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  | | Men Explain Things To Me(2nd Edition) by Rebecca Solnit, Ana Teresa Fernandez Paperback, 171 Pages, Published 2015 by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60846-466-1, ISBN: 1-60846-466-0 "-This slim book--seven essays, punctuated by enigmatic, haunting paintings by Ana Teresa Fernandez--hums with power and wit.---Boston Globe-The antidote to mansplaining.---The Stranger-Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest and often scathing in its conclusions.---Salon-Solnit tackles big themes of gender and power in these accessible essays. Honest and full of wit, this is an integral read that furthers the conversation on fe ..." |
 | | Wanderlust(Updated) A History of Walking by Rebecca Solnit Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2001 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-028601-4, ISBN: 0-14-028601-2 "The ability to walk on two legs over long distances distinguishes Homo sapiens from other primates, and indeed from every other species on earth. That ability has also yielded some of the best creative work of our species: the lyrical ballads of the English romantic poets, composed on long walks over hill and dale; the speculations of the peripatetic philosophers; the meditations of footloose Chinese and Japanese poets; the exhortations ..." |
 | | The Faraway Nearby(Reprint) by Rebecca Solnit Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2014 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-312549-5, ISBN: 0-14-312549-4 "From the author of the memoir Recollections of My Nonexistence, a personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy – a fitting companion to Solnit’s A Field Guide to Getting Lost A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardIn this exquisitely written book by the author of A Paradise Built in Hell, Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by ..." |
 | | A Paradise Built in Hell(Reprint) The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2010 by Penguin Books Bargain Price ISBN-13: 978-0-14-311807-7, ISBN: 0-14-311807-2 "A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-w ..." |
 | | A Field Guide to Getting Lost(Reprint) by Rebecca Solnit Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2006 by Penguin Books Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-0-14-303724-8, ISBN: 0-14-303724-2 "A stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown from the author of Men Explain Things To MeWritten as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's life to explore issues of uncertainty, trust, loss, memory, desire, and place. Solnit is interested in the stories we use to navigate our way through the world, and the plac ..." |
 | | Recollections of My Nonexistence A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2021 by Penguin Lcc Us Mrz 2021 ISBN-13: 978-0-593-08334-5, ISBN: 0-593-08334-2 "An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a ..." |
 | | The M of All Questions Further Reports from the Feminist Revolutions by Rebecca Solnit Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2017 by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60846-740-2, ISBN: 1-60846-740-6 "Praise for Men Explain Things to Me:"It's a fraught time to be female in America (or should I say fraught-er), and Rebecca Solnit's Men Explain Things to Me is the most clarifying, soothing, and socially aware document I've read on the topic this year."—Lena Dunham, Wall Street Journal"The Antidote to Mansplaining."—The Stranger"Feminist, frequently funny, unflinchingly honest, and often scathing in its conclusions."—SalonIn a timely an ..." |
 | | Hope in the Dark(2nd Edition) Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit Paperback, 184 Pages, Published 2016 by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60846-576-7, ISBN: 1-60846-576-4 ""This is the ultimate 'feel-good' book for exhausted campaigners and activists . . . an intensely personal account, a meditation on activism and hope."—GuardianPraise for Men Explain Things To Me:"It’s a fraught time to be female in America (or should I say fraught-er), and a newly expanded edition of Rebecca Solnit ’s Men Explain Things to Me is the most clarifying, soothing and socially aware document I’ve read on the topic this year. ..." |
 | | Recollections of My Nonexistence A Memoir by Rebecca Solnit Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2020 by Viking ISBN-13: 978-0-593-08333-8, ISBN: 0-593-08333-4 ""An un-self-centered book . . . At the same time that [Solnit] describes her forays into her past, she invites us to connect pieces of her story to our own, as a measure of how far we've come and how far we have left to go." --Jenny Odell, The New York Times Book Review An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silentIn Recollections of My Nonexistenc ..." |
 | | Cinderella Liberator A Fairy Tale Revolution (Hardback) by Rebecca Solnit, Arthur Rackman Hardcover, 32 Pages, Published 2020 by Random House Uk Ltd Okt 2020 ISBN-13: 978-1-78487-619-7, ISBN: 1-78487-619-4 "' In the kitchen, in her rags, Cinderella, longs to go to the ball. After all, there is nothing worse than not being invited to the party. Enter her fairy godmother... But that is where the familiar story ends." |
 | | Not Too Late Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility (Paperback) by Rebecca Solnit, Thelma Young Lutunatabua Paperback, 232 Pages, Published 2023 by 0 ISBN-13: 978-1-64259-897-1, ISBN: 1-64259-897-6 |
