Winner, 2009 Victorian Premier's Literary AwardsThe Golden Bird brings together the best of Robert Adamson's work from the last four decades, as well as many superb new poems. Selected and arranged by the author, it provides an accessible introduction to Australia's foremost lyric poet and an insight into the recurring themes that have shaped his remarkable body of work.Shortlisted, 2009 Age Book of the Year Awards‘Robert Adamson is one of...

In "Fichte," Robert Adamson embarks on a profound exploration of Johann Gottlieb Fichte's philosophical contributions, notably his attempts to reconcile German idealism with the complexities of human experience. Adamson's analytical approach delves into the intricacies of Fichte's doctrines, employing a clear and engaging literary style that balances rigor with accessibility. The book situates Fichte within the broader context of Enlightenment thought, demonstrating how his ideas challenge...

The final collection from the award-winning 'poet of the Hawkesbury River'In the old days I used to think artThat was purely imagined could fly higherThan anything real. Now I feel a small flutteringBird in my own pulse, a connection to the sky.--from 'The Kingfisher's Soul'In the last year of his life, with the help of friend and poet Devin Johnston, Robert Adamson put together a selection...

Robert Adamson has been nourished for much of his life by Australia's Hawkesbury River. His poetry praises nature – red in tooth and claw – and celebrates existence as a mythological quest. Net Needle is his first new collection to be published in Britain since Reading the River: Selected Poems (2004) and The Kingfisher's Soul (2009).Net Needle brings together the presiding influences of Adamson's life, early and late. He casts an affectionate ey...

In "Fichte," Robert Adamson presents a comprehensive and insightful exploration of the philosophy of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, one of the pivotal figures in German Idealism. Adamson employs a rigorous analytical style, interweaving Fichte's theoretical constructs with historical context, analyzing both his contributions to idealism and the broader implications of his work. The text navigates through Fichte's transcendental idealism, ethical theory, and his perspective on self-consciousness, ...

Imagine a massive computer complex in the future from where you explore endless worlds and repeatedly live an entire life anywhere and at any time of your choosing.Skyler Anderson is a handsome young tour guide sailing the Napali Coast in Kauai. One day, a mysterious, inexplicable rainbow leads him on a journey where he encounters a team of software engineers and scientists secretly working on a solution for interstellar flight.He teams up with a beautiful astronomer and fi...

BASE: The Edge of RealityImagine a future from where you explore endless worlds and repeatedly live an entire life anywhere and at any time of your choosing.Skyler Anderson is a handsome young tour guide sailing the Napali Coast in Kauai. One day, a mysterious, inexplicable rainbow leads him on a journey where he encounters a team of software engineers and scientists secretly working on a solution for interstellar flight.He teams up with a beautiful...

Fichte is a work by Robert Adamson. It presents an introduction to the thinking of Johann Gottlieb Fichte, a German philosopher who became a founding figure of the philosophical movement known as idealism.

An attractive and intriguing female from a distant advanced world tells James Ripley that he is not human; he's a hybrid of their two species, and the Earth is doomed. James must observe and record the last days of his endangered planet. An epic struggle ensues because of James' love for Earth and the alien's unwillingness to interfere.A thrilling plot, an epic romance, and an adventure that spans worlds. Not From Earth takes you on a journey through time and space, from the Moon L...

"A passionate, humane intelligence addressing itself to the fundamental problem of how the mind operates." — NewsweekConsidered by many to be Hannah Arendt's greatest work, published as she neared the end of her life, The Life of the Mind investigates thought itself, as it exists in contemplative life. In a shift from her previous writings, most of which focus on the world outside the mind, this work was planned as three volumes that would explore ...

Philosophy may be said to contain the principles of the rational cognition that concepts afford us of things (not merely, as with logic, the principles of the form of thought in general irrespective of the objects), and, thus interpreted, the course, usually adopted, of dividing it into theoretical and practical is perfectly sound. But this makes imperative a specific distinction on the part of the concepts by which the principles of this rational cognition get their object assigned to the...

Over the past three years Alice Oswald has been recording conversations with people who live and work on the River Dart in Devon. Using these records and voices as a sort of poetic census, she creates a narrative of the river, tracking its life from source to sea. The voices are wonderfully varied and idiomatic - they include a poacher, a ferryman, a sewage worker and milk worker, a forester, swimmers and canoeists - and are interlinked with historic and mythic voices: drowned voices, drea...