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Rebecca Solnit (Y)
Roses, pleasure, and politics: a fresh take on Orwell as an avid gardener, whose political writing was grounded in his passion for the natural world.
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Rebecca Solnit
A new collection of ‘further feminisms’ - searing, smart and provocative essays from one of the most important public intellectuals writing today.
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Powerful, incisive, inspiring, a fourth essay collection from the bestselling author of the iconic Men Explain Things To Me.
A reissue of the profound and meandering modern classic about the historical, political and philosophical paths traced by walkers.
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A landmark memoir from the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her…
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Explores the phenomenon through which people become resourceful and altruistic after a disaster and communities reflect a shared sense of purpose, analyzing events ranging from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake…
A collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most important and original public intellectuals writing today.
Rebecca Solnit’s timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me offers a refreshing take on contemporary feminism.
A collection of new feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the internationalbestselling author of Men Explain Things to Me.
This updated edition confirms Solnit’s seminal work as a timeless classic on politics and change
An essential new collection of essays from the bestselling phenomenon Rebecca Solnit calling for reflection and context, activism and hope.
Solnit’s revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: a collection of the landmark, incendiary essays that established Rebecca Solnit as one of the leading feminist writers working today.
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From the author of Men Explain Things to Me: an electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a young writer finds her voice in a…
Rebecca Solnit reimagines a classic fairytale with a fresh, feminist Cinderella and new plot twists that will inspire young readers to change the world.
Mike Davis
For the late great Mike Davis, the ravaging of the climate by capital-and his prescient analysis of its consequences for those of us left to deal with the resulting crises-was…
David Graeber
Drawn from more than two decades of pathbreaking writing, the iconic and bestselling David Graeber's most important essays and interviews.
"The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it…
An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit ( the voice of the resistance -New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices…
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An inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others
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The acclaimed essayist’s reflections on migration.
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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. This work represents developments in Solnit’s thinking and…
Giving a portrait of the age of high speed innovation, this is a biography of Eadweard Muybridge, the Englishman who invented motion picture technology.
A fresh, feminist adaptation of a classic fairy tale from award-winning author Rebecca Solnit.
Rebecca Solnit unearths the roots of our contemporary crises, countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.
A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word mansplaining, and prompted fierce arguments.
El libro mas esperado de la gran pensadora feminista, autora de Los hombres me explican cosas: un memoir iluminador sobre su educacion sentimental y social.
UNO DE LOS 100 LIBROS…
Portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cross-cultural comparisons with the history of the American West, this title…
Acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg survey San Francisco’s transformation through gentrification in the early millenium
Photographs by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe; text by Rebecca Solnit.
A cultural history of walking explores the ancient practice, from ancient Greece to the present, delving into Wordsworth, Gary Snyder, Rousseau, Jane Austen, and other cultural and literary icons to…
Bestselling author Rebecca Solnit reminds us that activism has changed the world in remarkable ways.
Essays exploring politics and place, written with the lyricism of a poet and the wisdom of a modern-day sage
Written as a series of autobiographical essays, this volume draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Solnit’s life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place.
Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how…
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
An exhilarating romp through Orwell’s life and times and also through…
Solnit’s best book so far ( Chicago Tribune ) is a boldly original portraitof the proto-inventor of motion pictures. The story of Muybridge–who in 1872succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photographically–becomes…
First published by Viking Penguin, 2013.–Title page verso.
What makes a place? This title searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. It explores the area thematically…
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An exploration of the two landscapes that together serve as our national Eden and Armageddon and offer up a lot of the history of the west, not only in terms…
A collection of the year’s best essays selected by Atwan and guest editor Solnit..