 | | Call Them by Their True Names(Reprint) American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit Paperback, 166 Pages, Published 2018 by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1-60846-946-8, ISBN: 1-60846-946-8 "National Book Award Longlist Winner of the Kirkus Prize for Nonfiction Winner of the Foreword INDIE Editor’s Choice Prize for Nonfiction “Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.” —The New Republic “Solnit’s exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.” —Elle Rebecca Solnit is the author of more than twenty books, including the international bestseller Men Explain Things to Me. Cal ..." |
 | | A Paradise Built in Hell(1st Edition) The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2009 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-02107-9, ISBN: 0-670-02107-5 "A startling investigation of what people do in disasters and why it matters Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster? whether manmade or natural?people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave? What makes the newfound communities and purpose many find in the ruins and crises after disaster so joyous? And what does this joy reveal about ordinarily unmet social desires and possibilities? In A Paradise Built in Hell, award-w ..." |
 | | River of Shadows(Reprint) Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2004 by Penguin Books Deckle Edge ISBN-13: 978-0-14-200410-4, ISBN: 0-14-200410-3 "Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Mark Lynton History Prize Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Recollections of My Nonexistence explores what it was about California in the late 19th-century that enabled it to become such a center of technological and cultural innovationThe world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Mu ..." |
 | | The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness(1st Edition) by Rebecca Solnit Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2014 by Trinity University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-59534-198-3, ISBN: 1-59534-198-6 "The incomparable Rebecca Solnit, author of more than a dozen acclaimed books of nonfiction, brings the same dazzling writing to the twenty-nine essays in The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness. As the title suggests, the territory of Solnit's concerns is vast, and in her signature alchemical style she combines commentary on history, justice, war and peace, and explorations of place, art, and community, all while writing with the l ..." |
 | | Savage Dreams(1st Edition) A Journey into the Hidden Wars of the American West by Rebecca Solnit Paperback, 440 Pages, Published 2014 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-28228-5, ISBN: 0-520-28228-0 ""A beautiful, absorbing, tragic book."―Larry McMurtry In 1851, a war began in what would become Yosemite National Park, a war against the indigenous inhabitants. A century later–in 1951–and a hundred and fifty miles away, another war began when the U.S. government started setting off nuclear bombs at the Nevada Test Site. It was called a nuclear testing program, but functioned as a war against the land and people of the Great Basin. I ..." |
 | | Unfathomable City(1st Edition) A New Orleans Atlas by Rebecca Solnit, Rebecca Snedeker, Willie Birch, Jacqueline Bishop, Luis Cruz Azaceta Paperback, 176 Pages, Published 2013 by University Of California Press ISBN-13: 978-0-520-27404-4, ISBN: 0-520-27404-0 "Like the bestselling "Infinite City: A San Francisco Atlas, " this book is a brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, one that provides a vivid, complex look at the multi-faceted nature of New Orleans, a city replete with contradictions. More than twenty essays assemble a chorus of vibrant voices, including geographers, scholars of sugar and bananas, the city's remarkable musicians, prison activists, environmentalists, Arab and N ..." |
 | | The Faraway Nearby(1st Edition) (Ala Notable Books for Adults) by Rebecca Solnit Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2013 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-02596-1, ISBN: 0-670-02596-8 "This personal, lyrical narrative about storytelling and empathy from award winner Rebecca Solnit is a fitting companion to her beloved "A Field Guide for Getting Lost" In this exquisitely written new book by the author of "A Paradise Built in Hell," Rebecca Solnit explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination. In the course of unpacking some of her own stories of he ..." |
 | | A Book of Migrations(Updated) by Rebecca Solnit Paperback, 208 Pages, Published 2011 by Verso ISBN-13: 978-1-84467-708-5, ISBN: 1-84467-708-7 "Observations and fantasies of birds and flying things proliferate in the jail letters and drawings of Countess Markievicz, who participated in the Easter Rising, and, half a century earlier, the Fenian leader Michael Davitt documented his imprisonment in the book Letters to a Blackbird. Portrait of the Artist's protagonist declares, “When the soul of a man is born in this country, there are nets flung at it to hold it back from fli ..." |
 | | River of Shadows(1st Edition) Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2003 by Viking Adult ISBN-13: 978-0-670-03176-4, ISBN: 0-670-03176-3 "The world as we know it today began in California in the late 1800s, and Eadweard Muybridge had a lot to do with it. This striking assertion is at the heart of Rebecca Solnit’s new book, which weaves together biography, history, and fascinating insights into art and technology to create a boldly original portrait of America on the threshold of modernity. The story of Muybridge—who in 1872 succeeded in capturing high-speed motion photogr ..." |
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