Quarterly Essay (5 books in series)
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review 1: Wow, I wish more books were like this, particularly environmental books. It's short and sweet, and virtually free of ideology. It clearly discusses the problems we face, and then moves swiftly onto several very practical and even profitable solutions that can be enacted today. Th...
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review 1: I've enjoyed many of David Marr's essays over the years but this was the first time that I've been left feeling sad and furious. I would have given this 5 stars if I didn't have such an overwhelming sense of indignation towards 'Big George'. Perhaps it's deserving of 5 stars beca...
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review 1: This refreshingly slim volume, at about 100 pages, is like a cool drink of water on a hot day: enervating. More of an essay than an actual book, and then neither a self-help manual nor a philosophical text, David Malouf's wide-arranging examination of the 'good' (materially suffi...
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review 1: Excellant essay by David Marr. He does not seek to torpedo Abbott. This is no way a polemic. It is a measured and reasoned piece of journalism on a divisive political figure who has spent half his life baiting any progressive forces particularly woman and gay rights activists.Abb...
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review 1: Perhaps I'm one of the few reviewers to read this book from a conservative viewpoint. I didn't really warm to David Marr's writing style to begin with but he definitely has an agenda here. It seems he's trying to say look at this... see... the man's a monster, but I actually onl...