{"product_id":"9781922212269","title":"Griffith Review 52: Imagining the Future","description":"\u003cp\u003eAustralian politics and national life are trapped in a permanent present. There are few opportunities to imagine the future, and even fewer to create it. Politics, commerce, media all focus relentlessly on the here and now. This breeds a corrosive cynicism. Yet when alternatives are presented they are often embraced and quickly become the new normal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGriffith Review 52: Imagining the Future\u003c\/i\u003e will imagine new possibilities. It is time to envisage the future, without fear, as a landscape to be won through human striving and expression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eContributors include Al Gore, Tim Flannery, Maria Tumarkin, Anthony Funnel, Margaret Simons, Tony Birch, Don Henry, Ashley Hay, Leah Kaminsky, Graeme Davison, Tony Davis, Jane Gleeson-White and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003ePublished with the support of the University of Melbourne and the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eJulianne Schultz\u003c\/b\u003e AM FAHA is the founding editor of Griffith Review, the award-winning literary and public affairs quarterly journal.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eProfessor Brendan Gleeson\u003c\/b\u003e is Director of the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute at the University of Melbourne. His latest book is \u003ci\u003eThe Urban Condition\u003c\/i\u003e (2014).\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Text Publishing Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47151380594928,"sku":"9781922212269","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781922212269_p0.jpg?v=1763633753","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781922212269","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}