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A Field Guide To Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit
$22.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | 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 Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit
$34.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
"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
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Category: Critical Thinking
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: Childrens Classics | 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
Hollow City - The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism by Rebecca Solnit
$22.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
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
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Category: Critical Thinking | Series: Canons Ser.
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
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
$22.95 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking
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
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Category: Critical Thinking
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
Men Explain Things to Me and Other Essays by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Critical Thinking
Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: a collection of the landmark, incendiary essays that established Rebecca Solnit as one of the leading feminist writers working today.
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Thelma Young Lutunatabua (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Critical Thinking | 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: Critical Thinking
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