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...

For readers of modern spirituality and contemplative psychology, a profound collection of Daniel P. Brown's beloved Wednesday night dialogues that guides seekers, meditators, and therapists toward clarity and awakening.A rare and illuminating guide to the awakened mind, Cloudless Mind captures the essence of Daniel P. Brown's beloved Wednesday night teachings, blending Buddhist wisdom with Western psychology for profound personal transformation.For over five ...

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,” ...

**Now a major motion picture, directed by George Clooney.From the Great Depression to Nazi Germany, The Boys in the Boat is the astonishing true story of the 1936 American men's eight rowing team on their quest for Olympic gold.'It is impossible not to get wrapped up in the emotion' – The Times**It is considered one of the most difficult sports in the world. For Joe Rantz, it might be his only choice.Cast aside by his family at an early age...

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 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 ...

"The Beautiful Beast" documents in meticulous detail the extraordinary and frightening biography of Irma Grese. Born in a tiny farming community fifty miles north of Berlin, she became the ultimate feminine representative of the Hitlerian vision of the warrior-youth;indeed, with her blonde hair and strikingly blue eyes, Grese embodied all the physical characteristics of the idealized Nazi youth! Once Irma Grese was old enough to secure a training spot in the newly-created corps of female S...

Steve jobs was not merely a ceo or a computer engineer; he was the ultimate architect of the modern digital age.Operating at the rare intersection of technology and the liberal arts, jobs fundamentally transformed the way humanity interacts with information, media, and each other. The apple core explores the turbulent, brilliant life of a man whose uncompromising vision and infamous "reality distortion field" reshaped six major industries: personal computers, anima...