Anyone who reads The Book of Jade will quickly notice a few things: the author of this collection of poems holds a pessimistic, misanthropic view of life, and his obsessions lean towards the macabre, particularly focusing on themes of death, darkness, graves, corpses, and a longing to rest among the worms. The collection presents a world where God is portrayed as foolish, other people as imbeciles, and the fate of the dead as something to be envied. Certainly not light-hearted fare! Althou...

Anyone who reads The Book of Jade will quickly notice a few things: the author of this collection of poems holds a pessimistic, misanthropic view of life, and his obsessions lean towards the macabre, particularly focusing on themes of death, darkness, graves, corpses, and a longing to rest among the worms. The collection presents a world where God is portrayed as foolish, other people as imbeciles, and the fate of the dead as something to be envied. Certainly not light-hearted far...

The Book of Jade is a remarkable fin-de-siècle collection of poems steeped in morbidity, aesthetic refinement, and philosophical despair. Its lyrics move through moonlit gardens, tombs, narcotic reveries, and imagined Eastern splendors, using polished, musical diction to transform weariness into art. In dialogue with French Decadence, Symbolism, Poe, and the darker strains of Romanticism, the volume stands apart in American poetry for its uncompromising cult of beauty, death, and disenchan...

A poignant story of love and regret, from a master of contemporary Irish fictionAn Irish Times, RTÉ Culture and Big Issue Book of the Year for 2025* 'David Park is one of Ireland's great novelists.' Roddy Doyle, author of The Commitments *For fans of Sebastian Faulks, Donal Ryan and Anne Tyler comes this beautiful novel following two troubled men, separated by nearly a century, bou...

What does it take to manage a workforce that isn't human? The Chronicles of Aigent Catburger - raw_aigents "Name" {catburger}is the definitive historical record of a groundbreaking and perilous experiment: one human, known only as catburger, attempting to build a complex software project from scratch using nothing but a team of autonomous AI agents.This is not a story about tools. It is a story about a new kind of team, where each AI agent possesses its own uniq...

In "The Book of Jade," David Park Barnitz crafts a strikingly modernist collection of poems that eloquently intertwine themes of beauty, transience, and spiritual contemplation. Influenced by the Symbolist movement, Barnitz employs vivid imagery and rich symbolism to explore the complexities of human experience and the nature of existence. The poems reflect a yearning for transcendence, using the jade stone as a metaphor for the resolve and endurance found in life's fleeting moments. The l...

Dr David Park has touched on a very important issue in the Intercultural/Cross-cultural leadership space, that is, the necessity to understand and integrate cultural intelligence from diverse perspectives. The careful exploration of cultural intelligence in leadership from Asia perspective adds an important missing voice to leadership research and literature. This book is an important contribution to leadership practices, leadership development and inter-cultural/cross-cultural leadership...

Strangers come together to run. Angela and Brendan are racing towards a wedding day that is increasingly tainted by doubts. Yana runs to free herself from the darkness of the past and to remember her missing brother. Cathy thinks about the secret she has been unable to share. Running takes Maurice past his daughter's house, the place he is not allowed to enter.Over the nine weeks unexpected friendships are forged, challenges faced and by the time of their final run together all wil...

'One of Ireland's great novelists' Roddy Doyle'Wrings the heart' Bernard MacLaverty'A mighty book' Frank McGuinness'Extraordinary, raw and moving a chronicle of pain and powerlessness as could be written' Lisa McInerneyAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARThe world is shrouded in snow. With transport ground to a halt, Tom must venture out into a transformed and tr...

A bold and unsettling parable about guilt, atonement and redemption from the winner of the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award'It is seldom that one can say a book is perfect, but this is as close as I've seen in a very long time' SUNDAY INDEPENDENT'A bold and unsettling parable about guilt, atonement and redemption' IRISH TIMESMichael has travelled a long way from his boyhood under the endless skies of the Mi...

The Grand Contraption tells the story of humanity's attempts through 4,000 years of written history to make sense of the world in its cosmic totality, to understand its physical nature, and to know its real and imagined inhabitants. No other book has provided as coherent, compelling, and learned a narrative on this subject of subjects. David Park takes us on an incredible journey that illuminates the multitude of elaborate "contraptions" by which humans in the Western world have i...

Eager to escape a dark history in his home country, Arman arrives to Kuala Lumpur with a clear goal: complete a degree in journalism and escape to a life of freedom in the West. Meanwhile, his dreams are haunted by a dragon named Dahag, whose presence is a constant reminder of the shame he caused his parents in Iran, and his days are spent trying to make new friends while hoping they don't automatically think he's a terrorist. Arman's worst nightmares come true, however, when he is found g...