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A Book of Migrations - Some passages in Ireland by Rebecca Solnit
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel | Reading Level: very good
In this acclaimed exploration of the culture of others, Rebecca Solnit travels through Ireland, the land of her long-forgotten maternal ancestors. "A Book of Migrations" portrays in microcosm a history made of great human tides of invasion, colonization, emigration, nomadism and tourism. Enriched by cro ...Show more
A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
$27.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Canons | Reading Level: good-very good
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
$22.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
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 Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
$34.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
"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
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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: A Fairy Tale Revolution by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Fiction | 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)
$85.00 AUD
Category: Photography
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
Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: New Hardbacks
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
Hollow City - The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca Solnit
$22.99 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Reporting from the front lines of gentrification in San Francisco, Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg sound a warning bell to all urban residents. Wealth is just as capable of ravaging cities as poverty.
Hope In The Dark : The untold history of people power by Rebecca Solnit
$22.95 AUD
Category: Philosophy, Politics & Current Affairs
Solnit celebrates 50 years of political engagement and social change around the world, presenting a manifesto for optimism and a meditation on hope.
Hope In The Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: Canons Ser. | Reading Level: good
With Hope in the Dark, Rebecca Solnit makes a radical case for hope as a commitment to act in a world whose future remains uncertain and unknowable. Drawing on her decades of activism and a wide reading of environmental, cultural, and political history, Solnit argued that radicals have a long, neglected ...Show more
Hope in the Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
$27.15 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
A book as powerful and influential as Rebecca Solnit's "Men Explain Things to Me," "Hope in the Dark "was written to counter the despair of radicals at a moment when they were focused on their losses and had turned their back to the victories behind themand the unimaginable changes soon to come. In it, ...Show more