Most Popular Books by David Farmer

D. H. Lawrence''s Women in Love - ''the beginning of a new world'', as he called it - suffered in the course of its revision, transcription, and publication some of the most spectacular damage ever inflicted upon one of his books. Until now no text of Women in Love has ever been published which is faithful to all of Lawrence''s revisions. This edition, edited by scholars in England and America, clears the text of literally thousands of accumulated errors allowing its readers to read and understand the novelist''s work as he himself created it. The edition includes the ''Foreword'' Lawrence wrote in 1919 and two preliminary and discarded chapters which have attracted widespread critical and biographical discussion. The introduction gives a full history of the novel''s composition, revision, publication and reception, and notes explain allusions and references; the textual apparatus records all variants between the base-text and the first printed editions.

This book of photographs was inspired by two main themes - the physical beauty of Tasmanian Peninsula, and the significance of Port Arthur. Mike Langford, Anne Johnston and David Farmer have collaborated on this study on and off over the last decade. (From inside back cover.)

Presents the history of Major-General Sir Richard Hussey Vivian''s career in the 6th Cavalry Brigade, and his life in general.

When foreign correspondent Anne Vincent uncovers an international child-stealing ring, she prepares to expose it on her TV network. But then she innocently becomes enmeshed in the scheme, compromising her journalistic ethics and endangering her career. Before she can find a way to disentangle herself, a mysterious gunman starts trying to kill her.

Number 17 in the series of occasional papers produced by the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council (ACSJC). Examines the role of banks and the social responsibility they have in the light of the gospel. Surveys relevant biblical and church teaching on banking and considers specific issues of deregulation and banking practice. The author is a freelance writer and consultant. He holds honours degrees in economics and theology and has spent 15 years working with one of the major Australian banks.

Atteint d''un véritable toc obsessionnel dès qu''il s''agit des concepts, de l''histoire et de la vie de Martin Heidegger, Hector décide de s''attaquer frontalement à l''icône. Sa révolte le conduit devant la justice et il profite de cette tribune pour ouvrir un procès en déshabilitation du penseur allemand. Dans ce roman aux allures d''essai, Hector plaide la déconstruction de tous les diktats et souligne l''absurdité des obscurantismes mortifères. Au-delà, il pose les questions de la responsabilité éthique de l''intellectuel, du sens de la philosophie et de la justice, des droits et des devoirs qui permettent de faire advenir une société heureuse. A travers l''odyssée de cet Hector candide et vintage, David Farmer nous parle d''aujourd''hui, de nous, de notre conscience et de notre aptitude à penser par nous-mêmes un monde joyeux et fraternel.

Synospis (French and English)Atteint d''''un v�ritable toc obsessionnel d�s qu''''il s''''agit des concepts, de l''''histoire et de la vie de Martin Heidegger, Hector d�cide de s''''attaquer frontalement � l''''ic�ne. Sa r�volte le conduit devant la justice et il profite de cette tribune pour ouvrir un proc�s en d�shabilitation du penseur allemand. Il rappelle la compromission totale du philosophe avec les pires th�ses nazies. Il s''''en prend �galement aux vis�es d''''une pens�e mortif�re qui se diffuserait dans toutes les sph�res de la soci�t� selon l''''agenda noir dict� depuis l''''outre-tombe par le magicien de Messkirch.Tout � la fois combatif et irritant, compulsif et attachant, immature et responsable, onirique et incisif, Hector plaide la d�construction des diktats impos�s depuis 90 ans par les adorateurs z�l�s de l''''ex Reichsf�hrer de l''''Universit� de Fribourg, sombre faux proph�te allemand qui r�vait d''''asphyxier Hom�re dans le Rhin et r�gner mille ans sur l''''Olympe des po�tes.Si l''''histoire n''''est pas un pr�toire, Hector n''''est ni historien, ni philosophe, ni juriste. Avec les surcro�ts d''''une bonne foi r�demptrice, il s''''�chine � truffer d''''explosifs le bunker dans lequel le penseur nazi a cach� ses grimoires et dans lequel se sont retranch�s des suiveurs misanthropes qui ne mettent au monde aucune r�volution heureuse.Pour mieux dynamiter cette camisole psychique clout�e sur les humanit�s, il s''''invente le mythe consolateur de l''''homme tragique embarqu� dans un univers spinoziste en expansion.� travers l''''odyss�e de cet Hector candide et vintage, David Farmer pose la question de la responsabilit� �thique de l''''intellectuel : doit-il, dans l''''atonie g�n�rale, conserver l''''unique et extraordinaire privil�ge de ne jamais �tre redevable pour les crimes contre l''''humanit� que pourraient juridiquement constituer ses �crits et ses actions ?Dans un troisi�me chapitre vierge de mots, procuration est donn�e � tout �tudiant, tout po�te et tout lecteur, pour proposer ses r�flexions, ses plaidoiries, ses h�sitations, ses d�bats, ses verdicts, ses opinions, son lyrisme et sa po�sie.Seized with a very strong obsession with the concepts, history and life of Martin Heidegger, Hector decides to tackle the icon face on. His actions lead to his prosecution, and he takes advantage of this rostrum to initiate a case for the disempowerment of the German thinker. He refers to the philosopher''''s absolute compromise with the worst of the Nazi theses. He also attacks the targeting of mortifying ideas as they have spread across all sections of society in line with the black agenda of the magician of Messkirch. At once combative and irritating, compulsive and endearing, immature and responsible, dreamlike and incisive, Hector pleads for the deconstruction of the diktats imposed over the last 90 years by the zealous adorers of the former Reichsf�hrer at the University of Fribourg, for this dark false German prophet who dreamed of asphyxiating Homer in the Rhine and reigning a thousand years on the Olympus of poets. In the same sense that history is not a praetorian court, Hector is neither a historian, nor a philosopher, nor a jurist. With additional bona fide redeeming force, he plants his explosives inside the bunker where the Nazi thinker stored his grimoires as a basis for the misanthropic followers who do not lead the world to any positive revolutions. In order to really blast this psychic straightjacket studded on the disciplines of the humanities, he comes up with a consolidating myth of a tragic man embarked in a Spinozian universe in expansion.Throughout the candid and vintage Hector''''s odyssey, David Farmer poses the question of the intellectual''''s ethical responsibility: In the third blank chapter which is devoid of words, the power of attorney is handed over in a literal sense to any student, poet or reader enabling them to put forward their own reflections, their pleadings, hesitations, debates, verdicts, opinions, their lyricism and their poetry.