Brophy: 56 books
Reconstructing the Dreamland
The Tulsa Riot of 1921: Race, Reparations, and Reconciliation
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2003
The 1921 Tulsa Race Riot was the country's bloodiest civil disturbance of the century. Thirty city blocks were burned to the ground, perhaps 150 died, and the prosperous black community of Greenwood, Oklahoma, was turned to rubble. Brophy draws on his own extensive research into contemporary accounts...
by Tom Brophy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2010
Unemployment industry veteran Tom Brophy has helped thousands of professionals negotiate the emotional and financial trauma of unemployment. In Little Victories - Conquering Unemployment, Brophy helps you understand today's convoluted employment market, and helps create "victories" that build confidence and get you back to work faster.
by Brigid Brophy
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2013
'In the title story of [The Adventures of God in His Search for the Black Girl] the main character, God himself, expresses a taste for writing that's sophisticated, stylish, literary. The words apply very well to [Brigid] Brophy's own best work.' New Republic 'What we have here is more common...
by Barry Brophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2017
How many awful presentations have you attended? How many have you given?Awful presentations are too often the norm, with swathes of text on the screen, presenters speaking over everyone’s heads, little interaction, no stories, poor images and a bored audience. Why?In this book, presentation...
Mozart the Dramatist
The Value of His Operas to Him, to His Age and to Us
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Brigid Brophy first published her passionate, profoundly original Mozart the Dramatist in 1964, revisiting it subsequently in 1988. Organised by theme, the text offers brilliant readings of Mozart's five most famous operas - Die Entf�hrung aus dem Serail, Le Nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Cos�...
My First Goal
50 players and the goal that marked the beginning of their NHL career
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Every player who ever scored in the NHL has a different story about his first goal. For some, like Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe, or Phil Esposito, their first goal was just one of many they would score in their long and illustrious careers. For others, their first goal was also their last. Sports journalist...
Imhotep the African
Architect of the Cosmos
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
In this ground-breaking book, Egyptologist Robert Bauval and astrophysicist Thomas Brophy uncover the mystery of Imhotep, an ancient Egyptian superstar, pharaonic Da Vinci, Michelangelo, Galileo, and Newton all rolled into one. Based on their research at the Step Pyramid Complex at Saqqara, Bauval...
Black and White
A Portrait of Aubrey Beardsley
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2014
'[Beardsley's] vision is permanently that of a child lying in bed watching his mother dress for a dinner-party. His fantasy hangs this here, tries the effect of that there: everything is a jewel, and everything is a sexual organ. He is allured, yet afraid to touch: driven back on a cold minuteness...
by Brigid Brophy
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Nancy meets Marcus at a party. He is untidy, nervous, shy: women have never paid him any attention. But here is virgin clay from which Nancy can mould her Adam. She marries him, and on their wedding night Marcus realises he is as much her protege in sex as in other fields. But soon he is confident...
by Brigid Brophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2017
Is modern man threatening to destroy his world? First published in 1962, this book, which analyzes the origins, history, and manifestations of the destructive impulse that exists in human beings, has relevance and interest for all of us. The author sees this impulse as primarily one of self-destruction...
Reading Between the Lines
The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Reading Between the Lines: The Neolithic Cursus Monuments of Scotland is the first systematic analysis of Scotland’s cursus monuments and is written by one of the foremost scholars of the Neolithic in Scotland. Drawing on fifteen years of experience of cropmark interpretation, as well as his involvement...
Black Genesis
The Prehistoric Origins of Ancient Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011
Presents proof that an advanced black African civilization inhabited the Sahara long before Pharaonic Egypt
• Reveals black Africa to be at the genesis of ancient civilization and the human story
• Examines extensive studies into the lost civilization of the “Star People” by...
Unbreakable
50 Goals in 39 Games: Wayne Gretzky and the Story of Hockey's Greatest Record
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
In only his 3rd NHL season, Wayne Gretzky set the unbeatable NHL record - scoring 50 goals in just 39 games. A book for the devoted Gretzky fans, and books like 99 by Al Strachan.
Unbreakable: 50 Goals in 39 Games, Wayne Gretzky and the Story of Hockey's Greatest Record sets out to chronicle...
by Fred Brophy, Sue Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
'My life has been a mad travelling show, meeting some of the strangest and greatest people who've ever lived.� I've had my fair share of trouble and I'm lucky to be here.�But I've always been a showman and I've done my best to preserve a precious part of an old Australia that's fast disappearing.'�
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