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A Book of Migrations by Rebecca Solnit
19.99 AUD
Category: Travel
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
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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 Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
34.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
"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: History
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)
37.95 AUD
Category: Childrens
"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
27.99 AUD
Category: Picture Books | 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
Hollow City - The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca Solnit
22.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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 - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
24.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
29.95 AUD
Category: Politics
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
Men Explain Things to Me - And Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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)
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
27.99 AUD
Category: Culture Ideas Politics
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