Volume LI Number 12

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Quadrant

December 2007 - Volume LI Number 12

Science

Time and Space for the Few

Mike Alder

Books

The Trouble with Physics, by Lee Smolin

Mike Alder

The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, edited by Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts

Peter Coleman

How the Scots Invented the Modern World by Arthur Herman

Robert Murray

Literature

The House of Edith Wharton

Patricia Anderson

The Crusade Against Beauty

Christopher Koch

Australia

Two Knights of Australia

Philip Ayres

Alan Barcan

Education Revolutions, Left, Right and Centre

Education

Society

Multiculturalism: An Idea Whose Time Has Gone

Hal G.P. Colebatch

Genocide by Suicide

Patrick McCauley

Devine

Out of Tasmania

Frank Devine

Editorial

Saving the Children

P.P. McGuinness

Poetry

Stephen Edgar

The Blessings of Saint Vincent

Carol Jenkins

Carol Jenkins

Dealing with Obese Women

Jo McInerney

Surreal Elements in a Relationship

Christine Paice

Jillian Pattinson

Chandelier-Tree

Pascale Petit

Redwood Canopy Explorer

Pascale Petit

The Treekeeper's Tale

Pascale Petit

The final cliché

W.H. Presley

Edith Speers

Edith Speers

John Whitworth

John Whitworth

John Whitworth

Story

John Griffin

Travel

The Istanbullus Meet the World

Laurie Hergenhan

Politics

The 1976 Cabinet Papers

David Kemp

Film

Dumbed-Down Visuals

Neil McDonald

Ryan

The Useful Grievance

Peter Ryan

Religion

Religion, Violence and Roger Scruton

Roger Sandall

Islam's Trojan Horse?

Paul Stenhouse

The Constitution

Misunderstanding the Crown

David Smith