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A Book of Migrations by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Languages and Reference
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, bestselling writer Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. Traveling with her newly minted Irish passport and alive to the productive ramblings of travel, Solnit describes the layers of history, pe ...Show more
A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: Canons
In this investigation into loss, losing and being lost, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. A Field Guide to Getting Lost takes in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, histo ...Show more
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Philosophy and Religion
A "Field Guide to Getting Lost" is an investigation into loss, losing and being lost. Taking in subjects as eclectic as memory and mapmaking, Hitchcock movies and Renaissance painting, Rebecca Solnit explores the challenges of living with uncertainty. Beautifully written, this book combines memoir, hist ...Show more
A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Languages and Reference
Whether she is contemplating the history of walking as a cultural and political experience over the past two hundred years (Wanderlust), or using the life of photographer Eadweard Muybridge as a lens to discuss the transformations of space and time in late nineteenth-century America (River of Shadows), ...Show more
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Philosophy and Religion
"The freshest, deepest, most optimistic account of human nature I've come across in years." -Bill McKibben The most startling thing about disasters, according to award-winning author Rebecca Solnit, is not merely that so many people rise to the occasion, but that they do so with joy. hat joy reveals an ...Show more
As Eve Said to the Serpent: On Landscape, Gender and Art by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Culture
To Rebecca Solnit, the word "landscape" implies not only literal places but also the ground on which we invent our lives and confront our innermost troubles and desires. The organic world, to Solnit, gives rise to the social, political, and philosophical landscapes we inhabit. In these nineteen quirky, ...Show more
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Languages and Reference
In this powerful and wide-ranging collection of essays, Rebecca Solnit turns her attention to the war at home. This is a war, she says, "with so many casualties that we should call it by its true name, this war with so many dead by police, by violent ex-husbands and partners and lovers, by people pursui ...Show more
Cinderella Liberator by Rebecca Solnit; Arthur Rackham (Illustrator)
Category: Children's
"This is a reminder of hope and possibility, of kindness and compassion, and--perhaps most salient--imagination and liberty. Through the imaginations of our childhoods, can we find our true selves liberated in adulthood?"--Chelsea Handler In this modern twist on the classic story, Cinderella, who wo ...Show more
Cinderella Liberator: A Fairy Tale Revolution by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Graphic Novels | Series: A FAIRY TALE REVOLUTION
Rebecca Solnit retells 'Cinderella'. A Fairy Tale Revolution is here to remix and revive our favourite stories. 'She looked like a girl who was evening, and an evening that had become a girl...' In the kitchen, in her rags, Cinderella, longs to go to the ball. After all, there is nothing worse than not ...Show more
Dorothea Lange - The Politics of Seeing by Alona Pardo; Drew Johnson (Contribution by); Rebecca Solnit (Contribution by); Abigail Solomon-Godeau (Contribution by)
Category: Art and Design
This book presents Dorothea Lange's inspiring and influential photographs, which brought the plight of 20th-century America's poor and disenfranchised into the public eye. Dorothea Lange's photograph, Migrant Mother, is one of the most indelible and recognizable images of the Dust Bowl era. Lange's ...Show more
Embrace Fearlessly the Burning World - Essays by Barry Lopez; Rebecca Solnit (Introduction by)
Category: Politics
A "lyrical" (Chicago Tribune) final work of nonfiction from the National Book Award-winning author of Arctic Dreams and Horizon, a literary icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generations of writers and activists. "Mesmerizing . . . a master observer . . . whose insight and moral clar ...Show more
Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness by Rebecca Solnit
Category: Philosophy and Religion
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 ...Show more