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Derrida's Breakfast by David Brooks
24.95 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Four essays, three on the philosopher Jacques Derrida, whose writings have so influenced our time (one on his breakfast, one on his cat, one on his relationship with a snake, and one (on the killing of doves) on the great early twentieth century poet Rilke - each of them examining key failures and chall ...Show more
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
33.80 AUD
Category: Fiction
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
God Made My Face: a Collective Portrait of James Baldwin by Hilton Als (Editor); Stephen Best (Text by); Daphne A. Brooks (Text by); Teju Cole (Text by); Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Text by); Barry Jenkins (Text by); Jamaica Kincaid (Text by); David Leeming (Text by); Darryl Pinckney (Text by)
85.00 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
Baldwin's life and legacy as remembered by a pantheon of artists and writers: from Jamaica Kincaid and Barry Jenkins to Richard Avedon and Alice Neel When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind an extraordinary body of work: novels, poems, film scripts and, perhaps most indelibly, essays. A ...Show more
How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
55.00 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit
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: Culture Ideas Politics
'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: Mind Body Spirit
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
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
The Conversation by David Brooks
23.95 AUD
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 Grass Library by David Brooks
26.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
26.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
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