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How To Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
$55.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
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
Second Mountain (The) by David Brooks
$39.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
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 Best Australian Poetry 2008 by David Brooks
$24.95 AUD
Category: Poetry & Plays | 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
$23.95 AUD
Category: General
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 Fern Tattoo by David Brooks
$32.95 AUD
Category: General
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
$26.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | 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 Naked Writer - Southerly 73/3 by David Brooks
$26.95 AUD
Category: General
Just how innocent are our writing positions? Are the words we write a life-giving or a life-taking tool? Does writing induce action or take the place of it? What are the moral responsibilities of the writer? From the 'animal turn' in the writings of Blanchot and Heidegger to the presentation of the cont ...Show more
The Other Side of Daylight: New and Selected Poems by David Brooks
$26.99 AUD
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
$45.00 AUD
Category: Social Thought
We live in a Big Me culture: universities and businesses alike reward goal-oriented superstars and those who self-promote are most likely to thrive. But what does this say about us? David Brooks argues that our hunger for wealth and status is eroding our ability to create meaningful inner lives. To show ...Show more
The Road to Character by David Brooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
#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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought
#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
$24.99 AUD
Category: Social Thought | Reading Level: very good
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