Nicholas Brown: 25 books

Celebrates and illuminates the legacy of one of America’s most innovative and consequential 20th century novelists. In 2002, following the posthumous publication of William Gaddis’s collected nonfiction and his final novel and Jonathan Franzen’s lengthy attack on him in The New Yorker,...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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.    

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...

This dictionary contains 10,000 Russian words in order of importance starting with the most common and finishing with words that occur about 8 times in a million. All the words have English translations, many have examples of usage and the entries include information on stress and grammatical irregularities....

This manual is meant to help women who are curious about the strip club scene. It's meant to help girls who are considering this route, telling them how to make the money, but also on how to get out of the club in 5 years or less.   The regular 9 to 5 woman with a significant other can learn a thing...

Engaging and informative, this is the biography of a unique man whose determination and sense of justice has left a lasting legacy for many Australians: Rick Farley. From his boyhood in Queensland to his tragic death in 2006, this account demonstrates how Farley became the head of the Cattlemen’s...

From wool and gold to minerals and manufacturing, Trading Nation reviews the history of Australia’s trade and trade policy since Federation. The book tackles a number of key questions that are central to the nation’s future. What is the future of trade in minerals, agriculture, manufacturing and...

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.

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...

A holistic approach to analyzing distinct grassland habitats that integrates ecological, historical, and archaeological data   Today the southeastern United States is a largely rural, forested, and agricultural landscape interspersed with urban areas of development. However, two centuries ago it...