WINNER, 2024 PRIME MINISTER'S LITERARY AWARDS, NON FICTION WINNER, 2024 VICTORIAN PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, INDIGENOUS WRITING SHORTLISTED, 2024 NSW PREMIER'S LITERARY AWARDS, INDIGENOUS WRITERS' PRIZE This book is a collected works of one of Australia’s most accomplished media personalities. Chronicling his career since 2007, Close to the Subject presents a selection of pieces from Daniel Browning’s stellar career as a journalist, radio broadcaster, critic and interviewer. Alongside conv...

In Schools with Heart , Brown explores voluntarism by using original data gathered from 185 interviews with public school principals, teachers, and volunteers, many of whom worked in schools known for their volunteer programs. Supplementing these data from other studies, this careful inquiry finds that volunteers offer much to schools. School volun

This book is about the historical moment when writers and critics first used the term “realism” to describe representation in literature and painting. While scholarship on realism tends to proceed from an assumption that the term has a long-established meaning and history, this book reveals that mid-nineteenth-century critics and writers first used the term reluctantly, with much confusion over what it might actually mean. It did not acquire the ready meaning we now take for granted until ...

There's a spirit in the valley that's dealing in death, and it's ready to make an offer: your soul for a second chance. For one old rancher who's bleeding out on the mountain, this sounds like a fine trade.For Jack Stott, who's returning to his childhood valley, this means supremely bad timing.The story of a missing man sweeps him into a search party on a blizzarding mountain, and when the party returns, it's to the bodies of old neighbors cut up in dark corners and strewn al...

The third volume in the Cloudless Mind series, this powerful fusion of Buddhist insight and neuroscience offers serious practitioners essential tools to deepen awakening and face today's toughest ethical and emotional challenges.Cloudless Mind: Conversations on Buddhahood, Volume 3 brings the series to a powerful conclusion, weaving together Daniel P Brown's advanced teachings on awakening with urgent contemporary issues and scientific insight. This final volume exp...

Ethan Grayson has always chased mysteries. Once a respected archaeologist, now a private investigator with a sharp tongue and a knack for finding trouble, he thought he'd left the ruins and relics of his past behind. But when a dangerous manuscript surfaces—an ancient codex whispered to hold truths worth killing for—Ethan is pulled back into a world where history, obsession, and desire collide.Drawn to Mexico's forgotten missions and shadowed streets, Ethan finds himself entangled ...

A must-have guide for every 49ers Faithful, celebrating the legends, the lore, and the unforgettable moments that define San Francisco football.Whether you're a die-hard from the days of Joe Montana or a new supporter of Jimmy Garoppolo, 100 Things 49ers Fans Should Know & Do Before They Die is the ultimate guide. Delve into the team's storied history, from the early years of Y. A. Tittle to the golden era of Bill Walsh, Montana, Steve Young, and Jerry Ric...

Daniel Brown’s Subjects in Poetry is the first book to examine the broad and imposing topic of poetic subject matter, probing both what poems are about and how that influences the way they're made. It comprises one poet’s attempt to plumb the nature of his art, to ask how the selection of material remains a crucial yet unexplored area of poetic craft, and to suggest the vast range of possible subjects for poems.The book begins by venturing a novel definition of “subject,” ...

Covering the origins, key features, and legacy of the Islamic tradition, the third edition of A New Introduction to Islam includes new material on Islam in the 21st century and discussions of the impact of historical ideas, literature, and movements on contemporary trends.Includes updated and rewritten chapters on the Qur’an and hadith literature that covers important new academic researchCompares the practice of Islam in different Islamic ...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat comes the gripping untold story of one of the most heroic units that fought in World War II'My favourite kind of history book: grippingly written, full of incredible drama, and focussing on individuals rather than numbers and statistics' James HollandOn December 7th 1941, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. For many Americans, the surprise attack was ...

A comprehensive treatment approach for the repair and resolution of attachment disturbances in adults, for use in clinical settings.With contributions by Paula Morgan-Johnson, Paula Sacks, Caroline R. Baltzer, James Hickey, Andrea Cole, Jan Bloom, and Deirdre Fay, Attachment Disturbances in Adults is a landmark resource for (1) understanding attachment, its development, and the most clinically relevant findings from attachment research, and (2) using this ...

From the #1 bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat and Facing the Mountain comes an unforgettable epic of family, tragedy, and survival on the American frontier“An ideal pairing of talent and material.… Engrossing.… A deft and ambitious storyteller.” — Mary Roach, New York Times Book ReviewIn April of 1846, twenty-one-year-old Sarah Graves, intent on a better future, set out west from Illinois with her new hus...