Quarterly Essay (5 books in series)

Now or Never: Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future (2009)
language
English
author
3.47 of 5 Votes: 4
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...
The Prince: Faith, Abuse, and George Pell (2013)
language
English
author
4.17 of 5 Votes: 2
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...
Quarterly Essay 41 The Happy Life: The Search for Contentment in the Modern World (2011)
language
English
author
3.08 of 5 Votes: 1
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...
Quarterly Essay 47 Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott (2012)
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English
author
3.95 of 5 Votes: 2
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...
Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott (2012)
language
English
author
3.95 of 5 Votes: 3
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...