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A Book of Migrations by Rebecca Solnit
$19.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality
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
Call Them by Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Politics
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: Picture Books Hard Back | 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
Hope In The Dark - Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: 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
Not Too Late: Changing the Climate Story from Despair to Possibility by Rebecca Solnit (Editor); Thelma Young Lutunatabua (Editor)
$29.99 AUD
Category: World Matters: Social Cultural, Philosophy, Psychology, Spirituality | 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
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Category: Auto/Biography
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
Orwell's Roses by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Auto/Biography
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
Recollections of My Non-Existence by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Auto/Biography | 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
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
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
The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit
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Category: Social & Cultural Notes
Gifts come in many guises. One summer, Rebecca Solnit was bequeathed three boxes of ripening apricots, which lay, mountainous, on her bedroom floor - a windfall, a riddle, an emergency to be dealt with. The fruit came from a neglected tree that her mother, gradually succumbing to memory loss, could no l ...Show more
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