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Infinite City - A San Francisco City Atlas by Rebecca Solnit
$39.95 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
What makes a place? "Infinite City", Rebecca Solnit's brilliant reinvention of the traditional atlas, searches out the answer by examining the many layers of meaning in one place, the San Francisco Bay Area. Aided by artists, writers, cartographers, and twenty-two gorgeous color maps, each of which ill ...Show more
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
$25.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A landmark essay that went viral, inspired the word mansplaining, and prompted fierce arguments.
Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Reading Level: good-very good
In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit takes on what often goes wrong in conversations between men and women. She writes about men who wrongly assume they know things and wrongly assume women don't, about why this arises, and how this aspect of the gender wars works, air ...Show more
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Thelma Young Lutunatabua (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
An energizing case for hope about the climate comes from Rebecca Solnit, called "the voice of the resistance" by the New York Times, and climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, along with a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late is the book for anyone who is despondent, de ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for NonfictionFinalist for the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography "An exhilarating romp through Orwell's life and times and also through the life and times of roses." --Margaret Atwood "A captivating account of Orwell as gardener, lover, ...Show more
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
$27.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
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. From 1936 to 1940, the newly-wed George Orwell lived in a small cottage in Hertfordshire, writing, and tending his garden. When Rebecca Solnit visited the ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography & 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 voice in a society that prefers women to be silent.
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
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 voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco that would be her home for the ...Show more
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
$22.99 AUD
$24.99 (8% off)
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 voice in a society that prefers women to be silent. In 1981, Rebecca Solnit rented a studio apartment in San Francisco, her home for the next twenty-f ...Show more
Standing on the Edge by Joan Halifax; Rebecca Solnit (Foreword by)
$26.99 AUD
Category: Health & Self Help
"In Standing at the Edge, Joan Halifax weaves together scientific research and her own powerful personal experiences as a social activist and humanitarian to show how we can transform our biggest challenges with compassion and wisdom. Standing at the Edge is essential reading for our time." -- Arianna H ...Show more
Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics by Rebecca Solnit
$37.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs | Reading Level: very good
Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. "Storming the Gates of Paradise", an anthology of her essential essays from the past ten years, takes the reader from the Pyrenees to ...Show more
The Best American Essays 2019 by Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Robert Atwan (Editor)
$32.00 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: The\Best American Series ® Ser.
A collection of the year's best essays selected by Robert Atwan and guest editor Rebecca Solnit.Award-winning writer, cultural critic, and activist, Rebecca Solnit, an "unparalleled high priestess of nuance and intelligent contemplation" (Maria Popova), selects the best essays of the year from hundreds ...Show more