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Quarterly Essay 31 - Now or Neve r: A Sustainable Future for Australia? by Tim Flannery
$17.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth's regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge? This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the twe ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 48: After the Future by Tim Flannery; George Brandis (Contribution by); Chris Uhlmann (Contribution by); Mark Latham (Contribution by); Judith Brett (Contribution by); Jack Waterford (Contribution by); David Marr (Contribution by); Rachel Nolan (Contribution by)
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
When it comes to the natural world, Australia is home to a disproportionately large share of the world's riches. That means we Australians are caretakers of a unique natural heritage in a land which tolerates few mistakes. So how are we doing?In Quarterly Essay 48 Tim Flannery says: we're often failing ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 50: Unfinished Business: Sex, Freedom and Misogyny by Anna Goldsworthy
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
On the surface, it seems the best time ever to be a woman in Australia. The prime minister, governor-general and the richest person are all female; women are at the forefront of almost every area of public life. Yet when Julia Gillard's misogyny speech ricocheted around the world, it clearly touched a n ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 53: That Sinking Feeling: Asylum Seekers and the Search for the Indonesian Solution by Paul Toohey
$26.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Quarterly Essay 53, Paul Toohey looks at one of Tony Abbott's signature promises: to stop the boats. Has his government succeeded? If so, at what cost?In Java, Toohey observes asylum seekers heading for Australia and reports on the Indonesian response. He tells the stories of individual refugees, loo ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 54: Dragon's Tail: The Lucky Country after the China Boom by Andrew Charlton
$26.00 NZD
Category: Business | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In Dragon's Tail, Andrew Charlton explores the supercharged rise of China and considers Australia's future as the Chinese dragon stirs and shifts. China's rise has been perhaps the most significant economic event in two centuries, occurring 100 times more quickly and on a scale 1000 times larger than Br ...Show more
Quarterly Essay 57: Dear Life: On Caring for the Elderly by Karen Hitchcock
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
In this moving and controversial Quarterly Essay, doctor and writer Karen Hitchcock investigates the treatment of the elderly and dying through some unforgettable cases. With honesty and deep experience, she looks at end-of-life decisions, frailty and dementia, over-treatment and escalating costs. Ours ...Show more
The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World by David Malouf
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Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Quarterly Essay Ser.
By Australia's greatest contemporary author, an elegant, succinct meditation on what makes for a happy life.;-) "Happiness surely is among the simplest of human emotions and the most spontaneous," says David Malouf. But what exactly are we looking for when we chase happiness? At this particular mome ...Show more
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