Thomas Hart lives in the numb aftermath of his brother's tragic death. After spending six months institutionalized for attempted suicide, Thomas returns home to build a new life for himself. He goes to therapy, starts over at a different high school, and makes new friends. All while completely abandoning his old reputation as a state champion swimmer. Or so he thought.Thomas can't seem to get resident star athlete Ethan Cooper out of his head. With dimples that have a track record ...

This manual is meant to help women who are curious about the strip club scene, by telling girls considering this route how to make the money and get out of the club, in 5 years or less.The regular 9 to 5 woman with a significant other can learn a thing or two to keep him happy, or for her to feel sexy for herself after reading the bonus chapters only found in this third edition.Along with the dangers, do's and don'ts: This book also gives advice about online marketing for bus...

I, Nicholas Brown (Mmeri Oji Berko), did this for us in the Americas since the effects of Willie Lynchism have persisted for way too long without someone sitting down, and coming up with a response in this fashion.The 300 or 400 year period is over, so let us begin to turn the tide with literature meant to empower us. From the bottom of my heart, I want us to win. But we can only do that by combating what Mr. Lynch may or may not have written.

A step into a different direction from the first Dragonflies series, Nicholas Brown puts into poetry and anecdotal prose poems how he felt at some of his worst emotional moments.People will be shocked, others will enjoy, but all shall respect the brutal honesty within this work, especially the poem No Love.Not many people open up when they're feeling some type of way. In Dragonflies at War Vol. II, you're guaranteed to receive exactly what was on his mind.

In Autonomy Nicholas Brown theorizes the historical and theoretical argument for art's autonomy from its acknowledged character as a commodity. Refusing the position that the distinction between art and the commodity has collapsed, Brown demonstrates how art can, in confronting its material determinations, suspend the logic of capital by demanding interpretive attention. He applies his readings of Marx, Hegel, Adorno, and Jameson to a range of literature, photography, music, telev...

Designed as an 'ideal city' and emblem of the nation, Canberra has long been a source of ambivalence for many Australians. In this charming and concise book, Nicholas Brown challenges these ideas and looks beyond the clichés to illuminate the unique, layered and often colourful history of Australia's capital. Brown covers Canberra's selection as the site of the national capital, the turbulent path of Walter Burley Griffin's plan for the city and the many phases of its construction. He surv...

The system isn't perfect, and many people have been made statistics by criminals and police officers. Cops Lie...Crooks Lie...Statistics Don't is the coming of age story of Lucas "Baby Shango" John, who's discussing his career path and the reasons why. Nicholas A. Brown created this in the hopes of showing certain private conversations had between upstanding black people, and how they navigate through criminality and police harassment in America.

Rick Farley was an extraordinary man. As head of the Cattlemen's Union and National Farmers' Federation, a key figure in the Landcare movement and a public campaigner for Indigenous rights and Reconciliation, Farley had an insider's view of many key political and social changes in Australia over his thirty years in the public eye. Aligned at various stages with the National Party, ALP and the Australian Democrats, Farley was a political enigma who nevertheless had a straightforward mission...

Utopian Generations develops a powerful interpretive matrix for understanding world literature--one that renders modernism and postcolonial African literature comprehensible in a single framework, within which neither will ever look the same. African literature has commonly been seen as representationally naïve vis-à-vis modernism, and canonical modernism as reactionary vis-à-vis postcolonial literature. What brings these two bodies of work together, argues Nicholas Brown, is thei...

‘Bollywood comes to Griffin—sort of.’In Australia, we like ’em blonde and bronzed. In India, it’s ‘fair and lovely’. So what happens if you’re stuck in between?John Green is an Anglo-Indian Australian actor who dreams of being cast in his favourite TV soap, Bondi Parade. The problem is, his coloured contacts can’t hide the fact that his skin is more brown than white.Meanwhile, his skin-bleached mum is determined for him to procreate with a blonde, ...

Dragonflies in the Swamp is a collection of short stories and what I call "Anecdotal Prose Poems". These tales and anecdotes illustrate how people from Miami's rough survive, thrive and die in the struggle of living in questionable and even dangerous territory.

Nicholas Brown over a six year span has studied what people did, mainly rags to riches stories, in order to become ballers, i.e. rich and then wealthy. This easy to read book is over 180 pages of anecdotes and advice highlighting 13 key factors some utilized in order to ball out.