
The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life by David Brooks
Category: Self-Help
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Everybody tells you to live for a cause larger than yourself, but how exactly do you do it? The author of The Road to Character explores what it takes to lead a meaningful life in a self-centered world. "Deeply moving, frequently eloquent and extraordinarily incisive."-- ...Show more
The Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens by David Brooks
Category: Self-Help
David Brooks weaves a vast array of new research into the lives of two fictional characters, revealing a fundamental new understanding of human nature. He outlines a new definition of success, highlighting what economists call non-cognitive skills - those hidden qualities that can't be easily measured, ...Show more
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character and Achievement by David Brooks
Category: Non-Fiction
How do we achieve success? Are some people more likely than others to end up in a good relationship? With a happy family life? A rewarding career? Forget everything you thought you knew about happiness and fulfilment. Let David Brooks take you on a journey - an adventure in the unconscious. It will cha ...Show more
The Sons of Clovis by David Brooks
Category: Art
The Sons of Clovis is a scholarly tour de force. It begins with the Ern Malley affair, establishing previously unrecognised connections between the Australian scene and French symboliste poetry, before embarking on a fascinating journey through literature, culture, and poetics. Making full use of his sk ...Show more