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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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Dead Cities, published more than twenty years ago and now finally back in print, is a blistering and characteristically prescient analysis of what happens to the urban environment when profit…
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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.
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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A collection of new feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the internationalbestselling author of Men Explain Things to Me.
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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 reissue of this inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others
Solnit’s revelatory modern classic exploring philosophy, history, art and metaphysics
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A collection of essays on feminism, from one of the most important and original public intellectuals writing today.
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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.
Rebecca Solnit’s timely follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me offers a refreshing take on contemporary feminism.
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.
Rebecca Solnit, Arthur Rackham (illus.)
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…
An inspiring and heartbreaking memoir about family, empathy and the stories we tell about ourselves and others
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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…
Photographs by Mark Klett and Byron Wolfe; text by Rebecca Solnit.
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Rebecca Solnit unearths the roots of our contemporary crises, countering the despair of our age with a dose of solidarity, creativity, and hope.
New feminist essays for the #MeToo era from the international best-selling author of Men Explain Things to Me.
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.
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Acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit and photographer Susan Schwartzenberg survey San Francisco’s transformation through gentrification in the early millenium
First published by Viking Penguin, 2013.–Title page verso.
The acclaimed essayist’s reflections on migration.
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…
Essays exploring politics and place, written with the lyricism of a poet and the wisdom of a modern-day sage
Bestselling author Rebecca Solnit reminds us that activism has changed the world in remarkable ways.
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.
A collection of the year’s best essays selected by Atwan and guest editor Solnit..
Giving a portrait of the age of high speed innovation, this is a biography of Eadweard Muybridge, the Englishman who invented motion picture technology.
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…
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 landmark, incendiary collection from one of the leading essayists working today.
Inspiring everyone from radical activists to Beyonce Knowles, Rebecca Solnit's essay 'Men Explain Things to Me' has become…
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…
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…
A fresh, feminist adaptation of a classic fairy tale from award-winning author Rebecca Solnit.
