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How to Know a Person - The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen by David Brooks
$69.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics
A practical, heartfelt guide to the art of truly knowing another person in order to foster deeper connections at home, at work, and throughout our lives-from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Road to Character and The Second MountainIf you are going to care for someone, you must first unde ...Show more
Open House by Brooks David
$24.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
A poem is a place where you can bring things together, you don't have to know why. The mad and the bad, the gentle and the dead, tooth-ache and heart-ache and the ache and quandary of history. We are all creatures trembling under the sun of witness (or is it rain?); some of us, for reasons it would be h ...Show more
Second Mountain (The) by David Brooks
$39.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy
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 Conversation by David Brooks
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction
"She came about five minutes later and sat at a table opposite him and closer to the wall, her back to the sea. Slim, not particularly tall, auburn hair, close-cropped, rather more studious than beautiful. Strong-featured. Or was it sharp-featured? A blend. In black jeans, a black jacket. Silver bracele ...Show more
The Road to Character by David Brooks (Crown Cork & Seal Corporate Technologies, Oxford, UK)
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
#1 "NEW YORK TIMES" BESTSELLER I wrote this book not sure I could follow the road to character, but I wanted at least to know what the road looks like and how other people have trodden it. David Brooks With the wisdom, humor, curiosity, and sharp insights that have brought millions of readers to his "Ne ...Show more
The Road to Character by David Brooks
$45.00 AUD
Category: New Non Fiction
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 Social Animal: A Story of How Success Happens by David Brooks
$24.99 AUD
Category: Personal Development/Psychology | 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
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